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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-02
OUR DUTY TO PORTO RICO.
(From President McKinIey's Mes
sage TO ConKress.)

TO
Since the cession Porto Rico has
been denied the principal markets she
I had long enjoyed. and our tariffs ,
have been continued against her pro-
ducts as when she was under Spanish
sovereignty. The markets OF Spain
are closed TO her products except upon
terms TO which the commerce of all
|. nations is subjected. The island OF
Cuba, which used TO buy her cattle and
7 tobacco without custom duties, now
: imposes the same duties upon these
products as from any other country en-
tering her ports She has. therefore
lost her free intercourse with Spain
an Cuba, without any compromising
, benefits in this market. Her coffee was
little known and not in use by our peo-
pie. and, therefore, there was no de-
mand here for this one of her chief pro
ducts. The markets of the United I
States should be opened up to her
, products.
sour plain duty Is to abolish all
customs tariffs between the United 4
States and Porto Rico, and give her
, products free access to our mar
, kets."
Our flag does not mean one thing
here and another thing in Cuba or '
Porto Rico. President Mckinley 10 4
10000 Methodists at Ocean Grove on
Aug. p 1899.
The highest considerations OF JUS :
tice and good faith demand that we
shall not disaPpoint the confident ex-
pectation OF sharing in our prosperity
with which the people OF Porto Rico )
so gladly transferred their allegiance
to the United States. We should treat
the interests OF this people as our oHp.
wish most strongly to urge that the
customs duties between Porto Rico
and the United States be removed" ,
Secretary of War Root In his annual :
report.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-02

'Our flag does not mean one thing
here and another thing in Cuba or
Porto Rico. President Mckinley 10
10000 Methodists at Ocean Grove on
Aug. p. 1899.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-17
HE SAYS HE DIDN'T.

Hon. Joseph x. Toole, in his kalispel
speech, last night, denounced as false
the current report that in 1896 he had
written a letter to Secretary Moroney, of
the democratic committee stating that
he could not stump the state for Bryan
and silver because of his connection
with the Northern Pacific company.
Unless Mr.. Moroney is able to furnish
the alleged letter or prove that Mr.. Toole
for some such reason as given, de-
clined to address his fellow citizens on
behalf of the democratic candidate, the
Inter Mountain is willing to accept Mr..
Toole's assurance on THAT subject.
There are enough things that he is
guilty of in this campaign and which
should defeat him without charging him
with writing letters he did not write.
Mr.. Moroney now has the floor if he cares
to he heard on the subject.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-17
END OF THE STRIKE.

Although the republican party was In
no sense responsible for the coal strike,
the leaders of the republican party have
stepped in and brought it to a happy
ending.
The news today is that peace is in
sight, that the companies have accepted
the ultimatum of the unions and that the
miners have won a splendid victory for
justice.
Mark Hanna has been q leading figure
in bringing the strike to a successful con-
clusion, while James K. Jones on behalf
of Bryan, was hoping and praying that
it might never end in order that the men
in their despair might be made to be-
lieve the republican party was respon-
sible for it and so vote for Bryan.
No political chiefs ever assumed a more
p~usillanimous and nefarious attitude
thar Bryan and Jones during the exist
ence of this strike. It had nothing to do
,tLl politics., anthracite coal being on
the free list. 1t was brought on by the
greed of the coal barons; it was encour-
aged by the democracy for political ef-
feet; it was ended by republican inter-
cession on behalf OF justice to- the miners
and their wives and families. That is the
1iffacoroo
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-17
VIM. L.
difference

The death of William l.. Wilson today
removes a man who for several years
was among the most prominent of the ma
TONS statesmen. He was the author of
the Wilson bill, later known as the Will
son-Gorman bill, a measure which in its
effects proved terribly disastrous 80
American industries and American
wages. Yet Mr.. Wilson personally was
always a man above suspicion. He was
a student rather than a statesman,ats
theorist rather than "a practical legis3
lator. AS a professor in the Washing
ton and Lee university he has proved of
late years a success. AS a congressman
and as postmaster general he was
failure. Yet he was a genial, lovable,
talented man, devoted to his party and
his country, and as such will he be re-
ramhare6
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-17
SOME ERRORS CORRECTED.

Yesterday the Miner printed a STATE.
ment setting forth that every man who
opposes the Standard Oil company In
this campaign will " to walk out q
town. The Miner added that the state-
ment was "~attributed' to Ed S. Booth.
Booth had ever made such a declaration,
and also that the Standard Oil company
had anything to do with the republican
ticket. 1t also asserted that the Anal
gamated has never threatened to set it's
employees afoot, and asserted that the
democratic party proposes to do that
very thing by attacking the company in
the legislature and in the courts.
There is another thing that the people
of Montana SHOULD fully understand,
which is. that the Amalgamated CONF
pany is a democratic, not a republican,
institution. The president and manager
of it is a democrat-Mr. Marcus Daily.
He has never resigned his Office nor re-
linouished it's duties. Most of the EN-.
ployes of the company are democrats.
1t has no connection with the republican
party or republican candidates, and n
statement to the contrary is false. II,
therefore, there is any corporation dicta>
ton in Montana it is in the democratic,
not the republican,, ranks and if there
are men who oppose such corporate die
tation their place is in the republican,
not the democratic party.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-17
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER II, 1900.
WORSE THAN THE GoEBEL LAW

The bill introduced into the Kentucky
legislature to supplant the infamous
Goebel law is regarded as ar infinitely
worse measure than the old one. The
republicans state that the new bill
makes the following provisions:
A strictly partisan democratic state
election board until 1903.
A strictly partisan democratic county
board in every one of the 119 counties of
the state.
A strictly partisan democratic board
in every one of the 300 election pre-
cincts of the state.
The bill authorizes the democratic
county board in each county to select a
democratic sheriff in each voting pre-
cinct. The sheriff has the casting vote
on all disputed questions; he decides
whether or not a man may vote; he de-
cides whether or not a disputed ballot
shall be counted.
All provisions eXacting a return du1v
signed by precinct officers are omitted
Democratic precinct officers may refuse
to make returns, and the democratic
county board decides the matter.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-17

Wisconsin is by means in the doubtful
column according to Congressman John
Esch who has just Travelled all over it
and who says:
In the national election of 1896 Wiscon-
sin reached the hundred thousand class,
with a total republican plurality of 102,-
312. 1t is not likely that these figures will
be reached in the pending election. I
think we can easily reach the plurality Of
so. 600 or $1,000. Wisconsin is one of the
Northwestern States that thte honor of
having a solid republican delegation In
congress-. She has maintained this rec
ord for the last three successive con-
crosses. There are two doubtful con-
gress districts in this campaign. but
strenuous efforts are being made to hold
them in line and to return the present
members. So far as our state is concern
ed we shall endeavor to do our share in
maintaining our majority in the House Of
Representatives.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-17
JUDGE CLANCY.

-
The Anaconda Standard this morning
pleasantly attributes to the Inter Noun
TAIN some remarks relating to Judge
Clancy about clean shirts. etc, which
never found a place in these columns,
and in conclusion inquiries if it is really
true that Judge Clancy is running for
office.
The Standard made light of Judge
Clancy's candidacy before; the Miner
openly opposed his election, yet when
the ballots were counted Judge Clancy
was found to come near leading his
ticket. What followed is history. The
taxpayers of Silver Bow county have
seen the results. Judge Clancy is now
running again. He is not this time on
the Standards ticket as he was before,
but he has the equivalent advantage of
having Mr.. Peter Breen on the ticket
with him, and in addition the en-
thusiastic support of the Miner. which
opposed him before. Under these cir
~cumstances, the Standard would do well
to realize that Judge Clancy is on the
ticket, or it may wake up on election
day to discover that he is on the bench
for four years more. The Inter Noun
tain opposition to Judge Clancy is
based on the fact that he is on the demo-
cratic fusion ticket. which is enough
alone to discredit any candidate for
office. But this newspaper is not an
expert on the qualities that go to make
up a great lawyer and jurist. and there
fore introduced some expert testimony,
first, from the district court OF which
Judge Mediation was judge, and. Sec
ondly, from the state supreme court.
when w. Y. Pemberton was judge, and
thirdly, from the supreme court as at
present constituted. 1t is for the people
of Butte to decide whether. in view of
that expert testimony, they want to elect
Mr.. Clancy for another term. His
friends can not claim that he has been
assailed with partisan rancor by a
malevolent press, or anything of that
sort. The evidence against him relates
only to his fitness for the bench, to his
record on the bench, and to the opinion
of eminent jurists as to his Qualifica-
tions. Judge Clancy in most instances
means we'll. and this newspaper has ever
treated him with courtesy, but we pro-
pose to quote the record for the informa-
ton of the people. and it remains for
the Miner, which seems to be his only
champion, to dispute the record or show
it does him an injustice. But that great
journal says nothing this morning or.
the subject. 1t has zone into the silence
of the tomb of the Capulets on the sub
ject. 1t has not yet stated in express
terms that it regards Judge Clancy as a
man legally qualified for the bench. 1t
opposed him four years ago.. What is it
doing nova?
h Standard can say What it pleases
of Judge Clancy-we don't propose to
allow that organ to invent remarks
about his wearing apparel and charge
them to this newspaper without a pro-
test. His clothes are as clean as those
of the editor of the Standard at last
dress inspection. It's his politics and
his record on the bench that are the
legitimate subjects of the Inter Noun
tain'S criticism.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-17
Underwear
Mems Underwear
Mems Furnishing Department.

Fine silk fleece Underwear; color
light blue: warm garments and extra
we'll finished. Recommended to those
who have a tendency for colds or
rheumatism. All sizes. Price $3.50 gar
ment,
Several styles of fine Underwear, in
natural WOOL, camels hair, derby ribbed
and flat goods; all pure wool and very
fine Cashmere in tans, dark browns.
natural colors and medium blues. All
we'll finished. Some unshrinkable. All
sizes. Price $3.50 garment.
Very heavy all pure wool derby ribbed
Underwear, salmon color. Shirt high in
neck and with front bound with silk.
Drawers have extension Wristbands.
Price $1.75 garment.
H~ennessy's agents for Ypsilanti,
Stuttgarter, Linen Mesh, Peter
Wright's and several other noted brands
of fine Underwear.
Fine Cashmere Underwear made of
pure Australian wool; very soft and
warm. Shirts are cut high in neck, silk
front. Drawers with extension waist
band and facings of satin. All sizes
Price $3.50 garment.
Fine gray all pure wool Underwear
made for men not of the usual size and
shape. The garments for stout men are
shorter and larger than regular. In
another style for tall men, drawers and
sleeves of shirts are made extra long. All
sizes. Price $3.50 garment.
Portage Knit-to Fit Underwear made
from the finest selected wool, silk and
wool n all silk in shirts, drawers, at
$4.50 to $1,000 each. Fine Union Suits in
Merino. Silk and wool and All Silk
at $1,000 to $500 suit.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-17
TWO OF A KIND.

There is very little choice between the
democratic factions in Montana. They
are both tarred with the same stick, and
it need surprise nobody if they all sup
port the same county, state and legisla>
tive ticket on election day.
There are plenty of signs pointing in
that direction.
Over in Lewis and Clarke county the
so-called independent democratic county
convention indorsed' several members of
the regular legislative ticket.
Wouldn't that jar you?
Here is a party breaking loose from
the democracy and minated by lofty
moral ideas, calling a convention of its
w and d~enouncing the wholesale cor
ruption and debauchery of the regular
wing. So far, SO good. The regular wing
is corrupt from top to bottom.
Then these whole-souled Independent
democrats of Lewis and Clark county,
dorse part of what they stigmatize as
the Clark legislative ticket!
Is h the way the independent demo-
Gratis propose to redeem the good name
of Montana Is that the way they pro-
pose to discourage the use of Doodle in
| senatorial elections?
It begins to look now as though the
democratic split and walk-out was a
pre-arranged plan to deceive the people
of Montana into electing independent
democrats to the legislature, where the
and that when the legislature meets the
! two wings will coalesce after a brief and
f~arcical deadlock, and finally compro-
mise by electing Hon. Job r. Toole and
Hon. w. A. Clark and then give the re-
publicans the laugh. There is abundant
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-17

Kept him off the stump. To a New York
sun reporter on Saturday last he said:
1.-The general reasons I gave in nv
Carnegie hall speech in 1896 why Bryan
should not be elected still hold good
with me-"
Some extracts from that speech are
as follows:
When we have a president who be-
Iieves that it is neither his right nor his
duty to see that the mail trains are not
opstructed, and that interstate COM
merce has it's free way irrespective of
state lines. n courts tina fear to use
their ancient and familiar writs to re-
strain and punish lawbreakers, free
trade and free silver will be appropriate
accomplishments of such an administra-
ton and cannot add appreciably to the
national distress or the national dis
honor.
The economic policies of the republican
party have been indicated by the re-
markable and general prosperity that
has developed during Mr.. McKinley's
administration-succeeding a period Of
great depression. A change of adminis-
tration this fall would almost certainly
renew conditions from which we have so
happily escaped.
The fuM Inner bucket is no a sordid
emblem. 1t has a spiritual significance
for the spiritually minded. 1T means
more comfort for the man and family,
more schooling and less work for the
children and a margin of saving for sick
ness and old age.
Other good things Harrison said in
that speech have been looked up and are
just as applicable now as then. Here are
some of them:
In my opinion there is no issue pre-
sented by the Chicago convention more
important and vital than the question
they have raised of protecting the power
and duty of the national courts n ma
tional executive. The defense of the
constitution and of the integrity of the
supreme court of the United States and
of the presidents power and duty to en-
force all of the laws of the United States
without awaiting the call or consent OF
the governor of any state is an impor-
tant and living issue in this campaign.
hey denounce in their platform inter-
ference by federal authority in local
affairs as a violation of the constitution
of the United States and a crime against
free institutions. Mr.. Tillman, in his
speech, approved this declaration. It
was intended to be in words a direct
condemnation of Mr.. Cleveland as presi-
dent of the United States for using the
power of the United States to brush out
of the way every obstacle to the free
passage of the mail trains of the United
States and the interstate
And. my friends, whenever our people
approve the choice of a president who
believes he must ask Governor Altgeld
or any other governor of any state for
permission to enforce the laws of the
United States We have surrendered the
victory the boys won in 1861. Once we
We're asked and a grave question was
raised, whether the United States could
pass its troops through Kentucky to
meet a rebel army in Tennessee.
My friends, as a republican, I am
proud of many things, but I can sum up
as the highest satisfaction I LAY had
in the party, and it's career, that the
prospect of republican success never did
disturb business.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-17
The Philadelphia Press takes this view
of the situation in Massachusetts,: =

The Philadelphia Press takes this view
of the situation in Massachusetts,:
The Massachusetts, republican plat
form adopted by the state convention is
clear, terse and emphatic, characteristics
which always distinguish republican ut
terances in thai commonwealth. Presi-
lent McKinley's administration is APP
proved, the country is congratulated on
the vast expansion Of it's export trade,
the right and purpose Of the United
States in the Philippines are stated n
defended, and the question of trusts is
treated in a sensible, sincere n In
addition the present prosperity of the
country is rightly ascribed in great meas
ure to the carrying out of republican
policies, n the duty is pointed out OF
continuing the same party in power II
the country wishes a continuance of the
same prosperity. The Massachusetts re-
publicans are fortunate in knowing that
their state is safely anchored to the party
of protection, progress and prosperity.
and that they have ne need to dissemble
in order to win votes. That is why their
platforms are of such a high character.
And the platform of 1900 will take rank
among the best.-The Philadelphia Press.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-17
THE PROSPERITY TICKET.

The taxpayer who desires to look out
for his own interests and keep his con-
science clear will vote the straight re-
publican ticket in Silver Bow county.
1t is the best ticket, it represents law
and order, it pledges justice and good
government. No other ticket can be
elected without gltavely imperiling the
rights and interests of the people.
The fusion ticket represents a total
abandonment of principle, it represents
the barrel in politics, it represents a con-
spiracy to wreck the greatest mining
company in tae district, discharge it's
employees and despoil it of it's property.
The independent ticket represents
nothing but greed for Office and tine
corporation power in politics, if there
be any in this county.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-17
A STRAIGHT, PURE MAN.

The Helena Record makes this plain
Any man or newspaper that makes the
statement that the Hon. David e. Fol-
som is under the control of the ANAL
gamated Copper company, the Standard
Oil company or any other person Or COR
poration, is guilty of wanton SANDER and
knows that such is h fact. He has not
had any connection with either of these
corporations and has no relations with
them now. He is a man of the highest
character, the peer of amy man in the
state in Integrity n character, and has
always as a public man given h STATE
his best efforts. In the future, as in the
past and present, his known integrity
and ability will be exerted for the best
interests of the people.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-17
CLEVELAND OPPOSES BRYAN.

Grover Cleveland, in response to a re-
position in the present campaign, sent
his reply:
Buzzard's Bay, Oct. Z, 1900.
John S. Green, Esq.
Dear Sir: I have received your letter,
Enclosing a copy of my letter written
more than five years ago to the business
men of Chicago. I had not seen 1t in
a long time, but it seems to me I could
not state the case better at this time if
I should try. I have not changed my
opinion as therein expressed in the least.
Yours truly.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
The letter to which Cleveland refers
discussed only the currency issue. and
concluded as follows:
If reckless discomfort and wild expert
ment should sweep our currency from it's
safe support, the most defenseless of all
Who suffer in that time of distress and
national discredit will be the poor, as
they reckon the loss in their scanty sup
port, and the laborer or workingman as
he sees the money he has received from
his toll shrink and shrivel in his hand
when he tenders it for the necessaries
of the humble home. 1 will not believe
hat if our people are afforded an OPP
p%ortunity for intelligent second thought
they will sanction schemes that, however
cloaked, mean disaster n confusion,
nor that they will consent by under
mining the foundation of safe currency
to endanger the beneicent character and
purposes of their government.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-17

Aggregate capitalization. q. 81, O93, SS1, S53
The Inter Ocean commenting on the
above list says:
Here are thirty-seven great corpora
tions-price-fixing combinations or trusts
with aggregate capital of more than
81 ,O0O, 900, 600, all Of which lived, pros
pered and waxed fa~t-unopposed and
notwithstanding one to eight years of
democratic rule. Yet Mr.. Bryan has the
impudence to tell the American people
that trusts are fostered by the repub-
lican party and fought to the death by
the democracy.
The dates above given prove that the
trusts which touch most directly the
pockets of the ~people-such as the sugar
ice, beef, beer, leather, rubber, school
desk. sewing machine, elevator and
match trusts-were organized under a
democratic administration.
These are but a few of the cold facts.
They suffice, however, to brand the hum
bug that Mr.. Bryan is ladling out to his
dear people in the far West.
A few days after the above list was
printed in the Inter Ocean, that paper
having further investigated the subject,
came out with another list of trusts,
forty more in all and making a total of
seventy as follows:
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-17

plation. Otherwise the Independent DEM
ocrats would have Endorsed the repub-
lican legislative ticket in Lewis and
lar democratic ticket, which is commit
ted to Mr.. Clark. q
There is only n way for the people
of Montana to defeat such a conspiracy
that is to down both wings of the de-
mocracy at once and elect the straigh,
republican ticket,
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-17
BRYAN, Too1E AND THE TRUSTS.
AS an evidence of the scanda,ous

AS IN evidence of the s%candalous nv.
pocrisy of Bryan in charging all the
trusts to Mckinley and the republican
party the Chicago Inter Ocean prints a
list of the trusts organized before Cleve-
land was elected n which We're rob
bling the people" u%nopposed and uncon-
and while Bryan was in congress-. Incl
dentally Mr.. Joseph X. Toole was also in
congress at that time. The list is as fol-
lows: