The Helena independent., 1893-12-22
NOTICE
a. A Campbell is the only authorized travel
Ing agent of this paper
THE WEATHER
A SINGULAR CONVERSION.

In the summer of 1892 the demo-
cratic party in congress, under the lead
OF Mr.. Springer, made It's united fight
for free raw materials, supported by the
entire democratic press Of the country.
Tho Anaconda Standard supported the
party in that fight and approved Of Con-
gresham Dixon's vote for the Springer
bills.
In June Of that year the democratic
cago and declared:
"We denounce the Mckinley tariff
law, enacted by the Fifty-frst congress,
as the eliminating atrocity of class
legislation; we endorse the efforts made
by the democrats Of the present con-
gress to modify. its most oppressive
features in the direction OF free raw
materials and cheaper manufactured
goods that enter into general consump-
ton; and We promise its repeal as one
of the beneficent results that will follow
the action Of the people in intrusting
power to the democratio party" And
the Anaconda Standard said amen to
that.
In September of the same year the
Montana democrats assembled in con-
vention at Great Falls. The editor Of
the Standard was conspicuous in the
deliberations Of that body, which de-
clared without dissenting voice:
"We denounce the republican tariff
bill as fraud and standing lie; we
endorse most heartily the tariff plank Of
the national platform. = Realiz-
ing that the promises and predictions
Of the republican party on the subject
Of wool have proved to be delusion
and snare, that wool has declined in
value under the Mckinley bill, while
the demand for mutton, which is with
out protection, has increased, we de-
nounce the republican party for the
Misrepresentation and dishonesty of it's
state platform on this subject"
And the editor of the Standard was
one Of those who whooped it up longest
and loudest for that platform!
And Dixon, the courageous advocate
Of free wool, was renominated and the
Standard whooped it up for Dixon!
Even after that, after the election
which resulted in the defeat of the dem
ocratic ticket through the Silver Bow
treachery, the Standard was against
protection to WOOL It didn't then say,
"Let's find out what these people want
and then give it to them." Not bit of
it. And it didn't care rap what a ma
jority of the democratic party in this
state wanted, either. 1t just took up
Dixon, that shocking free wool man, and
pushed him for the senate until the
democratic majority IN the legislature
was knocked out and a senator was
lost.
And now all is changed. The Stan
dard has seen great light.
1t wants to find out what maiorit
OF anything or anybody wants-pro.
vided always it isn't democratic ma
jority-and then it wants that thing,
Oh, how it wants it! For this it sewers
party ties, kicks the mon whom it has
applauded, throws off its democratic
mask and says to whoever will read its
crazy utterances, "If you are against
anything we ever said we believed in,
We are against it, too; if anybody in
these parts wants any sort of proteo-
tion, to any degree, We are for that par
ticular thing; We crook the pregnant
hinges of the knee that thrift may fol-
low fawning."
The sheep men of this state have had
no end of bad luck the past year but
the worst of all has befallen them in be-
ing made to serve the purposes Of the
opera bouffe journal over the range.