The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-10-28
TWO BANDS
And BONFIRE
Draw Out Big Crowd to the Repub-
licar Meeting Last Night.
THos. II. CARTER AND PooRmAN
Held the Audience Because They
Were So Packed in They Couldn't
Get Away-The Same Old Oily
Handling of Political Issues and the
Same Old Game.

Had not Mr.. Heinze had a greater
crowd the audience which gathered
at opera hall last night to greet for
mer Senator Carter might have been
construed as particular compliment
to that venerable politician. The au-
dience was large, every seat being
taken, and as the meeting had been
extensively advertised as an appear
ance of Joe Dixon, the representative
in congress, as well as the survivor Of
many campaigns, there were a great
many people in from the country.
Joe Dixon could have entertained
them better than did Mr.. Poorman
and Mr.. Carter The former was the
first speaker, and had just got prop
erly warmed up in war talk, Cuba
and the Philippines, when some un-
mannerly cuss began to yell Garter"
and Mr.. Poorman gracefully yielded
the floor.
Mr.. Carter complimented the audi
ence upon the prosperity and ad-
vancement in two years of the city
and county, which he said was a
proper attribute of republican admin
istration, and then took up the tariff
question, and, from the republican
point of view, showed it in all it's
benefcence and beauty, the very
groundwork of peace and prosperity.
In his reference to the coal strike
he presented it as another great ar
gument why Mr.. Roosevelt should be
reelected and spoke of the strenuous
manner in which the president had
put down and settled the great an
thracite strike, though the settlement
remains yet to be seen and is con
strued by many as a shrewd political
move, occasioned by the exigencies of
the campaign He defended the re-
publican party as the eternal friend
of labor; in fact, the only labor party
and clinched the statement by nam
ing in succession it's presidential oc-
cupants, from Lincoln to Roosevelt,
as men of the people, laborers by
birth, and SO on. Think of Roosevelt,
an aristocrat of the aristocrats de-
scended from line of bankers and
brokers as representative labor
man. But Mr.. Carter thought he
could bamboozzle his audience, for
he is nobody's fool, far from it, he is
a keen, shrewd man, but upon occa-
sion he makes foolish statements.
The republican party, for the past
twenty years has been the enemv OF
1ohnT EtuprxT rOriNo fn1 In
owned is the result of the policy OF
this part. Under the republican pol
icy, the man who does the real work
gets about one-sixth of what he pro
duces. The republican coal, sugar
and oil barons get the other five
sixths. Such party is not the
friend of the producer, and no wage
Garner has any reason to support
such an outfit But Mr.. Carter glori
fed the trusts and branded as unsafe
and unpatriotic any sentiment which
sought to array the Workingmar
against the capitalist.
Of the little political turmoil il
Montana, with Clark and the demo
Gratis and Heinze and the republic
ans boosting for opposing suprem,
court judges he had very little t.
say-how could he say much, beins
on the inside and the outside. Reall.
when so astute political talker al
Mr.. Carter is embarrassed on polit
ical issue he deserves sympathy. H
mentioned Mr.. Dixon, although, b,
the way, no reason was given for hi
failure to appear in Kalispell, as
young man of promise, but did no
mention that Mr.. Dixon was one O
the leaders of the anti-Carter move
ment in 1896 and 1898 in Missoul
county, and put him out of bushes
for the time being, and was one o
those thousands who left the gbldbu
party and followed the silver issu
into political oblivion, only to
resurrected as a man to pit agains
Judge Evans in his own home an
because he was a Missoula man an
a lawyer.
On the whole, Mr.. Carter's speec
was as much disappointment a
was that of Martin Maginnis, On th
other side, when he opened the can
paign for the democrats. 1t is abor
time for all worn out politicians
retire and give the new men ard ne
parties chance.