The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-12-19
A DEMOCRATIC CLUB FORMED.
It Starts Out AuspiciOusly with a Mem
bership of Nearly One Hun
dred.
An Enthusiastic and Very Satislac-
tory Meeting-Many Pres
ent.

capacity Saturday eve by those anxious
to participate in the formation of a
Democratic club. The meeting showed
that the cause of democracy has lost
none of it's adherents in this city since
the last campaign. and that the old time
enthusiasm which the principles of the
party always arouse when clearly and
tersely stated has, if anything, increased.
If so much enthusiasm and genuine in
terest can be shown in an off year when
political clubs are apt to become almost
inert the teachings and principles Of the
democratic party are net quite 50 dead
as the screcd in last evenings Leader al
tempted to show. With so much genuine
interest shown at its first meeting
the new democratic cub certainly starts
out auspiciousiy. II the other clubs of
that party now forming and being
formed all over the state are organized
under such favorable circumstances the
enemy must look well to his colors next
year.
Last nights audience embraced labor.
ing, business and professional men and
was confined to no particular class or
clique. AS had been previously an
nounced. the meeting commenced with
an address by Mr.. W. J. Reese. after
Which a temporary organization was
effected. 1t was about IA quarter past
eight when the gentleman began
speaking and for AN hour or
more he closely held the attention
of a rapidly increasing audience. BY the
time he finished his address the hall was
literally packed and quite IA number
stood out IN the corridor and ON the
stairs unable to gain admittancc. Ic is
a clear. forcible speaker amt everything
he said had the ring OF logic and com
mon sense. The lights were turned
down through his discourse in order to
display some well selected pictures by
means of a ~stcreoptican. These were
thrown on Il large canvass and were
valuable aids to the speaker.
The pictures were. as a rule. carica-
lures, many of which were greeted with
bursts OF laughter and applause. The
pictures displaying the evils with which
protection is fraught were works Of art
in IA way which added to the strength
of the speakers arguments. The repre-
sentation Of the great Chinese wall Of
protection which kept out the products
Of other countries but admitted the
working men of all lands made Il great
hit. Free trade wa a bugabo and an
impossibility. 1t existed only III the
minds of the republican leaders who
wished to pull the wool over the voters
eyes, said the speaker. The hydra of
, protection was also shown with Uncle
Sam trying in vain to knock oil its
,,n,Cr,I,, ho,ls Einb hn.tl rnprn-
, scented one Of the great trusts.
, The treatment the Mills bill received
in the republican senate was shown in a
, characteristic caricature. In cradle
. lay the Mills baby sleeping co%ntentedly.
while the chairman Of the ways and
means committee of the senate, dressed
as a nurse. was attempting to steal the
y, happy child and replace it with an ugly
4 looking nondcscript. The speaker SAID
the republican party was always talking
l about reforming the tariff, but instead
of doing that they revised" and always
4 revised it up instead of down for the
1 benefit of the manufacturers. The pan
American congress was opened with 4
y great speech by tine secre
: tary of state and the republican
a organs promised great things for tbs
country as a result of the congress. Bu'
what did it do? Practically nothing
, Because when the delegates attempted
, to draft any measures in the interest %
an increase of trade with this cOuntr,
they ran against the great barrier of pro
p, lection. Reciprocity was Il republican
name for free trade on the plan "yo.
p tickle me ard ! will tickle YOU Pro
. lection, instead Of giving the laborin.
q man 4 home, had taken it away from
him.
The speaker had seen many CRANE
sights, but the grandest WAS a contenteC
I happy home for the working man. When
democracy went out of power before thu
war tive-eighths Of the people of tn
country owned their own homes and nov
only about three-eighths own them. II
lS47 only one man in America coulC
y boast of having five millions and nov
n about twenty-five thousand men contro
e thirty-one billions and in twenty year
q time fifty thousand men will W every
thing anu the rest of us be slaves.
y The speaker advised his hearers t.
n stick to the democratic party, not TO b'
S IA mugwump. \ mugwump was IKE {
mule, it can't boast of its ancestry. coul'
never have posterity and is always KICK
S ing. With other pictures all to the poin
I anu SoHle STIRRING duNlCc I " tI' souhS
y men of the party, the speaker closed IN
t interesting and Instructive address.
r The speech of MIR. Reese was closel.
listened to by all and frequently ap
G plauded.
r The work of perfecting IA Temporal,
organization was then gone through. W
n. Fletcher was chosen temporary chair
man and O. +. Schoenfeldt Temporal.
secretary. The following were appointed
a committee ON permanent organization
T. II. Collins, a. }. Shores, j. w. Stan
! ton. DR.. Crutcher, G. ). Gibson, F.. Il
IT, Judd and John Burke. 4 committee OF
=, bylaws consisting Of j. K. Clark. L. +
,, Collins, Il. w. Cooley, Charles Wegnc
~ and Judge Hansen were appointed
II These committees will report ut the mex
" meeting Of the club when permanent or
50 oanization will be perfected Saturda
next.
u L. II. Collins was called o n for a speecI
5. and was greeted with applause. He sal
y he was not prepared to make "A very eA