Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-01
POLITICAL NOTES.

1t ill becomes the Anaconda Standard
to extend any encourag cement ito the Chi
cago meeting of the so-called silver re-
publicans until it shall prove that the
treatment accorded the state silver re-
publican convention at Anaconda in 1898
was fair and decent.
Three party conventions were held at
the Smelter City at the same time. The
Amalgamated people, represented by
John r. Toole, controlled the democratic
convention. They had a powerful fol-
lowing in the populist convention, rep
resented by Governor Smith, while in the
silver republican convention Charles S.
Hartman was, according to the Ana
conda Standard, under agreement with
them to bolt and lead his friends into the
democratic parlOr.
What happened? Why, John r. Toole
was made chairman Of a committee
which insulted the intelligence of both
the silver republican and populist con-
ventions by proposing a plan which Mr..
Toole and also Mr.. DAILY, with whom he
was in consultation very frequently,
must have known and did know, could
not with honor be accepted by the con-
ventions to which it was made.
Mr.. Toole himself was ashamed of the
plan suggested and fought against it,
while Mr.. Daily is represented by his
fr;o-I. ~. .oa1;,r 49, .a,. ~ j AL-
ground that the Clark men would have
gained control Of the convention if a
reasonable scheme Of fusion had been
suggested. SO the interests Of silver
We're deliberately abandoned by the
democratic chief who had been Gne first
to propose fusion, and the silver repub-
licans and populists were thrown over
board in the fear that otherwise w. A.
Clark, Joseph X. Toole, Walter Cooper
and a. few more such democrats would
assume the direction of the proceedings
in the democratic convention.
Has the Standard ever sought to JUS
tify that deal? Did it ever deny the
facts as they have been related a hun
dred times? Does it believe it can fool
the real silver advocates of this state
twice? Did it not score Hartman for
not boiling the convention as it says he
agreed to do? Did it not take to it's
arms Governor Smith like a long-lost
Did it not subsequently abuse and ridi-
Guile both the silver republicans and
populistso
The esteemed and able editor of the
Standard may have gone ito Chicago
as it stated a few days ago. Mr.. DAILY
is in New York in good health and at
tending to business. Mr.. John r. Toole
is somewhere east or west, trying to earn
his magnificent salary of $3.50 a. month
for doing or having lone work worth ten
times that sum; yet any man in Butte
or Anaconda, familiar with local and
state politics, will verify the statements
made in these paragraphs, and not one
of them will fail hugely to enjoy the
able editorial in the Standard this morn
Aio - .21NA q IiISiiiIy SDiIll
on the silver republican meeting at Chi
cago. The truth is that it was a meet
ing of democrats, with the exception of
Senator Teller, who supplied 100 per cent
of the brains and responsibility of the
gathering and who blew up the whole
affair by stating that ~anti-expansion is
a dead issue and that the country is '"al-
ready expanded"
The Anaconda paper ought to know
that it can't bamboozle the silver repub-
licans of Montana twice in succession.
The less it says about fusion the less will
it be laughed at by the silver advocates
of Montana.
The effort of the Anaconda paper to
present Mr.. Hartman to the public as a
great and good man does not jibe with
his declarations concerning his agree
ment to bolt his party convention in
1898. But that is a matter between the
Standard and Mr.. Hartman, and for
which the people care nothing. We pro-
test, however, against booming the
liability" of any man who delivered a
TRADE against expansion with SO little
regard to probable subsequent events
as the Bozeman man displayed in his
Fourth of July speech on the court house
steps in this city a year and a half ago