The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-01

loIleIlcu IHe esteem IN which he was
formerly held by showing himself to
be OF no more reliability than Parker.
Mr. Bair closed by appealing to the
people to support the county and state
ticket and also spoke strongly for
Judge loud, who, because of an ac-
cepted custom, was unable to speak
for himself. OF the many judges in
the state, said the speaker. none
stood higher with the bar than he and
none had a better or more spotless
record as an upright and conscier.
tious Judge.
Bever's Strong Denial.
When the Honorable Chauncey C.
Bever. candidate for representative.
was introduced, he said he would not
attempt to make ar extended. speech.
but would simply content himself
with a denial of the charge made
against him by Mr.. Kennedy. a
Heinze lieutenant, that he sold him
self to the Amalgamated company.
Mr.. Bever said that he had been hon
ored by being given a place on the
steering committee, which, toward the
close of the session, took charge of
the more important bills and sought
to have brought to the attention of
the house.
Zone day, while passing from the
committee room to the house." said
Mr. Bever. | was approached by a
lobbyist OF the United Copper com-
pany, a man whom everybody in Mon
tana knows. He said there were GER
tain bills in the hands of the steering
committee that he wanted killed. /
told Mr.. Carlos Warfield, for it was
that gentleman, that the bills were
IN the keeping of the committee and
would be reported. MIR. Warfield
then asked me what my price would
be for stealing the bills. l rejected
his advances and told him I would
nothing to do with him. MI
Warfield then went to another mem
Der of the committee, a man from an.
other county, and asked him what he
would take to steal the bills. Here,
he met with a rebuff.
Afterwards 1 was told by Mr.,
Heinze and his friends that they
would defeat me if ever l came up
or election again, even if they would
to spend $4,000 to do this.
They are now trying to carry out
heir threat" MI. Bever closed by
aging that he did all he could to
ecure Insertion in the state platform
the plank declaring in favor of the
and referendum, and il
would do his utmost to secure {
of the act pledged in that l
lank and to work for the good of I
1ontana in general and Yellowstone G
.unty in particular. He challenged d
,ennedy or anyone else to prove the Q
harges that he had sold himself to l
Amalgamated Or any other cor I
or person. 4
Cyclone From Kansas. ""M- !
The closing speaker was the Honor q
Ole F. P. Lindsay of Kansas. 4
Although it was growing late, that
held the crowd and before
2 concluded his brief address had 8
orked it up to a pitch of enthusi-
SIN seldom seen. National issues
coupled the major portion of his Il
beech. The democrats were trying Z
make it appear that they had an %
sue, but, no one knew what it was.
ome democrats said il was the tar
;, others declared it to be the Phil
pines, while still others said it was G
personality of Roosevelt. Under =
e latter heading they accused the
'esldent OF the commission of a
crime of eating at the same tt
Bile with Booker T. Washington, a e.
9gro. IF any OF you have been K
'uth you have eel much worse" d
i'd he. there you will find the 81
RI in whom the only sign of negro 81
God are the faint tints of the finger
Ill or the slight kink in her hair. ia
D there and see the octoroon and al
re for yourself where the crime tt
See the admixture of the a.
ces until it is almost impossible to tt
III a white woman from one with
blood in her veins and tell me W
that is not a worse crime than sit IL
ng on n side of a table with tt
ooker T. Washington at the other" t,
imperialism" was briefly discussed
Id Mr.. Lindsay sad the Philippines la
ere the nations by conquest, treaty tt
Id finally by purchase. Had Dewey
Tiled out of Manila harbor after he
Ink the Spanish fleet he would have
en- tried for treason, and the demo s
ats would have been among the II
rst and loudest to demand his trial. II
The democrats are saying mucn II
ASoo ~ oDouC ~ So1OOAL VI lAC ~
overned and say the republican h
arty is committed % Imperialism !,
lid the speaker, but they have moth a
e to say on the consent or the gov
med IN the sounern states. There
ounless American citizens are gov
med by the shotgun and the brass
nuckle; there those instruments =.
lle." j.
Mr.. Lindsay spoke for the state and =,
ounty ticket, saying that while he : -
new none of the candidates, the fact =
lat they had been nominated in a y
publican convention was sufficient !,
violence of their fitness to suit him. !. !.
have read the speech of my name -
AXE, made by him in your legisla- q
Ire when charges of bribery and
ribe were filling the air. l have
seer the man, but if he is of the