The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-02
MORE PROSPERITY TALK
Free Coinage of silver. He Said. Means
Silver Monometaiiism = He Mads
Some Clever Dodges-Refused
to Answer Questions.
Special Dispatch to the Standard.

to welcome him, nor did any Of the re-
publican candidates break their necks
in getting to the station. Only John
A. Largent. the man who claims to
have once owned $4,000 worth of the
stock Of the Queen OF the Hills, and b.
T. Hathaway were on deck. and these
two men hustled Carter over to the no.
tel In a manner that suggested that the
old vigilante days had not passed into
history. Then the absence of all these
men who, one would naturally think
would hasten to the side of their lead
er, was conspicuous again at the hotel,
and IL looked very much as IL the scene
OF 1896 would be repeated. 1t Is evil
len the local republicans are sore at
the boss for the bad breaks he a
down at Benton the other night. and
fear that the public Will remember
them as well as they do.
As usual he is accompanied by his
able manager, Phillips OF Helena, and
betting is even that a he been so
guarded at Benton he would never
have made those breaks, Phillips was
busy handing out purses tonight, blu
so far as known they were empty and
only an advertisement Of his insurance
company. Holders OF them, however,
are advised to retain them for some
days, as there may be something to
follow.
For two hours no republican candi-
date appeared at the hotel. Finally T..
r. Clingan of Belt walked in discov-
cred Carriers presence and hurried
away. Col. James Donovan, populist,
held a consultation with the senator. no
doubt assuring the latter that he was
doing his best. When the band finally
came out but two republican candidates
had shown up, w. ii. Stafford for jus
tice of the peace and a man who Is
running for constable. Two carriages
were provided. but one suficed to car
ny Carter, NJ. l.. Brfdgman and b. I.
Hathaway Of his city n b. ID. Phil
lips of Malta to the opera house. Three
small boys formed the procession.
At the hall the stage was appro-
priately decked with crysanthemums.
'the flowers Of gold," and there was a
conspicuous absence of the chairman
of the county committee and the candi-
dates. 1t was learned that most of the
| latter had business at the Silver smell
ter. four miles below town. 1t was a
| cold stage. The house. however. was
comfortably well filed with populists
and democrats. The band played the
schottische. He Wore a Little Bunch
OF whiskers on His Chin" and the rail-
ly was off. b. II. Hathaway presided
and introduced the speaker Of the
evening in an excellent brief speech.
Mr.. Carter said in starting about the
same things as at Benton, that the
highest prosperity the country had
known came in the last year OF the
| Harrison administration; that content
ment is not found I'm riches: that the
people turned to tariff reform. He re-
ferred TO a little pamphlet written by
Jesse Searles. when editor OF the Tri-
bune. on tariff reform and employed
,ha DanfAn aruuupanfg again (fGrPt
there rom a man in the rear.) He
pictured the horrors of the panic of
1893 and attributed all to a change in
the tariff laws. He called the demo-
\ cratic party a ~"blighting influence" and
unpatriotic. and charged 1t with maxi
ing Cleveland a scapegoat. IL had
been sworn by the Chicago platform
of 1892 to the repeal Of the Sherman
coinage act. thus wiping out the last
bit of silver Legislation. Then In 1895
IL had asked the country to let 1t try
to mixer with the And he
hashed up some more OF the Benton
speech on state bank currency, splicing
Il to suit the taste of a different audi
ence. He dwelt at length on the civil
war n INVOKED the shades OF Grant
and Lincoln to call out a little APP
plause. He said the democrats had
stolen the populist party and should
have been prosecuted for grand lar
1 GnN jill Ntt t1It -,
fitted to tinker with finances. although
a hobo you may pull off a brake
beam tonight can tell you how to do
IL A republican claquer. who had
spent his hire in booze. yelled: Two
hundred million bonds" to which Car
ter replied: I'm a minu but Ii was
fourteen hundred million to which we
subscribed"
The nance question had been sub
mitted to the most gigantic jury the
world had ever seen n the result had
been 1.-THE election of this splendid man
from Ohio by the largest majority since
the time of Grant" And everything
had been lovely ever since. Prosperity
had come back with a rush. An audi
tor attempted to ask a question, a
g~ray-haired pioneer of this country, j.
l.. Williams of Logging creek. but was
howled down by the republican clac-
quers. and Carter said contemporary:
Il will give you the platform later.
Some more prosperity talk followed,
and he came down to Cascade county
and hunted in the audience for b. Per.
cy Clark to ~corroborate his sheep stor-
les. .'All was the result of intellig ent,
benefcent legislation. And yet they
say the people are sad and weary and
ready 20 listen to the song of the pat
ent medicine man. The fight of the
democrats Is against this man Carter
and | could purchase peace in two min
utes by running into their camp, bui
I'd rather be found lea outside"
Carter said hat he had never de
clared in favor of the free and unlim'
tied coinage of silver at a ratio OF II
To 1. Il only stated in the Auditorium
at Helena that the only hope for silveI
lay in the republican party. I an
ready to take up the gauntlet of tn
democrats 3s5 days in the year. In
1896 I had a han in clearing the at
mosphere Of the financial muddle. 1r
February I stated in the senate tina
the republican party was in duty bounS
to state its position without deception
in the platform OF its approaching ma,
.ional convention"
Carter quoted Bryan as saying tina
free coinage Is experimental. There 4
nothing experimental In the republican
plan. Next came the e00-cent dOllaI
gag sprung at Fort Benton.