The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-05
WILD WITH ENTHUSIASM
Butte Cheered and Cheersd the
News From Sampson.
SMITH MADE A SPEECH
The Governor Said It Marked the Be-
ginning of the End-A Rousing Cell
ebration Around the Standard
Bulletin Board.

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The Fourth of July celebration was all
bration i'm front of the Standard office.
Almost everybody did see it and those
who failed TO see it will always regret
II.
1t started at 2 o'clock. about an hour
after the exercises at the court house
were over. 1t was no prepared affair-no
selected orators of the day. 1t was spon-
taneonus and IT was immense.
Simpsons dispatch caused it. He offered
a Fourth of July greeting to the American
people. The bulletin was posted on the
Standards board as soon as it arrived.
Immediately "a great crowd ssembled,
and among those who gathered in front
of the Standards bulletin board to read
the news were such distinguished person.
ages as the governor of the state, the
congressman of Montana and the chief
justice of Montana's supreme court.
So great was the crowd in front of the
Standard office that but few could read
the bulletin.
Read it out! Read it out!" came the
calls from the outskirts.
IL have the official dispatch here" cali
ed out General Curtis from the Stand
ards stepladder. He waved the dispatch,
which he had been handed by one of the
Standard men.
The crowd became silent and General
Curtis read the dispatch. 1t was punctu-
ated with cheers; cheers strong enough to
wake the dead-all the dead but the Span
ish.
When the cheers which followed the
conclusion of the reading of the dispatch
had subsidized James II. Lynch. chairman
of the Fourth of July executive commit
tee, mounted a carriage which was drawn
up by the side of the Standards bulletin
board. He pulled Governor Smith up with
him. The crowd cheered and cheered
again. The governor said:
"Fellow-citizens, nothing / can say can
add to your jubilation and your feelings of
gratitude at the success of our arms in
the battle off Santiago. 1t is particularly
gratifying to know that i'm this great en-
gagement we lost only one gallant soul,
who gave up his life in fighting for our
country's flag. 1t is gratifying to know
also that the great Spanish flying squad
ron, which has been bottled up in Santi-
ago harbor so long, has at last run up
against our American marines. All this
has been accomplished with the loss of
but a single man, and / believe that at this
very hour Santiago has fallen and the
stars and stripes are right now flying
over MOTTO cdSlle-AlOT1O castle Wnefe Tor
300 years the yellow flag of Spain has
fioated. 1t is time that the stars and
stripes s~upplanted the despicable emblem
of tyrannical Spanish rule. 1t is time that
the gem of the Antilles, our nearest neigh
Dor, had a new ruler. This glorious cele-
bration to-day marks the beginning of
the end. The rule of the Spanish dynasty
I'm America will soon be no more"
A. L. Bray was then called on and spoke
e~loquently for a few minutes. He was
glad to join in ratifying the victory of the
glorious navy. When he asked whether
the country should surrender the fruits
of Americas splendid victories there were
loud cries of mo, no."
Let us follow the example, said Mr..
Bray. ''of that other great nation, on
whose possessions the sun never sets. We
can't afford to spill our best blood and
then surrender what that blood was spill
ed for. Let not that blood be spilled in
vain!'
Mr.. Bray said that from to-day America
started on a new era. 1t has discarded
its swaddling clothes and now takes first
RAJ among the nations of the world.
Then there were loud cries for Hartman.
Mr.. Hartman had left and was at lunch
In the Butte cafe. But the crowd wouldn't
be satisfied without a speech from the elo-
quent congressman, and he was brought
out and ounte the carriage in front
of the Standard office. He said:
1--WE have a right to celebrate. We can
celebrate not only for the day itself, the
natal day of our great nation, but we
have "a right to celebrate also for the
splendid victory just achieved. When you
and / read together from this bulletin
board the grand news hat Commodore
Sampson had destroyed the Spanish fleet
which had been bottled up in Santiago
harbor. you and I all felt like saying from
the bottom of our hearts, God bless the
American navy"
ut is little. but. oh. MY" called out
somebody in the crowd.
Small, yes! small now" continued Mr..
Hartman. "But we will multiply il by
five. I do not believe in imposing any I'M
necessary burden on the people. We
should have a larger navy, n We will
nave one. But we should not proceed so
rapidly as to cause unnecessary taxation.
Sye should proceed cautiously. conserya-
lively, sensibly. We will proceed coolly
and steadily to build up such a navy as
this country should have. We will be the
Gibraltar of the world. so strong that We
cannot be successfully attacked by any
nations or any combination of nations. /
firmly believe that the next bulletin to be
posted on the Standards bulletin board
will announce that Santiago is captured.
And that will mean hat the war is about
over. | thank you most sincerely for your
kind attention and for your call. Were l
not so exhausted | would gladly address
you at greater length
Mr.. Hartman was heartily cheered. A.
T.. Bray then remarked that one man had
been killed in the work OF annihilating
Cervera's fleet. He thought Butte should
guarantee that the family OF his man, If
he had a family. should never want.
Mr.. Lynch seconded the motion and II
was carried by the crowd amid great
cheering.
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