Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-11-04

For about one week il has been generally
known that the Hon. Ignatius DnnnelIy wonJd
address the people Of minneapolis tho politi-
cal issues. Association hall,
THE LARGEST IN THE CITY,
had been secured for tho occasion, and public
expectation had been on tip-toe to know how
the fighting man from Nininger'' would
handle his topic-whether he would dare come
to Washburn's own laliwick and speak in the
interest of his agricult oral cients, or whether
he would come with
SOFT WORDS AND PLEASANT SMILE
and pat the Millcrs' association on the back as
good boys.
There had been ne special effort to secure a
unpretending posters and few short squibs
among the Minneapolis items in the GLOBE,
and yet the meeting was the
LARGEST OF ANY CHARACTER
ever called together in this city.
Mr.. Donnelly arrived in the city by the
morning train from the west, Immediately took
carriage and drove ten miles in the country
to the town of Bloomington, where he adj
dressed a
TREMENDOUS GATHERING
of farmers gathered from all the surrounding
| country.
At o'clock in the evening he returned to
this city, and after resting and taking supper,
at 1880 o'clock, accompanied by q few friends
and a brass band, proceeded to the hall The
hall was packed
FROM CELLAR TO GARRETT
before o'clock. and it was only by announc-
ing that it
twas DoNNE1LY''
that an entrance was forced into the seething,
excited multitude.
On his entrance to the hall, one universal
shout went up as though the crowd would
have driven the
THE ROOF FROM IT'S FOUNDATION,
and cheer after cheer continued until the little
party had reached the stand. His appearance
on the platform again the signal for the
most tumutous applause. On taking
the stand he was introduced to
the immense gathering by the Hon.
Eugene M. Wilson, ex-member Of Congress and
candidate for Senator from the Twenty-scventh
Legislative district.
HIS SPEECH.
Mr.. Donnelly' voice was visibly husky from
its constant use during the past few weeks, but
he warmed to his work it rang out as of old
over the vast multitude, clear and swelling as
tho
BUaLE NOTE OF EoBERIcK DHg
calling back the clans to their duty
and allegiance. He opened by saying
encc he beheld before him was a sufficient an
swer to the vile ard malicious SANDER which
had been sent abroad that he was an enemy
to the
TRUE INTERESTS OF MINNEAPOLIS,
and the presence OF many old and friendly
faces assured him that he was we'll enough
known to this people that they would need no
assurance from his lips that in case of his
ELECTION TO CONGRESS
from the Third district he would be as true and
loyal TO her as one Of her own most loyal sons.
He then aimed directly at the bull eye by
commencing an arraignment of the Mlllers'
association. He spoke of the immense district
OF country lying north and west Of Minneap-
oils, and how closely and indissoubly the in
terests of this great manufacturing and indus
trial centre We're connected with this only
greater industry which
PEoPLED THE VAST PRA1R1Es
which went rolling out toward the foot
hills Of the Rocky mountains; how
great working clasaes toiling
Gud. struck hands with that other great toiling
class which was making the Western wilder
ness blossom with industry and fruit with hon
est wealth. (Applause.) Then ne alluded to
the fact that there had grown up here ring
which, ignoring the law of justice, and right
and equity, had banded and combined To-
gether Tor the purpose of robbing the great ag-
rlcultural interests of the district north and
west. (Cheers mingled with hisses.) At this point
the speaker produced some statistics which
| read OF the difference in the prices of the diff
terent grades of wheat along the line of the
st. Paul and PACING railway, controlled by the
MINNEAPOLIS RING,
and on the Northern Pacific, hundreds of miles
| removed from this great central market for
the cereals of the West. While reading the
statistics he interspersed the dry, hard, peItine
facts and figures which he threw at the
''LIrTLE BRASS KETTLE
with humorous illusions and inimitable
stories which brought the house down with
paroxysoms OF laughter. He spoke of the
doings of the ring as plighting the fair fame OF
Minneapolis. To-day it Is one of the most pros
porous towns on the broad continent of Amer
| lea. It's fame for beauty, for the public spirit
of it's citizens, for its educational advantages,
| has gone abroad over the whole land from the
Atlantic to the Pacific. Are you ready, my
fellow citizens, to be bound hand and foot by
this monopolizing monster, the millers ring,
your property wrecked, your growth retarded
that a little coterie of selfish citizens may be-
| come rich and respectable-God save the mark
and move in the aristocratic circles of So
ciety. Immense cheering mingled with
| hlsses).
| wAsHBURNs HIREL1Nas.
| At this point the kissing became so pro:sai-
nent and decided that it was evident that a
number of Washburn's paid men had crawled
into the audience with the determination of
distu' bling the meeting. Some of the audi
ence called out, Put out the rattlesLakes'