Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-29

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Il am 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
it is hard to observe; but you can hardly
see any aggregation of American citi-
zens that has not some good in it, though
it is sometimes hardly p%erceptible to the
naked eye. (Laughter.) I am 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. 1 would that
the republican party-the party having a
history unprecedented in brilliancy, mer-
it and worth, the party identified with
the greatest achievements of this great
republic-I regret that that party is not
squarely confronted at this election by
it's old opponent, the old, simon-pure,
slow-going democratic party. We could
then define issues and determine points;
but it SO happens that our democratic
brethren have gone into the partnership
business. They have united nationally
and locally with every rag-tag and Dob
tail party that could be found in the po-
ntlcal held. daughter and ~applause.) 1t
10 iIIIcS IlllpOSSiDlt IOf IIle ola JacESON-
ian democracy to recognize in the pres
ent conglomerate any part of the old
democratic party. The situation is not
dlssimi,ar 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 the gar
ments but 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 it's members can tell which is
the original article"
Having finished throwing bouquets at
the democratic party and its satellites
Senator Carter broughtup 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 We're bad because some men were
growing wealthy, We're putting brown
stone on the ronts of brick houses and
We're riding in private cars. The result
was that the arm of industry was paraly-
zed; the hum of machinery ceased in
New England; hard times were felt on
the Pacific coast as well as elsewhere,
and thousands of beggars tramped over
the country. They were not beggars
from choice-there 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
it caused a blight as deadly as that of
the dread upas 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 Me-
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 demasogues began to howl, SCOT
fingly inquiring where We're the good
times promised.
But six months had not passed away
when there came a change. The mills of
New England began to open their doors
TO laborers; the hum of machinery was
heard throughout the length and breadth
or the land; the sound of tramping thous-
ands suddenly ceased; where two men
had formerly been seeking one position
TWO positions soon came to seek one man.
The imports in the preceding ten years
had always exceeded the exports in value
about $500, 600; beginning with the year
1898, the exports have averaged an excess
over the imports of 81 400. coo.
Senator Carter believed that it would
require powerful reasons to convince the
American people that they could gain any
thing by again placing in control of the
government the party that had been re-
sponsahle for the lamentable condition OF
national affairs prior to the administra-
ton of Mckinley. The democrats urged
the change-why? Answering his own
question, the speaker proceeded as fol-
lows:
"They tell us we must change from the
beatific conditions that surround us be-
cause our liberties are in peril; we must
sacrifice ourselves because constitutional
government is in peril, because we are
about to be engulfed in the pool of mill
tarism. A standing army of 50, 600 SOL
diers is about to take away our liberties.
The trusts are after us. Now, l don't
want ito be harsh on any account but l
will say that our worthy brethren are
throwing up three ghos.s, three spooks,
three skeletons with sheets thrown over
them for the purpose Of q Tightening a lot
OF political children.
LET us first pull the sheet away from
militarism. There are people talking
about miiitarism who don't know what
it is-whether it walks, talks, or is some
thing to eat. The definition that might
be given to it reminds me of the defni-
ton of characterization given by a min
ister to an inquisitiVe person who was in
t~erested in a conversation about that doc
trine going aboard a steamer passing up
the Mississippi river. My friend, it
would be hard for me to define the word,'
he said, but l think I can illustrate it.
Do you see that big bluff over there iilled
with holes?' He was answered in the af-
firmative. Well he answered, blow that