Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-18

looked at me gravely for a few minutes
and replied: My boy, I did the second
time" AS time draws along ard my
children grow up to mans estate I want
to be in the same position as my father.
When they ask me if l voted for tina
great man, William Mckinley 1 want to
say to e that 1 did the second time
and thank God I will be able to do SO.
Il an against a man who stoops to
form an allience with Malay pirates or
Nez Perez indian against the Amer::-
can flag. l thought the democrats had
got through firing at the flag before I was
born. l want every American democrat
in the hall to think as I do on this sub
ject.'
The speaker showed the absurdity of
Bryan's idea to submit the matter of an
nexing the Philippine stands to a vote
of the people there. He asked if Column
bus had submitted to the Indians the
question as to whether he should be per-
mitted to land on the shores of America
and if the Pilgrim Fathers had submitted
to a vote the matter of landing on Ply
mouth rock. He had a very vivid recol-
lection of prints on the school walls
showing the Puritan forefather on his
way to church with a Bible under one
ARM; Priscilla on the other and a rifle
over his shoulders.
1.-THE rifle was not for the preacher"
said the speaker. "They must have b EN-
eXpansionists in those days. Do you think
that Col. sanders and David E. Folsom
took a vote of the Nez Perez Indians be-
fore they essayed to come into the state
OF Montana? / wager not. If an Indian
was a good Indian in those days he was
allowed to go his way unmolested and in
peace but if an Indian was not a good
Indian they made a good ndian of him.
What can be said in favor of the Savages
of the Philippine islands? Aguinaldo is a
Chinese Tagal, an ignorant half savage
who knows nothing of Christian clvili-
cation and he is followed by a people who
have never had the instruments of edu-
cation at and 1t took the Spanfards
$50 years to ~civilize the savages into
wearing clotning and wearing their shirts
outside of their pants and I suppose that
it will take America fifty or SIXTY year s
to teach them to wear their shirts in
side of their pants and this is the kind
of people that Bryan desires to make an
alliance with. The postoffice, the pub
lie buildings. the roads and the railroa Is
were all fashioned by the Spaniards. Not
one improvement was made by the Flip
mos that are so dear to the heart of Bry-
an. And this man A~guinaldo is the per-
son Bryan compares to Washington. In
the language of Montana, wouldn't that
jar you?' Again, what dc you think of a
candidate for president who reproaches
you for browning their heroes on their re-
turn home"
Thomas Stodden, president of the Nc
Y ir1nu rnr,,b1;aor =, pl,,1 ,,.o ~ 49, -:
of the meeting and presented w. C.
Bachelor as the first speaker of the even.
ing.
Mr.. Bachelor m Tie an eloquent address
and said that he thought his auditors
would agree with him that there was no
real national issue in the present cam
paign and that there was NO need of a
change in the administration of affairs.
Forty years ago the republican parry was
organized and it gave to the American
people, Abraham Lincoln as their presi-
dent. A little later on Lincoln er,anci-
pated 1000, 900 people from The bondage of
slavery and at the time he lid this he
took away one of the greatest %coinpeti-
tors of the laboring man the counlry has
ever known. TIM led on w to the pres
ent and the people find that the brightest
pdSC eNCI Witch III history tells the
story of President Mckinley. The export
trade has grown to wonderful propor-
tons; the mechanics are working over
time and prosperity is found every
where.
-Four years ago Bryan went before the
people as the champion of silver and the
great prophet of the nineteenth century
but the people nave seen that not one of
his prophecies has come true and in
view of the prosperity of the last four
years the people are not inclined to try
any kind of an experiment. The speaker
made brief reference to the trust ques-
ton saying that the democratic platform
complained of the evil but offered no
remedy for it while the republican plat
form not only complained of the evil but
offered a remedy. The democratic party,
he said, had never done anything to ad-
n the interests of the United States
While on the other hand the republican
party had been one of continual progress
by wise legislation, wise tariff laws and
the nations all over the world looked with
pride and admiration upon the country.
He did not believe that there was any
good reason for a change in the national