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Show MINING CONGRESS, j ,J It Will Open in Helena Tomorrow With a Good Attendance. Helena, Mont., July 1L The National Mining congress which opens here tomor- row promises to be the largest gathering of the kind in the history of the country. Delegates Dele-gates have been coming in for the past two days, and already the hotels are quite crowded and the boarding houses and private pri-vate residences being drawn upon, while a large proportion of the delegates are yet to arrive on the night or early morning train. Incident to the congress there wiil be a conference of representatives of the four silver states, Colorado, Montana, Nevada and i.iai.n i-iltiv to the Question of formine Idaho, relative to the question of forming a political union. G. S. Nixon, chairman of the national committee of the 6ilver party of Nevada, has been on the ground for several days. He says that a silver electoral ticket has already been placed in the field in his state, and that it is next door to certain that, at the coming conference the representatives of the same interest in Colorado, Montana and Idaho will decide upon a similar course. All four states, he believes, can be carried for free silver, and in this event the independent silver electors would hold the balance of power in the electoral college. Had the recent convention of the people's party at Omaha nominated a satisfactory man, the free silver element, he says, would not have decided upon independent political action. While, however, we are satisfied with the silver plank of the platform, we are not prepared to support an independent greenbacker, and hence we will make no at-, tempt to organize on the lines of the people's peo-ple's party. Tho convention will be held in the new auditorium, which has been built exclusively exclusive-ly for convention purposes. The arriving dclegaies are being met by sub-committees of the citizens' association and escorted to the respective headquarters. |