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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1896
Page
4
Editorial letter by J.B. Stout attacking silver demonetization and urging free silver at a fixed rate. Argues for silver restoration and criticizes wage cuts, English-made campaign signs, and factory lockouts during the McKinley era. Warns of harm to American labor if protectionist candidate is elected.
The piece cites Glasgow's council running profits from tramways after fare cuts as evidence for civic ownership benefits while noting a Scottish paper's claim of a large surplus. It contrasts this with Denver Republican commentary urging support for a 16 to 1 free coinage platform and criticizing Populists who oppose the Democratic ticket.
The passage credits Charles B. Hartman with conscientious devotion to Montana's business interests and his free silver advocacy. It notes that Republicans, Democrats, and populists alike recognize his honesty and manliness, even if some radicals or crossroad postmastership supporters disagree with his bolting.
The Minnesota Silver Republicans issue a manifesto denouncing the party for a single standard and bi metallic finance. Signers include John C. Sanborn C A Towne John Lind John Davis Smith and Frank M Nye with Judge Lee in Great Falls renouncing party ties over gold bug policies. The judge cites protection McKinley protection and declares silver as the defining issue and cites Cascade county voters as largely backing this stance.
Senator William E. Chandler editor of the Concord Monitor warns in a signed piece that when a choice arises between permanent acquiescence in the gold standard and adopting a silver standard the Monitor and Statesman will not be silent or passive.
The Detroit Tribune denounces the party in surrender to Wall Street power and condemns the platform as unpatriotic. It urges Republicans to stay on national and state platforms of 1888 1892 1894 1896 and reject St Louis gold monometallism. It calls true patriots those who uphold established principles.
Full size cabinet photos available for 2.50 per dozen. Francis' studio car will be at the depot on July 12 and 13 in Tos ton on July 14 to 18 in Townsend and July 1 and 20 in Winston.
A damp new book from Meiers E A Weeks & Co Chicago on the money question is reviewed. Gov Hadley pens work expected to interest readers nationwide. Price cloth 50 cents paper 26 cents. orders to Weeks Chicago or Bimetallist Chicago IL.
An assortment of notices includes a property proof offer for an advertisement, a medical claim about intestines and a cholera cure, and a reward for three branded horses described as three bays and a black horse. Dowell and McDonald's stable to deliver the horses for a $10 reward.
Advertisement touts Parks Sure Cure as the best remedy to tone the system and stimulate the kidneys for tired women. It claims many women are “tired out” by unnecessary work and warns decline may be reversed after a few doses, with bottles guaranteed and sold by Tierney & Co.
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