The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-21


&Anaconda donned her holiday attire
Yesterday in honor of the three con-
MENTIONS which begin their sessions
here at noon to-day. The city is gay
with red. white and blue. All of the
business houses and many of the resi-
dences of the city are more or less pro-
fusely decorated with the national coll
ers, flags, bunting and streamers.
Across Main street at two places are
suspended great streamers bearing the
inscription:
: Anaconda Welcomes Her Guests :
.......... ................ .........'.
THE three convention halls are deco
rated, the most elaborate being the
rpurt room, where the silver republic
ANS are to hold their meeting. From
the Montana hotel Flagstaff floats the
largest flag ever unfurled from a stan
I'm the city. 1t is expected that by noon
to-day many more decorations VIII
beautify the general appearance OF the
day. as a great number of families pro-
pose to decorate their homes in honor
nf the delegation.
All day the delegates were arriving
and by last evening several hundred
people from various parts of the state
had swollen the city's population-some
here as delegates. some as candidates
some as wire pullers and many as spec
tators-for the conventions to-day
promise to be the most interesting in
teresting in the history of the state.
@Farly in the day delegations n
parts of delegations arrived from Kali
ispell, M~issoula. Deer Lodge. Philips
burg and other west side points. ON
the & o'clock train from Butte came a
dozen or so Of the leaders of the Silver
Bow delegation together with the en-
tire Beaverhead county delegation. the
delegation from Fergus county. r.. G.
Day of Helena and a few delegates
from various parts of the state. one
solitary silver republican from eaNer
head county also arrived. He will cast
the vote of his county in the SILVER re-
publican convention.
AT lO:45 o'clock last night h forces
around the lobby were greatly aug
mented by the arrival of the Lewis ana
Clarke and and Cascade delegations,
together with a number OF silver BOW
democrats and silver republicans ana
so,ne delegations from smaller counties
clarke and the Cascade delegations.
arrived in a car bearing the streamer'
cascades Delegation
chairman w. NJ. Cockrill came with
the Cascade delegation. while Cover
nor Smith, Ex-Governor Toole' sam
Hauser. Dave Marks. j.. s. NJ. Nell ana
other Helena leaders arrived with the
delegates from Lewis and Clark coun-
~. Senator Lee Mantle and other sill
yer republicans arrived from Butte ana
lost no time in getting to work. a }.
Seligman headed the delegation of Hell
ena silver republicans.
This mornings train will bring 9TH
- ere HalapaffnnG aud nv noon all the
delegates to the state convention will
be here. Yesterday afternoon several
delegates arrived in private convey
ances and last evening a coach load ar
rived from Philipsburg. Two-thirds of
the delegates are already in the city,
and all are well provided for.
The reception committee was busy ali
day and until late last night assigning
the visitors to quarters in different
parts of the city. All trains were met
by a procession of landaus and as many
as could get into the hacks were hur-
ried away to their quarters. The work
os assignment was systematically con-
Quoted and everything went of with
out a hitch or a break.
There was plenty of gossip about the
Montana hotel lobby last evening. as
we'll as in other resorts. and by all thu
signs there will be plenty of fun and
plenty of excitement in the conven-
1lpnS lA-udA. HoHt WHO are Ildlliliie
for an early raid on the opera house
in anticipation that all the o will be
IN the democratic convention, nay find
they have chosen the wrong pew af'
ter all. While the democratic owen
tion bids fair to be exceedingly lively
81 hou not be overlooked that there
Is a populist convention and there was
never a populist convention held in tht
world that wasn't rich. Governor
Smith, who was elected a delegate e
the state convention from Silver Bow
county, although his residence is In
Helena, where he was turned down, IL
on hand. and it is understood that Pa
Meany. his arch enemy in the Lewis
and Clarke delegation. Will dispute his
right TO sit in the convention. He viii
argue that never before in the history
of American politics has a man gon,
TO a state convention from one county
when his residence was in another. Ii
will also argue that several years az,
the populists of Montana establishe,
the precedent that no officeholdel
should occupy a seat in any populis