The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-29
WISDOM OF A SOREHEAD
An Unholy Alliance of Silverites
= and Goldbugs.
HOW THE GAME WORKED
Thrown Down After Years of Labor In
the Ranks Meditatlons. After
Job, on the Recent Con-
vention.

Great Falls, Sept. 2s.-"Man that is
born OF a woman is of few days and
full of trouble. He cometh forth to the
primary with a flower in his button
hole and is 'trun down He runneth,
also. in the convention. but he con-
tinueth moi thereafter. Who can bring
a clean ticket out of an unclean party?
Not one. Seeing his days are deter
mined, the number of his months are
with the voters, they have appointed
his bounds that he canno pass"
When old man Job said these words,
1t was the morning after the county
convention of the silver republicans
and the straddle-bug republicans in the
district of UZ, and he spake with the
wisdom of a sore head. 1t was his
eighth affection and the sorest of them
all. He could lose his sheep, his cattle.
his camels, even his daughters and
their husbands-had il not been writ
ten of the latter, And the devil shall
owe him a great debt and he shall pay
It with sons-in-law?' He could stand
even the boils. but to be thrown down
after years of labor in the ranks n
then by a job Of his own making. was
too much. And he wept and cursed his
god called gold. He had been a straight
republican, but In the harvest time OF
two years previous, he and his sons
and all the ~able-bodied voters that
dwelt in the house of Job had gone to
the temple of Bryan, there to be puri-
fled of their sins n to be anointed
18th the ointment of free coinage.
S~traightway after the amounting they
had hurried to their house lest the oint-
ment strike in and charge their hearts.
They had desired the dor OF
sanctity, not sanctity itself. for
they were of the tribe of republicans.
which is by birth Ishmaelite. But they
had proclaimed their conversion from
the housetops and cried il on the street
corners. They had drilled with the gang
and when the harvest time again APP
preached they had hustled and put up a
job. They were to put up a ticket, a
ticket OF Hartman and of Lee Mantle
which is sometimes called sill
verite, and the McKinleyites,
who dwelt hard by. were
20 indorse the same n to fill certain
vacancies with the henchmen of the
tribe of Mckinley. And all was to be
good and lovely and the fish who Were
not caught with the gold hook would
impale themselves on that Of silver and
much would the McKinleyites and the
Observation-Disclosures profit thereby.
They would secure the fishes and the
loaves would be thrown into them.
Therefore, they went out into the har-
vest and they held a convention, which
was a farce to tickle the silver men and
they put up a ticket. leaving the agreed
places open that the Mckin-
leyites might come in on the
deal as per agreement. Old
man Job was state senator and three
representatives were chosen from among
the tribe. likewise a sheriff, Charlie Proc.
tor, and the attorney, Jim Freeman, and
an assessor, Harry Jones, and divers
other offices did they ill and others die
they leave open in order that the Nc
T~inleyites. which are also Of the tribe oil
your Uncle Thomas Henry Carter
might come in later and feast with them
Job had chuckled within his beard at
thoughts Of the manner in which the
s'lverites would swallow the Mckinley,
stes, as well as you Uncle Thomas Hen
nv Carterites. So il came to pass thai
they did swallow the McEinleyites II
part, but the old man Is now wondering
if more digestion was not being accom-
plished by the McKnleytes than by tn
silyerites, and If the latter are not los
ing their identity as a party.
Job had dwelt in the tents Of YouI
Uncle Thomas Henry Carter and knew
the faithlessness Of them that dwell
therein, but this was a case Of loaves
and fishes and he thought that tbs
~Ishmaelites must keep faith for once
But they didn't.
They put up Frank Coombs for state
senator, whicn was according to HOyle
and the rest Of the prophets for Joi