The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-02
A Fine Rally at Turner Hall Last
Evening.
UNBOUNOEO ENTHUSIASM
Three Eloquent Speakers. J. r. Dosrmsn.
Col r. OLsary and eenstor W. ~.
Thornton Address . Large and
Interested Audience.

campaign. addressed 5V0 or more people
at Turner hall last evening. While the
speakers who addressed the audience
last evening nave not appeared before
in this especial campaign, they are all
well known TO the people Of Anaconda
and Deer Lodge county. They are Ak
Senator w. M. Thornton. Colonel T..
O'Leary and J. r. Boarman. The meet
ing last evening was enthusiastic
throughout. and was in marked con-
trast to the poorly attended and chilly
meeting held by Colonel Tom Marshall
and his goldbug associates in the same
hall a few weeks ago. The remarks OF
the speakers were interrupted every
minute or two with the greatest APP
plause. and altogether 1t was just such
another meeting as the democrats nave
had right along during the present cam
paign.
Mr.. Thornton acted as chairman OF
the meeting. Those seated upon the
stage with him were Chairman Harrity
of tho county central committee, Col
onel O'Leary. Ed Burke. Mr.. Edmund
son and j. r.. Boarman. At $3.50 O'Clock
Mr.. Thornton introduced the first speak
er of the evening, j. II. Boarman. to
whom he referred as an old-time dem
ocrat who had been Identified with the
" "a ~ - >
and years and one whom everybody
knew; a pleasing speaker n one whom
everybody was always anxious to hear.
j. II. Boarman.
Mr.. Boarman said he hardly felt 1t
necessary to be introduced to an Ana
conda audience. but an introductio APP
peared to be the custom, and he would
bow to the custom. He never felt more
at home han he did right at the pres
ent moment, when he was talking 10 an
audience composed of his friends and
Of the friends of his friends. He con-
graduated the audience upon its size,
and evident good viii. and said that
IL the audience before him was an aug
ury of events to come. he had no rear
whatever of the success of the entire
democratic ticket on next Tuesday.
There IL a recognized n overshadow-
ing issue in this campaign. II is the
issue which was taken up by the dem
ocrats years ago. Ii Is the issue now
and will be the issue until IL Is settled.
IL Is the issue of bimetallism. That is
sue is championed all over the United
States by the democratic party. In I'LL
nois. in Indiana. I'm Michigan, in Ken
lucky. i'm West Virginia. in Missouri. I'm
a score of other states silver IL the DOM
Inant issue as II is in Montana. The
republican party has come out at iast
| squarely against silver. In its platforms
up to 1896, IL had the enrontery 10 de-
nounce the democratic party for its al
legged opposition to bimetallism. IN
1896, however. the mask fell on. Inc
republican party came out openly Tor
the single gold standard; but even then
IL did so Qualifedly. IT placed in It's
platform a plank which said that II the
other commercial nations OF the earth
consented to go upon a bimetailic pas
is, the United States would do so also.
u.l,ot mart Of the ranuDllCan party y
platform was no more sincere than has
been many other of its professions IN
the past. In order to a row
people who still believed that there was
a ray OF hope for bimetallism In the re-
publican party, and following out a
plank in its platform which had been
nut there insincerely, the republican
administration organized the Woicott
monetary commission and sent IL across
the Atlantic, but recalled II before IL
had time to do anything. Yes, the re-
publican party was willing 70 go on d
bimetallic standard IL the other nations
agreed TO do likewise, but In the mean
time IL was pledged to the gold stand
ard. What an exhibition in insincerity
on the other hand the democratic
party came out squarely, fairly and un-
eauivocally for bimetallism-the free
coinage of both gold and silver at a
/ IatlO Oh 10 10 l. lhC
is a party of broken promises and brok-
en- pledges, but the democratic party
mas stood upon the platform IT adopted
at Chicago.
Gold and silver had always gone hand
in hand up TO 1873, when a republican
administration. through methods not
vet made clear to the people OF the
United states. struck down the one
metal and upllfted the other. In that
zeal the republican party struck down,
at one blow, the s~isterhood W
gold and silver. And yet the republic
can party claims that 1t is the only par
ty wherein there lies any hope tor OIL,
metallism. The speaker then referred
to the Bland law, passed in 1875. over
President Hayes veto; the sherman
law. which existed up to lSSZ, wnen
Senator Voorhees,, the mouthpiece or
Grover Cleveland. the repeai
OF the Sherman purchasing clause. Inc
speaker addressed his audience iurtner
on the silver question. ana along lines
which put the matter plainly before
the people.
Mr. Roarman then referred to the
andidacy of A. J. Campbell for con-
gress. Upon the nomination or Mr..
Campbell. said Mr.. Boarman, as the
democratic candidate for representative
in congress-. Charles 5. Hartman. the
silver republican nominee, withdrew
his own candidacy because he knew II
would be a detriment TO silver. He
gave mis- reasons in a plain, honest and
STRAIGHTFORWARD statement, and no man
whose reason was not ~prejudiced would
doubt for a moment Mr.. Hartman's
motives. Upon the withdrawal Of Ar.
Hartman. Mr.. Hogan was substituted.
Mr.. Hogan came to Anaconda and
opened his campaign here. Mr.. Hogan
devoted a great part of his remarks 10
the censure of Mr.. Hartman. Hogan
censuring Hartmann. Hogan censuring
the man who, for the good Of silver. re-
signed all opportunities for advance
ment and made a martyr Of himself.
Hogan is partly the servant of the DEM
ocratic party. He has reached his high
Office through that party's efforts. yet
he Is making a anvass throughout the
state that must to the true and loyal
friends of silver seem ridiculous. Hart