The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-10-15
BIG DEMOCRATIC RALLIFICATION.
Congressman Hartman Opens
the Campaign at Neihart i'm
Rousing Silver Speech.
Other Speakers Tell Their Views.

/ 'h last " ednesday, according "a
announcement, Congressman G.. s
Hartman arrived to hold meeting
and to deliver an address in the int.
crest of A. j. Campbell, the demo-
cratic candidate for congress. He
was met at the train by the local
democratic committee who escorted
him and the other democratic dio-
nltaries to the Frisco hotel. There
were In the party of visiting gentle.
men, Congressman Hartman of
Bozeman, Supreme Judge w. Y.
Pcmberton of Butte; Henry G..
Rickerts of Boulder; G.. II. Stanton,
Pat Kelly, T.. II. Cooney, w. II.
Gelsthorpe, Robert Blankenbaker,
f. A. Merrill and A. c. Gormley. of
Great Falls; John F. Fitzgerald and
james Gillette of Belt; VIM. Birk
| enbnel Of Sun River: Vincent For
tune Of Cascade; \. G. Hay of Ar
mington, and Alfred +. Rogers
whose address is TO the deponent
unknown.
Almost all of the above named
will be found somewhere upon the
democratic ticket which appears in
this issue. They were assigned to
rooms at the Frisco, after which they
dispersed amoAg the populacc and
smiled their best till supper time.
All except Mr.. Hartman who was
closeted in his room with various To-
cal leaders discussing the plans of
the campaign and in his own mimic
al way lending enthusiasm and in
spiration to the devotees.
Anyone who talks with Mr.. Hart
man upon the silver question must
needs be impressed with the pro.
found sincerity and honesty which
actuates his motives and with which
his nature is imbued. Nobody
doubts that had he remained upon
the ticket as a candidate for con.
gress, he would have been elected
to succeed himself. But he has al
ways preached the doctrine of uni
hcation of the silver forces, and to
be true to himself and to his former
utterances he has declined the nom
ination so unanimously rendered
him by two political parties and
agreed to support the democratic
nominee for that Office, even when
by such act he relegstes himself to
private life. And the HERALD must
declare, whether Hartman's cause is
just, or not, he has still shown him.
self to be full man actuated by
manly considerations. For this is
the stuff of which patriots are made.
And without the ability of men to
renounce self and selfish ends for
what appears to he right, we could
never have had Henry, or a Frank
lin, a Hancock, or even a republic.
After supper the Neihart Free
Coinage band appeared in front of
the Frisco hotel and opened the
campaign by playing "Iiail to the
Chief. They also startled the air
by turning loose some more of the
which is used to split rocks
or melt cabbages. The glare of the
electric light was filled with major |
and minor chords and dlscoros, and |
the crowd stood it without mur.
mur. Then the band marched up |
the street to IA favorable position in !
the main part of town and played |
some more. They then marched to |
the hall, and after playing brace |
Of selections in the midst of the
throng the meeting was called to
order.
A. w. Noyes, the local demo-
cratic committeeman chaired the
On the platform sat the
various democratic cadidatcs with
Hartman in their midst. The chair.
nan with few predatory remarks
introduced Hon. A. c. Gormley,
for county attorney, who
spoke only for few minutes. lie
alluded to the handsome vote he had
received at Neihart two years ago,
when he had spent the campaign in
he east, in the interest of silver.
He thanked his friends for thus re.
nembering him. He then said that
the populists of Cascade county have
no show of winning in the coming
election; consequently every popu-
list should see his duty clear to vote
he straight democratic ticket. The