Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-17

"If I am elected I do not intend to be
the governor of any party but of the
whole state. While a governor has a
right as a citizen to have his personal
preferences for candidates and to vote
FOR them If he feel so inclined, 1 do not
DelleVe that the influences which go with
this high office should be prostituted to
further the ambitions of any man for
any Office. [Applause.]
Now, all the other candidates for the
office of governor are orators. l am not
a speaker and l don't claim to be, but
this is just the kind of an audience that
l like to meet. / saw quite a number
or you this afternoon wearing overalls.
wore overalls once myself. I believe
that you are with me. [Cheers and a
shout of That's right from the rear
of the hall
while 1 believe that every legitimate
corporate interest should be protected,
to the end that foreign capital may be
induced to come in here and develop our
latent resources-away in the fastnesse.
OF these mountains there are many
mines to be developed. that not only re-
quire money for development, but that
make them available, and for these rea-
sons we should give capital every en-
enlargement to come in here-neither
am in favor of permitting capital to
make things uncomfortable for any man
simply because the feat is possible.
However, we should not trump up
charges that have no foundation in fact.
1t IS a senseless proceeding and worthy
OF the seVerest condemnation.
What is this alleged Standard Oil
company doing down here at Anaconda
that they are crying against? Why,
they are doubling that plant. 1t is nom
sense to cry that they are going to put
their heels on the necks of men in order
to pay them $3.50 q day. These charges
are trumpet up. AS 1 said before, l be-
lieve in protecting the legitimate bust
ness interests of this state, but these
rich corporations are usually we'll able
to take care of their own interests
through the courts.
consequently it is a duty
of the chief executive of this state to see
that the W~orkingmen and laiboring men
are protected by the strong arm of the
law. Now, / am not going ito attempt to
make a speech upon the national issues
of the day-you will hear plenty Of that
before the campaign is over, by men who
are better able to treat 1t. And if l Mould
attempt to make a speech of that kind I
should attempt to point results-what
is actually transporting within the men,
Dry of every man here present, but I
Shall leave that to others.
Il dom know that l have much to say,
I came UP here to give you a little plain
talk. I would like to meet all you men
and shake hands face to face and then I
can answer all the questions any man de-
sires ITO put to me. It doesn't make any
difference if you have your o~veralls on. I
wore them perhaps longer than the most
of you rave.
Ex-Governor Toole is making speeches
recomme nding that the legislature pass
an eight-hour law. Both parties nave
recommended it. I may not be able to
ao,,,;cL n ~, no. noLl 90 ~ l,.l -. .-A
my signature to a bin of that kind as
we'll as he. (Noisy demonstration of ap-
proval.) And I will do it if the bill lis
passed. CHEERS and yeIs of 'That's
right" and Hurrah for Foisom.")
II would recommend that great care be
taken in the way that bill is drawn up.
1t should be made to hold water, so that
the supreme court may pass upon it and
say that it is all right.
"WEhile a governor is not the law-mak-
ing power, It seems to me that the time
has come when "a board of anbi
and Cancellation and compulsory law
should be placed upon the statutes. !
aEl told and l know that they have such
q law in New Zealand and that 1t works
satisfactorily. l believe that such a law
as that would be for the advantage of
the whole state; but in case of trouble, in
case THAT men are so unfortunate as to
place themselves under the ban of the
law, 1 believe in human treatment all the
time to that class Of people. Anu I be-
lieve, also, that we tan take care of them
within this state " Montana and that
there is no use in ending them out any
place else. These IN n should be humane.
ly treated. I don't b .lieve in placing them
in pig pens, chicl,en pens, bull pens or
n other kind Of pen.
II have very ittle more to say, but
want you to understand that the repub-
lican party has u principles that any
official who follows them must treat
everybody right"
When the applause had died away
Chairman Newill introduced the terror
to evifdoers and boodlers. the man who
is at once the war horse and the wheel
horse of the republican party in the state
of Montana, Colonel Wilhi. =. Sanders"
Colonel Sanders made a lens my speech
ir wnsch he took coca SION TO say some
things about William Jennings Bryan
that would hardly have made the dem.
ocratic candidate for the presidency feel
as happy las a clam at high tide" had
he been there to hear them. He deliv-
cred a "roas!" on tina men who have
brought this state into disgrace by brib-
cry and boodiing that would have made
them feel as happy as the schoolboy in
swimming who was made to "chaw beef"
when the wind was coming from the
north. And the crowd fairly shouted it's
approval.
He paid a tribute to the memory of
General Lalwton that moistened the eyes
of many in the audience.
The fsl,a1y OF the democratic claims as
resards the charges CT militarism, i'm