The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1888-10-18
ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION BY
PHILIPSBURG DEMOCRATS.
They are Met at the Train and Es-
c0rted to the HOtel-A Grand
T0rchlight Procession In the Eve
n1ng-The Speeches at the Opera
House.

SIouo W IAo OeInOCTdGlc residents O1
Philipsburg.
The train which arrived at o'clock in
the afternoon bringing the prominent
speakers who we're to address the citl-
zens-Messrs. Clark and Maginnis-was
met at the depot by the Philipsburg
brass band and large number of our
leading democrats in carriages, which
formed quite procession from the depot
to town. The speakers were seated in a
carriage drawn by six horses under the
guidance Of IAN Crowley and were
greeted with applause as they proceeded.
Anvils were fred at intervals When the
party reached tho hotels three cheers
were given for Clark and Maginnis.
In the evening torchlight procession
was formed at the depot, where special
train from Rumsey was met, and the
whole party marched up town to the
patriotic strains Of the band. Bonfres
were kindled, and these with the torches.
blue and red lights, Roman candles and
sky-rcckets, made the town aglow with
light
At the opera house the crowd was so
large it was with difficulty that all could
be furnished with even standing room.
The meeting was opened by Chairman
Adams, of tha Philipsburg Democratic
club, who introduced Major Martin Ma
ginnis as the first speaker of the evening,
amid great applause. The major pro
ceeded in his usual attractive and enter
tanning style t. discourse upon and
espouse the cause of democracy. The
tariff question was ably handled as also
was the other important ISSUES of the
campaign. We are sorry that We are un-
able to give full report of the majors
speech, but our space Will not allow 1t.
and the limited force of weekly news
paper forbids.
he major on rising to speak was met
with a tumult of applause which lasted
for several minutes, and he began with
the following chaste and eloquent trib-
ute to his lifelong friend Mike Duffy, a
we'll known man in j:eer Lodge county
and one of the early settlers of Philips
burg. He wished to offer his thanks for
the enthusiastic reception ,say wing that the
town had grown out Of his recollection,
but one easily felt the warm greeting,
the kind hospitality, the generous enthu-
siasm which proved it still to be Philip
Deidesheimer's good old burg. Among
all these patriotic friends, it is easy to
miss several faces that were wont to be
among the first to greet us and whose
places were only filed by pale memories
of the dead. He never had a better or
warmer friend in all this world than one
Of the old founders and pioneers of this
town. He Was present at every demo-
cratic primary, prominent in every coun-
every election for the party and the prin-
cipies that he loved. That just one is
lost That he loved me goes without say
ing among the old friends and neigh
bors of Michael Duffy. [Applausel
He paid warm tribute to W. A. Clark,
ridiculed the personal considerations
that had been raised against him, briefly
recited the salient points of Cleveland's
administration, made a glowing defense
OF his foreign policy, and spoke at some
length on the various points relating to
the present campaign, amidst great ap-
plause.
j he next speaker introduced by the
chairman was Hon. W. A. lark, who
was greeted with laundering applause
After excusing himself for the brevity of |
his speech in consequence of a severe
sore throat, he spoke as follows:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:-It thank You
rom the bottom of my heart for the ell
,husiastic and cordial reception [ have
received here tonight. Many years ago
visited this camp for the first time. It |
s closly associated with the first efforts
n the metallurgical treatment of the
silver ores of Montana. The beginning
vas marked by crude methods and con-
;p1cuous failures; the old reverberatory
vas succeeded by the revolving furnace,
md now your hills are crowned with the
most Lerfect examples of the greatest
ilvcr mills on the g obe. Hope has
ipened into a golden fruition and it
reeds but the touch of steel tc granite
o produce a stream of silver that aston
shes the world.
Here the speaker referred to some as
onishing incidents of the campaign,
which were loudly app}auded, and ad
lressed himself to the consideration of
he great questions of the day.
He stated the issues clearly and elab-
rated the relative positions of the great
,arties in an able and comprensiye man.
Ter.
When he came to a consideration OF
he subject of the tariff as related to the
interests of the laboring classes, he Was
stened to with intense interest and i'm
lediately found the great audience in
with him and awakened the
7iidest demonstrations of approval and
eafening applause. He said that the
epublican party endeavored to pursuade
be laboring men that any reduction OF
utles meant corresponding reduction
f wages. He pronounced this false and
aid that there was not one manufac-
ured article on the list of the Mills bill
n which a reduction Of duty was made
ut what retained sufficient revenue pro-
9ction to cover the labor cost. Anything
eyond this did not concern labor, as it
eriyed no share of the advantages. The
of pig iron has an advan-
age over his British competitor of about
450 per ton outside of the labor cost. ,
|oes he share any part of this with the =
IAN who blisters at the forge? It may :,
nrich his pocket but it does not soften :
is heart and he tries to get even lower i,
ost by the importation of the servile
asses of Europe.
vt. Clark showed that only about seven
er cent. of Il Q wage-workers of the I
ountry were emf 10; ;ed in the protected d,
ldustries. and that these received the
west scale of wages; that the remaining :
inety three per cent. in the unprotected {
Industries Jared better, SO far as wages
ere concerned; but that all the laboring
lasses, in order that about fifty thousa d
should be enriched, are
bli9ed to submit to an exorbitant taxa-
on Of fifty to eighty per cent. on all the Il