Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-25
R0US|NG REPUBLICAN
RALLY At MEADERV|[LE

There was another rousing republican
rally at Meaderville last night under the
auspices of the Meaderville club. Long
before proceedings commenced every
seat vas take II, and ~ the tine the Alice
Rough Rider band entered the hall
standing room only was to he had.
Thomas Stodden introduced Charles A.
Lyford, candidate for county assessor, as
chairman of the evening. One of the fea-
lures of the meeting was the Meader-
Vile quartette, which rendered cam
paign songs and was repaid with great
singers, who have carefully practiced up
on Mckinley and Roosevelt songs. The
are Joseph Andrews, John
Thomas, Nicholas Opie, T. c. Boden, lit
tie Florence Andrews acting as pianist.
The first speaker was Prof. A. c. Ne
VIII whose remark were brief. He was
followed by c. G.. Kohl, candidate for
county attorney, who said that at pres
ent the best recommendation for initia-
ton into the secret counsels of the demo-
cratic party is to be as rank a corrup-
zionist as possible.
"Messrs. Clark n Heinze,' he said,
pose as friends of labor, but are plain
~ insincere. If they really feel the love
for the poor working man which thew
profess, they would not only give eight
hours to the miner, but also to the mill
and the smeltermen. The democratic,
or fusion plank, on the eight-hour ques-
ton, if followed out, would lead to an
unconstitutional law. which Clark and
his boosters are we'll aware of, but a law
passed in pursuance of the republican
plank will stand the test of the courts
and really give eight hours.
Mr.. o closed by calling on all per-
sons to vote the straight republican
national. state and county tickets, and
said that especially if the latter is elect
ed. the people will get a good legal gov
eminent and good officers, who will hon
estly and efficiently conduct the public
affairs, so that the high rate of axes
under which the people are now
weighted down. by reason of democratic
incompetency inc carelessness, will be
reduced
Edwin Bray followed with an address
occupying Is or 20 minutes, referring es-
pecially to the different times in Butte
now and during the administration of
Grover Cleveland. He ecalled to his
auditors those dark days when Coxey's
army of hungry men took possession OF
Butte. n pointed out. how different the
soup house is from the full dinner pail.
He referred especially to Folsom and
Won Tobel, candidates on the republi-
a state ticket, whom he said he per-
sonally knew when he was in the legis-
lative assembly. When the eight hour
bill came before that body those gentle
men voted aye, and two or three flights
ago Governor Folsom, at Centerville,
said that if an e~ight-hour bill was pre-
sented to him he would cheerfu.ly sign
il.
Mr.. Bray closed with the story of a
man who walked through the streets of
a southern town with q pc, coon in his
arms. The little boys ran about him and
begged him for it; so finally he said:
Now, boys, I will give the coon to him
whose politics I like best" The first
boy said he was a democrat and free
trader: the second little boy said he was
a populist and always stayed in the mid
die of the road, while the third little boy
said he was a labor man and socialist;
and then he asked the fourth little boy
what he vas The little fellow hesitated
and finally said: II am any Did thing
to get the coon" That is the way with
these so-called eight-hour Heinze re-
publicans-they are any old thing to get
the offices or Doodle.