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Official Paper of Silver Bow County.
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It is apparently impossible to suppress
the anti-Bryan feeling in the democracy
of the east and south, notwithstanding
the pledges of Tammany. In a leading
editorial, the Richmond Times, one of
the most able and influential democratic
newspapers of the south, nominates Sen
ator Daniel for the presidency, as fol
lows - '
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If John W. Daniel were nominated for
the presidency upon such a conservative
democratic platform as he would ap
prove, it is our deliberate opinion that.
barring Fitzhugh Lee. who is just now
out of politics, he would do more to re
unite the democratic factions and poll
more democratic votes than any other
man whom the party could select. The
entire south would rally round him with
enthusiasm. Daniel is also popular in
the west. While not opposed to prog-j
ress. he is in favor of making the cor
porations serve the people. Major Daniel
also has the confidence of the democrats
in the north. It is our opinion that if
any democratic candidate can carry New
York state in 1900, John W. Daniel can
TRÂDl8l!r.y[c5taç'l
FRIDAY. DECEMBER 1. 15
DANIELAS A CANDIDATE.
do it. A few years ago William J. Bryan
leaped into prominence. He is popular
today. But William J. Bryan has many
political enemies, and if he should be
nominated he would provoke a fight
against him more desperate than any
public man whom the democrats might
put up.
Virginia was formerly known as the
mother of presidents, and it would cheer
the heart of the southern democracy if
that honored appellation could be again
given that ancient commonwealth. It
cannot be denied that the candidacy of
Senator Daniel would evoke great en
thusiasm throughout the south, or that
he would poll a greater vote in New York
and in New- England than Colonel Bryan.
The noted Virginian is gifted with rare
oratorical powers, with the Websterian
eye, and features that remind one of the
soulful gleams of Edwin Booth. TIis
personality is striking, and were he
closer to the sear and yellow leaf would
remind one of the typical fine old south
ern gentlemen of the olden time.
But the suggestion of the Richmond
Times is more significant in that it shows
a disposition to find a substitute for
Bryan rather than in bringing Daniel to
the front. If the Nebraska man was
wholly satisfactory to the democracy of
the old dominion, the Times would not
have sought the opportunity, in oompli
menting Daniel, to say that Bryan's
nomination would provoke a more des
perate fight than that of any other can-i
didate that could be named by the party.
It indicates an appreciation of the in
herent weakness of the colonel within
his own party lines, and shows a disposi
tion to shrink from the campaign bur
dens which his candidac y will imply.''
While the Daniel movement and the Van
V y ok movement and the Gorman move
ment and the Patterson movement may
ic'.ing off the aspira
count for little in h
tlona of Bryan, they indicate a feeling
of intense restlessness over the lead
pipe cinch of the western Achilles.
DISGRACEFUL SUBSERVIENCY.
democratic
1896, any
fusion of
that party with the silver repub-i
Tn every meeting of the
national committee since
sugges tion ' pointing to a
lieans and populists has been frown
ed down. The plan of keeping
•.the democratic party free from entang
ling alliances, so successfully carried out
in Montana in the campaign of last year
was looked upon as the only safe and
reliable course of procedure for the fu
ture. The so-called silver wing of the
democracy took strong grounds against
co-operating with other parties, and to
place itself wholly above suspicion, while
wooing to a reunion its recreant gold
bug lovers of the east, it went so far as
to assent to the naming of a paramount
issue for 1900 other than the free coinage
of silver.
Those democrats in the silver states,
who for local reasbns feebly insist that
their party is still the champion of silver,
have had no hesitancy in declaring that
those silver republicans and populists
who desire to be counted as bimetallists
in the future must abandon their re
spective organizations and become full
fledged democrats! The traditions of the
democracy were held to be so sacred, its
views as to free trade and other public
questions so important, that no silver
man would be recognized as such un
less he greased his conscience and swal
lowed all the noxious dhemical com
pounds to be found in the political
apothecary shop of the democrat! : par
ty.
This democratic attempt to place all
the idiosyncrasies of that party on a level
with the free coinage issue, was prelim
inary to the final selection of a para
mount issue that would relegate silver
to the rear. Such a course of conduct
was sufficient to show an inherent lack
of sympathy for practical bimetallism
on the part of the leaders of the demo
cratic party. It indicated a pronounced
political prolapsus of * e assumed loy
alty of that organization to the silver
cause. In the face of these conspicu
ous advertisements of disloyalty to the
free coinage movement, and the public
declarations made by every democratic
leader of note that the paramount issue
in 1896 must give way to another ques
tion in no way related to bimetallism,
no self-respecting silver republican or
populist can pin his confidence to the
professions of that party.
Yet a handful of men, who have tied
themselves up to every aim and purpose
of the democracy, who are in ful. sym
pathy with its declarations as to anti
expansion and anti-everything else that
Is advocated by the republican party.
and who are searching for political
crumbs in the slop-jars of Jeffersonian
ism, meet in Chicago and assume to
voice the sentiments of nearly one mil
lion of sensible silver republicans! These
so-called representatives of the silver
republican party, degenerated into
, . !
wheezy switch engines on democracy sj
political railroad, have had the colossal |
, (f) attempt by resolution to com
'
mit the organization for which they as
S ume to speak to a fusion with the deni
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ocrats next >' ear and the indorsement
of their candidates and platform,
lcUocy of this type can have but one
' ...
effect. It will disgust silver republi
cans with their so-called provisional
|. .., nmHtee , and conver t the national
eonvention of that party into a demo
cratic auxilliary that will do business
under a cheap disguise that will deceive
no one. With very few exceptions, sil- j
ver republicans will refuse to respect j
the call of a committee guilty of such |
high-handed proceedings. They do not I
propose to he delivered over to a party j
whose treachery to silver is advertised ;
on the bill-boards of every political elr- !
eus in the country, months and months j
in advance of any definite knowledge as !
to what its policy in 1900 may be re- j
specting public issues, or who may be j
selected as its standard-bearers. The j
provisional committee in Chicago has !
over-played its hand. It has earned :
whatever compensation the democracy !
may see- fit to accord it, perhaps, but it
has also earned the distrust and disgust
of 95 per cent of the silver republican
voters in ibis nation.
OUR FOREIGN POSSESSIONS.
Aside from their marvelous wealth in
natural resources, Porto Rico, Hawaii
land the Philippines give abundant prom
ise of yielding products heretofore pur
chased abroad at great expense. Accord
ing to-the official report of Secretary Wil
son, the United Stales expends each year
$30,000,000 for rubber, $,.,000,000 for Egyp
t ' an cotton, and $200.000,000 for various
tropical products produced by foreign
scountries.
Sufficient information has already been
gained to show that this vast annual out
put of money can lie kept at home, so
to speak, by utilizing our new possessions
for the production of the articles named.
Both climate and soil especially adapt the
, Philippines, as well as Hawaii and Porto
i-tioo, to the growth of tropical products of
kinds, and in a few years they will
supply practically everything required in
that line for American consumption.
It is difficult to over-estimate the Im
portance of these possibilities, or (heir
j tremendous significance to American
j commerce. With the vast carrying trade
j in the line of tropical products transferred
from foreign ships to American bottoms,
ship building will take on new life in this
country, with all that implies to our In
dustrial life.
Opportunities for the investment of
American capital to provide for an ade
quate supply of tropical products will be
readily seized, and the commercial and
industrial enterprise of the republic will
encircle the globe. Expansion means a
new era of prosperity to\ our country, and
more independence in the transaction of
its business affairs. Ten years hence
anti-expansionists will be as scarce as
snow birds in August.
Senator Teller declares that the issue
of anti-imperialism will be dead and out
of the way before the next presidential
campaign is under headway. Evidently,
that champion of silver is of the opinion
that the democratic attempt to get a new
paramount issue will fail for want of a
foundation to build a slogan on. In this
way, he probably indulges the hope that
BUTTE, MONTANA
the democracy, for want of ability to j
scare up something new, may have to fall j
back on silver. Silver men can afford to :
discount that kind of loyalty, however.
This sort of ''ground hog case" fidelity to |
free coinage means that campaign pledges :
would be forgotten after election. The
worst form of opposition to the true in
terests of silver crops out through the
treachery and indifference of its pretend
ed friends.
Tlie failure of the administration to help
England whip the Boers, the oversight on
the part of Aguinaldo in not keeping
General Otis on the run, and the neglect
of the world to come to an end according
to the advertised programme, are very
discouraging to the democratic party:'
Helena has already opened its munici
pal campaign for 1900. The fight has
broken out with such violence as to jus
tify a quarantine.
POLITICAL NOTES.
It ill becomes the Anaconda Standard
to extend any encouragement sto the.Chi
cago meeting of the so-called silver re
publicans until it shall prove that the
treatment accorded the state silver re
publican convention at Anaconda in 1S9S
was fair and decent.
Three party conventions were held at
the Smelter City at the same time. The
Amalgamated people, represented by i
John R. Toole, controlled the democratic
convention. They had a powerful fol
lowing in the populist convention, rep
resented by Governor Smith, while in the
silver republican convention Charles S.
Hartman was, according to the Ana
conda Standard, under agreement with
them to bolt and lead his friends into the
democratic parlor.
What happened? Why. John R. Toole
was made chairman of a committee
which Insulted the intelligence of both
the silver republican and populist con
ventions by proposing a plan which Mr.
Toole and also Mr. Daly, with whom he
was in consultation very frequently,
must have known and did know, could
not with honor be accepted by the con
ventions to which it was made.
Mr. Toole himself v as ashamed of the
plan suggested and fought against it,
while Mr. Daly is represented by his
friends as seeking to excuse it on the
ground that the Clark men would have
gained control of the convention if a
reasonable scheme of fusion had been
suggested. So the interests of silver
were deliberately abandoned by j the
democratic chief who had been /be first
to propose fusion, and the silver repub
licans and populists were thrown over
board in the fear that otherwise W. A.
Clark, Joseph K. Toole, Walter Cooper
and a few more such democrats would
assume the direction of the proceedings
in the democratic convention.
Has the Standard ever sought to jus
tify that deal? Did it ever deny the j
facts as they have been related a hun
dred times? Does it believe it can fool
the real silver advocates of this state |
twice? Did it not score Hartman for !
not bolting the convention as it says he I
agreed to do? Did it not take to its
arms Governor Smith like a long-lost
brother, after fighting him for ten years?
Did it not subsequently abuse and ridi
cule both the silver republicans and
populists?
The esteemed and able editor of the
Standard may have gone ''to Chicago,"
as it stated a few days ago. Mr. Daly
is in New York In good health and at
tending to business. Mr. John R. Toole
is somewhere east or west, trying to earn
his magnificent salary of $250 a month
for doing or having done work worth ten
times that sum; yet any man in Butte
or Anaconda, familiar with local and
state politics, will verify the statements
made in these paragraphs, and not one
of them will fail hugely to enjoy the
able editorial in the Standard this morn
ing commenting in such a friendly spirit
on the silver republican meeting at Chi
cago. The truth is that it was a meet
ing of democrats, with the exception of
Senator Teller, who supplied 100 per cent
of the brains and respectability of the
gathering and who blew up the whole
affair by stating tHat anti-expankion is
a dead issue and that the country is "al
ready expanded."
The Anaconda paper ought to know
that it can't bamboozle the silver repub
!
lieans of Montana twice in succession.
The less it says about fusion the less will
it bo laughed at by the silvef*advocates
of Montana.
The effort of the Anaconda paper to
present Mr. Hartman to the public as a
great and good man does not jibe with
his declarations concerning his agree
ment to bolt his party convention in
1898. But that is a matter between the
Standard and Mr. Hartman, and for
which the people care nothing. Wc pro
test, however, against booming the
"ability" of any man who delivered a
tirade against expansion with so little
regard to probable subsequent events
as the Bozeman man displayed in his
Fourth of July speech on the court house
steps in this city a year and a half ago
in the presence of a thousand intelligent
men. He there inveighed, with red face
and ill suppressed wrath, against the
acquisition of Hawaii, and warned the
American people against the direful
consequences. Hawaii is the gem of the
ocean. It is the garden spot of creation.
It is, or will be, the great naval outpost
of the nation, and as a defense against
foreign invasion is worth an hundred
battleships. Its trade * witli San Fran
cisco alone amounts to a million dollars
a month. Its products are varied and
of immense value, and will serve to en
rich thousands of Americans and keep
in American control hundreds of millions
of dollars. The United States never
made a luckier or more sensible move
than that which took in the Sandwich
islands. The same thing will prove true
of Porto Rico and the Philippines, but
Hartman is ignorant of the fact.
The Hon. W. A. Clark may or may
not got his seat, but his Montana con
stituents would like to know why, if he
is now an advocate of the policy of pro
tection, his newspaper is still advocating
democracy, which means free trade.
Perhaps the Miner itself can explain
the situation, for surely the people of
Montana, who owe much of their pres
ent prosperity to protection, have a
right to know how Mr. Clark will vote
when some pin-headed free trader in the
next congress shall introduce a free wool
bill. Joe Toole, Major Maginnis, Marcus
Daly and Sam Hauser are all free
traders. What is Mr. Clark?
The cost of supporting the American
army is $92,000,000 a year, says a demo
cratic paper in a carping spirit. Well,
suppose it was. It's a good army, isn't it?
It is and has been fighting for American
honor and American rights and Ameri
can progress, hasn't it? The money has
not been stolen or wasted that anybody
knows of, has it? It has been the means
of preserving peace at home, guarding
our interests abroad and holding our
island possessions, has it not? The cost
of maintaining it has scarcely been felt
by the taxpayers, being so adjusted by
the war tax that the burdens fall mainly
upon the rich,—is that not true? Then
what are the democratic papers kicking
about. Do they want the army disband
ed, or the soldiers to remain unpaid or
unfed and unclothed? What's the mat
ter with the democratic press, any
how ? R
Just Received
Tlie latest and most tasty designs in
Novelties—Tooth Brushes, Nail Files.
Brushes and Thousands of Articles.
STERLING SILVER worth 75c selling
for 35c.
CRACKER JAR 5 .
Beautifully colored glass, silver mount
ed, value $2.50; selling for $1.50.
Simon Banks,
Jeweler and Optician. Eyes Ex
amined Free.
125 N. Hain Street, Butte
THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE
G. O. McFarland, Mgr. 'Phone 547.
Four nights, commencing Dec. 3d
MATINEE WEDNESDAY.
WM. E. NANKEVILLE
Presents that grand and beautiful play,
The Idyl of the Arkansas Hills,
"HUMAN HEARTS"
The companion and successor to
"SHORE ACRES"
By an exceptionally strong company,
with Special Scenery for every act and
exactly as produced at the Fifth Ave
nue Theater, New York City, Three
Hundred Consecutive Nights.
Prices—Night, $1, 75c, 50c, 25c.
A
SULTAN A REVOLVER EXPERT.
The fear of assassination which pos
sesses the mind of the Sultan of Turkey,
and has induced him to take so many
precaustions, has now led him to take
practice in revolver shooting. He is be
coming quite expert with the left hand
as well as with the right.
RHODES DETESTS WRITING.
Mr. Cecil Rhodes has a decided dislike
to a personal use of the pen; he looks for
ward to the time when the phonograph,
the telephone and other scientific appli
ances will entirely obviate the necessity
of writing letters.
ROMAN THEATER DISCOVERED.
At Benevento, a large Roman theater,
as large as the theaters of Pompey, and
of Marcellus and better preserved, has
been discovered. The entrances, the am
bulatories, the lower rows of seats, the
stage and the orchestra are all perfect.
MORAL CRUSADE DISCOURAGED.
Rome's "League Against the Abuse of
the ICnife" has had a setback. The presi
dent of the society got into a discussion
with some friends in a railway carriage
and settled the point by drawing his
knife and stabbing one of them to death.
THE SUNRISE KINGDOM.
Japan is a corruption' of the Chinese
word Shi-pen-kue. which means "root of
day," or "sunrise kingdom," because
Japan is directly east of China.
KOREAN MOURNING.
White hats are worn for three years as
a sign of mourning by every grown male
in Korea after the death of a member of
the royal family.
I
THE FIGHTING WEST.
Oh. East, have you heard of the fighting
West--
Its deeds in the Philipppines—
Of the lads who braved with a laugh and
jest
A death 'mid alien scenes?
Wherever the swarthy foeman made
His walled defense, and where
The brush, the ditch, and the ambuscade,
The men of the West were there.
The jungle encompassed with death
about
Opposed their march in vain;
With a ringing cheer and a joyous shout
They plunged through swamp and cane.
They raked with a pitiless stream of lead
The thicket and ditch, and then
They tended the wounded and .buried
their dead.
And ever swept on again.
A turgid river their course would bar;
Envenomed its flood and shore
With hissing bullet—but, lo! they are
Stout breasting the ford, and o'er.
From town to town—'twas a weary way,
But who is the lad would lag?—
Through mud and rain and the fierce
sun's ray
They followed the dear old flag.
Oh, East, you have earned your laurel
wreaths
In many a struggle long.
Your sjjirit of desperate valor breathes
In story and verse and song.
Now grasp the hand of the best there be
Of valley and plain and crest
From a river broad to a sunlit sea—
The land of the fighting West.
—Edwin L. Sabin, in Leslie's Weekly.
C
AT
ONNELL'S
Bargain
Friday.
Everything precisely as adver
tised. Better qualities at lower
prices than ever before—either
here or elsewhere.
Calico
Light colored Calico, worth 6c a
yard. Bargain ................
AC
Bleached or Unbleached Turkish
Towels, worth $12V&c. Bargain
ÇC
gsi am
£5
Plaid Gingham worth 10c a yard.
Bargain ......................
5 C
A? Outing Flannel, regular 10c
JiJ quality. Bargain ..............
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Flannel
Wrapper Flannel, worth 12Vc a
4? yard. Bargain
81/jc
I Swiss
Dotted and Lace Striped Swiss
for Curtains, worth 25c a yard.
Bargain ......................
15 c
SUTTON'S NEW THEATER
Week Commencing Sunday, Nov. 26 th,
With Special Matinee Nov. 30 ,
..THANKSGIVING DAY..
Will Present the Latest Fad
The Tltree Hnskeieers
For the First Time in Butts. Ail New
Scenery, Elegant Costumes and Popu
lar Prices.
THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE
G. O. McFarland, Mgr. 'Phone 547.
To-night, To-morrow Night and To-mor
row Matinee,
The DAINTY PARISIAN COMEDY
MLLE. FI FI
From Paris.
Prices—Night $1, 75c, 50c, 25c. Mati
nee 50c and 25c.
Parlor
Wall Papering
Into the parlor throw as much color
as the surroundings will permit,
making it a part of the home, lend
ing its proper share to the color
scheme of the whole.
The Parlor
Can be made picturesque without
being gaudy, and care should be
taken not to reverse the order.
As to Color
Use a good green or its compliment,
pink or old rose, in silk damask ef
fect, with as much depth of color
as the light will permit.
We Will
Be Pleased
To submit estimates on all kinds
of painting, paper hanging and
decorating.
SCHATZLEIN PAINT CO
14 W. Broadway.
■ »Ar'fci
m
Under State Supervision.
^ Fays 5 per cent, on savlngt depos
: its, interest compounded quarterly.
i Pays 7 per cent, on time certifl
j catea of deposit, not subject to
' check.
7 Issues savings certificate* on build
f ing and Joan plan with definite time ^
f of maturity and definite payment*. 5
c Loan® on real estate to be repaid £
> in monthly installment* running i
7 from One to Ten Years, to suit bor- 0
6 rower. 0
' Trustees—Lee Mantle, president; sj
7 Chas. Schatzlein, vice présider*;
£ Fayette Harrington, treasurer;
J Charles It. Leonard, attorney; A. B.
. Clements.secretary; F. Aug. Hein*e, -j.
. Henry Mueller, Frank W. Haskins, w
7 James H. Montelth. 0
STATE SAVINGS BANK|
John A. Creighton.........President r
G. W. Stapleton......Vice President 0
T. M. Hodgens...............Castiier 0
-- 0
Paid in Capital ..............1100,000 0
Surplus and Undivided profits 50,000 A
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Under state supervision and Juris- N
diction. Interests paid on deposits. T
Sells exchange available in all the 2
principal cities of the United States 0
and Europe. Collections promptly 0
attended to .
Transact General Banking Business 0
Directors—J. A. Creighton, Oma- 0
ha; G. W. Stapleton, A. H. Barret, 4
E. D. Leavitt, S. V. Kemper, T. M. 'J.
Hodgens. w
Cor. Main and Park Sts. , Butte
= Ty-.V'\V?L 'vVvVrl. 0
W. A. Clark, J. Reas Clark |
W. A. CLARK & BRoJ
(Successors Clark & I*arabie.) J
BANKERS
Transact Genera! Banking Business £
Buy gold dust, goid bars, silver jï
bullion and local securities. 0
Boxes for rent in the only safety 0
deposit vault in the city,
Sell exchange availafcle in all of 0
the principal cities of the United 0
States and Europe. ^
Special attention given to collec
tions.
ALEX J. JOHNSON, Cashier.
r'4Ar'*£
FIRST NATIONAL BANK I
OF BUTTE.
Andrew J. Davis..........President Vu
James A. Taibot......Vice President \
E. B. Weirlck................Cashier 0
George Stevenson----Assist. Cashier A
-- 0
Transact General Banking Business 0
Foreign Exchange—We draw dj- 0
rec-t on all the principal cities of Eu
rope and issue our own letters of ;))
credit, available in all parts of the Vu
world. Special atetntion given tc 0.
collections. 0
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27 North PZIain Street, Butte ?)
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|fl. Daly M. Donahos W. L. Moyer |
ftoly, Donaboe & Moyer |
sÿ (Successors to Marcus Daly & Co.) 0
T BUTTE, MONT. jÿ
^Transact General Banking Business : it
0 0
N Accounts of firms and individuals
3, solicited. Drafts drawn on all prin- 0
2 cipal cities of the United States 0
0 and Europe. Special facilities for S
0 handling collections on all points. £
5 V. L. MOYER, R. A. KUNKEL. *
Manager. Ass't Cashier. 0