Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-03
DEMOCRATIC DISLOYALTY TO SILVER.

1naSmucn as ex-senator Dupois mas
Joined hands with ex-Congressman Hart
man in an effort to deliver ex-silver re-
publicans over to the ex-silver demo-
cratic party, the Anaconda Standard is
considerably exercised because there is
a substantial and permanent hitch in the
delivery. 1t makes a vigorous attack
upon the Salt Lake Tribune because that
able journal refuses longer to place con-
fidence in a political organization that
has betrayed the true interests Of the
white metal while pretending to be its
friend. The fact is, Utah has passed
through practically the same experiences
as Montana, in that the democracy Of
silver republicans and populists that a
fusion of the silver parties woul not be
permitted in 1898, and the Salt Lake
Tribune, like the Inter Mountain, refuses
to kiss the hand that smote it.
The political history Of the country
produces no example of democratic in
SiANNA1t oAAA Ahal van -
rival the conduct of that party in 1898.
Having courted fusion in 1S96-having
advocated cooperation as vital to the
cause Of silver-having insisted that the
principle Of party fellowship in the adj
vocacy Of the paramount issue was the
only avenue through which the success
Of bimetallism could be attained-the
democracy absolutely reversed itself in
1898 and repudiated with scorn and de
rision the principles Of unity it had so
s%trenuously maintained. In utter disre-
gard of the conditions that might con-
front the country in 1900. the democracy
of 1895 applied the toe of its boot to its
100000 silver republican and populist
allies of 1896. 1t jeered them, it insulted
them, it did all that an unlimited cam
paign fund could do to destroy and crush
the organizations that made possible the
nings Bryan.
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1t is a matter of history that the silver
republicans and the populists, in the
various silver producing states, as we'll
as elsewhere, stood ready to cooperate
with the democratic party on an equable
basis, to the end that the silver cause
might be promoted and maintained as
the paramount issue. 1t was patent t.
these gentlemen, as it was to the silver
leaders Of the nation, that cooperation
in 1900 would be an impossibility unless
the fusion of 1886 was repeated in 1898
But the democracy looked at the matter
in a different light, and herein its jack
disability came prominently to the front
tutors of 1896 it advertised to the worlt
its utter Indifference to the fate of silver
in 1900. For the sake of a few petty of,
fees in the various silver states it aban
doned a course Of procedure essential t.
its future success in the larger field o
national politics. Tt demonstrated to tn
satisfaction of every fair minded intelli
gent man in the land that it's loyalty t.
the white metal was a hollow pretense
a thinly yelled subterfuse, a disgustln.
sham-the political plaything of the pass
ing hour. Under the lions skin of Bryan
ism lay the elongated ears of the Cleve
land ass. The new democracy prove
itself to be the scaley epidermis of
leperous past. 1t was the same old ma
chine trying to do business with stolel
steam.
Not only was its hypocritical love 70
silver shown by it's reputation of til
only methods by which success for bi
metallism in 1900 could be attained. blu
the campaign OF 1898 was followed b,
still further evidences of democratic dis
regard for the essential features of th
free coinage cause. In some cases thi
took the form of repudiating the estab
lished free coinage ratio of Is to l. TIL
Anaconda STANDARD itself. which thi
morning assumes to c~riticise the Sal
Lake Tribune for its standing on tn
silver question. editorially declared o
the 9th day of last January that the rati
OF ls to I is unnecessary and immateriaI
and tina the relationship of gold an
silver must be determined by the ex