The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-20

! ly rebuked. that Joe Cannon, who was
one of the sufferers for that Reed con-
gress. is not likely to forget the repu-
tation Il left for treating money as II
we had II to burn"
Just now the western men who have
been identified with the cause of free
silver coinage. are aware of the fact
that they are being subject to seige. A
New York paper. which has developed
a sudden and vigorous hostility to sill
YER, has sent a man here who furnishes
his paper with a daily dispatch con-
structed to show that the most vehe-
ment apostles of free silver are at
heart gold men; that Stewart, wolcott.
and even Dubois. who are noted for
their advocacy Of free coinage, are not
really silver men. and that by their
investments and associations in New
York, they are regarded as perfume
tory silver men, while in business they
are the strictest OF gold standard men.
few attacks of this kind might not
be very effective; but persevered in
with that reiteration that sometimes
proves extremely effective, they are
likely to drive the men assailed to re-
ply. When they are supported by sto-
ries about senators who have admitted
In private that they were not such
lunatics" as to be for free silver, but
that they were of that opinion publicly
because that was the opinion of their
constituents, the reports are made
plausible.
When the vote comes on the bond bill
which may be passed soon, is in print,
it is the opinion of the writer that the
labored effort to convict the free silver
men of insincerity will fail To I'M
dertake to reply to the charges would
be impossible. There is probably no
expectation of converting such earnest
and capable men as Teller. the strong
est of all the free-silver men. But the
hope is felt, no doubt, that other men,
not surrounded at home by influences
as strong as those to which Teller is
subjected, may constrain them to aban-
don their course; / do not know of one
hitherto strong silver man who is like
ly to distinguish himself by becoming
an exhibit of the anti-silver fight.
The Montana thermometers have been
called upon to indicate that you have
had some winter since November.
There has been hardly enough of II
here to make it worth while to speak
of the season as winter. OF snow we
have not had enough to cover the
ground for one short half hour. There
has been a little cold weather. enough
at one time to furnish skating to the
boys who like to skate on the river as
close to the air holes as Providence will
permit them to go without getting into
the water. On the other hand, there
has not been any of the usually spring
like winter weather that sometimes.
brings out the blooms on the towering
shrubs, to be nipped, a day or two
later. by the cold blasts from the
Northwest.
President Cleveland has been afford
ed two opportunities to dine with news
paper men. 10. Howard, the president
of the New York Press club, has Just
been here to invite Mr.. Cleveland to
dine with the club on February 13, and
the Gridiron club. of Washington, has
asked him to sit with them on January
25. on the occasion of the eleventh an
nual dinner of the club He is likely to
accept the Washington invitation. but
the task of a journey to New York may
deter him from going to Howard's
vited several times to the Gridiron din
ners. The members bear in mind that
one of the best speeches they ever
heard at a dinner was that delivered by
Ben Harrison when he was president
The speech served better to convert
critics into friends than any similar
number of words ever spoken by Har-
rison.
A very languid interest has been TAX
en- in the meeting OF the Democratic
national committee. The general feel
ing is that something may happen to
lend consequence to the business that
follows the selection of a convention
city, but to say that there is a feeling
of democratic confidence i'm the cam
palgn of 1896 would be to say too much.
4. G.. d.
Washington. Jan. Is, 1896