Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-25
THE NAN FROM MAINE.
A Speaker From the Spruce Gum STATE
Turned Loose in Montana.

Turned Loose In montana.
From Tuesdays Daily.
One of the "big guns'' whom the Repub
lican nttional committee has sent to Mon
tana to help elect two Republican Senators
from the new state. Hon. Thos. B. Reid
OF Main, was in town yesterday, and ir
company with several prominent members
of the party here went up to Walkervillf
and Centervil lie last evening. They went
to Walkerville first and reached Center
vile about 8 O'Clock. Theparty consisted
besides Mr.. Reid, of W. Fl. De Witt and A
N. Harwood, candidate for associate jus.
tees of the supreme court, Col. Dolman,
W. o. Speer and other lesser lights. The
meeting was hold in a room in the school
house and vas presided over by Uncle
Sohn Hendrew, who could not resist the
opportunity to air his o~ratory
in q magniloquent introduction Of
the speakers. He faoundered round in q
sea OF adjectives, in which noble, honora.
BILE and other exalted attributes were made
to do duty in entire disregard OF their
fitness OF applicability.
liz order to give the speaker of the even.
ing a breathing spell" Brother Speer lifted
up his strident voice in holy horror and
pious griefat the atrocity OF the "Big Four"
or any two OF them, aspiring to the United
States senate, and shrieked forth a warn
ing to his auditors that if they didn't want
to be herded to the polls like SO many
cattle for all time to come they would vote
nth tho Ponuhlioon norku uhich IN oo tho
real friend OF the laboring man.
The "big gum was then introduced by
Uncle John as the Hon. Philip B. Reed OF
Maine, and Mr.. Hendrew could not help in
dulging in some prolix and disconnected re-
marks concerning the "Plumed Knight"
but finally subsided. Mr.. Reed hadn't
made much use OF the chance to recover
his wind for he was very brief and very
subdued. His address, which was more in
the character of observations than q
speech, was. as was to be expected, q plea
In behalf OF the Republican party. After q
few Introductory sentences as to the object
Of politics, which he defined as the art of
government, he laid it down as an axiom
that the first thing q man ought to do was
to belong to g good party and then pro-
ceeded to rehearse the reasons that struck
him most forcibly why there was only one
good party and that the Republican.
About all he could just then particularize
in proof Of the assertion was the passage OF
the homestead law, by which he
claimed the whole west had become opened
up to settlement, and the credit for which
was exclusively due to the Republican party.
The great continental roads were also to
be credited 10 that party, though he failed
to make any reference to such enormous
steals az the Credit Mobilier and the whole
sale gift Of the public domain to those
roads. Neither did he cay that the great
northwest was first secured to the nation
by the Democratic party through its
founder. Thomas Jefferson.
The gratitude that people in Montana
ought naturally to bear towards the Re-
here, according to Mr.. Reed, ought to bear
its legitimate fruit in doing nothing that
would impair the party's supremacy by
y Democratic congressman and
senators to Washingt on. The
party was in the majority now,
and 1t would be foolish for the
people OF Montana to send q mar
to congress who would necessarily be allie,l
to a minority party. This brought him to
in which connection he ad.
vanced the theory that il it had not been
adopted this country would to-day be in.
ferior to every other nation. He told his
auditors they were in swaddling clothes
and had better take their political
from him and the party he repre-.
This led him to make some invid.
ious remarks concerning the 'Solii South"
as though there we've no Democrats any
where in the country but there. He assured
his hearers that the Democratic was a dead
and defeated party, though if thatwere the
ease he did not assign any reason for his
presence iu the hest Of q critical campaign |
5000 miles from his home to try to u,ake |
votes for the Republican party and enable |
to beat such a very dead party as he |
wanted his hearers to believe the Demo. 1
rats were. He seemed to realize that the |
candidates had something I
laturall, Objectionable about then, for
le pleaded with his hearers that even
I they did dislike them it would
safer to trust them to do what the
7oters wanted than men whom they nat
lrally liked, as he certainly admitted the
to be-. He had no personal
Iru ige against the South or Southern men,
but he did allhe could to arouse his hear.
'rs' ptetudices against that section, saying
he Southern men never Travelled anywhere
knew nothing outside their own section,
Bhile Northern men were exactly the re-
,erse.
Mr.. Reed played upon the sectional issue