Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-06

Francisco Examiner, laying that silver
lis practically dead, and never was other
wise than a pigmy beside trusts and Inn
perialism. In the east, where there is a
score OF these papers and others, argue
THAT 1t Is safe to vote for Bryan on the
ground that he could do no harm, or
good o n that line. ITO escape the ghost,
free silver. the people of the east will run
into the clutches Of the grizzly, the
trusts" Congress would be against it,
whether republican or democrat. The
New York journal says4hat 10 to l is
out of politics; such a bill could not pass
congress composed entirely Of demo-
icrats.' h talk of silver here in the
west is used to cater to silver republic
cans and others, III are to be cajoled
into believing that Bryan is still in favor
of it, and the party would give it If
elected. Thu r~eaffirmation of the Chi
cago platform is a mere bid for office, no
more ito catch votes here by declaring
that free silver was to be enacted, and
in the east to deny their disposition to
enact such a law. The leaders of the
party beside whom their agents in Mon
tana are very small fry, are honest in
their declaration that they will not have
free silver; why should we sacrifice all
our other political belief in helping them
into office in the vain hope that they
would legislate for silver when they were
pledged and outspoken in their denial Of
silver?
imperialism is only a big bogy, made
to scare women and children" And then
the speaker launched out in an eloquent
arraignment of the democracy that had
in turn besmirched the character Of
Washington. Jefferson, Lincoln and
Grant, which has attacked them all with
the same hollow charge, only to change
and quote them later as patriots and
statesmen. He read extracts from their
papers in the time of Lincoln, which
went so far as to advocate assassina-
ton for alleged Imperialism in main
tanning the union; he read them hand
bills which stand as the strongest ar
fragments of their dreary history. 1t
was a strong and telling denunciation Of
the policy of the party from it's incep-
ton, and was heartily cheered.
when i recall how many times Lib
erty has died. the constitution has been
over-ridden the declaration Of inde-
pendence torn to shreds ana t~atters, vet
still they rise, Phoenix like, from the
ashes kindled around them by democ-
racy. l am constrained to believe that
these curses, their blasphamies, which
are directed against Mckinley are Of the
same stripe as those which prosecuted
Lincoln and his illustrious predecessors
in their day. And l believe it is anar-
chistic talk such as led the craZed brain
of j. Wilkes Booth to end the life of
Lincoln, the man they now quote so
glibly. May it not have the same effect
in the present day, and end as did that
tragic part of our history?"
The speaker then referred briefly to
militarism, which even with the limit
of 100, 900 men in the standing army, the
ghostly limit which excites the democ-
racys has only one man to every 1900 Of
our populations; fewer thar under the
reign of Jefferson, when they quote the
founder Of democracy. He paid a just
tribute to the men who had fought in
Cuba and the Philippine war, but came
home and settled down to peaceful life
as far from military tyrants as men
could be-.
And then he gave the present demo-
cratic state administration an excoria-
ton that would have made even these
hardened officials consciences squirm, if
they had heard. He predicted that the
respectable element of the fair state of
Montana would rise this fall n drive
out this stencil in the nostrels of the
whole country. IF the good name of the
state is as dear to us as is our good name