The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-12

tary convention should "be so comprehen-
sive and sound as to receive the support OF
all parties and the favorable action OF con-
gress,' no one can deny. That thai mes- !
sage was telegraphed to Great Britain and
used to impede the negotiations of the VOL
colt commission in their efforts to achieve
an agreement with the British government,
no one can deny. In the face OF this rec
ord, who will have the temerity to ask any
bimetallist or any advocate of the green
back, to again repose confidence in a man
who has thus openly and w~illfully betrayed
confidence?
Nor will the close relationship existing
between his administration and the repre-
sentatives of trusts and combines which
controlled the Cleveland administration,
make easier the task of him who assumes
the role of its defender.
The fears so eloquently pronounced by
Mr.. Lincoln OF the successful encroachment
Of corporate power upon the affairs of gov
eminent have been realized. The avenues
and aids through which their rapacity has
been gratified were found in both the dem
ocratic and republican parties prior tolS96.
For the administration OF Grover Cleve-
land was "a complete chapter of national
servitude to Wall street and the gold
gamblers of the world. Fortunately the
democratic party was de-Clevelandized at
Chicago. The administration of Mr.. Nc
Kinley is but another chapter in the his
tory of foreign dictation of our financial
affairs, of a humiliating and cowardly for
eign policy, and of a complete surrender
of all executive authority to the purposes
and desires of those who believe that the
many should earn bread in order that the
few may eat.
So profoundly am l impressed that CO.
operative action between the forces, upon
a basis of generous and reciprocal conces-
sion, is the supreme requirement of the
hour, that I cannot conceive of any sacri-
flee so great that ought not to be willingly
made by any sincere advocate Of the cause.
to accomplish the desired results.
We are going to make the fight in Mon
tana for cooperative action. 1t may not
carry with it all the democrats, all of the
populists, or all of the silver republicans,
but | have faith to believe that it will car
ry sufficient to show by an overwhelming
majority to the people of the United States
that the allied armies in Montana stand
true to the plans and purposes of Mr..
Bryan, the leader of our forces, and the
three committees in charge of the national
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maintain that faith in the ~eople of Mon
tana until they by their W action de.
stroy that faith. We should never sur.
render the fight until they solemnly declare
as they must declare in order to sustain
their position against cooperation, that il
division there is strength, in union there i;
weakness, and that the way to win battle
is to destroy our own soldiers, and thereby
deprive ourselves of both time and forces
with which to oppose the common enemy.
The joint call for the organization of the
silver republican party in the respective
counties in the state, issued by Senatol
Mantle, chairman of the state COMMITTEES
of the silver republican party, and myself
as national committeeman from Montana
is an important part of the general plan
of cooperation adopted by the chairmen o
the three national committees. Promp
action should be taken to complete this or
ganiZation in the respective counties.
Z, The men who withdrew from the repub
iican party because that party had deserteC
principle and become the exponent and de
I fender of unjust, oppressive and viciou
financial system, understood what the,
were doing, and knew why they were dc
I ing it. They responded to the highest me
tives which actuate men in shaping thei
d conduct in relation to public affairs. The.
left the republican party and created tn
: silver republican party, because they be
y lieved that the financial plank of the S
u Louis platform meant the actual commij
: ment of the republican party to the mair
. tenance of the gold standard, and that tina
t purpose was cunningly concealed beneat
l. the futile, if not deceptive promise, to pre-
mote an international agreement for bime.
allism. They did not create the silver II
u publican party to be an adj unct OF an al
{ to the republican party, nor is it a wing
y of the republican party. 1t is a separat
u organization, independent of, and antagt
nistic to the republican party, and is no
serving its special purpose of depicting II
u ranks of the republican party.
Events have furnished such conclusi,
proof that our departure from the repu1
D. lican party for the foregoing reasons W,
% justified, as to convince the most TIM
and hating of our duty in the futur
m There ought to be no doubt in the mir
nr of any silver republican as to what cour
he and his party ought to pursue in Il
he campaigns of 1898 and 1900. Our duty
I'd a plain and a simple one. No man need
e. at sea who has at heart the interest of Il
We great cause, and will calmly and courag
ously confront the situation and act as h
IN reason dictates. Organized as we are in Il
id nation and in 81 states to do battle for
he honest money system, which will at on
id furnish an adequate medium of eXchang
be a stable and equitable measure of vall
as and a just standard of deferred payment
en- we have but to continue in a straightfc
it ward course, to maintain our organizati
Ell and to keep in sight the one great pr
Sc pose. Our state organization is compile
wv the county organization should be perfet
ed to the end that the most effective 81
DIS vice can be rendered in the contests in t
1r- future.
he As one of the three grand divisions of t
he silver army of the United States, the silly
ey republican party recognizes as a comra
he in the contest every man who aids t
cause, whether he march with lis, or ia
If. his place among the soldiers of either of t
OIL other divisions of the silver army.
Id In completing the details of county
ganization, attention should be promineI
y called to the fact, that already secl
CT efforts have Eeen made to hinder and
go lay us, and the greatest care should be
ercised by all the friends OF the cause
:" the state, TO prevent unwarranted int
terence with, OF participation in the affa
of the party by those who are interest
Z. in defeating our purposes and perpetuati
on the gold standard, while protesting fdel
nu to bimetallism.