The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-10-13
TWAS A GREAT EVENT
The Old Republican War Horse In Good
Pasture.
TALE OF TWO NABOBS
Sanders Tells How He and Power
Have Suffered for this
Great State-Fun at
Mlssoula.
TALE OF TWO NABOBS
Special 10 the Standard.

Special 10 the Standard.
MIssoULA, Oct. 12.-That republican
rally last night was a glorious affair.
"There was sound of revelry by night
and the bonfires blazed, and the bombs
doomed, and the small boys yelled, and
the dogs barked, and the organ grinders
ground out "Annie Rooney" and other
national airs, and il was a glorious occa-
sion. Some republicans and large num-
Der of democrats assembled at the opera
house to hear the man who was sent to
the senate by Jack and Hall. On the
stage were gathered the youth and beauty
of the republican party of Missoula.
There was State Senator Ruth
erford, Attorney Murray, Sher-
ilf Houston, Postmaster Honsman,
County Clerk Bogart and others of prom
inence, each, like McGinty, dressed in his
best suit of clothes. Their countenances
were as serene as May morning and en-
veloped in smiles spread on as thick as
paint on chorus girls face. Down
below sat the band, packed in edgewise,
SO that the words Of the speaker could go
in at one ear and out of the other without
disturbing their gentle slumbers. The re-
served seats were filed with ladies' and
democrats and few republicans. Back
of them the house was packed. II was a
glorious occasion.
The services were opened with music by
the band, the only circumstance of the
evening. Then Mr.. Murray made speech
and the people applauded just little but
not very much. Then the old war
horse was let loose and the
audience commenced to make its
in ones and twos, then in skies and tens.
For two mortal hours and more the speech
continued. still it was a glorious occa-
sion. The old war horse did not charge
on anything in particular. He wandered
around as if he were grazing, not over the
whole world but merely from here TO
| Washington, and Mexico, and Canada,
and back TO the Tunnel precinct, and 10
| Washington again, giving an occasional
kick just to keep in practice.
Sometimes during his wanderings some
body on the stage undertook to start ap-
| plause, but the people had not been
| coached enough and did not help him
out. Occasionally Sanders got funny and
made the people laugh, and somebody
would try to applaud but make only a
partial sue cess of il. Then he would get
witty, and again his scathing sarcasm
would come down like rain on the back
of duck, and somebody would wear out
good sole leather humping the floor, and
others would go out. Still, IL was a glo
rious occasion.
The speakers best argument was to
prove that the duty OH tin plate would not
raise the cost of dinnerpails cent apiece
He talked about tariff, pairs, wool, tim
berland, pensions, Thirty-fourth precinct
worsted goods, absent senators, Carter
committee rooms, silver, Harrison and
his children, hut he did not say anything
about Russell and the lotteries anC
Grandpa Scott's real estate, and the tir
horn trip into Virginia.
He said that when he got into the sen
ate he wondered why il was that he wa,
there, and the audience wondered the
same thing. When he undertook to ex
plain Carter's position on silver, he forgo
what he was talking about and gave lii
tie discourse on absentee senators. Th'
time for applause came and the leader
gave the cue, but the people did not re
spond. Still, for all that, ii was a glori
Gus occasion. As people saw that il woul'
soon be Sunday morning, they thought o
the lines
| "For men may come and men may go
But he goes on forever"
Still il was not so serious as that. Abou
quarter to eleven, when the war hors,
" had tramped several times over the con
tinent he came up to the hitching post
That was the most glorious thing of all
Then the band played and the peopl'
went home and the great event came :