The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-15
POWER FOR ALLISON
1t Is Said That the Ex-senator Is
Laying Wires in AL Directions.
COMMENT IN GREAT FALLS
Tom. Ii Would Appear. Wants Mon
tana's Delegation to ST. Louis
to Declare for the Old Iowa
Wheel Horse.

Great Falls, April 14.-The Great
Falls News, the reorganized organ of
the populist party of Northern Mon
tana, created a sensation by announc-
ing on the editorial page of it's last is
sue. that ex-senator L. c. Power was
laying wires to capture the republican
convention at Butte and have the
Montana delegation to the ST. Louis
convention instructed for Senator w.
Ii. Allison of Iowa Under the caption
What Does 1t Neutrality-suspicious.
That Tom. Power Is Attempting to
Play Roots With Montana Republi-
cans"
The Tribune republished the matter
with the following comment:
Just where it's especial interest in
the subject comes in is not apparent,
but the Great Falsl News of yesterday
bristled with a series of articles call
ing attention to a scheme of Tom
Power to capture republican delegates
to the Montana state convention and
head the delegation at ST. Louis in the
interest of Allison. This is really none
of The Tribune's business, yet, in or
der that its readers may keep posted
and be fully advised of the goldbug
plot of the willy Tom, and also as
contribution to current political litera-
ture in the state, the articles, as they
appeared in he News, are published,
as follows:
"Mr. Power is making a personal
effort to head the Montana delegation
to the st. Louis convention to help out
his friend and senatorial counsellor,
w. B. Allison of Iowa. Allison claims
the support of this state ON the ground
that he is a western man. He claims
the support of Wall street on the
ground that he has always supported
the gold standard by his votes in the
II.as .1ife fIaa sa,.l t.
street to prove that he had voted
against silver consistently and in ia
Vor OF gold always. The shrewdneSs
of Mr.. Power Is well known. He is not
seeking to advance the cause of silver
by booming Allison, but to get a man
in the White House who will dispense
the federal patronage in Montana UNI
der the direction of T. c. Power
Allison of Iowa has been described
in a figurative way as a politician who
can travel with hobnailed shoes over
tin roof without making a noise. He
is man of large wealth. a chronic Of
flee holder and a standing candidate
for the presidency, whose whole stock
in trade has always consisted of his
western residence He has never dis
played any sympathy for the West, is
goldbug, has always voted against
silver and would be one of the most
treacherous and insidious enemies of
the white metal that could possibly be
placed in the White House
1.-THE republican party-as a party
is solidy for gold-but Montana re-
publicans will not send a straight Ali
son goldbug delegation to their ma
tional convention.
For the sake of Montana's good
name-for the sake OF the cause of sill
ver-the state republican convention
will surely refuse to allow 7. c. Power
or any other man-to manipulate it
in the interest of a goldbug presi-
Dental candidate-such as Allison of
Iowa
Senator Power is making a person
al canvas of the state to secure dele
gates to the st. Louis convention IA
vorable to Bill Allison of Iowa. Sena-
tor Power poses as a friend of free
coinage. His> candidate, Allison, has
had long record in congress. He is a
fat-slick-chronic office holder, who
has voted against silver in every form
and every time it has come up in the |
history of his legislative experience. |
Allison has never expressed opinions |
on the subject-his scheme being to |
slip In unawares. His movement is |
the movement of the cat-slips around |
lacks candor-lacks frankness-but |
he never has lacked a disposition to |
vote against silver and in favor of the /
gold standard. What do republicans |
want with such a man in the White /
House?
zone of the tricks in the political |
trade seems to be to select for q re- /
publican candidate western man /
with eastern sentiments. Eastern gold /
monometallists in the republican party
fondly fiatter themselves on their re-
markable astuteness in suggesting
some man west of the Mississippi |
river whose sympathies and purposes
are all eastern, with the understanding
that the gullible western people will
sacrifice their convictions of right for
the qualification of provincial pride
This is the campaign Mr.. Allison is
working. Himself and his friends are
playing the old-time western man
dodge. Allison has voted for the gold
standard and against silver I'm every
form during his entire public career |
He would be as devoted TO the gold
party as Levi p. Morton, the Nassau
street banker. Allison is wealthy.
well-fed, well-kept. slick eastern poll
tician, whose western residence is his
whole stock in trade as a presidential
candidate.
1T. c. Power hailed from Dubuque.
Iowa, the home of w. b. Allison. Mr.. |
Power voted for Allison when sent as
a delegate TO the Chicago convention
In 1SSS. Allison was then. as he is
now. the uncompromising enemy OF
silver. Every time the question has
come up in the senate for 20 years.
Allison has cast his vote unfailingly
against the white metal He is a gold
man pure and simple. He
has been a standing candidate for the
presidency for a generation and has
never been able to assign any reason /
Tor his candidacy except that he lives
n the West and has eastern senti-
nents. He hopes to catch eastern dele
gates on his votes against silver and
20 catch western delegates on provfn-
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