The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-08
QUIET In THE EAST
Gold /. Curtis Returns From the
Financially Distressed States.
NO PLACE LIKE MONTANA
minnesota Is as Bad Off as Her
Goldbug Sisters on the Atlant-
ic-Poiitics of Choteau-Re-
publican Predictions.

Great Falls, May 7.-Gold T. Curtis.
president of the First National bank of
Great Falls, has returned from a brief
business trip to New York and other
eastern cities. To a Standard reporter
Mr.. Curtis said that times are rather
quiet in the eastern ana middle states
anu tnat money was close as a result
IN New YORK city everything is at a
low ebb and little money went a long
way IN purchasing whatever was need
ca IN the commodities or life, He visit
eu 81. Paul during his absence and the
coholtion or affairs in Minnesota was
IN no sense different from points fur
tner East. Montana" said Mr.. Curtis.
is without doubt one of the most pros,
porous states In the union. The people
OF Montana are very generally haupy
anu anu contented and are making a good
living and saving a little money. We
DO not feel the pinch of hard times like
the people of the East, where great
manufacturing plants are standing idle
anu thousands upon thousands of
shiiieu mechanics and laborers are
searching employment to exc out a
ooupttui and precarious existence.
sliVer dollar looks as large as a cart
Wheei TO those people and will buv
enough or the necessities of life to sup
port Iamily for a brief time Com
pared with the condition of a majority
or the masses of the East. residents oT
Montana-of every class and grade and
spnere-are living in munificent LUXURY
anu enjoying almost a royal existence
Lhis state and section of Montana is ALI
rlght, and If the rank and file of resi-
uehts thereof consult their own inter-
esls they VIII camp here and make hay
while the sun shines. Understand 7
am not talking for publication now and
you nave no authority to dip your men
In that old stand and quote me. Poll
Tics am not up on the subject, and
40 not want to express any opinion as
u VINO VIII De nominater or elected"
1t strikes the old-line democrats of
Nortnern Montana as peculiar. to saw
the least, to refer to Choteau as a re-
publican county. In olden times. when
Choteau county embraced all the ter
rltory north and east of the Sun river
wien Benton was prosperous, money
democrats in Northern Montana ruled
everything with ease and without on
position. In fact, there was no repub-
iican party in the county, until along
IN 1873, when the lace H. p. Rolf located
at Benton and organized the party with
such men as Clingan, now of Belt.
Charley Rowe, George Crane. DR.. Tur-
ner, John Power, Billy Rowe and a
rev others who had voted the republi-
can ticket years before back in the
states. The country was settling nm
rapidly, however, and a large percent
age OF the new corners proved to be
republicans, with the result that Cho-
teau county is now Grained by that
party: There is no populist organiza-
tlon In that county. Tom Murphy
made an attempt to organize one two
years ago, but met with a successful
FAILURE and no one has had nerve
enough to repeat the experiment. 1t is
elther democracy or republicanism, and
TINS year there promises to be a royal
pattle Tor supremacy-and the contest
VIII De interesting and even excit-
ing.
In conversation with a Standard re- |
porter this evening a prominent bust
ness man OF Great Falls, who recently |
returned from the East, said: Down |
In New York the impression obtains |
tnat Mckinley will be nominated on |
the first ballot. Plat and QUAY are |
known to be working together and IL is |
generally thought they are doing some |
clever work in the South to defeat the |
ONO man. These asuuue politicians |
nave their party well in hand in New /
York and Pennsylvania and with the
ala or southern delegates will be a
FACTOR in the st. Louis convention.
should Mckinley be nominated and
elected the next secretary of the treas
ury VIII be Ex-Governor Merriam presi-
dent of the Merchants National bank
or ST. Paul. He is very wealthy, will
be renominated and reelected governor
or Minnesota this fall-for prestige
and will be acceptable to the gold
clique of Wall street"