Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-02

! in the South they had never dreamed The,
/ would give the power to capitalists
m~onopOlists and bond-holders to shakl
the limbs of the ~workingmen Of the North
i The speaker referred to the recent visit q
Senators Stewart and Reagan who ha,
spoken ON the silver question. They stoo,
) side by side in their fight for the people M.
) against the aristocrats and bond holder
who were continually striving to max
| Themselves richer and the poor poorer
! From their utterances no one could tel
what their politics were, yet one was
, Democrat OF the staunchest kind and th
other a Republican equally as true ant
staunch. Those two men had told th
> people that the coinage OF SILVER was abeo
lntely necessary to the prosperity and well
tional legislation since the war had beer
J favorable to the rich and against the poor
They had advised the people OF Montan,
to send men to Washington who wer,
friendly to silver and would work for its re
, monetization. He then alluded to tho de
lreciation in the value OF greenbacks causef
by the Republican legislation which
had placed q premium upon gold, anG
it had been done for no othel
purpose than to enrich the bond hold
ers and millionaires. The soldiers who
mad fought for the preservation of the
Union were paid in the deprecated cur
rency while the bondholders were paid in
gold. To enrich themselves the Repubii
cans had passed the Sherman silver bill
and, after the president had signed it, the
world first learned that silver no longer
had any value as money and was simply
worth as much as the same amount of pig.
iron. When the Democrats sought to right
the wrong done by passing the Bland bill,
Tom Reed Of Maine voted against it, and
yet Reed had been sent to Montana by the
Republicans to help carry the state for
their party-a man who was a notorious
goldbug and opposed to silver.
Taking up the matter OF the tariff, the
speaker said hat he had always cons,d.
cred the question Of raising the necessary
revenue q matter OF sectional adjustment.
So long as the eastern states w~ereprotected
in their productions and the southern
states in theirs n were benefited thereby
other portions of the country should be
satisfied. So long as Montana was looked
after in the production of its copper, gold,
wool silver and other products and re,
ceived it's benefits, it should be satisfied
and il he were elected representative he
would see that the state would continue to
receive it's share and not get left in
the deal.
The reason why Reed was taking such a
deep interest 10 the election of Carter was
because Reed was a candidate for speaker
OF the house ard if Carter were elected in
duty bound he would have to vote for
Reed as speaker, in case the latter were
agreed upon in caucus as a candidate for
the chair. Carter had either to do it or
bolt the caucus. The speaker of the house
wac the nro Whn onrointod oil oannrnir
tees and with Reed in the chair and his
well known antagonism to silver the people
OF Montana could expect but little from his
hands. After leaving here Reed had tele-
graphed back that he was a bi-metallist but
while he was here he had been afraid to say
q word in favor OF silver orfear of offending
his gold loving friends in the East, from whom
he expected to derive his principal support.
To protect the silver interests, the speaker
said, it was necessary for the people to
vote the Republican party out OF existence.
The Republicans we're endeavoring to make
great capital out of the fact that Harrison
had appointed residents of. Montana to
Office. In this matter Harrison could we'll
afford to be generous for he knew that it
would be but few months until those
men would he asked to step down
and out and give way to men
whom the people Of the new state
would select in their places. But
even in the selection OF those temporary
officers a bald headed young man who had
free access to his mothers bed-chamber
b I'd something to say and the leaders were
not consulted at all. Sheridan's bloody
shirt speeches md the arguments OF Reed,
Horn aud other imported Republican
speakers were reviewed and touched up in
the majors peculiar manner, and he said
that thoU Unra a narti0n ~ tho huosr o,l
Doodle sent out from the east to make the
election result in favor OF the Repub.
licans.
The bugaboo gotten up by the Repuhli-
cans that Marcus DAILY would spring q
pamphlet just before the election which
would reflect upon some of the Re-
publican candidates was taken up.
speaker said. the member OF
which were afraid to 60 to sleep at night
for fear they would wake up in the morning
to discover that the people had found out
something about them. Brief reference was
made to the old Indian ring and trial of
OF the members at Deer Lodge, where
the leaders were acquire ed and a few of their
catspaws made to suffer. WAS the Repub-
lican candidate for governor nominated for
his brains or boodle?" the speaker asked,
and a man in the audience promptly cried
out "Boodle!" "Of course it was boodle,"
said the speaker, land now that he has
furnished the grease to keep the wagon roll
ing, the other fellows refuse to let him ride
and drop him out"
The fine Italian hand of Col. Sanders in
the man pulation of the present Republican
campaign was next shown. The colonel
again a candidate, Notwithstanding
his repeated defeats; not on the ticket, it
is true, but behind it as q candidate for the
If the Republicans were successful
he would get there and probably pull Lee
Mantle in by the coattails.
The personal attacks made upon the
by Carter were then referred to.
AS to the speakers war record, he would
leave that to his Grand Army comrades, |
and as to his public record as an officer, he |
would let the people of Montana say
it was good or bad, and as to his |
private character as a man, he would let
his neighbors and those who knew him be
the judges.
A stirring appeal for the election of
the Hon. j. X. Toole was made and his |
to the people of Montana held up |
and a glowing tribute was paid to him as a
statesman and an honest and pure man..
himself, the speaker said that in case he
we're elected he would endeavor to serve
the interests of the people OF the state, and
that in doing SO ne would know neither
Democrat nor Republican.
The Democratic party had covered the
for twenty-five years, and had
it well and honestly, aud the peo-
pie would trust the Democrats again.
This the Republicans knew, and
we're trying to raise a cry against
The big Four" The largest and most
prosperous concerns in the territ DRY were
managed by Democrats. and Democrats
we're behind all the big institutions of the
state. They built railroads, con-.
banks and even built the largest
in the world 80 that the Demo.
,rats could battle and become as clean as
their al istocratic Republican brethren and
could no longer be called the great un-
Washed" Seligman, Hirshield and other
lights OF the Republi, an party in
were saying that Marcus DAILY
vas c~oercing his men and compelling
Them to vote as he dictated. Twill the
people believe such men as Seligman who
vas kel a prisoner twelve hours by miners
Who wanted their pay and who was finally
by the boys when his father tele-
him the money? Or will they b.
ieve a man who has built the greatest re- !
luction works in the world?" The speaker
had been accused OF being opposed to the !
law and Australian system OF vot-
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