The Anaconda standard., 1899-12-25

Determination. and there are number
VI very good men among them. But.
after all, the best chance for irrigation
ieglsiation Is to force it in conference
Dy show of strength and stubborn
tors.
Re preventative Sherman of New
YORK. who is one Of the republican
ieaders In the house, has introduced a
Dill revising the compensation OF the
clerks OF the federal and district courts.
IL likes the salaries in the Rocky
mountain districts as follows: Mon
tana, Idaho and Colorado, $500 each;
wyoming, $500; Nevada, $1,000. That
Mr.. Sherman Is not quite up to date is
shown by the fact that his bill pro-
Vides $500 for the clerk of the supreme
court of Utah and the following sala-
RES Tor the clerks of four district
courts: First, $1,000; second, $1,oo0
third, $4,000; fourth, $1,000. In New
saesi,so meaico the clerk of the supreme court
Is made giving the clerk of the SUI
preme court $500 and the clerks of the
first and second districts $1,000. The
clerk OF the third district has to be
contented with $1,50O.
In his closing speech in the debate
on the republican currency bill, Hon.
Champ Clark of Missouri took occa-
sion to bring his arguments very close
to those republicans who endeavored
to deceive themselves in 1895 into be-
neVing the republican party pledge
about international bimetallism. Ills
remarks nave particular bearing on the
gold republicans of the silver states
of the mountain West He began by
quoting from President McKinley's
message urgently recommending sup
port OF the existing gold standard.
He not only recommends IT, said Mr..
a,lS1
The chances are q thousand to one
that had he uttered that sentiment in
the campaign of 1896 he would not now
be in position to send q message TO
standard congress to receive it. 1t was
the pledge In the st. Louis platform
to secure bimetallism by International
agreement that landed him In the
white house. So says Hon. John NJ.
Thurston, republican senator from Ne
braska. The pledge of international II
metallism held enough silver republi-
cans in line to give the election to Mr..
Mckinley.
Indeed, all over the Western coun-
try we declared what we believed then
to be true, and what we know now.
country they would establish the gold
standard by law. They denied the
charge with Indignation and boldly md
falsely asseves ated that they were bet
ter silver men than we were-that they
were advocating practica BILE and we
an impra BILE theory of restoring
silver to it's ancient place Of honor in
the coinage system Of the world. Mar
velous to tell, multiplied thousands be-
lieved them, swallowed the bait, and
voted with thenl-which Is proof posi-
tive that all the fools are not dead yet,
or a any rate were not dead in 1895.
1T will not do for Western repub-
lican sold-standard advocates to say
now that they are occupying in 1899
the same position they held in 1896, for
by SO doing they give the lie direct to
nearly every republican speaker Who
appeared upon the stump west of the
AlleglJnies in the presidential cam
paign and to every republican editor
who supported Mr.. Mckinley through
out all that vast region.
Furthermore, they are estopped by
their nlultifarious declarations in pub
lie speech and in the public press from
now denying that the plank in favor
of bimetallism by international agree
ment was placed in the platform in
good faith, or that they then believed
bimetallism to be correct in principle
or that they intended to honestly en-
deavor to secure it in the manner
therein proposed. Should they enter
such a denial now, they would write
scienceiess set of tricksters ga Jug
glers that ever played upon the cred
ultty Of confdtng people. 1t would
be decidedly interesting to know pre-
cisely what Senator Wolcott of Colo
rado and the other American interna-
tional binnetallic commissioners think
of the sincerity Of purpose of this ad-
minintration in the futile endeavor to
secure bimetalftsm by international
agreement.
Their candid opinion of the inter
view of Hon. Lyman ]. Gage, with
which me- ha nStruOg them iust thew
were about to succeed in securing hi
metallism by international agreement
and brought all their labors to an in
glorious conclusion. would contribute
largely to the gayety of nations, if not
to the gayety of the secretary of the
Junior senator from the Centennial
State chewing the bitter cud of dis
appointment and repeating Tennyson's
apostrophe to the ocean:
"'Break, break break,
On thy cold, gray stones, o sea!
And I would that my tongue could
utter
The thoughts that arise in me-
perhaps In the fullness of time he
may unbosom himself, and if he ever
does my prediction Is that 'Wolcott on
Lyman will rank with Demosth enes
on the Crown or with Cicero when he
thundered against Catillne. There is
one great advantage growing out of
the present situation. The atmosphere
Is cleared. Hereafter, so far as gold
and silver are concerned, it is the sin
gle gold standard in it's badness and
badness against binIetallism. Certain
ly there can be no subterfuge, no pal
tering in double sense herea fter The
republican who next year goes yawp-
ing about the country claiming to be
in favor of international bimetallism ls
likely to be hooted from the hustngs.'