Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-09

but on the fact that we have pointed out
to the people of this state the pitfalls
and dangers that lie in the pathway of
the silver forces.
We have endeavored to arouse the dem
ocracy of this state to a realization that
the gold wing of that party is planning
the destruction of the free coinage issue
in the national ~counsels of its organiza-
ton. Ar effort has been made to stir up
the slumbering energies of a dormant
silver democracy. that besetting dangers
might through organized activity be
averted.
But these efforts have been resented.
They disturb the pleasant dreams of po-
litical power that come to the siesta of
the Montana democracy since it fattened
on the spoils of a temporary victory at the
polls. To point out a danger that threat
ems the control of the silver wing of the
democratic party in the next national
convention, is to subject the Inter Noun
tain to the %imputation of disloyalty
to the true interests of the silver
cause. And yet these dangers to
the issue of free coinage are apparent to
| any intelligent observer of the present
trend of affairs in the democratic party.
A studied effort is being made to eff
feet a reunion of the silver and gold wings
of the national democracy on the new is
sue of neutrality-suspicious. This reunion,
if brought about, implies the absolute
and unqualified rejection of the issue of
the free coinage of gold and silver at a
| ratio of IS to 1. If under such an ar
rangement the principle of bimetallism is
recognized at all, it will be a generaliza-
ton that specifies no ratio between the
metals, anu De d SllNtl pldlh "Nlcli
the average gold man in any party night
enthusiastically indorse.
Conscious Of the work that is being
done to effect a democratic reconciliation,
so-called leading organs of the alleged
silver democracy of this state, like the
A y, oonr,1o y,7a JI 6n nnt Jlttpp ma
word Of protest on behalf Of the interests
of free coinage. Richard Croker, the
Tammany leader, commits that %organiza-
ton to the single gold standard, and de-
clares the free coinage issue dead, yet
not a word of censure or demonstration
from the nestor of Montana newspapers!
The Standard looked upon the Tammany
organization as an influential factor in
the affairs of the democratic party when
it devoted columns of it's valuable space
to an Endorsement of it's candidate for
mayor of Greater New York. Yet when
that same organization declares that free
coinage is dead, and that it's candidates
for congress were elected only by repudi-
ating that issue, the Standard maintains
the deep and dignified silence and SOL
emnity Of the tomb. Instead Of resenting
the act of Tammany it snarls viciously
at the Inter Mountain for calling atten-
ton to it.
To still further crush out the free COIN
age issue, a we'll defined plan has been
mapped out to prevent the denomination
of Bryan in 1900, even though that able
advocate of silver now seems willing to
make the issue that gave him prominence
secondary to the cry of imperialism"
In seeking to start a popular hurrah for
Dewey for president, that will throw Mr..
Bryan in the shade, Henry Watterson,
the eminent democratic leader, says in
part:
To come down to hard logical facts, old
horse sense sitting in the rocker-the
issue of free silver being relegated to the
limbo Of busted shades, the tariff issue
peacefully reposing upon the shelf where
the Cleveland administration left it to
wait for free trade under new conditions
the season Of famine ended and the sea-
son of plenty arrived-what are the dem
ocrats to do for a national platform and
ticket?
How many Montana democrats will re-
lnraioto tho nnsition takon bu Wattoraon