Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-01
ENTHUSIASM
At HIGH PITCH
REPUBLICAN FLAMBEAU CLUB
LED A BIG CROWD TO
THE RALLY.
COL. SANDERS TALKED ON
BRIBERY AND POLITICS.
j. A.. Fraser Of Chicago Addressed
the Audience on National
Issues.

The republican campaign was formally
opened in this ci.- saturday evening.
The streets were ablaZe with enthusiasm
of the most pronounced type, a forerun-
ner of that which is to prevail on No
vember 6. The Flambeau club, recently
organized, was o in full regalia, as was
also the Rough Rider band, which fur
nished the music. The Flambeau club
is composed principally of men who serv-
ed in the Spanish-Arnerican war. It's
members know how to get to the front
in good order. teaded by the band, they
pa1aded through the various streets and
excited the admiration of all, bringing up
at the Auditorium.
Not since the night before the last vote
on the capital contest had a falnbeau
club with its flaming torches and vari-
colored costumes been seen in Butte.
That club. however, was a Great Falls
product. All along the route of march
Saturday evening the boys were greeted
with cheers from every side. AT some
points on the line of march the crowd
of spectators extended from the sidewalk
into the street and while it's advance
column pressed close to the lin of
marchers the latter had no difficulty in.
getting through. It was a regular hur-
1ah night, but after all, the manifesto
tion exhibited was probably only a start
er for the enthusiasm that will here after
mark the work of the party.
The Auditorium was crowded to it's ut
most capacity with persons anxious to
hear the addresses scheduled for deliv-
cry ~ w. F. Sanders of Helena, and
John A. Fraser of Chicago, but the lat
ter gentleman, on account of the latenes
of the hour when Colonel Sanders had
finished his talk, confined himself to re-
lating a few parallels applicable to the
occasion. The hall was decorated with
bunting and flags, especially the stage
portion of it. On the wall at the. rear of
the platform hung pictures of President
Mckinley and Mr.. Roosevelt. Nearly all
of the local candidates for office occupied
seats on the platform. The Alice band
was in attendance and the
opening of the meeting by rendering the
Star Spangled Banner. Attorney George
the legislature, acted as chairman and in
a happy little speech introduced Colonel
Sanders.
Mr.. Sanders first dwelt upon the sub
ject of expansion, following it with a
chapter on the utter inability of the DEM
ocratic party to do for the people that
which it claimed to be able to do. He
spoke of the differences existing between
the democratic and republican parties.
He had, he said, no desire to annihilate
the democratic party, as there was alb
solute n perfect good to be evolved
from the differences. "The democratic
party, or fragment of it remaining in
Montana, must take the heritage which
VI 1911 DClo1lSS " I, oulu III SolO1ICls
For forty years the party, as a whole,
has been a negative. Whatever has been
proposed by the republicans to swell our
pride and benefit the country has met
We ought not to be asked to go into po-
litical battle with a handicapped, muz-
z!ed and crippled fragment. The dem
ocratic party has not the faculty of gov
rnmen and has lost the confidence of
the American people. Before it was
| n1acad in mower we vera nrnuniSQ6 nrnS.
perity if we would only give it a chance.
During the time it reigned supreme with
the president and the house of congres
famine ak throughout the land and
sent men innumerabie begging for
something to eat. Never in the history
of the country has such a disaster as the
election of Grover Cleveland fallen upon
the American people. But the election of
William Mckinley lifted the cloud of de-
preston.
st have some interest in Montana. I
came here when there We're Indians. I
helped to drive them out. I look upon
with chagrin n contempt n man h
dAres to stain it's good name. A few years
ago it was my good fortune to represent
Montana in the senate of the United
States. Newspaper correspondents then
pictured me as walking down the aisles
of the senate chamber with a suit of
buckskin on, throwing a tomahawk into
the ceiling, turning somersaults in front
of the presiding officer and whooping like
an indian That was bad enough, but
when l hear of bribery and the fair name
of the state assailed in consequence of it.
, all the indignation OF my nature is
stirred. I will not stand it. The good
name of the state depends upon your ac-
ton in November. 1t is idle to speak as
to whether corruption exists. I am a
. juryman: not a witness, and I can say
without fear of successful contradiction,
that bribery is the essence of democracy.
Whoever pays a bribe; whoever accepts
|, it does not belong On the sidewalk or in
. the home, but ought to be breaking stone
: for Conley & McTague. On one occasion
: Judge Mcconnell went east and when he
; reached Chicago and New York he regis
. tered himself as Newton Whitefield at
: the hotels because of the humiliation
. that would have followed had they
: knaWn. who he was and whence he came
: The Colonel then spoke of the frenzy
: into which Joseph K. Toole. the fusion
candidate for governor had worked him
|: self over the corporation question, and
made fun of the democratic platform. In
! speaking on the expansion proposition he
{ said that when the matter of purchasing
) the Philippine Stands was before the
I United States William J. Bryan had gone
Z to Washington and urged the govern
: ment to close the deal, but he would not
s do Mr.. Bryan an injustice by saying he
: had any political motive in view. AS te
: the war in the islands it was Just as
; proper for the United States to suppress
! the insurrection there as it was for En-
: gland to annihilate the piracy which fol
s years existed in the China seas. and other
8 places in that part of the world. Con
: sent of the governed!" said the Colonel
Q that is a pretty democratic word tt
some OF US! For twenty-five years thu
congress OF the United States ~legislated
! for Montana at its own sweet will. 1t de.
; MED us our right and their voices were
( never raised in our behalf. We lived W
{ to 1889 under the laws of congress we
3 did not help to elect. In the Philippine
3 matter these hysterical gentlemen say
q the governed nave not consented to TIL