Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-07
Press People Enjoy the Banquet
Last Night.
KALISPELL WAS CHOSEN
As the Next Place Where the ScriteS
Would Gather--OfficerS Were
Elected-The TOaStS.

Tx 1IoSt Vi Tx eI>o
citation meeting was marked with one of
the most brilliant banquets in the his
tory of Anaconda. which was given at the
Montana. The banquet hall was pro-
fusely decorated and the diners We're the
members of the press association and I'M
portant guests froAl all over the state.
who came to do honor to the occasion.
which. as the inscription on the cover Of
the mem stated, was:
banquet given to the Montana Press
association by the Anaconda Standard.
The Montana. September 6. 1899
Among the diners We're Governor
Smith. Attorney General Nolan. Colonel
W. F. Sanders. Judge c. c. Goodwin,
Judge Napton. Judge Lindsay. State
Senator W. A. Clark. State Senator Ed
win Norris. Ex-Governor and Mrs. Rick
ards. Chief Justice Brantly. Marcus DAILY,
bell, George W. Irwin. Judge De Witt,
Judge Mediation. H. F. Bartine, ]. H.
Leyson and John Caplice.
At midnight j. H. Durstan. editor of
the Standard. who was the POSTMASTER
of the evening. raped for order. He
proposed the toast. Montana. which
was drunk standing. and introduced
Governor r. B. Smith to respond.
The governor said in part: IT is sur
prising TO me that among all these editors
Of Montana there have not been devel-
ored more poets to sing the praises of
Montana. 1t is true the bard of Sou
Dough has done al that he could. While
we are here surrounded by the creme de
la creme of the press Of the state. ! want
to impress upon them the necessity for
their taking pattern after the illustrious
bard who sits at the end of this table
Nerkes). Seriously. l believe there is no
people on earth who should be prouder
Of their home state thar 1hoSa iyfoo in
Montana. ASIDE from the natural re-
sources and: without patting ourselves
on the back as seeking fiattery, there is
something in the spirit of the people hat
is not met with elsewhere. Whenever
you go out of Montana and meet a Mon
anian he greets you in a whole-souled,
brotherly spirit"
Judge G.. c. Goodwin, editor of the Salt
Lake Tribune, responded to the toast
The Pioneers.' He said:
The pioneer came west: he drove the
barbarian away, and where the COYOTE
made his home before he raised temples
and he converted the American desert
lnto a living. ~throbbing thing. He gave
to the east its treasure. that constant
stream that has raised the nation from
one of the second-rate powers to the first
class. He has taught the east many
things-aN but gratitude
Theodore Brantly. chief justice of the
supreme court, spoke upon the news
paper in relation 10 the law.
sometimes news pers overstep the
bounds of political and moral law, and
often there IS a clash betWeen them. But
out of the moke Of battle arises the ad-
judlcatlon, and the proper one, of every
question which interests the people. The
newspapers present the cases to this vast
jury, who judge of its merits. ever as a
jury, in a court room judges of the merits
of the case which is being tried before
them
A. X. Yerkes. editor of the Bozeman
Chronicle, responded with a comical
poem.
THE Volunteer was responded to by
State Senator Edwin Norris.
Colonel w. F. Sanders responded to the
1oast, How Would Like to Be Cover
nor of Montana"
Walter Aitkin, the newly elected secre-
tary of the press association and editor
of the Big Timber Express, responded to
the toast. 1.-The Ladies'" He was fol-
lowed by Attorney General C. B. Nolan
on "The Bar"
A. l.. Stone. the Missoula editor of the
Anaconda Standard. spoke in behalf of
"Tne Bitter Rooter."
DR.. James F.. Spelnlan spoke in a happy
strain to the toast The Editor and the
Doctor"
Senator Lee Mantle responded to the
Tenth Birthday of the Anaconda Stand
ard which was being celebrated with a
oanquet TO me press association in every
way worthy of the event.
Resolutions We're next read and adopt
ed. as follows.
ITO the President and Members of the
Montana Press Association:
Your committee on resolutions re-
epectfully submits the following:
whereas, 1t has been the good fortune
OF the Montana Press association to hold
ITS fourteenth annual session in the
hanCsome, prosperous and hospitable
crty of A~naconda-a city that can Justify
the boast of the finest business blocks.
the best hotel, the most elegant opera
house and the greatest newspaper in the
great state of Montana. and the most
extensive and successful copper plant in
the world; and,
Whereas. The management of the An