Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-06
IN IDAHO AND MONTANA.

'"o S'i0 'AiAN AiANAAA
bers of the late Chicago committee meet
ing, relative to cooperating in a politi-
cal way with Edward Atkinson and other
odoriferous copperheads of that type.
A dispatch from Boise says the silver re-
publicans are 'all talking about it in a
manner that is anything but that of en-
dorsement." Hon. w. E. Borah, one Of
the most prominent silver republican
leaders in that state, says:
We have no means of knowing here
certainly, what the silver republicans
may do in the national convention, but
| Will venture the opinion that when the
silver republicans again meet in conven-
ton in this state, they will denounce At
kinson, Boutwell, and their traitorous
creed SO thoroughly that there will be no
doubt as to their position in such mat
ters. l do not believe that there are a
dozen silver republicans in the state who
/ would stay in a convention where such a
sentiment could find Judgement in a resO-
luton. When it is said that the compo-
sition of the senate of the United States
is such that nothing can ne done for sill
Yer for many years and that in the mean
time we shall recruit our strength by
wallowing in the ~debauchery Of absolute
disloyalty and keep company with such
d~isgruntled and despised men as Atkin-
son. then about all has been said in the
way of a funeral Grafton for the silver
republicans that it is necessary to say.
About all there would be left to do would
be to elect an actuary to prepare the NOR
tuary tables. If Senator Dubois used
! those words attributed to him it is great
ly to be deplored because he certainly
does not represent the sentiment, in the
! slightest degree, of his friends or Of the
party he is a member of. 1T seems to
me incredible thai he should have utter
ed such sentiments.
What is true of the silver republicans
in Idaho is likewise true of the silver re-
publicans in Montana and other states.
! They will submit to 10 political alliance
with men who have shown the cloven foot
of treachery to the interests of the ma
ton in times of war.
The member of the silver republican
party in Montana Will be called upon to
endorse such arrant traitors as Atkin-
son and his ilk, under the leadership Of a
man who is himself 4 traitor to the party
which he will assume TO lead. Last year.
Charlie Hartman accepted With thanks
a congressional nomination rendered by
the silver republicans Of this state, at a
time When ne was ulGei Il secret pleuSe
to the democratic leaders to bolt the con-
vention tina honored him with a no1ni-
nation, and had agreed to help elect the
democratic nominee. He accepted the
declarations of the silver republican plat
form, while planning to defeat the party
that enumerated them. Hypocrisy never
had an ADLER or more faithful representa-
tive nan Hartman.
After his nomination, and his public
! pledge to stand by his colors to the end,
he betrayed the party in a most shame
full manner and assisted in the election
of the democratic nominee. Not only
! did he resign in behalf of the democratic
candidate, but he attempted to break
up and destroy the duly constituted silver
republican state committee, forcing it in
to court for it's own preservation. The
courts sustained the original ~organiZa-
ton, and Hartman was by resolution
read out of the party as a traitor who
was undeserving of any further consid-
Grafton at it's hands. Notwlthstand-
ing this, he posed as a representative sill
Yer republican from Montana in the late
committee meeting in Chicago, and was
i recognized as such by his fellow DEM
ocrat, Charles ToWne, who has been un-
der democratic pay as provisional chair
nan of the national silver republican
party.
To such men as Dubois in Idaho and
Hartman IN Montana, the democratic
leaders look for a manipulation of the
silver republican party that will lead
it to endorse the conduct of Edward At
kinson. who endeayored to excite mu-
tiny among the American volunteers in
the Philippines. Mr.. Dubois will not be
able to deliver the goods in Idaho, and
Mr.. Hartman will find himself in the
. same fix in Montana. While recognize
ing that Atkinson is just as good a man
as Hartman, the silver republicans Of
this state have no use for either.
The constantly increasing price of wool
, under the Dingley bill, has put the a
i and festive free trade writer's of Mon
tara to sleep. seven cent Wool uiiaeI
Grover Cleveland and the Wilson bill are
| "reminiscences that do not look we'll in
print.
Now that the Roberts plan to keep
down the surplus of single women has
, been appropriately rebuked, the country
| can again breathe easy. If Roberts can
! not take his seat in congress-, the mis-
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