Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-24

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' which it was entitled.
: The speaker paid his respects to the Ma
Q tional administration and enumerated th,
4 many grand reforms inaugurated and sue
r cessfully carried to completion by Presi
dent Cleveland and Democratic Co ngress
Notwithstanding the opposition OF Re
. publican Senate. It took Democrati,
President, the Major said, to promptly
and effectually settle the Chinese question
and stop the influx OF the Coolies from
that land, who were threating to over
run the American continent anG
crowd out honest American labor
IL The Democratic party, he said, in its
convention at st. Louis, did not have tc
look about for the shadow OF great name
nor the descendant of a great man, but
nominated a man who had only his OWE
claims to the position, a man who had the
confidence and love oil the American people
Grover Cleveland.
The position of the Republican party on
the tariff question and it's relation to the
workingman was discussed by the Major
in his usually caustic and telling manner
and evoked the heartiest applause. These
and many other issues OF the campaign
were touched upon by the speaker and
handled in the manner peculiar only to
Major Maginnis.
At the conclusion of the Majors speech
the Glee Club rendered an impromptu
campaign song to the air of ''Good Bye,
My Lover, Good Bye" which was filled
with good hits and with the refrain, "Good
Bye, Tom Carter, Good Bye"
| MR.. CLARK SPEAKS,
Mr.. Clark was the second speaker, and
spoke OF the unprecedented enthusiasm
| manifested by the Democratic party in the
present campaign. The growth and de-
velopment Of Deer Lodge County and it's
towns were reviewed by the speaker who
contrasted the present wealth and pros
perity of the county with it's barrenness
and poverty only dozen years ago.
Anaconda and the industry which
brought it into existence and was it's main
stay, were referred to by Mr.. Clark who
said, that they were not only the pride and
glory of Deer Lodge county, but of the
entire Territory.
In view OF the other speakers who were
to follow him, Mr.. Clark said that he
would not speak Ieng nor refer to the
tariff question but would confine himself
to other AMI more general topics. He
then discussed the administration of
President Cleveland and the benefits that
have accrued to the country from it. The
favor with which the Mills bill was re-
ceived by
THE GREATEST wooL-GRowING STATE
in the union, Texas, the speaker said, was
made apparent by the unanimous re-nomi-
nation OF the author of the bill by the
people who had sent him to Congress.
Mr.. Clark then exposed the fallacies of
the Republican arguments in favor OF high
tariff.
In the midst OF his speech three cheers for
the speaker were proposed by an enthusi.
astic admirer, and they were given with a
will.
The effect OF the Mills bill on the lead
market was the next subject touched upon
by Mr.. Clark. and in a convincing argu-
ment he illustrated the impotency of the
bill as q factor for working injury to the
great industry of the territory, it's lead
mines. He was not afraid to endorse the
bill, Mr.. Clark said, and everybody knew
that his interests were centered in the mines
OF the territory, and the principal output
of those mines was lead.
From beginning to the end the speech
was one solid array OF facts and irrefut
able arguments, and as the speaker pro-
ceeded to make clear the various subjects
on which he talked, he was continually in.
terrupted with applause and deafening
cheers. Especially well received were his
illusions to the admission of the Territory.
and foreign pauper labor and it's effects
upon the country.
MR.. WORDS SPEECH.
The Hon. Samuel Word, OF Helena, was
next introduced and that he was no
stranger to the audience, became at once
apparent, if the applause and cheering
which he received were to be taken as signs
of cordial recognition.
After alluding in q passing and breezy
manner to the tariff question, the speaker
took up matters OF local interest and i'm
portance.
Col. Hawkins, the temperance orator,
started to leave the hall during Mr.. Words
discussion of the tariff, but upon the latter
casually remarking that ''The wicked flee
when not pursued" the Colonel returned
and resumed his seat. Mr.. Word noticing
this said that it was the sinner that Christ
had asked to return and uet the righteous.
The Colonel saw the point and bowed his
acknowledgment.
The gentleman's discussion OF the tariff
and the Republican
SENATE AMENDMENT
to the Mills bill, was made in humorous
and catching manner, but underneath this
vein of humor, ridicule and wit, ran a
strong undercu. rent OF the most forcible
and convincing argument, and the odlous-
ness of the Republican protective" sys-
tenn was dispicted in all les force and
strength.
Dropping the subject OF tariff and all OF
it's ramifications the gentleman then read
an excerpt from the Inter Mountain OF
September 81, in which severe reflection
was made upon the speaker and his al
legged fraudulent voting OF railroad en-
ployes two years ago. He then let loose
such a food of verbal castigation as no
man ever received. and how he handled
the editor of the "Inter Mountain" aston
| ished the audience.
The denial by MIR. Word OF the charges
made by that paper wac most emphatic
and sweeping, and the arraignment OF the
author was 80 scathing and such a COM
plete epitome of sarcasm and burning in
vectiye as is seldom uttered by a public
speaker. u
| Mr.. Carter next came in for a small bit OF
the same kind of medicine, after which the
.sHelena Record" was also mentioned III
Il oonoraI and exceedingly pleasant