The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-27

WILLIAM ]. LEE THE HALF
The Ex-Base Drum Artist Erupted and
Ranted In . Dead 5ilence-Re-
peated Q Few silly Lies-Con-
ditions Va. Principles.

terville last night in the hope of catch
ing the overflow from the democratic
rally. They caught just IL men who,
under false p~retenses. were enticed into
st. Georges hall. They were told that
there would be a republican political
meeting there. but when they got into
the place. they were treated to one of
those spectacular eruptions of the Bill
Lees. Hen wellers. Bill Thompsons and
Jim Hinkles. The entertainment opened
with just 13 men In the lark hall be-
sides the speakers and candidates. but
later a few more curious men wandered
In and raised the grand total to 17h.
The half was william ]. Lee. an ex-
Salvation army ranter. who can invent
and relate more absolutely silly lies
than any other half-baked man in the
business for w. A. Clark.
Before the eruptions started, James
Tachel. who imagines he Is running for
the office Of coroner. passed a box of
cigars around n the 10 helped them
selves and Tachel asked them to vote
for him. He said the cigars cost him
quite a little.
Then Bill Thompson and H. o. We'll
Ter came in and several of the lights
went out. George b. Dygert. a young
lawyer in bad company, was called on
for the first exhibition. He gave the
vast" audience a dose of condition
powders. He said 1t was needless to go
into the conditions that existed. The
conditions confront us. and with the
,aadftfana hafnra M such COn0ltlOnS
must be met. The conditions arose, ne
said. and the conditions made 1t neces-
a for the conditions which resulted
in the fusion ticket. the candidates on
which were selected from all parties.
to meet the conditions. Mr.. Dygert said
that no one but a fool or a knave would
vote any ticket straight. and then he
advised his hearers, including Bill Lee
and Bill THOMPSON and Jim Hinkle.
to vote the fusion ticket straight ana
no one resented the backhanded impu-
tation. Mr.. Dygert also paid a tribute
to the candidates on the democratic
ticket. He said Il contained the names
Of many good men, tried and true and
capable. and 1t wouid give him great
pleasure to vote Tor them II II were not
for those conditions he had been talk
ing about.
william j.. Lee, the ex-base drum
artist, was the next infection. and he
Smoke o. lnt utIIlOtIato w bft
| Hibernia hall as those scalawags,
and her he ridiculed. or attempted TO,
the patriotic sentiments expressed at
| the democratic meeting Tuesday night.
ut is not a question of patriotism, but
a question of bread n butter, de-
clared Lee. Then he called the Ana
conda infamous n repeated
mat sickening. silly lie about the
three men i'm Anaconda who WORKED for
the company $50 worth and owed the
that much at the end or three
months. He also told a new one TO the
effect that the manager or the Ana
conda company had said he would live
to see the day hen grass grew on the
streets of Butte. This reminded Lee
of the saying that where the TURK
treads no grass grows, and he ex-
claimed:
Where the Anaconda company rules,
there is no bread or butter he also
told the small and scattered audience
that the Anaconda company owned ev'
cry stick of timber on the mountains
of Montana and everybody had to pay
tribute to the company, n when IT'S
great sweating house was completed
the would expect all its EN-
ployes to buy from 1t everything from .
shoe string to a piano and burial cas-
ket. He didn't doubt. he said, that tht
''oid man. would. in addition to th'
casket. soon furnish "a ticket up OF
down" and Lee wanted to bet "a tina
the ticket would read down" The fel
low also said IL was a good thing tina
the Hale house was burned down. ant
hat II would have been a good hin
IL a torch had been applied TO II before
Lees was received in dead 81
Ience and to the credit of the small au
dience. be II said that no n seemed
to approve of what he said. Only ono
~ III. alb xraa tho CilQnll
broken. and tina was when he related
the silly story about h three Amazon
da men. which was received with de
risive laughter.
Charles Taylor, the next speaker
talked about Haggin and the Roths
childs wishing to dominate Montana
and spoke of the election on the 9th o
October.
lanes NJ. Hinckle. a farmer from Sal
creek township. in Iowa. told the 10 o
so men that the fusion ticket had no
beer constructed in the interest of w
A. Clark. Farmer Hinkle said Their
were a number of good. able and hon
est men on the democratic ticket. an
then he told a story about Mr.. Dun
lap. who had worked for the Anacond'
company and bought groceries fror
some firm not approved by the com
pany. The big Anaconda company EN-
1 plolto a
cry Wagon and discover that the gro
ceries were delivered to Dunlap an
then Dunlap lost his job with the Ana
FONDA company. Hinkle told that stor
as IL he expected some one to believ
Ii. In spite OF the ridiculous absurdit
Of II. Mr.. Hinkle talked about thos
local conditions and said to get offic
was of more Importance than to &c
free silver.
II a Weller came within an ace q
making a decent speech. He talke
about some needed legislation and wa
about to take his seat again when
occurred to him hat he had not roast
ed the Anaconda company. and he 60
a few swipes at Ii.
Y. T. Cason. a long. lank. cadaverou
individual. said w. J. Bryan and FIRE
silver were not the issue.
william Thompson. who a bee
stood on as long Is possible. was the
given an opportunity to say something
and he made One of those awfuily. Avn