Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-03
ELOQUENT ADDRESSES BY
SENATOR TH0S Il. CARTER


Oct. 81:
II am deeply grateful for the privilege
of p%artalaing in h has been called a
political meeting in the city
of Butte. The political, like the indus
trial field, seems to be somewhat busy.
Things have improved in the political
field during the last few years the same
as they have in the industrial. Nothing
was prosperous four years ago. Eavry-
thing seems to be somewhat prosperous
this year, including the growth O. pcli-
tical parties. Uaughter.)
II doubt if there has ever been in the
history OF time so many POLITICAL parties
OF all principles ard lack of principles, CT
every conceivable and imaginative name.
Uaughter.) Some of them seem to be
of the staying quaIty ana some OF the
disappearing quality. l am told that a
political star disappeared from the tirlna-
ment last night and LETT his party with
out a candidate. daughter and hoots of
de-ision.) In the midi of this turmoil
and confusion in the midst of the petty
strife wh:eh sometimes amuses and some
times annoys, 1 think it is prudent and
patriotic for the people to get together.
Considering the fact that we of Montana
constitute a part of a nation of 75.Cto,0OO
people, a nation that has at once become
the wonder and the envy of the whole
civilized world (Applause) we would not
become separated from that mighty ma
ton if we could, and we could not be-
come separated from it if we
hav in common with the nation a des-
tiny that is to be determined for veal or
for woe. for good or for ill, just in pro-
portion as each person charged with re-
--l- 80 - 80 &~- o-1 onoh nm
.munity charged with the responsibility
which d~evo,ves upon the smallest poAtl-
cal units. discharges the duty Of the
hour, not only with reference to the we'll.
being of the Individual person to the
community. but with reference to the
destiny of the great nation of whlsh the
individual person and the
forms an inseparable part.
II ann not prepared tonight to speak
from a strictly partisan point of view.
There are virtues in all parties, though
virtue seems to be Injected into some
parties in such homeopathic doses that
1t is hard to observe; blu you can hardly
see any aggregation of American citi-
zens that has not some good in it, though
1t is sometimes hardly perceptible to the
naked eye. (Laughter.) I ann sorry that
in this campaign the situation is obscur-
ed by such a number of parties. They are
sometimes ornamental but never ad-
vance the public interest. l would that
the republican party-the party having a
history unprecedented in b1illiancy, mer-
it and worth, the party identified with
the greatest achievements of this great
republic regret that that party is not
squarely confronted at this election by
its old opponent, the old, simon-pure
slow-going democratic party. We could
then define issues and determine points:
but it so haIlpeEs that our democratic
brethren have gone into the partnership
business. They have united nationally
and locally with every rag-tag and bob
tail party that could be oun in the 20
litical tield. daughter and a~yplause) It
is almost impossible for the old Jackson
ian democracy to recognize in the pres
ent conglomerate. any part OF the Old
democratic party. The situation rs not
d%isstn1ilar from a practice that used to
obtain in the days of Mr.. Buchanan, and
no one that passed through them has
ever forgotten those days-they then
used to patch pantaloons until none of
the original cloth remained in he gar
ments hut the patching was kept UP as
long as a piece remained strong enough
to attach another to it. 1t is the same
way with the democratic party today;
none of is members can tell which is
the original article"
Having finished throwing bouquets at
the democratic party and it's satellites
Senator Carter brought up the question
of prosperity. In 1892, he stated, the coun-
try was enjoying about the same degree
of prosperity as is prevalent now. In a
moment of mental alteration the people
voted for a change in the administrative
policy of the government. They thought
things were bad because some men were
growing wealthy; were putting brown
stone on the fronts of brick houses ana
were riding in private cars. The result
was that the arm of industry was paraly-
zed: the hun of machinery ceased in
New England; hard tines were felt on
the Pacific coast as well as elsewhere,
and thousands of beggars tramped over
the country. They were not beggars
from choice-ther was no work they
could secure to earn money with which
to buy bread to put into the mouths of
their hungry wives and babes. Where
ever the shadow of democratic policy fell
1t caused a blight as deadly as that OF
the dread pas tree.
In 1896 the people, educated by their
sad experience. true to their sense Of
duty, sat in judgment on conditions-the
most majestic jury that ever assembled
on this earth-and elected William Nc
Kinley president by the largest party
majority ever cast in the history of this
or any other country. 1t was prophesied
that his election would prove disastrous
and that things would go from bad to
worse. Hardly a month had passed
when demagogues began to howl, SCOT
1ngly inquiring where were the good
times promised.
But six months had not passed away
when there came a change. The mills OF
New Egland began to open their doors
to laborers; the hun of machinery was
heard throughout The length and breadth
of the land: the sound of tramping 0
sands suddenly ceased; where two men
Nna1 ~ haon coolxinr ono nncitinn