The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-17
The HObson Boom.
~ HEN there is the Hobson guber-
material boom. Hobson is that

material boom. Hobson is that
well-groomed, respectable-looking
| gentleman with the cIose-cropped IRON
| gray whiskers, over there in Fergus
county: banker, business man, sapphire
company promoter, state senator, Clark
| republican: of dignified men and slow
and stately tread; eminently calm and
| collected under all circumstances: an
| ideal chairman for either a political or
a religious convention. AS governor of
the state of Montana Hobson would pro-
| duce an excellent impression on visitors.
| He would grace cornerstone laying or
adorn a banquet. Although deficient i'll
oratorical ability, he could make a few
remarks that would be in good taste
and pertinent to the occasion, whatever
the occasion might be.
Politically considered, Senator Hobson
is an ideal Montana republican. That's
where he has the bulge over Sanders,
who is only an ideal national republi-
can. Sanders stands on the St. Louis
platform and obstinately refuses to
bulge. Hobson's republicanism is of
that large, broad, comprehensive, all
embracing order which enables him to
be all kinds of republican at once.
Hobson is a gold republican, silver re-
publican. Clark republican and. above
all. Hobson republican, He is not
necessarily a lightning-change artist,
he is what you might call a composite
republican. In him all the various in
gradients of latter-day Montana repub-
llcanism are stirred up together and
then allowed to cool. The result is a
deep dark-colored mystery. defying all
analysis. Hobson, we repeat, is an ideal
Montana republican.
When Hobson went to Helena last
January to assume the leadership of re-
| publican thought and republican poll
cies in the state senate, he was seriously
misunderstood and even maligned. He
was accused Of being republican of
the bigoted Sanders school, strictly or
| thodox, walking proudly, firmly, unde-
| yiatingly in the straight and narrow
way. There were those who hooted at
| the idea of Hobson ever voting for W.
4, Clark. Ajax defying the lightning
| and intenser determination than Hoo
! son defying the Doodle. Hobson was
| the republican rock of Gibraltar. Come
| one, come all! This rock should fly
| from it's firm base as soon as Hobson
| The heather might rage and the wicked
imagine vain things; the heavens might
| fall and thousand dollar bills drop If
! I H. e Tnti n,1e
| OF society might be undermined and tbs
principles of morality scattered to the
| four winds: Geiger and Beasey ant
Ingersoll and Jacqueth and Marcyas
might be swept away in the maelstrom
but Hobson would still be found wealth.
ering the storm erect, resolute and un-
daunted. That's what the igno
rant and untutored said about
Hobson at the beginning of the
game. Thus was Hobson reviled an6
n aligned by people who did not know
how thorough a Montana republican
Hobson was. On January % Hobson
Topped And great was the flop
thereof.
If Hobson dominates the republican
state convention next year, and at the
| present outlook we see no reason why
he shouldn't, representing, as he does
50 perfectly the accommodating nature
| of modern Montana republicanism, we
shall expect an ideal republican plat
form framed with special reference te
80 ideal candidate 1t will read about
| like this:
I The republican party of the state OF
| Montana. in convention assembled. re.
| aftirms it's allegiance to the eternal prin'
cipes of republicanism as enunciated by
| Lincoln, Mckinley, Hanna and Hobson
| We unequivocally renew our endorsement
| of the gold standard. We demand the
| free coinage of silver and gold at the IA
| ito of 16 to !, without waiting for the ait
| or consent of any other nation. w,
point with pride to the fact that w. A
| Clark & Bbl. were elected to the United
| States senate through the enthusiastic
| cooperation of eleven republican mem
bers of the legislature. We unhesitating
I ly condemn and denounce the action O.
the republican boilers Messrs. Mckay
| Worden, Hedges and Lindsay, who re
| fused to vote for W. A. Clark & Bbl ant
| affected to glory in their indecent refusal
! We repel with scorn the insinuations o.
| a bitter and malicious enemy that oul
| noble standard-bearer, the Hon. S. s
| Hobson of Fergus county is Judas Is
| CARROT and a Benedict Arnold.
With such a candidate and such {
| platform, the republican party of Mon
tana next year may consistently giro