The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-05
THEY'LL STAND FIRM
Senator Lee Mantle Talks Of the
White Metal.
CHICAGO GETS THE FACTS
He Says That the silver Men.
Democratic and Republican,
VIII stand Together in the
Fight For Silver.
From the Chicago Times.

From the Chicago Times.
Leo Mantle of Butte, the newly elected
United States senator from Montana, was
at the Auditorium yesterday en- route TO
Washington. MIR. Mantle will at once
take UP the duties of his Office, and will
have but four years TO serve, following
March 4. 1t will be remembered that at
the expiration of Senator Sanders term
two years ago tho Montana legislature
failed to elect n successor, thereupon the
governor of the state appointed Lee Man
tie TO fill tho vacancy until such time as
tho legislature did elect some one to fill
it, The senate declined TO recognize the
action of the governor as valid method
of choosing O senator, and MIR. Mantle lost
two years of senatorial life, which was
doubtless fully compensated for III the
pleasure of his journalistic lie. Tho
present legislature elected Mr.. Mantle as
successor to senator Sanders, so his du-
ties will begin at once. His colleague,
Thomas Carter, will not enter upon his
duties until March 4.
Il am going down to lend my aid to the
silver men and incidentally learn the sem
atorial ropes" said Mr.. Mantle. II will
add one more vote, at least to the opposi-
ton to President Cloveland's gold bond
scheme. and do my part in strengthening
the cause of silver. Up in Montana '16 to
/ is the cry. Ii Is in our platforms and
we are all elected to carry out that idea.
We believe that silver is money, naturally
-. constitutionally so. and we believe
that the ills that have upset the financial.
commercial and industrial interests of this
country during the past four years are
the log cal outcome of tho legislation of
1898. which practically demonetized silver.
"Wlll silver democrats and republicans
stand together? | see nothing else for
them to do. Ii is the supreme question of
the time, and until it is settled nothing
else will be. Men who were in doubt two
years ago doubt no longer. They were
promised return 10 prosperous days IL
the Sherman bill was repealed. When
that was done n panic followed. Ii
opened the peoples eyes to the real posi-
ton of silver in tho monetary world,
and strengthens our demand that it be re-
stored TO its proper place. And we want
no mere temporizing with silver. The
Sherman bill and all like measures but
serve to discredit silver 1t must be re-
stored TO it's full rights, and to that end
the silver men will stand shoulder to
shoulder and fight tho battle of the
people,"
1t was remarked that someone had re-
Gently said that as Colorado had become
q great gold-producing state its people
were rapidly becoming goldbugs. Senator
Mantle laughed. THAT is nonsense; nc
honest silver man takes any such views of
the silver question. Any man who con-
siders this great currency question from
the standpoint only of ms own individual
interests would better get right out of tho
ranks of the silver men. No, sir, never
have heard silver man argue from the
point of view of the miner or mine owner.
but. viewing the subject from a higher
plane, has insisted that the best interests
of oil the people demanded its restoration
as money.
"No, don't think President Cleveland
will find anything in the complexion o.
the new congress TO warrant him in call
ing an extra session for the purpose O
passing his gold bond scheme. | know o
no silver man who favors il, and | q,
know of many who are not considered az
dent silver men who don't like that bono
plan and will vote against it.
Montana has suffered as little as an,
state in the union from the depression
brought about by anti-silver legislation
OF course. our silver interests have beer
greatly affected, but in Western Montan;
the great copper mines nave been opeT
ated almost up 10 the high water mark o
production, and this has taken care o
many who were thrown out of the silye
mines. Montana Is growing some, anC
the development OF a system Of irrigation
which would bring under cultivation tn
millions of acres OF fertile but arid lands
would open mp the way TO a vast increas
in population