The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-11-02
REPLIES
To the U~nwarranted Structures on
Himself, Charlie Lane and Others
by the Helena Orators.
REtENA'S FALSE PRETENSES
Helena Supporters Took No Advan.
tage of an Opportunity to Reply
Other Good Addresses.

wv wv iuCouu1 Nv uiIS, anu WlCu ITO
learned Of the structures on himself and
Charlie Lane and other union men by
the Helena speakers Monday night, he
at once expressed a desire to reply. The
opera house was secured and a large
crowd turned out to hear him last night.
After an overture by the Black Eagle
band j. r. Chenevert, president of the
local lodge A. Il. u, called the meeting
to order, and after reading the denuncia.
ton of Helena's methods contained in
the communication from the Lima lodge
of the A. r. u, published in another
column of The TRIBUNE, introduced
HON T BREEN
of Butte, who was greeted with prolonged
applause. Mr.. Breen said his appear
ance was Unexpectedly arranged
for, when he was notified that
people endeavoring 10 bolster up the lost
cause had said that p. Breen, Charles
DAILY were running for the capital. This
10 cIlOuCOue, l1tltnd anu ADuCOUud dIb
the candidates.
| have a copy OF a speech made here
last night by Michael j. Corbett. He
said in beginning that he came to defend
himself. | know not what he came to
defend himself against unless the Phil
ipsburg assembly of the knights of La
Dor. He made the charge that we were
appealing to organized labor to support
Anaconda. In part that is true, in part
it is as false as the man that made it.
We do ask the laboring men to vote &C.
cording to their interests. but when Cor.
bett says any laboring nan connected
with the Anaconda campaign went into
any organized body of laborers to sup
port Anaconda he stated a deliberate
lie. Applause.
MIR. Breen then read the resolutions
in which the Philipsburg assembly
warns all local assemblies against Cor
bett. ale didn't say anything about
that Applause.
Corbett also attacked Charlie Lane.
Charlie Lane has spent for street car
fare in one year in behalf of labor, more
money than Corbett ever spent. He at
tackled p. L. Boland. The latter is one
of the most conspicuous union men in
the state and he is today in Eastern
Montana asking the voters to support
unionism and Anaconda. On the other
hand, no man who has known three
years of public service in the cause Of
labor supports Helena.
Corbett states that at the time of the
Cnur d'Alene trouble he went down into
his jeans for So to assist the union.
Charlie Lane is out of pocket $500 for
the same cause, and afterwards, when
the sheriff, friendly to unions, was under
arrest, Charlie Lane was one of the ten
men who put up S35 each to defend him.
Corbett said that Peter Breen secured
in the interests of Anaconda the adop-
ton of a resolution by the Silver Bow
Trades and Labor assembly against any
candidate for the capital which tolerated
Chinese. This was adopted May IA, 1892.
Anaconda did not become a candidate
until about September l, following.
Helena touters in Butte recently gave
$500 to Paddy Burke to say that the
Anaconda company organized the mine
owners association in the Cpur d'Alenes.
Burke made the assertion, but it sounded
so thin they promised him 5000 to make ii
stick, and he has not made it stick. lap
plausel. The Butte Miner challenged
me to debate the point with Burke. We
had the debate and Burke's pay was
stopped.
To show Helena's d%espicable methods:
They went down onto the Northern Pa
citic and secured an affidavit from one
Miller concerning a conversation with
Marcus DAILY. l am requested to state
on Mr.. Days authority that the affidavit
is an Internal lie. During the A. r. U,
strike on the Northern Pacific Miller
was a despicable scab. He is now away
from those who know him and is asking
the A. r. U. boys on the Great Northern
to desert their friends. The affidavit OF
Miller is az transparent as any
Helena argument and as worthless as
one of Sam Words time checks. Cheers
After referring to the growth Of the
Anaconda assembly, Knights Of Labor
which he helped to organize, from thirty
charter members to a membership OF
LOCO, Mr.. Breen said that in Helena from
the gravel beds of the Northern Pacific
to the opium dens of Chinatown, not q
union man was to be found employed
A town where every man is a union mar
is a better location for the Legislature
than to surround the lawmakers with
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not find employment elsewhere.
Mr.. Breen then exhibited N Of Sam
Words time checks, worn and discolored
by age, and it was received with derisive
laughter and groans. at is for S5.65
and is not worth the paper, because the
blank paper is spoiled by the print
One of such checks for Si5.25, represent.
ing six weeks labor, could not be cashed
for four drinks.
Mr.. Breen then read the item pub.
lished in yesterdays TRIBUNE from the
Minneapolis Tribune concerning the
hosts of Chinese in Helena. "And men
from that city call Charlie Lane a scab
Charlie Lane, who would divide his
last two-blts with a friend and would
walk home after dark for the sake of
labor"
l can take you to any place in the
state where Helena capitalists own
mines and they pay two to four bits
lower than the Anaconda company. My
bosom friend and companion in the
Cuur d'Alenes, A. NJ. Essler, of Helena,
paid Sl.75 and board, which would tax
the stomach of a rhinoceros, while 300
feet away eastern companies and Butte
men paid $3.50.
At the time of the trouble in the Cuur
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