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WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 25. 1899.
THE CODER D ALENES IN POLITICS.
At the first opportunity that present
ed itself the democrats dragged the
Couer d'Alene affair into politics. The
■managers of John R. McLean, the demo
cratic multi-millionaire candidate for
governor of Ohio, endeavored to secure
votes in the mining districts in that state
by reciting the condition of affairs in the
panhandle of Idaho, and attributing the
misfortunes of the miners in that locality
to the national administration. Presi
dent McKinley was held responsible for
military rule in that section, and every
effort was made to arouse prejudice
against the republican party.
But the bloated aristocrat at the head
of the democratic ticket reckoned with
out his host. His satellites <}id not
know or understand the facts. The re
sult was, the bourbon attempt to intro
duce Idaho into the Ohio campaign prov
ed a most disastrous boomerang to that
party. The republicans have printed the
letter written by Governor Steunenberg
to the secretary of war, explaining that
he alone, and his democratic conférés
of the state of Idaho, were responsible
for martial law and the presence of
troops in the Couer d'Alenes. This let
ter disposed of the democratic contention
in Ohio, just as it knocked silly a lot of
cheap political guys in the state of Mon
tana, who thought they could mislead
the public as to the real facts of the situ
ation.
The letter from the democratic gover
nor of Idaho merely confirmed what ev
ery intelligent man knows, namely, that
federal troops are never ordered into a
state by the war department except up
on an urgent appeal from the executive
to the effect that he is unable to control
the situation with the forces at his com
mand. When such a demand is made
the federal government does not have
the option of refusal, under the law. It
must comply with the demands of a sov
ereign commonwealth for federal assist
ance when that demand comes through
its chief executive office—the governor of
a state.
Nothwithstanding these facts, the boodle
managers of the aspiring multi-mil
lionaire of the Buckeye state have indus
triously tried to work on the prejudices
of men in the coal mines, by harrowing
recitals of the brutality of President Mc
Kinley in sending troops to the Couec
d'Alenes. Practically paralyzed by the
publication of Governor Steunenberg's
letter, the Ohio democrats do not know
which way to turn. In a feeble sort of
way they try to explain that the gover
nor of Idaho was imposed upon by a ras
cally silver republican who wrote the
letter and persuaded his innocent and
guileless excellency to sign it. This, how
ever, is an explanation that does not ex
plain, for if the governor lacks the abil
ity to write his own letters he is just the
kind of a man to rush in a lot of troons
on tlie plea that he is too weak to handle
the situation with the yeomanry of his
own state.
About the only thing the McLean man
agers can do is to suck their thumbs and
curse the governor of Idaho for making
such a serious mistake as to write a let
ter to the war department containing
the truthful statement that he was re
sponsible for the presence of troops. Hgd
the democrats been able to make any
headway in Ohio, by misrepresenting the
Idaho troubles, they would have used
that "issue" with great vigor next year
in ail communities where large bodies
of laboring men are employed. As it is
they had rather fondle the business end
of a red-hot poker.
MISREPRESENTING THIS PAPER.
The Helena Independent confines its
arguments in behalf of silver to suc.h
expressions as the following, which ap
pear, in one form or another, in its col
umns at intervals of three or four days:
"The Inter Mountain is the bitterest en
emy of free silver in the west." Ouf
capital city contemporary makes no at
tempt to prove this statement, or to show
the foundations upon which it rests. It
will strike the ordinary reader that a
newspaper can greatly strengthen Its
contention by quoting the words of
another, rather than by relying upor>
its own unqualified statements. If the
Independent wants to make good its al
legations respective the attitude of the
Inter Mountain why does it not repro
duce in its columns our arguments !
against free coinage, if any such have !
been made? That it does not do so is
due to the fact that no such arguments
have appeared in this paper.
The Inter Mountain has merely pointed I
out the course which the alleged demo
cratic friends of silver have pursued in !
placing the free coinage issue in the
background. In doing this no state- j
merits at random have been made. The
language of the late leaders of the silver j
cause has been given in these columns, |
allowing the reader to draw his own con
clusions when its relevancy to the
next campaign was pointed out.
Months ago the Inter Mountain out
j
lined the course of the democratic lead- j
ers, in their efforts to reunite the east
ern and western wings of the party on j
a compromise basis, as was then por
tended by the signs of the times. Had i
the democratic press of Montana acted j
upon the advice of this paper, and com- j
mit ted the silver wing of the party to \
an undying opposition to any compro- J
mise that would subordinate in 1900 the ,
paiamount issue of 1S96, they might have j
saved the daj for free coinage. But j
I they refused to do so. On the contrary, j
they entered with zeal into the prelimi
nary'Steps to be taken to bring about a
reunited democracy at the expense of
free coinage.
Their accredited newspaper leader re-*
pudiated the free coinage ratio of 16 to 1,
and deeleared that the relative values
of silver and gold should b
by the world's exchanges—a position
taken by the gold wing of the democracy
in 1896 when it refused to follow the lea
dership of W. J. Bryan. Not a demo
|cratic newspaper in this state took is
j sue with this declaration though well
J knowing that the practical application
I of such an idea would absolutely pre
J vent the free coinage of silver for all
time to come.
The Inter Mountain has pointed out
these delinquencies on the part of the
late silver leaders and the democratic
press of Montana—delinquencies that are
now apparent to every intelligent man,
woman and child in the state. As the
result of all this, the Inter Mountain is
accused by the white metal's most insidi
ous foes of being the "bitterest enemy
of free silver in the west."
LOOK AFTER THE BOYS.
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Now that the soldiers have been cor
dially welcomed home by the people of
this state, every locality doing its full j
ra\er responsi
duty in this respect, a
bility must be met. Hundreds of these
men will need employment along accus
tomed lines, and it is the duty of em
ployers of labor to see that an opportun
ity is given them to go to work.
These men have performed an import
ant service for their country, they have
earned the honors which have been so
freely bestowed upon them. But every
worthy volunteer now aspires to take
his proper place in the community' as an
industrious citizen. They should be
given the opportunity to do so.
Employment should be found for these
men without unnecessary delay, for the
industrial opportunities of the state are
ample to assimilate all. Let it not ba
said that any member of the First Mon
tana is unable to find an opportunity to
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again enter the ranks of the industrious
The welcome
wage earners of the state,
extended by Butte and other cities was
most heartily appreciated by the volun
teers, but let the good words of praise
be supplemented by opportunities to suc
cessfully enter the walks of civil life.
THEY DO NOT TALLY.
Without any desire to deprive our dem
ocratic friends of the sympathy to which
they may be entitled, In making such a
serious mistake as to get on the wrong
side of the expansion question, one can
not resist the temptation to point out
the inconsistency of their several and
respective arguments. The public is in
j formed by such leading lights as Colonel
I Bryan, for instance, that the United
! States bought the Philippines for $20,
000,000, thereby paying $2 per head for the
inhabitants. He recognizes the purchase
as a purchase, and descants at length
upon the immorality of the transaction.
But while he is doing this, the Ana
conda Standard, which shares with
Bryan the honor of democratic leader
ship, insists that the policy of the na
tional administration is one of "con
quest." Now, both positions cannot be
right. If the government bought 10,000,
000 Filipinos at $2 each, as Bryan pro
claims, its policy was a commercial one
and not one of conquest. If, on the con
trary, the policy of the government is
one of conquest, Bryan was wrong when
lie claimed it was a commercial one. The
two propositions do not tally. Bryan
and the Standard should get together.
S OLD ICRS AND POLITICS.
There seems to be a fear on the part
of the democratic leaders that some of
the returning volunteers may not sink
Into obscurity as rapidly as the exigen
cies of the political situation require,
! Ft "' some time past the democratic press
! of this state have kept before the people
the it,ea that while the soldier boys were
personally all right, of course, the cause
for which they fought was a most dis
I creditable one. While praising the brave
men for their personal courage, they
! have placed the seal of their uttfer con
demnation upon the issues involved in
j the contest in which they participated,
The natural result of this position on
j the part of the democratic press is to
| rob the volunteers of the presitige of
fighting for a worthy cause, confining
their credit to the personal valor which
they exhibited on the field of battle, de
spite the fact that every shot they fired-*
according to democratic logic— was a
death knell to the liberties of a free anti
independent people. If the prestige of
our volunteers is to be confined! to acts
of personal courage alone, and they are
to receive no credit for the work they
have performed in establishing American
authority in the Philippines, and in con
tributing to the growth and grandeur of
the nation, it is little wonder that the
democratic press takes occasion to ad
vise them to make all possible haste to
retire from pubIic notice . This morning
the Butte Miner extends the following
advice to the returned soldiers:
It is that they do not allow themselves
to be made professional soldiers or
heroes of, but that they will fall into the
ordinary ways of the people and carry
with their consciousness of duty well
performed the knowledge that it was a
(luty "'hich every American citizen owes
to his country.
Reduced to plain English the foregoing
means—boys, don't run for office. It
admits of no other construction, for cer
tainly the Miner does not imagine that
its advice is needed to prevent the brave
men who carried our flag in many a hard
fought battle from being weak enough
to parade themselves as "professional
soldiers or heroes." These men require
no newspaper advice as to their duties
as citizens. They were good citizens be
fore they went to war—they will be jqst
as good citizens after their return.
The object of the democratic press is
to discourage soldiers from accepting !
nominations for official positions, for
which they may be as well qualified as ,
any man who has not worn the uniform 1
of Uncle Sam, fearing that the prestige j
acquired in war may strengthen them j
before the people and add largely to their j
chances for endorsement at the polls. If
there is anything which a democrat real
ly fears it is a blue coat running for
0 fftee. if he cannot head off such a pos
3 ihiiity by' disparaging the cause for
which the soldier fought lie will advise
him to immediately' retire from public
view, with his laurels, and "fall back into
the ordinary ways of the people" without
unnecessary delay. He will be told that
he has done only that duty "which every
j American citizen owes to his country."
The fact that a very large proportion of
the people, including democratic editors,
still owe that duty is lost sight of when
such advice is tendered.
Let the democratic press possess their
souls in peace. None of the First Mon
tana volunteers will ever "allow them
! selves to be made professional soldiers or
! heroes of," but the public may from time
j to time see fit to show them just as sub
! stantial courtesies as it does those who
! have fallen "into the ordinary ways of
the people " without having worh the
blue—give them a 'testimonial of grati
tude and appreciation in the shape of
well merited official positions of honor
and trust.
Henry Watterson, democratic editor of
the Louisville Courier-Journal, evident
ly has neglected to read the Anaconda
Standard. He says, in referring to the
Philippines: "They came to lis unbid
den. They were sent to us by that mys
terious power to which we owe all that
we are, all that we have. Who sjiall
say it nay? He that does thi^-f-and the
more surely if he be a party leader—
pronounces his own political detonation.
The activities of the Atlantic are being
gradually but certainly transferred to
the Pacific. We are there already. Shall
we seize upon the means of confirming
our power which God has given us, or
shall we let them go, and later on at in
finite cost be obliged to fight to recover
them?"
Says the Helena Independent: "This
is the year for men with principles for
sale or exchange to stand together." We
have noticed a growing harmony among
the democratic press.
THE PROSPECTIVE FIGHT.
Red Lodge Picket: The political glad
iators of Montana promise to make
things intensely interesting during the
presidential campaign of next fall. It
will be the hardest fought battle of the
ballots ever waged in the state. The
preliminaries are already being arranged
and the knowing ones predict that Mar
cus Daly will make Banquo's ghost turn
green with envy. All the Indications
point to the fact that the cqpper king
will make the fight of his life. A few
weeks ago the Livingston Enterprise
was sold to a trustee, a'nd that paper,
just merged into a stock concern, is now
in the hands of a coterie of eminent sil
ver republicans, who have frequently
been honored by the ballots of their ad
mirers. The capital stock is $6,000. Judge
Frank Henry owns all but $400 of the
stock, which $400 is divided equally be
tween ex-Congressman Charles S. Hart
man, Sheriff George T. Young, County
Attorney H. J. Miller and Frank Wright.
The deal had hardly been consummated
when the news came of the sale of the
Bozeman Chronicle, also to a trustee,
who, in tills case, is David Marks of
Helena, known to be persona non grata
to the Clark faction of the democratic
party. The price paid was $11.000. and
J. \V. Kelley, a young man of splendid
editorial ability, associate editor of the
Livingston Post and a staunch friend of
the Daly people, has been placed in
charge. Now comes the rumor that the
Clark people are preparing to go into the
newspaper business on a generous scale.
We have it on excellent authority that
Clark, who already owns the Butte
Miner and Helena Independent, and pre
sumably the Big Timber Leader, has
picked out a man to start a democratic
paper in Red Lodge. There is fun
ahead. On with the sport.
THE TALK OF THE HAY.
In spite of the anti-expansionists big
crowds in Boston applaud E. A. Platt, a
marine of the Olympia, who is singing
some verses called "The Yankee Reces
sional." Here are two of its stanzas:
We smile from Army and from ship
At Aguinaldo's spear and shield.
Old Uncle Sam his heels will trip—
Two Richmonds cannot hold the field
Oh, rebel chief, conceited pup,
We'll do you up, we'll do you up.
We'll hold those islands of the seas!
We've bought them with our blood and
gold;
Those islands clad in waving trees,
We'll hold them all; they'll not be sold!
We called the bluff; vve'1'1 get there
yet—
Don't you forget! Don't you forget!
Colonel Henry H. Adams, past com
mander of Lafayette Post, G. A. R., and
General O. O. Howard's chief of staff in
the Dewey parade, gave an address to
the public school children of Salt Lake
City, under the auspices of Maxwell Post,
on October 11. In the evening he ad- j
dressed a public meeting in the Grand
Army Hall. On the following day he
visited several of the schools and talked
to the assemblies on the custom in New
York state of teaching patriotic singing
and raising and saluting the flag at the
sohoolhouses each morning, and urged
that the custom be established in the
west.
The plan to establish a 64,000 acre eat
tie ranch in Washington county looks
pretty and eherful on paper, but until
details are made satisfactory and New
York and western promoters put in their
money and start the industry, the farm- ]
ers of this state can hardly be expected j
to take stock. There is room for a vast ;
increase of the beef industry in Maine, |
but only in accordance with its climatic j
conditions, very little of which is under- !
stood, it would seem, by the New York
and western promoters if, as it is stated, j
they expect to feed large herds of cattle j
out of doors from November until May.— !
Eastport (Me.) Sentinel.
Many people in Denmark prefer horse
flesh to beef. In Germany and Austria
business is brisk in horse meat prepara
tions, and is becoming more so every
year. England is stil reluctant about
accenting the new aliment and classes
that kind of food alongside snails and
frogs. The first horse butchers in Paris
were only established in 1866; that spe
cial trade is now legally carried on. and
is considerably increasing, as demostrat
ed by municipal statistics—so much so
that to-day over five thousand tons of
horseflesh are consumed annually in
Paris, sold by sixty licensed horse butch
ers, who receive supplies from two spe
cial "hippie" slaughter houses, both out
side the city proper.
Death and the Doctor.—Death and the
Doctor met at the door.
"Well, I've got him!" exclaimed Death,
banteringly.
The Doctor was furious, of course.
"Oh, yes," he cried, with much heat,
"but you didn't dare make a square
issue of it, and get him with the disease
I was treating him for!"
Thereupon Death laughed affectedly,
saying nothing.—Detroit Journal.
A popular drink in Paris is made from
dried apples, raisins and water, with a
little sugar, which is warranted not to
intoxicate. It is called piquette. Tn 1898
about 50,000,000 gallons were consumed
and the consumption is on the increase.
The bourgeois prefer it to wine because
it is cheaper. Piquette drinkers gener
ally make the excuse that wine is adul
terated with harmful substances. How
ever this may be, the wine consumption
lias fallen off greatly. At first cider be
gan to take its place, and in 1895 10,
000,000 gallons were consumed. Then
there were poor apple crops for two
years, and as a very high duty prevent
ed the importation of American cider
the scheme for using dried apples, which
are largely Imported from this country,
was invented.
Mrs. Smith repeatedly reminded her
husband that the silver was hers, the
furniture was hers, and so on, until poor
Smith almost wished he had married a
girl without a penny.
The other night Mrs. Smith awoke and,
vigorously punching her husband in the
ribs, called:
"John, get up! There are burglars
down below!"
"Eh?" Inquired Mr. Smith, sleepily.
"Burglars—downstairs!" shrieked Mrs.
Smith.
"Burglars?" said Smith, as he turned
over. "Well, there's nothing of mine
there!"—Tit-Bits.
"At Coventry," says an English cor
respondent of "The Springfield Repub
lican," "we saw an electric street rail
way for the first time in England, and a
pitiful affair It was—a little car, scarce
ly longer than an ash cart, passengers on
top, making a hideous noise and about
three miles an hour (if favored by the
wind and the current of traffic). In the
evening we rode on to Birmingham over
a magnifjeent road. At Birmington we
found, far worse than the electric car of
Coventry, the creaking, groaning and
unsightly steam tramway."
For the third time she had intimated
that she thought she ought to have that
bonnet, and for the third time he had
said her "nay." Then there was a brief
silence, after which she asked:
'Facts' is a neuter noun, is it not?"
"It is," he replied.
It ought to be masculine," she assert
ed.
"Why?" he inquired.
"Because facts are stubborn things."—
Chicago Post.
LIGHTS AND SIDELIGHTS.
Citizen—I suppose horseless carriages
have greatly injured your business?
Liveryman—On the contrary, I have
more to do than ever.
Citizen—How is that?
Liveryman—Well, you see all my
horses are kept busy pulling broken
down automobiles back to town.—Ohio
Slate Journal.
"What is an atheist?"
He s a man who won't even go to
church to show his new clothes."—Chi
cago Record.
"My son and I are in a very droll posi
tion just now."
"What is it?"
"1 am afraid he is going to get married
and lie is afraid 1 am going to get mar
ried."—Detroit Free Press.
Prospective tourist fat booking office
of great ocean liner)—That stateroom is
near the stern of the vessel isn't it?"
Agent—Yes, sir.
Prospective tourist—You ought not to
charge me full price for it.
Agent—Why not?
Prospective tourist—Because when the
steamer comes to land I'll have to walk
half a mile to get ashore.—Chicago Tri
bune.
A Pennsylvanian has designed an ad
justable street car strap which can be
altered to suit tall or short persons, the
central portion of the strap being form
ed of two separable straps, one of which
has a series of shoulders to be engaged
by hooks on the other.
TO-MORROW.
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BOYS'
CLOTHING
New, Stylish and
Attractive Goods
at unusually low
prices at the store
where QUALITY
counts.
Pants
Boys' heavy wool Cheviot Knee
Pants, worth 50c
Tomorrow
25c
Suits
Boys' fancy braid trimmed
Vestee Suits in Cheviots and
Soft-finished Worsteds,
Tomorrow
$3.00
Suits
Boys' all-wool Knee Pants Suits
in Cheviots, Cassimeres and
mixed homespuns, all sizes
Tomorrow
$ 4-50
THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE
G. O. McFarland, Mgr. 'Phone 547.
Farewell Tour of the Southwest— Two
Nights
Friday and Saturday, October 37 . 28 ,
riATINEE SATURDAY.
Engagement of the great tragic actress,
MODJESKA
And a company of players under the
management of John C. Fisher, present
ing on Friday everting "Marie Antoin
ette," Saturday Matinee, "Much Ado
About Nothing," Saturday Evening,
"Mary Stuart." Each play to be given
a most elaborate scenic production. Seats
on sale Wednesday. Prices, evening, 50c
to $2.00, matinee 50c to $1.50.
N. B. For the Modjeska engagement
the curtain will be raised at eight o'clock
sharp.
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recent advance made by the glass
combine, places us in a position to
sell ail sizes of window glass at
prices impossible with houses that
are compelled to pay the advanced
figures.
Dealers and others will find it
profitable to get dur figures before
buying glass.
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of maturity and definite payments.
Loans on real estate to be repaid 5
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Trustees—Lee Mantle, president; Sj[
Chas. Schatzlein, vice president; 9
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diction. Interests paid on deposits. Ï
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