The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-21
CARTER AND THE CAUCUS.
Possible Reasons why He Did Not Join
the silver Senators.

Possible Reasons why He Did Not Join
the silver Senators.
Bozeman Chronicles: Tom Carter so
the dispatches say. was not present at
the cuacus of the silver senators. Well
what of it? Suppose he wasn't; what
are you going to do about it? It's too
bad that a man can't hold office with
out everybody watching him like a
chicken hawk and passing remarks
on his conduct. They compel him to
sign every subscription paper, attend
all the church sociables and pay a
fancy price for a basket of gutta per-
cha angels food. to join the hose COM
pany and treat every time he sticks his
nose in a bar room.
This is what is making Office holding
so unpopular There are not half as
many candidates as there used to be-
especially in the prohibition party.
If Mr.. Carriers dainty nature recoiled
at the idea of associating with those
rude. common silver senators, we say
let IL recoil.
Mr.. Carter has several years more to
serve and 1t will be plenty time enough
for him to cultivate the acquaintance
of silver senators-if there are any
just prior to the expiration of his term.
He can then make a brilliant finish
and get solid in one round.
Which reminds us:
His worthy colleague, Lee Mantle,
once. when he was chairman of the re-
publican central committee, went into
drinking resort with a friend to
whom he remarked: This is an i'm
portant place. There are thirty voters
congregating around here and I must
get them" So they entered, but found
Just three men. These were all called
up to the bar and asked what they
would have. They said that beer was
good enough for them, and as it only
cost five cents a glass Mr.. Mantle
shook hands with himself He was
getting of oh. so easy. But to show
them that he had money he threw out
a $40 bill. The bartender looked at ii,
smoothed IL out and then carefully de-
posted ii in the drawer. Lee stood
around waiting for his change until IL
was rather embarrassing, and then he
thought up something that would
make the mercenary bartender
ashamed of himself. Mr. Mantle is
quick at repartee. and IL is hard to
knock him out: so he went up to the
man behind the bar and with a Bland
(Dick. OF MissourD smile, said:
Did you get enough?" This with a
rising infection and a sort of a soft,
insinuating and ingratiating smile.
The bar-keep looked about the room,
raised MS eyebrows as III mentally cal
culating how many were present, and
then, placing his hands upon the bar,
said:
Five dollars more, please"
II is Just such instances as this that
is making Mr.. Carter leery and 10th to
attend every caucus that is held. Be-
sides il is more than probable that Mr.
Carter had an engagement with Mr..
Reed about this time, and IL would
have been highly discourteous to the
speaker for Tom to have slipped away
to join a crowd Mr. Reed does not as
sociate with.
Some of the papers OF this state may
think they can teach Tom Carter
smoothness and oleoginousness, but
they had better devote their space to
calling upon cord wood delinquents to
come forward with that long promised
fuel. Mr.. Carter has not been in the
book business without learning that
while speech is silvern. silence is the
yellowest kind of gold. when there is
a silver caucus on hand.