The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-10-19
Governor TOOle's Stock Speech.
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cious Brobdignaglan, this colossal anc
demoniacal Frankenstein monster. this
incarnation of all the ferocities and all
the atrocities of all the furies and all the
Internal fends of the stygian lakes OF
everlasting torment-leaping with tiger
ish bound from one end of Montana tc
the other, and tearing to pieces with
ensanguined paw all our rights, all our
liberties, all our Institutions, all our
wives and sons, and daughters, and men
servants, and maidservants, and oxen
and asses, and strangers within our gates
against the peace and dignity of the
state of Montana and contrary to the
statutes in such cases made and pro
vided Kerosene!
ut may be that there were men in the
last legislature, republicans and demo-
Gratis, who were not vestal virgins-I do
not know. Seventy-tive per cent of the
republicans in that body were charged
with having lost the innocence of unborn
babes; whether Justly or unjustly so
charged l do not know. The same men
that bring these charges tell us that
Nero was not man of spotless charac-
ter, that Catherine de Medici instigated
the massacre of st. Bartholomew day,
that the Duke of Alva was butcher,
Marie Antoinette strumpet, Louis XIV
a rake, George w. a scalawag, Wilkes
Booth an assassin, William M. Tweed
a plunderer, and William A. Clark a
boodler whether these men and
women are Justly or unjustly SO charged
I do not know. They tell us that Judas
Iscariot, Benedict Arnold, Simeon S.
Hobson and John H. Geiger we're traitors
and betrayers, reeking with perfdy and
dishonor, objects of everlasting obloquy
and contempt-bu | do not know. For
aught know all these men are as pure
and unsullied, as white and immaculate
as any saint in heaven. and fit to sing in
the seraphic chorus of the most high
cherubim around the throne through all
eternity. Kerosene!
But it's not to purge the state of any
fancied wrong, it's not to purify it of any
imagined scandal and disgrace, it's not
to establish higher standard of political
morality; it's not to tell the world that
Montana is not always for sale to the
highest bidder, that our enemies are at
work to throw us and our barrels down.
be not deluded. There are
men who are opposing me today who
have honored me and promoted my as
pirations, and to whom l am attached by
a friendship little short of tilial affection.
However, the men who oppose me and |
The cause | represent today are political |
and desperadoes; they are
thieves, liars, anarchists, cutthroats and |
an organized band of murder
'us bandits, the scum and offscourings
If humanity, conceived of the Standard |
Jill company, born of the Amalgamated |
copper company, and thrust out into
he world for the sole purpose of drench
ng our goodly state of Montana and sat
lrating everything inflammable within
t with showers of kerosene, and then to
submit it all and sundry to the ravages
# the torch. That's what they're here
or. That's why they oppose us. That's
he reason they have organized this
5oXer movement against us. Their mis-
ion is to destroy us and ours, to carry
ur severed heads, impaled on stakes,
With ribald shout and jest throughout
he state, to burn and loot our peaceful
ZONES, to torture our beloved ones, to
ry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
rom Hope to Glendiye, from Havre to
lima, and from hell to breakfast. Gen
iemen: | thank you for your kind atten-
ion. KerOsene!'
MOMtfOrl,
Grandma 1enne is considerably under