The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-07
MASS MEETMG T0-N|GHT
The Workingmsu Have Called
One Of Their Own.
THEY ARE ALL AROUSED
Latsr In b Evening senat Mats Will
Addrsss . Monsssr Democratic Rally
at ths Theater-rhe Last Day OF
the Campaign Is Here.

There have been so many charges
that W. A. Clark's barrel has been cir
culating across the creek in an effort
To defeat the democratic l~egislssi i've
ticket, that the workingmen have be-
come indignant and thoroughly aroused.
That attempts have been made to bride
the honest workingmen of Anaconda
with Ciark's money is a notorious fact.
and they don't want to rest under the
imputation OF having accepted any of IL
or Of giving any encouragement to Mr..
Ciark's vicious attack on the Anaconda
company. So intense is the feeling that
. number of them got together last
night and decided to call a mass meet
ing of all the employees of the convert
ers and smelters at : o'clock this
ing at the Margaret theater for a full.
free and fair discussion of the issues
Of the campaign. As the democratic
mass meeting at the Margaret will not
begin until $50 O'Clock. the workingmen
will have an hour and a half for a
quiet. dispassionate talk among them
selves. II will be a w~orkingmen's
meeting in the strict sense of the word.
1t Is called by workingmen themselves
of their own volition-they wish II dis
tinctly understood that they are not
acting at the request OF any employer.
foreman or other person in authority.
All employees OF the ~converters and
smelters are invited to attend. and %
only that but TO express their views on
Cisrk's barrel campaign.
The campaign will close this evening
with a monster democratic mass meet
tng at the Margaret theater. beginning
at $50 o'clock. The Hon T.. ID. Mats
will be the speaker. All Anaconda has
been anxiously waiting for weeks to
hear Senator Mats. and he is going to
get. IL anything. a bigger ovation than
Anaconda gave Bryan in August. 1897.
Mats to-day as one of the most
brilliant and convincing silver orators
Of America. ~ fame extends from
the Atlantic to the Pacific. He is one OF
ms N all Anaconda is going to turn
out tonight to hear him talk To the
fellow citizens of his own town.
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So far az the campaign I'm Deer
Lodge counfy.s concerned. with refer
ence To the county ticket. there is u
one issue. That Is the issue Of a good.
honest administration In county affairs.
The democratic party stands for that.
What does h republica -populist flu
sion combination stand for? IL stands
for Office and office alone. With the
republicans n populists. at least
with the republicans who lend counte-
nance to the ticket. Il Is merely a ques-
ton OF boosting their candidates into
office. whether they are qualified to All
the places or not.
1t the Deer Lodge republican con-
throats OF the silver republicans at least
one candidate who was not at all ac-
ceptable to the republicans. but who
had TO be swallowed just the same.
That man Is c. ]. Walsh. candidate for
county attorney on the fusion ticket.
The story Of how Walsh was nominated
In rather long. Walsh used to be a
democrat. In fact he was honored by
hat party In Silver Bow county. When
he came to Deer Lodge county he soon
discovered that there was no pie for his
class here. so he switched over TO the
silver republican party. He has
been Mayor Leiser's legal adviser.
and Mayor Lesser took his
advice ven TO an extent that practi-
cally ostracised him from the silver re-
legal advice. Mayor Lesser backed him.
First. Walsh was added to a delegation
TO the county convention from the Fifth
ward. as a sixth delegte. where only
five delegates were allotted. Every
body knows how Mayor Lesser worked
to have him seated in the convention
that met at Anaconda on Sept. Is. but
without success. Then the nominating
convention went TO Deer Lodge on
Sept. 80. There were conferences and
conferences. The offices were satisfac-
torily divided. with the exception Of the
ONCE of county attorney. The republi-
cans had slated for that Office J. w.
LUZ ~ PbpuhrAr Nthibh !
have IL that way. They tcld the repub-
lican conference committee they mus,
have the naming OF the man for county
attorney. They proposed to name &. J.
Walsh. who. they said. was a silver re-
publican himself. and the silver repub-
licans would thus be ahead on the deal.
The republican conference committee
couid not agree 10 that proposition.
The committee went back To its con-
MENTION and reported. Mayor Lesser.
like the good friend Of walsh's that he
Is. moved to accept the populist propo-
sition- The vote was at first a tie. but
on the next ballot Leiser's motion car
ried. and Walsh was nominated. The
better silver republicans were horrifed.
The idea. they said. OF allowing the
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