Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1896-10-30
SOMETHING WILL DROP SOON
Silver Republican Candidates Are
Being Knitted by the McKin-
ley Goldbugs.
Justice Burleigh's Friends Will Not
Stand Such Treachery Any
Longer.

at ia not at all unlikely that there
may be an explosion among the ranks OF
the republican candidates before election
day." said a prominent local silver re-.
publican to a TRIBUNE reporter Satur-
day. 1.-THE few candidates on that ticket
who have been o%utspoken in favor of
silver are being lied about and maligned
by the gold bug element, and probably
before election day some interesting de,
velopments may result and the yellow
fellows may be stripped of their parti-
colored garments and be compelled to 90
before the voters in their true c%olors.''
The above remark was brought out by
the fact that McKinleyites have been
circulating for the past two days stories
about Judge Burleigh to the effect that
he was one OF the leaders 10 the disturb
ance at the opera house meeting,
which was addressed by Carter
and Weed the other night.
Judge Burleigh is one of the very few
republican candidates who has made no
secret Of his free silver sentiments and
his intention to carry them into effect in
tho only way it is possible to do so, by
voting for Bryan and Hartman. The
consequence is that the Mckinley men
who are clamoring for silver republican
votes for their own candidates and de-.
clare that they are entitled to them un-
der the terms of that ridiculous Butte
conference have been quietly knitting
any candidate on the county ticket sus.
pected OF holding views favorable to free
c,I,ar T'hntct lnn ,aa-.a - H., xlt L..
Butte agreement WAS binding only on
the silver side. or course, it is unneces-
sary to say that there was no word Of
terruptiny the Carter meeting. Thoee
modest a man for that, but
the story is told to show
the lengths to which the Mckinley
contingent are willing to go TO knife any
man h has courage enough to give
voice to his convictions and aid the
cause Of silver by his vote. 1t is not
strange that genuine silver republicans
nave come TO the conclusion that no
Mckinleyite on the county ticket will
get their support. This kind Of A pache
warfare on the part of the McKinleyites
is not confined to Cascade county. All
over the state the same tactics are pur-
sued. The silver republicans are form
ally read out of the party, damned and
cursed as apostates, and at the same
time served with notice that they are ex-
pected to vote for tho local Mckinley
candidates. Perhaps they will, but
there is 10 evidence of hat fact.
Maryland is one of the states that
Mark Hanna has been counting in the
Mckinley column, and many democrats
have been willing TO concedc that it's
proper place was in the doubtful col
umn. Senator German has recently said
that Maryland il safe for Bryan. and
this view il borne out by a private letter
recently received in this city by E. Il.
Judd from an uncle Of his, j. O..
Stearns, who resides at Whiteford, Har-
ford county, Maryland. Mr.. Stearns is
an experienced politician and Il gentle
man who has unusual means of informa-
ton as to the trend of political senti-
ment in the state. lie reprcs }ntcd the
Sixth assembly district of the state in
the Legislature for some time and his
opinions rs to his own section and state
carry weight with those who know him.
lie writes that, as to his own county
and district, there is not IL shadow of
doubt but Bryan will roll up ii big old
time majority, There are very few dam
fool gold democrats in that section. He
is equally confident that the state ut
large will bring to the city Of Baltimore
Il heavy democratic majority. The only
possible show for the republicans to win
lies in their carrying the city of Balti-
more by "A landslide majority that will
overcome the country vote, and he does
not think that, granting all tho repub.
llcan claims rs to strength there,
they can Offset the Bryan majority which
will be rolled up in the state at large.
He says Maryland can be counted on to
swell the Bryan column next November
with confidence and reasonable cor
tainty.
Kentucky had always been counted as
one Of the Gibraltars OF democracy until
the general breaking up and readjust-
ment of party lines caused by the issue
Of free silver and the common people
against gold and plutocracy came about,
Now it can be usually found in the
doubtful column of the political proph~
cts. This is due not to tho fact that the
republican party is strong in that state,
but TO the fact that there is popularity
supposed to DO a large number of gold
democrats ia the state who will follow
the lead of the renegade Carlisle and
vote any way to defeat the regular nomi-
nees of the party.
William NJ. Cockrill recently received
II private letter from a we'll known local
politician there who ia actively en-
gagged IN the campaign who says
that Montana will have to hus-
ne herself to gi7e Bryan as
large a Majority AS kentucky will. lie
says that the strength of the gold Gle
'nent has been greatly oyerosiimateJ,
ana that outside Of the Louisville dis
trict " will not mako II showing Of any
importance, The enthusiasm which
marks the free sl yer meetings 10 simply
phenomenal. lie declares he mover saw
anything like it in his life; that a crowd
OF several thousands will come out to
near ANYoNE speak on that topic. The