The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-05
S|LVER'S TIME IS NEAR
Trusts and Imperialism Will Also
Be Issues.
IS CONFIDENT OF SUCCESS
An Interview With Hon. 8. q. Morss of
the indianapolis 6entinel-Bryan
Is Close to the Great Mass
OF the People.

Hon. 8. E. Morss, formerly consul gen.
| eral for the United States government at
| Paris. was visitor to Butte yesterday.
Mr.. Morss served the government at the
| French capital from 1893 to 1897, during
| the second administration of President
| Grover Cleveland. He is the proprietor of
| the indianapolis Sentinel, and very dis
| tinguished citizen of the Hoosier state.
| Accompanied by his wife and daughter,
| Mr.. Morss is on a pleasure trip, which
| has included a voyage to Alaska and
| tour of the Yellowstone park, and is now
on his way home to indianapolis by way
of Salt Lake and Denver. He was en-
tertained while in the city by several
prominent citizens and spent the day in
| seeing something of the mines and the
other sights of the city and in the even
| ing left for Salt Lake.
| While Mr.. Morss was an office holder
| under President Cleveland, he is a strong
silver advocate and has marched under
| the silver banner since 1878. He believes
| in the cause as firmly as ever, and thinks
| slver's time Is near at hand, as he is
great admirer of Bryan and believes he
| will be nominated and elected. While he
| is in favor of making silver one of the
great issues, he does not believe the demo-
! cratic party should stand on that issue
alone in 1900. but should broaden the plat
form by declaration against trusts and
Imperialism In conversation with
| Standard reporter while here Mr.. Morss,
in touching on the subject, said:
81 am a silver man, and always have
been since silver became public ques-
ton, and believe silvers reconciliation
will be accomplished in 1900 If the demo-
cratic party acts along the right lines.
E,kx1 ht,,lr e,t1x
issue alone, for there are other great
questions before the people now. The
small business men, especially in the
East, are beginning to feel the heavy
hand of the trust and they will look TO
the democratic party for relief. Then the
question of Imperialism is another i'm
portant one. 1t is vital question, and by
the time the next campaign reaches us
] think the people will want some kind
of q readjustment of the administrators
policy of expansion. l think the demo-
cratic party should reafffrm the Chicago
platform and add planks on these ques-
tons, and if this is done 1 am confident of
democratic success in 1907
AS to candidates, Mr.. Morss said:
II think there is no doubt of Mr. Bry-
ans nomination. He is undoubtedly the
greatest man of the day, and. with the
possible exceptions of Henry Clay and
Lincoln, l think he is closer to the great
mass of the people than any public man
we have ever had. / cannot think there
is any chance but that he will head the
ticket. AS to the second place, it would
be difficult to say who will be most likely
to be selected. If Mclean is elected gov
| ernor of Ohio he will be a strong candi-
date. Or, it might be George Fred Will
Iiams or Admiral Schley; it is hard to
tell"
Speaking of the influence the increased
ton will have on the campaign of 1900,
Mr.. Morss said:
mo one will deny times have been bet
ter during this administration, but there
are good reasons for it, We have had
abundant crops with shortages in Europe
Then came the war, with the enormous
expenditures consequent upon it. All has
tended to make the country prosperous,
and it is not due to republican manipula.
ton of public affairs, but simply republic
can luck that it should happen during a
republican administration. 1t would have
been the same under democratic admin
istration.'
Mr.. Morss was consul at Paris at the
time of the trial of Dreyfus and his con-
viction and degradation.
1T was a remarkable event" he said
with reference to it. 1.-THE French people
are the most charming people in the
world to live among. They are refined,
artistic, courteous and altogether very
charming, but they do not seem to have
| mastered the science of government, and
being fond of their army, when Dreyfus
was suspected of being traitor they
acted more upon their well-known i'm
pulsiveness than evidence and condemned
him. l was always as confident of his in
nocence as of my own, and / think the
French people as a mass are now come to
the same belief and that he will be ac-
quilted, or, at the most. convicted of some
technical offense, the punishment for
which will be light. You know they have
way over there of trying a man for one
offense and convicting him of another. I
do not think there is a possibility of his
being convicted of the original charge"