Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-03
REPUBLICAN, FALLACIES
,rIRLY REFUTED 4T MEADBR-
TILLE LAST NIGHT.

NJ MI. bIChtOAu cP ~MC A@AeASf Ol
pcpubrican P~retensions ms the Friend
If the Laboring Man--John IN. Forbis
Urges the Merits of h County Ticket
and w. A. Clark.
Ameeting of Democrats was called for
,.st night in Meaderville. The notice OF
.ho meeting did not reach there until
carly 6 O'Clock, but when the candidates
md speakers went down they found q
large crowd awaiting them. The Meader.
lille band had been engaged and a bonfire
vas burning briskly about which q number
# people were assembled in front o. the
Kniphts OF Labor hall. Among those who
cent down were Messrs. w. r. Kenyon,
Al. Barrett, John f. Forbis, J.. j.. Hag.
certy, w. M. Bickford Of Missoula and
others.
After the band had played somep patriotic
airs, Chairman Connors OF the Meaderville
nemocratic Club called the meeting to or.
dor shortly after 8 o'clock and lost no
time introducing as the first speaker OF the
evening.
We AVA nAOhrOnDs #H# a#HEHl
He began by paying high complimentto
the Meaderville band as one OF the best he
had ever heard, saying they had acquitted
themselves with remarkable skill, and il
the BOYS OF Meaderville will on the 9th of
November roll up a majority as pretty as
their band they will cover themselves with
glory. The speakers eulogistic remarks to
fhe band touched his hearers where their
uride lay and were responded to approx
ingly.
The speaker explained his visit to this
section of the Territory as due to his inter-
est in the growth and prosperity OF every
part OF Montana. He spoke Of the superb
GRITTY OF MofGana's over many Of
the States of the Union; that it was a
larger Territory. than any other, except
Dakota; hat the report OF the Governor
for the present year showed that it's popu-
lation had increased and that it yielded to
none in the perfection of it's educational
system. He said the Improvement sho wn
in respect Of our common schools was an
assurance that our
INSTITUTIONS WILL BE PERPETUATED,
and that the people OF this Territory are
shaping their destiny under their fostering
care to transmit to posterity unimpaired
the glorious heritage bequeathed to them.
The speaker then turned his attention to
national topics, and placed before his
hearers the platforms OF the two parties
now c%ontending for mastery, and said that
they had these platforms and the history
of these two parties from which to deduct
the correctness Of the views OF each.
The Democrats do not say they want re-
duction OF che tariff with any ultimate view
than to reduce the enormously increasing
surplus fund in the National treasury. 1t
arises from surplus revenue unnecessary
for the support OF the Government. This
surplus revenue should be RENTED and
the revenue law SO amended as to more
nearly accord with the wants OF the Gov
eminent.
He then explained the subject of taxation
as being levied by
DIRECT AND INDIRECT AxE
The direct tax is that which is paid by
municipalities on property OF various
kinds; indirect taxation being derived from
internal revenue and the tariff on articles
Of import. The tax on imports only oper-
ates on a prescribed circle, it being a tax
collected from goods imported into the
United States. to pay interest on the pub.
lie debt and the expenses oil the National
Government.
The Republican party has gone into this
campaign with the principle that rather
than take off any Of the taxes on imports
they would remove the entire internal
revenue tax. In the commencement OF the
campaign they claimed consideration az
the especial friends of the American peo'
pie. The speaker denied that it was even
the object Of the Republican party in it's
legislation to protect the American la.
borer, but that all it's legislation had been
in the selfish interes est of
MAINTAINING ITSELF IN POWER
IN the United States. As soon az
James G. Blaine, the orator and
mouthpiece of that party, landed in
New York he announced he had
come back to fight the BATTLES of b eAmeri'
can laboring people. Mr.. Bickford set
himself to show his hearers this was the
same balderdash with which that party
had tried to bumbug the American people
four years ago. -,
Four years ago the watchword with
which the Democratic party rode into
power was Cleveland and reform, and foI
the last four years the people OF this
country nave had Cleveland and reform
During those four years there has been nc
instance in which President Clevelanc
could be charged with neglect OF the Amer
can people. He has devoted more time tc
assiduous attention to public affairs thar
any other President OF modern times, anc
no single instance ean be pointed to where
the laboring people-the people at large
have not
RECEIVED THE SAME CARE
as the capitalists. II this is a fact-ant
he detied it's successful contradiction-ls !
not reasonable and proper, the speake
asked, that the same care should be con
tinued during the next our yearsr -,
Cleveland had been called upon, Tn
speaker said, in fulfllment OF his party.
pledge of reform to reconstruct the cav
service and he had done 30. Hs hat
devoted more hours to save the peoplel
money from being squandered in useles
expenditure than any executive since Tn
war. He had devoted his whole time ant
his best energies to protecting the rights O
the American people. =
The speaker reverted to the prophetic
Of disaster increasingly uttered by the ne
publican press and orators since 1000
the Democrats should return to power
They had prophesied a return to slavery
the p~ensioning of the soldiers oi tn
Southern Confederacy and q train OF kin
bred disasters awful to contemplate. In
stead of the dangers they falsely foretoi
the history OF the last four years prove
that the Democrats had given the peopi
. not only
A FAIR AND SQUARE ADMINISTRATION
Of public affairs but had restored to tn
people more rights than they had enJoye
during all the Republican administration
He then sketched the condition OF tn
public domain when the Republican part
went into power in 1851 and the manne
in which it had been given away Whoiesal
to railroads in charters in addition to mil
ions of dollars in bonds. He shcwed no
the sinking fund which the cts incorpora'
ing these railroads had provided Tor, ms
been neglected by the Republican parI
until the Democratic party came INT
power when the latter mad the railroad
fulfil their contract. He referred TO uI
failure of the Northern Pacific Railroad
fulfil it's obligations and how Presider
Cleveland had brought it to tim end r
stored one hundred and twenty-five mi,
ions of acres to the public domain. =
asked whose record showed them TO % u
rRUEsr FRIENDS OF THE PEOPLE
in this instance-the Republican or III