The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-23
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How Two of Its Best Friends
Talked in Butte.
FACTS IN THE CASE
Plain Words at Last Nights Rally in
the Opera House.
BUTTE HEARD THE TRUTH


Sibley and Warner Are Our Kind
OF People-Thousands Listened
TO Them as They Knocked Car
Isle Out and Eade Defiance 70
the Old-Line Politiclans-Earne
| Words About the Parties That
VIII Figure in the Rivalry OF
Next Year-EloQuent Warning
mat II Is Now or Never for
Those Who Want Silver to Have
a Chance-The Silver Question
Summed Up in Two Earnest Ad-
dresses.
Butte, May PA grand ovation
greeted General A. j. Warner. presi-
dent OF the Bimetallic League. and
Hon. Joseph c. Sibley of Pennsylvania.
who addressed this evening an audi
ence that filled the opera house to the
doors. While the people of Butte are.
perhaps. in little need of instruction
on silver, the patent fact that eloquent
speakers and clear thinkers in the East
are with them in the great fight was
IKE an inspiration to everyone. and
the meeting was most enthusiastic.
Every seat was taken, although the
meeting had not been well advertised.
and many people were forced to stand
whlle they listened to the able orators
from the East. On the stage were
seated number of prominent men,
including Judge w. w. Dixon. Cover
nor Richards. II. c. Kessler. DR.. j. w.
Gum, M. kirkpatrick, Judge STABLE
ton' Judge De Wolfe, John II. Curtis,
II. L. Frank. +. Z. Sergeant. p. J.
RrnphV n Il
c. F. Booth, Patrick ConIon, DR.. Mon
roe, e. o. Dugan, Mayor Thompson, II.
A. Neidenhofen, John Caplice. DIR. Nc
Donald and William Winters.
Judge De Wolfe, who acted as chair
man of the meeting, said: Ladies' and
Gentlemen: The grateful and welcome
duty of introducing the speakers of
this evening has been placed upon me.
I will say but one thing. II has been
widely published that the only people
who demand the reconciliation of sill
yer are few silver mine owners in the
states of the West. These gentlemen
have Travelled largely, have studied
this question thoroughly and have dis
cussed 1t with hundreds, and they will
tell you that, not alone from the silver
producing states of the West, but east
and west and north and south the de-
mand is growing for a restoration of
the peoples money" The Judge then
introduced Mr.. Sibley, who was greeted
with thunderous applause. He spoke
for an hour and a half, holding the
closest attention of his audience
throughout. He is an eloquent, logical
and convincing speaker He said in
part:
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle !
men: l have not come here in an at !
tempt to enlighten you on what is
known as the silver problem. I am |
aware that our great executive said re- /
Gently that ignorance is largely respon-
sible for the views held by so many
people on the silver question, and he
adds that a simple and plain presenta-
ton OF the doctrine of sound money is
all that is needed. / have thought IL
to be regretted that the
founders Of our republic did not pro-
vide, in the constitution, that a man
who had never crossed the Missouri
river would be ineligible 10 the office
II president In the presidents biog-
'aphy II is related that when a boy he
was engaged in teaching a blind school
n New York, but on arriving al the
age Of 16 he moved West and located at
5unalo, n. Y. Naughter) The pres
dent holds the impression that the
title hyspeck on the map, New York
ity, is the business center Of the North
American continent.
I'VE have not come here. l say. To
YOU on the silver question.
'ut rather To absorb some Of the en-
husiasm which is so purely western /
roduct-to appeal TO you to come over
nto Macedonia and help US. We don't
ring the light, we want you to enlight-
n us, to send men East to talk TO US.
the Rocky Mountain region and the
'aci1c states are not absolutely, heart
nd soul, for this cause there is very
tile use in extending the proposition
lsewhere.
Cleveland promised this country an
bJect lesson, and we have had IL for ,
NO years now-an object lesson Of
old monometallism. 1t is a difficult J
hing to talk in town like Butte of
ard times. 1t is difficult to get you 10 ,
ealize the bankruptcies, the failures 7
he hardships in other parts Of the n
md; Of the 5000 suicides which fiji the a
raves since he began his object lesson. y
owhere else on the continent do men =
Fl such wages as you get here. You I
re so prosperous that il is hard To ,,
AXE you realize the wrecks and the .
stress that prevail in the East. II is v
ated that more than 4O00. 900 Ameri- v
IN workingmen are unemployed. That c
cans that from u 000. 600 10 5000 900 g
merican people are living below their a
opacity. They say the trouble is due d
oye-producti1n, oyerspeculation. . d
hat talk first began in 1S73 n
In the East the speaker say the o
1uble is because the tariff is not high d
Ough 10 build up a home market for y
G farmer. but the farmer II the West =,