Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-31
REHASHED ORATORY.
Old Chestnuts Warmed Over by McCutch-
con and Burleigh at the Republican
Pow-Wow Last Night.

THE elephant walked around the ring;
The band began to play"
Another of the series OF pow-wows ar
ranged for the campaign by the ''trooly
good" was held at Renshaw Hall last night.
To guard against the certainties OF an
empty house seats had been reserved for
the ladies. The latter, with the generosity
and kindness of heart characteristic OF the
sex, answered the appeal and attended in
goodly numbers, no doubt as stimulant
to forlorn hope.
The usual array OF bosses and faetOtums
occupied seats on the stage and formed q
half circle according to the old established
custom of all minstrel performances. The
Alice and was present and played Yankee
Doodle, Marching Through Georgia. =
ani other airs Calculated to arouse a little
senthusiasm.'' They did not play the
"Girl Left Behind Me-" That air will be
played by the Democratic bands on the
evening OF November 6.
George Irwin called the meeting to order
and acted as master OF ceremonies. With
little fattery to the ladies, and ladle
full of soft soap to the meD, he announced
that J.V. Long would act as secretary
and would also read a list of the vice-presi-
dents. The list is not produced as it in
eluded all the bosses, whom everybody
knows, and the few remaining voters of
the remnant of what was once the Republi-
can party. Following this couple of
gentlemen, who were grandiloquently in
troduced as the "Glee Club" in a
rather good manner sang something
which was very poor attempt
at paraphrasing the war song, "Marching
Through Georgia." Like in Episcopal
music, great many words were crowded
into one little note, rather spelling the
melody, it is true; that, however, seemed
to make but little difference to the gentle
men who struggled with the thing, as they
were able-bodied and robust OF health.
The claquers, as in duty bound, applauded
the thing, but whether it was because they
were glad that the song was over, or be-
cause the singers survived the struggle, is
not known.
Hon. l. D. McCutcheon was the first
speaker and consumed about an hour in
rehashing Blaine's recent Chicago speech
and that delivered by Governor Carpenter
in this city Monday night interspersed with
quotations from some other orators among
whom was the late lamented Patrick
Henry.
Another infliction by the "Glee Club"
and a toot by the band, and George came
to the front again and in his bland and
affable manner introduced Andy Burleigh,
OF Helena. This gentleman took up
the remainder OF Blaines speech and what
little OF Governor Carpenters that Mr..
McCutcheon hadn't used--and by way OF
establishment interspersed the remnant
sale with wavings OF the eensanguined neither
garment and excavations of the Demo-
cratic party. After having eased his mind
and burdened those OF his auditors, he
announced that it was IL O'Clock and that
the performance would come to a close
with Emusic by the band"
1t ay be unjust to accuse the two Hell
ena gentlemen of selfishness, but it is a fact
that notwithstanding the gentle hint OF
Irwin to the effect that possibly local
speakers might want to be heard by the
crowd, they failed to ''make it short, "
much to the chagrin and discontinue OF
the local Cictros, who were cooked and
primed for the occasion and ready to turn
loose their floods of eloquence and bad
English upon the much tortured audience.