Daily inter mountain., 1900-12-18
TUESDAY. DECEMBER is. 1900.
REPUBLICANS AND REORGANIZA-
TON.

state. and to that end is securing and
interviews with such persons !,
as agree With its views. 1t follows. of
course. that all Who endorse the Heralds
position are lauded by the journa. rs
republicans Of great influence and high
standing
One of these contributors to the Her.
aids views and columns is a Col. May,
of Bozeman, who. in his endeavor to
hold Carter responsible for republican
defeat. goes back into ancient history.
and digs up the vote of Senators Carter
and Mantle on the "Dingley emergency
bill" in 1895, and falsely attempts to
Nontana's interests by that vote. In
this Col. May displays his entire ignor-
measure and its effect upon the produc-
tions and industries of this state. The
rate on wool proposed by the Dingley
emergency bill would not have amounted
to 11a cents per pound in actual practice,
while the rate proposed for the carpet
and wooden manufacturers of New Eng
land was in some respects higher even
than the old rate of the Mckinley law
of 1890 The bill itself was sectional.
unequal and unjust. 1t was drawn to
favor the New England manufacturers,
and practically ignored the producers of
raw materials The National Woolgrow-
ers associa ton condemned it and asked
for its defeat. Nearly every woolgrower
in Montana condemned it, and the re-
publican party of Montana in convention
assembled approved and endorsed the
vote Of Senators Carter and Mantle
against the bill, as did also the republic
can press of the state without exception.
woolgrowers of the country than the de-
feat Of the Dingley emergency bill. Had
it become a law, the fight for an ade-
Quate duty on wool would have been
rendered much harder in the extra ses-
sion of 1897 This was the Judgment
of the best informed and most influential
woolerowers in the country.
Again, Col. May, despite the encomi-
ums of the Herald and it's glowing trib-
ute to his phenomenal knowledge, shows
a lamentable lack either of informant ior
or candur in discussing this subject. in
emitting to recall that both Senator Car.
ter and Senator Mantle We're elected
upon platform which made silver the
paramount issue" in all their votes ant
actions. 1t pledged them not to b,
bound by any caucus action of theil
republican collea CUES which might b,
inimical to the interests of the whit,
metal. In short, their instructions from
the republicans of the state. and tn,
legislature Which elected them, We're
SILVER and protection not one but both.
OF course conditions have changed
Since then. Great events have transpired
Silver, which was then the all import
ant question with all parties in Monta
ma, has lost much of its absorbing inter
est, due to changes in economic condi
tions-changes which could not then b,
foreseen, but it is nevertheless absolutel,
dishonest for any one who now pretend,
to quote history upon events which
transpired four or five years ago, to ig
more the facts and conditions which the,
existed in the attempt to crafty an in
diEidual spite, or to injure a public man
If no greater need for the reorganiza
t1on of the republican party in Montan
exists than is to be found in the vote O
Carter and Mantle on the Dingley emer
eency bill, or in the action of Carte,
Mantle. Marshall Metzel and Dolman a
the ST. Louis convention in 1896. the
there is no necessity for such step.
any event if rule is to be establishe
for the party's reorganization it shoul
provide first of all that only those VIII
were loyal in this years campaign sha
do the reorganizing and not the trail
ors
The republicans who left the old part
temporarily four years ago did SO O
principle. They had nothing to gain b
the step and We're filled with regret Owe
the necessity for doing so, but they wei
honest and unselfish We wish we coul
say as much for those who secretly be
rayed the party in the campaign of 100
at serious mistakes We're made