The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-21
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Special Correspondence OF the Standard.
SPOKANE, Jan. 20.-The Rerie,o pub
fishes the following interesting item about
a prominent resident of Montana:
Hon. William ID. Hill of Kalispel,
Mont, is in Spokane for a few days visit
ing his daughter, Mrs. j. r. Taylor, and
old-time friends from the Buckeye state.
The record of Mr.. Hill in congress en-
bodies an interesting part of the history
| of the Pacific northwest. Contem-
poraneous with William Allen and his
nephew, Allen G.. Thurman, although
several years their junior, he stood firm
for democracy when weaker men were
willing to admit that tho mission of de-
mocracy had been fulfilled and the only
rock to cling to was the Greeley fusion.
He was with Thurman when the mag
nificent Gen. Tom Ewing strobe into his
parlors, at the head of a delegation from
the fusion caucus, to announce that the
| time had come to disband the democratic
party. If Thurman would sanction the
action of the meeting, the speaker said,
he would be returned to the United States
senate.
The old Roman measured the dimen-
| sions of the room with his eye.
show big is this room? ' he inquired.
"About 20 feet square," General Ewing
replied.
"By - it is too small to disband the
| democratic party in" the veteran states
man answered, and with such epithets as
"poltroons" and ''sycophants," he drove
the delegation from his presence for at
tempting to bride him to desert his party.
Mr.. Hill was spokesman of the delega-
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William Allen to induce him TO accept the
nomination for the governorship, which
eliminated in his election and the return
of Thurman to the senate.
tom Ewing was fine fellow" said
Mr. Hill yesterday, "but he lacked some
of the elements that entered into the
spirit of the old democracy. If a man is
not born a democrat he never can be a
democrat"
William ID. Hill was elected three times
to congress in the Sixth Ohio district.
which was largely republican, after hav-
ing been twice defeated as the nominee of
his party. lie was also state commits.
sioner of insurance during Governor Al
lens term of Office, and upon his retire.
ment from political life was general at
torney for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
company.
John e.. Carlisle, now secretary of the
treasury, while speaker of the house of
representatives, appointed Mr.. Hill chair
man of the committee on territories. lie
had previously made a vigorous fight for
the annexation of the panhandle of Idaho
TO the territory of Washington and per-
sonally waited upon President Cleveland.
urging thar he recede from his determine
ton TO veto the measure. As chairman
of the committee Mr.. Hill reported to the
house, with a strong endorsement, the bill
for the admission of Washington, Mon
tana and the two Dakotas, as states in the
union.
/. II. Plattor of Spokane studied law in
Mr. Hills Office at Defiance. Ohio. and
they were practicing together when MIR.
Hill was elected TO congress and Mr..
Platter was chosen county prosecuting
attorney. This veteran democratic states
man Of the old school is now practicing
law At halispel and enjoying. excellent
health a the age OF %.
George V. Holt, manager of the Bank of
British Columbia, at Nelson. B. C.. was a
guest at the Hotel Spokane Saturday |
evening. THE present session of the
provincial parliament promises to be a |
very hUm-lTum affair" be sad. Little
has been done S far except 10 authorize |
the issue OF another loan of 100000 for |
general purposes.
Il met Two Interesting gentlemen,
though, On the trip. Frederick y llsers.
tas va- cores 0Iica. Who recently Ar |
g4EeL from China AMI Japan and IS nov
on las way 10 New York via san Fran
cisco. and Pau. Jones. whOis going around /
the world on wager. Nill.ers tod me LIS /