Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-01
HELENA NEW s,

| And thus we have been tricked
| trapped. Impoverished and Inundated
| by these West Side schemerS. even after
We had. against our principles. stuffed
! every ballot box in Lewis and Clarke,
county with populist tickets. and closed
| every church and schoohouse in Helena
during the campaign to show our SYM
| pathy with the fusion refurmers. Why
my friends. l myself was a judge of cleo
| lion and can speak with authority"
{ How many times did you Vote in
qured the unspeakable Schwabberman.
AS many times you have hairs on
your head" l answered with witherins
sarcasm and with my eye on the back
! door. AS Schwabberman has a bald spot
! as large as tea cup, he must have felt
| terrible.
Yet. gentlemen I went on. after
we had done our part towards getting
| big fusion majority in the legisla-
ture-'
1T was too tam pig" interrupted
Schwabberman. THAT was the troubles
correct right YOU ara, 'hurrah
| for Saskatchewan" chorused many of
| the auditors.
No. gentlemen" l demonstrated 1T
was nothing but conspiracy of those
Butte fellows. 1t was put-up job to
and give us the laugh. l was the first
to drop on the infamous trick. and with
your permission l will expose this whole
conspiracy to injure this city as the
greatest political center in the United
( States and cast reproaoh upon our
hotels and other hash houses. l will
tell everything l know if they don't send
me a certified check. and would do so
tonight if l were not so dry. Why is
it. gentlemen. that these arrogant
nabobs conspire against our business
interests? Why do they bring their own
whisky over here from Butte just as
we used to take ours and our lunches
out to the Broadwater Hotel when it
was first built? But they have done
worse than that they have actually
started their own private restaurants
within the sacred confines of this city
and not content with that l say to you.
and l say it boldly, these purse proud
vampires actually bring their own
crackers with their infamous midnight
lunches from the city of smoke and sim
What do you think of that, gentle
menu I roared in conclusion as l pre-
pared to take my seat.
Hang EN-" "shoot en- run them
out of town." shouted the crowd in
frenzy of excitement. go on, Ginx. tell
it ALL they vociferated. EXPOSE them
ALL"
Gentlemen I resumed. pray be
calm. This is no time for violence but
it is time for vengeance. We must not
shed blood but we must retaliate in
such a way that the next time there
are senators to elect they will put up
as usual and give guarantees in adj
vance. or this board of trade will inform
Mr.. Rockefeller that there are indica-
tions of oil at the base of Mount Helena
and we should be glad to have him dig
a few wells during the campaign and
during the legislative session.
MY first intmaton of this plot in vio-
lation of democratic tradition and pre-
cedent was when young Clark arrived
a week before the legislature convened.
He called cab and on reaching the
hotel handed the driver a 500 gold piece
and had the nerve to wait for the
change. instead of saying it was all
right That was enough for me, gentle
men, but some of our more optimistic
citizens thought it might be an over
sight. Later member of the Leading
Citizens association asked him if he
could change a ten and he said he could
and accepted the ten as he passed over
two fives. This looked like pling Pelion
on Ossa which is the French for rub
hing it in" But that was not all. The
next day Frank Corbett with an air of
il ependence that was positively insult
ind rode up town from the depot in a
street car and the evening train brought
George Casey, one of Clarks chief adj
visors, who actually walked up from the
depot. This infamous proceeding filled
my cup of apprehension, my friends.
No wonder stock in the Leading Citizens
association fell 40 per cent and even
- = Il.
for their drinks. What followed, my
friends. is history. The election of the
long term senator proved an outrage,
and this town has been duller than
Wiclles ever since the legislature con-
vened. Not only do these Butte men want
both senators but they want all the laws
and all the time of the legislature, and
they have brought their own restau-
rants and their own whisky and cigars
over here in order to bankrupt our sa-
loon keepers and politicians. Their bluffs
| about building shelters and sinking
shafts were all moon shine, and l move
you that this board now pass suitable
| resolutions on the subject and pledge
support hereafter to the republican
party, and that our newspapers be in
! structed to tiirt little with the Stand
ard Oil company and inform Mr.. Rookie.
+ Teller that we We're only fOoing when
| we promised to hang him and all other
capitalists should they ever visit this
! city,
! l concluded amid great applause in
which l joined myself as soon as l left
| the stand.
Massenna Fullard then moved the
adoption of the following resolutions:
Whereas the leading politicians of
Helena committed all the crimes on
! the calendar to promote the election of
| two fusion senators by the present
legislative assembly and that the west
! side mllionaifes of said fusion party
! gave us the ranki pooh in the manage
ment of their senatorial campaign; be it
Resolved, that we. the Helena Board
of Trade, are not so hostile to trusts,
whether they are trusts not, as we