The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-11-09
Judge Knowles Publicly Suicides by Declaring
Against County Division.

w huASiuOs Wy EblGiAIiIp |
Against County Division.
The Speakers Feed Oodles of Tafy 10 the Working
Men.
After the very creditable torch tight process
sion last night the crowd assembled in front
OF Owsley Hall. The assembly at first was
quite large but 1t was apparent that there was
a heavy preponderance of democratic sent,-
ment and the majority OF those present soon
drew of.
Judge Knowles was the first speaker, The
Judge was much confused by impertinent
democrats who persisted in making loud re-
marks about Fl. Union, Gov. E2gerton, ETC.,
but, nevertheless, managed to deliver a SER
moi in which he enumerated some of the car
dinal principles of the republican party |
whose great exponent in this territory is the
distinguished divine, w. F. Sanders. After
Observation-Disclosures compliments to the
great War Horse, the speaker branched off on
to the question Of county division and made
some remarks in relation thereto which
alienated abouttwo hundred republican votes.
He said that if the project should be carried
through, the division line would be run near
the Hump and that only Butte would be in
the new county Ono applause), and that
Butte would have to pay all the
taxes. Then the Deer Lodge orator
becom- enraged, his voice seemed
to proceed from his boots, and he declared in
tones of thunder that if the republicans of
Butte persisted in voting for the proposed d.
vision, contrary to the expressed will of him
self and the people of Deer Lodge that the
consequences would be disastrous to this
end of the county.
The republicans and democrats of the
northern end Of the county, the speaker
affirmed, are united in their opposition to the
proposed measure, and if the attempt were
made to carry it out to-day, any Butte man,
be he democrat or republican, who should
hereafter show his head above water as an
aspirant for office would be swept away. This
kind of talk fell very fiat, aud many good re-
publicans were heard to affirm that they
would never support for the legislature any
man who gave utterance to such sentiments,
which they we'll knew to be directly
in confict with the interests Of Butte.
Knowles appeal in favor Of no division was
very lame he advanced not one argument
that can change the votes of the friends OF
that measure. The gentleman soon subsid
ed, to the evident relief of the crowd, and af-
ter some music by the Alice cornet band. and
pretracted calls for Sort Union," "Gov.
Edgerton,'' ..War Horse" ETC., Mr.. Sanders
gracefully mounted a dry goods box and be-
gan his address.
1t would be idle and unjust to say that Col.
Sanders is not a finished orator, that he has
not the faculty of interesting a crowd and
that his vocabulary of billingsgate has not
been well cultivated. He began
his speech by q flew bloody-shirt
remarks about the republican party and soor
switched of Oh to territorial affairs. he de
fed anyone to prove that Maginnis had evel
done ANYTHING for Montana; that he
was identified with Monta'las interests
that he had devoted himself to his duties as
representative with that a~ssiduity so loudl,
claimed for him. He then delivered a broad
side at the Major for eulosising himself, ah'
said that Maginnis had travelled all over the
Territory taking undue credit to himself FOL
services he never performed. The speaker
evidently didn't like Maginnis' self-pralse
hut in the same breath with his denlncla-
ton of the latter for blowing his own horn,
Col. C) Sanders infinitely detailed the events
of his own carer, and descanted at large upon
the effect of his achievements on the civiliza
ton Of the age.
The only part of his e~Sentf'll history o
which he forget to make mention was Whei
lie Hoped over TO the support OF "Fee'es Il
~. After a painfully protracted autooio'
graphical sketch, which, if written OUT "o"'e
reach from here to Silver Bow, lad been
ground out. the unlSsuming gentlemen ou=''
. .,y.r ms euemies with eonfusioi
by huinorn,aly silgihaIi]lIs Wv.
Woolfolk. WHO gave him such an "i''i'eFel'u'
;, rycoria,iun Oh Saturday night, as an aSS'S9Ii
lie next made II Iitiahlr attempt L" "e''ne III
ponitjou in regard to the passage OF Inc "a;
law. and wrote himself down II" lawyer u
admitting that he had never read the gag Ia"
1t was passed without his Knowledge all" !"
knew rot what provisions it r"hta''!''' y
, course the audience SWALLOWED all 'l''S' ''
t the Col. 90 then went Oil TO say mat '' I'D
! I nothing t. do with tn Fort un'"o returns
was in favor Of the coinage y
1 silver; was opp tse4 To Chinese Imm'sra'''
t and WAS, in fact, an embodim"nt OF ever
principle needed in loyal, homes ana ''',
l ligrn, representative OF the people tie u
I u,, ,s.ar. fhr III; household lht'i''"'