The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-09-16

senator Joseph NJ Dixon spoke as
follows to the convention yesterday.
Forty SIN years ago. amid the cridc
SURROUNDINGS of the frontier mining
camp III Hnnunrk. III the midst Of an
"Ncrwhelpiug adverse majority. the
men who eight years before had SUI.
ported John q. Fremont for president
demanding tiec press. free speech,
free soil aud free men, aud who. fonr
years later. had rallied 10 the can of
Abraham Lincoln IN tlIe final strug
gle for the life of tie milton and tho
overthrow of human slavery, met and
organized the republican party in
what Is now the state of Montana
The condition ihen confronting thrt
body of men called for competent. wise
and fearless leaders. That little AS
scmbage Of republicans named us its
standard-bearer IN that campaign one
whose memory IL atll leld Ia revef-
once by the republicans pf Montana,
Wilbur Z. SANDERS
when this state shall dnt6fmine
which Of her most distinguished sons
shall le chosen 10 represent her IN
Statutory hhi III tlts tHpitfl IA Wa#l
ington. may the heroic form ind char
acter Of Gpionel Sanders ha among thn
two that are chosen 10 b. pcfpatuated
there in bronze or In marble.
Party Unasmayrd.
The republican purity Was aefoatei
in that campaign, ana tpr = sic
cccding yearS ihat little baud 6f ppiti-
cal pairiatS, i udiminishe bg death
and nnreerul6d by birth with Tho
solitary exception ~ the split between
tie Irish and Missouri wings Of thr
democratic party IN 1Si2, rode over
these mountains and along these val
leSs 10 vote tie republican ticket, ac-
rene in consciousness Of rectitlde IN
their political Faith ana undlsmayed IN
the face Of continued democratic vic
tories.
Tho completion Of tho Northern
Pacific fairpad in lsSa brought nov
blood and new life into The territory
Of Montana. she was finally IL touch
with tho great nation itself III 1854
the republicans were under the leader
ship Of Alex, Rotkin, and In 1886 itn-
der Judge Hiram Knowles, but thQ
democratic machine, by HE most ties-
pcrat" eXcrtluns IN manipulating the
returns in remote aud outlying pre-
cinets, Succeeded n temporarily post
poning the inevitable result
Carter and Mantle.
Two vars later, With iar continued
infnN of new settlers, aud with
/ - ~
Lee Mantle aa It's Aaron. with Col
nnel Sanders always its pillar Of
cloud by day and lis pillar of fire by
night after = years wandering in
the wilderness. The republicans If Non
tana went nip and possessed the prom
ised land
Blizzard OF 1896,
Tho economic and financial hiz-
zard If 1896 that blew and ffozc aud
temporarily dried III the arteries of
industrial life in Montana. wrought
temporary havoc N political conditions
III This sHtc. bit II roe. under tho
inspiration ut the teachings of that
Young, active, strenuous, far snGlng
and square dealing champion Of The
people, Theodore Roosevelt the Fepnh-
leans " Montana aeain glrded ~
their loifs took nov courage, and
swept The Ftaio IN more Than 5,oon
malorty. and placed h my hands your
commission aa the lone republican rep
resentatig" Oh the congressional dele
cation 1T Washington. In 1904 You
again returned Ia tho sactlye post of
= n T.,
tor Garter, and two years later you
transferred me to the other end OF the
capitol and added to the delegation