Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-15
REPUbLICAH speakers
NTHUSIAS'TCALL RECEIVED
ARousNe AND INSPIRING RALLY AT THE AUDITORIUM SATURDAY EVENING HON. w. POTTER
AND HON. |. K. BYRNEs DELIVERED MsTRUcfW AND INTERESTING
ADDRESSES TO A CROWDED HOUSE.

When the flambeau club, preceded by
the Alice Rough Rider band, started
from republican headquarters. oppoS-
lite the McDermott hotel. last Saturday
evening, and keeping step to a martial
air marched up and down the principal
thoroughfares of the town, it wasn't
long until the populace became aware
that something was doing"
And when the IN began to play
"Therell Be a Hot Time in the Old
Town Tonight" the torches to cast solid
sheets of flame into the air and the fire.
works to crimson the buildings along
the line of march big crowds gathered to
see what was on the programme. 1t
wasn't long until traffic in the streets
had to be suspended IN account of THE
mass of people jamming the street cross
inss at the intersection of Broadway
and lain and Main and Granite streets.
Over Broadway to Main. w Main to
Copper. back along Main to Galena, and
then doubling on the line of march to
Broadway and thence to the Auditorium,
proceeded the club. and when it's des-
tination was reached another big crowd
was in waiting. Not only We're the side
walks lined with people, but the steps
of the Auditorium We're packed with so
dense a mass of people that it was i'm
possible to enter the building until the
club had finished it's evolutions.
Then the Alice band marched into the
large hall, playing Columbia, the Gem
of the Ocean," and streams of people
poured in after it. The hall soon became
so crowded that there was no room in
the balcony and even standing room
reached a premium.
1t was a rousing rally, an inspiring
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prosperity burned brightly in the
breasts of the auditors and the speakers
were men of logic and %eloquence who
kept the enthusiasm at fever heat. From
the moment Chairman George M. Bour-
quin advanced to the front of the stage
and introduced Hon. George w. Potter,
of New York, as the first speaker Of the
evening, until Hon. Timothy E. Byrnes
spoke the words which ended the meet
ing and evoked three cheers for the re-
publican party and it's candidates there
was an almost continuous round of APP
plause.
Or the stage with the speakers We're
| Lee Mantle, E. S. Booth and Colonel P.
r. DINA while the pictures of Nc
Kinley and Roosevelt, which had been
removed from the arch over the rostrum
during the Episcopal bazaar, had been
restored to their positions, and with
those of 1.-The Martyred President and
the warrior president who believed In
lighting it out on these lines if it takes
all summer beamed down on the audi
ence In appreciation of their presence.
In introducing Mr.. Potter, Chairman
Bourquin said that he was a man who
hailed from the land of Boss Croker
and the Tammany tiger, a a who had
been campaigning the state for four
weeks and was an artist in his line. The
address which he would deliver would
not only be interesting, but instructive.
The Hon. George w. Potter came up
to the highest expectations of his audi
ence. He is a man of an interesting per-
sonality, and at once an interesting
and pleasing speaker. His anguage Is
not that of one who is striving to ere
ate the impression of being an orator
but that of one who has a mission and
wishes to be understood. Clear. crisp
Anglo-SaXon is his forte, and yet he
possesses a fund of wit and anecdote
withal. which keeps his hearers in q
good humor with him and with them
selves. while they are benefited by the
truths which he inculcates SO vigorously
and so de~terminedly.
At the threshold of his address he
stated that from Speaking Jul VI uooiS
so often while making a tour of the state
his voice had become almost as rough
and ragged as the democratic platform
There was once a democratic alder.
man in New York." he said, who had a
little boy about 10 years of age. One day
that boy passed a fish market, and see
ing a large salmon hanging on a hook
his desire to possess the fish was sc
strong that he stole it and placed it un'
der his Jacket. The fish was so LONG
that it's head projected above the top Of
the bows Jacket and it's tail hung below