The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-10-22

Hon Chas. S. Hartman was neve
in better voice than on Saturday nigh
when he addressed one of the larges
and most representative audience.
that has assembled in Kalispell thi.
year to hear the political issues O.
the day discussed. The audience wa:
fully as large as that which greeted
sympathetic and enthusiastic The
EX-Goy. Toole. and it was far more
applause was uprOariOus at times anC
plainly showed the temper of those
who listened to the eloquence and fore
ible remarks of the speaker. The
people know when speaker is in
earnest, and none who heard Mr.
Hartman on Saturday night could be
in any doubt as to his sincerity. The
address was meaty. 1t was not
evasive or abusive. 1t was a recital
of facts with logical and eloquent de-
ductions from the facts, from start to
finish.
The men who occupied seats on
the platform al j identified with the
best citenship c. the town and county.
Among them We're Mayor Griffin,
county commissioner Grieg, Mr.. E. G.
Bjorneby, DR.. Macdonald DR.. Campbell
Mr.. M. Il. Small, Capt. Schaller, Mr..
Schonfeldt, Mr.. S. Mccarthy and Fred
Whiteside. Mr.. WA-.eside did the
honOrs of the occasion and introduced
Mr.. Hartman in a brief but we'll con-
sidered speech. He said he regarded
the large attendance as a compliment
to Mr.. Hartman and the cause he
represented, and promised that the
audience would be we'll repaid for
coming out, as indeed they were,. He
said there would be no abuse of any
individual, that the Independent dem
ocrats were willing that the other side
should have a monopoly on that sort
of thing.
Mr.. Hartman started in from the
word go He said he regarded the
issue OF the present campaign as the
most momentOus since the civil war
and believed that the elector in cast
ing his ballot should have in mind
more than the election of of some
friend on the county ticket-that
vote should stand for an expression of
an idea and the maintainence of
The speaker first took up
the national isues and reviewed them
IN quick success on. His arraignment
OF the republican administration for
It's attitude on the financial question
for its treatment of theFilipinos and
the Porto Ricansand for is creation
and protection of the trusts, was by
far the most logical, eloquent and
heard in Kalispell so far
this year. His presentation of the
situation in the Philippines was such
a plea for liberty as made the blood
Jingle, and the audience applauded
It to the echo.
Following his review of the national
ssues, Mr.. Hartman took up the issue
n this state-the contest between
hose who view with pride" the
'ecord of w. A. Clark in the United
States senate, and those who believe
hat that record is a shame and a
to this state and it's
people. He showed how the forces
If bribery are convicted out of their
'wn mouths of having perpertrated
lagrant injustice to the Silver Bow
emocrats in thestate convention,
nd how they were willing to wreck
ny party and impose any humiliation
pom others for the purpose of win
icating" a convicted briber. He
7anted any Clark man in the audience
stand up and say what part of
'lark's record he was proud of, but
here was no response. Continuing
e said:
l entered this campaign without the
lightest animosity toward William A.
lark, but have profound sympathy
or that man, and l will tell you why
have never seen man in my life so
bsolutely consumed with an insane
of mis- own greatness and
lch an insane ambition to go to the
nlted States senate, as has that man
IL men are entitled to have ambitions
nd have no criticism to make for .