Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-28
VINO ARE the ROLTERS?

But the Inter Mountain has been re-
Gently searching the heavens above and
the earth beneath for a justification of
the bolt it is credited with intending to
1t has practically bolted al
ready. Nothing affords it's such pleasure
as to discover that some one formerly a
believer in free coinage has mutinied and
over to the enemy. 1t prints no
word or cheer II comfort for the silver
men. 1t eXertS itself to the utmost to
make them sad and sorrowful. 1t tries
to belittle the Importance of silver and
magnify the Importance of other issues.
The foregoing is reproduced from the
columns of the independent in order to
give the Inter Mountain an opportunity
to deny, in advance of the dawning of a
new century. that it is trying to swallow
or bolt the democratic party. The Uni
swallow foo without chewing it," The
democratic party is too old and too tough
to chew, and the Inter Mountain enters
a general denial to the inference on the
part of the Independent that we are SEEK
ing for some excuse to bolt it. Were we
an act Of that kind we
would not waste time searching the
heavens above" where we could find
nothing pertaining to the democratic
party except a record Of it's ~toughness.
The democracy is sufficiently in evidence
on the earth beneath" to destroy it's
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1t may be, however, that the editor
of the Independent, whose style of writ
ing closely resembles Millions paradise
means to insinuate, not that we
are going to bolt the democratic party in
the sense that we want to swallow it
and no questions asked, but that we in
tend to leave it alone, which means dia-
the opposite to the interpreted
ton we have placed upon his language.
If so, still another denial is in rider. AS
the Inter Mountain never joined the DEM
party it cannot leave it. 1t never
had a democratic symptom in it's life.
1t is true an intimacy sprang up be-
Mountain in 1896, due to the fact thai that
party endorsed the position taken in con-
gress by the silver republicans and the
populists, in favor Of free coinage, by
adopting that question as an issue and
a candidate for president who
was fully out Of accord with the retiring
democratic president ana the past history
OF that party. AS the naturalists might
put it, the democracy she'd it's skin and
out as a new political proposition.
the wrinkles soon set again, and two
years later it was again 'sickled DER with
the pale cast of thought which had at
public. attention to it when it
was shrieking: ~ Er
Well have four years Of Grover,
And all will live in clover.
Having forgotten in 1898 the devotion
to silver which it professed in 1926. the
deserted the silver republic
ans and the populistS, after stealing all
the free coinage ammunition they could
carry away, n set up in business for
The democrats then went
cunning for the men who had saved them
from political destruction n1S96. One step
n the part of the democracy
lead to another, until it's free coinage pro-
began to curl UT and die. Its
silver leaders, who were repudi-
ated when they advised cooperation of
the silver parties in 1898, were endorsed in
1889 when they advocated placing free
coinage in the background to make room
for another kind Of a paramount issue
in 1900.
Because the Inter Mountain calls at
to these facts, and shows that
the cause of silver has fallen into the
hands of it's enemies, to be toyed with,
tempered with, and finally cast aside
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