The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-08-08
SENATOR WoLcoTT's SPEECH.

is naturally a high-strung man and he
is smarting under the thought that his
constituents in Colorado do not approve
of his course: says the Salt Lake Trib-
une. He is a wonderfully bright man,
a skillful lawyer, and he a be depend
ed upon to make the utmost of the side
that ne espouses. There is no weak
ness in his argument except where.
after admitting his belief hat Il
country can re-establish silver and
| maintain it. he still believes that silver
will again be restored to its old place
as a money metal. and that when the
plished through the action and efforts
OF the Republican party. We do not
see Oh what he bases his belief. Ger
tainly not on the action of the St.
Louis convention. Certainly not from
any word that has fallen from the lips
of Mai. Mckinley since his nomination.
Certainly not on the attitude of the
leaders of the old Republican party.
With equal FEASIBILITY Mr.. Brice
might make a speech in New York and
assure the people of his belief that if
Mr.. Cleveland could be once more
elected and surrounded by such earn
est silver men as Senator Hill, Senator
Villas and the rest, he would see a great
light, and would use all the power of
| hsc nan >Hnn ~ oh11s1s es1,,O,
With keen insight and incisive words,
Mr.. Wolcott points out the de-
fects in the Chicago platform, and we
are willing to agree with him that OUT
side of the money plank it will not do.
At the same time we are not at all
afraid that its Objectionable features
will be carried out, and the money
| plank is the important one this year.
Again, when Mr.. Wolcott deprecates
sectionalism, that is all right. When
he says. THE people of the East are
country, a common faith and the same
dear Tag. This gospel Of hate which
is now being preached should find no
followers among sane men, no welcome
among good citizens" we can accept
that with here and there a prOviso.
We IN the West have been denounced
as ''rottenbOrough" and ''mining-camp
States for years. The belief which
we have honestly entertained has found
no place in Eastern newspapers. A
studied effort has been made to establish
the belief that the people are all cor
rupt. and we have it from the President
of the United States himself that ours
are not desirable states in the Union.
And We happen to know that the aver
age Western man is infinitely the
superior of the Eastern man, as much
superior as the Eastern man himself
would be if he could have ten years
education in the West. Further, we
know that the people there have no re-
spect for any except two things. One
is great wealth; the other is for people
who have the spirit to fight them both
on the defensive and on the aggressive,
if necessary. The West has supplied
the money which has made the East SO
arrogant. The two or three million
men working on this coast have done
more to advance the Republic than any
fifteen million men on the East coast,
and there comes a time when it is not
manly and it is not right to any longer
submit to the sneers and the assumed
superiority of a lot of parvenues who
do not know what they are doing and
saying, any more than did the bowling
mob around the cross on Calvary.
Mr.. Wolcott says. "We will secure
the adoption of our views when we are
able to induce the majority of our fell
low-citizens to share our belief" That
is one beauty of this campaign. If it
does nothing else it will give the people
OF the East q chance to decide on the
real merits of the case. Heretofore
the silver side has been kept from East
ern people. And in that respect the
campaign will be worth all it will cost,
no matter who may be elected
President.
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.