Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-11-02

shortly admitted that a legislature
composed OF lawyers would he a bad
thing. just what the JOURNAL said q
few days ago; ~ nearly every county
is sending 4 lawyer or two 70 the ltgls-
lalure, 1t il entirely unnecessary that
Custer should follow suit, especially
when We need sIock legislation more
than anything else. Resliz ~ thgt
this m ght br the opinion Of Custer
county audience, he undertook u tell
what he knew about stock legislation
but got no farther than tine bounty
law. Aitera very generous dissertation
Of his own merits, much more lengthy
than We have .sn able 10 trsnscrioc,
Ihe speaker proeeeded with bis review
of the county ticket in Ihi- style; Il
don't propose tU follow the ticket
through name by name, you are nil
acquainted with the different candi-
dstes; most Of them are candidates for
reelection" With this brief aud
Wholesale sllusion 10 his associates IN
misery be quits them cold, Hetnoughl
the republicans had nominated good
men, but il the democrats would only
stand 10y the ticket and vote it straight
success would he assured aud Custer
county would be placed among score
or more Of counties which would give
a majority for Clark. AS there are but
sixteen counties In the territory the
above statement about "a score OF
moren il a fair example ofthe reckless
ness OF democratic statements In gen.
eral. Having talked himself to stand
still, Mr.. Middleton fervently thanked
his audience for their attention aud
retired to make way for Sam Word,
who was introduced by Mr.. Billiard.
Mr.. Word came forward with .
smile aud IA formidable bundle of doc
umen,s which he deposited on the
table and opened his discourse. II
Mr.. Word bad spoken here earlisr ia
the campaign he would have been
more interesting than he proved to be
lat night, as he has good delivery
and /. nor without ability, hut Elder,
Robert Burus Smith, IS. :. Clark aud
w. Y. Pembe!tou hal preceded him
and taken all the wind out 0f Gls -alls,
Us well as the ;rsshuess out Of his
topics. He told tae same baid-headet
story about the origin of the wurh ,Ar-
itI, winch ba. been exploded ia thess
columns: he worked the same gag on
free whiskey and tobacco; ne read
from a newspaper extract a story Of a
man getting up ia the morning and
putting on shirt thar was taxed II
per ceut and coat that was taxed SO
per cent and so Oh through the ward.
robe. In this connection IL might
have been pertinent TO suggest that
some Of our citizens got up last Wed
nesday morning and tried 10 put on
hat that was taxed IS per cent but
were unable to do so owing to the en-
largement Of their heads by free
whiskey dispensed by Mr.. Clark the
previous evening, aud that they were
very GLAD TO cool their heated coppers
with the mineral water that the re-
publican senate now seek. to put on
the free list. But when he struck this
senate bill il was a picnic for the re
porters, they knew just what he was
going 10 say, when, bursting with in
telligence, he asked his hearers:
"What do you suppose Is the first
article on the free list in this republic
can tariff bill?n The scribes wrote
"scorns" aud sure enough "acornsn
was the word. Next "beeswsx, and
there again the newspaper men were
ahead of him. and so on through the
list. Human hair raw, was dwelt
upon AT some length aud occasion
taken TO recommend its use 10 Col.
Malone, whose pink and shiny sx.
panse OF forehead loomed up in the
front seat like toy balloon. Il is
needless to review at length Mr.
Words speech. Ii has all been gone
over before, aud but for the fact tha,
he spoke in an entertaining manner
he could not have held his audience
ten minutes. As 1t was they began
to drop OIL before be was through aud
continued to do ~. He closed by the
usual tribute to w. A. Clark, which
failed to excite any applause. A. We
have said, the meeting was mistake
in conception, and dismal failure u
reality.