Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-18
THE ISSUES PRESENTED
A MASTERY way.
EL0QUENCE AND LOGIC OF 7. W. COAKEY AT MEADERvlLE
LAST EvEN|NG--AS uTTERANCES CHEERED TO
THE ECHO BY DEMOCRATS AND
REPUBLICANS alike.

administration and he did not believe
that the people would consent to turn it
over to Bryan.
George M. Sinclair said that the only
issue in this campaign was the trusts and
the word was a misnomer; that the most
casual examination of the democratic
platform would prove on it's face that it
was not a declaration of principles to
which the sound. conservative men would
trust the future of the country. One
strong plank in the democratic platform
says that the party favors the construc-
ton ownership and management of the
N~lcaraguan canal which, the speaker
said, was as rank a piece of imperialism
as one could expect of a conquerer. In
regard to the trusts the speaker showed
that in the full meaning of the word
insurance companies which insured their
wives and children from want when they
were left alone in the world and the saw
lngs bank where money was boarded co
guard against want, were trusts. Thus
saving banks We're trusts but the only
thing that could deprive the depositors of
their money was actual embezzlement-
or the election OF Bryan. Free trade
England he said was a country of trusts
dllu III liz lace OF InlS TACT what became
of Bryan's theories.
Mr.. Sinclair asked the people to look
up the laws on the statute books and
they would find that every law there of
benefit to the farmers and laboring men
was placed there by the republicans of
the country. All that the democrats had
accomplished in the matter of crushing
trusts was the payment of $11, 900 or
$12,CO0 to a clerk and the submission
of a report that trusts We're numerous
and We're rapidly increasing. He main
tanned that the true danger to the party
was the insidious undermining of the
ballot as it has been done in the southern
states. In these states. he said, they
provide for an educational standard, but
to no white man does this qualification
apply. 1t was so framed that it dis
franchised 80 out of 100 blacks, and the
speaker believed that this system con-
stituted one of the greatest dangers to
the country.
Ed IS Booth spoke at some length on
national issues, and told a story illus
trative of what will happen to the DEM
ocrats on the 9th of November. A Sev>
enth Day Adventist residing in Ohio had
dreamed that the world was coming to
an end on a certain day. He sold all of
his property and transferred it into cash
and repaired to a hill to avail the COM
ing of Christ. He vent to sleep, and
some boys, similar to those grown in
Butte, surrounded him with hazel brush
and then set fire to it. When he awaken
awakened and gazed up in q dazed way
at the circle of fire, he remarked: I'm
hell, as l expected"
I'm the state of MOntRna,' said Mr..
Booth, tive ave four distinct and sepa-
rate tickets. The republican ticket il
headed by a man against whom, no one
who knows him, will utter a word. He
anne to the territory in the early days
and he knows the needs of the country
When he said that he would sign the
eight-hOur bill when it was presented to
him I know that he meant whit he said
or he would never have said 1t.
Joseph X. Toole is an honorable man,
but he has been led astray, and I lose
respect for a man who takes the nomi-
nation at the hands of "a convention
which deliberately votes dow a reso-
luton to appoint a committee to escort
him to the chair. We nave nothing to
be ashamed of in our candidate"
Mr.. Booth said that there were three
tickets in the county. out the eight-hour
republicans had so little faith in their
ticket that they did not even take the
trouble to file it in the court house, az
requi7 d by law. He then took up the
platforms containing the e.ght-hour
plank on the different tickets, and said
that any lawyer in the city would say
that a law, as provided by the plank in
the democratic platform, would be de-
clared unconstitutional by any court in
America. He spoke of the trust ques-
ton, and then paid his respects to W..
A. Clark, saying that he was not fit to
represent the people of the state In the
senate, and if the people elected him he
made the prediction that the United
States senate would say that no man
who had been convicted of bribery in
the senate would take a seat in hat
body.
ut is a question whether W. A. Clark
can buy the state Of Montana" said Mr..
Booth, and you gentlemen must decide
it. If he does it you can go home to
your wives and children and say to them,
as you kiss them, that you have reward
ed bribery and corruption. You can elect
what and whom you please in this coun-
ty, but ! tell you that the state of Mon
tana and the legislature will be repub-
lican."