Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-26

been. When he looked over the marvel
Gus prosperity of the city he did not
know that he would be standing on a
platform addressing IN audience of re-
publicans.
For Gods sake stand together said
Mr.. Coakley, land don't destroy that
which you have gained. In 1896 / stump
ed the New England states for Bryan but
when he said that he would pull down
the American flag l abandoned Bryan"
The speaker was interrupted by tumul-
tous applause which continued for some
time. When it subsidized the speaker con-
tinued:
Il stood in the city of Butte and saw
marching through the streets the fam
beau club. There in the ranks were the
Montana ritlemen whom 1 saw in 1898
thrust up against the savages in the
Philippines and they are fighting in this
campaign just as earnestly as they did
on the bloody field of Caloocan where
they gave their blood for the nation. ]
said to Captain Sanders, L see that the
Montana volunteers have enlisted in an
other campaign. Put me in and as I
am not strong in the legs but have a
strong tongue, don't put me in the fam
beau club
Mr.. Coakley said that he was glad to
see the questions of the day discussed In
the light of day. In the Hobbies of the
senate and in the dark places corruption
may have sway but the people of a great
nation cannon be bought in the light OF
day.
Montana, la God, is safe" said
Mr.. oakley "Once a question is ex-
nncn6 70 fhn 1;ol+ &c -iI..
never mas a state gone astray. Any dis
grace mat comes TO Montana is q spot on
the starry banner, but you will see to it
my friends that when she goes to the
polls on election day she will declare for
purity In public life; for honesty and in
tegrlty in craftsmanship and for honesty
ana sincerity against what the demo-
cratic party designates as the great ag-
gfesauon OF wealth in the hands of a few
individuals. h democratic party says
lEat II Is afraid of great wealth in the
liahaS OF a lew. Do they mean Senator
"elllhgtoh' DO they mean the millionaire
political leader and dictator of New York
Dick Croker with whom Bryan ate
dinner at $12 per plate or do they mean
the immensely wealthy Mr.. Clark or Mr..
Daily of Montana. They take Clark and
puI LII oi lc il0llOldl ueIllOcTdClC cen~
trail committee. Are they afraid of him
or do they wan to help in the distribu-
ton of his money!" ..s
At some length the speaker dwelt upon
the question of expansion and showed
conclusively that the democratic idea
that the country would go to the bow
vows If the policy of expansion was pur-
sued, was silly and nonsensical. In sup
mort nf his arpl1nant ha raSd from tho
last number of the Forum a reproduce
ton of what the New York Herald in
1903 had to say against the policy of
Thomas Jefferson in the matter of the
Louisiana purchase. The Herald is
quoted as saying:
1T is next to a certainty that the ses-
sion will terminate leaving Mr.. Jeffer-
son in complete possession of all the des-
potic powers which were lately acquired
by the Spanish monarchy"
Jefferson uttered these words of re-
Duke which are as applicable today as
they We're in 1903: :
although it is acknowledged" speak,
ing of the doctrines of the declaration of
independence as applied to Louisiana.
that our new fellow citizens are yet as
incapable of self government as children.
yet some cannot bring themselves to sus-
pend it's principles for a single moment
In speaking of the trusts Mr.. Coakley
among other things said:
II understand that by combination in
this city that you have always held I'M
the price of labor and this is a tr,st
The mar who strikes a. blow at honest
industry strikes a blow at labor. You
cannot close the manufactures and
mines without bringing distress to the
firesides Of the laboring man.
How long since is it that labor found
a champion and a friend in a m%illionaireo
God defend the miners of Butte wnen
their pay and their hours of labor de-
pend upon the whim of a millionaire.
understand that one of the democratic
milllonalres has a senatorial bee buzzine
in his bonnet. l understand that after
getting a certificate of election to the
from the legislature that the sem
ate sent him back to Montana. He came
back and offered a few men in his en-
ploy eight hours. Why did he not get
the legislature to give the men an eight
hour law instead of getting hat rotten
l understand that he could
had the eight-hour law passed as
he could get anything he wanted from
that legislature. The democratic senatsn.
e I " N1OIltdId ana natcno0 IN a
plot to give a few of his men an eight
hour day. Don't take the whim of a
for al eight-hour day but
it as a law on the books of the legis-
lature and it will then be your right
and you will not be beggars.'
The speaker said that laboring men
who were attempting to discriminate
one another were sowing the
seeds of destruction. The eight-hour
in the democratic platform pro-
vided simply for class legislation as it
simply provided al eight-hour day for
the miners n not for the others while
the platform of the republican party had
for its principle. equal fraternity. equal
burdens and equal rights under the law.
No such law as that proposed by the
democratic party would hold water in
any court n the men who had drawn
it up knew this to be a fact. Mr.. Coakley
asked the voters to be careful and not