St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-30
SEAT AWAITS HIS COMING
And Montana will at Last Be
Fully Represented in the
Senate.
CARTER AND THE A. P. A.
Senator Mantle a Strong Ad-
dition to the Free Silver
Wing.

| ueiu OF craftsmanship, as ne mas III lle
fields Of business. politics and journal
ism, was in st. Paul for few hours
yesterday. His name is Lee Mantle,
hailing from Butte. where he owns and
has edited the Inter- Mountain newspa-
per. He is on his way to Washington
to take possession of the seat in the
lsUnited States senate to which he was
elected Jan. S. 1t will be remembered
| that two years ago the Montana legiSla-
| ture failed to elect senator, and the
| governor appointed Lee Mantle. The
| United States senate refused to recOg-
nze the appointment OH the ground
that failure to elect by the legislature
was not q ''Vacancy" in the sense con-
templated by the constitution in the
section wherein it provides for appoint
nent by governor. His election now
| is to fill the uneXplred part Of the term
for which he was originally appointed.
The Mon, anan stopped in st. Paul only
long enough to rest up a bit, after the
| Journey from Butte. He left for the
East last night over the Northwestern.
q GLOBE reporter found Senator Man
tie i'll his room at the Ryan, and. al
though he had just arisen from brief
nap. he greeted the newspaper man
very cordially and talked freely in an
swer to questions.
"Whiie some bitterness cropped out
in the capital fight, tits rapidly wearing
off; and as for the senatorship matter.
that was easily settled. We have ex-
perienced none of the hard feeling that
seems to have cropped out as a result
of your contest here"
what about the a. P. A. opposition
| to Carter, senator?'
"Well, that thing has naturally been
| exaggerated. | believe several menu
! bers of the organization. of whose work
! ings l know practically nothing. were
| elected to the legislature from Silver
| Bow county. When the election was
1 ON at Helena delegation of A. Z. A.
men from Silver Bow went over and in
| sisted that their representatives refuse
| to vote
For 81 Catholic.
Those men were elected as Republic
ans, however, and were in honor bound
| to vote for Mr.. Carter as the nominee or
the Republican caucus. But. aside
from that, there were enough votes to
elect without the A. p. A. group, so
that protest was made under a misap-
/ prehension.
= ''If they had bolted the nomination it
! would have made no difference. do
not know that Mr.. Carter is a communi-
cant of any church. but do know that
he Is very able, earnest man, capable
of doing good work for his state in the
senate"
'SeGator, do you favor the coinage of
silver at the ratio of 16 to 1?'
Yes, we believe that is proper
ratio, or, at least, we want the law to be
putin the same shape it was before sill
yer was struck down in 1873. 10 read
some Of the expressions of the Eastern
gold standard men person would be
led to believe that you could take a
wheelbarroW and shovel and gather
silver anywhere in the West. The fact
is, nearly all of the great silver mines
of Nevada and some other states are
costing more today for their operation
than is represented by their product.
To put it in another way, there has
been more money sunk in silver mines
than has ever been taken out of them.
Why in the years from 40 to "a, when
the great bonanza mines of California
| were pouring forth their oceans of
golden wealth. the financierS of Europe
seriously debated the proposition TO de-
monetize gold. They thought it was
becoming altogether too plentiful, and
consequently would be too cheap.
80 it was when the rich silver mines
were first worked. Free milling or1
was easily put in marketable shape, but
as that has become scarce, and the cost
OF mining factory ore has increased
there has been less and less danger that
silver will ever be put forth in such
quantities as to drive out gold. A gold
dollar laid away years ago, without hay
ing done anything for the development
| OF the country, without ever having
served any benetcent purpose what
ever, has increased 80 per cent in value
| at the expense Of
| The Silver Dollar,
| because Of the operation of our none
! tary law. Yet, while this increase in
the value of gold has occurred, all other
| commodities have gone down in price.
A dollars worth Of marketable silver
Will today purchase as much as it ever
would Of anything that people use.
mining prosperity is. from the very
nature of the case, unstable and disap-
i pointing in 80 cases out of 100. The
| bowels of the earth are torn out, and
replaced by timbers. These rot or
move, or the earth about them moves,
j and waters must be reckoned with: so
that without lncessant effort and large
expenditure Of money, mine soon be-
comes worthless ruin. The great bo-
nanza kings that we have heard so
much about made the bulk of their fort
uqies out of speculation in mining
d stocks and shares rather than out OF the
product Of their mines. For one man
1 Who strikes luck and is successful,
I there are thousand who are financially
u ruined ami broke.
81 an'Of all the erratc, chimerical doc
trines put forth, those of the Populsts
| are the most dangerous. And still that
party has a great deal of strength in
| our section because of its advocacy CT
silver. The justice OF our contentious
appeals to the judgment of the people
who feel that neither of the old parties
are disposed to treat silver as fairly as
| they ought"
AS to possible fnancia! legislation,
the senator preferred to personally view
the situation at Washington before ex-
pressing an opinion. He asked several
questions concerning Standardized Mel
son, and SAID he had heard a great deal
of Minnesota's governor. He expected
to tird in Senator Nelson, he remarked
a man of great deal of force of char
acter, and senator who would COM
| mand attention.
Senator Mantle will be strong add.
ton to the galaxy of smooth shaver
men who have attained high standing