Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-04


case furnishes another very striking II
Illustration, especially to those who know
its inside history.
Fl THOMAS b. REED CHOSEN.
The Republican caucus at Washington
yesterday nominated Thomas B. Reed o
Maine. as speaker Of the national house
2 of representatives which will convene
IS tomorrow at Washington. A caucus
nomination by q party in majority il
9 equivalent to an election and that Mr.
0 Reed will therefore be the speaker ID
Q subject only to the uncertainty Of life,
and as the good die young it is probable
that Mr.. Reeds term Of grace will at
least overlap the meeting of congress.
Although he is bitterly opposed to every
interest upon which the present great
ness Of Montana is built and upon which
her future prosperity depends, his can
didacy has been one Of the pet themes of
Sanders, Carter and the Republican press
Of Montana including the Inter Noun
tain. That journal in its issue Of
yesterday staggers at an apology but
the stagger lacks the adroitness for fool
ing people, the skill in which has always
enabled that sheet to market its wares
in the market-places Of corruption.
Reed has always been in public life
and yet he has grown rich. He has served
his masters well, the money and tariff
kings of the East and they could, there
fore, well afford to invest him with the
riches which are known to be his with
as much certainty as the peculiar chan
nels are through which they came.
He is opposed to silver because the
men whom he serves are opposed to it.
He is opposed to any reformation of
the tariff that has for its object the
c%heapening of the necessaries of life
that the condition of the toiling and
i%nadequately paid masses Of the East
may be improved, because the men
whom he serves are opposed to it.
He is opposed to any and all legisla- .
tion in favor of the masses if it conflicts
with the unfair and unlawful advan- !
tages which the rich manufacturers and 9
money brokers Of the East already g
No man has done more during 9 9
the last decade to Cypress the poor and Q Q
build up an aristOcratic class than he, E
md the Goulds, the Huntingtons and the 2 2
Vanamakers are among the many evil n
lences of his phenomenal success. Mr..
Reed have never been enlisted in the v
ause of humanity, in the cause Of q Il
government of the people, by the people il
for the people, because there was ty
ever any money in it. Reed, the con- ci
was a dangerous man, but al
ICED, the speaker of the popular branch if
| congress will be supremacy dangerous DC
ecause of his almost unlimited power in
Is ~prerogative as speaker to name the tr
lrlous committees and it is only M
trough the committeeman that the M
Ills OF active legislation can be iss
ached. That the committees on coin az,
70 and mining will be as pronounced tn.
d bitter in their enmity towards all thu
,islation favorable to Montana and the cor
eat West no n can doubt who has els
y knowledge whatever of Reed and his nv
1t has been said that he will VIII
with a meat axe and this i'm GEO
that he will use it against all leg bef,
'tion that is opposed to the further un- thi,
:, unreasonable and unlawful accu- sec,
lations of money by the men In whose MN
vice he has grown bald of head and TESS
OF pocket. uno,
nd yet MIR. Carter votes for Mr.. Reed and
works for linn until the oil of glad hon,
moistens his sorrel locks as he OF r
the enemy Of Montana pass under to &C
wire an easy winner. NER,