The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-10-17
HE|NzE HAS
His INNING
GIVES HIS VERSION OF DEMO.
CRATIC ROW.
CLARK NOW FAyoRs TRUSTS
Senator's Former Political Ally Airs
Grievances and Tells Why
They Split.

! From Wednesdays Daily Gazette.
Judging from the very liberal ap-
plause which that .gentleman's name
evoked whenever mentioned at last
nights meeting, the large audience
which assembled at the opera house
to hear F. Aug. Heinze give his YER
sion Of the democratic row was large
ly composed of men who are Of the
opinion that Judge w. L. Holloway is
about the right man for the position
of associate justice OF the supreme
court. The name which seemed to
be next in favor with the crowd was
that of Governor Toole, as mention
of him was also applauded, but not
quite SO enthusiastically as that of the
judge.
1t was a few minutes past 8 o'clock
when a very tuneful male quartette
advanced to the footlights and sang
a campaign song. Mayor George then
introduced Mr.. Heinze, saying that
the entire daily press Of the state had
been scoring Mr.. Heinze most un-
mercifully because of the fight he
a making; that he was entitled to
a hearing and asked the audience to
give him respectful attention. He
said Mr.. Heinze was a young man
who was fighting the greatest COM
bination of capital in the United
States.
MI. Heinze then advanced and at
once paid his attention to the trusts
and said that the leaders of both the
great political parties were puzzling
themselves how to solve the question
which had arisen because of the or
g%anization of the immense combina-
tions of capital. Something must be
done to check the aggressions of the
combines. He next quoted from the
speech of Governor Cummins of Iowa,
quoted from the still more recent
speech of former Secretary of State
Olney on the same subject in which
that gentleman paid his respects to
the anthracite operators of Pennsyl-
vania.
He gave a brief history of the Stand
ard Oil company since it's organiza-
ton in 1872 as the South Improvement
company with a capital of $1,000, 900
which at the present time is $100, OOO,-
900, paying yearly dividends of from
$4O,O 900, 900 to 100000, 900 and which
is in the hands of practically ten men.
After telling what Rockefeller and his
associates had done in the way OF
reducing the wages of 1aboring men
in all the states where they are oper:
ating and saying they would do the
same in Montana should they ever OBJ,
tain the power, the speaker came
down to the campaign of two years
ago when he and Senator Clark were
making a joint fight. He said nc. had
it from the lips OF III. H. Rogers thai
in December, 1900, Clark had entered
the Office of Rogers and told the lat
ter that he had no fight to make
against the Standard Ooil company
and that the two had then and there
patched up their difficulties and made
peace. Rogers had also asked hin
to settle his difficulties with the same
and when he had answered
that he had pledged himself to the
people of Montana to help elect Clarl
to he senate Rogers had called Clarl
a wretch and told him he, Clark, hat
sold him, HeinZe, out.
He next told of a meeting in the OF
fee of Clark at Butte to which he hat
been invited and at which a PROPOSE
ton had been made to secure passag'
of some eight hour law that Woult
not stand the test, yet would decelv'
the people. He had refused, as he ha'
also when a similar proposition wa
made in regard to the company stor
bill. Had it not been for Governo
Toole and several others, he declared
the last law would have pee
enacted. Mr.. Heinze denied that n
was attempting to wrest the demo
cratic leadership of the state fror
Senator Clark. He said he did no
want that honor. but simply exercise
the right of an American citizen to e.
press his opinion. The speaker quo
ed from the speeches of the senator
made w years ago, when he an
Heinze We're stumping the state, an
said that since then the senator ha
changed his views materially.
Speaking of the contest fer the a.
sociate justiceship the speaker d.
clared that before the meeting OF tn
democratic state committee at He
ena he had approached the senate