Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-22

IL WAS Il ledl lIldl WOulu lANc CAuSSu
svengali to come off the throne OF hyp-
n'tism and say things SO naughty as
TO be u%nprintable out Of pure envy.
Half a hundred stalWart ruffians, fu-
sion hirelings, so full of the essence of
t:.rleycorn that their molar teeth iioated
around and bumped into oae another,
held SO sp%ellbound by the words OF a
silver-tonged orator that even tha clink
IF the coin lining their pockets--the
Price of their dirty work of disturbing
a political gathering-failel to bring
them to their senses for full thirty min
utes.
AS a circus magnate the late MI. l5ar-
mum was a ENTHUSIASTICALLY can
question hat st~atement-and when he
reached out for talent ne got the best
that the habitable globe Afforded. His
lion tanners We're deemed the cracks
OF the country, and every now and then
one ran across some tale of their proWsSs
in the Sunday supplements of the great
dailies, but the Hon. Timothy W. Coax
ley accomplished a trick at tn Au'lito-
rum last Saturday evening that would
have put the best of Barnun's .lun
tanners to the blush.
BY pure force of personal magnetism
cllu all A"A>AS oSSAA -
generate, matter of fact age, he caused
a number of beetle-browed toughs, pro-
fessional disturbers that could not he
found anywhere on earth outside of the
fusion ranks in Silver Bow county, to
COVER in their seats and listen quietly
to the gospel of prosperity in the United
States, prestige among all other nations.
They didn't wish to keep quiet and Civ
| respectful attention-they weren't PAID
for that-they desired to disturb the
speaker in his emarks by venting the
contents of their cranial sewers through
their rum-sodden threats.
But when they went to the Auditorium
to the tune Of Yanke Doodle, and TOOK
their seats at the greatest republican
rally ever held in the city of Butte, no
thought ever filtered through their little
think tanks and down the inclined
plains of their smooth, unwrinkled fore
heads that they would leave to the
hooking refrain of Chevy Chase. But
they did, just the same, and their defeat
was the greatest ribute ever laid at the
shrine of %eloauence under a Montana
Sky.
Weed and Coakley mi Arnold-those
three men form ar oratorical trio whose
combination is hard to break. They are
not iconoclasts in one sense, and IN an
other they are. While they go ABOUT
the land destroying the upas trees ana
the poisonous milkweeds of democracy,
their work does not stop there; In the
place of the deadly growths they uproot
they plant the sturdy oaks n hickorles
of r~epublicanism, whose branches have
sheltered the w~orkingman in many an
industrial storm.
It was a great meeting. The hall was
filled to suffocation, man. being obliged
to stand in the rear, both on the main
floor and in the gallery. Everybody
turned out and ollowed the fambeau
club to the Auditorium, and 1t cannot
be gainsaid that the boys did their part
in attracting the crowd that was present
at the meeting.
The fambeau club Is a feature of every
| republican meeting now. When Alex
Laist, Ed Booth, Malcolm Gillis and Be
Plummer decided to call that organiza-
ton into existence they showed fore
thought and an appreciative sense OF
what the public desires. When the club
goes marching down the principal thor
oughfares OF the town, keeping step to
lively music by the Alice rough rider
band, people simply stumble over their
own feet in their eagerness to reach a
point of vantage where they can view
the scene. They make a pretty picture
with their torches f1aring and their he'll
NETS glinting, their ranks moving with
unbroken front and rear. and fireworks
lighting up the line of march until the
buildings are bathed in a glow of GRIM
son.
The Hon. Peter r. Dolman presided as
chairman of the meeting, and on the plat.
form in addition to the speakers-Hon
E. D. Weed, Hon. Timothy w Coakley
of Boston and Hon. w. c. Arnold OF
Pennsylvania-were Hon. VIM. Thoma:
and Hon. George A. Clark.
Chairman Dolman in a few well chosen
words introduced Mr.. Weed as the frs
speaker of the evening, and as the gen.
tleman from Helena advanced to the
front Of the platform he was given
greeting vastly different from the one
he received in 1896, when he spoke ir
favor of Mckinley in Judge Clancy's
courtroom.
In introducing his theme Mr.. We.d de.
clared that the people are now engaged
in the consideration of questions as i'm.
portant as any that nave been considered
by the American elector for at least
| IA = NNAN SAA~S AN a.
now deny that the free cVinage of silver
at the ratio of 16 to / is the paramount
issue, though it is an undisputed facd
that four years ago they declared tina
it was not only the question of the cam
paign, but the question of the age, an
must be settled before my othe" issu'
could be brought to the attention of tn,
American people.
"TS mt that right nv dQmOcrati
friends?" he inquired. "And yet 70,
must admit that the -four years which
have just gone by form a period of per
feet prosperity not only in the liz. of
nation. but in the life OF an individual
And now you howl that the paramount
issue is Imperialism, is militarism!"
The speaker dwelt on this theme a
length. and said a few things that di
not exactly strike he string of harmon,