The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-11
What Mr.. Chandler Says.

Y
" is refreshing, Senator Chand-
Ter of New Hampshire has
been discussing his own senatorial flu
ture. His term expires in March, 1901:
for a good while it has been an open
secret that certain elements within
New Hampshire republication are hos
tile to Mr.. Chandler and that they pro-
pose to fight him. Recently Mr.. Chand-
Ter has said that man who has served
three terms in the senate ought to get
his fourth term, not as the result of a
fight for the office, but because the peo-
pie of his state realize that ne has serv-
ed faithfully and believe that he is bet
ter than new man would be.
On the surface. the republican opposi-
ton to Senator Chandler is based on his
views regarding silver, on his outspoken
opposition to republican fostering of
trusts and on the fact that he has been
frank enough to do and say a good
many things not relished by some of
the republican bosses. It's Downright
pity that, in recent years, Senato
Chandler has not moved little farther
into what the free-coinage people be-
lieve to be the light.
Senator Chandler has always been a
steadfast advocate of bimetallism; he
has believed that republicanism would
come around to the bmetallic view. He
knows now that the next step proposed
by the republican party is an irrevoca-
BILE declaration for the single gold
CT WI. H.
hopes for silver within the republican
ranks" are an illusion. This money
question is talked about in the Chand-
Ter interview to which we have refer
red. The senator says: "Bimetallists
believe that there should be the widest
possible basis for the paper money and
the paper credits of the world. and that
the gold of the world is not a sufficient
| basis. 1t may be that some time a sub
| stitute for "a metallic measure of value
| will be discovered But until that time
so long as occasionally all paper
! money and credits are to be brought
| to the crucial test of redemption in real
! money-that real money should be all
| the silver as well as all the gold"
1HdL is SOUND SILVER talk, and IN
| equally cogent words Senator Chandler
discusses the sophistry that the in
crease in the output of gold, in recent
| years, offsets the decentralization of sill
yer. He says:
The temporary increase in the gold
! product has not been enough to Offset
the effect of dscarding as real money
so, 900, 100000 of silver coin and bullion
The bmetallist views of myself and other
republicans cannot be stated briefly and
offhand, but we believe that BE- ,ausa the
times are now prosperous, money easy,
gold plenty and the republican party
strong, it will be the highest wisdom to
seize the favorable moment for remonetiz-
ing silver"
The enemies of Senator Chandler in
New Hampshire, having Interior rea-
sons for fighting him, make a handle of
this sort of talk. They call it rank
heresy. They put it alongside his firm
opposition to the trusts and they are
going to make it appear to New Hamp-
shire republicans, if they can, that Mr..
! Chandler ought to be retired. The SEN
ator is sixty-four years old. He has
seen years and years of service in pub
| lie life. He was secretary of the navy
| in the Arthur cabinet; his career in the
! federal senate began in March, 1887.