The Western news., 1904-11-02
GREAT OVATION FOR FIGHT Err
OF STANDARD OIL.
SCORES OF PEOPLE TURNED AWAY
Makes Best Speech Of Campaign
Denies "Sell-out" Story-Quar.
tet q Winner.

The largest crowd that ever gather
ed at a political meeting in the his
tory Of Hamilton listened Saturday
mig ht to Hon. F. Augustus Heinze. til.
great champion Of the rirh OF labor
in Montana. Not only in point OF
number was it phenome crowd
but it was respectful, representative
and responsive. I, seemed in thoroug Ii
sympathy with the speaker; the ap-
parts of the house and ceased again as
if cut off with a knife.
Long before the meeting opened in
the opera house steady stream OF
people poured through the doors.
Outside an air Of expectancy pervaded
the streets. People hurried along fear
full of gaining admittance to the big
hall. Rigs rumbled into town and
were hitched to every availa BILE make
shift. Heinzc had been in Hamilton
before and people had learnt that they
would be lucky if they were not in the
multitude that would be turned away.
The last seat filled and the big crowd
had almost an hour to wait. The
small boy whistled and shrieked. The
crowd was clearly inpatient; they
wanted to see the man of whom they
read in the papers every day.
~k1, ~ A.
tered and there was a deafening burst
OF applause as Mr.. Hcinze was recog-
nized. To those who saw him two
years ago he looked older; his hair was
freely sprinkled with gray, bnt he had
the sp!endid and impressive evidence
of power " hich is never disappointing.
X. Lee McCulloch presided and in
his easy way introduced the speaker
as "a distinguished democrat of Mon
tana."
Mr.. Heinze opened his remarks in a
felicitous vein with happy reference
to the pleasure he experienced in ap-
pearing before such a magnificent
audience, which he thought was larger
than the one which greeted him here
two years ago. In way he relieved
it might be accepted as a tribute to
himself, but thought it might be more
of the position he had taken against
the Standard Oil. He then took up
the trust question in a general way,
showing by inside facts the alarming
economic condition which has grown
up under republican administration.
He touched on the outrages in Colora-
do and showed the correlation of the
Anal gamated Copper company with
the Colorado corporations under the
protection of Governor Peabody, citing
the fact that John D. Rockefeller's
own son was chosen as one of the man
agen,ent of the Peabody pets less
than a week ago.
He showed how the Standard Oil
com pany was trying to usurp the ex-
ecutive, legislative and judicial func-
tions of Montana through Tom Car
ter's manipulation of the republican
party. He asserted that Oily Tom
is retained attorney of that company
nd dominated the Billings conven-
tion, allowing only the nomination of
those whose frendliness to the COM
pany's interests was beyond contro-
versy. He charged that every one OF
the nominees on the republican state
ticket, with the exception of Lindsay,
positively ''stink of kerosene" He
left no chance, however, for republi.
cans to exult over his reference to
that gentleman, declaring that he is
to be found in the blackest company
and that he must be judged by the
company he keeps.
Congressman Joe Dixon, the
man from ''Missooley-ooley-oo," was
handled roughly and was singled ou,
for much condign censure. Mr.. Heinze
showed him up to be a traitor to the
people of Montana. He said that Mr.
Dixon during his two years in con-
gress stood ever ready to do the bid
ding of the corporations as agains,
the common people of the state. His
argument and proof were conclusive
and there was not man but was con
vinced that Joe Dixon has flagrantly
and sneakingly deceived the people
of Montana.
The speaker contrasted the free and
| untrammeled democratic state conven.