The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1892-10-08
DIXON AND SMITH.
They Entertain an Audience with The Fal
lac1es and SOphisi ri-s of Free Trade.

lacies ana Snphtstri-s OF Free Trade.
Congressman w. w. Dixon, Hon. Rob
ert b. Smith of Helena, and Jesse Has
ton, democratic candidate for state
treasurer, arrived from the eastern part
of the state Wednesday morning and
spent the day in getting acquainted with
the voters of the city
In the evening the grand democratic
rally, which had been extensively ad yer
tised for several days past, was held in
the new opera house, there being fair
sized audience present composed prncl-
pally of ladies, republicans and small
boys.
The meeting was opened by John r..
Smith who introduced as the first speak
er of the evening Hon. f. G. Day, can
dldate for attorney general. Mr.. Day
spoke for about half hour and returned
thanks for the loyal support received
from residents of the city during the
past, closing with a brief explanation of
the issues dividing the two great par
ties.
Mr.. Haston was then introdu ced and
made brief address. He stated in the
beginning that he was no orator. and
consumed about three minutes in prov
ing this assertion. He had come west
when boy with cattle and had followed
the business ever since. He had not
sought the nomination and was greatly
surprised when he heard that he was
nominated. He was in the fight though
to stay and hoped that every democrat
would see that in the roundup this fall
every maverick bore the democratic
brand.
Congressman Dixon followed Mr.. Has
ton and spoke for about thirty minutes.
In this brief time he fully demonstrated
that whatever else he may have failed
to learn in congress, he did not fail to
catch on to the democratic methods of
Misrepresentation. Mr.. Dixon stated
that he was pleased to find a disposition n
among all classes to discuss the iss ues
of the campaign in calm and impair tal
spirit, and then proceeded to discuss
them in an entirely opposite manner.
After devoting considerable time to a
discussion of the tariff he passed to tn e
silver question. He did not claim that
all of the democratic party or Cleveland
were friendly to silver. but did claim
that a Majority Of the party were. He
knew further that majority of he re-
publican party and Harrison were op.
posed to it. The democrats, when ever
they had a majority in congress had
with possibly one or two exceptions
passed free coinage bill. In the last
: session OF congress majority of the
democrats had voted for it, which
seemed to satisfy Mr.. Dixon that the
democratic party was friendly to the
white metal, Notwithstanding the fac
that the last democratic congress faileC
to pass free coinage bill when they haC
138 working majority. Mr.. Dix on at
. tempted to excuse his party for thiI
failure by blaming the republican mi
: nority for the defeat Of the II. Th'
. mineral land bill was taken up next ant
after explaining it's provisions the con
gressman had the effrontery to tell hi
hearers that all the opposition his bill
met with in the last congress came from
the republican side of the house. Prob
ably he forgot that the Anaconda Stand
y ard, the official organ of the democratic
party in Montana and paper that il
backed by Marcus DAILY (who is also Mr.
Dixon's backer) has repeatedly declared
J that Speaker Crisp would not recognize
Dixon on the mineral land bill owing t.
the fact that the speaker had been ;
. member of the committee on railroad'
and was in sympathy with them, but thu
audience remembered this fact and M
applause greeted the attempt of the con
gresham to saddle his own ignominiou
= failure in this matter and the opposition
of Crisp onto the republican party. Ih'
{. segregation bill was the next subject TO
discussion. After thanking the Living
ston committee that went to Washing
ton for their assistance, Dixon explained
the bill, the different kinds of opposition
it met with, and predicted that inasmucl
as the democratic state convention ha'
seen fit to incorporate a segregation
plank in it's platform, the next congress
would feel very favorably disposed to
N wards the bill.
Hoo. Robert B. Smith vas the las
: speaker OF the evening and entertalne
!. the audience for more than an hour wit
an eloquent and interesting address. l
10 order to sustain his reputation as tn
% best tariff speaker in the state h
% plunged at once into that issue, devotin
most OF his time to an appeal to the is
norance and prejudice of those who wer
not sufficiently posted to see thloug
his game of razzle dazzle. Mr.. Smit