Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1889-05-18
ALL REJOICING.
GREAT FALLS CELEBRATES WITH
ENTHUSIASM.
The Populace Greet the Victor liable
Speeches by Messrs. Gibson,
Collins, Taylor and
COckril1.

Good news continued to come in from
all quarters Thursday The telegraph
wires were laden with reports of demo.
cratic victories in Silver Bow, Deer
Lodge, Helena and republican strong
holds, which Col. McCutcheon had down
on the ''sure" list that he showed all who
belonged to the "machine.'
Judge Larkin and other country demo.
Gratis from the country precincts came in
with tidings that the tidal wave was roll
ing on for Gibson and Collins. Bon fires
in mining camps and pioneer settlements
had spread the good news from the Sun
river limits to the bench lands of Kibbey
and Belt.
The city democracy accordingly re-
solved to celebrate. Toward evening the
air resounded with music. Sand Coulea,
the smelter and the railroad districts sent
in contingents,who gathered with the local
democracy at the Park hotel to hold a
good, old time celebration in honor of the
democratic victory. The large crowd
were full Of enthusiasm and patriotic
ardor 1t was composed Of merchants,
lawyers, doctors and above all stalwart
! workin. men, whose honest faces beamed
with pleasure. 1.r
Councilman Jerry Collins presided.
He called on Hon. Paris Gibson to address
the assemblage. Mr.. Gibson, who was
received with enthusiastic cheers, spoke
in effect as follows
Fellow citizens: 1 congratulate you and
all Cascade county on the victory achiev-
ed yesterday. If there were ever any
doubt that Cascade would be foremost
among the democratic counties that doubt
has been set at rest by the popular ver-
dict of yesterday which enrolls Cascade
henceforth under the democratic banner.
Seldom in politics were the lines so clear
ly drawn. The test was purely political.
The republicans put forward Charles M.
ty leader in this county. He is an able,
bright, popular man, and no one here
could have polled a stronger republican
vote In the face of all this the vote he
received falls far short of that recorded
plause.] This is due to your energy, dis
cipline and enthusiasm which have made
Cascade democratic, and will! keep herso,
and don't you forget it. (Applause.
| have never doubted the result here OF
elsewhere. All discords have been heal
ed. When | saw the democratic leaders
i'll Silver Bow and throughout Montana
standing shoulder to shoulder l knew
that Montana would surely enroll herself
among the democrat States Nowhere is
the party better organized. Nowhere
has it nobler, truer or abler leaders. No
where is the rank and file more earnest or
more loyal to the democratic cause. (Ap-
plause. If you continue with like pub
lie spirit to do your duty we shall score
in the fall another victory that will re-
dound to the honor OF Great Falls and all
Montana. [Cheers.
George W. Taylor then made spirited
address, which was received with hearty
applause.
Hon. r. Il. Collins, the delegate-elect,
said: 81 rejoice with you at this victory
in the interest Of good government, which
is due, fellow-citizens, to your irresistible
ardor, which has carried all before it.
[Applause.] 1t is meet and proper that
Montana should be democratic; for the
brightest pages Of her history are associ
ated with the supremacy Of the demo-
cratic party, under whose imperial sgis
towns have been founded, mines been
opened and the foundations have been
laid firmly and securely Of the noblest
commonwealth in the American union.
Applause. It is proper that democrats
should launch the ship of state, but there
will be no politics in the convention. 1t
will be our duty there to frame consti-
tuition that will confer benefits equally on
every citizen of Montana. [Cbeers.] We
can do so with such veterans as Clark
and Dixon, Maginnis and Toole, and
Paris Gibson, our own delegate" Cheers.
Mr.. Collins alluded good-hrmoredly to
the republican strife and concluded amid
hearty cheering.
Mr.. Cockrill made an able address, In
which he spoke Of the duties which would
devolve on the convention.
Judge Larkin, an old timer from Alder
Gulch but now of Kibbey, made good
homely talk, which was we'll received.