The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1896-09-05
THE MONTANA SITUATION.
Ex-senator Sanders Talks Plenty Of
Mckinley Men Showing Up -Senti-
ment Growing Stronger and
Stronger Mckinley Win
Carry the State.


the bureau Of publication and printing,
states that the Republicans of Mon
tana will hold convention on Septem-
Der and win beyond doubt, organize
q state committee in favor Of sound
money, protection, Mckinley and Ho-
bart. Up to this time the state com.
mittee has leaned so far toward the
democratic ticket that the members Of
the Republican party of the state have
been inactive as a body, although
thousands Of them have been quite &C
tive in their individual capacities. Ex-
Senator Sanders writes:
@.The Republicans of Montana have
taken hold of the campaign with
great spirit. This seems to be one of
the instances where the ground swell
comes from the farmers, stock growers,
wage earners, miners, and plain people
and Is permeating all parts OF the state,
and promises to overwhelm those
pseudo leaders who were stampeded by
the noise of the Bryan convention and
the clamOr Of three or four silver mine
owners, who are willing to destroy the
monetary system of the United States
In the weak hope of making something
out Of their silver mines by law instead
Of by industry. The wage-earners are
deeply concerned In this question, aud
are discussing il among themselves,
and fail to see how a raise in prices
consequent upon diluted coinage,
which does not increase the price of
wages, is going to help them, and they
are becoming deeply solicitOus lest it is
an indirect method by which the en-
ployers in the mines are seeking to car
~ out, by indirection and fraud, a pun
pose which they have long entertained
for reducing the wages of workmeu, in
fact, by leaving them substantially the
same in name. And there can be no
doubt but that this is the purpose
Of several OF the large employ
ers Of labor. Wages in Montana are
exceedingly high, and they have been
maintained by the wage earners' or
gAnizatiOn at no uncomfortable sacri-
flee, but with great prudence and dis.
erection. These employers of labor,
finding 1t impossible to reduce the price
of wages directly, which they long
sought to do, have concocted this
scheme, by which they hope to accom-
plish the same end by indirection. If
thev can get cheap dollar worth 81
Of our present cents with which to pay
off the miners, they can well afford to
leave the wages at $3.50 per day in
name, which is the present price, and
settle that $3.50 with these cheap dol
lars. This scheme, while very adroit,
is thlnly yelled, and is now being ex.
posed by the wage, earners themselves
with great perspicacity and vigor.
"'In Dawson county, which is the
only county in which a convention
was held last week, the delegates to the
state convention were instructed to
brook no treachery to the Republican
party or Governor Mckinley; and If
the state convention of September 8
shall renominate Hartmann, who was
one of the walking delegates from the
st. Louis convention, or shall not
stand upon the st. Louis platform, or
shall re,elect a committee faithless to
the Republican national party, there
will be a convention of Republicans
which will include 50 per cent Of all
the Republicans in the state, which |
will nominate presidential electors, a |
congressman, and a complete ticket |
from governor to constable, which they |
confidently believe they will be able to
elect. The Democrats and Populists
are now being stirred up in a caldron
In the vain hope that there may be
homOgeneity in the party. Whether
the leaders will be able to gloss over
the incoherence Of this mass cannot
now be stated, but the rank and file
win have none of 1t. A large number
of Bemoerats throughout the state
turned with panied disgrace from the
platform and candidates Of their party
and will vote for Mckinley. The adop.
ton by the Republican party of a
sound money platform has demonstrate
cd how hollow was the pretense Of the
newspapers Of all parties that Montana
was unanimous for free coinage.
"Just now the Ofiice-seekers and the
leaders who have committed them.
lelYes with great buster and Ostenta-
sion TO free coinage are begging and be.
seeching straight Republicans of the
state not to circulate any sound. money
literature, but from all parts of the ,
'tate CONS the demand for informal.
ion upon this subject Several news.
papers have recently Unidentified their !
fortunes with the Republican candid
ates and platform, while many Others !
having said so much for free coinage, !
regardless OF values, find It difficult to 4
make change. Upon the whole, the !
outlook IN Montana is encouraging. J
The struggle for the next two weeks :
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