Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.

Special Correspondence Inter Mountain.
Washington, Dec. 1.-THE gold stand
ard bill now before congress, and which
may have become a law before this letter
is published, violates every tradition that
is dear to bimetallists, but the leaders
of both parties are in favor of it, and
the only thing left to do is to let it be
enforced, in the hope that should it
prove obnoxious and harmful it may be
repealed and bimetallism substituted.
&Silver has mighty few friends in this
congress. Senator Stewart and Senator
Kyle AVE been taken into the demo-
cratic camp, n the former will most
likely partly abandon his silver "hobby,"
as it was called. Even Newlands of Ne
svada has recently asserted that a ratio
rof % to 1 will satisfy him. AT least
seven of the Tammany congressman will
vote for the gold standard bill. The
Montana delegation in congress is help
less, even if it We're disposed to do any
thing. Mr.. Campbell will not catch the
speakers eye; Mr.. Carter realizes the
uselessness of a fight at present. and
Mr.. Clark is not taking advanced ground
on any subject just now. The mere sus-
picion that he is a silver man is likely
to lose him votes. Besides, he can point
proudly to the Anaconda Standard, de-
mocracy's chief organ in Montana. and
prove by it's columns that the party in
that state is willing that the worlds
exchanges shall regulate the value of
silver. Besides, the way fusion was
squelched at Anaconda in 1898 by Mr..
! DAILY canroocrtoI nv IIo, Joh, - E>,o1o
shows how dominant influences in Mon
tana politics regard the silver cause.
The fact that fusion might have resulted
in the election of a silver senator was
one reason for making fusion impossible,
and nobody knows that better than MI.
Toole himself.
LIVES OF GREAT MEN.
Senator Clark's name now appears in
the congressional directory as the result
of Mr.. John r. Toole's proposition con-
corning a basis of fusion in the interests
Of silver at the three conventions above
referred to. On page 81 of the directory
appears Mr.. Clark's biography. but it
was not written by Mr.. Toole, though it
would never have been written if it had
not been for Mr.. Toole. Here it is in
all its simplicity and significance:
William Andrews Clark, democrat, of
Butte, was born on a farm near Con-
nellsville, Fayette county, Pa, January
8, 1889; received a common school educa-
ton; moved to lowe with his father in
1856. and assisted i'll farm work for a
short time; taught school, and studied
law at Mount Pleasant, Iowa; worked
in the quartz mines around Central City,
Colo, in 1862, and Wen to Montana in
1863, where he has since resided: was
state orator at the Philadelphia Centen-
NAL in 1876: was elected grand master of
the Masonic fraternity in 1877: was
major of a battalion that pursued Chief
Joseph II his band in the Nez Perces
invasion of 1877: was president of the
constitutional convention in 1889: was
the candidate tor congress in 1888, but
was defeated because of a schism in his
own party; was elected to the United
States senate by the democratic legisla-
ture in 1890, but was not seated owing
to the middle growing out of the organ
ization of two legislatures in the state,
the republican senator's being seated;
was the caucus nominee of his party for
the senate in 1899; assisted materially in
retaining the state capital at Helena in
a memorable contest between tina city
and Anaconda in 1892: is extensively en-
gagged in banking. mining, manufacture
ing, and various other business enter
prises; in politics has always been a con-
sistent and active democrat; was elected
United States senator January IS, 1893,
to succeed Hon Lee Mantle. republican,.
His term of service Will eXDire March 3,
1905.
That last sentence is evidently for
perusal in Anaconda, but it may prove to
be a typographical error to the extent
of about five years. Who knows?
Mr.. Carriers biography appears below
that of the new senator, being brief and
modest like that of his MISREPRESENTATION
colleague.
Thomas Henry Carter, republican, of
Helena, was born in Scioto county Ohio,
October 80. 1854: received a common
school education in Illinois; was engaged
in farming, railroading and school
teaching for a number of years: studied
law and was admitted to the bar; in 1882
removed from Burlington, Iowa, to Hell
ena, Mont; was elected delegate from
the territory of Montana to the Fifty
first ongress and upon the admission of
the state was elected it's first representa-
tive in congress-; was commissioner of
the general land Office from March, 1891,
to July, 1892, when he was elected chair
man of the republican national commit
tee; in January, 1895 was elected to the
United States mate by the legislature
OF Montana for the term beginning
March A, 1895, and ending March 3, 1901.
Congressman Campbelrs history does
not make a very sensational chapter.
Here it is:
Albert j. Campbell, democrat, of Butte,
was born at Pontiac, Mich, December 12.
1857; educated at the Agricultural COL
lege, Lansing, Mich; read law with Col
vim & Harrington and Robbins & Colvin,
Pontiac, Mich; was admitted to the bar
in 1881; by profession is a lawyer: was
elected prosecuting attorney for Lake
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