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They Suppress 1t.

UST as the report of the Wade
Z commission, or court of inquiry,
was ready for the printers, the or
der came from administration head
quarters that the report be not printed.
This Is the commission that made an
inquiry respecting the embalmed beef
At the last moment the whole matter
was ordered suppressed; Robert P. Por-
ter, or some other torch bearer for the
administration, had stated that the
publication of the report would "injure
the foreign business of the American
packers"
How could that be? The Wade COM
mission made a report in which it fully
indicated the accused beef and, for
all practical purposes, asserted that the
accusations made by General Miles and
by other army officers were utterly
that the beef was all right and that
all the fault lay with the grumblers
and the kickers who, the public was
left to infer had been prompted by
sinister motives in starting the criti-
cism.
Taking the Wade commission at its
word, the widest possible publication of
the testimony taken at their hearing
ought to do the packers great good
rather than any harm in the foreign
markets. An official finding as to the
excellence of the beef surely could not
common sense suggests the suppressing
of the testimony is the best sort of
evidence that General Miles was right
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02
Too Swift About 1t.

Y Ugh life may be careless of crit
~ icism, yet it will be a wonder if
j the two scions of social account
in New York who recently were welded
in indecent haste can be Indifferent to
what was said and done last week in
New Haven. Mrs. Henry D. Sloan,
high-up society figure in New York
and one respecting whose conduct gos-
sip had wagged its tongue, obtained a
divorce. Forthwith this woman crossed
the line into Connecticut and, within
two hours after the decree of divorce
was granted, she married Perry Bel
mont.
There was no disputing the marriage
ceremony-it was reformed by Rev
DIR. Barrows, a well-known Congrega-
tional minister. Just before commence
ment-week observances at Yale began,
the general association of Congrega-
tionalist ministers met in New Haven.
Some of the members felt that the con-
duct of DIR. Barrows, in disregard of
New York's divorce code as we'll as in
disregard of decency, deserved severe
censure.
Resolutions in expression of this feel
ing were introduced, and they were
passed, after a spirited discussion. One
account OF the doings at this meeting
says that, in behalf of DR.. Barrows, the
plea was that he was misled by the
parties in interest relative to the time
when the divorce was obtained; and,
per contra, mutual friend of the con-
tracing parties is quoted as saying
that he distinctly informed Dr. Bar
rows of all the facts when he arranged
for the marriage service.
There was fat fee in the case. A
friend of the offending clergyman
stated in the New Haven meeting that
when DR.. Barrows learned that he had
been imposed upon, he returned the
marriage fee to Belmont. That doesn't
unite the knot nor does it stop the
censure that will everywhere find ex-
preston over the dsreputable conduct
of those who were the high contract
ing parties, and there will be plenty of
people ready with the prediction that
this is a marriage where all will not
end well,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02

out with these independents in 1897. Mr..
Platt's candidate in that contest was
Judge Tracy, and personally Tracy was
a first-rate man. Van Wyck was the
Tammany candidate; Low was the
standard bearer for the independents !:
Henry George was in the race-he died
on the eve of the election. Van Wyck' 8
plurality was immense, but an import
ant item in the election returns was
that Mr.. Platt's man was a bad third.
Low, the Independent, polled Isl, $40
votes; Tracy polled 101, 1858. That is to
say the Platt-Quigg ticket polled less
than twenty per cent of the votes cast
in this memorable election.
Naturally, Mr.. Plat, through the
agency of the Quigg committee, is out
for reform, for concession, for the indie
pendents-for almost anything that is
likely to give the Platt machine a
chance. This is the more true in view
of the fact that, in defeat, all the loss
is Platts. In 1897. as always, the indie
pendents took defeat pleasantly; they
say that bad as Tammany is they
would as soon have Tammany in power
as Platt so that if they can't elect their
own man they get the next best thing,
from their standpoint, in defeating the
Plat machine. Mr.. Quigg's reform"
is essentially the machines offer of
compromise. Even at that, it's a ques-
ton whether the independents will ac-
cept the offer-they have shown them
selves strongly disposed to go it alone;
they will accept Platt's surrender but
hardly his proposition of a compromise.
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statements respecting the Montana
fraudulent statue proved to be unquali
fed lies. In fact, while there was no
doubt whatever as to the character of
the talk imputed to Higbee, the Stand
ard concluded to take the statement
about this bank resource into more Sc
rious consideration. "Higbee said last
night" remarks the Rocky Mountain
News, that the gold had been placed
on call at the Second National bank of
New York and he would give a bond
to the full amount of the gold" Yes
terday the Standard wired to its New
York correspondent instructions to in
uuire at the Second National bank of
New York in regard to this statement.
The answer wired to this office reads:
THE cashier of the Second National
bank was seen this afternoon and said
that he had never heard of Frank D.
Higbee. No one by that name has any
money deposited here the cashier said,
and we have no depostors who keep
a balance here within hundreds of
thousands of dollars of 5000, 000.' y The
bank doesn't even know Higbee, al
though he claims to speak for hundreds
of thousands of its money.
Here is one more familiar sounding
sentence in the story printed by the
News--it's as natural as life: THE COM
missioners refuse to reveal the source
of the gold, though they say it is to be
the Colorado product A syndicate of
Colorado mining men, who are interest
ed in seeing the state adequately repre-
sented at the exposition, are said to
have given their assurance with respect
to the supply of bullion, the metal to be
loaned to the state" Here's another
old, familiar phrase: it is the easily-rec-
ognized echo of the babble that was
set afloat in these parts when the
boosters with Higbee at their head were
working the racket in Montana:
The life of the American girl is to be but
five years, for the reason that the owners
of the bullion set that limit on the loan.
She is to be landed in Europe next Febru-
airy and left at the exposition throughout
its duration. At the close of that time it
is the intention to take the statue to Eng
land and exhibit it to Queen Victoria. The
model of the many American girls who
have had the honor of an introduction to
tho queen will thus receive formal pre-
septation to her majesty. After that it is
understood the model will he exhibited at
the eXpositions at Buffalo and st. Louis.
A gold girl that is the embodiment
Of, say. million dollars worth of gold
would be a good advertisement for
Colorado. But the suggestion that the
Colorado scheme is the conception" of
the man who conceived" the Montana
fraud, is of itself enough to awaken
plenty of suspicion. Montana was d.
rectly injured by it; if the fake is re-
peated in Colorados name, Colorado
will fare the worse for it,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02
The Cry They Raise

IN chorus the organs that feel them
selves commissioned to laud all that
relates to the Administrations Phil
ippine policy are shouting that there
must be no politics'' in this matter of
giving Otis all the soldiers he needs.
The only sample of offensive parti-
sanship thus far put into this whole
matter, as far as recent incidents go,
was thrust in by General Otis himself
who as good as said in so many words
that the hope of the Filipinos rests on
the expectation that the Mckinley ad-
ministration will be turned down next
year.
That awkward assertion was more
than the boosters for imperialism had
anticipated 1t ought to have been
censored out of the Otis talk-unless,
indeed, it was censored in; the instant
it reached the public, the presidential
organs, as if by common impulse, be-
gan to shout keep politics out"
1t remains to be seen what the effect
of this foil will be. The essential fact is
that the demand of the critics has
been more personal courage on the
presidents part and more soldiers for
the Philippine campaign. Mr.. McKin-
leys tardy conclusion to increase the
force at Manila is applauded; the COM
ment of almost all of the newspapers
is that the president would better have
arranged for a much larger reinforce
ment; before the thing is through, the
campaign will undoubtedly call for
thousands of recruits in addition to
the number which the administration
has ordered, after hestating too long.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02
SUNDAY, JULY ., 1899.
TWENTY-FIVE PAGES.
~HIS years early July days may
witness, in a measure at least,

>NHIS years early July days may
witness. in a measure at least,
repetition of last years expert
ences for the days just prior to the
Fourth. The American people were in
an anxious frame a year ago to-day.
Things had not been looking a. all well
for us-there was widespread anxiety
concerning the conditions near Santi-
ago. The dispatches were not assur-
ing-it developed that Shafter, with the
enemy directly in front of him, felt the
need of more troops and seriously dis
cussed the plans for a retreat. We are
not anxious, as we were a year ago.
However, the dispatches of the past
day or two seem to prefiguTe an early
meeting with the Filipinos in the neigh
borhood of San Fernando. The para
llel for the Two years would be warmly
welcomed were the news for this
Fourth to tell of a victory so decisive as
the one that through the sailing out of
Cervera's fleet made last years Fourth
of July a famous and a memorable
,1av
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02
For Reform Now.

n ONTANA'S former and highly
WI esteemed contemporary. Mr..
i Lemuel Eli ouigg, as many
newspaper readers in these parts will
be both surprised and gratified to learn,
is out full length in the role of a re-
former-a political reformer at that
Once on time Mr.. Qulgg edited poll
tics for the republicans of Montana,
In those days, when he was in control
of the destinies of the now-defunct Hell
ena Journal, he was associated with
ambitious gentlemen who had lofty,
personal plans in politics, but who have
since then passed quite out of view
and those days weren't 50 very long
ago, either. In more modern times Mr..
Quigg has figured as the chairman of
Mr.. Platt's New York City republican
committee. That office Mr.. Quigg holds
now; you would hardly believe it, but
in his capacity as Plat chairman Quigg
has struck out for reform and for al
legged independent action in metropol-
itan politics.
The "praiseworthy" effort-so it is de-
scribed-of Chairman Quigg now is 10
unite all the forces of good character
in New York against Tammany" Mr..
Quigg himself makes the proposl-
ton, and as an evidence of good faith
he announces at the outset that his
committee comedies. with but few ex-
ceptions, all the candidates to be voted
for in November to the organization
known as the independents"
In truth, it looks good deal more
like an instance of have-to than case
of concession. Evidently the PIatt ma
chine want the prestige of a present
magnanimous offer of that which pres
emily it would in any event be forced to
yield. Mr., Quigg's committee had It
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Colorado's Gold Girl.

+ 7 NDER the biggest display type its
u job department can furnish h. the he
Denver Rocky Mountain News
announces that Colorado's Paris COM
mission has arranged for the display at
the French exposition of THE Ameri-
can Girl" to be made of solid gold and
to be placed on pedestal at Paris, ito
De the admiration of the world" SAYS
the Rocky Mountain News: THE statue
is to be of life size. and a million dol
lars in Colorado gold is said to be now
on call for use in the moulding of the
figure which will advertise the re-
sources of Colorado at the international
event" A few days ago, the report
sent broadcast was that Colorado pro-
posed to be represented at Paris in the
form Of solid gold Pixies Peak; the
American girl appears to be a revised
programme.
The Rocky Mountain News says that
this gold American girl statue is the
conception of f. d. Higbee of New
York, who built the silver statue for
Montana, exhibited at the worlds fair"
ties it; If that is the fact then the Colo
RADIO commission is in for a monster
fake sure, If that states experience Is a
duplicate of Montana's. The alleged
Montana silver statue, hawked about
the country after the exposition, was
cast-iron silver-washed fraud. As
the Standard remarked, <ew
days ago, the last heard of
the Montana silver statue it was
stored in cellar in Kansas City, in the
custody of the sheriffs office 1t was a
cheap humbug, utterly worthless in
dollars and cents. Its sham was ex-
posed; 1t did Montana harm because
the public had been given to suppose
that the thing was exhibited in Mon
tana's name and that the state authori-
ties themselves were parties to a fraud
ulent attempt to typify Montana's min
eral resources; just as Colorado will
suffer, because the gold American girl
II on the pattern of the Montana hum
bug, will certainly be exposed in the
hearing of all Paris
The big-displayed statement in the
Rocky Mountain News has all the ear
marks. We read for instance, that
this gold girl was originally intended
for Montana but that the Colorado
commissioners slipped in and closed the
contract" so eager they were to get the
attraction. The truth is that Montana
has not dreamed of going into this sort
Of game. This state. in fact, has no
commissioners to the Paris exposition.
None have been named, and the Stand
ard learned from Governor Smith him
self, yesterday, that the scheme for the
gold girl which in Denver they say was
intended for Montana" was never
mentioned here to those in authority.
In the same way, the Rocky Noun
tain News quotes Higbee as saying that
the gold for the Colorado girl had been
placed on call at the Second National
bank Of New York-a sum somewhere
between 5000, 900 and $1,000, 900. Similar
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02
Humane Only Among Themselves.

From the Louisville Times.
1t is high time that The Hague confer
ence should quit and go home when it Sc
riously debates and adopts such an absurd
proposition as that which provides that
the nations of the earth will not use dunn
dun bullets against each other but leaves
them at perfect liberty to pump the bar
barous missiles by the bushel into the in
sides of so-called savages.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02
One of the Fruits of Success.

From the Kansas City Times.
The hostility to the Americans which
was so pronounced in France during the
Cuban war has so far subsidized that the
Parisans are now willing to furnish
lodgings to visitors from the United
States at much higher prices than have
ever been charged before.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02
The West Asks the East.

From the St Louis Globe-Democrat.
Some of the Eastern journals, which op-
posed the selection of Colonel Henderson
to be speaker admit now that he was the
best man named for the place. Is that the
reason they opposed him?
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02

The announcement that Queen Vic
toria is enjoying excellent health is sat
isfactory proof that the press censors
are succeeding IN excluding Alfred Aus
tins poems from her presence.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02
Next in Order.

From the Baltimore American.
The next move will probably be to prove
that Admiral Schley was guilty of gross
characterization in winning the battle of
Santiago.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02
Current Comment.
He Is an Ancestor Himself.

From the New York Commercial Adver-
tiser.
Admiral Dewey has been a made a life
member of the Sons of the Revolution. 1t
was intended as an honor and doubtless
will be received as such: but, like Ma
po.eon, Dewey is something of an ancestor
himself it it comes to that, and doesn't
need to be the son of anything.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02

New York OC.ce-4S Tribune Building.
Chicago Office-46s The Rookery.
The S. c. Beckwith Special Agency,
Eastern Representatives
Washington Bureau-1,415 ST.. N. W.
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A Near Relative. at That.

From the Boston Herald.
Here's good pun by Senator Vest when
a gentleman by the name of Wescott sent
in his card Il do not know the gentle
man." said Vest but 1 Judge from his
name that he must be relative of mine"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02
An Imnnrtnnt Matter.

From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
Alfred Austin is more seriously dis
turbed over. International copyright than
h really ought to be.
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Another Humorist in the Field.

From the Omaha World-Herald.
Mark Twain should hurry home and
hustle if he wants to retain his position
as the great American humorist Some re-
publican wrote an antitrust plank for
the Ohio platform.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02
Shocked Him Beyond Recovery.

From the Chicago Record.
The man who fell out of a window in the
patent office at Washington had probably
just heard the rumor that Mark Hanna
would reSign.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02
A Fitting Name for 1t.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
Should it be called the navy department
or the Society for the Perpetual Persecu-
ton of SchIey?
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02

One year ago to-day General Shafter
was surveying the situation at Santiago
in frantic effort to discover whether
he was afoot or ahorseback.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02

While the oe-manufacturing firm
OF Pingree e. Smith is wrestling with a
lockout the senator manufacturing
firm of Pingree & Alger is trying to
engineer a freeZeout
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02

Several funerals are scheduled for
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, al
though the corpses will not be an
nounced until Tuesday.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02

When other subjects are scarce, Mr..
Roberts of Utah continues to furnish a
large number of eastern editors theme
for thunderbolts
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02

The Standard has branch offices at
Butte, Missoula and Great Falls, where
advertising rates will be furnished on ap-
plea ton.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02

France Is to be congratulated on per-
hitting Captain Dreyfus to land with
cut so much as rendering him
charivaT.
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TO ADVERTISERS.

The Anaconda Standard guarantees its
advertisers 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.
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All general business letters and corre-
spendence should be addressed to the
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY,
Anaconda, Mont.
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ceptable second violin to Admiral
Dewey, and that Notwithstanding the
efforts of few neighboring players to
throw him out of tune.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02

Now that Scorcher Murphy has made
a mile in 81 AS seconds. it is again up
to Aguinaldo If he wishes his legs to
hold the worlds velocity record.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02

Captain Dreyfus has raised more
racket in the world than any other man
of his size mentally since the dawn of
history
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02

Mr.. Murphy's ile-in-57-seconds rec
ord is earnestly commended to the cup
defender Columbia
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02

Neither the fast Columbia nor the
Shamrock has as many friends this
weather as the well-lOaded schooner.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02

Something is expected to drop at San
Fernando presently and the chances are
1t will be few hundred insurgents.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02

Having reached the sum of $4,000
the Dewey home fund is exhibiting all
the symptoms of quitter.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02

The Hole-in-t Wall train robbers
appear to have effectually pulled it in
after them.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02

Brigadier General Harrison Gray
Otis undeniably has the friendliest re-
lations with the American army at
Manila
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Postage free for the United States Can
ada and Mexico. Elsewhere
postage added.
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AS continuous performance the
Transvaal crisis is developing remark
able staying powers.
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Still it will be hardly advisable for
Dreyfus to show up at the Auteuil races
for a few Sundays yet.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02

These are dangerous times for any
negroes concealed in the fences of the
Illinois coal region.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02

The fact that the new French cabinet
is giving fair satisfaction is a clear
indication that it is an Algerless affair.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02

Now that the Nebraska regiment has
sailed for home, it is to be hoped that
the Montana regiment is next"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02

There is a possibility that a large
quantity of lurid fireworks will be set
off at San Fernando next Tuesday
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The Homestead steel plant acknowl-
edges the receipt of a large and juicy
crisis.
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Rackinr Out of IL.

From the Richmond Dispatch.
The last Hodgson statement is not only
fshy, but craw-fshy.
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A careful examination of Admiral
Schley's neck fails to disclose any
bruises.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02

This is the surgeons and under
takers busy week.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02

The city of Chicago is about to have
Il whist congress on its hands.
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Daily and Sunday. one year...........s1O.O 90
Daily and Sunday. six months ........ 800
Daily and Sunday, three months ..... 400
Daily and Sunday, one month.......... 90
Sunday, one year OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. .. %
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In the naval orchestra Admiral
Schley continues to play a very &C
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These are also the anniversaries Of
the embalmed beef days.