The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-04
FORECAST OF THE CAMPAIGN OF 1900

I move he made in the conduct of the
war with Spain, and they were some
| times the intators of those moves. That
| Mckinley was largely responsible for
| the appointment of the dummy sons
| of respectable sires. That he was
| privy to every contract with the beef
| trust and gave his sanction to the To-
| cation of the fever-infested camps that
are responsible for the deaths of SO
many of our brave boys during the hot
summer of '98. All these chickens viii
come to McKinley's roost next year.
Another thing, Havemeyers shot at
| the protective tariff as the mother of
| trusts has stirred up q hornets nest
within the republican party. That Mr.,
Havemeyers shot struck home there is
no doubt. The squealing has been TOO
universal to doubt that. All the pro-
tected pack are in full cry and Have
| meyer is receiving a splendid dose of
| vigorous and vituperative denuncia-
/ ton. 1t is probably because he went
| back on his own gang that so much at
| tention is paid to what he said. He
| is not a person of weight in the intel
| lectual world. He has never been rec
| ognized as publicist or a statesman.
| He is merely a money maker, but it
| seems to be so well understood that the
money makers would stand together
| and defend each others interests that
| Havemeyer's break has shocked and
| surprised the leaders of the republican
| party.
| And yet Havemeyer's declaration did
| not come on the republican bosses as a
| surprise. Years ago Abram s. Hewitt,
| William r. Morrison and Roger Q.
| Mills declared in congress that the pro-
| tective tariff would foster trusts and
develop monopolies. This, however, is
part of the republican creed, and must
be defended by republican orators and
| organs. There is no doubt that the
| trust question will cut a big figure in
| the next campaign. The republican
! party, of course, will go through the
| form of mildly disappearing trusts, but
| as it will have to call on the trusts to
| put up campaign funds, it goes without
| saying that there will be an under
| standing. majority, large majority,
| of the American people are democrats,
| and in order to defeat that majority,
| cheating and corruption must be resort
| ed to. OF course, the silver question
| will be as prominent as it ever was in
| the campaign of SO, because if there
| was any doubt existing on this point,
| the attitude of the goldbugs who are
| going to force the gold standard into
! law next winter has dissipated it. This
| will have the effect of not only holding
| all the popuHsts in line, but thousands
| of silver republicans who voted for Nc
kiniey in 90, hoping that the promise
| of the party for international bimetal-
| lism meant something, will see the
| emptiness of the promise and will vote
| the democratic ticket. The hundred
| thousand or so goldbug democrats VIII,
| of course, go where they belong, into
| the republican party. / think the lead
| ing democrats have also come to the
| conclusion that it would be worse than
! folly to nominate any man east of the
Allegheny mountains for a running
mate with Mr.. Bryan. 1t would be
| playing on a dead card.
There is no doubt that the democratic
| party is in much better condition now
| than it was four years ago. The deadly
| incubus of Cleveland then weighed 1t
| down, and the party was in DON'T
| give-a-d--n mood from disgust ana
| disappointment. The border states that
| Cleveland gave to the republicans nave
| been won back. Kentucky, Maryland
and West Virginia will be reliably dem
| ocratic next year. None of the southern
states are wavering and the party is
steadily gaining in the West. The at
| titude of thedemocrats in the next con-
gress will have much influence on the
presidential election. And that attitude
will be all right. The democrats have
much the best of it when 1t comes TO
brains in the next congress. They VIII
| have so much material to work on that
the fur will begin to fly as soon as con-
gress meets. 1t makes no difference
| who the democrats compliment with
the caucus nomination for speaker, the
natural leader, Joe Bailey, will come
to the front anyhow. He will do better
work, think, If he is not handicapped
! with the so-called leadership. 1t will
| give him more time for study and the
| preparation of those hard knockout
| blows he knows so well how to deliver.
! There is going to be more blood and
hair and the ground tore up" in the
next house than has been witnessed in
the old hall since the Fifty-first con-
gress, when Tom Reed put his gag to
working overtime. The democrats are
going to come out on top in every scrap,
for they have the facts and the argu-
ments. They will put the republicans
in a hole. soap the sides, and pull the
ladder out. Democratic success u 1900
| is now in the air