Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-27
A FUSION RALLY,
Hon. n. L. Frank, Major MacGinnis
and W. G. Jones the Speakers.

The speakers at the fusion meeting at
h Auditorium last evening were the
Hon. H. L. Frank, Major John MacGin-
mis- and ex-Congressman w. c. Jones of
Washington. Thanks to the band, the
fireworks and the Butte Reduction
Works flambeau club, there was a fair
sized crowd in attendance.
Mr.. Frank presided at the meeting,
and in introducing Mr.. MacGinnis made
quite a lengthy speech. His remarks,
however, were devoted chiefly to the
splendid opportunity offered investors in
the purchase of low-priced copper
stocks, which, with the election of Nc
kinley will surely enhance in value. In
c~identally Mr.. Frank reviewed the his
tory Of the Utah Con and Boston & Mon
tana. He accused the Standard Oil
people of having manipulated the stock
of the Utah Con so deftly that an honest
man had been unable to make a dollar
in dealing in that stock during the past
year n a half.
Mr.. Frank also told a story about a
euchre game that occurred probably in
Butte a few years ago. The euchre game
was turned into a poker game and the
a with o aces and a queen won.
His opponent held four kings and he
wondered ever after what the queen
had to do with the case. The moral Of
the story was applied to the contention
of the speaker that w. A. Clark was not
a paramount issue in this campaign.
Mr.. Frank is a good story teller and
his numerous friends in the audience al
ways felt relieved when he depressed
from politics to relate a story.
Mr. Frank then int r01uca6 Major John
MacGinnis, who, he said, would make
his maiden speech. Mr.. MacGinnis nerv-
ously advanced to the front of the stage,
and, inserting both hands in his coat
pockets, began his maiden speech" His
voice lacke resonance and he exhibited
all the symptoms of stage fright, but his
friends in the audience ave him all the
encouragement possible and helped him
out on several trying occasions by APP
plauding him literally until he was able
to again find his voice.
He started out by saying that he want
ed to go to the legislature, and frankly
admitted that he did not think he want
ed to go until the day he was nominated.
1t was feared by his fusion friends that
at this point he was about to give away
some of the secrets of the deal that had
been made, but Mac recovered himself
in time and switched.
Mr.. MacGinnis also read an editorial
from the Inter Mountain in which the
statement vas made that he owned $780,
600 worth of Boston & Montana stock.
He admitted the impeachment, and add
ed that he was also a stakeholder in the
Amalgamated and Parrot, and the divi-
dends of the three companies named
could not be any too big to suit him.
Here his friends jollied him along with
a little more applause, and, becoming
emboldened, he declared that the Anal
gamated Copper company does not own
a mine in Butte; does not employ a
miner in Butte, but had a few lawyers
on it's payroll.
IF it is a trust" exclaimed the speak
er, 1T should be driven out of the state,
and the other companies doing business
here should be aided"'
Mr.. MacGinnis in his speech said that
when H. H. Rogers was in Butte he sent
word to the speaker by an attorney for
the Amalgamated company, the name OF
whom Mr.. MacGinnis o not men
ton, as the attorney vas a friend of his.
This attorney, Mr.. MacGinnis said, asked
for Mr.. Heinze, and as the latter was
not in the Office at the time, the attorney
asked him to go down to Parlor OF
the McDermott hotel, as Mr.. Rogers
wanted to see him.
Who was this attorney, Mr.. Mac
Ginniss?
Mr.. MacGinnis also referred to alleged
efforts that We're being made to drive
George H. Casey out of politics. The
speaker said If he were elected to the
legislature he would vote for w. A.
Clark for United States senator.
Mr.. Frank, before introducing VIC.
Jones, detailed the plan Of organization
of the Amalgamated and reiterated the
statement made by Mr.. MacGinnis that
the Amalgamated did not own a mine in
Butte.
Jones' talk was devoted largely to ma
tionai issues.