Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-25
TOOLE AND TOOLS
OUT AT MISSOuLA
'ecial to the Inter Mountain,

special to the Inter Mountain.
Missoula, Mont, Oct. 24-The cham
pion ring leader of the fusion demo-
cracy has come and gone. The blazing
bonfires that dimmed the brightness of
the incandeseents have died, and the
cold, cold ashes lie as the emblems of
the dying hopes of those who kindled
them. The wailing tomtoms have beaten
their requiem, and sadness prevails in
hearts once buoyant and lighter than
feathers.
Tie marked contrast between the re-
p,.hlican meeting held at Bennett hall
T,essa;. night, when Senator Carter and
H" lie Mantle spoke, and that of the
fusionists' union held last night, has the
cheering effect of wet blanket. Flam-
ing posters, Tonight" dodgers and
decorated display in local organs had
announced "a feast of eloquence," to be
presided over by Hon. Joseph X. Toole,
who was governor, and w. c. Jones, of
Spokane, who like Major Burke of
Nevada has been lured to the ranges
of Montana by excellent pasturage.
A well-filled house, not overly crowded.
greeted the speakers, who We're intro
duced by Hon. John M. Evans, chairman
Fearing a repetition of the Donovan
house emptying episode, the smooth
managers reserved Governor Toole to
hold the crowd, while Jones told them
about Abraham Lincoln. Incidentally
he referred to some other people during
the hour and a quarter he kept the ex-
pectant audience waiting for Toole
among whom were Daniel Webster, Sui
tan of Sulu, Jones and some other great
men, but his favorite, of all outside
Jones, was Lincoln. Temporarily he
might wander after imperialism, militar-
fr,.
he desert his first love-Lincoln. Mark
Hanna for time was neck on, but was
eventually outdistanced.
His pessimistic predictions, following
the patriotic, progressive and optimis-
tic utterances of the evening before, i'm
pressed his hearers with the unavoid-
able conviction that another calamity
and calamity howler had been thrust
upon them.
Governor Toole was warmly greeted.
after the band played Dixie" On the
| principal of "the man that tooteth not
his own horn. the same shall not be
| tooted," he reminded the long suffering
people, who had endured the sideshow
while waiting for the circus, that they
! had elected him in 1884 as a delegate to
| congress, reelected him in 1886, and in
return he, the Hon. Joseph K. Toole,
|
wilderness to the promised land of
statehood, where he had plucked the
biggest bunch Of grapes in the vineyard
and occupied the gubernatoral chair.
| After threshing over the stack of i'm.
perialism. straw already beaten by the
fail of his predecessor, Jones, he paid
his respects to trusts in general and the
| Standard Oil Amalgamated companies
in particular. He drew direful picture
of the results to follow in the event
| that the Standard Oil wins out this fall,
| and in pathetic accents pleaded with the
| independents not to assist republicans
| A weak attack on Senator Mantle was
followed by free silver and pledges on
the eight-hour plank.
| His demagOguery was manifested in
addressing his audience as Fellow
citizens in poverty, fellow citizens who
work. Ye gods, fellow citizens in
poverty. In the state with the creates,
per capita of wealth of any state in
the union, >the treasure state of the ma.
ton, and where the highest wages are
paid.
A reception had been announced te
occur after the speaking. Upon com.
pleting his address Governor Tools
hurried down to head off the rapidly dis
appearing crowd, and outside Of the pro
fessionals succeeded in giving the glaG
hand to six men, two children anG
thirteen ladies. The meeting was fa1
from the success that had been antici
pated.