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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1900
Page
4
A brief postal section mentions second class entry at Townsend, with options for one year six months and three months in advance. It notes advertising rates for Ohio at 1.00 inch per month and ends with a line about the Vice-President.
Broadwater County Republicans convene at Townsend Court House on September 1 1900 to elect ten delegates and ten alternates to the Helena state convention and to form a county ticket. Delegates chosen August 1 across precincts. names listed and committee signatures included.
The piece argues the debtor creditor divide is not fixed by wealth. It labels the real creditors as working people and savings bank depositors who deserve stable money. It warns Bryanism and 16 to 1 policies threaten savings and thus ruin responsible savers and wage earners.
The column quotes Bryan on self government and crowds, critiques McKinley supporters, notes Altgeld on anarchists, mentions Sewall for McKinley, and mocks Bryan flip flops from free trade to free silver. It also laments Filipino aid expectations, and cites Harvey as a farming money-maker while praising dollar wheat and ten cent cotton.
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