The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-07
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Special Correspondence of the Standard.
New York, May 3.-Dewey day in
New York was an inspiring exhibition
of patriotic colors and national pride.
President Mckinley was in town, but
he did not attract serious attention.
But for the newspapers the vast multi
tude would not have known that he
was here. The people read in their
evening papers that he was being en-
tertained by certain officials, and were
reminded that the explosions which
they had mistaken for heavy blasting
in some rock work, were the reports
of cannon giving the presidential sa-
lutte down the bay.
How different it would have been had
George Dewey been here.
After all, there Is a vast difference
between being the official head of the
nation and the real head of the pro-
cession. Put Mckinley and Dewey in
town on the same day and the gentle
man from Canton-with all due respect
ITO the president of the republic-would
play a strikingly inaudible second vio-
lin.
NOW that the war in the Philippines
Is supposed to be at an end, it is ex-
pected that Dewey will return to the
United States-and of course, it is un-
derstood that he will land at New
YORK. This means that the people Of
the city are enjoying expectancy with
that anticipatory ecs,tacy which is be-
lieved by some to make realization a
very tame affair. In this event. how
ever, realization will be fully up to an
t1cipation. The circus will be all that
the most imaginative press agent could
advertise. It will shake the metropolis
with resounding enthusiasm, paint it so
red that the most crimson sunset will
be relegated to the classification of
sickly pink. churn the waters of the
bay and river with ten thousand wheels
of FACILITATING glee, and split the slider
cal dome with an American whoop
from four million lusty American
Threats. On that day, the Montana
delegation-or at least as much of it
as can get together without bringing
the powder in contact with the fire
the reputation Of the state for pyro-
technic jubliation.
The event of the week in labor cir
cleS was the eight-hour demonstration.
1t was "a notable occasion. A mighty
outpouring of workmen formed in line
and marched to the music of bands.
Banners bearing the expressed hope of
labor were proudly borne. The people
living along the streets which formed
the line of march were impressed with
the strength and latent power of Ia
Dor. Speeches were delivered In Union
square by prominent representatives of
the unions. 1t was what in a smaller
community would have been considered
an overshadowing, Irresistible demon
stration, yet the great city let the pa
rade and the music and the speeches
pass as minor affairs which simply
added to the entertainment Of few of
ITS citizens. On the same evening there
We're banquets and speeches in dozen
localities; millions of people went
about their work without even hearing
the bands; hundreds of thousands
scarcely knew that the parade had tax
en- place; and the waves of commerce
and industry have rolled on, leaving
a ripple upon the surface to
mark the advertised agitation
l chronicle these faets-not to prove
the unimportance of labor's battle in
New York, for here the battle will con-
tlnue until the millenium-but to re-
mind the laFborers of the West of the
difficulty of gaining an audience in the
metropolis. What seems to the reader
to be an overwhelming, city impressing
outbrust of popular sentiment, means
but one faint throb in the life of the
A demonstration in New
York has ten times the influence in the
nation at large that it has in the city.
Life here is a mad rush for bread and