The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-25
Carter's Interesting Talk.

| Carter's Interesting Talk.
A recess until o'clock this afternoon
| afforded the committees time to report
The credentials committee reported n,
| contesting delegations. The perma,
| nent organization committee recon-
mended Senator Carter for permanent
| chairman, ]. Il. Collins of Custer sec.
retary, George Conway of Beaverhead
| assistant secretary, II. II. Yaeger OF
Lewis and Clarke second assistant. ]. f
| Davies of Silver Bow reading secretary
| and then named the order of conduct
| ing the business. The chairman, on as
suming charge. began:
Il greet you as the chosen representa-
tives of a substantial reunited party
From the day of it's birth, under all
normal conditions, Montana has been,
and by right ought to be now, n republi-
can state. All our affiliations and asso-
Citations, all our sympathy, all our i'm
terests are with the republicans. We
train with Iowa, Minnesota and Illinois
naturally, rather than with Florida,
Mississippi and Alabama When we
seek cooperation, either in the develop
ment of mines, the building of railroads,
the construction of canals, or the prose-
cution of public improvements. we pro-
ceed to our neighbors in Minnesota. IL
linois, Ohio. New York. Massachusetts
and kindred states. rather than to Geor-
gia, Alabama, Mississippi or South
Carolina, generally assumed to be per-
manently democratic states. Any con-
dition of political thought tending to
ALLEVIATE the sympathies of Montana
from those of our Eastern brethren who
have assisted in developing this COM
monwealth is a sentiment that should
be frowned down in the campaign and
voted down at the polls. From the At
iantic to the Pacific this is a republican
latitude. The democracy has not
thrived in this latitude at any point
or for any considerable time. Where
men are controlled you have democ-
racy"
The speaker wandered off into an al
legged contrast of conditions in the bust
ness and labor world in Montana now
and in 1896. saying: That wan face Of
the ranchman has broken into a broad
smile. indicative of hope and anticipated
contentment. The sheep have been taken
from the sheriff and turned back to
the shepherd. The miners of Montana
are working and producing to a greater
extent to-day than at any time in the
history of the commonwealth. Within a
few miles of this city is the East Helena
smelter, a custom smelter. That plant
has within the last two years been treat
ing within the neighborhood Of 1900
tons of ore per month as against the
highest record of previous years,
to about 5000, indicating
that the miners on the hills everywhere
throughout Montana are working and
working to a purpose They are work
ing because they are getting $4.2O for
II cents for copper instead of about I
to 9. They are getting 81 cents for silver
instead of 54.''
Coming back to Montana the speaker
pitched into the state administration,
saying that republicans could not as
semble without pity for the poor state
of Montana, which had fallen into the
hands of the Phlistines, giving us an
administration which carries the blush
of shame. For the first time i'm Mon
tana's history we have witnessed in
shame the humiliation of a public SER
want taken to the penitentiary." said
the speaker. Then he wandered off to
Kansas to tell what populism had done
for that state. He held il to be the |
duty of republicans to dedicate their |
efforts to redeem the state from the |
plight fixed upon it two years ago in |
the moment of hvsterical excitement |
and claimed the republican party had a |
divine commission to bring about this |
result. He wound UP with some full |
some praise of Mckinley that tickled /
the office-holding contingent in the /
Then came the resolutions. These |
were presented by Col. Sanders. They |
I'D not contain the expected plank de- |
,larlng for the gold standard without |
equivocation. The st. Louis platform.
however, was indorsed, being the same
hing, while the land grabbing policy
vas also indorsed. The resolutions We're
Is follows:
The Platform.
The republicans of Montana. reiuve-
lated and elate, hail the new issues and
welcome the new responsibilities which.
~ the fortunes Of war, have been
hrust upon the country, confident that
heir influence upon the republic and
he world at large will be filed with
'enencent results. The retention by us
4 all the conquests we have made is a
Iictate alike of interest and duty. So
imperial an addition 10 the possessions
4 the republic will be the monument
ma praise of our fellow citizens, who
n land and sea, in fortress and camp |
ave demonstrated that the naughty
alor of the fathers is the undiminished
ossession of their sons.
We proudly salute these heroes of
heir country's wars who have aug
lented the glory of their race and add
d new splendors to the age i'm which
'e live The story of their valor will
e recited while time endures. We
resent TO the country a party which
as demonstrated its capacity to deal
nth the most difficult questions of gov
and that will meet these new
onditions with patriotism, sobriety and
are.
We pledge to those who achieved for
$ these great conquests by a courage
'hich ennobles human history our un-
ailing attention and care, and to those |
hose forms are bent by disease or ,
roken in battle We pledge adequate
eward.
I'VE send to the brave soldiers of the
epubhc an expression of our pride and
and we rejoice that those
no went from Montana proved them .
lives worthy the commonwealth,
hose renown they have, on all posSi-
e occasions, augmented on land and {
"a. ,
We express our abiding approval of !
le principle Of protection 10 American
dustry and cherish with undiminished :