Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1900-10-19
.INDEP PENDENT RALLY
Tom Hogan and Cornelius Kelley Discuss
Their Side Of Democracy Many
Troubles.
TWO BIG TALES OF WOE
They Explain Why Democrats are Demo
Gratis and Why Democrats Are
Not Democrats,

oAess2 eAAet w ny boA1iooieete AAAo
Not Democrats.
The people Of Carbon county are liable
to become tit subjects for the insane asv-
lum it there are MANY more political par
ties to bc sprung on the long suffering
public. 1t is more than the average
man can do to keep track Of the political
evolutions which have kept the atmos-
phere of Montana in a acyclonic condition
for several months past
But it looks now as if the field was
we'll covered and without waiting to hear
anything more thevotcr may sharpen w
his little pencil and get ready to put the
fatal y in the prepared place at the head
Of the republican column. 1t il beyond
question, if the signs of the times count
for anything. that the majority of the
voters are going to do that very thing.
Saturday night the people Of this city
ana many from outlying districts gave to
the independent democratic issues the
same respectful attention which they
have accorded to all things political this
year. The fact that such interest has
been shown in political discussions
speaks well for the citizens Of Carbon
county.
Il. S. Hogan, candidate for governor,
and c. +. Kelley. congressional candi-
Idate, were tic drawing cards for the
|evcning Both gentlemen admitted that
they We're nearly talked out. During
the day they had spoken at Joliet and
Carbonate to good audiences and at the
latter place the mines closed toallow the
men to hear the speeches.
Previous to the meeting the Finn band
marched from the hall down to the Spot
ford, where they made sweet music for a
half hour and then went back to the
hall, which was already we'll filled with
republicans and few democrats. The
| entrance of the speakers and those who
were to occupy the platform with them
was the signal for applause. At this
point the band played what was appar.
entity funeral march. Nothing more
appropriate could have been chosen as q
selection to render at any democratic
meeting. The only question arises as te
| whether it were not a little bit prema
| ture.
Attorney George w. Person, in as
suming the craftsmanship Of the meet
ing, assured the audience that hedid not
intend to make a speech, although /;
rumor to that effect had gone abroad
But he did want to offer a piece o1
friendly advice to the republicans, that
they should take their speakers aside
and quietly inform them that the Ameri
can people have had as much to do viii
the development of this country as the
republican party has. He then intro
duced Cornelius +. Kelley, independent
luding to him as the "orator OF Tho
Smoky City" He was not mistaken il
this appellation for Mr.. Kelley is assur
edly a very eloquent speaker and {
young nlan of marked ability. IN view
Of this fact it is hard to understand why
Mr.. Kelley did not advance something
new along the line of national issues
This he certainly failed utterly to do
and the logical conclusion is that ths
democracy has nothing better to offer.
Mr.. Kelley gave his attention to The
usual democratic bogies. He summed
up imperialism as question whether
or not the American people shall turr
their backs on one hundred years o
glorious history in order to follow tht
tinsel bauhle of conquest He eulo
gized Aguinaldo and his followers as be
ing civilized and christianized. He said
81 am an expansionist; we are all expan
sionists. But there is as much differ
ence between expansion and imperialism
as there is between daylight and dark
ness; there is as much difference between
the expansion of Jefferson and the i'm
perlalism of Mckinley as there is be
tween the religious toleration Of the mid
die ages and the religious principles Of
today. Expansion from the time o
jefferson down has harvested untolc
benefits to the people of the United
States.
Mr.. Kelley pleased to make this dis
tinction and reason for previous expan
sion being beneficial to this country OF
the ground that the territory thus &C
quired up to the present time has beer
contiguous or adjacent to the rest of ou1
country, while the Philippines are man,
miles away. He also, in moment o
questionable consistency, included
Alaska in the category of contiguous ex
pansion territory. He declared that moi
one foot of Philippine territory wa.
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