Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01
VINO ARE THE RENECADESf

In commenting upon the utterances Of
Senator Teller, in a recent interview, the
Anaconda Standard Of this morning says:
1t is cheering to hear a utter
ances of this type in days when many
so-called silver republicans are proving
to be renegades, and when silver's tire
less enemies are seeking in~sidiously to
spread dissention in the democratic hosts
that rallied for Bryan three years ago.
1t is pertinent in this connection to in
quire who the renegades really are, and
whether the Standard is not initiating the
methods of that celebrated individual
who yelled stop thief!' in order to get
away with his plumber. After the intense
and rabid anti-silver administration of
the only democratic president since the
Gays OF James Buchanan had been APP
plauded and endorsed by the democratic
party of this nation, including that por-
ton of the party which is now yelling for
reform in the state of Montana. it was
discovered that a new issue was needed
with which to GO before the people in
1896. The democratic party was abso-
lutely without an issue upon which to
make a campaign. Thereupon the declar-
atoms of the populists in favor of free
coinage, previously made, and the contest
waged in the senate by silver republic
ans in favor of silver, were seized upon
by the democracy, unde what the Stand
ard might appropriately call the "royal
seizure of thought" and converted into
the paramount issue of 1896.
Having taken the ground previously
occupied by the populists and silver re-
publcans, with every profession of sim
cerity. there was nothing left for those
silver men to do but to accept their word
for it and by cooperation at the polls |
seek to reinstate the white metal. The
policy of cooperation on the part of the !
silver parties was mutually agreed upon
as the only method by which the remone-
tization of silver could be brought about. /
To this end the pioneers in the free coin
age movement waived their views on
other doctrinal points in the theory of
government, n supported the demo-
nominees with the understanding
that free coinage was and would remain
the paramount issue until settled and
right.
In less thar two years thereafter the
policy of cooperation, which had been
essential to the success Of the
Tree coinage movement, was abandoned!t
hooted at by the democratic party.
While professedly for silver, in states
like Montana, that party turned it's back
upon the only system through which
practical result could be attained 1t I
dragged the question Of free c~oinagef
to the level of every other platform
declaration of the democracy and brand
ed as a traitor to the cause every, man,
who would not join that party and give
his uppor to every ~idiosincrasy that
it's uncertain career. te.t..
Having destroyed the policy of CO.
operation, and maliciously divided the
'ANSS - q ollo"cu UP IT'S crime
free coinage by diligently seeking
to crowd the issue into the BACKGROUND
to make room for another paramount is
sue in 1900. This means that if the demo-
Gratis are successful in the forthcoming
campaign silver will be com
PEELED to wait for recognition until the
issue has run the gauntlet of
legislation and been engrafted into the
policy of the nation, and then take it's
chances with every other alleged princi-
pie of the democratic party since the de-
feat of Mr.. Bryan in 1896.
Who are the renegades-the silver re-
p%ublicans, in refusing to act as supernu-
in a democratic b%urlesque, or
the democrats who have wantonly de-
the only bridge over which the
free coinage forces could have passed in
a triumphal march to victory?
The Inter Mountain is pleased to note
that our citizens are actively interesting
themselves along the lines recently sug--