Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-04
STARTING A NEW BOOM.

For a time the Bryan democrats useG
the banquet boom to good advantage
1t was an excessively cold day when a
public feed was not advertised for some
part Of the country at which some new
paramount issue for 1900 was discovered,
Things worked along that way for a
long time. until the able and genial
colonel had eaten his way almost across
the continent, and there were nearly
enough dollar dinners to his credit to pay
off the national debt.
But after the refusal of Mayor Har-
rison of Chicago to sit at table with eX-
Governor Altgeld Of Illinois. even when
Colonel Bryan was willing to sit be-
tween them and let them play on his
anatomy in case they inadvertently lost
their presence Of mind during the exer-
cises, the banquet business fell into
what Grover Cleveland would call a con-
dition Of inocuous desuetude. The dollar
linn idea suddenly became a pros
trated case of political prolapsus, so to
speak.
With apologies to the Butte Miner for
attempting to quote Scripture, when it
is looking on, we believe it was Malachi,
who enjoyed some reputation as a
prophet, who said that the wicked would
become as though they had not been.
Well, that was what became Of the dollar
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been. 1t quit. But it is said that a seed
once sown always bears fruit. Even if
it rottens in the ground it fructifes the
soil and makes it easier for some other
seed to take root later on. That is what
the dollar dinner system did. 1t pre-
pared the soil for something else. And
democratic party are about to start a
dinner campaign.
The Inter Mountains telegraphic ad-
vices today state that next Sunday a
dinner will be given at Saratoga lake by
prominent democrats who are opposed
to the denomination Of the boy orator of
the Platte. At that dinner will be such
eminent democrats as senator Vest, ex-
Senator German, Judge Ralph Walker,
eX-Congressman c. H. Morgan, Colonel
j. J.. Butler, Benjamin Brady, Excise
Commissioner C. 2. Higgins, Committee
man Flanagan, William Connors, Joseph
P. Willet, Theodore F. Davidson, Fred
Dubigon, Colonel G. c. Staley, ex-Con-
gressman Lawrence McGahan, John
Coughlan, Augustus Van Wyck, and
others-representing party leadership
from all parts of the country. From the
list of names it appears that the friends
of Mayor Garter Harrison of Chicago,
and Mayor Van Wyck of New York will
meet the friends of ex-senator German
and everybody knows what that means.
There is scarcely room to doubt that a
presidential boom for German will be
launched at that dinner. 1t can have no
other significance. Prominent demo-
Gratis from distant parts of the United
States are not meeting in Saratoga just
for the fun of eating Inner next Sun
day, nor can their presence there at tina
time be construed as purely accidental
The dinner is the outcome of a movement
well under Roadway among the anti
Bryan democrats to spring an eastern
candidate for the presidency, and tc
make such a fight in his behalf that the
so-called silver wing of that party will
be compelled to accept a COMPROMISE or
the financial issue and relegate the ques.
ton of free coinage to the rear. Now
watch the matchless heroes of free coin.
age IN the democracy of Montana shake
In their boots,