The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-17
A PRO-BOER MEETING
Captain Dillon Tells of Big
Demonstration in Omaha.
SCENES OF ENTHUSIASM
Thousands OF Sympathizers Unable to
Gain Admittance to the Hall-Rs-
public's Flag Calls Forth the
Greatest Applause.

Captain Thomas Dillon Of Company
K. First Montana volunteers, returned
on Friday from a three weeks trip to
Omaha, Chicago and other Eastern
points He was a passenger on the de-
layed Great Northern train, and was
one of those who enjoyed themselves
for IA hours on a blind siding between
Great Falls and Havre. Captain DillCn
looks upon Omaha as his home, having
lived there for a number of years. He
was there as a member of the Second
United States infantry prior to his COM
ing to Montana.
Captain Dillon says the weather dur
ing his stay in that section was pleas
ant and that the snow did not begin
to fly until last Tuesday, the day of his
departure.
Last Monday night said Captain
Dillon, they had a monster pro-Boer
demonstration in Omaha. The meeting
was held in a large German hall, Of
which have forgotten the name, and
was attended by such a crowd that it
was an utter impossibility to gain ad-
lnittance unless one was on the spot
promptly at s O'Clock, when the doors
opened. came from South Omaha with
-
waited two solid hours before we could
get even standing room in a car.
when we reached the hall and the
crowd poured in there was displayed a
Transvaal republic flag, and l can
truthfully say that I never saw such a
scene of excitement in civil life. The
people just naturally seemed to go wild.
Hats were thrown in the air and cheer
followed cheer
"Governor Poynter of Nebraska pre-
sided and there We're six speakers,
among whom was the lady editor of an
Omaha paper. The greatest enthusiasm
prevailed throughout the meeting and
the resolutions bespeaking sympathy
for the Beers We're greeted with thun-
ders of applause. The Holland society
sent a representative to the meeting.
who addressed the audience briefly,
The meeting lasted from until II
o'clock, and throughout was one of the
most spontaneous demonstrations !
ever saw.
1.-The next morning the Omaha Bee
attempted TO belittle the affair, desig-
mating it as a political scheme upon
the part of the democrats and intimat-
ing its purpose to be an attempt to
create a sentiment for the appointment
by the governor of Mr.. Hitchcock of
the World Herald to succeed the late
Senator Hayward. This, of course, may
be true, but / couldn't come to that
conclusion. There was too much real
earnest enthusiasm in that meeting tc
permit the idea of any such ulterior
motives.
THE sentiments expressed by the
speakers contained nothing of specific
attack upon any man or method; they
merely denounced the policy of Eng
land in the Transvaal; her greed for
gold and power and her attempts at OPP
preston. The references to Boer vic
tories were received with the greatest
applause and sometimes, when mention
was made Of a particularly important
victory over the British you would
think the roof would be raised off the
hall. Oh, it was a great meeting an6
! will remember it always
Captain Dillon saw many of his ole
friends-the volunteers who composed
the Nebraska regiment in the Philip
pines, and altogether his trip was 6
pleasant one indeed.