Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-25
DID THEMSELVHS PROUD.
Butte Democrats Show That
the Old Enthusiastic
Spirit Still Lives.


Last Nights Demonstration
the Grandest Ever Seen
in the City.
From Sundays Daily.
For some time past it has been given out
in Democratic circles that the ~torchlight
procession OF last evening would be q reve-
lationto spectators. Accordingly the streets
were filled with an expectant throng from
early evening that made passage on the
sidewalk q work OF difficulty.
The component part Of the intended pro-
cession began to assemble about 2 2. m. ! n
the yard Of the Central school building,
which was soon ablase with torches, iilu.
minating the heavens as though q fire were
in progress. At the appointed hour the
line of march was formed and as it wendell
over and through the central portion Of the
city it seemed interminable. The process
sion was composed OF nearly 1000 men
representing the following organizations:
Headed by the Emmett Guard band, there
followed the Silver Bow Tammany club,
the Silver Bow County Democracy, the Par
rot Democratic club, the South Butte Dem
ocratic club, the Scandinavian Democratic
club and q large contingent OF the bone and
sinew of the camp.
The line OF march was from the south oil
the school house to Montana street, to
Broadway, to Idaho street., to Granite
street, to Wyoming street, to Park,
to Main, and thence to Miners Union
hall. It took exactly thirty.ive minutes
for the procession to pass the corner oil
Main and Park streets. ID
The names Of the candidates on the
Democratic ticket were set forth upon
transparencies, which were scattered
through the parade. Fully 5000 people
thronged the streets, making it almost i'm
possible for the procession to crowd
| through. The cable cars were stopped
for twenty minutes. and, in fact,
| the boys in line had everything
| their own way. It was in short the most
successful turnout in point OF numbers OF
the present campaign and considering that
it was composed entirely OF residents oil
Butte it did credit to the party it repre-.
sented. The streets were as light as day
while the parade passed through them and
il q ctr niger had witnessed it and the
additional crowd OF spectators he would
scarcely have credited his senses that he
was not in one OF the large cities OF the
East.
| Al Miners Union Hall.
It was a quarter past eight O'Clock when
the head of the parade reached Miners
Union hall. The tody of the hall soon
filed and every available seat was quickly
occupied. Numbers OF people stood around
the walls and filed the doorways. but moi
a tithe OF those who wished to obtain
entrance could ever get a glimpse OF the
speakers. The Emmett Guard band took
a position in front of the platform and
| opened proceedings by playing an intro.
ductory overture. The speakers OF the
evening entered. as they passed up the
| middle isle a loud cheer greeted them. Hon.
L " os StOAA PACDA0VN ~ A4oAos -
Pemberton, E. B. Smith. Judge Newkirk,
Thomas O'Brien, Geoff Lavell and others
| occupied seals on the platform.
Mr.. Clark opened the proceedings of the
evening as follows:
Ladies and gentlemen and fellow citi-
| zens OF Butte;- have been requested by
the central committee OF this county TO
| preside at this meeting and introduce to
you the speakers who are to address you
a aRi tRe is aHsst q the de. deg, !. and md Ibis is a duty
"The Democrats are not all dead yet.
Iapplause1 The woods are full OF them,
and this grand demonstration which we
have witnessed tonight, q procession OF
torchlights more than three.quarters of q
mile long and four men abreast, is simply
the beginning of the war, and before this
campaign closes on the frat day OF Octo-
Der. 9 will show the people OF Butte that
where there 10 one Democrat tonight there
will he four who will put in an appearance
on election day. And the opinion is gain.
ing ground in this country that the people
Of this territory are determined that Mon.
tana will take her place in this great Union
as a Democratic state. They cannot get
away from that. The people have got
their eyes open to their own interests, and
are going this time to vote in sufficient
numbers so as to elect the state, county
and legislative tickets, and we are going to
take our place as a Democratic state even
it We are the only one in the great North.
west. Ladies and gentlemen, have the
honor OF Introducing to you 90 the first
speaker, MI. B, B. Smith,"
Hon, r. b. Smith.
Mr.. Smith was received with cheers, ane
said: "Mr. Chairman, ladies aud GENTLE
men and fellow citizens: It is with some
and yet mingled with a pleas !
ure unknoWn beiore, that I am permitted |
tonight in this temple dedicated to the !
OF labor and honest toll, that l |
I'm permitted I say, to address such al
large and intelligent audience OF the city Of
Butte; Fellow e~itiseps and Democrats we
people who make up this great city
and mining camp for the demonstration
that they have made tonight" |
1t was almost a year ago, the speaker
that the Democratic party a en-.
aged in a great national struggle through.
nut the union, in order that it might
the principles Of Democracy which
t had 80 long advocated and triumph.
Intly fulfilled, and elect its candidate for
for the ensuing four years. The
party elected it's candidate, |
enJamln HARRISON, Dy carrying one or two ID
oubtinl states and the help of the cleo.
oral college. Mr.. Harrison, like every &
ther Republican who had been elevated to |
hat ex alted station, was elected By q mi. ]
GRITTY vote, and the man who was defeated |
'r the Office received more than SIS, 600 3
opular vote oyer Benjamin Harrison. I
his demonstrated, to any man who would c
IKE care and study the facts, that Be. '
was not dead. and wLile they were :
at the polls through the electoral q
,liege. yet they polled 90, 900 more votes G
ian the Republican party, and certainly t
'uld not be called Q dead party or a dead o
sue. In the last national campaign il d
as a iayorite theme With Republican a
'eakers to DECLARE that the Democratic b
srty was a free trade party, They tried d
scare the people OF this country, BY de- y
airing, whether true or not, that the Ii
party was a free trade party. te
would say that the best guide to that. ii
Q only true guide upon which to examine Ii
party and find out, was to examine sc
platforms, and ses whether or not.
ring the whole history Of the Demo.H
ltic party. since Thomas Jefferson. hi
author Of the Declaration OF Independ. hi
g, that the party, as a party, had ever pe
d at any time declared itself q free trade hs
rfv On kho ofhar hand kha no-..-.a :.