The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-11-02

ana pray JnHJ tno I1eleud men WOulu Dc
made to see the error Of their ways and
cease abuse and lying and if they had
any spare time they could devote it to
the conversion of the Chinese in that city.
Laughter aud Applause. There we're oc.
csslons in which women might with pro-
priety take a part such as the great tenn
perance movement IN Iowa,and when they
started in to pray Breckenridge out of
congress in Kentucky, and did it. lap
plause But here no such condition ex-
listed, no moral question was involved.
1t was simply a question as to which OF
two Montana cities should be selected as
the permanent capital, and Anaconda
would get it with
VOTES, o PRAYERS.
[Applausel He next referred to W. A.
Clark, and said he had a perfect right to
express his preference for Helena,
but he had no right to
run down his own city and
try to injure the industries of
the state, which he had done, and for
which they had a right to c~riticise him.
Among other things Mr.. Clark had
made a wholesale onslaught upon the
Anaconda company as an INSCRIPTIONS
corporation, while every one who knew
anything knew hat the auimus of his
attack was because he had been de-
prived Of a long coveted political snap.
Applausel MI. Clark had also quoted
a long list of other corporations in
Butte, which, he said, attended to their
business and did not interfere in politics.
In response to this the speaker quoted
the notice in the Butte e. Boston mine
that any man found electioneering for
Anaconda would be discharged, and said
further that there was hardly a cor
poration in Butte that when it served
its purposes did not do all it could to
vote it's employees as it desired to, but
fortunately. under the Australian sys-
tenn, they did not always succeed. lap.
plause
Referring to the silly story of Anacon-
da being a one.man town and no one
being permitted to do business there, he
quoted from r. q. Dun's business direc.
tory, which showed there are in Anacon-
da l13 men engaged in business pursuits
who are not in any connected
the Anaconda company. Applause
There were also nearly 700 workingmen
who owned their own homes in Anacon-
da, and he had been informed that there
we're bat four on which there we're mort
cages. Applause. As to the charge of
Mr.. Clark that if the capital was located
at Anaconda the company would con
troll the executive, legislative and Judi.
cial departments, he said it was a poor
compliment to the officials. and that if
they could be controlled at all
THEY COULD BE CONTROLLED
in one place as we'll as another, and such
accusation came with bad grace from a
man like Mr.. Clark who had after the
last session of the legislature sent more
men home with blackened regulations
than ever occurred in tho history of the
state, and that too right under the nose
of good Helena. He did not believe in
this talk Of corruption, but he did think
that if the capital was located at Ana
conda, one of the greatest centers of Or
ganized labor in the United States, the
%workingmen would have a better chance
to secure needed legislation. Applause.
The speaker then quoted from the
speeches of Thomas III. Carter and re-
piled to them, and spoke also of the
question of geographical location and of
the numerous states whose capitals were
far from the geographical center and
also of the national capital, which is 2i0
miles from the Atlantic coast and 5000
miles from the Pacific coast. He closed
with appeal to all to vote for Anaconda,
which was loudly applauded.
The Great Falls Glee club then sang
a couple of capital songs in a manner
that brought down the house.
GEORG HALDoRN
Of Butte was next introduced, and when
the applause that greeted him had sub
sided he at first apologized for his voice.
as he was suffering from a severe cold.
He then spoke of the efforts of the Hell.
ena ladies, and spoke of the regard in
which all women should be held and are
held by men, but this regard was for
them only as women, not as politicians.
ApplauseL There was especially no
room for them in this filthy campaign.
for it had been made a campaign of
filth by Helena. He then spoke q the
Butte excursion to Missoula, in which
there were the mayor and an ey-mayor
of Butte, about 80 business men, seven
lawyers and two ministers, and yet these
gentlemen without any exception had
been branded by the Helena papers and
the Butte Miner as a band of hobos,
thugs, bribe-takers and drunkards. This
was the style Of the Helena advocates.
They might expect to make votes by
such a course for Helena, but he would
say that Anaconda did not ask a vote,
did not want a vote, and would not have
a vote that was to be secured by any
such desplcable means. [Applausel. 1t
only asked for the votes of honest men
in an honorable manner, and it asked
every honest man to set the seal of his
disapproval upon all such methods
[applause] and vote for Anaconda,
He quoted from the ladies' circular
and the introduction to it by Tom Carter,
and asked il it was not a brilliant idea
to reaqest the ministers to pray Helena
into the capital on the advice and sug
gestion of Tom Carter. IApplausel
While upon the subject of preachers he
quoted from the sermons Of several of
the Helena ministers Sunday as reported
in the Independent, and said that it was
a shame and disgrace that any such
utterances should emanate from a pulpit.
They would have been bad enough from
the stump and were
OUTRAGEOIrs IN A cIJrrpcu