Montana Republicans urged unity and loyalty in 1900
A Montana editorial urges Republicans to unite behind McKinley Roosevelt and the state ticket, warning against corporate influence and division. It praises Senator Mantle's stance on silver, condemns Bryan's acceptance speech, and notes misstatements about the Carroll company store and a mercy on social ills while supporting mining interests.
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Montana
McKinley
Roosevelt
Amalgamated
Silver Republicans in Montana Face Changing Campaign Currents
In an Aug 6 1908 letter from Butte Montana Lawrence Hauck chairman Granite County Silver Republican Central Committee presents views on silver issue dynamics since 1896. He argues silver lost prominence to imperialism and strong national growth, defending expansion and U.S. global role while urging party loyalty and independence from Democratic pressures. He notes dwindling Silver Republican unity and supports a pro country stance over Democratic policies.
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Butte
Mont
Lawrence Hauck
Silver Republican County Central Committee
Granite County
Montana
State
Silver Republican Committee
Bryan
Hawaii
Oklahoma
Congress
Hauser
East
United States
Senate
Transvaal
Democratic Party
National Democratic Platform
Philippines
National
Silver Republican Party
Republican Party
Chisholm
Hartman
Bozeman
Alberty
Aguimalto
Montana Volunteers
Lves
United States Senate
Porto Rico
Dewey
Schurman
Worcester
Charles Denby
Lawton
Aguinaldo
Hong Kong
Kansas City
Mantle letter defends loyalty amid expansion debate
LOE Mantle expresses gratitude to Silver Republicans for their past support while noting the campaign hinge on expansion versus anti expansion. He stresses loyalty to the government, the nation’s honor, and the current emergency, expecting Silver Republicans to act from honest conviction.
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Pacific
Loe Mantle
The Oriental Market and American Exports in War Time
The article notes that a Chinese war disrupts a key American export outlet as 5,000,000 sacks of flour are tied up in Chinese ports. It says Washington seeks peace without undercutting punishment for offenses against the flag and demands reparations, stressing the market for flour, cotton, and machinery in China and opposing anti expansionist aims to hand the market to others.
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China
Washington
Nome stampede and the Alaska gold rush satire
The piece critiques 1900 voting shifts and explains Nome’s dire conditions. It cites a letter describing misery in Nome city with deserted camps, unemployed diggings, scarce food, and crowds of destitute men—arguing for relief and wary optimism about distant relief ships.
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Kansas City
Bryan
Nome
Nome City
Followa
Dawson
Seam
Financial growth across eras cited in moral tone
The piece notes Town bank deposits rising from 1,430,000 in 1893 to about 45,000,000, then to 91,000,000, doubling since McKinley’s inauguration. Michigan adds 50,000,000 since 1896 and 12,000 over last year, most in savings banks and aimed at the poor and middle class. The report mocks reformers amid Republican prosperity and Bryanite campaign material concerns.
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Cleveland
McKinley
Michigan
Bryan Democrats
Jones in a Trust and Bryan’s Possible Shareholding
Senator James K. Jones, DNC chairman, is implicated as a stockholder in the American Cotton Company, a seven million dollar trust linked venture. The piece notes he calls trusts harmful while owning trust stock alongside John B. Searles and other reform figures.
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James K. Jones
Democratic National Committee
van Wyck
Cherub
Richard Croker
American Cotton Company
John B. Searles
Odious Sugar Trust
Broad Street
Wall Street
Hiberty
Jones
Bryan
Reform
War On
Searles
Traveling Mer and the Trusts in Politics
The piece argues traveling salesmen back Democrats due to trust reductions, contending Republicans are not sole culprits for trusts and that Democratic rule would reduce traveling salesmen even more. It dismisses rumors of party influence on trust formation and notes salesmen would still favor the Republican ticket.
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Montana
Republican Party
Democratic Party
Democratic Congress
Republican’ Party
Hauser
Bryan
Standard
Houser
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Inter Mountain
Inter Mountain Publishing Co
Inter Mountain Publishing Company
M. A Berger
Granite
Butte City, Meat
aeeniGer Aeare
Beml
Edivance
Silver Bow County
William M’ekinlee
Ohio
Theodore Roosevelt
New York
Sorvce
Senator Mantle
Mantle
Kim
Anaconda Department
Carroll
the Society For the Punishment of
Yellowstone National Park
the Oriental Market
Wome
DR. Dodd
West Park St. Butte, Mont
Free
Schatzlein Paint CO
Butte and Vicinity
New Brunswick
Broadway
Theorth West
Fair Drug & Assay Supply Hsk
Park ST
Butte, Mont
Walkey
Evans’ Book Store
N. Main Street
Aosne Oor
Fccq Nls
S. Main Street
Montana Electric CO
E. Broadway
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