refrigerators, swindow ooblackr iths mas.€¦ · family, miner's shep`pmen and rancher's...

THE GREAT FALLS LEADER.DEVOTED TO THE AGRICULTURAL, MANUFACTURING AND MINING INTERESTS OF NORTHERN MONTANA,

L, 1, GREAT FALLS, MONTANA, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1888, NO, 3.

DO YOU WONDER Dno surprise when you know the burgains I am giving in everything

in my

line, and that I am selling goods at fully 25 per cent lowerthan they have ever been sold here before.

oats,- Pants -and - Vests.ALSO IN

ents' Furnishing Goods, Boots and Shoes,Rubbers and Slippers of all kinds, Boys's Suits of the latest styles, etc., etc. c

ATSI HATSI HATS!1k Hats, Derby Hats, Fur Hats, Cow Boy Hats and in fact every style known to it

the lHat-maker. Hats for old men, Hats for young men, Hats for atboys, Hats for children, hats to fit every head and

n

every pocket-book at about 25 to 40 Yper cent less than ever g

sold here before, h

PRING OVERCOATSIMy assortment this ER.ason immense in alty and great in ariety Allof

the popuiar s.

adeand colors mdeof the finest abrics and in the latest and mGt anproed stylrieshown

ome aro me are full silk oe and ll of themarcmalde up inthel

W indow Glass, Iron Roofing, Gi annot be eqlas ting Powder, Caps, Fuse,'llmakeNE-PRICE Plaster, air, Plain and Tar Building PaperCLOTHIER. M ill Great Falls.

iaURHYmond, GoldCLAY &COust,CENTW.AL AVENUE, GREAT FALLS, M. T. BEI

W. B. RALEIGH IN & CO.

fine Tea and Coffee, Lelstkow's Patent Ilour, Pladt o Washburn's Mascotte Coal il,FAMILY, MINER'S SHEP`PMEN AND RANCHER'S

SUPPiLIES.

Refrigerators, S sWindow , ooBlackr iths Mas.Windlow Gluss, Iron Roofing, Giant and Blasting Powder, Caps, Fuse,

I

Cement, Plaster, Hair, Plain and Tar Building Papere.

Stoves and Tinware, Crockery, Compswre

Tin shop in connection with store. Prompt attention given to mail orders

`H Lime . . . -PRSO $15 per toOMoPresident Viebaled haPresident. $16 per tore.

CATARACT BIIL COMPANYOats erchant illers. 0 pr

Merchandise acture moved to any part of the followcity.Freihting Brreceived ands of High-Grade Flour:

Diame corner of entrGold Dust,,Cataract, Silver Leh

CASH PAID FOR WHEAT. MILL FEED fOR SALEOFBI(:P -Cent Avenue. near corner of Park Drive. HILL - Foot of.&Central Avenu e

Y C .1 A. T WIALAL S.

W. B. RALEIGH F. H. MEYER. J. W. BELLIS

W. B. RALEIGH & CO.

j The Leading DRY GOODS House.We carry the largest and best selected stock of

Dry goods, Car et, Notions, Ladies ald Chidreii's ShoesIn Northern Mantana. Buying in sonnection with the Helena house direct from factories

we ar able to sell you goods at poeat deal lower figures than the smallerhonses who buy of jobbers. Send for samples.

HailOrdr W. B. RALEIGH, & 0 'entrl Avenue,

DOW & TUTTLE,hGeneral Hlardware lerchalts.

Ot 01cc corner of ('entrel avenure and Foortb strreet.

THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORMI.

Declaration of Principles-Protectionfor American Industries the

Chief Plank.

The following is the republican plat-form:

The republicans of the United States,assembled by their delegates in nationalconvention, pause on. the threshold oftheir proceedings to honor the memoryof their first great leader, the immortalchampion of liberty and the rights of thepeople,-Abraham Lincoln-and to coveralso with wreaths of imperishable re-membrance and gratitude the heroicnames of our later leaders who havebeen more recently called away from ourcouncils,-Grant, Garfield, Arthur, Loganand Conkling. May their memories befaithfully cherished. We also recallwith our greetings and prayers for hisrecovery, the name of one of our livingheroes whose memory will be treasuredin the history, both of the republicansand of the Republic, the name of thatnoble soldier and favorite child of victory,Phillip Sheridan. In the spirit of thosegreat leaders, and of our own devotion tohuman liberty, and with hostility to allforms of despotism anid oppression whichis the fundamental idea of the republicanparty, we send fraternal congratulationsto our fellow Americans of Brazil, upontheir act of abolition of slavery through-out the two American continents. Weearnestly hope that we may soon congrat-ulate our fellow citizens of Irish birthupon the peaceful recovery of homerule ior Ireland. We reaffirm our un-swerving devotion to the national consti-tution, and to the indissoluble union ofthe states, antd to the autonomy reserved,to the states under the constitution as tothe personal rights and liberties of citi-zens in all the states and territories inthe union and especially to the supremeand soverign right of every lawful citizen,rich or poor, native or foreign born, whiteor black,

TO CAST ONE FREE BALLOT

in public elections and to haye the ballotduly counted. We hold the free andhonest popular ballot and the just andequal representation of all the peopleto be the foundation of the republicangovernment, and demand effective legis-lation to secure the integrity and purityof elections which are the foundation ofof all public authority. We charge thatthe present administration anti the dem-ocratic majority in congress owe theirexistence to the suspension of the ballotby a criminal nullitication of the con-stitution and the laws of the United States.We are uncompromisingly in favor of theAmerican system of protection; we protestagainst its destruction as proposed by thepresident and his party. They serve theinterests of Europe; we will support theinterests of America.

WE ACCEPT TIIE ISSUE

and confidently appeal to the peoplefor their judgment. The protective I

system must be maintuined. Its aband1onment has always been followed by igeneral disaster to all interests exceptthose of the usurer and the sheriff. We adenounce the Mills bill as destructiveto the general business, the labor and thefarming interests of the country, and weheartily endorse the consistent and patri-otic action of the republican representa-tives in congress in opposing its passage.We condemn the proposition of the dem-ocratic party to place wool on the free

list, and we insist that the duties thereonshall be adjusted and maintained so as tofurnish full and adequate protection tothe industry. The republican party wouldeffect all needed reduction of the nationalrevenue by repealing the taxes on tobacco,which are an annoyance,tud a burden toagriculture, and the tax ,ipon spirits usedin the arts and for mercantile purposes,and by such revision of the tariff laws aswill tend to check the imports of sucharticles as are produced by our people,the production of which gives employ-ment to our labor; and release from im-port duties those articles of foreign pro-duction (except luxuries) the like of whichcannot be produced at home. If thereshall still remain a larger revenue thanis requsite for the wants of the govea n-ment, we favor the entire

REPEAL OF INTERNAL TAXES

rather than the surrender of any partof our protective system at the joint be-hest of the whisky trusts and the agentsof foreign manufacturers. We declareour hostility to the introduction into thiscountry of foreign contract labor andChinese labor, alien to our civilizationand our constitution, and we demand the

rigid enforcement of the existing lawsagainst it, and favor such imnuediate legis-lation as will exclude such labor fromour shores. We declare our oppositionto all combinations of capital organizedinto trusts or otherwise to control arb-itrarily the condition of trade among ourcitizens, and we recommend to congressand the state legislatures in their respec-tive jurisdictions, such legislation as will

prevent the execution of all schemes to

oppress the people by undue charges ontheir supplies, or by unjust rates for thetransportation of their products to market.We approve the legislation by congressto prevent alike, unjust burdens and dis-criminations between the state. We altirmthe policy of lnpropriating the publiclands of the United States to be home-steads for American citizens and settlersnot aliens, which the republican party es-tablished in 1862 against the persistentoppression of democrats in con- ress antiwhich has broughlt our great western do-main into such magnificent development.TE he restoration of unearned

RAILItOAD LAND GUIANTSto the public domain for the use ofactual settlers, which was begun unltlerthe administration of President Arthur,should be continued. We deny that thedemlocratic party has ever restored oneacre to the people, but declare that Iy thejoint action of republicans and democratsabout fifty millions of acres of unearnedlands originally granted for the construc-tion of railroatds, have been restoredl to the

public domain, in pursuance of the condi-S tions inserted by the republican party inthe original grants.

We charge the democratic administra-

tion with failure to execute the laws se-curing to settlers their title to homesteadsand with using appropriations made forthat purpose to harrass incocent settlerswith spies and prosecutions under thefalse pretense of exposing frauds andvindicating the law. The government bycongress of the territories is based uponnecessity only, to the end that they maybecome states in the union; therefore,whenever the conditions of population,material resources, public intelligenceand morality are such as to ensure astable local government therein, the pen-ple of such territories should be permit-ted, as a right inherent in them, to formfor themselves constitutions and stategovernments and be

ADMITTED INTO TIHE UNION.

Pending the preparation for statehood,all officers thereof should be selected frombona tide residents and citizens of theterritory wherein they are to serve. SouthDakota should of right be imnmediatelyadmitted as a state of the union under theconstitution framed and adopted by herpeople, and we heartily endorse the ,ac-tion of the republican senate in twicepassing bills for her admission. The re-fusal of the democratic house of repre-sentaives, for partisan purposes to con-sider these bills, is a wilful violation oftile sacred American principles of localself-government, and merits the condem-nation of all just men. The pending billsin the senate for the acts to enable thepeople of Washington, North Dakota andMontana territories to form constitutionsand establish state governments, shouldbe passed without unnecessary delay.The republican party pledges itselt to doall in its power to facilitate the admissionof the territories of New Mexico, Wyom-ing, Idaho and Arizona, to the enjoymentof self-government as states, such of themas are now qualified, as soon as possible,and the others as soon as they may be-come so.

The political power ofTHE MOIRMON CIIUUCH

in the territories, as exercised in the past,is a menace to free institutions and dan-gerous to be long suffered. Therefore,we have pledged the republican party toappropriate legislation, asserting to thesovereignty of the nation in all the terri-tories where the same is questioned, andin furtherance of that end to place uponthe statute books legislation stringentenough to divorce the political from theecclesiastical power, and thus stamp outthe attendent wickedness of polygamy.

The republican party is in favor of theuse of both

GOLD AND SITTVER AS MONEY,and condemns the policy of the demo-cratic administration in its effort to de-monetize silver. We demand a reductionof letter postage to one cent. In a repub-lic like ours, where the citizen is sover-eign and the official the servant; where nopower is exercised except by the will ofthe people, it is important that the sover-eign and the people should possess intel-ligence. The free school is the promoterof that intelligence, which is to preservethis a free nation. Therefore the state ornation, or both combined, should supportfree institutions of learning, sufficient toafford to every child growing up in theland the opportunity of good, commonschool education.

We earnestly recommend that promptaction be taken by congress in the enact-ment of such legislation as will best se-cure re-establishment of our Americanmerchant marine, and protest against thepassage by congress of a free ship bill ascalculated to work injustice to labor bylessenini wages of those engaged in pre-paring materials as well as those directlyworking in our ship yards. We demandappropriations forthe early rebuilding ofour navy, for the construction of coastfortifications and modern ordnance andother improved modern means of defensefor the protection of our defenceless har-bors and cities; for the payment of justpensions to our soldiers; for necessaryworks of natural importance;an improve-ment of harbors and channels of internal,coastwise and foreign comnmerce; for theencouragement of the shipping interestsof the Atlantic, gsrf and Pacific states aswell as for the payment of the maturingpublic debt. This policy will give em-ployment to our labor; activity to our vu-rious industries; increase the security otfour country, promote trade, open new anddirect markets for our produce, and

CHEAPEN COST OF TRANSPOIRTATION.

We affirm this to be far better for ourcountry than the democratic policy ofloaning the government's money withoutinterest to "pet banks." The conduct ofour foreign affairs by the present admin-istration has been trifling with us by itsinellfficiency and cowardice, having withdrawn front the senate all pending treatieseffected by the repuldican administrationfor the removal of foreign burdens, therestrictions upon our commnerce and forits extension into better markets. It hasneither effected nor proposed any othersin their stead. Professing adherence tothe Monroe doctrine it has seen with idlecomplacency the extension of foreign in-fluence in Central America, and of foreigntrade everywhere among our neighbors.It has refused to charter, sanlction or en-courage any American organization forthe construction of the Nicaragua canal,a work of vital importance to the main-tenance of the Monroe doctrine, and ofour intion'al influence in Central andSouth America, and with the islands andfurther coast of the Pacific (ocean. Wearraign the iresent democratic adminis-tration for

rTS WEAK AND UNPATiRIOTICtreatmenlt of the fisheries question, andits pusillanimous surrender of the essen-tial privileges to which our fishing vesselsare entitled in Canadian ports unlder thetreaty of 1818, the reciprocal mairtimne leg-islation of 1830, and the comity of nationsand the treatment which Canadian fishingvessels receive in the ports of the UnitedStates. We condemn the policiy of thepresent administration, and tTle democratic majority in congress towards ourfisheries, as unfriendly and conspicuouslyunpatriotic, and as a tending to destroy anational industry and indispensible re-source of defense against a foreign enemy.

The name of American applies to allcitizens of tile republic and imposes onall alke the same obligation of obediences

to the laws. At the same time that citi-zenship is and must be the panoply andsafeguard of him who wears it, and pro-tect bhim whether high or low, rich orpoor, in all his civil rights. It should andmust afford him protection at home andfollow and protect him abroad in what-ever land he may be on a lawful errand.The men who abandoned the republicanparty in 1885 and continue to adhere tothe democratic party have deserted notonly the cause of honest governnment, ofsound tinanlce, of freedom and purity ofthe ballot, but especially have desertedthe cause of reform in the civil service.We will

NOT FAIh TO KEEP OUtR PLEDG],ES

because they have broken theirs, or be-cause their candidate has broken his.\Ve, therefore, repeat our declaration of1880, to-wit: "Reform of the ciiil serviceauspiciously begun under republican ad-ministratioun should he observed in allexecutive appointments, and all laws atvariance with the object of the existingreform legislation should be repealed tothe end that the dangers of free instituition which lack the power of otlicial pat-ronage may be wisely and effectivelyavoided." The gratitude of the nation tothe defenders of the union cannot Ibemeasured by law. The legislation ofcongress should conform to the pledgesmade by a loyal people, and be so enlarg-ed and extended as to provide against thepossibility of any matn who honorablywore the federal uniforml to become aninnate of an alms house or to dependupon private charity in the presence ofan overflowing treasury. It would be apublic scandal to do less for those whoseglorious service preserved the govern-ment. We denounce the hostile spiritshown by President Cleveland in his numserous vetoes of measures for pension re-lief and action of the democratic house ofrepresentatives in refusing even consider-ation of general pension legislation. Insupport of the principles herein enunciat-ed we invite comparison of patriotic tmenof all parties, and especially all working-men whose prosperity is seriously threatened by free trade policy of the preseradministration.

No Use for Conquerors.

After all there are greater possibilitiesawaiting the boy of today .. :wn:iit-eds the young son of Phli., .. Iin.Every Anmericanl boy has piss ilitiesthat Alexander ne\'ver !l. There is achance for him (and Alex.,nder only hadai cllhance) to becomnie th, ;tllntr it newistates, the developer of ,v ri - i.nsI, tihleader of new tmovem •s, ill preacherof new creeds.When Cyrus Fieli jutid the first At-

lanti' c(able, lie did at I i z:,-r wv• k for thewor

1 than (lid Alexatdier whi( ii hli colt-

qmu: i Darius, WhVle, Morse inventedthi.e legraph lie laid tit. fiu'n dation oftr, tenedous and tunhiled .f progrTess.i\ hen Alexanlder conqueired the Iersian.empiire lie laid the founmsdation for vwars:ail bloody rapinle for eoinntlh got -eritions. Napoleon .iiii t:i Li :t.-st of thenii , vrnl s who .it :let . "ii I .. gait siy greatexteni t x.f mi bi i;y conquest.

i\\',ll 'I'Thomais .Iefferson bought Louis-ania of Napoleon, lie showed the greatCorsictan i better way to conquest thanhis genius had ever suggested. Whereis Nuipoleon empire now ? lBut the Louis-iana of Jefferson, embracing nearlv illour territory between the Mississipplli nlldthe lRocky mountanis, and beyond, is il-ready one of the greatest emlpires oil earthand destined for untold strides ofprogress.

SO the occupation of conqueror is gone,the modern boy who reads the life of Al-exander the Great need not envy thatreckless and dissipated young king. liewas a great king in his dlay, linbut there is apossibility for the modlern American boyto do more good in the world than hedid.

Stock Outlook.

Never during the history of stock

raising ill Montana have reports from thespring or June roundups been so en-

couraging as they are this year. Thegreat range grass crop of '87, followed bya mnost favorable winter, has bornle abiun-

dant fruit i an n unprecedented increase ofherds and flocks throughout the country.As one stockmanl expressed it,"every cowhas a calf; every ewe has twins and tielosses among them are insignificant." Tileunusual rainfall during the past mouthhas insured ia luxuriant growth of grass,and as the ranges, thus fal, are not overcrowded, a good supply of winter feedmay reasonably be exlpected. The out-look for stock to recover in a great nleas-ure their losses during the memorablewinter of '86 and '87 is extremely llatter-

inhis favorable condition of range in-

terests will also lead to other gratifyingresults. Stockmen will lie relieved ofthat fear which cut such an imporltantfigure in inducing tlem last year to sac-rifice their cattle on 'a glutted market.There is al abulndRiace of feed with everyassurarnce of ia good winter r'aIgC and ascattlemen are financially inl a bettercondi-tion than they were a year ago there willbe no haste upon their part to sell theirbleeves. 'They can afford to hold themfor the best market and with the presertrailroadl translportation facilities they cantake advantalge of it with no extra explense.And then againl ouir constantly ilncresingpiopulation is oipening up nuew mnarketsfor beef widening the old ones. It willtake at least 65,0H0 head to keel) ourbutcher shops running this year.

In view of these facts it is safe to plre-dict that the time is near rt hand whenM3ontana cattlemen will lie pilac(ed in aiposition where, if they cannot dictatetheir own price for undreesed I•ef, theycan, at least, readily avail thenmselves ofthe most favorable markets. There ismucn h to encoulrage stockimen in this as-

pect of the situation. -- Montana Stock.Journal.

A Quiver Full of Arrows.

hlusband--VWho is this 3Mr. Smith youhave down for our party.

Wife--My first husbiand, dearHluslbund-And Mr. Brown'rWife--Ohi , lie's the gelntlemali I've(

promilsed to mairry if w.r ever divorce. -Town Tolpics.

A GOOD STORY.

Bob Bnrdette's Experience as aLocal Journalist in the

State of Iowa.Robert J. Burdette, whom everybody

knows whether they ever saw him or not,used to run a little daily paper in Peoria,Illinois. I believe it was Peoria-any-how, it was the paper he enjoyed so muchbecause there was never any uncertaintyabout it. lIe knew positively every Mon-day morning that there wouldn't beenough money to pay the compositorsSaturday night.

He hadn't written so much good humorthen as he has since, but it used to cropout once in a while-he couldn't help it.One day a prominent citizen of Peoriagot into trouble with a hackman abouttheamount of his charge or something, andtook off his coat and fought him allaround the block. lie made it a red dayfor hackmen, too, and got pretty excitedbefore le finished. The next morningBurdette had pretty nearly a columnabout it. There had been so much spaceto fill and he turned his fancy loose andfilled it. lie had laughed about it quiet-ly to himself all the way home that nightafter lie wrote it, and inthe morning readit over to see if the boys had got it set upall right, and smiled sort of Inwardly tohimself again.

About the middle of the afterenoon theman who had the trouble came in. Bur-dette trembled a little at first, because hedidn't know how he might have taken it,but the man wore a broad grin on hisface and seemed to be very much tickledover it.

"That was a good one on me in thei'lowlet' this moreing," said the man.

"Er-yes--do you think so?" said Bur-dette.

"Oh, capitol-took it off first-class. Didonu write it.""Oh, yes, I scratched it off in a hurry

tonight. We have to have something tolill up."

"Of course. But it was really good. Ididn't know you could do as well as that,"went on the lman enthusiastically.

"Oh, I didn't think much of it," return-ed Burdette modestly. "If I had onlyhad a little more time, perhaps I mighthave mntde something out of it."

"Oh, you had time enough-plenty oftime, I assure you. It was fine. Of courseI didn't really do all you said I did."

"Oh, of course not. Certainly not. Gotto have something lively in a newspaper,you know."

"I see--especially in a live local paper.""You understandl it.""I think so. Of course I didn't yell

like a man with his foot in a lawn mowerall the time I was having the controversywith him."

"Oh no--we have to exaggerate a little.""I see-an then I didn't raise the hack-

man up and pound the fice of the earthwith him till the police stopped me fromwearing out the pavin ."

"No, not at all-had to make it livelyyou know."

"Of course. Then I didn't chase himinto the country half a mile, did I now?"

"I never heard that you did. I justslipped that in. You know a local pa-per-

"I understand. Then of course I didn'troar so coming back that people thoughtthat there was a hail storm coming."wtlR mere was n u nit aiurni uIuming.

"Oh, you didn't roar at all. I made thatpart up to make it lively.""I thought so. Then I didn't stand on

the corner and howl till I was tired andsay I could lick any hackman that everlooked through a collar, and go aroundthe streets cracking my heels togetherand saying I was from Bitter creek whereit wa'n't more than a foot wide."

"Of course not-nothing of the kind atall. I just put that in-got to in a smalltown with a daily paper, you see."

"I notice you have to. It was a funnypiece, take it all together.""Y-e-s, I thought perhaps it was a little

funnuy, admitted Burdette a little uneasily."You say in it the hackman was a

small mian?""Why, yes, rather small, I understood.""Probably not as small as you are ?""Oh, n-no, I persume not. Im unotvery

big you see. Pleasant weather we'reho.ving, major."

"Y a-e-s, very pleasant--a little cold forhackmten and some editors I know of.Probably, then, if I licked the hackmanthere wouldn't be any doubt but that Icould lick you?"

"Ohll, no; no, sir; not a particle of noubt.(Going to the circus to night, colonel?"

"I expect to lie there, but you won't-you'll be in the hospital--you little, insig-nificant, one-horse country editor," and hereached out and got Burdette b) the col-lar. "Chased the manl out heyond thefair grounds, did I? Roared like the 8:30express comning back, did 1?" and he be-,iun jabbing him up and down like thetasher of an oll-fashioned churn. "Myactions would have made a fish laugh, eh?Ioswled around till I tmade the world'sback ache, did I ?" and all the time he wasdancing around the otffice with Burdetteat arm's length. "Oh, you're going to bethe great American humorist! No doubtof it at all! You'll make the universedouble up and roll on the grass some day!You're funny, oh, so very funny! Justgive you a little more practice on me andyou can start out lecturing!" and it's hardto tell what would have become of poorlHlrdette if a big pressman hadn't comein just then, with his sleeves rolled upand ink on the sidle of his nose, and re-lieved him. The pressman fought theman ten minuites bIefore lie managed totear his coat off and shut up both his eyesand lire him down the stairs and half wayacross the sidewalk. lie accomplished itat last, however, and went back to workand llurdette gathered himself togetherand wrote up a solemn account of thedeath of the oldest Free Mason, who hadjust passed away.