The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-26
THEY DIDN'T co IN
Montana Men Concluded to Keep Out
Of the Silver Meeting.
THlRD-TERM TALK is DEAD
Some of the Politicians Are Talk
Ing About Morrison Governor
Richards Saw the Sights and
Started Out for Home.

| SIaFIeu ouI Tor ONE.
Staff Correspondence OF the Standard.
The Montana delegation in congress.
If 1t would speak out Its mind. would
| undoubtedly say that this week was to
! them the most trying one since they
came to this overgrown village. They
| knew that there was to be a convention
| OF silver men. The venerable president
of the Bimeualllc league, the persistent
and not eloquent, Warner. prepared all
the faithful for what happened. A new
| party is to be offered TO all men who
think that the issue of free coinage is
| issue enough upon which to go to the
| people in the hope of winning the pres
| DENTAL fight Warner believes that one
issue is enough when free coinage of
silver Is the issue. He is enthusiastic.
and he insists that all the men of the
silver states should be at least as en-
thusiastic as he is in support of the
movement to make every silver man a
come-outer and indifferent to the effect
of coming out upon the two old par
ties, with which he will no longer
! train.
Carter, gazing over the rows OF seats
in front of his desk had a worried look.
/ 80 "AN OtAiti EllNtl ltliOWS all
waiting TO pass a bill. that was last
week bill, for the free and unlimited
coinage of silver. This bill was laid
before the senate ahead of a bill to in
crease revenue. which had gone from
| the house to the same committee that
disposed first of the bond bill The
Montanans will vote for the silver bill !;
they have assumed the right to treat
as comparatively untmportant the lead
ing principle OF the party by which they
We're chosen. But they did not sit in
the silver conference and help TO start
the silver party. There are democrats
who feel just as they do: so they may
assure the Montana voters that their
desire to be first known as republicans
and then as silver men win get the bet
ter of their desire to be identified with
the little band that hopes to raise the
silver standard.
have tried to ascertain something
intelligible about the result OF the visit
TO Washington of Governor Richards,
but up to This time it is necessary to
take the reports / have gathered as
jokes at the governors expense. He
has impressed those whom he has met
as taking himself and his mission too
seriously. There is nothing that he
wants to have done that me can move
amy faster than can the senators and
representatives. all of whom may be
admitted to have the advantage which
comes with experience. The governor
came here battered up with travel. and
he was too much used up to talk with
the Standards correspondent when he
called upon him in hts hotel soon after
he got here. But he was around quite
spry the next day. and. although unfa-
miliar with the mazes of the capital, he
discovered Carter and Hartman, and
they took him into the senate restau-
rant and blew him off," Since then
he has been wandering about, rather
wearily, looking in at the supervising
architects office, to expedite the public
building business. without getting any
better news than he brought He has
ascertained all he can about the posi-
tion of bills, and he probably has not
learned anything that the delegation
did not already know about the chances
of bills introduced early in the session
/ do not know who is responsible for
the news pick up, but there are whis-
pers 20 The effect that the delegation
are unanimously OF the opinion that
there should be a law in Montana TO
confine the governor TO his jurisdiction
during his term of office. and a penalty
of removal for a governor who comes
10 Washington on lobbying business
during his term.
When the national convention comes
TO be held. unless there has been an un-
expected weakening on the part of the
silver men of the party IT is the gen
eral impression that there will be diff
Guilty In preventing a split. Indeed, the
silver men and the sound money men
appear to desire It, The republican
convention will meet three weeks ahead
OF the democratic. and they must face
the music first. Dubois and some other
silver senators OF republican origin in
sist upon friendly reference TO silver
in the platform. They may have
chance later on, even IL they do avoid
the silver convention in Washington. 10
Join the Warner party. after they have
discovered that both parties will offer
them a mere tickle" such as was
passed in the last conventions
Politics aside. the New York and St
Louis people in the convention contest
behaved very handsomely to each 9th
er. They exchanged greetings very
cordially. soon after arriving, and not
long after the first salutations were
exchanged. New York received as a
gift from the st. Louis managers a
large bunch Of expensive roses. John
ID. Crimmins. one OF the most active
and generous OF the New York crowd.
looked at the roses. declared that il
was pity he could not send roses
back. and then jumped at way OF ac-
knowledging the compliment by send
ing to the st. Louis managers with his
compliments a basket OF wine
There could not be a duller outlook
for the national conventions from the
Washington standpoint. on the repub-
lican side Reed is the favored man TO
a majority OF the house. But no one
is outspoken for him. and all the Nc
Kinley men. who form a smaller group.