The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-18
DAVIS ON SANDERS
Report of the Delegates to the Helena
immigration Convention.
THE WAR HORSE CURRlED
Montana's Representatives In Con-
gress Endorsed-An interest
ing Meeting of the Cham
Der of Commerce.
THE WAR HORSE CURRIED


proceedings than at any meeting in
long time. A. c. Holmes was elected
secretary to succeed ]. A. Baker. whose
resignation was accepted. The meeting
was enlivened by a discussion of the
recent Helena convention and by an ar
tistic roast of Colonel Sanders. Mon
tana's delegation in congress was also
endorsed.
Vice President s. w. Davis presided
at the meeting. Secretary Baker read
a communication from the Western
Mining World making proposition TO
distribute several thousand copies of
the souvenir edition of the World. The
communication was received and filed,
but no further action taken. Mr.. Davis,
executive committeeman of the state
mining and immigration convention,
and chairman of the Butte delegation
to the convention, made a report of the
work done and outlined by that body.
The report was interesting and In one
respect sensational. After summarizing
the daily work of the convention, the
report continues as follows:
lowing to the high order OF all ad-
dresses delivered and papers presented
IL would be difficult indeed to select any
one of them for special mention. Suffi-
cient to say that had President Cleve-
land CHANGED to have been a half-hour
listener at any stage of the proceedings
he would have thought seriously of en-
treating some of the delegates to re-
turn to Washington with him as mis-
sionaries to the general assembly of
Presbyterian ministers. In addition to
the matter presented at the convention
there were some 80 papers prepared
treating of the resources of the various
counties, all of them of high order ana
the result of careful research.
sdTha pxapIfiVa committee entrusted
by the convention to carry out its sug-
gestions at the meeting, held imme-
diately after the convention adjourned,
passed a resolution authorizing the
committeeman from each county to
Immediately call county convention
in every county where they did not
have a chamber of commerce or board
of trade, the purpose of said county
convention or chamber OF commerce
meetings to be the gathering OF infor-
nation as to the resources and produc-
ton of the county, the arabic lands
which may be irrigated by the expendl-
ture of money to be raised to carry on
the work based on it's assessments for
the purpose of disseminating literature
among prospective immigrants and In
Vestors.
"As soon as practicable after these
county conventions are held the state
executive committee will be called to-
RGtnGr ana enter OH al dCllNC Nd-i-
paign for the development Of our great
commonwealth. 1 have the honor to be
our county committee and was also
elected secretary of the state executive
committee. Silver Bow county being
a mining county l would suggest that
the first business of this body would
be to adopt resolution denounclng
Col. Wilbur F. Sanders for attempting
to foist upon the state mining and inn
migration convention a resolution en-
bodying his alleged ideas on the cur
rency question. At that convention
was presented the unique spectacle of
pioneer of this state, man whom
this state has delighted to honor by the
highest gift II has to bestow, deliber-
ately antagonizing the interest of ev-
cry man, woman and child within its
borders. Not approaching that his
name should go down to posterity In
the company of such patriots as Thorn
as H. Carter, Charles S. Hartman and
Lee Mantle, who have so nobly repre-
scented their constituents. and fearing
that he would be consigned to Oblivion
or possibly for some more tangible and
potent reason, he prefers to invite the
contempt of his contemporaries and be
mentioned by their children and their
children's children with mantling cheek
as a traitor to the land of his adoption
in which none could be found too poor
TO do nm reverence. BeneNlnR Ine
poet that The aspiring youth who fired
the Ephesian dome outlives in fanS the
pious fool that raised It, he would
rather go down to posterity as the Ju-
das Iscariot of his state than occupy
an honored though less conspicuous
place in its history.
1--WE are told that such is his per-
sonal courage, that he has, single
handed, awed an angry mob of the
toughest characters during the dark
days OF the vigilantes. For such quail
titles he deserves all honor, but shall he
presume on his past services to now
tear down what he and thousands of
other pioneers have spent the better
part of their lives In building up. and
go unchallenged? No, a thousand times
no. Are you aware, gentlemen, of the
pernicious effects his action in Helena
will have on this state? The prepon-
derance Of the eastern press is now run
in the interest of the goldbugs. and
they will not fail to make II appear
that Wilbur F. Sanders represents a
fair share of public opinion in Mon
tana. Therefore in my opinion il is the
first duty of this body to pass a reso-
| luton condemning his actions and ut
| terly repudiating him and his goldbug
| principles. Gentlemen. let the good
| citizens of Montana make the state so
hot for him that by comparison Wall
| street VIII be paradise and hell a
shady bower. What influence is
brought to bear that he forsakes the
worship OF the true God and has erect
ed unto himself a golden image? What
potent power has subsidized the able
| thought and silver tongue. so recently
heard from public rostrum in defense
| of coinage at 16 to / and left in place
an empty cavern and changing bell?
| Let the state mining and immigration
oh
| branches. declare az unworthy 10 par
| ticipate in building up this great state.
as unworthy a seat in its future con-
| ventions. Wilbur F. Sanders. whose
| present address is Helena. Mont.
whose future address ought 10 be at
| Wall street New York. or that other
region above referred 10. which is sug-
| ges-ed by the first three letters Of his
| present home.
| Nov gentlemen having DISPOSED al