Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-06

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on the high seas n minimize the COM
opportunities Of the nation. The
fight against the policy of expansion,
which came as an unlimited guest of pro-
gress to our republic, is timed to the
working of the reverse lever in the ma
of human advancement. In OPP
posing the inevitable growth Of our ma
life, in tune with the development
of nations, the democratic party has for-
the support of every citizen who
is alive to the legitimate opportunities Of
the our. With such an issue before
the country, involving a Pacific com
merce that means a new era of prosper
ity for the west, and a financial indie
pendence never dreamed of in the past.
by what system of logic can any silver
find himself osculating the
unwashed feet of the democracy in the
coming campaign?
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Fourth. Laying aside questions of ma
tional concern, there, are abundant rea-
SAA0 VI q NoA PS W. Ian oANSA ASpuo-
licans of Montana should withhold their
support from the democratic party. The
silver republican who has forgotten the
treacherous treatment accorded his party
His shrivelled sou could repose in COM
fort on the point of a cambria needle,
n have plenty of room to spare. Not
only did the democracy of this state be-
reptitiously plan it's destruction, but it's
paid agents accepted honors from that
organization that they might to still bet
ter advantage undermine it and destroy
the courts of this state in as diabolical
a piece Of political scoundrelism as ever
disgraced a commonwealth, in an effort
to abridge the rights of the silver repub-
lican party and disrupt it's forces at the
polls. The silver republicans were lied
to and their confidence betrayed; they
We're slapped in the face and laughed at
with contempt by the democracy OF this
state, whose interests they had served in
the support Of Bryan in 1896. Is there a
silver republican in this state SO skin
finty and destitute Of red corpuscles as
to kiss the hand that smote him? Is
there one among the brave men who
sacrificed the political Affiliations Of a
lifetime in 1896. in order to support a prin-
pin1Q thew hp1iatyo1 f0 ho WIGHT xr-ho will
drag himself through the mire and slop
of democratic deceit and treachery in or
der to again permit that organization to
make a football of his political convic-
tons? Only the attenuated ouls Of the
Hartman type, who are willing to camp
in h e ~outhouses of democracy and feed
on the political offal of that organization,
, will be found lowering to the windward
of bourbon headquarters. 1t is under
such leadership, steered by the Anaconda
Standard, that the silver republicans ol
Montana are invited to resume the prodi-
gal habit of filing their bellies with the
husks Of democracy.
Fifth. Towering above and beyond al
other political considerations of either q
national or a local nature, is the duty OF
the right minded Montana citizen to as.
sist in the work of purifying the politica
conditions in this state. The silver re.
publicans were courageous enough il
1896 to throw personal political prefer
J ment to the winds, in order to do tina
which in their Judgment would best con
! serve the true interests of the state il
which they lived. In 1900 they will b.
brave enough to again stand by the in
terests Of this commonwealth by throw
Ing their best energies into the contest 70
the political renovation of the state. TIL
paramount issue in Montana will be tn
reclamation of its good name from tn
scandals which democracy lave imposes
upon it, and to this work the best effort
of every patriotic citizen should be dedi
Gated from the sunrise of the campaign
till the twilight of November deepens in
to the shade. He that provideth not 70
his own household is worse than an in
fdel. The citizen who overlooks the Pc
litical demands of his own state an
looses his head in the glamour Of som
national issue, in which. froth is tn
dominant feature and fizzle the para
mount effect, forgets the chief obligatio
of his citizenship. Unde the condition
which exist in Montana, it is the duty G
every honest silver republican to aid /
escutcheon of the state, that its lustr
, may illumine the future with the undim
med rays of it's ever growing greatnes