Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-03

ana MeaueENlile last evening anu alEiuc
addresses with the true ring. addresses
that must have convinced even those
misguided persons with beams as big
as the fusion barrel in their eyes that
something was wrong
Following the policy outlined by Chair
Malcolm ellis and E. S. Booth. of the
county central committee, the speakers
on the state ticket Were traded as on
the preceding evening, and the gaps
filled in With local orators. Thus Hon.
T. J. Porter. the republican candidate for
attorney general. spoke first at Walker
vile and then departed for Meadervilie.
Hon. Frank E. Smith remaining to en-
terrain the crowd and give them politi-
cal instruction while Hon. S. G. Murray,
republican candidate for congress. who
spoke first, was on his way to Walker
vile. Hon. George A.. Clark proved an
able "gap-filler" at Meaderville.
The Walkerville meeting was held in
Social hall, Chairman w. H. Roberts, Of
the local republican club. officiating as
presiding officer. The Alice Rough Rider
band was present and furnished a num-
Der of musical selections. When the
meeting was called to order and Hon. T.
]. Porter introduced as the first speak
err, standing room was not left in the
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the candidate was frequently forced to
wait for the noise to subside in order
that he might make himself heard.
In introduction Mr.. Porter said that he
had come from Custer county, the
ty named after the famous general ard
Indian fighter, where the symbols of in
dustry are the branding iron and the
shepherds crook. He regarded Butte as
the greatest hive of industry in the state
of Montana, and was glad to be able to
appear before an assemblage of it's peo-
pie and talk to them about the issues of
this campaign. For twelve years he had
followed the legal profession, but he was
not a political orator. and wanted to be
understood simply as being placed in the
position of one citizen talking to another
concerning the duties they owed to them
selves and to the community when 1t
came to casting their ballots on next
Tuesday.
In national politics the democrats and
their allies assembled their Boxer hosts
at Kansas City on the last Fourth of
July he said, Ito make a platform; and
in doing this they thought it best served
the purpose of their party to label one
part of that platform a paramount issue.
This year the democratic party finds no
issue at home and sails across the Pa
cifc, 5000 miles away, wnere it has
found one in the person of a Chinese
half 4breed. He has been labeled a para
noun issue.
Here in Montana the democracy has
made and forced upon the people an is
sue which is both paramount" and SUI
preme. 1t is not labeled, and the people
cannot avoid considering it if they would.
I believe that every citizen should be-
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in good standing, attending it's precinct
primary and it's county and state con-
ventions, but in order to do this and re-
tain his own self-respect he should not
do so with the idea in view of drawinN
on the. checkbook of some millionaire
politician. l believe thai different polit-
ical parties are as necessary to the eX-
istence of the government as the schools
and churches and all the voluntary soci-
cites maintained by men. When I meet
a man who belongs to the republican
party I say that he belongs to the real
party before the people of Montana to-
dav.
II know of no way of judging political
parties but by their actions. In this
campaign the republican party realized
that the remarkable occurrence of four
years of democratic rule in this state and
particularly of the past two years.
mean with regard to the last session of
the Observation-Disclosures reform, and
when in last May in this city the republic
can party took a reckoning will itself
and in it's first state convention called
the roll of it's AT delegates there was
foun one name that did not ring true to
the party and the people of Montana.
The party unanimously agreed to erase
his name from it's rolls, thereby indicat-
ing to the people that the republican.
party intended to be true to the best in
terests of the state.
when the second state convention Of
that party was held at Helena in Sep
TENDER last it's proceedings gave evil
dence of it's patriotic purposes to transact
business for the good of the people. That
convention, realizing the high mission
before it, nominated for governor of the
state of Montana a man who in 1862,
armed solely with his physical and in
tellectual vigor, began his life in this
state as a placer miner in Alder gulch,
graduating thence as a ranchman into
Meagher county. There he has lived as
a public man, serving his constituents
both in the capacity of county officer and
in the senate of the state, noted in his
every relation for honesty, intelligence,
executive ability, integrity, and fidelity
to every trust reposed in him. He stands
before the people we'll deserving of the
title of Honest Dave Folsom 1t was
said of him by one of the pioneers who
knew him intimately that he was con-
sidered the best shoveler in Alder Gulch,
and I firmly believe hat the people Of
Montana will call upon him next Tues
day to be their chief executive, and on
the first day of the new year to shovel
out of the state house in Helena the dis
credited democratic administration, in
Guiding "Extradition' Bob Smith,"
The democratic state convention at
) Helena in last September was referred to
as a political "Donnybrook fair" where
40 per cent of the delegates were pitched
out and Others walked out in disgust.
! Finally it realized that by some singular