The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-28

y
! If it takes a close look at things in the
| political realm, that an effort will De
made during the months to come to
/ disturb the present democratic ar
| rangement. In the East are certain
democrats-they were disloyal demo-
Gratis in 1S96-who fancy that they can
equip and control a compromise demo-
cratic party. These are men like Mr..
| Croker and Mr.. Hill They propose To
try it; the Standards belief is that they
| will fail.
The Inter Mountain is therefore near
to the truth respecting democracy.
And our evening contemporary will be
right close up to the truth If 1t also
makes the discovery that there is only
one republican party-that is the gold
bug republican party. We have no
doubt that the Inter Mountain is clear
ly in the light on this point. Still, it
has readers who, we suspect, are not
positive that silver is utterly without
hope in the circle of the Mckinley ad-
ministration. On that score several
pointed speeches lately made in the
senate are in evidence: we wish that
they might reach a number of people
with whom the columns of the Inter
Mountain have influence.
Not that the Standard questions the
loyalty of the Inter Mountain to the
cause of silver-a suspicion of that sort
would be worse than unwarrantable.
But we have in mind the few people in
Montana who have always been repub-
licans and who hope against hope that
the present republican president repre-
sents a sentiment friendly TO silver
We would like these people to read a
recent senate speech of MIR. Teller s.
surely no citizen of Montana doubts
MIR. Teller's honest championship of the
free coinage cause. The Standard
would be glad to quote the whole of
this speech 1t was delivered January
IL. 1t was not reported at length in the
press dispatches; yet 1t ought to reach
every republican who wants TO be for
silver and yet stay with the admins
tration. Here is a paragraph or two,
in longer quotation that the Standard
usually makes, editorially, yet Well
worth reaaing. Mr.. Teller said:
Mr.. President, there is no diff renee b.
tween the republican parry ana It's IL adj
4 lie republican party rs to-day the iatty
oil the gold standard The head of the
publican party but reflects tnu ntiu.enl
of his great organization when lie STAN S
for gold. The secretary of tn tro asdry
but represents the republican orga MIA
ton and republican sentiment as a , h lie
when he stands for the god stdnda. d.
There is no distinction or diffei eHce b.
tween the sentiments of the secretary of
nt he N of
United States upon that SUBJECT. 1T
would be indecent for me to say that the
president OF the Unlled States has III h
cabinet an officer who off RS with him
on the great fundamental question with
which his department is esps cialiy call
to deal. There is no self-resp, ctins presi-
dent who would keep in his cabinet
ms mber of II who differed with nm On
such fundamental question and prisci
PIE. There IS no self-resp~ ctng secretary
who would stay there. l do not mean to
say that every secretary must he n ac
cord with his chief on every question. but
he must be in accord with his CHIEF IN
those questions with which the CHI ef is
called to deal. | deny that there IS
any contest between the secretary of
the treasury and the president, and
unless the change was made by
taking the executive from soma
other political organizat on, | d ny tint
any silver man of intellgtnc ana in CO.
C
would be better off by a change The
executive. Before the last national re-
publican convention there were a num-
Der of distinguished republicans w-o
sought the presidential nomination had
any one of them been made the standa d
bearer of the republican party, tn re
would have been no difference in his at
ttude toward this question. When IT,
present executive was nominated his
views on the financial question were well
understood. We had been told In the
public press for more than a year, on The
authority of a man who stood ne. rer
TO him perhaps than any other man not
in public life. that the pres dent had en-
phatically declared that If the republican
party adopted a free coinage platform he
would not run upon 1t.
In the speech from which these words
are quoted Mr. Teller discusses the st.
Louis platform. which he accurately de-
scribes as saying: We are in favor
of international bimetallism when the
principal nations of the earth will yield
their assent thereto: and if that can
not be done, we are in favor of MAIN
tanning the existing gold standard sys-
tenn" In the st. Louis convention. he
added, seven men out of every eight of
the delegates knew perfectly well that
the platform meant the gold standard
and goodly proportion of those who
were against the gold-standard plat
form marched out of the convention
and out of the political organiza-
ton"
In his speech at the manufacturers
banquet last night Mr. Mckinley was at
pains to avoid marring the festivities by
any ill-timed illusions to New England