The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-11-02
DEMOCRATIC MEETING.
IN Immense Audience at Loebsr's Hall-Elot ueut
Speeches and Great Enth usiasm War
Cayute Shown iup in His True Colors.

slastIc political gathering ever known in this
many were unable to gain admittance.
Nj. W. A. Clark was made president, and
Introduced Major Aiaginnis, who was re-
ceiyed with applause. We much regret
our inability through lack OF space to publish
the intire address. 1t was replelc with ire
futable argument, and had a convincing effect
upon The voters present, who testified their
appreciation by frequen, and long continued
applause. The speaker devoted some at
tention to Il discussion of national affairs;
stated that the letnvcracy throughout the
Union were full of hope and confident of VIC
tory. lie then paid his respects in IA gen
tlemanly way to The spawned war horse of
the stalwalts. lie held Mr.. Sanders record
up to the odiu,n Of the crowd, showed
that lie was opposed to silver. hat he favored
Chinese immiSratiol, that he procured the
annulmeMt OF laws enacted for the benefit of
Montana, and that he is directly responsible
for the present territorial Indebtedness, and
cited many instances proving conclusively
that Sanders, of all ether men, is least deserv-
ing of the votes of the honest laboring classes
OF this territory, or any other class.
MAYOR Maginnis then referred III a Decom-
ing manner to his own record in congress,
showed that he had always favored the re-
monetization of silver, that he was strenu-
ously opposed to the imported slave labor of
the Chinese, that he favored and worked tor
the bill to transfer the management of the
Indians to the war department, that he had
removal of the headquarters of the mill
tary department of the Platte from st. Paul
to Montana. He then denied the campaign
SANDER circulated by the Cayuse to the effect
that he (Maginnis) was intending to leave the
territory at the expiration of his term. As
to Sanders other charge, that Maginnis
owned only a small house in Helena,
and had no other property interest, the
Major said Let me assure you, my friends,
that that house, small as it is, does not stand
in my wife's name, and that l did not move
into it during the night to beat a mechanics
lien." (Great applause.) In conclusion the
speaker referred to the policy he pursued
when the square location law was about to be
passed last winter by congress. He dwelt at
considerable length on the disastrous conse-
quences to the mining interests of this terri
tory which would inevitably have followed
iniquity. The speech was listened to with
close attention throughout, and we haye no
hesitation in affirming that it drew votes from
the republican ranks, besides inspiring the
democrats with renewed a1dor.
After the conclusion of Major Maginnis'
able speech, Col. A. M. Voolfolk took the
stand and held the vast audience spell
bound by bis matchless eloquence, for over
an hour. Tn Colonel opened with a glow
ing tribute TO the vast resources of Butte, and
at the close of his exordium referred to he1
as the morning star of Montana-the hope Of
the territory. He noticed the policy oil
the republican party as favering the demone-
~tization of silver, and charged that Sanders
owned in his Belmont speech thas he ell
dolsed the position his party took, on the
! grounds that the standard dollar contained
only 4l2a grains OF silver.
The Colonel showed the fallacy of this
reasoning to the satisfaction of every listener
and held that the prosperity of Montana ant
the future Of Butte rested in maintaining oul
silver coinage. He commended that silver
should be coined as gold is coined:
that it would stimulate enterprise; give
employment to the laboring man;
build up cities and produce an era O.
prosperity never before witnessed. He re
ferred to France as an evidence of til. sound
ness of the premises he occupied. While We
had but 500, O0O, 900 in silver in circulation
France has 5000, 100000. France was wealth,
she had paid all enormous war debt in
surprisingly short time. Her ability tt
do this was the result of her double money
standard. Tie eloquent speaker then de
picted the desolate condition in which Butte
would be placed if silver be demone,ized
which it would surely be # the republican
party obtained complete control of our ma
tlonal affairs. lie stated, what every either
knows to be a fact, that if silver b.
demoneLized that every mine, ever,
mill aud every smelter in Butte, and in tho
tellitoIy tHdt iS iio" thouoSihS sA'Ni, "o"A'
be shut down. He now passed to the consid
Grafton of the Chinese question, and tool
the ground that the record Of the republican
patty fully proved them to be in sympath.
with aud f~avOring Chinese immigration t
this county.
After a further discussion of this subjec
and other important political issues, Col
Voolfolk devoted Il few causlic remarks t,
: a review Of the history Of that sweet-scente
political meuutebank Sanders; showed tina
he had once deserted his party, AM
showed conciasively that he had always beer