The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-18
SATURDAY. APRIL IS. 1896.
TIE MEANING OF 1T.

More tnan usual SlBnlncance at
taches to the conclusions reached in
the North Dakota republican state con-
vention. which closed it's session last
Wednesday. Free coinage was made
an issue. the goldbug influences in the
East took hand i'm shaping things at
Fargo.
At the convention the attendance was
large; II was claimed to be representa-
tive of North Dakota republicanism.
The fight between silver's friends and
foes was earnest. but the results show
that silver had at no time a reasonable
chance of winning-the preliminary
vote was overwhelmingly in favor of
the other side. At a caucus held at IL
o'clock Wednesday morning, with
about 20 per cent of the delegates pres
ent. the goldbug majority was hopeless
ly large. In formal session the dele
gates were instructed to support Nc
Kinley, and an anti-silver platform was
adopted-what a travesty on the cry
that free coinage and protection go
hand in hand
Account should be taken of the fact
that the anti-silver campaign at Fargo
was openly recognized as an assault on
Senator Hansbrough. The determine
tion was to withhold support of his sill
yer votes in the senate. to forbid his
attendance at the st. Louis convention
as a delegate, to prevent the selection
of the man of his choice for member
ship in the national republican COM
mittee, and to blockade Mr.. Hans
brough's chances for another term in
the senate-his present term expires in
March of next year.
This loss of republican support for
silver is ominous. AS we understand II,
the hope of the republican senators
who recently resisted tariff legislation
has been that Senator Hansbrough
would join them; the changes soon to
take place in the composition of the
senate will compel these five senators
TO win achievements II they expect to
hold the balance of power. The indica-
tons are that Hansbrough is as good
as lost to them already. and that
goldbug republican will take his place.
These five senators have also learned
that they may not expect anything of
Pettigrew, respecting whom they had
entertained hopes. Oregon also is stead
lily slipping away from silver. Senator
Dubois, himself one OF the Ave, is in
pronounced danger OF defeat-his term
expires next March. There is now no
telling what will happen in Wyoming.
The disappointments already ex-
perienced are OF great account: the
chances OF other republican losses are
deplorably strong.
The Standard wishes to encourage
the five senators I'm question-they are
making a good fight. But TO do effect
i've work they must get more help.
Where is IL to come from? The repub-
lican constituencies on which they have
been figuring seem to be marking their
silver representatives for defeat.
THE METHODIST CONFERENCE
The approaching quadrennial session
of the general conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church will be full of
great interest TO the Methodists of the
world and to many outside Of the de-
nomination as we'll The fact is, stormy
times seem to be ahead. Rev. DR.. Buck
ley. the editor of the Christian Advo-
cate. has fallen foul of several of the
brethren. and his management of the
church's principal organ is to be at
tackled. DIR. Buckley. for his part. has
intimated that he will take a fall or
two out OF the brethren who manage
the Tract society. But the hottest fight
will be over the charges brought by
Rev. DR.. John Lanahan against the
Methodist Book Concern. DIR. Lanahan
has just published a book in which he
accuses the concern OF an era of fraud
and corruption extending over a period
Of 25 years. DR.. Lanahan tells a de-