Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-21
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER q. 1899.
REPUBLICAN, LEADERS AND MCKINLEY.

That sensational yellow newspaper
which said Bryan was worth "only $780,
Ooo"-the New York J~ournal-has an
ounce to the public that the republican
leaders are dissatisfied with President
Mckinley. To the smaller fry democratic
organs throughout the country. this an
nouncement comes as a great boon. re-
CARELESS of it's truth or falsity. for they
are in a bad way for political capital.
The fact that the allegation is based on
the sensational statements of a sensa-
tional Washington correspondent to a
sensational journal, cuts no figure with
bourbon newspapers which are constant
Is reaching out for such mental pabulun.
The opinion Of the Journals hired man
at the capital, hat there is an atmos-
phere OF distrust Of Mckinley in repub-
lican circles, is therefore accepted as 4
political conclusion.
AS usual, the statements Of he New
York Yellow Journal are untrue. and are
as DaSeleSS as tine TaDflC OF a dream.
Laying aside the matter Of opinions,
either for or against the proposition, the
trend Of political events conclusively
show upon their face the growing
larity of the president, not only within
his own party but throughout the coun-
try as we'll.
Men who have been widely advertised
by the democratic press as the leaders
of those republican elements which con-.
template war on the president within
party lines, have one by one Withdrawn
from official positions which would have
greatly strengthened their contention,
and declared themselves out Of politics.
The most notable among them is Speaker
Reed, who avowedly opposed the expan-
sion policy of the president in co%nsonance
with what he believed to be the future
interests of the section of country in
which he lived.
Had it been the purpose of the few
prominent republicans, whose sympa-
thies are with the democrats on this
question, to make war m the admins
%tration. Reed would have remained in
where, as speaker, he might
have blocked the policy of the president
when it assumed the shape of contem-
plated legislation. But Mr.. Reed has re-
tired from congress and from political
life, in order to practice law and recoup
his neglected financial interests in an
other state.
General Alger has been pointed out as
another prominent republican who would
lead a contingent against the president,
while Governor Pingree has been herald
ed by the democratic press as his coadju-
tor and friend in the contemplated polit-
zeal crusade that would smash the re-
publican party into flinders. Now it is
announced that both these gentlemen
will retire from political life. Thus the
three gentlemen named as leaders of the
anti-Mckinley movement have Yolun-
tarily surrendered positions of strategic
advantage in a political way, did they
contemplate warfare on the president.
Foraker is still another eminent repub-
lican who has been unanimously chosen
by the democratic press to assail the ad-
ministration, but who has persistently
refused to carry out their wishes. II
language that is unmistakable Forakel
has declared his answering fidelity Il
the aims and purposes of the admins
tration-a fact which no we'll informed
man has ever had good reason to dis
pute.
In truth, there is not a prominent re
publican on the stage of action toda.
who would be a party to any movement
that contemplates the retirement o
President Mckinley from the position h
is filling with such credit to the countr,
and satisfaction to the people. The tren'
of affairs in the republican party poin
to the unanimous denomination of tn
president in 1900. If he desires to agai1
enter the held. Those republicans il
New England who oppose expansion, be
cause they realize that it means tn
growth Of the west and q corresponding