Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-03

of money has been an essential factor
in producing the good times which
have come to us, and to that extent the
theory of the bimetallists respecting the
effect of an increase in the quantity of
good money has been vindicated. But
while doing this it has at the same time
furnished a powerful argument against
the present necessity for the free coinage
of silver.
And there can be no question but that
it is due to these vital facts, and be-
cause of the policy of he democratic
party in making the false cry of i'm
perialism and militarism the paramount
issue in this campaign. that the great
body of silver republicans, including
among their number that grand old
Nestor of the silver cause, Senator
Stewart. of Nevada. and that noted BIZ
metallist, Joseph Sibley. of Pennsyl-
vania. and others equally well known,
have returned to the republican party
and are giving it their loyal support.
In my humble Judgment no patriotic
American citizen. no lover of his coun-
try, can afford to give aid or support
to any party which adopts as its cam
paign slogan and motto the hauling
down of the American flag. That cry
ld ISNSI bSSii pppuldi III tlS NV
can people and it never will be. No
political party in this country ever vet
won a victory on such an issue and
never can No political party can sue
coed in this campaign which proposes
to discredit and dishonor the splendid
achievements of our soldiers and sailors,
and whose success would mean that
all the fruits of the splendid victory of
Dewey in Manila Bay. which in a single
hour changed the map of the world and
made our flag supreme in the Orient.
are to be turned to ashes upon the lips,
and to shame and humiliation in the
hearts of the American people. A re-
dictionary policy at this moment would
mean a surrender of our proud posi-
ton before the world: it would mean
that IL brave soldiers who are freely
offering their lives in defense of our
honor and our Just authority. are to be
sent home in humiliation and disgrace:
it would mean a violation of the most
sacred OBLIGATIONS to all who have aided
and syE.lpathized with us in u
struggle: and, in short. it would mean
a base and cowardly surrender of our
duty and Of our seif-respect. and to
that. we may be very certain. the
American people will never give their
consent.
THE PARAMOUNT ISSUE IN MON
TANA.
The paramount issue in the campaign
so far as Montana is concerned. is the
redemption of the state from the ma
lign influences which lave dominated
and controlled it for the past four years,
ar1 itc ,,rliftinr Fco~ tho low, 1ova1
of personal hatred and political deprav-
ity into which the fractional warfare in
the democratic party has sunk it, back
to the high plane of official purity, polit-
zeal integrity and public morality. And
fortunately for those citizens of our state
who nave set themselves to the perform
ance of this high resolve, the result is
placed almost beyond the realm OF
doubt by the divided condition of the
democratic party, n circumstance fol
which every lover of the states repu.
tation ought to be devoutly thankful.
When l c%riticise the democratic party
1 do not, of course, wish to be under,
stood as condenlning all who lave affil
lated with that organization. I fully
realize that there are thousands of dem.
ocrats in Montana, honorable, worthy
citizens, who have not been parties t
the public scandals which have dis
graced the state, and who are as EN-,
phatic in their condemnation of the dis
reputable contest which has been carried
on in the full gaze of the country a!
any republican or other citizen can be
But, unfortunately for them and theiI
party, and the state, they have not beer
permitted any voice in the matter. Ev
cry democrat who would not consent t.
become a partizan of one faction or tn,
other, and who insisted on being his owl
free moral agent, has been PRACTICAL,
eliminated from the councils of tn,
PARTY and has been compelled t. lool
helplessly on While his party has beef
made the sport and plaything of con
tending corporations and millionaires
whose Quarrels nave finally succeeded il
hopelessly dividing it and arraying on
faction against the other in bitter ant
UNI elenting hostility.
And yet, while it is notorious here II
Montana that the democratic party ha,
long been under the domination and con
troll of corporate and millionaire infiu
ence, we now find one faction OF 1t en-
deavoring to divert attention from it
own distracted and hopeless condition
by shouting that the republican part,
is owned by a corporation, and thel" pail
orators are going about the state shout
ing that the Standard Oil an;
the Amalgamated Copper hav,
dictated our platform inc our ticket
This barefaced falsehood will of cuurs,
fool no intelligent citizen at all con
N":sant with facts and conditions her
i'll Montana. 1t is the old cry of $50,
thief designed to divert attention from
The real culprit. 1t is the old cutie Gsl
trick of muddling the water to escap
detection, and in attempting it ihes
fdsion democrats remind me mu n G
thai foolish and ungainly bird which
having buried it's small head in the saDJ
iMagjnes that the rest of it's unorepo
sessiog anatomy is invisible.
It is true that some stockholders of tn