The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-17
WAS A DEMOCRAT
His Sudden Conversion to Re
:. publican Principles.
A REPUBLICAN"
Approached Democratic Committeemen
With . Proposition Rather Peculiar
= for Q Candidate on the
- Garter Ticket

Great Falls. Oct. 17.-During the past
week the local organ Of the goidbug re-
publicans has taken the trouble to write
Ind publish brief biographical sketches
q each OF the men on the goldbug leg
Hlative ticket. They are well written.
although there Is a kind of sameness in
The last paragraph Of each sketch.
which takes especial pains. with one
or two exceptions. to state that the
candidate has always been a consistent
silver man or something OF hat kind.
Of course when the writer came to
Charley Eliot ne had to drop the word
silver. and only say that he had always
been a consistent-republican. and that
IS the exact truth. Mr.. Eliot has al
ways been too conscientious to claim to
be anything that he is not, and to-day
he is making a consistent campaign on
the st. Loui platform.
However. had the writer resided In
this community longer than a few
brief months he would have been able
10 have added several things OF interest
20 each sketch. For instance. in the
sketch OF the life of that noble German.
waldemar Stein. he say or his political
convictions: He has always been re-
publican In politics, and in his paper
has always advocated the free coinage
OF silver. He is a clean and able man
and should be elected"
Very possibly Mr.. Stein has always
been a silver man. a sort OF erman
silver republican. as II were. but II Is
within the memory OF the oldest living
man that he has sometimes been other
than republican in politics. He came TO
this city in the spring of 1892. There
ere some remaining in the city who a
the pleasure of listening TO a very fiery
democratic speech from him in the old
club rooms on Central avenue, and there
are more who will remember that a few
days later he played a very prominent
part in the democratic county conven-
ton and that therein he was a candi-
date for the office Of county clerk n
recorder. His name was put up by n
Otto Schoenfeldt. who became very
angry indeed when his friend failed to
become the nominee of the
and with his friend he walked out of
that convention. 1t will be remembered
also that Mr.. Stein closely linked his
political fortunes from that time for
ward with those of his friend Otto. and
II those who are in a reminiscent mood
will follow out the political history OF
Cascade count they will find these two
men i'm very strange company for one
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tics. To bring historical sketch
down a little closer TO the times in
which we live, il may be stated-and
the statement will be backed by affida-
Wits. IL desired-that Is was only a few
brief moons ago that this man who has
always been a german-silver republican
approached certain members OF the
democratic central committee and
a%nxiously inquired what that body was
repair to do for the Montana Herald,
of which he was then proprietor and
editor. He urged that whatever bust
ness deal was to be made should be
closed at once. as he had some very i'm
portant business that hinged upon the
possible democratic arrangement. When
ne found that the democratic committee
was not to furnish as much as a post
age stamp for the use of the Montana
Herald. Stein at once became a man
who has always been republican In
politics" Any further historical data
will be ch~eerfully furnished by the
committee or by this office.
The last issue of the Montana Herald
states thai Mr.. Stein is very anxious
to attend the next legislative assembly.
for he reason that IL he were there he
could do some good to the Germans of
the state That is very possible. From
the historical data gathered one would
infer hat certainly n German would
be benefited. In addition to the purely
personal interest he might have he
would no doubt be very jealous in push
ing a bill to prevent epidemics Of Ger
man measles or to prevent the state OF
Montana from declaring war upon
Kaiser Billie. Unfortunately his COM
patriots In this city do not bite at such
rank nonsense. and the man who has a
german-silver record will be turned
down by~his own people as well as by
the voters at large.