The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-01
BUTTE News.
THEY MUST COOPERATE
Silver's Forces Must Be in Har-
monious Union.
SENATOR BUTLER'S WORDS
The North Carolina Statesman Expresses
Himself Vigorously as to What
Must Be Done IL Silver
Is 70 Triumph.

United States Senator Marion Butler
Of North Carolina. chairman of the
populist national committee. accom-
panied by Mrs. Butler, was in the city
FOR a few hours yesterday. Senator
Butler went to Colorado on business n
few weeks ago. and after his visit was
over he wa persuaded by Mrs. But
Ter 10 visit salt Lake city and the Ma
tional park before returning home. The
senator did not know that he would
nave To stay owe in Butte a few hours.
and so no word was sent To this CITY
OF his proposed visit. and none Of the
populists We're on hand to welcome him.
Mr.. n Mrs. Butler arrived on the
afternoon train from salt Lake and
left for the park at o'clock last even
ing.
Senator Butler is n man Of quiet. dig
nihed mien, firm and outspoken i'm his
convictions, yet reserved i'm his express
sions. He Is tall and lean, with a full
black beard and scarcely appears as
yet of middle age. Mrs. Butler is a
charming lady OF the true Southern
type, courteous and pleasant to all and
greatly interested in everything per-
tanning TO Butte.
My trip Is thoroughly political"
said Senator Butler to a Standard re-
porter in the paTlors Of the Butte. ''Our
trip TO the park was suddenly decided
on, and we had no thought Of stopping
over in Butte"
What are your views on the sub
Ject of cooperation Of the silver
forces?'
rs that an issue here?' asked tho
senator. rs there any doubt Of the
silver democrats being In control Of the
democratic convention"
1t was explained to Senator Butler
that while some Montana democrats
are for cooperation. Others believe
that, as the democrats can win alone,
they should take all the offices.
4 cannot consider a man a true.
sincere silver man unless ne is in favor
Of cooperation said Senator Butler.
The cause Of silver can never win
until we elect n silver president. It
viii never be possible TO elect a silver
president except by a union of all sill
Yer forces.
silver men i'm Montana who oppose
n union OF the silver forces are hazard
ing the cause of silver for n few politi-
cal offices. IT is first of all the duty of
silver states TO show an example Of
unselfishness by faVorinE cooperation.
You are interested in silver here i'm
Montana. We of the South are inter
ested in silver. too. But whatever YOU
may hin in Montana, we know to an
absolute certainty that we can never
elect a silver president until there shall
be a harmonious union Of all silver
forces. If the silver people OF Mon
tana are not patriotic enough to take
the lead I'm this cause, nov can you CN-
poet US I'm North Carolina and Illinois
and Indiana TO cooperate? And unless
the silver forces i'm those states CO.
operate. silver viii not win.
Il believe the majority OF your people
are right, but there are hypocrites
among you and among us. These hypo-
critics pretend to be for silver, yet they /
are gold men at heart and are secretly
at work 10 bring about the disunion of
the silver forces and thus postpone the
triumph Of silver. These hypocritos Elk
cite the p~rejudices Of many sincere sill
Yer men and get them To oppose fusion
in the silver states, unmindful Of tho
incalculable harm they thereby do the
cause at large.
william J. Bryan well described the
conditions in your state in his letter last
spring To the New York Journal ayor-
ing cooperation. He pointed cut the
various pitfalls and dangers in the way
a cooperation of the silver forces,
used about this language. In the
where the silver sentiment Is very
strong. men who are at heart I'm sympa-
thy with gold s~yndicates and trusts
Will declare as loudly FOR silver as the
most sincere friends of silver. They
viii do this in order to get men Of their
kind elected delegates To conventions.
They viii even favor silver resolutions,
but they will steadfastly oppose taking
that course which Is essential TO win
ming a victory for silver
That statement pointed out the Ian
ger 10 silver in Montana and other
Western states. The majority If the
people Of this state and nation are in
favor Of silver and the cause Of silver
cannot be beaten except by The ma
chinations of hypocTites and goldhugs
IU 1HErFIHE4 Who nTagPnI In Inc for silver Z
are out to defeat cooperation. The
cause Of silver cannot win without CO.
operation and IL there is no cooperation
In Montana there VIII be none in the
at large. They will say in
other states that the democrats Of Mon
went il alone. where they had ey-
their own way and why, there
fore, should the democrats expect the
assistance Of other silver parties in
Ohio and Illinois, Indiana and North
Carolina
The gold emlssarIes VIII diligently
point 10 Montana in the endeavuT 20 de-
'eat cooperation in the states where co..
operation is necessary 10 silver success.
The strong silver states should certainly
yet the example. You are the leaders of
he silver movement. Do not handicap
hose Of US who ara fighting for silver !
where the fight Is a mighty hard one by
'efusing the encouragement and moral ,
support which can only come through a
harmonious union Of sllyor's forces. The
OF "A true silver man Is the favor
of a cooperation Of silyer's forces,
or in no other way will silver ever win. .
hope and believe tina the majority Of +,
he silver democrats Of Montana place :
he cause Of silver higher tina a few !
.ffices which may be IN their grasp" .
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