The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-16
VERY MUCH OF A, FROST
Clark Takers Denounce the Ana
conda Company.
A LONG TRAIN OF ABUSE
Thirty-Five Men Listen to w~orthington,
Hinkle and Q In the Rear OF
ealoon-The Real Issues
sidetracked.

II. c. Worthington. J. NJ. Hinkle and
w. J. Lee addressed about IS men In
the large nal in the rear of the Eas;
Butte saloon last night In Behalf of the
Clark-for-the-senate out-for-the-stun
ticket. Martin Buckley said a few
words just before the meeting ad-
journed. Jen Sullivan was chosen
chairman of the meeting. after which
the IS men sat patiently for moro than
two hours waiting for somebody to tell
them something that could. even by the
most skillful construction of words and
sentences, be construed into some tan
gible form OF argument bearing on IN
political situation in Silver Bow coun-
ty. In this they were disappointed. The
speakers were so thoroughly bitter / IN
their denunciation Of the Anaconda
company, its management N of the
men who work for IL hat the real is
sues OF the campaign were s~idetracked
to make room for a long train Of abuse.
which vas poured on the heads of ev-
erybody connected with the
directly or indirectly. They vented
their spleen on a small but good-nat-
ured crowd of ~workingmen. The meet
ing was called ~ostensibly for the pur-
pose OF discussing the merits OF the
candidates on the mixed ticket and the
men went there to hear what the speak
ers had to say in defense OF the action
OF the several parties who put the men
on the ticket. called in Difference to
grace and convlience the "citizens'
Ticket"
II. G. Worthington was the frs,
speaker. He jumped on the Anaconda
company for hiring so many men,
among them several Swedes. and later
in the year laying on many of them,
them several Swedes. He read
extracts from the Congressional Record
to show where the democrats stood on
the silver question, and. here he was
applauded.
j. NJ. Hinkle. an attorney, followed
Mr.. Worthington and confined mis- talk
TO corporations I'm general. He hoped
the men present would break the chains
that bind them to the will of the head
of a powerful corporation whose exist
ence was becoming more and more
manifest all over the state. He ap-
pealed to them to vote the citizens
ticket and thus assert their independ-
and manhood. He told them that
the democratic ticket was not made up
OF representative democrats. but on the
OF men who were under the
thumb or the head of that big corpora
ton, and If elected must do as they
are told or lose their jobs. Whenever
any reference was made to a man los
ing his job. a tall man with brown
who leaned against a window
sill. ~applauded ii and cried, Hear.
w. J. Lee, an ex-Volunteer OF Amer
lea. evangelist. made the star effort of
them all. He went so far into facts
to the conduct of affairs by
the Anaconda company as to make him
self ridiculous. absolutely foolish. His
statements could not have been more
ABSURD IT he had garbled the utter
ances In toto Of the speakers who pre- !
ceded him. He evidently thought hat
ne was talking to a lot of looms, when |
ne essayed to tell about how things
are done In the city of Anaconda. His
knowledge Of local conditions was illus
by the fact that he made con-
slant reference to the men working in
the mine at. Anaconda" He was load
with a four-hour talk. but his voice
Jailed hin and he was obliged to end
his TRADE after an hour and a half of
pyrotechnic description of the way
are run in the mime and
boarding house" i'm Anaconda.
Martin Buckley was called upon for
a speech. but he merely arose 10 ask
The boys to vote for KiIgaIIon and
Kinds. He did not care what they
lid with the balance OF the ticket. Al
Ter you all get through talking" he
'ald, wei go into the barroom and all
AXE a drink on Kinds and KfIgaIlon" |
admitted that he was not disposed
10 make a campaign speech. but insist.
ID that everybody take a drink. The
all man with the long brown whIskers
vas the first TO start towards the bar.