The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-16

law.
But the republican party. II is a
bimetallic party. but the United States
cannot sustain. without the ~co-opera-
fion Of the commercial nations of the
world. the free coinage of both gold and
silver. IL stands pledged to bring this
about ~ possible. But in the meantime
the republicans saw a more speedy
remedy for the evils with which the
country was afflicted. The idea of the
republican party is TO create a demand
for labor. for products. and this Is the
principle applied by the republicans In
the Dingley bill. Money Is seeking in
vestment now, labor is being employed
In greater numbers daily and in a short
time there will be no idle labor in the
United States.
Mr.. Marshall cited as evidences OF re-
publican prosperity that there was at
the Omaha exposition a pyramid built
of cancelled mortgages. which the re-
publican party had made IL possible for
the people to pay OF. The
people OF the Palouse valley in
Washington had, under democrat
&c rule. been mortgaged to death.
but now they were lords of all they
surveyed. He admitted that the Lord
had something Ia do with This In send
ing them a bountiful harvest. Railroad
employees were now so much i'm demand
that they could not secure leaves Of alb
tDtf aih iE&thNi hdu pfth IN
railroad picnic where there were log
ladies n only IL men. Why so few
men, Because the railroads could not
spare their services in the handling Of
n vast amount Of traffic provided by
the republican party. This country
could not afford to teonardiZe Its pros
perity by an experiment. II could not
forsake a tried and true system to try
free silver. He did not believe the dem
ocrats would ever again present the
free coinage proposition. II would be
absolutely impossible for this govern
ment To try II alone. The republican
party stands pledged to maintain "A
parity. but M single government can
maintain a parity at any ratio unless IL
controlled the image Mckinley car
ried out the 81. Louis platform. He APP
pointed a monetary commission. The
republican party believed Il to be ex-
tremely hazardous for this government
to maintain free coinage alone-finan-
ciers say IL canot be done. The COM
mission found that France wanted to
go to a silver basis. but the United
States n Franc could not do ~. The
commission wen To Perlin. hut Ger
many was not ready. England was not
ready.
Nobody believes that we can main
tain free coinage. II would bring wreck
and ruin. tn which the great disasters
from 1893 to 1897 would not hold n
candle. IL Is not prudent To try this ex-
pertinent while the country is prosper
Gus. Better wait until we have ex-
hausted every resource to bring about
cooperation rather than force the re-
sponsibility of what win surely come.
During the course Of his remarks the
colonel pulled out n book full 81 sta
.tistics. but he had not read very much
Of II. when there was n movement to-
ward the door and the speaker dropped
his statistics like a hot brick and told
audience they would have to take |
his word for It.
Colonel Marshall was followed by w.
Il. Rodgers Of Anaconda. who said that
he would be brief. inasmuch as the
people had listened patiently To Colonel
He tcld n story about a man
who went abroad and compared foreign
Institutions with American institutions
and always found America ahead. SO
was the republican party ahead. He
wanted To talk Ia the laboring men. He
how hard he had worked on a farm
whom he was n hoy. and how he had
blistered his hands for % cents a day.
from which his employer had some
times deducted 10 cents for remissness.
Mr.. Rodgers then took n little credit
unto himself for his rosition in the
state legislature. telling how he had
supported every measure for the amel-
ioration of the condition Of the laboring
Mar. Rodgers then wen into statistics
but Mr.. Rodgers was wise. He
had them i'm his head and dispensed
with the book which had frightened the
audience during Colonel Marshall's ad-
dress. Mr.. Rodgers also dabbled n lit
tie I'm ancient history and ridiculed the
'so-called Jeffersonian democracy"
Colonel Marshall. he told how
prosperous the country always was I'M
republican rule and how Il went
the dogs when the democrats were in
He declared that the Democratic
party was not true to silver. IL did not
care for silver. The populist party was
the only original rs To I silver party In
this country. When the democrats met
In convention in Chicago, they were
driven to the wall for an issue. They
stole the platform 81 the populists:
they put on the silver suit and they
said To the populists. We, too. are for
The speaker then jumped on the dem
for their selhshness. They
wanted everything. The bond issues.
the Hawaiian question and the late wal
with Spain were touched on. He de-
Tended the administration and it's con-
of the wa and denounced the
democrats. who said the American SOL
diers had been abused. The speaker
closed by making eulogistic references
10 the party 5 state candidates. |
q. II. OF Deer Lodge was
the last speaker. He told how Charlie
had roasted" him in the
state convention when the resolutions
controversy came un, and how. for the
sake of harmony. he had not replied at
that time. Mr.. Hartman advise me
to go where ] belonged. to the gold
convention at Helena. did
not go To Helena. but ] came here. and
nv the grace Df Cod \ Mill STAY hara I
/ nave found my crowd" He was glad
to get back To his friends. He charac-
teriZed Hartman as "A man of ''over- !
weaving conceit." He was no longer a
silver republican.
He took a fling or two at the demo-
cratic party and half a dozen filings at |
the Standard FOR the atrocities this
newspaper had committed. and wound
w by commencing to the people of
Deer Lodge county the full fusion coun-
~ ticket Mr.. O'Bannon was humorous
in his remarks. and he was the only