The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1888-10-03

Cleveland and Thurman are going through
this country like two cyclones yOked to
gether, and republican trusts and repub-
lican monopOlies, and republican plumber.
ers and robbers, are trembling in their
boots. Applause Why my friends when
the democratic convention met In st. Louis
they met with one accord, representatives
from every state, and district, and territory
in this broad land and there was but one
name spoken, but one man thought of, and
that was Cleveland (applause), whose
record as president for the last four years,
clean, patriotic and honest, pointed him
out as the man to be endorsed by the hon.
esty and patriotism and the democracy of
this country. (:Applause.) How was 1t at
Chicago? If there was ever a game Of
thimlblerig played on this earth 1t was
played at Chicago. Laughter, J The re-
publican party was there while Jim Blaine,
with his Carnegie (laughter), in Scotland,
was touching the springs of his electric
battery and
WORKING TIE CHICAGO CONVENTION.
What was he doing it for? What was Jim
Blaine after What was Steve Elkins
there for? What were all the henchmen
of Jim Blaine there for? Playing a game
of "NOw you see it and now you don't"
Laughter. 1t was for the express pur-
pose of placing that convention in such a
fix and such a predicament that teey would
be bound to nominate the uncrowned king,
and they would have nominated the un
crowned king If it had not Teen for old
John Sherman, who went there to get that
nomination. He wanted it and wanted it
bad and he didn't intend hat Mr.. Blaine,
after he had written from Florence and
emphasized and reiterated it from Paris
that he would not have that nomination
and could not accept 1t without duplicitv,
should beat him out of it. Blaine was
thnra nntfinu the yrirPp for that nomination
and when Sherman saw that Blaine could
not get the nomination unanimously, he
stood pat and said, l want some of the
chicken pie myself, and consequently they
could not nominate Mr.. Blaine, and what
did they do? They nominated
NH. BLAINE's WATCH CHARM.
Loud laughter and %applause.l Why, my
friends. is there an intelligent man, repub-
lican or democrat, in this audience tonight
that does not know that James G. Blaine
and his friends were there trying to get the
Nomination. What did he have his trick
sters and henchmen there for? What for !?
If Mr.. Blaine was honest when he seid he
would not and could not have that nomina.
ton and could not accept 1t without being
c~hargeable with duplicity,. the Chicago
convention did not believe him What did
those dispatches that came every day from
They meant just what everybody knows,
that Blaine was trying to manipulate that
convention by forcing 1t to nominate him
when he said he wouldn't have it. 1t re-
minds mi OF a story of the sea where an
old tar had been assigned TO bury the dead
by throwing them overheard. There
was a great deal of sickness OIL board the
vessel. The passengers were dying fast,
and 1t was this tar's Office when they died
to drag them Off and bury them, that is
throw them overheard. Laughter.
Aboard this vessel was a man who had the
reputation of being the
G LIAR IN THE WORLD.
lie was very sick and about 10 die and the
1rishman was walking around looking for
some one to bury and he stumbled on this
poor fellow, who was drunk and sick. The
lrishman commenced to drag him over to
the, deck. The man protested, but Pat
said, "You are Dead" mo, I'm nOt;''
he kept on dragging. him to the deck to
pitch him overheard. On the way they
met the captain, who inquired what the
difficulty was. Pat answered that the man
was dead and he was going to throw him
overheard. The captain answered: ''Don't
hin talking; don't you hear him telling you
swered Pat, II hear him say SO, hut he is
such a d-n liar | don't believe him." loud
laughter n applause That is Just the
way the Chicago convention vas with Mr..
Blaine; that was just the way his friends
believed. They heard him say he didn't
want the nomination, but they couldn't
believe him and they were going to drag
him up. and throw him overheard, and II
undertook to swim once before and you
know the result, and IL he had been dumped
overheard this time, it would nave been
farewell Jimmy for keeps. daughter But
my friends, they called him and they call
him yet.
THE u~NcpowNrn UrNn
but it will live in history while they call him
the uncrowned king, hat when his royal
robes are torn asunder, vol will find the
marks Of the tatooed knight. daughter. J
They are there. Now, the race is between
these two tickets. We have several other
tickets In the field. We have a cold water,
dry water ticket, but l don't think that is
crazy quilt again, Belva Lock wood. loud
laughter.) We have other n0ndescript
tickets, so a man can take his choice, A
vote for Cleveland and Thurman means q
vote for honest government; a vote in favor
OF the poor working. laboring, toiling
for Harrison means a vote for high tariff on
the necessaries of life; a low tariff on the
luXnries. It means a vote In favor of mon
opolies and trusts; protection to nabobs
and barons, regardless of the wealand wei.
rare Of the working people of this land.
bore you to night with a refer.
ence to the tariff. l think nv
friend Toole has pulled the wool off your
eyes on that question. (Applause.) | shall
address myself for a few moments 10 a
consideration of the claim which the re.
publican party makes of being the special
friend Of the labOring mar in this land, and
II there ls a labOrer in this audience, repub-
lean or democrat, l ask him to listen, and
II l don't convince him that the republican
party has always been. and is to-day, the
special friend and champion of monopolIps
and capitalists, then l will agree never
again to attempt to make a political speech
before a Helena audience. (Applause.)
LET US EXAMINE THIS latter
by the record, and | charge it home to the
republican party that from the very day
thai the war was over up to the time they
went out of power, they have been the
special friends of capital and monopoly. |
and consequently the enemies of labor In
this n Now to the record. You know
that when the war was over there were in
existence n and a half billion of govern
ment D per cent bonds, the principal of
which was payable in legal tender and the
interest payable in gold coin. Will
anybody dispute thatP One of the
first acts of Gen. Grants first adminjstra-
ton was the enactment of a law which
made these bonds payable, principal and
interest in gold. These bonds had been