Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-29
WINDOWS VAIL.
a DISMAL H4RAEGU TO A TERR1F-
ICALLY SHALL AUDIENCE.

A DISMAL HARAEGUE TO a TERRIF-
ICALLY SHALL AUDIENCE.
The Faithful Didn't Enthuse Last Night
The Senatorial Member of the North Pa
cific Construction Company Ring Bangs
Away In a Dull Style, and the spiritless
| Meeting Goes Out as stupidity as it
| Began.
1 At 8 o'clock, the time set for the Hon. ".
| WINDOWS grand effort, which was to convert
all Democrats, and confirm wavering Republic
licans IN the faith, there was not dozen
people assembled in Masonic HALL Half an
hours patient waiting did not much improve
the prospect of the rousing meeting promised.
b. =. Drake, Alexander Ramsey, George Nash,
and tour or five officials from the custom
house. lowered around the stove, gloomily
warming their shins, and talking soto uoce of
| the blue aspect of affairs inside and outside
the hall; few Democrats who had heard
tna1 Washburn was in the city,
ana think thinking it probable that he would
locked IN with the desire of seeing him show
his PAGES, but in this they were disappointed
for the gentleman with the brass kettle ap-
pendage did not appear. The small assembly
| OF democrats becoming impatient at the delay,
the little group of the orthodox moved to the
front seats, and Alex. Ramsey, E. T. Drake
and the orator stepped onto the platform.
Mr.. Drake, addressing the small audience,
| asked them to move forward to the front seats
where they could hear better. He then
| said the hour seems to have arrived (about
three-quarters Of an hour before) for opening
/ m 10 to ipfr Cuo
the speaker, but for mere forms sake, intro
duce Senator Window who will address YOU
| Upon this the speaker and addressed
the little assembly as Mr.. President and fellow
citizens. He announced that he was about to
speak on one subject only, and one that had
been SO much talked upon that it was impossi-
BILE for him to say anything new upon it. He
would speak upon the question of money. He
would give them the Republican party's posi-
ton on the subject and the position of the OPP
position to the Republican party. The Re
publican party had laid aside all 9TH
er issues and questions, hoping by
SO doing to be successful in drawing all the
political organizations into their net. The Re
publican party had, to please the Democratic
party, withdrawn their bayonets from the
South, and at the command of the same party
| had removed the carpetbaggers and had re-
dressed all the various grievances the Demo-
Gratis complained of, and done all they can do
to meet their wishes He then went on to say
what he thought to be the measure of value
money was the measure of all value. The
greenback, he said, is not money. It is of no
value at all intrinsically. He showed the val
ne Of the greenback during the war; tracing
it up to the present time. and saying
| the Republican party has made it its aim to
build up the greenback till it has now made it
| worth 9915 cents. The Republican party have
| struggled fifteen years to accomplish this, and
| they had been opposed by five factions-the
Democrats, the Greenbackers, the Fiatists, the
Communists and the Donnellyists. On the first
| and last he would have little to say. He did
not want to wage war with the Democrats; he
| wanted to conciliate them, to meet them on
common ground, to save the nations honor.
The Greenbackers he thought his audience well
understood. They proposed to abolish ma
tional banks and issue instead of
| national bank notes, greenbacks, and as much
more as Congress shall think necessary for
trade. Fiatism, he said, went further than
greenbackism. It wanted the government not
to issue promise to pay, but merely to say
its legal tender this is dollar or this is ten
thousand dollars He quoted largely from
the disappearing Ingersoll and Endorsed his
sentiments. Communism was yet another
step in advance of tiatism-the one advocated
robbery the other theft.
Donnellyism, he said, meant anything for
office, and the speaker rightly sprmised
chat bis friend Donnelly thought to be
carried into Congress upon the united shout
ders of all the parties. Ho denounced the
Greenbackers as lunatics and said the only way
he could account for their power was THAI they
made so much noise. But he assured his au-
dience that they need not fear the great "bogy''
imitation, because if Congress was filed with
Greenbackers they could not initiate the cur
rency. This was encouraging to some Repub-
licans present, who only wavered from that
very fear in supporting Donnelly. He gave
| three reasons for this assertion the most i'm
portant of which was that it was unconstitu.
tional.
He then, after enumerating the great thi ngs
done by the Republican party, went on to show
that they did not wish to contract the currency.
but that after all the Republican party We're by
far greater inaationists than Greenbackers or
Donnelly. BY the latter's plan $685., 1000 600 of
currency at the most would be in circulation,
and if the supreme court said it was unconsti-
tutional only $346, 100000 would be in circula-
| ton, but if the Democrats, Greenbackers and
all would combine and help the Republicans
carry out their method of resumption in Janu-
airy, there would be in circulation one thousand
million dollars, for the Republican party have
determined, he said, to reissue the greenbacks
and not destroy them.
We bave, he continued, virtually resumed,
and if it were not for the poor crops we should
feel the benefits here in Minnesota, but the
prospects for increased trade are better than
they have been before. He then quoted
some statistics which drove several of his small
| audience out. He commended that the country
was on the high road to prosperity, and the
only thing to prevent it was what he was
there to contend against. He said to do away
| with the national banks and substitute green
backs for their legal tender would be ruinous,
for it would cause money lenders to foreclose
their mortgages and go out Of business (Ap-
! plause from George Nash and one or two loan
agents.) He hoped the high-toned, high prin-
clpled, honorable Democrats would support the
Republicans in this issue. He then delivered
a panygeric on the Republican party, and
stated its sole object was to save the credit of
the nation.
Mr.. Drake then rose as the few remaining
people got up to leave, and SAID he hoped they
would remember to register and vote the
| whole Republican ticket and redeem Ramsey
county. There was not cheer nor vote of
thanks Oh the slightest show of enthusiasm,
and the name of Washburn was not mentioned
| during the evening. WINDOWS great mass
meeting was a decided fzzle.
County Treasurer's Statement.
The county treasurer completed his October
settlement yesterday. This gives an exhibit of
all receipts and disbursements for the months
of June, July, August and September in figures
as follows:
RECEIPTS.
Cash on hand June 1.............. $342, O95 80
Tax collections, 1877 and prior
years ........,..... 81, l64 33
Probate, abstract and jury FEES. 1899 10
County liquor license. ............ $50 rs
Interest on deposits. Observation-Disclosures. 1913 81
Received from treasurers OF school
districts Observation-Disclosures. II 81
bridge bonds. Observation-Disclosures. 5O,872 45
Total. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 437, 4l2 63
DISBURSEMENTS.
Paid State treasurer, S 39.1l6 ID