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

tf1enus OF the Nhltt metai 10 seen Iti-
uge within the ranks OF the organiza-
ton which stands committed irrevoc-
ably to the single gold standard"
Thomas Marshall Is the sdministra-
ton candidate for congress. The words
OF his which the Miner so unsparingly
~denounces were uttered at a mass
meeting held in Butte last Thursday
night. At the auditorium hat night.
seated conspicuously on the platform
and clapping his hands frequently in
approval of Marshairs utterances. sat
william Thompson. He entered heart
lily into the spirit of the meeting.
Thompson Is the administration re-
publican candidate for member Of the
state senate. He Is on the same tickle
with Marshall. He has the hardihood,
right in Silver Bow county and the city
Of Butte. to stand on a county plat
form. adopted at the time Of his nom
f~nation. which declares that, by its
course in the past. the republican AR
~ has shown itself to be the only safe
custodian of our great financial and
commercial interests"
The Butte Miner Is supporting Will
lam Thompson for the Office of state
senator IL elected he will be a hold
over senator-that means that he will
cast Silver Bow county's only state
senate vote. mex January, for the
choice OF a federal senator who viii
hold Office till ls05-and the candidate
be Marshall himself. according to Car
ter's present plan; and. two years
later, he. Thompson. will vote for Car
ter, whose term. IL he is elected. will
run trn March. 1907. The Miner Is
supporting Thompson; and so jealous
il its support of him that IL maiigns
and insults men who are not candi-
dates for ONCE. but who are support
ing the regular free-coinage democrat
ic nominee for Silver Bows seat in
the state senate-the candidate whose
name appears properly and unchalleng-
ed on the ticket which has Campbelrs
name at its head.
With Thompson, on the platform at
the Marshall meeting. Thursday night.
sat c. c. barrow and H.. O. Weller.
They were properly there; they are on
the ticket with Thompson and on the
Marshall ticket. They are candidates
for the Montana legislature that will
elect a United States senator. With
Thompson. they were nominated on a
county platform which asserts that the
republican party is the "only safe Gus
odian of this country's financial in
terests." They are. in n word. regula-
ton goldbug candidates. The Butte
Miner is supporting these two men.
And II Is supporting other Marshall
candidates for membership In the legis-
lature. who were not absent from the
meeting of Thursday night because of
n lack Of sympathy with II.
These all. and more than a dozen
othti nhth NHotn the NilntI ~ upDoTt
ing-unless they be monumental hypo-
crites-will all vote for Marshall next
November. That is right: they are
openly for him. as a recognized n
declared enemy OF silver. for member
of the house OF representatives. Those
OF them who could get into the legis-
lature would be under every personal.
moral and political obligation to vote
for a goldbug for federal senator. Most
fortunately. not one of these Miner
goldbugs can possibly get there. Be
cause. Marshall is the type OF all OF
them. They are on the Marshall plat
form and on the Marshall ticket. and
we have full faith that the Miner IL
indisputably right when II says that
Marshall will find that the people OF
Montana have decreed that he shall
be allowed to remain at home.' s. will
the whole Marshsll-goldbug band in
Butte-Thompson and the other men
on the Mckinley legislative ticket the
Miner is supporting.