The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1894-11-02
C0TTONWODD HALL MEETING.

Judge Kirkpatrick and Charles Lane
Make Telling Speeches for Anaconda.
Y ithn ten minutes Of the Clisbandment
| Of the parade the house was iammeCl, and
| during the next half hour scores We're
turned away, .~-
l)r. 4. III. Mitchell, president Of the
local Anaconda for the-capital club, pre-
sided and seated on the stage with him
were a large number Of prominent citi-
zens aud visitors. He prelaced the meet
ing by saying that we should tonight
hear unansWerablc reasons why our citi-
zens should vote for our sister citv Of
Anaconda for the capital instead Of cast
ing their ballots for our arch enemy,
Helena. Then, after q well rendered
quartet by the Colored Glec club, he in
trotluced Judge NJ. Kirkpatrick of Butte.
Judge kirkpatrick is q most pleasant
and convincing logician. lie dwelt ON
the magnificent future Of Montana, par
ticularly that Of this valley and in fact
Of the whole West Side. lie paid a glow
ing tribute TO Deer Lodge and insisted
that no town in the state had IL more vital
Interest in the proper settlement of the
capita question than Deer Lodge Moth
ing more would contribute to our future
prosperity than the location Of the CAPT
TIL in Anaconda. The advantages OF a
capital were not of such vital Importance
To an old and we'll settled state. but to
any given section in a new State they
were incalcnlable. 1t matters greatly TO
us, therefore, the fixing Of the state capi=
tai i'll this contest. The speaker then
went on at considerable length to show
that the greater benefits that would ac-
crue to Anaconda in this matter would be
shared equally by Deer Lodge and Deer
Lodge valley. 1t seemed Incredible to
him that any Of our citizens should vote
Tor Helena instead Of our neighboring
city Independent OF local interests,
and on the broader view Of public inter
est, Judge kirkpatrick maintained that
Anaconda does not shrink from the test.
lie emphatically asserted that Anaconda
is nearer the center Of population than
Helena. In support of this he cited the
compact populations Or Butte Missoula
and Deer Lodge and avcrred that in the
last election the West Side polled quite
il not more than so per cent. OF the en-
tire vote of the state. And it is not ques-
toned, he said, that these magnificent
valleys, these great centers of mining
operations, as yet barely touched by the
hand of industry, would at no distant day
more than quadruple their present popu-
lation. Than those of the East Side the
valleys are Of lower elevation, their soil
is of greater fertility and their climate is
milder and more congenial. Nothing
can change these conditions and their
population must essentially increase in
greater ratio. Touching the relative
railroad facilities Of Helena and Ana
conda, Judge kirkpatrick said that even
admitting Helena had infinitely superior
facilities, which she really had rot, Hell
ena is finished while Anaconda is but
begun. The gigantic Industrial interests
of Butte command the building there Of
all the great transcontinental lines, aud
the location of the capital in Anaconda,
in connection with it's industrial interests,
will necessitate the extension of these
lines to Anaconda and on through to the
great regions beyond. The Judge thor
oughly exploded all of Helena's other