Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-04
TWO D/SCRED/TED LEADERS.

Butte Miner: IL VIII De HOtlced from
q dispatch published in the Miner of yes
terday that the executive committee of
the national silver republican party is
holding a meeting in Chicago to discuss
plans Tor the next presidential campaign.
1t will likewise be noticed that among
those present is ''Colonel O. p. Chisholm,
chairman of the Montana silver republic
ran committee" and among those eX-
pected is Charles S. Hartman of Montana.
All Of which brings up a little matter of
recent history.
On the 7th day of October last year the
state committee of the Montana silver
republican party met in the Office of it's
chairman. the o Lee Mantle, in Butte.
During that meeting Charles S. Hartman,
! then congressman, and who had declined
to run again as a silver republican for
fear of injuring the chances of A. j.
Campbell, produced a letter from Charles
A. Towne, the chairman of the national
committee. In hat letter Chairman
ToWne announced the removal of the
Hon. Lee Mantle from the position of
chairman of the state committee and the
appointment of Colonel O.P Chisholm in
his place.
When the excitement caused by this
incident had passed. he state committee
eleven counties being represented
passed a long series of "whereases' and
.'therefore be it resolved" in Which oc-
CURED this:
Resolved, That it is our deliberate
Judgment tina Charles s.. Hartman, by
his actions and his public and private
utterances. has clearly forfeited the right
to be regarded as a silver republican Oh
to take any part in its councils or delib-
e%rations." The resolutions went on to
deny the right of Charles A. ToWne to
L.; . -, xay r1, =, ro ~ Il,
head of the state committee and further
said this:
1--WE hereby express our entire conf
dence in our chairman, Hon. Lee Mantle
and declare and acknowledge him to be
the duly constituted and rightful chair
man of the state silver republican com
mittee of the state of Montana"
The Miner has eve claimed for the
state organizations of each party the
right to regulate their party affairs ,in
their own states. 1t was this which inn
PEELED the Miner last year to deny the
right of men in the different national
committees to map out an arbitrary
course for the democratic party OF Mon
tana to follow. Having done so 1t could
scarcely fail to acknowledge the right of
the silver republican state committee OF
Montana to select its own chairman and
to do what else it saw fit and thought fol
the best interests Of the party.
It was the state committee which over
a year ago declared Charles S. Hartman
was no longer entitled to be considered
a silver republican. 1t was the same
state committee which declared the Hon.
Lee Mantle WAS still chairman, and by
Inference naturally that Colonel O. +.
Chisholm was not. If there is still left
in the state of Montana any such thing
as a silver republican party it would seem
that the Hon. Lee Mantle and not Colonel
o. z. Chisholm is the chairman.
WHY then. in the face of these facts
do Charles S. Hartman and y. Z. CHS
holm assume to represent the silver re-
publican party at the meeting of the
national executive committee? The
former has been officially read out of the
party and the latter has never been &C,
k~now!edged as the party chairman.