The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-26

by an enthusiastic audience.
The Paramount Issue.
Attorney Edwin NJ. Lamb. candbda,.
for the legislature. was introduced by
the mayor as n warm personal friend
and associate OF William T. Rrvan-
Mr.. Lamb r. an eloquent and very fore
ible and convincing speaker and was
warmly greeted. We believe" he an IA
that the democratic platform told the
truth when IL said that the silver ques-
ton II the paramount issue. We be-
lieve hat no question Is settled until
IL Is settled right. We believe that the
issue OF 1896 e. the issue OF 1889. II
Is of vhalimportance To send a man 10
Washington who Is a champion Of sill
YER. There Is not one OF the IL Silver
Bow candidates for the legislature but
believes earnestly and thoroughly in
silver as does Mr.. Campbell himself.
II elected I will not vote for a man
who has not committed himself on this
subject and who stands on every inch
OF the democratic platform. IL a rise
IN the value OF wheat is good thing
for the farmers OF tho Palouse country
why would not a rise IN the value OF
all the products OF labor DC beneficial
to the American people? There win
be any permanent rise In the
value OF wheat until silver is restor-
ed at a ratio OF 16 O. 1. The rise of
whea in 1897 was due 10 no financial
legislation or tariff legislation. but 20
the shortage of the wheat crop In In
dia and Argentina and other great
wheat growing countries. It H. treason
20 desert the cause OF silver and democ-
racy for pique on account of disap-
pointment; and the man who deserts
his party and deserts silver in a time
like this for some fancied grievance Is
no less q traitor 10 silver, TO democracy
and TO humanity HI was Benedict
Arnold"
ConnelIy's Muitum In Parvo.
c. p. Connolly was the last speaker
OF the evening and he made a most ef-
ficient inc taking address. He opened
by reading an extract from the morn
ing's Miner in which he was charac-
terized as belonging TO the Anaconda
company's political department. MI.
Connolly then told the story OF a man
who had two sheep and dyed one of
them black. The difference between
that man and the man who wrote the
In the Miner" said Mr.. Connol-
ly. lis that one IL a lamb dyer and the
other is a. well. a Id liar. I tell
you, whatever politics there may be
there will be no politics I'm the
county's ONCE after I am elected.I have
endeavored to do my duty in the past.
honestly. fearlessly. No man
owns me. no corporation has a collar
my neck. But N I had TO
choose between corporations. ~ had
to choose between men, I would choose
the man who has brought about the
of this community rather
than the one who doesn't consider the
people of Butte good enough to live
among. but goes abroad to live and
nnlv rnnnnc IN Rfrfta whan ho xvonfS "a
be elected to the senate"
Mr.. Connolly spoke strongly In sup
port of the democratic ticket. He paid
his compliments to A. J. Campbell.
for congress. He read ex-
tracts from Bryan's speeches and COM
pared the platforms OF the democrats.
republicans and populists. He paral-
elled a speech made by Carter in 1890
and a speech he made here a few days
Mr.. Connolly was warmly APP
Dla uded. At the conclusion OF his re-
the meeting came to an end.