Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-16
MR.. TOoLE's E

Delegate Toole's speech at Race Tracl
yesterday was mastery effort. Every
charge made by the Republican press ant
and speakers aeainst the administration
and against the speaker during the canvass
Was fully and squarely met and sat;sfacto
rily and conclusively answered. After dis
posing Of these untenable and frivolou'
charges, Mr.. Toole reviewed the politica
record OF the "War Horse" and the acts o
the Republican administration during tn
past decade or two, in which the v~ulnera
bility of the former and the rottennesl
Of the latter were made apparent to tn
yast and attentive audience.
Mr.. Toole opened his address by ex
pressing his pleasure at meeting such {
large assemblage of the represe ltatives o
the Democracy of Deer Lodge and contig
GUS counties, and that for tie first tim
in the history OF the Territory had the,
met at an old-fashioned barbecue al
event which recalled pleasant memories tt
the minds of hundreds present. The gentle
man then modestly referred to his presence
among his constituents on the West Sid
two years ago, when he presented him,el
as q candidate for their suffrages without
prestige, save the reputation he bor'
among the people with whom he had cas'
his lot, and that now he again cam
before them to give an account o
his stewardship as their delegate in Con
gress.
The speaker, after disclaiming any desire
to disparage his opponent as a private
citizen, held that his public record was a
proper subject for comment and criticism,
said he proposed to review some of Col
Sanders political acts and submit it tc
the people whether the Colonel would make
a better representative in Congress of the
interests of Montana than the nominee Of
the Democratic party.
in reply to Mr.. Sanders charge that the
Democratic party was hostile to the silver
interests OF the country, Mr.. Toole
exposed it's untruthfulness and absurdity
by a review of the history Of Congressional
legislation upon silver coinage, the position
of the Republican party upon the question
and it's persistent opposition to bi-metal.
ism. As showing the soundness Of the De
mocracy OF Montana upon the question oil
silver and silver coinage, the gentleman
read that plank in the Democratic platform
which pledged the party to the support OF
"a financial policy in which gold and silver
coin and paper money, readily convertible
into coin, including the United States notes
now provided by law. shall be the circulat-
ing medium"
He showed that a Republican House and
a Republican Senate had passed q bill de.
monetizine silver in 1873, and that a Re-
publican President signed it. He then
showed that IN 1873 q Democratic House
passed what is known as the Bland bill.
which provided for the free and unlimited
coinage Of silver that the hill then went
to a Republican Senate, which robbed it of
it's most essential features by amending it
so as to restrict the coinage of silver to
not less than 81, 900, 900, nor more than
81, 10000 600 per month, and that the
House was compelled to accept the bill in
it's mutilated form or get nothing.
Mr.. Toole then traced the history oil. Re-
publican hostility to the bill down to the
present time, and, in conclusion, pointed
to the actions Of the several recent politi-
cal conventions, notably those of Massa-
chnsetts. in which the Democratic party
favored the continued coinage Of silver and
the Republican party opposed it.
The speaker next reviewed Sanders
charges against Land COMMISSIONS Sparks.
He held that some honesty should enter
into political as Well as into business mat
ters, and contended hat in the discuss; on
OF the subject the opposition had showed
unfairress throughout it. He charged that
the timber laws were a relic of Republican
rule and that while under Carl Schurz's adj
ministration of the Interior Department
iyoo1 was seized all over the Territory,
even in the back yards of private resi-.
denccs, there is not an instance on record
where q farmer or miner in Montana had,
under Cleveland's administrat ton, been
prohibited from cutting what wood he
wanted, and that the one or two timber
seizures made in the Territory were made
upon the exaggerated reports OF a Repvbli.
can appointed by President Arthur, who
held his place under the civil service
regulations. Mr.. Toole completely re-
futed all these charges made against
Mr.. Sparks and conclusively proved that
the Republican party is solely responsible
Tor whatever h~ardships may be worked to
any party under the operation OF the tim
Der laws.
The law OF Congress restricting the pow
ers of territorial legislative assemblies next
the attention of Mr.. Toole. At
The threshold of his remarks upon this
subject the speaker declared that of all the
men who found fault with this measure
Col. Sanders should not be found among
hem. He then noticed in turn Col. Sanders
subsidy schemes-some of them
'pecial measures which had either one
a law, it would have weighted down
he people with a burden of taxation which |
you'd have driven many from the Terri
DRY and deferred others from entering it.
sanders So, 600 subsidy scheme to the
Northern Pacific; his 81, ESQ, 600 subsidy
cheme to the Utah and Northern and his
cheme for exempting property of the latter
Dad from taxation were noticed in turn.
| a single person in the vast crowd of lis
eners had ever favorably regarded Col.
congressional. aspirations, the
numeration OF these several pet subsidy
Of Col. Sanders would have dis
elled the delusion. It was clearly shown
nat Col. Sanders was not a safe man with
HON to trust the interests of Montana.
nd that in view of that gentleman's sew
al attempts to saddle the Territory with
monstrous debt, the restrictive measures
Congress were happily conceived and
enacted into law. i
Mr.. Too!e stated that he had noted the
justice OF the Northern Pacific Railroad
'mpany holding 0 $500, 900 acres of land {
the Territory, upon which it did not 1
" AGENT of taxes, and believing that that {
operation should bear it's proportion l
the taxes levied for the sup
'rt of the government, and should j
lp build the school house and other pub. 6
institutions Of learning in the Territory, !
introduced a bill-the first one of the !
ever introduced in the Congress OF the g
lited States-providing for the taxation
the lands of the Northern Pacific Rail. ,
ad Company in Montana aa soop 4