Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-29
audience laughed heartily and DR.. Al
brittOn laughed with them. ~

Ao Gil duSpIClOuS OCCdSlOu Is t!itS
he continued. LAS 1 look out upon this
sea of faces I am reminded that, IL
hundreds and thousands of other places
there are similar audiences listening to
grand orators and noble statesmen-sucb
statesmen as Teddy Roosevelt who is
passing through the country causing the
people to clap their hands and give Nc
kinley the votes that will insure him a
rousing victory (Applause.)
What an epoch is this! We are look
ing back upon the nineteenth century,
about to see the golden curtain rise
which hides from our gaze the twentieth
century. Were 1 a prophet it seems to
me that I could ascend one of those
Rocky Mountain peaks-perhaps to the
top of old Big Butte-and, like Henry
Clay, could stand and listen. He stood
on a peak of the Alleghanies close
wrapped in thought, and when asked
Wha he was thinking about answered.:
1 was listening to the tramp of thous-
ands.' Standing upon a peak of the
Rockies tonight, l could listen not to the
tramp of thousands, but to the tramp
of millions.
I'VE have founded one of the greatest
states in the galaxy of states that COM
prise the union-our own grand state of
! Montana. We believe in expansion. Gap
plause.) We are not willing to stand
here-I believed there would be more
c%lapping of hands when l said that.
daughter and renewed %applause.) We
are not willing to stand here, 1 repeat,
and think of the stars and stripes float
ing over the Philippines; we believe in
free Cuba; we believe in educating those
savages in the Philippines under our own
grand government. (Cheers.)
But hat of Montana? We are proud
of her; we are proud of her noble sons:
we are proud of her wealth. And we are
going to stand for an honest govern
ment.'
The speaker was here Interrupted by
cheers, c.apping Of hands and yells of
encouragement, such as That's no mis-
take!' and Fright you are!" When all
was quiet he concluded as follows:
w are going to stand for an honest
election, for that which is heightened
and true, for hat which the stars and
stripes of our nation represent, and with
out a single Doubt know it is true, for
Senator Garter told me so when l came
into this room--without a. Single doubt
we are going to carry Montana on the
9th day of next November. Great ap-
p.ause.)
l. eAA IN a pol1llSo opSdhGIy d1lu
I don't want to indulge in politics. Yet,
somehow or other it makes me feel-I
don't know how-when I look out upon
this immense audience l can see things
with my minds eye that make my ton
que itch to ease itself by speaking.
(Laughter)
But am not the one that is to speak
to you tonight; SO 1 will close and let
that man come forward and al1racc yo,,
whom Montana has no reason to be
ashamed of-that man who stood unfair
nished in the United States senate and
will be returned to the high office he now
fills. Ladies and gentlemen, permit me
to introduce to you Senator Thomas III.
Carter" ~
AS senator Garter came forward and
bowed his acknowledgements to Chair
man Abortion for the fitting tribute paid
to him he was greeted by his audience
with an unmistakable evidence of their
regard. Women cheered and clapped
their hands as we'll as men and many of
the latter rose to their feet and waved
hats and handkerchiefs. Senator Car
ter stood smiling until the demonstration
ceased. He was in excellent voice and
his every word was. plainly heard in the
rear of the hall and in the gallery from
the time he opene his lips until his
peroration.
If the reverend gentleman is not a po-
lttlcal speaker as he says remarked the
senator at the threshold of his address.
Il utterly despair of making any sort of
showing this evening.
Il am deeply grateful for the privilege
If partaking in what has been called a
continuous political meeting in the city
of Butte. The political, like the indus
trial field, seems to be somewhat busy.
Things have improved in the political
field during the last few years the same
as they have in the industrial. Nothing
was prosperous four years ago. Every
thing seems to be somewhat prosperous
this year, including thu growth of poll
teal parties. Gaughtes0
Il doubt if there has ever been in the
history of time SO many political parties
of all principles and lack of principles. of
every conceivable and imaginative name.
Uaughter.) Some of them seem to be
of the staying quality and some of the
disappearing quality. I am told that a
political star disappeared from the frma-
ment last night and left his party with
out a candidate. daughter and boots of
derision.) In the midst of this turmoil
and confusion. in the midst of the. petty
strife which sometimes amuses and some
times annoys, I think it is prudent and
patriotic for the people to get together.
Considering the fact that we of Montana
constitute q part OF a nation of e, 900. 900
people, a nation that has at NEE become
the wonder and the envy of the whole
civilized world (applause) we would not
become separated from that mighty ma
tion, If we could and we could not BE-
come separated from it if We would-wa
have in common with the nation a des-
tiny that is to be determined for veal or
for woe, for good or for i'll, just in pro-
portion as each person charged with re-
sponsibility as an elector and each COM
munity charged with the responsibility
which devolves upon the smallest politi-
cal units, discharges the duty of the