The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-09-27
IL WAS CROWDED ALSO.
Overflow Meeting at Court House
Fills the Room.

While the meeting at the opera
house was In progress an overflow
was holding in the court house. Like
in the other place this was also at
by an audience whose num-
beers were limited only by the ca
pacity of the room.
Senator T. III. Carter presided and
the first speaker was the Honorable
Jonathan P. Dolliver, Iowa's gifted
senator.
In introducing the speaker, Mr..
Mr. Carter took occasion to recall the
visit Of Roosevelt of four years ago,
when he was a candidate for the po-
sition for which Fairbanks now
stands. BY reason of the great ca
lamity that had befallen the nation
the man who was then a candidate
for vice president had since become
the nations president. How well he
had discharged the duties of that Of
flee was shown in the unanimous de-
mand that went up for his nominal
tion, a demand complied with by the
convention at Chicago. 1t was neces-
sary that the vice president be fully
equipped for the higher office and
knowledge of the ability and capacity
possessed by that gentleman had
prompted the same convention which
nominated Roosevelt to nominate
unanimously Charles w. Fairbanks
as his running mate, who would later
address the meeting.
Senator Dolliver was then formally
presented to the audience amid pro-
longed applause. With a few PREDATORY
remarks that gentleman at once
plunged into the subject of his ad-
dress. He said he did not come away
out here to quarrel with the people
about politics, which was a matter
OF heredity in many. There had been
too much democracy in Montana and
it was about time that the people
shook it off. Because Of u form OF
government at was right and good
that there should always be two po-
litical parties, for one could watch
the other and that when in power It
governed wisely and for the best OF
the people. In respect of parties, he
said Montana seemed singularly we'll
supplied, as he understood there were
no fewer than seven in the state.
Five of them, however, had about
reached their emo, leaving the two
older ones to fight it out. OF these
the republican was the better to gov
ern, and the democratic the better to
watch.
The last so years of the existence
of the nation had marked the greatest
epoch in the history of the human
race. The republican party had been
called to write every page OF the ma
tion's history during that time. The
democratic party had been barely able
!, to do more than to mark in a few
Fluctuations. The full stop had beer
} reached when Cleveland was elected
AS to issues, the speaker said he
did not know what the attitude OF the
} democratic party was this year. II
/. 1892 it was free trade or a tariff re
form. Then the democrats proposed
to lift the burdens off the backs Of
the people that they claimed were
bending them double. They were
given the chance and lifted not only
} the burdens, but ven the o%vercoat:
. the people wore AS a remedy for thu
z business paralysis that followed thei1
experimenting with the tariff. in 1891
the democrats wanted free silver ant
millions had followed Bryan. "Righ
here in Montana almost every ont
took a dose of It," added Mr.. Dolliver
t But a lesson had been taught ant
learned and it was safe to trust mat
t tiers to the people, whose intelligence
t could be depended upon to proven
$ them from committing another lik'
serious mistake as that of 1892.
t Mr.. Dolliver disputed the democrat
! is contention that a protective tariff
was intended to benefit only a few
;, particularly the manufacturers of thu
t east. Every time the products o
American farmers are transferred t.
the free list the products of the fac
d tory go onto the same list" said he
. The %rannhlican tariff benefited all ant
with protection removed all woul'
n be injured. "Here in Montana yo'
a have two candidates for congress,
he continued. Zone is Mr.. Dixon
. who so ably represented your state il
Y the last congress. He stands for pro
S lection to every American product ant