Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-06
Mammoth Parade of Republican Voters Was
One of the Noteworthy Features of the
Evening Before the Great Battle.

(Long CONTINUED app!ause.) That, my
friends. is why 1 am supporting the ad-
ministration; because 1t lands for all
that is high and nob!e and lofty. 1t
stands for keeping the flag of our coun-
try in the skies, while the democratic
party believes in trailing it in the dust"
Asking who could think of giving his
vote to the democratic party in the light
of present conditions, as compared with
those obtaining prior to three and one
half years ago, the speaker drew a
graphic word picture of the financial
and industrial slough Of despond in
which the country was cropping during
the administration Of Cleveland, the
STUFFED prophet of Buzzaro s bay" and
the present exhilarating state of affairs
throughout the nation.
Referring to the eight-hour question.
the speaker declared hat he tendency
of the times is in favor Of reduced hours
of labor and increased wages. AS man.
kind progresses, machinery is taking the
place of manual labor at a rapid rate,
and where a man could lay down his
AK, his pick, or his hoe and not seriously
interfere with the general work, he could
not be idle for a moment when watching
intricate machinery, For this reason it
causes a greater strain on the mental
faculties and cannot oe stood for so long
a time at a stretch.
He called attention to the republican
state platform and the plank therein
contained with regard to the eight-hour
law, and said that all the candidates
on the legislative ticket are pledged to
vote for such a bill when it is intro
duced. AS for the democratic plank
concerning the same question. it is very
specious in it's nature, providing as it
does for ten hours pay for eight hours
i labor. Such a law would be unconstitu-
tional and would not stand the test of
the courts. If the voters trusted tie
democratic party to give them eight
hours, they would find that they had
been gold-bricked.
The subject of strikes came in for
comments both logical and humorous.
1t was declared that when there is q
strike it can be depended on that some
body is working. That is why there
We're so few in Cleveland's time. Again,
there is a big difference in striking for
an increase in wage and striking be-
cause wages are being reduced. The
recent strike in the anthracite coal re-
gion, of Pennsylvania was classed as the
hIAu III otI NJ liuol u III lOIIileI
cause. 1t was said to be the greatest
strike in the history of the country.
and was won SO ~peaceably that the peo-
pie were amazed.
The fusionists and Joseph X. Toole
years ago Toole was against fusion and
expressed himself concerning it in the
bitterest terms. Today he occupies the
fusion bed, with good old Judge Clancy
on one side, Judge Donovan on the 9th
err and the eight-hour repub. cans are
sticking their faces from under the bed.
The foolish canards that the repub-
lican party has anything in common with
the Amalgamated Copper company or the
Standard Oil company were shown up in
all their absurdity, as was the selfish
interest of F. Augustus Heinze in en-
deavoring to enlist the people on his
sid in order hat he might win the
las suits he now has against the other
mining corporations.
Mr.. Mantle referred to the statements
made on the rostrum by j. r. Sovereign,
the alleged labor leader, relative to the
strike in the Occur d'Alenes, and the
sending there of United States troops.
He explained that he had been a member
CT the commission which went to the
Occur d'Alene country to investigate the
trouble that had taken place there. The
commission was anxious to find out if
the Standard Oil company was an owner
in the Bunker Hill ard Sullivan mines.
the speaker said, but nothing was TX
duced before the body of which he was a
member to show that such was the case
Mr.. Sovereign was a witness before the
commission. explained the speaker. and
said he didn OF know of his W knowl-
edge that the Standard Oil company had
n interest in the mines of the dis
trict. He tSovereign) had made state
ments in his paper that such owner,
ship existed because it had been SO re-