Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-07

Divided ON Many Subject
men Il Comes to Capital Removal AL
Are Of One Minds Strong Speeches and
Equally Strong Resolutions Adopted
The Meeting An Enthusiastic One
What Was Done There.
The call circulated amsng the citizens o.
Butte on Saturday evening for o mass
meeting at the court house to give expires,
sion to public sentiment ON the capital
question produced the most satisfactory
results last night. The readiness with
which IL was signed when circulated, indeed,
augured as much, and judging from last
evenings outturn public sentiment was
ripe for an opportunity to express itself.
The meeting was q most representative
gathering. There were assembled in the
district court room OF the court house
when the meeting was called to order the
most substantial men in the community
those with large property and commercial
interests and those without any-the EN-.
ployer and the employed the capitalist
and the wage worker-the professional man
and the business man-men of most di-
vergent views on political subjects, but all,
with barely one or two exceptions animated
with a single i~mpulse-that OF asserting
and maintaining at all hazards the superior
ity of the right OF Butte over any other
town as the place for the capital of Mon.
tana. Men who never shared o thought
together on any other subject met last
night at the court house to clasp hands
and make o determined effort to place
Butte in the front rank. of competitors for
the capital.
Among those present were noticed: DR..
Hough, M. Gensberger, w. 81. Young. Lee
Mantle, Lew Holland, MI. Conaell, Lee w.
Foster, w. e. Hall, J. R. Boyce, Jr., j. II.
Lynch, j.. A. Leggat, s. w. Graves,
Thomas Fletcher. c. W. Goodale, II. L..
Frank, e. Fl. Irvine, s. v. Kemper,
Colonel 2. R; Dolman, 1. R: Maillet, J: H.
Vivian, G. P. Drennen, Geoff Lavell, Tom
Lavell. Dan Tewey. W. McDermott, j. M.
Bowes, William Thompson, DR.. l.. T..
Holmes, Mayor w. r. Kenyon, J. d.
Thomas, A. F. Bray, J. H. Leyson, c. P.
Newton, William Moulder, D. j. Hen.
messy, Fl. 8. Clark, j. G. Beck, w. O..
Speer, A. II. Carter, John M. Steward, E..
A. Nichols, John Caplice, Shelley futile, |
Patrick Conlon, j. II. M~onteath, Abe Hey
mah, William M. Jack, besides many
Others OF whom lack OF space prevents
mention.
The meeting was called to order at half.
past 8 by Mayor Kenyon rising and plac-
ing Mr.. John Caplice in nomination for
chairman. The nomination was heartily |
seconded and carried unanimously and Mr.. |
Caplioe took the chair. He briefly stated
the object OF the meeting. Some of the
delegates OF Silver Bow county had ex-
pressed their sentiments in the constitu- |
tional convention as in favor OF another
place besides Butte Tor the temporary cap.
ital Of Montana. 1t was the duty of these
gentlemen tn favor the selection OF Butte
and it alone, and this meeting was con.
vened for that ~purpose-to remind them
that their first obligation was to Butte.
There was no intention, said he, OF antag-
onizing Anaconda or any other town. It
had been stated that the result OF this
meeting would bring about a divergence of
feeling between Butte and Anaconda; but I
this he empatically denied. There existed
hS W. PAoAut UbJ uutdkOulbuu |
between these two towns. But it was nec-
essary, in view Of the Importance OF the
subject, to have q decisive expression of
opinion from the citizens in mass meeting
assembled in favor OF Butte. Heasked the
meeting to appoint @ secretary.
Il. A. Nichols was unanimously chosen.
The chairman then stated that the proper
method OF procedure would be to appoint a
committee to draft resolutions expressive
OF the sentiment Of the vast majority OF the
citizens upcn the subject OF the temporary
capital OF Montana to be presented to the
delegation in the convention from Silver
Bow county. He asked for an expression
OF opinion from those present.
w. e.. Hall called upon Lee Mantle to adj
dress the meeting, and yielding to numerous
calls, Mr.. Mantle took the floor.
He said: Mr.. Chairman and fellow citi-
Gems, L feel considerable difficulty in re- J
spending to your request and attempting
to give expression to the sentiments OF the
city Of Butte upon the subject for which we
are here assembled. l believe there are {
many present more competent to do so !
than l am. Many OF you car give express !
SION to your ideas upon the question with
out running the danger OF being misappre- J
heEded and misunderstood as l shull be.
l have already been misunderstood and !
misquoted. I have been charged with J
everything but sincerity. / have been
charged with being an emissary Of Helena. !
Those present who knew him knew that he !
did not need to tender al apology for what ]
he had sale upon this subject. Every in. u
terest in the world he had laid in Silver Bow g
county, and he was simply acting in this I
matter in accordance with an axiom that I
governed most men in theirssactions-the =
axiom OF self preservation. That was the |
manner in which he viewed the matter {
They were not gathered there to create a 8
diversity OF sentiment between the sections 9
OF the West Side. So far as the capital was :
concerned as so far as he viewed it. he had !
but one c~hoice-Butte. [Cheers.1 He was 8
for Butte first, last and all the time, and U
without any second choice. Other towns a
were at liberty tospeak for themselves. In 8
they had already spoken, and TO such 9
good effect that they had secured 4 ma p
OF the Butte delegation in their 9
The action OF the meeting should be in
the nature OF instructions to the Silver Bow q
delegates, asking them to yield their I'M =
and u~nhesitating allegiance to .
Butte. tCheers.] When q delegate from {,
this county gave his vote on the subject OF q
The capital question to other places than Q Q
Butte, he was transgressing and overstep. d
ping his bounds and giving away what was e
lot his to give-shat did not belong to him.
He disclaimed any intention ofthrowingdis. lo
or in the slightest manner impugning C.
,he motives OF any OF the representatives OF u
Bow county and paid them q high o.
for their abilities and the de. u
prominence they occupied in the dis. a.
OF the convention. "
But, he said, it seemed that on this CAPT. %
al question they had not all been true to OF
'ilver Bow county. True, the question o.
las not been discussed to any consider 10
,een generally understood that the consti.
utional convention had the power given to
: expressly by act Of congress t. settle the
OF the temporary capital. The
generally had failed to realize the
Importance OF the subject, and hence had ~
siled to give loud and unequivocal express o.
ion to Che feeling with which all here "