Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-23
SPECIAL to The MINER
A CHARLESTON EARTHQUAKE.

A CHARLESTON EARTHQUAKE.
The Speaking In Helena-Word's Expose
of Sanders Chinese Record-The
"War Horse" Buried.
HELENA. October 22.-There was a rous-
ing meeting OF the Democracy OF Lewis and
Clarke County in this city this evening.
Messrs. Toole, Maginnis, Word and Pen
rose-the two latter from your city
spoke. Word paralyzed the Republicans
by producing the Chinese record of Sanders
as it appears in the House Journal OF 1879.
1t was sumner, and the Repubs. are
crestfallen and disheartened. They cannot
deny it and don't know how to get around
it. It will kill Sanders as dead as fish
among the Chinese pauper labor hating
workingmen on the East Side, and, in TACT,
all over the Territory. The meeting was
very enthusiastic, and a liberal attendance
of Republicans was noticeable.
The speaker commenced by saying that
he was not here to enter into an elaborate
discussion OF national questions, but
wanted rather to leave to Dennis Nc
Cutcheon and Father Carpenter full
swing in that direction. The tariff question
was not one that interested the people OF
this Territory as much as other questions
OF immediate and vital Importance.
He then expatiated on the Importance OF
having the Manitoba railroad completed
to Helena and Butte. Sanders was the
avowed enemy OF the Manitoba road. He
boasted of being the one who aided in in
auguratins the war against granting the
right of way to the Manitoba through the
Indian reservation on the north.
Mr.. Word spoke of other roads to be
built in Montana, saying that the Union
Pacific had Incorporated a new company
TO build to Helena, Bozeman and other
important points, but that much depended
on the action of Congress upon what is
known as the Funding bill'' OF the Union
Pacific now pending in the National legis-
laturc. Ii it passed that body large sum
OF money, now tied up by the Thurman
act, would be utilized in the construction
of new branches and extensions in Mon
tana and elsewhere. It is known that the
Northern Pacific and other companies are
fighting this bill. Whatever little influence
Sanders could exert would no doubt be
exerted to prevent these proposed new
enterprises from entering "our Territory
MIR. Word made the bold and emphatic
statement that if Mr.. Toole, who is the
candidate of his party-the party to which
he (the speaker) owed all his political allie,
glance the position that Mr..
Sanders does in these new enterprises and
that MIR. Sanders favored them, he (Word)
would lay aside his politics and vote for
Sanders, And this he believed would be the
duty of every citizen who had the interest
of the Territory at heart.
SANDERS CHINESE RECORD.
He recalled to the recollections OF all the
position OF Mr.. Sanders on the Chinese
question, not only in the convention. when
he endeavored to defeat Mr.. Claggett's
nomination on that question alone, but
also his position in the legislature of 1879,
when Joint memorial was before that
body asking Congress to restrict Chinese
immigration. At that time Mr.. Word was
Speaker of the House of which Mr.. Sanders
was member. Mr.. Sanders made one OF
his most bitter speeches against the memo.
rial, and denounced it as "barbarous, un-
democratic, unrepublican, uncivilized and
against the progressive ideas OF the age. y
The vote stood as follows: Ayes-Bar'
bour, Brooke, Coombs, Cornick, Edwards,
Forbis, Hamilton, Harrington, Mood,
Noyes, Perkins, Robinson, Stewart, Swee'
ney, Wilson, Mr.. Speaker-16.
Nays-Beach, Boyer, Fergus, Sanders
Steele, Thorp-6.
Absent, Mccormick.
Mr.. Word then added: "When the
beardlcss scribbler of the Inter Noun
tain said that Sanders had not open
ed his mouth on that question since 1871
and took the verdict OF his party in thu
convention of that year, as his own, dis
played sad ignorance of the people whom
he assumes to instruct"
He humorously alluded to what pur
ported to be speech made by Lee Mantle
of the Inter Mountain, at Centerville
latel; published in his own paper, in which
Mr.. Word was charged with having brought
Pinkerton men to Butte to put down 8
strike, and said, among other things, that
this smooth-faced publisher who had thu
polygamous mud OF Utah still cinging te
mis- boots, exhibited a wonderful ignoranc'
of the passing events Of the day. His state
ment was true, with the exception that th'
men were not Piukerton men, and that tn
speaker knew nothing OF them until the,
were on the ground at Butte. II his friend
tell the truth about him he possesses NOR
ability to manipulate a horse race thai
to quote history or represent the people Q
Silver Bow in the Legislature.
HELENA, October 22.-Hon. Sam Wore
and other prominent Democrats addressed
a monster Democratic meeting here to-nig}l
at the Opera House. Telling argument
were advanced AMI the meeting was yer.
enthusiastic. Delegate Toole, who arrived
in the city by a freight train from Town
send, where he was detained by length Q
proceedings until after the departure OF tn
regular passenger train, was present t.
might. The Herald is out with a threa
against Word, in which the statement
made that if Word in his speech attacke
Sanders war record the Herald would rt
taiate by publishing the history OF Word
volunteer service in 1877, at Cana
Meadow. About 1000 were present.
HELENA, Mont, October 22.-1n an il
terview to-day Gov. Hauser said that h
h ID no intention of resigning the gube1
material chair and characterized the so
called rumor as telegraphed to the 1nte
Mountain as one originating in the brai
of it's correspondent. The Governor say
he does not consider his present Office as
life position by any means, but he has n
thought of resigning it.