The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-04-15
JERE and HIS TRAVELS
The Eloquent and POmpous Divine
Drifts ToWlrds Politics.
HE is IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA
FOUNDER says a whoIe Lot About
Cleveland. Presidential Nomina-
lions and Silvsr-A Glowing
Tribute to an Umpire.

tons and Silvsr-A Glowing
Tribute to an Umpire.
BUTTE, April 14.-Rev. jeremiah Roun-
der writes to the STANDARD as follows:
To the Editor Of the Standard:
ATLANTA, Ca, April 4, 1895.
/ don't believe there is n more thrifty,
enterprising, progressive city In the
United States than the city of Atlanta i
don't say this because / have found q
market for my bonds here, for 4 haven't
Not bond have / sold. But q person
who could come to Atlanta without get
ting enthusiastic over the place mast
have strange tastes. This city represents
a different sort of South from shat which
is represented by Richmond, where L
stopped for few days. Richmond seems
TO be living more than half in the past.
1t shows you its old confederate relics, its
battlefelds and its monuments to its he
roes of the war. 1t reminds you Mt every
step that IL is a conquered city. Rcarries
q sign all the time. IL thinks II has a
grievance and IL forces its dead issue-thc
lost cause-on every stranger. Not SO
Atlanta. One would mover know that
Atlanta had ever been in the war. At
lanta lives in the present and the future.
One looks in vain for the monuments 20
jefferson Davis. Lee and jackson which
are SO conspicuous in Richmond. Instead
of showing you battletields the people OF
Atlanta take you out and show you grand
land speculations, boulevards laid out on
mammoth scale, residence streets as fine
as any in the land. Instead of showing
you the Soldiers home and the cemetery
where rest the confederate dead, Atlanta
shows you the grounds which IL is prepar-
ing for tho great exposition next fall.
Atlanta 10 a busy, bustling, modern city.
So far as appears on the surface, at least,
Atlanta has forgotten the pasta past
which ought to be forgotten in every quar-
ter of the United States. The man,
whether he be n northerner or south
crner, who seeks to keep alive the remem-
brance of the feud of 3D. years ago, Is not
good patriot and is not friend OF this
union.
/ am in the land of silver dollars once
more. The dirty 81 and 81 bills are as
scarce here as in the West. Silver dol
lars seem to be found where there is a
silver sentiment. Both here and in Rich
mond the prevailing sentiment is for
silver. There is q difference of opinion,
however.
From what can be CLEANED on the sur
face in the big eastern cities there seems
going to nominate for president q man
opposed. to the free coinage of silver.
Tom Reed seems the strong favorite,
with Mckinley n close second. There is
not the slightest ground to hope that the
republicans will nominate a man at all
friendly to silver. Those eastern repub-
licans who are friendly towards the cause
of silver do not regard IL as a vital issue
aud consider the matter OF the greatest
importance to be that the republicans
shall so manage things as to win. A VIC
| tory for silver is of very secondary inn
| portance to a victory for the republican
party in the eyes of eastern silver men in
the republican ranks. They will do moth.
| ing to jeopardize a solid republican east
and the uniform victory of the repub-
Leans in the west last fall leads them to
| regard the west as certain to be in line
nominee may be.
As for Cleveland. have failed to find
| any point in the United States as yet
where he is popular. 1 still have hopes.
| To use an eastern expression. his name is
silver. which Is equivalent to saying that
| his name is mud. 1 fell to find in the
| south any decided sentiment in favor
| of silver third party. Men herr
| are confident that the silver sentiment
will be the controlling element In the mex
| democratic convention, and that west
| crn man and southern man be nomi
| the east be abandoned as hopeless terri
tory. III the republicans nominate an an
| ti-silver man, as they are very likely e
| do, IL is believed here that the democrats
| with silver candidates will sweep the wes
| and the south, which will be sufficient tc
| elect the ticket. Ii is time that New Yorl
| state ceased to be regarded as the onl,
| state to be considered in making plat
| forms and nominations. 1t would do New
| York good to be ignored for once. A mum
| Der of western men are mentioned as wei
| thought of here in connection with presi
| Dental nominations. Modesty might for
bid me mentioning the entire list, SO
| will mention none.
| TRUST my Congregation will not consider
| that am dipping TOO deeply into poll
| tics. know that politics is a dangerous
| thing. a good thing to DO Stunned. Bur
| they don't talk much here except politics
| and business aud real estate booming
| and / haven't struck any religion since
have been here. Doubtless there is some
| but to my failure to run up against II
must be attributed my failure to treat oi
religious matters in this letter. Hoping
| this will find you all we'll physically. NOR
| ally. religiously and financially, and trust
| ing that you will not forget TO forward
church collections with the utmost prompt
ness, 1 remain yours for free silver and a
church with steeple on il.
| JERRY RoUNDER.
| p. S.-The base ball umpire is the sans
rotten, corrupt. soulless, idiotic miscre
| ant here that he is in Montana and New
York. Umpires don't change much th'
world over. j. r.
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