The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-11-01
THE REPUBLICAN MEETING.

| One Hundred People Listen to tho Pro.
tectors Of Monopolista.
second attempt was made BY oul
| friends, the enemy. to muster up political
meeting at Encore hall last night. At
eight o'clock there were Just thirty. six peo-
pie present. and at $50 about twenty more
people had struggled in, A whispered con-
sultation vas held, at which two questions
came up: ''Shall we let the meeting 60 by
default and 90 over to Judge Dixon?" and
''Shall we get out out and rustic an audi
ence2'' N. P. Walters, j. w. Thompson.
Scandinavians hurried out and secured the
streets for mon to fill the vacant chairs.
StraRglingly they rolled in, IN occasional
lady with escort entering, and by min &
O'Clock fully 100 people were in the hall.
The spirits Of Chairman Donneliy bright
ened, and the meeting was pronounced
man Is the first speaker. He said there
had been no advance in prices. He
bartered the interests of his state for a
chairmanship. It was only "rumor," he
said, and 'rumors'' were mean things. He
made a weak attempt to defend Carriers
record by saying that the present silver bill
was in reality free coinage measure in
every sense but name, because it required
the purchase of more silver than there is
produced. In closing. he said: IF you
love your state better than your party vote
inelegant remark that "if Dixon is elected
he would get so1p."
Christian DeLinde made the best speech
Of the evening. He said it was difficult to
find truth in political times but he thought
take by voting the republican ticket.
Geo. M. Bourquin, smooth-faced youth
from Butte, who holds federal office by
grace of Carter and Il. H., and who like all
other federal Office holders in the state has
been compelled to take the stump. wasthe
dress the scandinavian club, but was disap-
pointed; this to him was Scandinavian
mass meeting. The ludicrousness of this
bit of sarcasm may be appreciated when it
is stated that the scandinavian who
spoke just before him said that it had been
his intention to address the audience in his
native tongue but as Americans made up
the larger portion of the audience he had
changed his mind.
The young ofiiceholder went on at great
length making wild and reckless misstate-
ments. He declared that there was not any
duty on tin, but there would be duty Of
21fc. per pound next July. He said this
one tariff would give employment to 10000
men now idle, and followed this up with the
statement that this was the most prosper
GUS nation of the world. He likened the
coming Of Ben Harrison to the coming of
David in Bible history times when Saul had
brought disaster to the Jews. Both the
coming Of David and the coming of Ben
Harrison, he said, were the work of divine
Providence: Following on, the young man
then attacked Governor Toole in vehe-
ment manner and made this rather remark
able assertion that il the governor had had
his way as dictator, the would haye been
as they call Tom Reed, one Of the greatest
tyrants of modern times" After saying
that the present silver bill was better than
a free coinage measure, the young man sat
down.
T. G. Power, who happened in few
spoke nineteen minutes by the watch. He
chung to chair for support. Among other
things he said that Hon. w. A. Clark. T.. N.
Rumsey, president Of the Granite Noun
tain, and A. N. Hotter had strongly app
pealed to him and his colleagues to secure
the present silver law; that they didn't want
q free coinage law. In response to these
requests he said that he and Mr.. Carter
worked hard for the present silver law, and
he predicted that in two years time silver
would be worth - much az free coinage
wanted any information on the Mckinley
bill, he promised that he would tell them
anything they wanted to know, privately.
He contradioted . previous speaker on the
tin tariff by saying the duty was only raised
half cent . pound. and that il the manu-
facturers could not make the tin industry
pay by 1883, congress would restore that
article to the free list.
Capt. Wyman was next called for, but he
had bad cold and could not talk. whom
the meeting ended.