The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-10-27
"He Came Unto His Own, and
His Own Received
Him Not"
A FIRSTCLASS HIPPODROME.
He Chased kainbOws and 9th
erwise Delighted His
Audience.

We have had one hippodrome in
Neihart, if we never have another.
A genuine horse show has not half
the grotesque and ridiculous Incl
dents in weeks performance than
this exhibition gave in single night.
The audience roared and laughed
throughout the performance, and
when at the close Chairman Mitchell
called for three cheers for Corbett.
the hoot of derision, commonly called
the horse laugh, is what he got.
1t is provoking to a refined taste
to see an audience receive speak
er's best efforts only with ridiculous
shouts of laughter, and yet, as one of
the audience, we declare that to see
the "Cyclone" perform the double act
of bolsterng up the democratic par
ty and pushing clouds at the same
time was to see "a picture whose
broadest side is the humorous.
Mr.. Corbett had good audience
in Crawfor.l's hall, most of whom
took him for Dandy Jim Corbett, and
supposed it would be a frst-class
sparring exhibition. The report was
current all evening that Mitchell,
editor of the Miner, would assist the
star as local end-man, giving the
play a vigorous character. In this
they were not disappointed; for while
Corbett spoke, Mitchell toyed his
dainty mustache, lending happy
effect to the background.
! He opened his remarks by basing
strong plea for popular support,
not upon personal grounds, but upon
"a declaration that "a democrat can do
more during democratic admins
tration for any Montana interest than
either republican or populist can
do. He said Hartman had done
fairl y we'll, but declared that he
could have done much better. After
giving two or three vigorous sucks
at lemon, he scared off on a cloud
pushing expedition and did not come
back for some minutes. He reviewed
with pride the history of democracy
from the foundation of the party
down to the election of Grover
Cleveland-not latcr-and clearly
showed that the democratic party
had always been the bi-metallic par
ty. Here he took another pull at
the lemon and went to showing
clouds again, to the great delcctation
of the audience
He told how his proud old party
had voted on the Sherman repeal act.
and rehearsed statistics in that con
nection which probably none of the
audience had ever before heard. It
was too much for the bulk of his
hearers; strong men wept, and even
such genuine Jacksonians as Gray,
Healey and others, were compelled
to go out to check the flood Of their
grief. VIM. Tierney also pumped
up lot of brine, and Harry Skinner
was only prevented from joining the
mourners by having LEFT his hand
korchief at home.
When Corbett got back from the
clouds he begun to laud the Cor
man-Bricc sugar trust bill, which he
had the audacity to call 'sIVilson's"
bill. He said it was long step in
the right direction. He showed by
numerous quotations how the new
bill is much better than the so-caled
Mckinley act in it's application to
the working man, and then while he
heaved clouds the audience screwed
itself closer to the chairs than ever
and pitied the ignorance of would
be Montana representative. Upon
Corbett's rearrival at the earth he
knocked over glass of water in
such an ungraceful manner as to ex-
cite ripple of mirth throughout the
audience.
There was no cheering except by
some boys in the gallery, who claim
they We're hired for that purpose.
Once Judge Bennett assayed to ap-
plaud, but was overcome by look
of CONSERVATION and awe from the
entire audience. 1t was horse
show, and all the democratic "cy
clones" of this fair state would only
have made it more ridiculous and
risible.
1t is safe to say that Corbett will
long remember the people of Nei-
hart for their patient attention to his
speech. Certain it is he will remem.
ber the three cheers and after the
close by the chairman of the demo-
cratic county central committee, but
which never came. The bulk of the
audience was asleep and did not see
the farce, but it was truly the most