Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-15

lIilulLSN. luSS Itdu vic CONSTITUTION
of the United States and the Declaration
of Independence. If they had stopped
there they would have done fairly we'll.
but they didn't. If they had they would
not have been democrats. They cast
aside the red bandanna and crawled in
side the folds Of ODD Glory a place
where they had not bunked for years.
Then they slept all night and the next
day brought forth the win bogies Of mill
itarism and imperialism. Finally they
put up those twin busaboosters, False
Prophet Bryan of Nebraska and Adlai
of the Knight of Golden Circle fame
and adjourned.
when they adopted that platform and
placed forward those candidates the
handwriting of their fate appeared on
the wall-they We're marked for a silver
tomb.
I'm 1860 democrats flocked to the stan
dard of the republican party; they did
the same thing in 1864 and even as late
as 1896. and just behold them coming
now-thhe greatest men of the party.
AS for the rank n file they are rush
ing to join our ranks by the hundreds
Cf thousands"
In the speakers opinion, the democrat
ic party is at the present time in the
same position as the soldier who picked
up a coVnrade wounded in the knee and
carried him to the rear. AS he had about
reached a point where he was going to
lay his burden down. his captain APP
peared and asked him why he was carry
ing around a mai whose head had been
shot off-during the time he had been
carrying the soldier a cannon ball had
blown his head off.
why hang hat fellow" ;jacultaed the
astonished Samaritan, "he told me that
he was wounded only in the knee!"
THAT is the position of the Democrat
ic party, exactly said Potter, lit does
not realize hat since that Kansas City
convention 1T has been carrying a head
less DOGGY around on it's shoulders.
He stated that his father was a wage
Garner and had worked in the state Of
New York at so cents a day and BOARD
ed himself. There had never been one
moment in the HISTORY of the Democratic
party when it had been the friend of the
laboring nan That role had always been
played by the republicans. The demo-
cratic party had fought for free slave
labor. thus reducing the wages of white
labor, one. of the basest principles ever
advocated on earth. The republican
party had it's basic inception in setting
these men free and doing away with free
slave labor competition.
When 1t had nominated a workingman
for president, a man that made one 4
the grandest presidents in the history
OF the country, he democratic papers
had caricatured him n under the carl
cature a written: This new republic
a party, made UP of green timber, has
taken up and nominated nor the presi-
| 6nraNy' n pyo rl{ ,orr,o y, 80 oNl .3.I -u,.
ter from Illinois named Abraham Lin
coln."
Among those great Americans who had
dignified labor in their youth, James A.
Garfield was mentioned as a shining ex-
ample.
I'm 1896 and again in 19OO," he contin-
ued, "the republican parity again took UP
a workingnman, a man that at the age I
II years was following the flag of his
country in the heat of conflict with the
foe on southern battlefields, a man whc
in his career as Statesman and politi.
clan had always defended those prin.
ciples which have builded up the grand
est array OF factories ever seen in any
country and had given every working
man the fun value of his services to his
employer. That man is WIrIjam McKin.
ley"
The audience had been waiting for thai
name, and as the speaker built up hi.
sentence tine hush grew greater ani
greater until ait the climax, when Nc
kinley's name was mentioned, there
burst forth round after round of ap.
plause. The crowd cheered itself hoarss
and stamped it's feet, n some few en-,
thusiastic spirits fairly yelled in expires.
sion of their pent-up feelings.
They aid in 1896 that If McKinle,
were elected" declared the speaker
wages would decrease at an alarming
rate. President GAompers, Of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, who is a demo
craft, and also in a position to know
whereof he speaks. said in his last re
port that times and WAGES are bette,
than ever before. They said that mort
cages would eat up farms and leave TIL,
farmers in poverty. How true tina
prophecy was you all know"
Mr.. Potter said that on the 9Th DIX
of next November the people were goins
to e Bryan a telegram, the wording
of which would be the same as the quer,
cf the Parrot that a minister had triet
to reform, m failing had banged tn,
cage around and kicked it so vigorousl,
that the birds leg had been broker ant
it's plumage badly rumpled. Looking III
at its master and cooking it's eye in {
comical manner, it had inquired: "Rever
end, where in Hades were you when tina
cyclone struck us?"
A goodly part of the speakers re.
marks was devoted to the twin bogies
of trusts n imperialism. He said tina
w. r. Hearst used to run at the mead O.
the editorial columns of his three paper,
a statement that the democratic party
was opposed to trusts that were no
good trusts" When the democrats wen
into power in 1898 the statement wa.
taken off the pages of these papers ami
not a word was said nor a bit of legisla.
ton enacted about trusts until the re,
publ.cans took the reins of government
in 1897. Then they again began thei
railing. The republicans had been TIL,
only party that had ever taken any &C,
ton against the trusts and is the only