Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-31
DAKOTA COUNTY CANVASS.
Senator Adams and Others Addres, I
PeOple---The Swindifnr Rrasa X effle

sSShsaeOr duduB ana DINERS A00re83 the
PeoPle---The SwindlinS Brass Kettle.
An enthusiastic Erecting was held at Lam
geylns last evening, when the various can
didates on the Democratic ticket were intro
duced BY AID. Mccarthy to very large ma
jority of the voters of the Sixth ward.
There were also present many from tn is side
the river, with the candidates for sheriff and
auditor of Ra msey county.
Gen. @. f. Adams, candidate for the Sem
ate, was the first introduced. he
addressed the meeting at considerable length
upon the financial issues of the day,
in which he exposed the contradictory and
dom in his tour through Wisconsin and
Minnesota. The general showed that the
speech in its abject admissions and glarinp
contradictions could only be delivered by
one who saw how desperate and hopeless was
his cause. He also spoke of the wheat
frauds through the 'sittle joker'' or skinner
pail, and assured his hearers that the fraud
was even greater than it had been declared
to be. It was not for the legislature to say
how it should be weighed or measured. If
he was sent to the Senate he would advocate
any measure which would insure redress
of the great wrong.
Judge T. O'Leary, candidate for the House
OF Representatives, next addressed the meet
ing. he spoke principally upon the wheat
frauds. he enumerated dozens of cases in
which the same load of wheat was tested by
different persons, and each one gave diff
ferent result. Not only did this matter of
wheat testing want ventillating, but the mat
ter of weights and measures generally. It
was well known that within the last fifteen
years there. had been no inspection of
weights and measures, and if he should be
sent to the legislature, and if no one else
should Introduce such measure he would
think 1t his duty to bring in a bill which
would deal with the matter of
testing wheat and the inspection of
weights and measures. The speaker then
went on to speak in the highest terms of
Henry Poehler, the candidate for Congress,
giving his record as business man, loyal
citizen and a member of the legislature. and
assuring the people that they could trust
their interests in no better hands On the
financial question Mr.. Poehler, he said, stood
square and firm upon the Democratic plat
form; he believed in ample money for the
necessities of trade and legal tender note
worth a dollar in gold, and dollar in gold
worth no more than dollar in silver.
William Murphy, also a candidate
for the House, next spoke. He
told the audience that he had
lived among them twenty three years, and
had literally helped to build up the city. On
tie very ground where the house stood in
which they were assembled he had felled
huge trees. He was farmer, and knew
something of the brass tester swindle-it was
one of tha greatest frauds practised upon
people. What affected the farmer affected
the whole mass of the people. The farmer
was the producerj by his labor the earth
yielded its increase. If the farmer was
swindled out of his hard earned produce the
merchant and the mechanic, the doctor and
the lawyer all suffered with him. It has been
said by the capitalists that the farmer is
king, but when, asked the speaker, did you
see kings subseryient to their subjects; If the
farmer is king the capitalist is the monarch
who holds him down with an iron ha d. He
knew of a .lan who took his wheat to buy
er who tested it fifty-seven pounds. The
farmer was not satisfied and asked the deal
er, who also kept grocery store, to weigh
the wheat in his scales. This was done and
the wheat weighed sixty pounds. Either
the tester was wrong and cheating the farm
er, or the scales were wrong and swindling
the customers. In either case wrong
gross and erievous, was being perpetrated.
He knew of scores of cases where wheat was
taken to Hastings and Minneapolis and St.
Paul, in which every time it was tested
the results We're different. IF he
went to the house he should
think it his duty to vote for any measure
which would insure just weights and
measures.
William Grace followed on the same sub
ject He had been farmer for fifteen years
and knew something about it, and he knew
the brass kettle fraud had not been at all
exaggerated. He had sent wheat to Has
tings and to st. Paul, and he had experienced
just what had been stated there tonight.
Every time his wheat was taken to the brass
kettle it was found of different weight. He
was not speaker like the rest of the gen
tlemen who had addressed tee meeting, but
IT they elected him he would do his best
in looking after their interests. Hon. E.
Hy:and thought one subject had been for
gotten, that of the railroad bonds, which
bankers and gambling spectators were anx-
lous for the people to pay at 100 cents on
the dollar. These sharks pirate as did Win
dom, of honor; he did not think it was dis
honorable to refuse to pay what we never
owed. These men wanted a dollar for what
cost then, Is or 20 cents, and so long as he
should be sent to the house he would vote
direct against that and any other steal.
Denis Ryan also addressed the
meeting when loud and prolonged calls were
made for Mr. Murray. Hon. w. P. Murray
then stepped forward and delivered telling
speech. He said moro in ten minutes than
he had ever done before in his life in the
same space of time, and ten times as much
as any ordinary man could do in double the
time. He endorsed the whole ticket, and
hoped the Sixth ward would go solid on it.
lie advocated Poehler against Strait on
many grounds, even that of expediency.
Poehler would be miodful of them at times
OF appropriations. A levee would increase
the value of property in the Sixth ward, and
Poehler thinks it more deserving
of an appropriation than st. Anthony's
Falls. He also reminded them that they were
not only part of Dakota county but had an
interest in Ramsey county and it was i'm
portant to them who should be sheriff and
auditor and judge of probi te for that coun.
ty, and he asked a rousing vote for King,
Da,is and O'Gorman. Sheriff King and
Auditor Lee Davis, both, on being vociffer-
ously called for, briefly addressed the meet
ing. After which a motion to adjourn was
i1aoo. LIS meetlnS was enthusiastic IN the
extreme and the several speakers were ap-
plauded at every point mi cheered when
they took their seats.
Sales of State Lands.
Returns of land sales were received at the
state auditors Office yesterday as follows:
DAKOTA COUNTY.
= Acres. Amt realized.
Schooi lands. l20 s 600 co
FORFEITED land resold 40 2U0 90
Total... 100 $500 90
HENSEPIN COUNTY
School lands. ;....;:. 12o s1.oso 90
Forfeited land rcsold 40 4OD ~