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

The people of Meaderville were treated
to probably the finest speech of the cam
paign last night and republicans and
democrats alike were carried away with
the %eloquence and logic of the speaker of
the evening, T. w. Coakley, of Boston,
Mass.
Three speakers preceded Mr.. Coakley
and although their u@tterances We're re-
cNived enthusiastically. it was reserved
for the last speaker to be rendered an
ovation that has been u~nequalled in the
present canvass. There We're many DEM
ocrats in the hall and before they real
lied it, they were cheering the utter
ances of Mr.. Coakley who, in a clear,
concise manner, presented the issues be-
fore the people and showed the utter alb
surdity of the position taken by Bryan
and his un-American, democratic sup
pOrterS.
Mr.. Coakley, in 1896, stumped the New
England towns for William Jennings
Bryan, placing that presidential candi-
date on a pedestal and endowing him
with all those magnificent attributes
that ten to make a great general and
savior of the people. In 1898 Mr. Coakley
went to the Philippine stands where he
remained for one year and during that
duocACc lIOLu HIS w country ne learned
that all of his ideas politically had been
sadly warped and misshapen, and like a
true American was willing to acknowl-
edge his error n mend his ways. His
forceful talk at Meaderville last night
made a great impression upon the peo-
pie assembled there and they had mat
tiers presented to them in a clear, logical
manner, proving beyond all doubt the
wisdom of republican principles for the
American people and American institu-
IONS.
1--WE inherit our politics like our dis
positions" said Mr.. Coakley, but if we
find that they are vicious we will, as
good American citizens, change them. l
stood for Bryan in 1896 and stumped the
New England states for him and the
democratic nominees, but I have learned
something since those days and 1 learned
it with shame and pain. l visited the
Philippine stands in 1898 and in visiting
the sea ports of China on the way there,
I met everywhere the flags of the great
maritime nations, out never once did l
see the stars and stripes until l arrived
at Manila bay, where I saw the glorious
emblem floating from the Olympia, the
flag ship of Admiral Dewey. There is no
democrat in the hall tonight, who, if he
made that trip who could not understand
what Dewey meant when he pointed to
the flag and said: There floats Old
Glory, God bless her. May she float
there forever"
Mr.. Coakley paid a high tribute to the
good that Spain had done for Christian
ity and sale that the people should not
forget that that country gave Columbus
to the people. Spain had made %onquest
Of savage lands and planted Christian
! ity in the place of barbarism. After car
rying the torch of Christianity for hum
dreds of years the power of empire had
been taken from it's nerveless hand and
it was the duty of the American people
to carry the torch License, he said, was
not liberty; savagery was no mans right;
liberty meant order and order was from
God.
The Philippine islands, he said, had
been peopled by Europeans who for hun
d1eds of years had maintained a govern
ment there and these white" Filipinos.
| the "real' Filipinos turned with honor to
the miners and smeltermen of Montana.
| and to all of the western volunteers who
| a taken up their fight as their saviOrs
| and they put their trust in them. They
| saved the Philippine stands and Manila
from a horror hat would make the civil
lied nations of the world stand aghast
in horror, and if Bryan's anti-imperial-
istic views were allowed to prevail and
the forces withdrawn from the islands it
would be putting the real Filipinos in
the power and mercy of a horde of Ma
lay pirates and Tagal savages. While
there the speaker got word that Bryan
had rendered his assistance to the presi-
lent in getting the Spanish treaty signed
and he felt exultant over the greatness
of his idol. He stayed in the islands for
one year and then returned to take the
stump for his idolized Bryan only to find
| that he had Topped.
cat the Kansas City convention" said
Mr.. Coakley Bryan said that he would,
if elected convene ongress in extraor-
binary session and recommend The with
drawal of the troops and fleets and sur
render white men to a band of Malay out
laws. When I have to choose between
Bryan and the flag, I am for the tias first,
last and all times.
"When I was a boy I used to read in
my history of the greatness of Abraham
Lincoln and I have a vivid recollection
of approaching my father n day n
asking him if he voted for Lincoln. He