St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-09-22
Meetings-A Dark fair.

Baker and Delano T. Smith, held NEE.
tings in Wilson's Hall at and 7 P. NJ.
The Hall was filled, from $50 to 300 per
sons being present. Mr.. Baker spoke
amid bursts Of approval which often made
it difficult for him toget along. The abuse
heaped upon him by the Pioneer reacts so
as to make him the favorite. Celfax,
Grow, everybody is thrown in tho shade as
Baker hurls back the charges of fraud
into the teeth Of his enemies, and backs
his vindication with the afidavits Of all tho
men who could know anything Of the de-
falcation he is charged with aiding. ri.
At the close of his speech three cheers
were proposed for Baker, on account Of the
special persecution he was undergoing
They were given With such will = only
those who heard can appreciate, and wore
extended into four. Mr.. Colfax closed
in = clear, logical mastery exposition Of
the sgressions Of Slavery. upon the rights
of freemen. He drove home facts: and -
guments to the minds of his hearers and
clinched them. 81 .F.:: -, s.=z@5:.. !
Next evening Basin held meeting in
the same place and spoke in German while
Treve Berlin, the fellow who use to want
to free the Negroes and sell tho Catholic
Irish aad Dutch; and <.his friend and patron
G. G Andrews did tho talking in English,
There sjust as people present, as the
affair had been kept quiet and no public
notice given, as far as we can learn, this
was, perhaps, more than they wanted, u
Remember that Baker the Republican
Candidate for Secretary Of State held a
meeting on friday evening and spoke to
three hundred people, his friends. having
taken every pains to notify the public Of
the meeting and get every body to come.
Mr.: Andrews and their leading Moccasins
were at that meeting, and 10 notice was
given there and SO far as We can learn any
place else that our town waste be honored
bya speech from the Democratic Candi-
date fol, the same office. Yet on Saturday
evening Baasin sneaked into : meeting
there, in which there was not one german
Republican who might report what he
said, and here to As men Basin holds
forth in German, IF tbis.is not = dark
business we would like to know what isl
Now, We belve firmly that the the moe
casils up here have 4 secret oath bound
society whose object. 70 ann the Ger
mans on. in. to voting the moccasin Ticket
until they elect another President and
pass a law I'd sell foreigners into slavery
We h,,o,o thai this is what Treve Berlin
advocated long ago; land birds Of = feath7
er flock together" 81 He and Andrews got
up this meeting Andrews tried to starve
the Germans here il the winter IF '57
and SO. They got Basins to sneak v il
and tell these Germans something they
are afraid to vt the public know. y The
moccasin Post Office department has sons
place locked up al the German docur
Iments which the Republicans sent out
here to Minnesota; and the. moccassin
speakers take care that Republican Ger i;
mans shall not hear what they SAY 70 their
countrymen whom they ;hav. duped; and
they certainly do not 90 to all this troublsI
fer nothing 4. IF I. $ {. ;,,'II|
The Shareholders do sell poor Germans ans
in Louissianna. The iLowrys have start
ed the business 81 raising babies ii MINI
,neaota for tho Southern. market; ma =
this country is too cold for black babies 70