The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-10-28

as a lawyer, and how we'll he discharged
the duties of the office when he held it
before He is our own county candidate,
and the unanimous choice of the whole
district, and his election is sure. lie
spoke but briefly, knowing that the au-
dience was anxious to hear the speakers
that were to follow. He expressed his
confidence in Blaine's defeat, and in the
prospect Of an economical and honest adj.
ministratiOn under Cleveland, All admins
tration whose inception would not he
marked by the strikes and labor difficult
les that had followed the Inauguration of
Grant and Garfield and are existing to-day.
He referred to the Crow reservation and
testified from his personal knowledge that
Major Maginnis had done all that he could
to reduce it and his confidence that Toole
would take up the work where Maginnis
leaves it. He closed with an explanation
that he had lost his scrap book. He said
he understood that his opponent, Judge
Blake, had it and if so he would give up
ever getting it for he was sure Blake was
SO far behind that he would never over
take him to return it and he did not have
time to 60 back after it.
Hon. Joseph K. Toole, the candidate of
the democracy of Montana for the posi-
tion of delegate in congress. then took the
platform. We have in former issues pub
lished a sketch of his life. He came to
Montana when IS years of age and is now
50 years old. He has held the highest
position Except that which he now seeks)
in the gift of the people Of Montana
president of the council--beside great
number of other Offices only less in honor.
He has filled them all with increasing
honor. Last evening he was suffering
from exhaustion consequent upon CAM
paign work, complicated by severe cold
and cough. He referred to his opponent
in high terms but at the same time eau
toned his audience that he was doing no
cleo pioneering for Judge Knowles. The
presence of ladies in the audience led him
into an eloquent reference to some of the
eminent ladies of history and to the can
didate of the sex for the office of presi
dent; s.the advancement Of woman points
the pathway of civilization The speak
er then approached national politics which
he believed the territory OF Montana,
standing on the verge of statehood, could
not afford to igrere. He described how
the republican party, once party OF high
aims and principles, had become stepped
in fraud. corruption and extravaganza and
was only maintained in power by a horde
of political janiz aries in the fornl OF fed
eral office-holders and by the cohesive
power of public plumber. He believed
that the trumpet of doom was sounding
for the party He did not see for them
any comfort in the drawn battle of the
October election in Ohio which had been
obtained by the most shameless frauds
and a coercion that was almost military in
It's nature. He referred to the tariff ques-
ton as one that was not Il dividing issue
between the parties fhe democratic
principle was that taxes should
fall heaviest upon the luxuries
of life and lightest upon the
necessaries. and that taxes shonld be levied
to such an extent as would pay the ex-
penses of an economical government So
far the tariff policy OF the democracy
went and no farther. The professions Of
the republicans Of love and protec tion for
thu la,or,ng classes he characterized as
mere professions. He pointed out how
the gral,-all capitalists and monopolists
had sprung up under republican admins
tration, any how strikes and labor diff
culties, and pauper labor and suffering
workmeu were unknown. under democrat
ic government. lie showed how the re-
publican government hal given away the
public domain, until now the la.id d-seeker
could with difficulty find place to make
poor mans home, and how the land SO
gwen away remained exempt from taxa
ton. though held at a high price. TO
give fair exemplification Of the charac-