The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-06-15
THAT RALLY.
A Respectable, Orderly and Digniasd sat-
urday Night Assemblage.

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A Respectable, Orderly and Digniaed Sat-
urday Night Assemblsge.
The Democratic Ratification Meeting an
nounced for last Saturday evening, TOOK
place at the appointed time and place, but
was not such q blooming success as had been
anticipated. All the invited orators except
U. s. District Attorney Robert B. Smith, OF
Dillon. and William Wallace, Jr., Esq, Of
Helena, failed to materialize, although the
brass band were ont to meet them at the
depot, bonfires were lit and anvils Numbered
their welcome. As something has been said
about the demonstration and procession, it is
remarked en- PEASANT that there were just q
men headed by the band in the escort from the
depot, and just q men in the procession fol-
lowing the band from the hotel to the Court
House. ""." -5.
The court room was neatly decorated and
comfortably filled, some 30 or 40 ladies prob.
ably being in the audience. President Ow-
ings announced the object of the meeting,
and Postmaster Carlton, or the mention of
Cleveland and Thurman Is the candidates,
proposed three cheers, which started of with
. half dozen voices and wound up with .
solo by Carlton. 1t was just . little the thin.
nest ratification ''hurrah' that was ever
heard anywhere and served to throw such .
dampener on the proceedings that not an
other attempt was made during the meeting.
District Attorney Smith, on being intro
duced, didn't allude to the fact that Cleve-
land suspended two U. 8. District Attorneys
in the preceding campaign for making politi'
cal speeches, and didn't say anything what
ever about the hostility of the administration
to silver, or the policy of the Democratic
party as relates to the wool, lead and copper
industries, but he made a terrific climax On
the declaration that quinine had come down
in price under a Democratic administration
and called on DR.. Owings to annihilate him
by denying 1t if he misstated the facts. He
also startled his hearers by announcing that
Montana was included in the Louisiana pur-
chase under the Jefferson administration +;
that all the wealth of precious minerals in
the Northwest were included in that pur-
chase, and had made the world richer; and
then he hurled denunciation at the Republi-
can party for securing the construction of
transcontinental railroads into this Louisiana
purchase, whereby alone its vast treasures
rave been made accessible and available.
He did not mention, either, that he, as repre-
sentative of the administration, had brought
suit after suit to prevent the cutting of tim.
Der, which is absolutely essential to develop
this mineral wealth of Montana, and that the
only credit he could claim in that connection
was that no SUIT he has instituted has ever
even reached q jury. He endorsed the ad.
ministration under which he holds Office and
electrified the audience by coming an entirely
new war cry, declaring Thurman was ''the
noblest Roman Of them ALL" As nobody
seemed to know anything about the rest Of
the Romans, it was taken for granted he had
Just received this information officially from
Washington. Mr.. Smith had just arrived
from a court term at Great Falls, and was
not as thoroughly fixed to ratify as might
have been, the news from Oregon having
probably suggested that it would be better to
ask for q "continuance" until some further
evidence could be obtained.
Mr.. Wallace was next introduced. He is
a fluent speaker and has ability. He also
mentioned that Thurmon was a Roman, and
picking up a bandana MI. Smith had left
lying on the desk, was about to wave'it when
he evidently detected it was about the same
age as Thurman, and reverently laid it down.
He defended Cleveland's administration on
the ground that he had vetoed some pension
bills, which was a very unpopular thing to
do, and then paid a high tribute to the Union
soldiers without any equivocation whatever.
Just what merit there was in vetoing these
pension bills which had passed Congress, he
did not say, nor did he mentionithe terms in
which the vetoes were phrased, which gave
the offense. MI. Wallace said some very
pretty things, from a scenic point Of view,
about Montana, and the point Of his speech
was an imploration that since we had been
brought SO closely together by a railroad
(Which was built under Republican admins
t~ration), the terms "East Side" and "West
Side" should be dropped, and the grand
name of "Mentana" should suffice for all.
This sentiment was applauded but the meet
ing was not a nominating Convention.
MI. Wallace received generous hand ap-
prevails, as did Mr.. Smith, and as was a
proper courtesy to the young gentlemen who
had tarried not when their seniors failed to
respond but if Cleveland and Thurman
could have a phonogram of the meeting they
would remark that the Edison machine
should be suppressed.
It is fair to say the utmost decerum pre-
| vailed during the entire proceedings, the
band played just too lovely for anything,
| and every Democrat was in a proper frame of
mind for the consolation of religion at the
| Sunday morning services.