The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-14
MANTLE URGES FUSION
Believes in Cooperation Be
tween the Silver Parties.
WILL ISSUE NO APPEAL
Several More Montana Persimmons
Ready to Be Picked-Collector
Browne Will Stick-Butte
Public Building.
Washington Bureau of the Standard,
No. l415 g street n. w.

No. 1415 g Street n. w.
washington. March 1.-THE publica-
ton of Charles S. Hartmans open letter
10 the opponents of the gold standard
in Montana was expected to be followed
by one from Senator Lee Mantle. But
the senator has decided not to issue
letter to the voters of the state. He
tells the Standard that he has written
his views in private letters to large
number of his friends in the state and
does not believe ii desirable to print a
general letter. He says that he believes
fully in cooperation between the seVerai
silver parties OF the state along the
lines laid down in the recent appears
issued by the chairmen of the national
committees of the three silver parties.
Representative Hartman has received
many communications from friends IN
Montana warmly approving the radi-
cal tone of his open letter and eongrat-
ulatiug the silver republicans upon
their apparent determination to reject
and resent any proposition to affiliate
with the gold republicans under any
circumstances. Hartman's position In
this matter has been consistent from
the first. and was plainly forecasted by
his refusal at the beginning of the pres
ent administration TO endorse any appii-
cants for federal office, even for post
master in Bozeman, his home city.
Several more Montana federal per-
simmons are ripe. Among these are the
land Office appointments at Helena
and Bozeman. w. 4. Phillips, who is
in the city, is a candidate for one of
the best of these. l.. q. Phelps OF
Great Falls is also here. His friends
say that he has abandoned all expecta-
ton of getting the Great Falls collect
orr,,sv ~ apvthfnc .aunaIly as good =
He was originally a very conspicuous
candidate for the place. and started out
to have Collector Browne incontinently
removed from his office and himself
named i'm Brownies stead. He aban-
doned this, however, when he ascer-
tanned that Browne had a sure thing
of retaining his place for two years
longer. 1t is just as we'll that he quit
the race early, for it is plain that the
collectorship. when 1t is filled at LAST.
will not go to any Great Falls man.
That city is already we'll provided for
with the internal revenue collector
ship. But ii is very early chicken
counting to do any specializing as to
what man will get the office when
Browne finally gives 1t up late next
year. Many things may happen by that
time to change all present existing con-
ditions in Montana. By that time Sen
the people that he was the only origi-
nal, thick and thin, true-blue. silver
man in the state. Who knows? Stranger
things have happened with Montana:
Junior senator.
Collector Browne is still here. II,
does not deny that he is we'll satisfied
10 be left quietly in office until the enc
of his term. 1t is an interesting fac
that he owes his tenacious tenure of tbs
Of n fha iGt.A n
Commodore" T. c. Power. The latter
managed to delay Brownies eonfirma
ton TO the end of his own senatorial
term, and by this course succeeded IN
giving the collector two or three years
extension of his term.
While i'm the city Collector Browns
has secured an important alteration II
the treasury department ruling respect
ing the sampling of lead-bearing ores
The rule previously provided that tn
samples presented at the Great Falls
custom house must be forwarded to tn
director of the mint here. thus inYolv
ing both delay and expense. Assist
ant Secretary Hamlin has now decide,
that such samples can go to the ASA,
Office at Helena.
Representative Hartman was one of tn
most prompt of the opposition member
of the house who announced their inter
ton TO heartily support the artillery eS
tension bill and other administrator
measures of preparation for the nations
defense. In an Interview with the repr,
sentative of the Standard Mr.. Hartma
said:
THE demand of Spain for the recall c
General Lee and for the cessation b
the United States of the transportation {
supplies to the reconcentrados in war YES
sells was properly rejected. IL is refreshin
TO find the president taking this dignlfie
stand. 1t is In decided contrast to his vas
illating course in the past IL is to h
hoped that this occurrence indicates
permanent change in his policy which wi
soon result in Intervention by the Unite
States and the prevention of further ba
barities in Cuba.
IF such be the case the president ougl
to have the loyal support of congress /
respective of party in any controvers
which may result from such action. II i
of course. TO be hoped that war will n.
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