The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-09-13

man can 10 seen driving up tns AVENUE,
usually behind u pair Of handsome bays,
but occasionally the team Is AZ pretty a
pair OF piehald ponies aa you ever snw.
They are the product of nm Interesting ex-
pertinent In artificial breeding, being out
OF % pure blood Shetland pony by the grcat
~,.allion Eiectionear.
; Prospect Hill farm, Miller IL Sibley
troprietors, IL known to horsemen all over
The country. Mr.. Miller is the practical
man OF the firm. Fifty thousand dollar
stations and 10000 Jersey bulls are the
kind of products the farm raises-and 1t
pays Their speciality Is tho celebrated Flee
tioncer fast trotting stock.
Congressman Sibley is the only straight
free coinage man In the Pennsylvania dele
CATION. The house was prepared for the
side he took in the silver debate, because
Mr.. Bland had one the unprecedented
thing of nominating this new member for
the craftsmanship Of the free silver caucus.
1t was not prepared, however, for the
speech delivered. 1t was remarkable for q
new member. Not that it was statesman
like and grand. 1t was not. But the speak.
err had evidently studied the question, and
he bnbbled over with fncts, figures, fancics,
quotations and stories like water over q
cataract. He used no notes whatever, but
everything came tripping along smoothly,
and when members began to ply him with
questions they caused not the least embar-
rnssment, His speech was as disjointed as
though it were q Methodist cxhortation,
but IL presented one side of the silver de-
bate forcibly and well.
The speakers manner rather set off his
speech. Both delivery and phrascology
were picturesque and attractive. There
yva q a ,,1tnrlinr ri arrr,ypart Recommendations
of Wall street and of the banks, with ap-
peals for the farmer and the laborer. The
vernacular of the poker table tostled with
Biblical quotations, which were used with
great frequency. Poetry was recited free
ly, history from Pharaoh to George l and
to modern times was brought forth from
its recesses, and piquancy was given by the
speakers w humor to it all.
A new date of birth WAS given to the
Democratic party, which has been popular
ly supposed to date from jefferson, the
speaker naming as the first great Democrat
Christ, who said every man who was naked
and hungry and sick was his brother, and
who had been crucified not because of any
religious ideas that he possessed different
from the masses" but because The had con
demned the extortioner and Ahe oppressor
and had dared to scourge themoney chang
ers from the temple Of the living God"
So far as the argument Of the speaker
went it hinged around the propositions that
the fall in the prices Of commodities since
1873 had been caused by the demonetiza-
ton of silver, that gold had appreciated
and that our legislation against silver had
fostered grain and cotton competition in
India by enabling England to buy silver
here at low rates and use it as full legal
tender in India.
One of the best of Mr.. Sibley's humorous
passages was applied to Representative
Harter, whom he said he always liked to
hear, because he bubbled over in such an
easy, pleasant way. "He heaves md pitches
and springs & leak here and springs a leak
there [laughter], reminding him (Sibley)
Of Mark Twain's storm Oh the Erie canal:
She heaved and sot, and sot and heaved,
And high her rudder flung,
And every time she sot and heaved
A mighty leak she sprung.
In appearance Mr.. Sibley is 6 feet high,
well but not fieshily built, weight about
1856 pounds, face smooth shaver and ex-
pressive, head rather sparsely covered with
hair and countenance mild and good tenn
pered. BANKS RICHARDSON.