The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-21
What Mr.. Mantle and Mr.. Hart
man Have Lately Been Saying
NOTIONS ABOUT NEXTYEAR
or Course They Do Not Think Alike
and 1t Remains to Be Ssen Which
One of Them Comes Nearest
to Calling the Turn.
Washington Bureau of the Standard,
No. 1145 G. Street N. w. y

iii ynr,1NI f/Ioy of
'ne ,euot
mountain region toward the oeiiiocia
ic party in the next presidential elec-
tion is sharn1v at Issue between two Of
.7..a..,,. 80 ho,+ars From,
the ihosl pioiiiiheht VI .'is
Mckinley In 1886. Both ex-senator Lee
Mantle and ex-Congressman Charles
9 u.rtrn.n orc IN the civ and the
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recent autnorizeo interviews WIN 'i
appearing almost simultaneously IN the
local nress show radical difference of
49,. - 49, 80 ;,,,nortort question
opi..oiA "po -,
In montana, where ooth Tie seh'ieiiieh
live, and where their opposite course
since 1895 is known. their divergence on
~ a,,h.a.. ,,;u ~ al, s,,rn,is-
.ipe supJeo' WIZ n.y. NC a. az SUI p -
Ing, and 1t VIII be somewhat discount
ed IN the other ROCKY mountain states.
But IN the East ex-senator Mantle al
titude is already being freely claimed
as an evidence OF the certain dlslnte-
grafton OF the SILVER FORCES. rms, too,
notwithstanding 1t Is well known IN
washington that senator mamie nao
been Veerlng toward the MCKINNEY re-
publicans Tor Two years before MS re-
tirement from the senate and mad sup
ported the Dansley taflH Dill IN tnal
body. 1t IS, however, not geneTaIS
known that ne openly opposed the gem
ocratic ticket IN Montana last t., fan I;,, al
though the vast majority or the silver
republicans stood Loyalty by the sue
cessful democratic ticket
Congressman Haftmans attltude was
also well known in the capltai, ana II !
has been thoroughiy understood tha'
ne Is an intense nenever IN tns oeii ~
cratic alliance But the sacrlnce ne
made In his own state IN refusing 10
run on the Mantle silver republican
state ticket against the democratic
candidate for congress was less widely
known.
The appearance of both interviews at
TINS time mas served TO invite attentlon
to the probable attitude Of the silver
republicans OF the country in the next
campaign. 1t has also brought INTO
new prominence the two mountain,
state politicians who dropped out OF
public life very suddenly. put from
wholly different causes, In 1898
Extracts from the two interviews
have heretofore appeared, but owing
to the interest which they have caused
in the East, they will repay publica-
ton in full 1t should be understood
that these interviews were not contro-
versial in character, but were express
sions of opinion given reporters of diff
ferent newspapers. Therefore the per-
sonal differences between them in local
politics played no part in these state
ments.
Ex-senator Mantle gave his views to
the Post. He was asked: do you
think Mr. Bryan will be the nominee
OF the democracy in 1907?
Yes, 1t looks that way" he replied
but no one can tell what may develop
between this and the national conven-
tons. 1t may be that these later ques-
tions will overshadow the issues of
1876. At any rate, II 1t should come to
the point OF standing by the govern
ment In It's prosecution OF a war that
1t did not seek, millions OF patriotic
Americans will lose sight of ordinary
issues ana vote to uphold the policy
that only seeks the maintenance of our
nationai hohor ana prestlse. Ihere are
bound to be new political alignments
anyway in the next campaign Thous-
ands who went with Mr.. Bryan before
will be glad of an excuse to oppose him
next time, and will urge his anti
expansion views as a reason. Some
democrats VINO left him IN 96 Will, Tor
that same reason and because they
want to get back in the party. declare
In his favor.
My impression of Southern senti-
ment, said Mr. Mantle, lis that it is
decidedly IN favor OF the expansion
policy. l noticed that Bourbon demo-
cratic newspapers Of that section were
outspoken In advocacy of our retaining
territory taken from SPAIN Though
they are loyal to Bryan on free silver
they are not with him in his opposl-
ton to imperialism so-called In the
West one thing is certain: there will
be no more alliances of silver repub-
lcans with democrats The help that
was given by the silver republicans in
past campaigns will not be forthcom-
ing. and all talk of fusion in the future
is idle The democrats welcomed the
silver republicans as allies in close
states, but in states where they Sc
cured the ascendancy repudiated them
in the most contemptuous manner. The
men who received this treatment are
not likely to put themselves in position
to experience it again, and whatever
the democrats hope to accomplish in
states like Montana and Utah they will
have to achieve without the aid of any
other party"
Ex-Congressman Hartman's views
were given to reporter for the Wash
ington Star, who asked him what there
was in the report of silver republican
Itcof