Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-10
Enthusiastic Meeting Of Repub-
licanS Last Night.
OF E. B. HOWELL
Says Silver Will Not Be An Issue III
the Campaign-AddreSs Of
j. N. Kirk.

in Silver Bow county has the SHADOW OF
a coming event-victory-been more pro-
nounced than it is right now in the n
Of the republican party. The party mas
started out to take a brace of falls out
of the opposition.
Last evening the party club, the menu
bership of which. is increasing at every
turn of the wheel, held a meeting in the
Auditorium, and it was largely attended.
At the opening of the meeting Major
Byron H. Cook, the president, announced
that D.. j. Charles of South Butte had
been added to the executive committee.
He also stated that the central and ex-
ecutive committees had secured quarters
on the second floor of the Owsley block
and would hereafter transact their BUSH
ness there.
After the city election the club will
hold it's meetings at 1O7 East Broadway,
but the next meeting will be held in the
auditorium of the library building on
the 30th.
The speakers last evening were E. B.
Howell, who recently left the populist
party and Joined the republicans for all
time to come, N John N. Kirk. Mr..
Howelrs remarks covered a broad field,
but Mr.. Kirk dwelt principally upon the
necessity of concerted action among re-
publicans i'm the matter of registration
and voting.
In the curse of his remarks MT.
Howell said:
II am at somewhat of a loss to know
why I have been selected to talk to you
at this time. l was born and bred in the
republican party-in the state of Iowa.
where republicanism is born in the bone
but in recent years I did not find myself
in accord with the party on certain mat
ters and concluded that I could do more
good for those things by joining some
other party. 1 have nc apology to make
for returning to the ranks of the repub-
licans. I am not here for the urpos Of
managing the politics of others, but to
allow others to manage mine. In COM
ing back to the republican party 1T does
not mean that I am seeking office; 1t
! means that I know there are more men
Of character in the republican party than
there are in any other party. There are
good and bad men in every party, but l
believe the percentage of good men-men
of integrity n honesty is larger in the
ranks of the republicans than it is in
any other. Especially is this the case in
Silver Bow county in particular. and
Montana in general. 1 believe thoroughly
in the principles of protection. AS to the
silver question:, I believe I am talking
, tonight to a large number of persons who
have been staunch supporters of the
J. WIltlc IlCtdls IL j. lily pAiNtol tA1oS Ga
will not be the issue in the coming cam
paign. During the Cleveland admins
tration it seemed hat the lard times
which the country was experiencing were
due tt the condition of the finances OF
the nation, but the advent of good times,
a recurring prosperity. has dissipated
that belief. 1t has been practically dem
onstrated that the people Of the United
States are not going to adopt free silver
coinage legislation at a ratio of Is to ]
without the concurrence of other ma
tons. ! have reluctantly accepted this
belief. It is a matter to which I have
given much thought, and the more
think of it the greater become my con.
, viction that other issues besides the sill.
yer proposition will be the absorbine
issues in the national campaign. I have
not returned to the republican party be.
cause | have been converted to the fal.
lacy of the gold standard. but because
believe the interests of the public will b.
best subserved by a republican admin.
lstration. What is it that the democrati.
party invites? Simply votes. It seem,
to me that the only thing it has to one,
IS a request to help it fight its feuds.
believer higher interests are at stake
party and is still dividing it, and / be
!ieve the republican party is the onl,
hope for Silver Bow county. It shout,
be the aim of the republicans to redeem
the state and county. They need re
deeming. (Applause.) I know there ar
some populists who believe as I do.
met one today. He is one of the a
OF the party. He told me he admired tn
course l had taken in joining the repuh
hcans. and added that he thought seri
ously OF doing likewise, but he had no
quite made up his mind on the silye
question. Whatever I do hereafter wi
be done in the republican party. IF tn
republicans are wise they will no longe
pay heed to the breach between what i
called the silver republicans and tn
straight republicans.
There have been many persons in thi
country that have fought against ex
pansion. but still the country continue
to grow and prosper. AS to the war,
will say that President Mckinley and hi
cabinet have conducted it in such a wa
as to make us feel proud of the fact the
we are American citizens. There is or
thing which I admire about Theodor
Roosevelt. When he become a member {
the police commission of New York b
was given to understand that there weI
laws which could not and should not /
enforced. and his reply was that IL the
could not be enforced they should M
; be on the statute books. and while the
were there he would enforce them.
makes my blood boil to walk along IL
street and witness the m%altreating
Cinnamon without police interference
except along about election time"
John N. Kirk followed Mr.. Howell. f
said the club had not been organized (.
the purpose OF nominating persons for O
fce, but with the object OF keeping Il
fires of republicanism burning, 30 tn,
when the. time for business. arrived n
publtcans would more fully understar
their duty. He urged republicans to rel
lister for the coming city election. adj
ing that the prevailing belief amor
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