Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-15

'round up" all the silver men outside
democratic ines under the Kansas City
tent, and brand them with the bourbon
trade mark of the boy orator of the
Platte! He has even emulated his chlef
in an effort to win the eastern democrats
claring that it will be impossible to re-
endorse the Chicago platform word for
word. inasmuch as the conditions which
led up to a declaration in favor of free
coinage in 1896 have changed-that the
money plank of that platform was bas-
ed on falling prices, whereas, under the
ruinous administration of a republican
president, prices are rising.
Thus, it will be seen that Mr.. Towne
has shown great skill and aptitude in
double switching the turn in such a
way as to convince eastern democrats, II
possible. that he is not as dangerous as
he looks. Nevertheless, Mr.. Towne's sew
eral and respective plays to the gallery
are nauseating to the conservative east
ern mind. and he will doubtless find that
it is a rocky road to Dublin before the
honor of a vice-presidential nomination
is accorded him by a democratic conven-
ton. milk Mr.. Bryan. whose sta
tus as a democrat has been fixed in
the past. Mr.. Towne is associated in
the public mind With the political affilia-
tions of the hour. A short time ago he
was a republican, hen a silver republic
can, then God save the mark-a Lincoln
(Nebraska) republican, and now, by grace
of a vice-presidential nomination, he is
a Sioux Falls populist. His attempt to de-
ganizations-if such they may be call
ed-bound and gagged into the camp of
the democracy. will be looked upon with
some degree of suspicion by those demo-
Gratis who are still voting for Jackson, I'M
der the impression that Jefferson wrote
the Lords prayer. The eastern bourbon
will look upon it as another case of the
Greeks bring gifts to Troy, with Mr..
! Towne in the role of the golden horse.
They will demand a vice-presidential
nominee representative Of eastern inter-
ests. and whose prejudices wear a rising
sun brand.
Despite the alleged silver sentiment
among the democrats of the west there
is a dyed-in-the-wool un]dercurrent of
bourbonism p~ercolating through their
veins which impels them to put none but
democrats o n guard. They. crave the
political support of silver republicans
and populists, and woul even permit
the prohibitionists to vote their ticket
if the matter was kept quiet-but when
it comes to a division Of the loaves and
fishes everything from shad roe to
smoked herring must be doled out to
those who worship at the shrine of Old
Hickory. The Anaconda Standard was
quite right when it prepared it's readers
for the final turning down of Mr.. 'Towne,
by showing the Difference which western
democrats must pay to the east. 1t may
be interesting for that ably edited jour-
nal to praise the populists for nominating
Mr.. ToWne, and advise the democrats to
reject the nomination, in the same
breath; but it merely proves the desper-
ate political straits in which the so-called
silver democrats of the west find them
selves as the national convention ap-
proaches.
If Mr.. Towne does not stand for silver,
why compliment the Sioux Falls conven-
ton for nominating him? If he does not
stand for silver he stands for somethine
else with which the so-called silver dem
~ocratic party has no concern. If he does
stand for silver, and is working a politi-
cal scheme whereby he can bring the sill
Yer men of other organizations to the
support of the silver democratic nom
iinee for president, why, in the name o.
all that is consistent in politics and fail
in business, does the Anaconda Standard
and others of its ilk, recommend The
shelving Of the Duluth candidate? Such
a course is not only a straw, but is, ir
fact, a whole bale of hay showing whicf
way the wind is blowing. Verify, the fret
silver movement is among the breakers
1t is upon the rocks.
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