Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1902-10-03
SOUNDED THE KEY NOTE
Mastery Address Made by Former
Senator Carter at State Repub-
lican Convention.
AND LOGIC
seathing Denunciation of Democratic
ds--Monumental Hypocrisy
Exhibited by Opposition.

On assuming the position Of perma-
lent chairman OF the state republican
held at Great Falls last
former Senator Thomas II.
Carter was checred to the echo and
his ringing address was frequently
With tremendous applause.
1t was one OF the very best political
speeches ever heard in Montana Mr..
Carter was at his best and his logic
and cloqncncc produced an electrify
ing effect Oh the vast audience. The
Picket herewith reproduces the splen-
aid address i'll full:
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen Of
the Convention: Thirty minutes ago
an unsolicited and wholly unexpected
announcement was made by the chair
man of the committee on permanent
organization and order Of business.
Since that moment thousands OF
memories have fitted across my mind
Years Of struggle and endcavor along
the line of republican policies and
purposes i'll connection with the state
of Montana have come forth in regular
procession. see before me now
many of the faces that appeared in a
convention in Helena some fourteen
years ago, when, as you will bear me
witness, with much reluctance | be-
came the party nominee for congress
from the territory of Montana. CAP
plause.)
"The years that have come and gone
since then have brought many to their
| last long rest. Those of us who sur
vive, as evidenced by the increasing
number of gray hairs, show how thu
battle has Waged upon each and all
To the republican party of this stat
many persons are deeply indebted TO
conspicuous distinctions, but | thinl
| may say without fear of contradic
ton that stand alone as the one per
son who owes an ineNtinguishabl
debt of gratitUso~t@it @ithe"Tepublicans o
this commonwealth (Applause)
Badges OF Honor.
The scars of battle adminsterc
by those who by nefarious means hav
sought to cloud public issues hay
been accepted by me as badges of hnl
or. ! have always felt, as shall I"
ways feel, that the privilege OF stant
ing for republicanism in this state
an honorable and exalted privilege {
which any man may we'll feel prou'
(Applause.)
"rhe years that have passed sint
1883 have been pregnant with Wonde
Gus consequences not only to o,
state but to our common country, Fl
, varied experiences through which "
!, have passed have been painful but Il
pain has been compensated by amp
r considerations.
/ Montana was a confirmed dem
1 cratic colony; the light Of republica
y ISM has been shed upon this stat
d teen years ago and asserted the
!. selves in favor of the time-honor
o and exalted principles Of the par
\, which had been brought into existen
4 by human sympathy for the groani
y slaves. (Applause.)
IS Always Rpeubicanism.
"There has not been one hour sin
r that time that the unclouded visi
and llntrammeled choice of the pcoi
- of this state has not stood for repl
licanism and all that it stands for. y
e. have passed through certain periC
n where the minds OF men were bef'
j. ged by transient issues, but in
er main the latitude in which we Ii
* the intelligence of the people $
te rounding us, the material interests
,e this state, the natural aspirations
Id stood with an aggressive forW:
at march against the reactionary tet,l
h. cies of the Mississippi democracy.
have been instructed, chastened
elevated by defeat, but never {
graced. (Applause.)
" I'VE have stood by the principles
the party and in standing by them
III have been compensated by the {
W. seriousness that today the republic
~ party is the only responsible polit1
oo agency in the state. Every man in
convention and each and every n
who lives will stand more firmly
'e his feet and more distinctly erect
ri. recalling the fact that through all
en- the tempestuous times through WI