The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1888-11-01
THE BIG HOME TALK.
Rousing Republican Meet
ing in the Park
Hotel.
JUDGE Wade and Hon. A.
F. Burleigh Dis
course.

On Wednesday night, as per announce
ment, Judge Wade and A. F. Burleigh,
two of the most eloquent orators of Mon
tana, treated the citizens of Great Falls to
one of the richest feasts of protection
lore that was ever presented to Mon
tana audience.
Judge Rolfe was called to the chair
and made few pertinent remarks. He
was followed by Judge Race, who pre-
sented in excellent humor, the merits of
the respective candidates on the county
ticket.
Judge Wade said that this was his
first appearance before aMontana audience
on political discussion. He had been
laboring in another field removed from
the anxieties and disappointments of
politics. He saw many before him, who
have even grown grey in building up
Montana. He spoke of the matchless
progress and development of Montana
and said, all this was due to the triumphs
of republicanism. [Applause.] Cherished
by the benign influences of republican
ism, the infant industries of the
territory have been matured and Mon
tana is growing into giant in strength
and prowess. He thanked the Lord for
giving him head and heart to become
republican. [Applause. He was ma
tive of the matchless state of Ohio, first
born of the ordinance of 1857, which con-
secrated its soil to freedom forever.
Under these auspices he couldn't have
been anything else than republican.
The republican party was born of the in
spiration of liberty and humanity. 1t
was baptized in blood because of it's love
Of country, and with such parentage
and such baptism, it became the hope
and sheet anchor of the republic.
We are about to perform one of the most
important acts Of the freeman, in voting
for the man of our choice. In 1860 the
United States extended hardly beyond
the Mississippi river, and the black man.
tie Of slavery had extended over the
southern half of the country. Washing
ton and Jefferson were both opposed to
slavery. The slave was property in every
sense Of the word. That day is past and
new era Of glorious liberty and pros
perity has dawned upon the American
nation.
He spoke of the rickety wildcat and
shinplaster currency that flooded the
land before the war and especially under
democratic administrations. The demo-
cratic party was always opposed to any
system of national banking or currency.
Now we have a currency that is good the
world over. The greenback of the gov
ernment is us good as gold anywhere on
the globe. This is grand republican
achievement. The republican party had
also passed the national land laws, max
ing the public domain accessible to her
citizens on such conditions as brought
the ownership Of home within
the reach of everyone. The republican
party had also passed laws, whereby
the great mining resources Of the country
could be opened up. The republican
party had fostered our home labor and
manufactures, so that to-day, with our
magnificent schedule of protection, asso-
ciated with our glorious bond of home
free trade, connecting in an indissolublc
bond of common interest thirty-eight
sovereign states, we can compete with
Great Britain and the old world in
the manufacture Of woolen goods, broad
cloths, steel, cutlery, glass, stoneware and
all the staple commodities of civilized
life.
The democratic party, on the contrary,
is the party of free trade, the British
party, who feel tenderly over the fortunes
Of the British merchants, and are oppos-
ed to too much American prosperity.
Montana, with her $42,OO0,000 in sill
yer and gold taken from her mines; Mon
tana, with her hills and valleys covered
with cattle and sheep; Montana,
with the pulsations of industry throbbing
through her mountains and valleys is the
offspring of the goddess of freedom; the
influx Of the republican wave that began
to roll over this land Of promise and OF
peace after our Union had been sancti-
fed and made perpetual in the best
blood of her sons.
The republican party is the party OF
progress, of growth and of dignity. II
elevates humanity. 1t gives to every
man the right to erect for himself do
main and destiny. 1t exalts American
citizenship.
The democratic party, on the contrary
is the party Of obstruction. Progress i
no part of it's creed. Like the crab, it
progress is backwards. 1t turns its face
from the light to the darkness, because
loves darkness rather than light. Forth
past thirty years every bill the republi
can party proposed for the welfare Of til
people has been opposed by the demo
Gratis. [Applause.] They opposed til
raising OF armies to suppress the rebel
lion. They pronounced the war failur
and demanded that the armies of the re
public be disbanded and sent home
They opposed the fourteenth and ii
teenth amendments to the Constitution