The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-09-12

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found him in front Of the hall and In
quired:
What are you doing here?"
I'm bolting." said McIntyre.
But. there is no bolt"
Amt there? ] thought there was"
So Mcintyre walked back into the
convention. When the balloting for
state candidates began. several OF the
eastern counties refused to vote. As
the fight warmed up, however. some
OF the delegates could not resist the
temptation to cast their votes. and
before the candidates were all named
Dawson was the only county left
which refused to vote at all. In
Custer. Sam Gordon and two others
hung out to the end and would not
vote. Their reason for not voting
was that they objected to naming
candidates before a platform had
been adopted. AS IL now is the state
candidates are running on two plat
forms-one a gold platform and the
other silver platform.
Go eu In "a Qiindary.
The closest that there came to be-
ing a row occurred after the peace
able bolt. The silver men had theo-
retically but not really bolted the
convention. Judge Strcvell had re-
placed A. j. Seligman as chairman.
The silver men were taking no fur
ther part in the proceedings. but the
gold men had extended them the
courtesies Of the floor and not one OF
the silver men budged from his seat.
They wanted to See how the minority
got on without them. For an hour
the gold men f,oundered around with
l..s ~
the silver men embarrassed them and
they could not tell who were their
members, so they requested the silver
men to please move out and leave
them alone. The silver men then va
Gated their seats and many of them
left the hall. The gold men thereupon
proceeded to fill the seats with con-
testing delegations. of which there
were many present. Carbon, Gallatin
and Granite contesting delegations
had been seated In this way. At this
moment came one of the thrilling
scenes Of the convention. Lee Mantle
jumped up on chair and in a voice
that reached beyond the limits OF the
hall, he shouted: Back TO your seats,
silver men: we must take back this
convention" Then, turning to the
McKinleyites, he said: You have
no right 20 seat contesting delega-
tions. You are stultifying the work
Of the convention and the work OF
the committee on credentials. You
are repudiating the entire work OF
the convention and the entire state
ticket You are breaking the Butte
agreement and we can break 1t as
hard as you" That brought the Nc
Kinleyites up short. They promised
the silver men faithfully and on their
honor that II they would please not
return they would respect the agree
ment and unseat all the contesting
delegations they had seated. This
was done.
..artman Speaks y oquentiy
The silver republican party of Mon
tana had its birth In the wee small
hours of the morning. 1t was nearly
midnight before the McKinleyltes had
vacat ted the hall. The silver men then
organized their party and Charles S.
Hartman was placed in nomination
in a scene of the widest enthusiasm.
Mr.. Hartman's speech OF acceptance
was an able effort and without doubt
the most concise argument for bimet-
allism ever given In Montana. Hart
man was borne about the hall behind
the banner and followed by the dele
cations carrying the standards Of the
counties. Resolutions were passed en-
dorslng the ST. Louis plank except the
financial plank. for which a silver
plank was substituted.
owing TO the lateness of the hour
the report went out from the hall
that the nomination OF presidential
electors was passed. This was not
so. While there was some talk of
passing the nominations. after dis
cussion. the two democratic and one
populist presidential ele~tors were
endorsed by a rising vote, unanimous
ly, and with whoop. 1t was also
voted that the democratic state Gen.
trail committee be requested 10 sub
stitute a silver republican for one Of
the democrats on the electoral ticket.
If this is not done. the ticket named
at Missoula will be supported just the
same.
siiv'r's strrng IA
To ascertain It's strength the silver
convention called the roll of delegates
to ascertain who had bolted to the
silver convention. The result was
most gratifying, showing 265 In the
silver convention to l2S in the gold
convention. Beaver'head. Carbon,
Deer Lodge. Gallatin, Granite. Jeffer-
son. Park and Silver Bow had bolted
solidly, in addition to which silver
had 16 of 25 in Cascade. out OF IL In
Flathead 10 out of 81 in Lewis and
Clarke, IL out Of IL in Madison. IL
out of IL in Msslula, II out OF L. in
Ravalli and one from Sweet Grass
county.
There was much discussion in re-
gard 10 having the name of Mr.. Hart
man placed on the Official ballot. In
order to make doubly sure. IL was d.
cid-d 10 have the officers of the con-
ventlon certify to the nomination
and also have Mr.. Hartman nOmi-
mated by petition. A petition was
circulated in the hall ana signed by
all the delegates II will be circulated
generally for signatures. of which
loo will be required for nomina-
tion.
The following state central commit
tee was appointed: Beaverhead. j.
F.. Morse: Deer Lodge. II. Il. White
hill; Flathead ID. II. Hoskius: Gala
tin, L. n. Ellis; Granite. Duncan y.
Wall: jefferson. F. +. Cornish: Lewis
and Clarke. II. ". Howey. Madison,
J. NJ Dickinson; Park. @. II. Wright,
Ravalli. ]. L. Hubbard; Silver Bow.
Wilbra II. SWEET; Sweet Grass, r. F.
Frye.
After the usual votes OF thanks,
more cheers and waving OF banners,
the silver republican convention ad-