The weekly tribune., 1894-09-21

word about Anaconda. | was probably
in this state long before the editor Of the
Independent was, yet he took occasion
to devote column to no. was highly
honored, but | did 2ud fault that he
brought Paris Gibson in with me- That
was wrong. He should have abused
me and let respectable citizens
alone. Laughter The Independent
advised all audiences in Montana to
throw rotten eggs at me. The first rot
ten egg has been thrown. 1t was the
Helena Independent. and it was the
worst smelling egg | ever had thrown
at me. Applause.
Now, fellow citizens, you stand here
upon your own ground that you have
held, maintained, and fortified. You
have built up city here that is the
peer OF any in the northwest, and today
comes this contest upon you. You are
employing labor here at well paid rate;
your dinner pail brigade is keeping up
your trading institutions, your factories,
and everything of that sort. They are
building up homes and are paying for
them, and you have that interest in this
contest that you want to turn the capi
tai from the place it has been these many
years and put it where it can rear tenn
pie. Applause. He then related the
scriptural story of the loca ion Of the
ARK or THE COVENANTS
and the rejolcing of David over the
event and said it became the children of
Israel on these plains to bring up the
ark of the capital from Helena where it
has been dwelling amid trials and tribu-
lations for many years and take it to
Anaconda and establish it there as GOV.
nant, Applausel.
1t had been said in this contest there
was one man power that would destroy
their liberties. He had been in Anacon-
da and saw no difference between it and
other cities. A man could eat and drink
there what he chose so long as he paid
for it. (Applause.) He could say what
he chose, but it was different in Helena,
for there man dared not open his mouth
against Helena for the capital if he val
ued his life. (Laughter.)
Helena is a paradise for the China
man and | doubt not the Helena people
would if they could have them all regis
tered and voted this fall Applause
The patriciaus Of Helena encourage the
Chinese to come there because they
WANT THEIR CHEAP LABOR
and personal attendance IL there is
anything a Helena patrician hates it is
the tin bucket brigade. They like 70
live on a senatorial hill with forty candi-
dates for the United States senate who
dwell in peace and harmony among
among themselves until the legislature
meets when they all commences clawing
and caterwauling like cats in back
yard. Applause Anaconda is work
ingman's town, a tin bucket brigade
town, and if it is one man town all he
had to say was that he preferred a one
man town to no man town when the
one mans energies were cast in the right
direction. He thought that if the Mar
Gus DAILY devil were cast out in Anacon
da il might he found that seven
other Helena devils hand entered
in and taken possession and, like the
man in the scripture, the latter end of
the workingman of Anaconda would be
worse than the first, Applause. He
had yet to hear of any labor troubles at
Anaconda, but he was constantly hear
ing of them in Helena. A man had but
to read the telegraphic dispatches in the
papers 70 learn this.
The speaker deprecated the charges
OF
INTERESTED MOTIVES
hurled at all who favored Anaconda for
the capital, and begged the Helena men
not to let loose any more in their public
meetings that little rodent known as the
Helena skunk because it made bad
smell which offended the nostrils of the
whole public. Applause He then re-
viewed the selfish course of Helena in
regard to this section of Montana, and
asked the question il any man could
point out one thing it had ever done to
promote or further the welfare of this
section. He ContrastGl the course of
Anaconda in this respect and pointed
out what it had already done to increase
the strength of the tin bucket brigade
in Cascade county and what it promised
to do in the future. Give me every
time the Workingman's town for the
capital Of the state and we will let Hell
ena, old, vicious, toothless and bald
headed, sit down in her decrepit age
with "a Chinaman in her lap to fondle
and sing to herself her own requiem
while the tin bucket brigade goes on ad-
vancing to the polls to bury her on cleo
tion day in November. Applause.
During the evening about 200 names
were added to the membership list of
the Anaconda for the Capital club.
Where is Eden?
Many reams of good white paper have