The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-10-02

IOur nOneSC men. (ApplauSe.)
Right before me, in this democratic
l see at least one hundred
men who are called here under the claim
of democracy, and they are free from
charges of this kind going around the
country.
Don't be disheartened, fellow demo-
Gratis, because some of our neighbors are
training under the wrong colors-I say
that in all kindness to them. When a
democratic state convention, meeting as
our late convention did at the city of
Helena, kicks one hundred and forty
four legally elected delegates out Of that
convention, representing fifteen thousand
democratic voters, and puts in their
place one hundred and forty four bogus
democrats, it is time for us to do some
thing.
Nov, my friends, there is fight on;
big fight on; ard we have not only to
fight the republicans and the republican
party. but we have to fight portion of
the democratic party. There will be no
fight on the electoral ticket; that ticket
will, undoubtedly, be nominated by our
state convention next Tuesday, so that
our great leader who is marshalling the
forces of the common people of this
country against the trusts and combines,
against militarism and Imperialism,
against gold standard and everything
that is destructive of all liberties,
William Jennings Bryan (Applause) will
carry this state by fifteen or twenty
thousand, and no man need be afraid of
that.
Our republican friends need not take
any consolation to themselves that they
are going to elect Mckinley electors from
the state of Montana; nothing of that
kind will occur. If they take any con-
ISOLATION out of it it must be that they
might get Thomas II. Carter, possibly,
in place of Clark. And if we are going
to have traitor in the United States
senate I would much rather he would be
a republican than that he should be a
democratic traitor. They are both OF
them peas out of the same pod, and
you cannot make anything else out Of
them. If our republican friends want
to train with that kind of men and are
willing that he represent the state OF
Montana they can get him, for they have
got the power to attempt it, but it will
be over my protest and the protest Of
all the honest republicans and demo
Gratis of the state.
We want no more of the present ma
tional administration. The people are
fast coming to the conclusion that they
have had enough of McKinleyism, an ad
ministration that of all administrations
in the history of this country has been
the most vacillating and uncertain; a
president whose policy it is to follow the
wake and lead of Great Britain, it mat
ters not what it may be; an administra-
ton that refused to consider reso-
luton of sympathy when two republics
were destroyed in South Africa; an ad
ministration that with fulsome adula
tion is ready to praise the acts of kings
and emperors; an administration that
by the Hay-Pauncefote Nicarauguar
treaty was going into partnership with
Great Britain even openly before the
whole world, as they have secretly fol
four years past; an administration whose
president said two years ago that forci
BILE annexation of territory was criminal
aggression today, he, and the candidate
running with him for vice e-president, are
claiming that civilization and liberty
must be upheld in the far-off islands OF
the Pacific. Did you ever think of it
that more crimes have been committed
under the name of civilization and lib
erty than under any other name in the
world?
These are words they conjure with. In
1776, Great Britain claimed that the
people of the United States were moi
capable of self-government. Who was
to be the Judge of that question? Was
Great Britain the power to judge that
question? We said No. but today We
say that the Filipinos are not capable Of
self government-are we to be the judge
of that question? If we are, why was il
not right for Great Britain to be the
Judge in 1776? It is the same proposition
exactly; these people are struggling fol
their liberty.
IA Declaration of Independence was
written one hundred and twenty-siz
years ago in which it stated that the in.
alienable rights of man are life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness. These
men are willing to sacrifice their lives fol
their liberty, but we stand back and say
we are civilized and we know that you
are not capable of self government.
This same administration are
slow about declaring their Cuban policy
but suppose that they have not yet de-
termined that they will not give them
their liberty.