Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-23
THE CAMPAIGN ISSUE,

The attempt of the democratic party to
make a issue out of an alb
surdity which is not an issue at all is
s:mply to dodge to cover up ISSUES which
are genuine.
First and foremost here is the doctrine
of protection and reciprocity which re-
publicans favor and democrats oppose.
There is the right of the federal gov
T. preserve order in the states
whenever h state officials are incom-
petent or derelict. Republicans uphold
THAT right democrats d%enounce and deny
lit.
There is the right of courts to issue in
functions to insure the unning OF tine
United States mail trains and to warn
uaw1ess men against THE commission OF
overt acts and cite them for contempt II
they disobey such warming. The repub-
licans advocate such rights, while DEM
ocrats demounce lit.
There is the financial issue. The re-
publicans are opposed Ito the free and un-
limited coinage of silver and say so in
plain, honest terms. The democrats are,
four-ifths of them, opposed to it, accord
Ding to to the votes lin the national con-
vention, but hypocrftically adopted a
free coinage plank, though they really
'beaieve in greenbackism and not indie
pendent fbimetallism. No intelligent hu-
man being believes tlhe democracy would
enact a free coinage aaw if it had the
power Ito do so. d.
There is the trust question, but that
is not am issue between the parties as
both have declared against trusts YIN the
strongest language they a
Yet it lis worthy of note that all the anti
trust legislation we have is of republican
origin while a Wyck, who was easily
the chief of the democratic convention,
Us with his Tammany associates a heavy
holder i'm ice trust stock. AS far as trusts
are concerned the trust issue lis a first
class fraud.
TIL initiative and referendum, a cum
be14some and impracdticable scheme to
refer legislation back ito the people is an
issue. 1t works in Switzerland on ac-
count of the sanallness of the country and
1.-THE compactness of it's population and
the fact that the country has little occa-
sion for new laws. 1t would never work
i'm this country. The democratic party
lis divided about it. 1t is "a piece of
pepulism grated onto the democratic
tree. The republicans oppose it.
The principal issue, next to protection,
lis expansion. The views of the political
parties on that question are we'll known
The democrats would give up the Philip
pines to pillage and chaos and allow the
Tagals to murder all the white people
lin the islands and make THE United
States a Missing and a reprOach among
nations. They would also surrender
Porto Rico, restore monarchy in Hawaii
and apologize to Spain for having de-
priyed it of cuba. Theirs is a crawfish
policy. The republican policy is one that
is compatible with advancing civiliza-
,tion, with industrial development and
commercial expansion, and favors taking
a place ait the council board of nations
whenever American interests are up for
discussion. The republicans want no
more territory. They are expressly OPP
posed to any acquisitions in China, but
they propose ito keep what the flag covers
what has been won by blood n treasure
i'm a just cause and what is requisite for
the prope defense of the country from
foreign aggression.
1t ougt ito be easy enough for patriotic
Americans to decide how to vote.