Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-28
WASDEMOCRACY'S NIGHT
Rousing Meeting and Eloquent
Speaking at Walkerville
Make More Converts.
Meaderville also Comes to
the Front in Its Old
Time Manner.
From Thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily.
WaIkerviile went Democratic last nigh
and seemed to be glad OF it. There wer
bonfres in the streets and melodies in th,
air. All the citizens were out of doors ex
the other Democrats who went to TAX,
part in :he mass meeting at which Hon
George w. Cassidy, ex-congressman from
Nevada, was advertised to speak. Before
the meeting the band paraded the streets
playing patriotic airs and inspiring the
crowd, 30 that when the hour for the ex.
ercises arrived Jones' hall as crowded to
suffocation and the utmost enthusiasm
prevailed, Around the speakers stand a
number Of the leading Democrats were
seated and Dennis Driscoll lied the meet
ing to order and introduced Mr.. Cassidy,
the orator OF the evening.
Mr.. Cassidy expressed his delight at the
interest taken by the people in the forth
coming election. The issues were OF the
highest possible Importance to the people
OF Montana, and it was very important to
ascertain which party was nearest in ac-
cordaDce with the interests of the territory.
The Democratic party, as it's name i'm
piled, was the party OF the people-a party
in which the masses were arrayed against
the classes. Every honest man who be-
lieved in the principles upon which the gov
ernment was founded owed allegiance to
the party which made and fashioned this
government. Democracy had rul in the
convention which framed the constitution
OF these United States, and which gave to
each state in the Union the right that
Montana had long been striving to acquire
the right to elect its own officers and to
make its own laws. The patron saint OF
Republcanism, Alexander Hamilton, once
had a scheme, sanctioned by the Re-
publicans, that led mp to monarchy
and an empire. 1t was well to recount
these historical events, for every citizen OF
the country owed to the Democratic party
undying gratitude for every blessing he en-
iOyed. The Democrats had ruled the coun-
try for seventy years, in which time the
government had acquired every acre of
land now counted in the public domain,
Alaska alone excepted. While Democracy
had been instrumental in the acquisition
OF this land, it bad never given away SO
much as one acre to q corporation. Dur
ing twenty-four years of Republican rule
tract larger than all the New England
states, combined with New York, Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio, had been squandered on
railroad corpora tions. When the Demo-
Gratis came into power in 1854 one OF their
first acts wac to restore to the government
homes for the people. Ii the party had
done nothing more than this in the four
years OF Its rule, it should be entitled to
the everlasting thanks of the whole people.
In 1873 the Republican party struck
down the silver interest by the demopetiz-
alton of the white metal. There was no
trick about it, because il there had been
and il the Republicans had been honest.
there would have been attempt made by
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such attempt had been made. Iu 1878,
when the Democrats secured majority in
the house, their first act was an attempt to
re-monet'zs silver, to provide for it's free
and unlimited coinage, Th4 Democrats
were unanimous in this effort aad the Re-
publicans were unanimously opposed to it,
Finally in the senate the Bland
bill was compromised SO that the
government should coin 100000
silver dollars monthly and might coin
4,OOO, 900 il desired. A glance at the con-
gressional record would show which OF the
parties was the friend to the miner. Only
six Republican senator's cou he found
willing to vote for the silver bill while the
Democrats were solid for il. 1t became d
law by Democratic votes. On every occa-
sion four-fif,hs of the Democrats voted for
silver and as large a proportion "f the Re-
pubicans opposed it, because their parts
John Sherman, chairman CT the senate
committee on finance, had admitted that
that committee had u gold bug majority "f
two votes, therefore there was littls hope
for silver r for two years to come. The hope
OF silver 10y ia the election OF Democratic
congressman and ssnators.
When Mr.. Cassidy mentioned the maine
OF Major Martin Maginnis there WAS
spontaneous cheer from every throat IN
L.. l,,x~ Anl Iii a1a Flow
because he was a man OF Intelligence,
energy and honesty, the cheering was
doubled. When the name OF j. K. Toole
was mentioned the clappipg of hands, |
stamping OF feet and cheers oil appreciation
we're DIT afening. Turning in his di course
from Major Maginnis and Mr. Tooe to im'
ported eastern campaign speakers, Nr. Cas-
sidy paid his respects to Thomas Bolivar
Reed, OF Msine," who had always been An
enemy OF silver and who dared not, on his
present tour, open his mouth on the silver
question. Thomas Bolivar Reed is a gold
bug from base" said the speaker, land heis
only a sample OF his party. Heis friend oil
the monopolists and an enemy OF the
laboring man." MIR. Cassidy was amazed
at the quality OF the cruel a certain Mr.
Sheridan, not the gallant Phil, was ladling
out to the people ol the west. The speaker
had been requested to read and make re.
ply to one of Sheridan's speeches. he had
spent about an hour and q hall readlLg the
speech, but when it came to replying to 1t
he felt as did the man VINO did not spank
his child because it was 80 small he dIdn t
know where to begin. The speaker did not
know where to begin on Sheridan g speech
it was so gol darned small, like the baby. !
The Republican party platform contained
about twelve words relative to the silver
question. 1t favored the coinage of both
gold and silver, hut how much OF Ine
latter? Enough to make changer IL tne
Republicans favored the coinage OF SILVER
why did not the present administrator
coin the limit sanctioned by law instead oi
the 50, ,0OO,O 600 monthly that they must
coin? The policy OF the Harrison admin |
stration was to leave the silver question
undisturbed.
AL the legislation bearing upon the re-
strictiol OF Chinese immigration was que
wholly to the Democrats, all OF Whom mao
iavoret the exclusion OF the lepers, while
iour ffths of the Republicans advocated
their admission to this country. Ii the
Republican party was a party OF protec- |
ton, why did it not protect American men
and women against Chinese invasion and
cheap labor? Alaboring man could not con- |
slstently be a Republican. When Freslden1
Harrison was in the senate he voted eigh. |
teen times against Chinese restriction and
now his administration had practlcauy re-
pealed the restriction act. The attorney
general had rendered decision saying that
Chinese as tourists could not be excluded
rom these shores. One hundred and sixty
two OF those tourists had landed on the
last ship from China in the harbor OF Sai,
francisco, and the chances were that all OF
them would be lost before they had crossed
The country. They could never be corrdiieo
again because all Cinnamon looked alike
and smelled alike. Thomas Bolivar Reed
too was friend to the Chinaman and an
enemy of American white labor.
=. The Republicans had sqnandered more
Than $500, 900, 900 in the last "a years
trying to build a navy and when the Demo- !
Gratis came into power in 1884 they could
nhd not 80 much as a scow to represent
that vast expenditure. The money was
squandered in corrupting doubtful states
IKE Virginia where Mahone's tactics were
10 vel known. In one case, inquired into
py the naval examining board, the appro-
prlation for repairs had been 80 recklessly
squandered that even the board turned
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