The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-10-19
millions. II Ia true that the
gradual payment of government bonds
may require some change in securities de-
mandcd as guarantee for national bank

millions. Ii is true that the
gradual payment of government bonds
may require some change in securities de-
manded as guarantee for national bank
notes. Ihe party which devised the sytem
and made 1t magnificent success may be
relied upon TO meet this emergency when
II arises. There is good roason to hope
Tor some Practical union of effort for the
common solution of the silver problem,
with the increased uss Of silver through tho
international silver conference, but in any
event the country has learned to trust the
financial skill and integrity OF tho repub
lican party and distrust its opponents.
IL Ia sometimes said. You predicted all
manner OF disasters when Cleveland was
| elected. but nothing happened" A good
many iegretabie things did happen, though
the wotst could not because the hands OF
the party were tied in congress. But the
present political situation makes it plain
that democratic victory in tho atatos which
they must now carry in order to elect a
president would also insure them enough
majority in the senate. IL they elect the
president they will certainly have both
house and senate, and thus will be placed
| in absolute control for the first time since
1858, with nothing to prevent the carrying
ont of the threats they have made against
the present tariff and currency. 1t is idle,
therefore. as II is slanderous, to say there
is no danger from the tIium ph of our OPP
ponents, since the candidates will not re-
fuse to carry out their principles. He
| could not with credit and he could not any
way. because power is not with him, but
| with congress.
The attempt to change the issue from
| tariff aud currency and divert attention to
the alleged force bill scarcely calls for
notice. The very title of the pill proclaims
| It's object to be to prevent the use of force
at elections 1t failed. anyway, and the
| southern whit men who were lately its
chief and most interested opponents now
begin 80 wish it revived to protect them
from being thems Ives counted out of the
elections they fairly won. AZ the other day
in Alabama. by their own white. fellow
democrats.
1t is we'll. however, to say that the emu
meration in the democratic platform of the
principle that the federal government may
supervise the election of federal officers ia
grotesque. Ii now stands undisputed on
cent elections by Grover Cleveland then
president. But ii ia not to be disguised
that recent elamor against the principle, if
| 1T means anything, means purpose to null
lify the fourteenth and fifteenth articles of
the constitution.
The administration of President Harri-
son ID generally recognized as honest, able
| anu safe. Considering the number of i'm
portant subjects. both foreign and domes-
| tic, it was compelled to deal with. and the
satisfaction that attended the results, it
may indeed be pronounced brilliantly sue
cessful. 1 believe your declaration OF
principles and your denomination of the
present spotlsss and successful president,
will command popular approval at the
polls and will, under God, insure the con-
tlnued benefit of our country