The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-10
They Listen to Grover.


democrats in Pennsylvania. he
sounds a warning note. These Key
stone goldbugs have been hating be-
tween two opinions. Theirs is a for
lorn hope; they are small remnant of
the democrats party in their state, and
they find little in prevailing conditions
that prompts them to keep in fighting
trim.
Representatives of this goldbug fac
ton met in conference at Philadelphia
last week. They got inspiration for
their task in a letter which ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland had been requested to
address to them. In this letter Mr..
Cleveland urged them by all means to
get in and drill" He pleaded for
sound money movement in Pennsyl-
vania. He expressed some alarm
he wrote: II cannot account for the
arrogant confidence of the free silver
forces, except upon the theory that
they are led to believe that there is
very little aggressive effort to be made
by their opponents. 1t is a strange
thing that the apparent apathy in
many VI odl SpuHd iIibIcy SldlCo
give plausibility to such a belief. If
any one believing with us supposes that
free silver can be prevented from con-
trolling the two houses of the next con-
gress without effective organization
and hard work, the quicker he aban-
dons that idea the more useful he will
be as sound money man. l am so
earnest in my desire to see our country
blessed with safe money and suitable
financial system that | am of the opin-
ion we ought to give patriotic and con-
sistent support to any plan which in
sures this result. and which has the
elements that promise it's successful
advocacy"
Grover Cleveland never could account
for the arrogance of anybody who pre-
sumed to differ with him in opinions or
cross his path or thwart his purposes
He was so well satisfied with his own
superior judgment that he would not
listen to the suggestions of others: with
the result that during the closing half
of his second administration he was
utterly without friends in the house of
representatives while in the senate the
democrats, with possibly three excep-
lions. We're open and earnest in their
Reputation of him.
But whether Mr.. Cleveland can or
growing confidence inspires the advo-
| Gates of silver. They even begin to be-
| lieve that the next house of representa-
| tives is to be theirs-that is capture
which, till recently, they had not dared
to anticipate. Mr.. Cleveland practic-
ally admits that this expectation is war
ranted. He wants the gold democrats
| to organize and work. yet he will oper-
ate with the republicans next autumn
! in so far al he is of any account al all
| just as he did what he could. in neglect
of the gold democratic ticket of 1896. to
| assist in the election of Mckinley. Thl
| Palmer Buckner ticket which NJ
! Cleveland supported in name, but not
at all in deed. received less than one
per cent. of the vote of Pennsylvania
in the last presidential election. The
! figures are so glaring that they are
worth quoting. In Pennsylvania. in the
election of 1896, the returns We're 1885,
900 votes for Mckinley: 433, 22S votes fol
! Bryan; 11,000 votes for Palmer. The
prohibition party broke in two in 1896
and each wing had presidential can
didate. The lowering wing in Penn.
sylvania cast nearly double the vot,
polled for the gold-democratic ticket il
| that state in 1896.
The conference of last week decided
| to nominate in the name of this les!
than one per cent. gold democratic
remnant in Pennsylvania, a full stat,
ticket and n candidate in every con
gressional district of the state. Penn
sylvania is as good as hopelessly re
publican when the bosses can keep tina
party united. This year, over ISSUES
involving corruption within itself an'
offensive Quayism, republicanism in tn
state bids fair TO be squarely divided
In that event the vote that went L
Bryan can carry Pennsylvania an
spare the goldbug contingent that cut
a figure so miserable at the polls.