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The Approaching Elections.

~HB approach of the state cleo
tions brings the usual grist of
predictions as to results and
they vary. as they always do, according
to the predictions of the predictor, and
the standpoint from which he views the
situation.
In Maryland the democrats are con-
fident Of carrying the state by good
majority. and the republicans generally
are silent--except Senator wellington,
who also says that the state will go
strongly democratic.
Mr. Mckinley has returned to Wash
ington after his extended swing"
through the West, and is reported as
expressing entire confidence that the
country is with him in his Expansion
policy On the other hand Mr. Bryan
is quoted to the effect that the demo-
cratic outlook is bright in Ohio, Ken
lucky. Iowa and Nebraska and that he
would not be surprised to see all four
of those states go for the democracy.
Mark Hanna insists that Bryan injured
McLeans cause in Ohio, while the
did world of good in the Buckeye
state. And so they go.
The truth is that the enthusiasm en-
gendered by a presidential tour or by a
meteorlc campaign such as Mr. Bryan
has just been making. gives no sugges-
ton whatever Of the proba bic result of
the balloting. There never was presi-
dent so unpopular that great cheering
crowds would not greet him upon
journey through the country. His
friends will be out in force to create
the enthusiasm while many of his OPP
ponents will assemble merely to see the
president. These of course will be en-
tirely respectful and properly So
Hence the president will have both a
crowd and enthusiasm. Years ago
| Andrew Johnson, after similar swing,
| returned to Washington serenely and
| placdiy believing that the country was
with him, although he really had the
political support of neither party.
So with Mr.. Bryan. He is a fine ora
tor and wherever he goes he is met by
shouting crowds of political friends and
admirers AS a rule he does not en-
| counter the adverse sentiment, except
| as it is occasionally manifested by 4
hiss from some irresponsible partisan.
| The friends who gather around him
| speak words of hopeful confidence and
! he departs from each meeting full of
! assurance that the tide is running his
way.
1t may easily be that the democracy
| will carry none of these four states.
| Ohio is republican to begin with by at
least forty and perhaps fifty thousand;
Kentucky is no doubt democratic by
! twenty thousand, but the party is
| divided; Iowa is naturally full fifty
/ thousand republican on a much smaller
vote than that of Ohio, while Nebraska
| is confessedly a close state.
Upon the face of the normal figures
| the republicans ought to win in Ohio
and Iowa, while the democrats should
| carry Kentucky and Nebraska. Meas
| ured by the result in 1896 this would be
a substantial democratic gain. If Mary
| land regulates the administration IL
/ greatly enhances the democratic gain
! making it almost certain that Delaware
| and West Virginia will swing back into
line and putting the democracy into ex-
cellent fighting shape for 1900
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PULPlTS OPINION or THE PRESS.

relations He advocated the expert
ment with an endowed newspaper, and
in conclusion said:
".In the meantime, we must content
ourselves by remembering that things
are better than they were; that the
smaller intellectual impetus to the few
goes along with the larger one of the
MANY. that the newspaper, on the
whole advocates morality, falling in
this mainly by our own fault, ana,
finally. that we and they, being such
as we are, we shall best promote our
best moral and intellectual life by
leaving nine-tenths of the contents or
our daily paper unread.
Finally. DR.. Luther, according to the
same authority, stood with eloquence
and force and reason for the newspa-
pers of this OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES which
Rev. DR.. Smith dismissed so sweeping
w with a snap of unetuously mani
cured fingers:
DIR. Luther found that in one way
the newspapers benefited the morals OF
the country by the very publicity they
gave to vice. inasmuch as they scared
many people from committing acts of
folly or sin. He had other good words
for the papers: 1t is manifest to me-
he said that the average intelligence
and refinement of a community varies
directly with the number of newspa-
pers which enter it. There are fewer
lynchings where there are more news
papers Subscription lists are small
from towns with poor schools And
also this:
because journalists are mostly
wise, earnest, educated, moral men;
because, even when mistaken, they
claim to stand for things true and
good, therefore I recognize them as ex-
erting a good influence upon our in
tellectual and moral life; therefore I
confidently look to them as leaders in
the path which leads toward the
light"
1t will be observed that while these
gentlemen all criticised certain class
| of journals-and we feryently admit
! that such criticism Is deserved-they
were careful to speak with discrimina-
| ton and equally careful to avoid dis
| paraging comparisons at the expense
| Of our press. Perhaps they knew-as
| is the fact--that such comparisons
would have been false. Perhaps thes
thought only of the execrabiy bad taste
| involved.
! At any rate it is encouraging to the
newspapers and creditable to the eler
| gy that opinions such as those of the
Rev. Mr.. Smith are, almost without
exception, exotic.
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Threatens to Resign.

ESTERDAY'S press dispatches
v report Senator Mason of Illinois
as saying that if the republican
party in 1900 does not declare against
criminal aggression in the Philippines"
he will resign and then stand for re-
election, to see whether the Illinois
general assembly sides with him or
with the policy Of the Mckinley ad-
ministration. He is even quoted as 60
ing so far as to say that if the national
republican convention favored offering
the Filipinos canned freedom" as he
thought it might do, he would resign.
If Mr.. Mason pufsues the course in
dictated he will prove himself a better
man than his most ardent admirers
have believed him to be And he will
certainly have a chance to make good
his words for just as surely as the
next national republican convention
meets it will not declare against Grimm
al aggression in the Philippines. and if
1t utter one word in favor Of freedom
the canned variety. That it should
be necessary in this day and genera
ton for a republican United States sen
ator to treaten resignation because Of
the American, anti-freedom policy of
a republican administration is one of
the marvels of the age.
This is a hint at the reason Why the
president has been so anxious not to
have a congress on his hands" while
the Philippine war was in progress. He
was fearful of the attitude of many
members of his own party, and even
though he might hold a majority OF
both houses to his support, he knew that
the utterance of such men as Hoar and
Mason, spoken upon the floor of the
United States senate. would carry great
weight with the country and render
more than doubtful both his renomi-
nation and reelection next year.
Hence it was that with a serious con-
flct impending, he refused to convene
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killed in action" That is putting it
pretty strong. In spite of his asseyera-
tions, we seriously doubt if Mr. Finerty
means it. Such violent and intemner.
ate statements reflect no credit upon
the good sense of the man who makes
them.
But Mr.. Finerty is undoubtedly cor
rect when he says that four fifths of
his countrymen throughout the British
empire and ninety per cent outside of
it sympathize with the Beers, because
they are fighting for the principle of
government against fearful odds
ireland" he says, lis represented
truly in South Africa, not by the
wretched mercenaries who wear the
English uniform, but by the small con-
tingent, led by Colonel Blake, in the
gallant army of Dom Paul"
Finerty has lost none of his hatred
text for a sermon denouncing the En-
slish government in his own passion
ate style. ANY Irishman' he says
'conversant with his native countrys
unhappy history who can be loyal to
England must be a moral monstrosi.y
England has by turns conquered, ca
joled and scourged the Irish. She has
sought to render them ignorant, base
and hrutified. She has leveled thair
homes, stolen their substance, exiled
them by the million and starved them
by the myriad. Victoria's reign has
beheld the Irish population diminished
by one-half, and it is sail diminishing,
not because ireland is poor by nature
but because England has kept her poor
by the gravest forms of misgovern-
ment. That her penal laws and other
horrible repressve legislation have
borne Dead Sea fruit for Ireland is
evidenced by the humliating circum-
stance that any Irish born man what
soeyer should be found ranged beneath
her colors."
To prove that the English have a
deep purpose in making Irish in their
pay prominent in this unholy war
against the Beers" Mr.. Finerty quotes
from a letter recently written to a
Dublin newspaper by Miss Maude
Come, whose father was a colonel in
the British army, on "The Dublin and
Munster Fusiliers," SO much in evil
dence in Natal. Miss Come says: THE
Dublin and Munster Fusiliers are not
entirely composed of Irishmen. They
have been once; they are not to-day;
recruiting in Ireland, I am glad to say
and I have this from the lips of an
! English generals falling off very
considerably; the so-called Irish regi-
| ments have to be made up by a large
mixture of English cockneys. England
| jealousy conserves the Irish names of
her regiments in order to show the
world that there are still Irishmen so
devoid of dignity that they will wear
the uniform of their oppressors, and
thus destroy or weaken the sympathy
and respect which Ireland possesses
among foreign nations, and change
that sympathy into a plying con-
| tempt"
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Men and Women.

Pierre Lorilard has had his famous
hOuseboat, now at Jacksonville, Fla,
ovcrhauled and refitted at an expense Of
$4,000
John Mcbride, organizer of the Irish
brigade iii the Transvaal, is an Ulster
man of "a, He has been in this country
on a mission to the Clan-na-Gael.
The degree of doctor of philosophy ho
norris casus has been conferred on Mrs.
Agnes Smith Lewis of Cambridge, Eng
land, by Halle university. Mrs. Lewis
discovered the Syriac gospels on Mount
Sinai and edited them.
Colonel John B. Anderson, in whose
memory Andrew Carnegie is to build
library for Emporia college, was general
superintendent of the Fort Wayne road
when Carnegie was a clerk in it's Pitts
burg offices. He afterwards became mill
tary superintendent of the railways of the
South during the war of the rebellion.
Sir Charles Dixie has announced his
intention of bequeathing to the vestry of
Hampstead England, the Keats relics in
his possession. Sir Charles collection of
Keats relics is large and valuable. His
grandfather was a close friend of the
poet, and besides the relics which he in
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Still blaming Alger.

From the Houston Post.
Poor old Alger! He was the scapegoat of
the administration when he was in, and
now that he is out he reappears in his
accustomed role to serve the same old
purpose. 1t is now charged that the
Otisan censorship was demanded by the
Alger regime and that as soon as Secre-
tary Root made this discovery he set
about to abolish or at least to relax the
order of his predecessor This is hard on
Alger. but then the administration must
have somebody on whose shoulders to
Law its hlunderS.
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The Standard can be found at the fol-
lowing news stands:
New York at Aston House.
Chicago at P0stoff1ce,
Chicago at Auditorium Annex.
San Francisco at Palace Hotel.
Denver at $50 Lawrence st.
Denver at 906 Seventeenth ST.
Salt Lake q 81 w. Second South st.
Salt Lake at Salt Lake News Co.
All general business letters and CORE
spondence should be addressed to the
sTANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY,
Anaconda, Mont.
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Current Comment.
Worth n Trial at Least.

From the Des Moines Leader.
1t is denied that the war in the Philip
pines would be stopped at once if the pres
ident, through General Otis, should an
nounce to the Filipino people that he
would use his best endeavors to induce
congress to pass a measure which would
insure the same policy toward the Phil
ippines that is being extended toward
Cuba. 1t is, of course possible that the
Filipinos, their passions and resentment
aroused by the events of the last nine
months, would decline peace on such
terms. But the plan is worth trying.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-28

English army tradition says that
British officers must stand up during
engagements, although at times the
men are allowed to lie prone upon the
ground The tradition, however, per-
mits officers to. lie down long enough
to die.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-28

One of Senator Proctor's lieutenants in
the plan to nominate Dewey for president
is credited with saying that of the 81 mem
bers of the national committee Is are set
down as being positively unfr.endly to the
present administration and hoping to see
the president defeated for reelection
seven are suspected of entertaining the
same opinions but are likely to keep their
views to themselves until the movement
assumes a more definite shape, and five
are for the winner. whoever he may be.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-28

Little one-horse Samoa may as we'll
give it up. She may turn all the sum-
ersaults she pleases and nobody will
pay any attention to her as long as the
lion is agitating all the animals in the
menagerie by roaring for raw meat.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-28
Some Industries Not Needed.

From the Sioux City Tribune.
The country needs all the industries it
can get except the purely private enter
prise that cannot be carried on at profit
without contributions from the people.
That sort of enterprise Is a drag, 1t is
false economy and costs more than it Is
worth to anyone but the recipients of
public charity.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-28

Although the rumors of intended
Franco Russian intervention in the
Transvaal war are authoritatiyely de-
MED. England may be assured that
France and Russia have their hammers
out and will do all the knocking per-
Missile under the rules.
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OF Course This Was Not Coercion.

From the New York Journal.
In a speech to his employees at Ashta-
bula Mark Hanna, throwing about him a
stern, high glance. quoth as follows:
"They call me labor crusher. If there
is man in my employ who will step up
and say that I am a labor crusher I will
resign from the senate of the United
States" The men cared nothing about
I.anna's job, but they silently held on to
their own.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-28
Glance at tho Future.

From the Buffalo Courier.
With all the amiable talk OF kindred
ties, how is Britain to afford to stand
idle while her people are pauperized by
American competition? She is conduct
ing a war in South Africa in the interest
of trade expansion. We are doing just
the same thing in the Philippines. When
the small fish are all swallowed, which
may be at no very distant day. will the
big ones not undertake to devour one
another? 1t is something to think about
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-28

AS required by law, Comptroller knight,
of Buffalo, received from the Information
al Traction company a check for an
amount equal to "a per cent of the gross
earnings of the corporation. The face of
the check was for si6,575.41.
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With only s1500,080 left him and
$1,000 900 of that to be held in trust by
the executors, young Cornelius Wander
bilt regards the old mans will as
sort of Will-o' -the-wisp.
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Will Not Be Crushed.

From the St. Louis Post-DisDatch.
The American people will never consent
to be crushed. under the plea that mo-
nopoly and its accompanying tyranny
are a natural growth and inevitable con-
dition. They vii! do so with the trusts
when they awake to the necessity of &C
ton.
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Dozens of newspaper correspondents
are on the way to the Transvaal. If
General Butler carries out his threat
to cut the cable, there will be some tall
weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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AS near as one can find out from
the London dispatches, both the Beers
and the English spend large share Of
their time executing strategical re-
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General Otis may be expected to ca
BILE a victory or two next week. The
republican ticket in Ohio has got to be
boosted through somehow.
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General Otis reports another effort at
compromise on the part of the insur-
gents. The desire of the Filipinos to
jolly Otis is becoming fixed habit
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-28

1t appears that some of the Wash
ington correspondents are already at
work writing the presidents message.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-28

After the government has investi-
gated the Marconi system of wireless
telegraphy, will it kindly examine the
Otis system of clinchless war
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Daily and Sunday, one year ......... $40. 90
Daily and Sunday, six months ...... 5 90
Daily and Sunday, three months. ..... &. 90
Daily and Sunday, one month ....... 90
Sunday, one year ...,................. 200
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The American Hide and Leather COM
pany as the combine of tanneries re-
Gently formed is known, has decided to
secure another plant in Milwaukee.
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TO ADVERTISERS:

The Anaconda Standard guarantees its
advertisers a bona fide paid circulation.
Daily and Sunday, three times greater
than that Of any other newspaper pub
lished in the state of Montana. Advertis-
ing contracts will be made subject to this
guarantee.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-28

If the Beers were whipped at Glencoe
and Elandslaagte, it is plain that they
are incapable of staying so.
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The Standard has branch offices at
Butte. Mssoua and Great Falls, where
advertising rates will be furnished on ap-
plication.
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Much in Little.

All street railway companies operating
in the city of New York are required by
law to run at least one closed car in ev-
cry four at all seasons of the year.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-28

The war in South Africa appears to
be of the real old-fashioned sort in
which battles occur and people get
killed
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In divvying up with Cornell. Mr.. AL
fred G. Vanderbilt shows himself to be
a man and a brother.
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So far Admiral Sampson has refrain
ed from claiming credit for any of the
victories in South Africa
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New York Office-4S Tribune Building.
Chicago Office-469 The Rookery.
The S. c. Beckwith Special Agency,
Eastern Representatives.
Washington Bureau-1,4l5 G St, n. w.
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And now the w. c. T. U. has sprin-
killed. tacks all over the seat to which
Mr.. Roberts of Utah was elected.
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Instead of abandoning towns one at
a time, Otis would do better to abandon
the Philippines in a lump.
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Postage free for the United States, Can
ada and Mexico. Elsewhere
postage added.
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Current Humor.

Don't you admire football, Clara?'
81 detest it. Percy's got his collar bone
broken and l can't put my head on his
shoulder for a month. '-Chicago Record.
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herted Sir Charles has many which were
given to him by Major Charles Brown, a
son of Keats friend, Charles A. Brown.
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Hix-Slim looks badly: he tells me he
hasn't eaten anything for nearly a week.
DiX-I don't doubt it. His wife and
mine graduated from the same cooking
school.-New York Herald.
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American capitalists have invaded the
Canadian iron country and organized a
company which will control the iron,
steel, coal and limestone output of New
foundland, together with the Cape Breton
coal fields and the Sydney limestone
quarries.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-28

President Kruger is still hoping that
events will vindicate the S3rd Psalm
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Clara-So that Gotrox girl didn't sue
coed in capturing a lord after all?
Maude-~No. but she married a baron
and they say he gets as drunk as lord
st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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Earthen and chinaware, as we'll as
crockery in general, are not manufactured
at all in the Transvaal, and the imports
of these articles are very considerable.
They were in 1898 as follows: Crockery,
80, $50 0O0 earthenware, $751; 600; glassware,
SIS, 200.
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Lawyer-Your honor, here is my clause.
Larry lin the rear)-Will ye hear thot.
Dinny? He's got claws, is saucy an rid
in tn face. Amt he rale lobster ?-Chi-
cago News
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Julius. my last winters seal coat Is
entirely too short"
TOO short? Well can't you sew ruff
file on it, or some of those bias bands you
women are always talking about?"-De-
troit Free Press.
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Main Office-Standard Block, Anaconda.
TELEPHONE NUMBERS.
Business Office ............ ............No. 1
Editorial Rooms ......... ...........No AZ
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Seattle wholesale merchants are charged
with selling large quantities of produce
to restaurants and hotels as retail GUS
toners, and at the same time quoting
them figures that effectually bar retail
men from obtaining any considerable
amount of the business.
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HE married her to get square"
with some sweetheart with whom he
had quarreled?"