The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-10-18
FOR OH! HOW TIRED HE
DID MAKE ALL Of THEM
Callatin County Folk Fail to See Just
What Heinze's Private Troubles Have
TO Do With Them or in What Manner
Butte Politics Can Be Worth a Tour
OF the State-And Therefore Faugust
Gets Very Cold Reception Indeed.
ESPECIAL TO INTER MouNTAiN.1

Bozeman, Oct Is.-Westward the stars
of Heinze's vaudeville take their way. To
the blare of hired band, with gaudy ban
ners and theatrical display, F. Augustus
and company arrived in this city at
o'clock last evening from the East.
They walked from the depot, where not
q soul, attracted even by curiosity, met
them. In the party were w. c. Jones, Maj.
Thomas Burke, "Cissy" Lotus and four
other music hall singers.
On the morning train an advance agent
had arrived and uistrouted trashy litera-
ture and pictures of Mr.. Heinze, of which
an immense package had arrived from
Butte.
OF all the remarkable freak shows that
have ever amused the residents Of Gallatin
valley this was certainly the most peculiar.
What political significance it may have is
past the comprehension of the people OF
Bozeman; but for bowling hppodrome it
takes the honors easily.
It Was His Moscow.
This city has once been Moscow for
the Napoleon of Butte" but with colossal
effrontery he returned, an adventurer with
out party or an issue that concerns the
people of this section, with absolutely no
following and no legitimate purpose. His
arrival would have been insulting il it were
not SO utterly ridiculous.
There may be places on the map of Mon
tana where politics that savors of the itin-
Grant fakir, with opera bouffe variations
is acceptable, but not Bozeman. Whatever
glimmering opinion Of the intelligence or
judgment Of Mr.. Heinze may have been
held by the people of Gallatn county was
dispelled with his unrequested visit.
Not all the glow and glitter of his sump-
tuous private car nor the harmony of his
paid musicians his wall of persecution and
his convulustic utteranccs could leave
any other impression on those who saw and
heard him here, but that his is the queerest
circus that ever came to town.
Long before o'clock, when the curtain
was announced to go up, the opera house
was packed. Much the greater number
were ladies and children, but the gallery
was filled with men and boys who came to
laugh, and during the entertainment many
dropped in to see the main attraction, to
see the man of destiny"
It Was Really Dramatic.
In the middle of Mr.. Hcinze's epeech
there was an incident that almost caused
panic. A roughly dressed man started
down the aisle with his hand casped to his
side from which the blood was streaming
copiously. Major McKeown, who is night
chief of police, pulled the wounded man
back and advancing to the stage asked the
chairman to tell the sheriff, if he was in the
audience, that he was wanted. Instantly
many rose from their seats and rushed for
the door. The man who had been stabbed
in fight was taken to the county attor-
ney's office, where his wound was dressed
and the disturbance subsidized.
w. K. c. Stewart was induced to open
the ball, and as no other Bozeman resident
could be found to go on the stage J. C.
Mccarthy of Chestnut was mustered into
service.
The Butte City Quartet" was introduced
and sang ragged parody on the "Wearing
OF the Green" Without an encore it re-
turned to sing another, with no verses of
the same air or meter.
As Indeed He Is.
without much preface the speaker
launched into long dissertation on politi-
cal economy, directing his fire at trusts and
corporations. When he had belabored them
for half an hour he turned his attention to
Senator Clark. He sketched the history of
Mr.. Clarks political career and his share
in it.
With showmans bow he submitted sew
eral clippings from speeches made by Sem
ator Clark and drew comparisons with
mock tragedy. He recounted many inter
est'ng experiences of his own political
manpulations for Mr.. Clark, whom he
characterized as an migrate to himself and
menace to society. For an hour he
rambled on in voice that showed he has
been using it violently. His argument
seemed to be mainly that if Clark and the
Standard Oil company were not immedi-
ately annihiated the whole world. and
particularly Mr.. Heinze's share of II.
would cease to move.
1t Began to Be Bore.
Disappointment grew on the faces of
the audience which had come to be amused
and to see the young man speak his piece.
The piece was painful, the utterance of il
depressing. The audience grew very tired.
For almost an hour he was accorded a
courteous attention. Then people began to
leave the hall.
They didn't want one-man show and
Butte politics and Mr. Heinze's personal
grievances were not of interest.
Some few III the gallery shouted for the
quartet and several young people who left
In body cast more gloom on the de-
pressing spectacle.
When Mr.. Heinze finished more than
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