Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-06
MR.. MAGINNIS' & 8

| N the Efanu UemOcfaCIc rally at Helena
Saturday night Major Maginnis made one
OF the best %oratorical efforts of his life. Thu
Major is always clear, direct logical
earnest and eloquent upon the platform
but upon this occasion he outdid himself
He carried the vast assemblage with him
and by turns excited it's enthusiasm, ite
merriment, and its admiration OF the great
party he represents. In the course of his
admirable and eloquent speech the Major
unearthed a scrap of history, which in
view of the hue and cry the Republican
press has made over Presidents Cleveland's
veto uf the Manitoba railroad bill, should
he nailed upon the totterihs Jumbo plat.
form OF the Republican party of the Terri.
tory. We give it's most salient features be.
low
"You know I went to Washinton to help
get the right OF way through this Indian
reservation that a established up here,
some years ago. We got It from Congress
and it vas vetoed by the President: I TN.
derstand that the candidate of the Republi.
can party for delegate is making a great
handle OF the fact that the President OF the
United States vetoed that bill. It is said
that he insinuated at Benton that Mr..
Toole had something to do with that veto.
Upon my word and honor as l stand here.
from the day I went to Washington to the
day l LETT there was no stone left uptufned,
nc assistance that 1 uskeu from Toole, no
aid that he could give me but that he did
give me to help me fight that bill through
Congress. loud a%pplause.) And so far
from inspiring the President of the United
Cfofoc n yof1 fho% Hill ho ,,cc
and solicitous to have it signed, and as dis
appointed to learn that it was not signed as |
was myself, or as any man in the Territory
OF Montana. Great %applause.)
OF all the men in the Republican party,
the last who is In a position to make any
capital out of that veto is the Republican
candidate for delegate.
One year ago at this time there was MO
opposition On the part OF The Northern Pa
citir Company to the new roads and enter
prises projected by the Montana Central,
though the lines to the mines which the
Northern Pacific had not seen fit to de-
velop or shown any disposition to occupy.
On the contrary, they felt that these b1anch
lines would be feeders at least for awhile.
The high officials of that company en-
pressed themselves as favorable to these
new enterprises. They we're then willing to
carry the necessary iron at reasonable
rates. II this had been done we could go
by rail to Benton to-day. How was this
situation changed? Col. Sanders vent to
New York. After his return he openly
boosted that he had instigated his COM
to take measures to occupy the
country themselves, to prevent any inva-
sion of their territory by any railroads.
Were it necessary l might call my friend
Dan Flowerree to the witness stand to sus-
tain this statement, which, however, 1 pre-
sumo will not be denied. We were told how
himself and others had day by day gone
before the Directors and the Exc :utive
Board of the Northern Pacific Railroad to
rouse them from their lethargy and to spur |
chem up to occupy the canyons and routes
where others were already at ~work-where
others were spending their money in good
on the ground that the Northern Pa. |
;lhc had allowed to remain unoccupied for |
Years, on mines on which that company or
ts representatives would not have ad.
,anced $4,000 to cover the needs of all
is prospectors. II that veto is due to
my outside influences it was due to the
machinery thus set in motion. And MI.
'anders wal proud to claim that it was bis
and in Helena that pressed the electric
utton which started into ~antagonism to
ew projects the machinery of his company
New York.
The people of Montana can now see who
and who is not the friend of the Mon
ana Central, and can now determine
neither, in view Of the light of these facts,
would be wise to send the attorney of
ne "best client in Montana" to Congress
, become the obedient tool of the most
owerful corporation in the Territory.