The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-09-24
UNDER FALSE cOLoRs.

present political campaign was perpe-
trated ON the people Of Anacopda ON Sat
urday night when,. for the purpose of at
tracing an audience. the local republican
braves advertised as one of the attractions
an ex-governor of Nebraska.
Having lived In Nebraska for a few
years, and mingled more ar less with sev-
eral of the leading political percentages i'm
that state, you can easily imagine my as
Constituent tn read abOst an ex-Governor
Tate, when no such person ever existed
except i'm the fertile imagination of the
brilliant leaders of the Patriotic Order
Sons of America I'm Anaconda.
Poor Tate himself must have felt quite
big for a few hours, because i'm reality he
is only an enlarged edition of "a Salvation
Army captain. being n peculiar sort
OF hybrid creature who could not make
ends meet i'm any legitimate business
and like some of our local Patriotic Sons
was incapable of doing am honest days
work, took to expanding Inc gospels,
and IL seems that even I'm that line he had
peace and good will, and exhorting the
masses to follow i'm the footsteps of the
Divine Master hc has taken ora himself
publican party i'm Montana, that party
whose foundations are built on the
s si%" White a4 Cla x,' sEas friss Duke Duck H who cant ns
and u~neauaiied. A man who for every.
is a giant amongst men. and a man who
by his talents and inventive genius has
won - world wide reputation. and N man
growth and prosperity of the
wealth than all the republicans combined,
h ai9, = =Ssl' snaniin soTm o ss sss %'T Sia 'ns'S e
known, as he p. o: S. OF 4.
minded Englishman, and from my knowl-
cdgc of the man, feel confident he would
Motif Inc knew the character.of the intoler-
nna - usx.a. A. yunrn II r. vrx.al
alluded, demean himself by ~associatin9
with or standing ON the same platform
norance of their aims and objects he must
not have heard how several of the late
leaders of thai party in the last Legislature
in particular Irishmen and Cornishmen,
ny publicly disgracing that Legislative
assembly i'm pronuiRatinR the idea that
exercising the franchise and incapable of
filling the office of mine Inspector. From
know of Tate, he Is not the Kind OF
the people of England or Ireland, and yet
Mr.. Tate. these are the men with whom
agine for u nm that the corner stone
and keystone. of the republican party
i'm Montana is not composed Of men
can ideas, the fossil remains
of "a ~Gecomposcd ~knownothinR party,
then YOU are greatly mistaken. and 4 You
names and publish their constitution. and
then you will agree with me that such nm
civilized ideas and such uncharitable pin
ions are quite unworthy your advocacy or
support as a man and n Christian min
lister.
honor yourself by mingling with men
very existence in "a curse to Ameri-
can fellows possessing the same
who, before election times come around,
will dare to say tn you, because you first
the light i'm sunny France or merry
or ON some green hillside i'm Ire
or any other or because by
or conviction you worship the
you are unworthy OF becoming an adopted
of America. or enjoying the priv.
ilege of taking shelter beneath Ia benign
brighter by the life blood Of
irish aid to Washington won American
Independence, two-thirls of his army be-
ing of Irish birth or descent And when
we're again Threatened, Irish and other
foreign born citizens went forth freely, |
md on many 2 CORY led OF death e1san-
ton tO liberty and equal rights. /
With such u record the descendants of
,om"' nGs, ages ,a OF r nn'" m;sh RAJ m heroes m
preme contempt the silly drivcl and weak
of those kcystones and corner
ana. who are no Americans i'm Thought or
word or action or idea. They are Ameri-
ANS simply by accident of birth. having
neither the brain or muscle of men, even
physically bearing all tho traces of the
possessing the evil will but not
he ordinary ability, of tho garroter or
'andbagger. Mr.. Tate, IL you possess,
AZ I think you do, the manhood, sense of
the spirit of freedom that is gem
rally attributed to your contrymen.
~ no Longer a seville tool
that manhood i'm no unmistak-
,blc terms. Scorn their low lying device of
you here and thers. in false colors;
tile. people they lied when they de-
,eived them with the cock and bull story
hat yo,i are an ex-governor of Nebraska,
and you can, 1 assure yoti, tell thisl little
of low gutter hypocritica politici-
that on the first day of October the
vast majority of the citizens of Montana,
and foreign born, will go To the
polls and thers, record their detestation |
nf such creatures and such principles
and those creatures and their principles
will be buried once again as they have
been so often already. but this time they
will be Inferred so deeply that all the
powers of earth or hell can never rpsu-
rect them. Yours truly,
THOMAS Il. T.. BERRY.
IN NEW HAVEN.