Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-24
ELOQUENT ADDRESSES TO
VOTERS OF CENTERVILLE
COLONEL COPELAND AND T. W. C0AKLEY
SPEAK TO A SPLENDID
AUDIENCE.

mining city ON earth, was the scene OF
one OF the greatest republican meetings
of the season last night. The outdoor
exercises consisted of music by the Alice
Rough Rider band, and those indoor the
exposure of Bryan and democratic tao
ties by Col. l.. f. Copeland, of Pennsyl-
vania, and Timothy W. CoaKley, of Mas
sachusetts. The meeting was held in ST.
Georges hall. and was presided over by
Chairman Warren, vice-president of the
Centerville Republican club. The large
hall was we'll filled with voters whose
faith in republican isnn was not shaken
in the least by what the speakers said.
In fact it must have been greatly
strengthened, for both Messrs. Copeland
and Coakley lave a personal acquain-
n with Bryan and are, therefore,,
familiar with all of the dips, spurs and
angles of his political career. They were
at one time democrats of the old school,
but have bravely recovered from it and
embraced the principles of republican,
ism four years ago. Mr.. Coakley stump
ed the country for Bryan because he then
believed the standard bearer of the dem
ocratic party possessed the essentials of
sincerity and statesmanship, but since
that time things have cropped out in the
career of Mr.. Bryan in particular and the
democratic party in general that have
compelled him to change his views and
filled him with remorse for his work for
ooth man and party in the past. Prob
ably no two men in the United States
today are more competent to depict Mr..
Bryan and the party he represents just
as they are and just what they pretend
to be in the presence of those whose votes
they seek-no two men on any platform
s, t1so hronl $500
more wildly or forcibly portray the fall
lacy of the principles of democracy or
dissipate the vaporings of it's fountain
head on the questions of imperialism,
trusts and similar bogies born and nur-
'tured for the express purpose of taking
the place of the old depleted stock of
shelf-worn bombastic democratic nom
sense. A picture of Bryan tempering his
language to harmoniZe with the feelings
and sentiment OF his audiences was
drawn by each of the gentlemen last
night, and it was SO vivid and the per-
spective so clear in detail that no room
was left to doubt the insincerity of the
imam who would, if given an opportunity,
elevate the nation to a plane of greater
prosperity-in a horn. In unlnistakable
language Mr.. Bryan was arraigned for
this class of work, being branded as a
~demagogue. He was pictured by Mr..
Coakley, who is himself Of Irish descent,
las appearing before an audience of Irish
Americans in Chicago and proclaiming
himself an Irisihman: then telling an
audience of Hollanders in Michigan how
his heart had gone out to the poor Dutch
Beers in South Africa, following it with
a speech before the Germans in which
he denounced militarism. and said the
Germans ought to vote for him because
Germany has a standing army.
The presentation of this phase of
the democratic s~ide-show ~precipitated
an amusing incident in which the two
speakers We're principals. Mr.. Copeland
had spoken of the A~nglo-SaXon races in
his discourse and the manner in which
Bryan had adjusted his language in va
rious places in order to cater to the SEN
timent of the predominant population.
Mr.. Coakley said that the word Anglo
Saxon is a nuisance; that the proper
phrase is English-speaking races which
includes the Kelt, the ancient British or
Cornish and the Anglo-Saxon. He said
hat the glory of America lay in the fed
Grated blood of Europe which meets here
in the veins of a free people. Here, of
whatever stock we come, we are simply
and only loyal Americans in our national
aspirations.
Here Col. Copeland rose smillingly and
said: Gentlemen, 1 shall not let my
friend here get ahead of me on this SUBJ
ject. My father was German-English,
my mother was Scotch-Irish and l am a
German-English-Sc tch-Irish-Amercan."
'TThere's an amalgamated American for
you'll" retorted Mr.. Coakley as Col.
Copeland sat down.. That's the right sort
OF fusion and amalgamation."
Thu audience fairly went wild with APP
plause at the remark.
In the course of his remarks Col. Cope
land said that by profession he was a
lawyer and for % years up to 1896, he had
been a ripsnorting democrat. He had not
abandoned the party because of the sill
YER issue, but because the party had
ceased to be clean. -Four years ago it
had sold out, body and breeches, to the
populists and nominated a populist for
president.
There We're clauses in the last platform
he did not like, he said, and he proposed
to advocate the election Of William Nc
Kinley and Theodore Roosevelt, states
men and gentlemen. Il am only sorry"
said he, 'ithat this hail is hot full of dem
ocrats instead of republicans, for I am
satisfied l could make some converts to
the cause I represent. Any democrat
here who desires to ask me any ques-
lions is at liberty to do so ssd will an
swer them. In regard to Mr.. Bryan, he
has not only taken charge of the party
he represents, but has proved himself a
traitor and coward to the silver question.
Four years ago he said he would devote
his life to the silver cause but in sixty
of his recent speeches which / have re,
there is not one word about silver, n
l arraign him as a traitor to his party of
four years ago.. If ! We're the most rabid
democrat in the land today I would not
vote for the coward and traitor who had
turned his back upon me and my prin-
ciples. The platform upon which Bryan
stand is insincere. 1t is a tumble of
falsehoods and demagogy and one that
no American can support; therefore 1
will not support it. Two-thirds OF it is