The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-09-14
And Assures Her Of Generous anu
United Support in the Coming
Contest.
Largely Attended Meeting Of Citizens
at the Opera House Last
Night.
Good and Pertinent Reasons why
Helena Should Not Get Any
support.

for the Capital club was helu al the
Great Falls opera house Monday and
was an evidence of how the people oil
this city feel upon the subject. The
onera house was filed to its seating ca
pacity, there being fully 1000 in attend
apce. Among the audience were many
ladies who evinced not only an interest
IN the speeches but manifested it with
generous applause. Across the stage
was a large banner, on one end OF which
was n representation Of the b. and M.
smelter and on the other OF the Rainbow
falls. Between them was a long train OF
cars carrying ore and coal. On the
banner was the inscription; Great
Falls for Enterprise, Anaconda for the
Capital." The city band was in attend
auce and during the evening rendered a
number of choice selections. On the stage
there we're seated the officers and several
members OF the Anaconda for the Capt.
tai club. The meeting was as enthusi-
sstic as it was large. and all who at
tended we're more than pleased with the
speeches they listened to.
AT the box office the membership roll
was in view and wac signed by about
200, which number would have been
much increased had it been known gen.
orally the book was there.
CALLED TO RIDE
President C. M. Webster of the club
called the meeting to order and said:
Ladies and Gentlemen and Gentlemen
of the Anaconda for the Capital Club:
I congratulate you upon the success OF
this your second meeting. This audi
ence Is indeed significant, made up as it
is of people interested in a common
cause, bound together by affiliations Of
business, of politics, of religion, or soci-
ETY.. / am very glad indeed OF one prin-
ciple which has been inaugurated by
this Anaconda for the Capital club. and
that is that while they propose to work
for the cause in which they are enlisted
they have no asperson to cast upon those
having opposite opinions. Applause.
Let US pursue that course and success
will follow. Tue malignity shown in a
leading editorial in the Helena indie.
pendent of yesterday and reechoed
fayorably by other organs of the same
ilk, while thoroughly consistent with the
spirit which has ever been shown by
Helena for this community, should in.
deed be tolerated by us, for every day il
makes more friends for Great Falls and
more votes for Anaconda. Applause.
have the pleasure Of introducing tc
you the chairman of the evening, MIR
Chinevert. The name Of the president
was greeted with applause and on taking
the chair Mr.. Chinevert simply said
Ladies and gentlemen, | have the honor
of presenting Mr.. Samuel Stevenson
who will address you.
MIR. s~TEvENsoN's FEC
Mr.. Stevenson began his remarks b!
saying they had met to discuss a ques
ton of interest to every citizen of Mon
tana, as it was not probable the voter
would ever have another chance to cas-
their votes for the permanent capital o
the state. Great Falls and Anacond'
are naturally allied in a business sense
He who destined the course OF the rive
and placed the minerals beneath the sol
SO shaped the natural resources of thes
LWO ET6hL CltiCb thut "O puouRA otuhu q
commercial and business allies and b.
eternal friends. In one Of the Heleni
pamphlets Great Falls had been appealed
to to vote for Helena on the groun'
of loyalty and patriotism and it woul'
have been we'll il Helena had show
signs of this patriotic sentiment year
ago. For his part he believed that sci
preservation was the first principle O
patriotism ed when the voters of Grea
Falls go to the polls they will vote t
subserve their own best interests an
that will be a patriotism nobody can fin'
fault with. In that same circular Helen
claims to be the social center OF tn
state, to have more and better churches
more schools, more club houses an
better society than any other city in tn
state, that it is a paradise for the me
we send to the legislature. once in tw
years, that they have wonderful advan
tages to entertain there, and though h
read that pamphlet while he was gain
down the pathway that leads to tn
legislature, he did not change his opin
ion on the capital question. He was o
the opinion that men we're sent to tn
legislature to make laws, not to shine i
society. IApplause.l II there is to be
social center in this state we need
closer at home,
HERE IN GREAT FALLS,
the city of educated and cultured me
and women. Applause. He took
that when they cast their votes the
would cast them for the city which ca
do the most for Great Falls. That is
plain proposition that could be solve
after a moments reflection. Both lie
ena and Great Falls are manufacturin
cities, and whatever Helena gains is
loss to Great Falls and whatever Grea
Falls gains is a loss to Helena. lAI
plause.l ,
Helena could not be expected to hel
bring one industry to Great Falls; w
know their record. When they bega
TO Law out the foundations Of this cit
the citizens of Helena ridiculed the ide
as preposterous; when the citizens {
Cascade county desired to be segregate