Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-05
FUSION GALA DAY.

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II was most natural that the most ad-
vertised person in the state of Montana.
when billed O speak at Misso1la wo,ld |
be greeted by an overlooking house. In
addition to a large number from Mis- |
soula, others came in from different
parts OF the county, some of them be-
cause in former years they had person.
ally known w. A. Clark, others because
they had acquired the habit of attending
political meetings, n a third class, per-
haps the largest, were attracted by his
reputation, and they came to ascertain
for themselves what kind of man it is
who is credited with spending money SO
lavishly to satisfy his political ambition.
UDon the arrival Of the train at 2:45
p. M, Mr.. Clark and John r.. Sovereign
who registered from Sulphur Springs,
Ark, We're met at the depot by about a
score, headed by Captain Frank G.. Hig-
gins and Sheriff Curran, who escorted
pnean 70 the Florence hotel. During the
afternoon Mr.. Clark and Captain Hig-
gins visited the university, where they
were entertained by President Craig.
After the usual pyrotechnic display and
music on the street. the programme at
the hall was opened, after gratuitous in
Temptations of over-zealous patriots and
college yells by students, by the introduce
ton BY Hon. John w. Evans Of Mr.. Sow
ereign. After announcing his intention
OF moving from the sacred confines of
Arkansas to become a citizen of Missou-
la, he threw a boquet and launched bold
~ into he denominated "AGdefense
of my personal honor" but which sound
ed more like a vicious attack upon the
Anaconda Standard, that had called him
THE $40, 1000 Beauty of Senator Clark
He was very anxious for the Standard
representative to note that he came upon
his own volition; that he, like the ROM
an senator, 'Ci%ncinnatus, was called from
his plow to Lincoln, Nebraska, by THAT
knight Grant of modern chivalry, w.
j. Bryan" and that the several sums
which he had itemized as receiving
amounted to but $67S. so, (which is all I
received and all I expect to receive. and
any one who says I received any more is
an unmftigated Liar, and I pin on him
the placard Of coward" After Mr.. Sow
ereign got through with his roast of the
Standard, he attempted to defend his po-
sition when he opposed the adoption of
an eight-hour, law in IDAHO. 1.-THE best
way added he, to get eight
ioai 10 CiIouSu oOoI III IllAdllOlS
He seemed. to have as little use for the
present governor of Montana as for
everything Amalgamated. He rambled
through the India famine, the sheep
plague, the Philippine war, Chinese
treaty, Japanese immigration, Sultan of
Sulu, ETC., and eventually relieved the
people by closing.
It was some time after Mr.. Clark was
introduced before the College cheers
subsidized sufficient for him to proceed
with his address. In the meantime he
stood bowling his acknowledgements, to
the audience and the decorated stage and
artistically arranged floral tributes, the
product of the skill of Mrs. Mclaughlin.
After referring to the pioneer days of a
third of a century ago, and the pioneers
of those days, he touched upon imperial
ism and the gold standard, but left them
for the greater question of trusts. His
reference to sugar, lead and wire trusts
was but introductory to the Octopus"
which is the nightmare of the fusion
democracy, the Standard Oil. He again
brought out the hoodoo and pictured dire
results of A~malgamated success. The in
dependent democrats he designated as a
'band of guerillas who had been elected
from the true democratic party and
"renegades trying to break up the dem
ocratic party and deliver it into the
hands of the republican party"
He traced the history of the indepen-
lent party, which he said was conceived
and born in iniquity, Having at it's head
that man Hogan, whose lac of intellect
was made up by his excess of mouth" A
covert threat was exposed when he said:
Every man should get off hat ticket, or
his name as the future recipient of DEM
ocratic honors will be blotted out for
ever"
He hurled defiance to the character
assailants, political outcasts, and ira
ducers of good men, whose vituperations
are black as hell ITSELF" whom he sar
castically referred to as 'the purifiers of
today" by saying, $50 far as I am con-
cerned, I hold them in absolute defiance
and contempt, and their poisoned arrows
will fall short Of their mark when they
are aimed at me-"
Referring. to his reported u~tterances
he said: SIT has been stated by a venal
press that l am running for vindication
AS I stated before. it is not my wish to
leave my present business unless II
should be the will of the people, unin-
1uenced in any way. If I desire vindica.
ton, I would have found it at the demo
cratic national convention when I was
seated at the head OF the Montana dele.
cation amid the plaudits of thousands Of
people. Then it was for the first time
that the people understood the opposi'
ton that had been brought against me-
He closed after another turn at -