Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-11-03
LARGEST MEETING HELD THERE.
Association Hall Crammed With a
Mighty Multitude and Hun
dreds Cannot Enter.
DONNELLY AND BILL KING TILT.
The Mill Rings Effort to Interrupt the
Meeting and Drive Mr.. Donnelly
From the Platform.
STILL, SMALL, VOICE IS HEARD.
Down With Washbnrn and the Swim.
ding Brass Kettles.


ding Brass Kettles.
For about one week il has been generally
known that the Hon. Ignatius D"nnelly would
address the people of Minneapolis on the politi
cal issues Association hail.
THE LARGEST IN THE CITY,
had been secured for the occasion, and public
expectation had been on tip-toe to know how
the fighting from Nininger' would
handle his topic-whether he would dare come
to Washburn's own laliwick and speak in the
interest of his agricultera clients, or whether
he would come with
SOFT WORDS AND A PLEASANT SMILE
and pat the Millers' association on the back as
good boys.
There had been no special effort to secure Il
crowd, with the exception of the circulation Of
unpretending posters and few short squibs
among the Minneapolis items in the GLOBE,
an yet the nesting was the
LARGEST OF ANY CHARACTER
ever called together in this city.
Mr.. Donnelly arrived i'll the city by the
morning train from the west, INN ediately took
a carriage and drove ten miles in the country
IL.
dressed q
TREMENDOUS GATHERING
of farmers gathered from all the surrounding
county.
At O'clock in the evening he returned to
this city, and after resting and taking supper,
ut 7:3) O'clock, accompanied by few friends
and 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
''wAs DoNNELLY
that an entrance forced into the seething,
excited multitude.
Ga his entrance to the hail. one universal
shout went up IS 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 was again the signal for the
most tumutous applause On taking
the stand he was introduced to
the immense gathering by the Hon.
Eugene III. Wilson, ex-member of Congress and
candidate for Senator from the Twenty-seventh
Legislative district.
Mr. Donnslly's voice was visibly husky from
its coas ant use during the past few weeks, but
as he warmed to his work it rang out as of old
over the vast multitude, clear and swelling as
The
DUGLE NOTE OF RoBERIcK DHv
calling back the clans to their duty
and allegiance. He opened by saying
that the large and friendly audi
ence he beheld before him was q sufficient an
swer to the vile ard malicious Islander which
had been sent abroad that he was an enemy
to the
TRUE INTERESTS OF MISNEAPoLrs,
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 bulls eye by
commencing an arraignment of the Millers'
association. He spoke of the immense district
of country lying north and west of Minneap-
oils, and how closely and indissolubly the in
terests Of this great manufacturing and indus
trial centre were connected with this only
greater industry which
PEoPLED THE VAST PRAIRIEs
which went rolling ont toward the foot
hills Of the Rocky mountains; how
great working classes toiiing
here had, through the grand fiat Of Almighty
Gvd, struck hands with that other great toiing
class which was making the Western wilder
ness blossom with industry and fruit with hon.
est wealth. (Applause.) Then he 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 for the purpose Of robbing the great ag-
ricultural 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
ferent grades of wheat along the line OF the
st. Paul and Pacific 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, pelting
facts and figures which he threw at the
LITTLE BRASS KETTLE
with humorous illusions ard inimitable
stories, which brought the house down with
paroxysoms of laughter. He spoke of the
doings Of the ring as blighting 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 its citizens for it's 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 little coterie of selfish citizens may be.
come rich and respectable save the mark
and move in the aristocratic circles of So
ciety. Immense cheering mingled with
hisses).
wAsHBURN's HIREL1NGs.
at this point the Kissing became so pro-ai-
nent and decided that it was evident that a
number of Washburn's paid men had crawIed
into the audience with the determination of
disturbing the meeting. Some of the audi
snce called out, "Put out the rattlesnakes'