The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-30
WHERE IS ". S.FRARY ATT
He Is a Candidate for County
Treasurer.
HIS VOICE Is FOR PEACE
He Cannot Tell to Save Him Which Fac
ton OF the Republican Party He
Wants to Be a Member OF.
He Has Troubles.

Great Falls, Aug. 2s.-Perhaps the
worst worried man in this city at the
present time is W. S. Frary. city treas
urer. He has a demon more persistent
than that of old man Socrates. 1t
arises with him in the morning and
tarries with him even until the hours
of sleeping, when IL visits him in the
dead of night, to grasp his hair n to
whisper hoarsely: Where am i at,
my God. where am / at, and where
will / get off at2" For let it be known,
confidentially, that he is a candidate
for the office of county treasurer, on
some republican ticket, and there Is
the rub. He has consulted every man
in town, every one who ever bore the
name of republican. He has consulted
Lee Mantle on that gentleman's visit
to the city: he looked across the street
at Hartman and his soul died within
him: he has sought h oracle OF the
chin whisker, your uncle Thomas Hen
merry: he has asked the opinion of the
man who two years & voted for the
republican candidate for constable In
West Great Falls and then skipped
over and voted the rest of the ticket
straight democratic; he has taken
counsel with the "glaucopis" Phillips
of Helena, but his soul has found no
ease and his demon pursues him ever
more. Could he tell just which branch
of the republican party was his he
would give half of the first years sal
airy (Which he thinks he may geD and
"eet them up" besides. So beset is he
with trouble that at times he feels like
the example of the 40 evil
spirits, whom the Messiah cast out
from that unhappy person in Pales-
tine, and, hike them, take up his lot
with a herd dwell. you know, not
exactly swine, but a very undesirable
class, the straddle republicans. 1t is
sometimes best for a candidate not TO
confine himself too closely to a paral-
lei
Now, Frary is a nice boy. His mis-
sion is peace on earth and the good
will of Cascade county voters toward
his candidacy. Like Dan Webster, his
voice is loud for peace, peace at any
price, and he has dom his best to Sc
cure 1t, and if harmony has not re
suited 1t is not his fault. People, es-
p~ecially republicans, should not blame
him il he has failed. Did he not visit
the members of the Seven Up clu
early in the game, before they made
their terrible break for something they
called principle, and say to them:
Gentlemen, let US have peace. Why
should brothers quarrel among them
selves aud make the family name OF
republican a laughing stock even unto
the small boy me the yellow dog? We
are all one and let us pull together as
one. You know how l feel on this
money question, but I do not let my
feelings get the best of me. Observe
my demeanor and profit thereby. We
can fix this thing up in some way II
you do not make some break before the
proper time comes. Now, do be care
full" And everyone o how head
strong and pigheaded the Seven UT
club proved a few days after.
And then he visited the silver repuh-
1ican camp, and he talked with the
chairman of that organization, Judge
Burleigh. See here, judge said he
you are not going to issue that cal
for a silver republican convention, are
you? Now, Burlefgh, you are too good
a fellow to be the lean of breaking
up the republican party. That woulc
not be right, you know. For heaven:
sake, hold It off until we can get to.
gether and patch matters up. / know
] am willing to sacrifice something fol
the sake of paarty harmony, I'd ever
give up some of my principles for 1t
and the rest ought to be willing to do
as much. You know that / am as soliC
on the coinage question as a man cal
be and keep on two rapidly divergint
stools at the same time. But / an
willing to give up anything save th'
treasurership for the sake of harmony
You know / have fed out of the city
crib about as long as l can, and now