Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-08-20
ALL ONE WAY.
Senator Carter Says All Republican Promises
List Fail Ars Borne Out.

New York, Aug. Ex-senator Thos. II.
Carter of Montana, who was chairman
of the Republican National committee
in 1892, is in the city en- route for his
Western home, after a vacation on the
Maine shore. Senator Carter is one OF
the few delegates from the silver min
ing states to the st. Louis convention,
last year, who refused to bolt. The
senator was seen at the Manhattan
hotel by Mail and Express represen-
tative. and when asked for HIS views
on the situation through the country.
he said:
Things seem to be running all one
way. and the prophecies made by Re
publican orators last fan are being
born out more strongly every day by
the news from the Industrial and tinan-
cial centers. West Of the Missouri
river. according to the advices receive,
the people are already feeling the pres
ence of prosperity. The merchant has
large trade, people are paying cash
instead of seeking credit, new coat OF
paint is going on the old house, and the
front porch is getting mending that it
ha ssadly needed for two or three years
back. These are all unfailing evidences
of a revival of good times, and the peo-
ton on March has been productive of
great. benefit to them"
How will good times affect political
conditions in the West?"
"Unquestionably they will cause the
return to the party fold Of great many
dissatisfied and deceived Republicans"
replied Senator Carter. TT is little
early to assume, though, that Republi-
can supremacy can be regained in the
former party strongholds there. A
great many voters must be conv inced
before that can be accomplished, and
the process must necessarily be slow
one. 1t will be more difficult in the
mountain states than in such states as
Kansas and Nebraska. In the latter
dollar wheaton even 75-cent wheat, of
the crop is goodwill solve all the
political problems which the Republi-
cans there have before them.
I'm the mining states, however, where
silver is as much of crop as wheat is
elsewhere. the Republicans have a more
serious situation to face, and no one is
will happen there. Speaking as citizen
of Montana, l may say that our people
would be prosperous if not an ounce of
silver were mined there, though, of
course. we would like to get as good a
price as possible for the 20,000.000 ounces
| of silver that the state produces annu-
ally. Still We have varied resources, and
with wheat close to the dollar mark
wool at 10 cents instead of s. which was
| last years selling price, and the cattle
| industry again on its feet my state can
! get it's share of the sunshine of prosper
| ity. even though the price of silver Is on
| the down grade"
How does Bryan stand now with the
| Western people?"
| LAS a political factor of consequence
| in politics, Bryan has passed away-or
perhaps it would be better to say tht,t he
| is passing away. The more the people
| reflect on the Chicago platform and Bry-
ans utterances in last years campaign.
| the greater satisfaction do they feel at
the escape they had from the perils that
| threatened them. Bryans candidacy
| was all the more menacing because 1t
was launched at a time when the country
was languishing and when people were
at their wits end to make ends meet.
| Naturally 1T appealed with great force
| to the dissatisfied and discontented. Its
evil is apparent, today. to many who sup
| ported it. Bryan is now busily engaged
| in beating the bushes of mining camps.
| His entrance into towns attracts about
| as much attention as that of a circus.
| and no more serious thought. People go
| to see him just for the sake of seeing
him. 1t is not my opinion. though, that
he will be heard of to any great extent
| in future Democratic conventions, and
as for the platform upon which he ran
| last year, that will become a little more
discredited and be a little more widely
disowned day by day. even by those DEM
ocrats who supported it at the polls
| rs President Mckinley satisfying the
| Western people?"
| admirably. and particularly those who
have met him in the White House," re-
piled Senator Carter. No President of
recent years has had the happy faculty
which Mr.. Mckinley possesses SO highly
of impressing people with his personality.
He is open. frank and cordial with every
one, and that has helped him amazingly
| in getting his administration so well
launched. He has the Senate with him,
irrespective of party, and the tact he has
displayed in that respect has made pos
sible the legislation which he has in mind,
including the present tariff law