The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-31

Dakota county one of thy browning
mercies. Thou dids't set the heath.
en-. (the Irish and Dutch,) raging. one
against another, until the hosts of
Bellal were Overthrown and the cause
OF religion had triumphed. Keep the
heathen still at war with each other.
Q Lord -
'sAmen Amen!'' shouted Heath
and Johnny Newton and Charley
Baker.
Put honest men in office, O Lsrd;"
"Amen : cried the whole conyen.
ton, enthusiastically.
And advance above all things Oh
Lord. the cause of temperance
(SensatiOr.)
Here Peter Flicker stopped washing
the beer glasses.
1--WE recognize all the blessings thou
hast bestowed upon us, especially the
county offices.
amen - shouted the office-hold-
ers.
But this great work is incomplete,
oh Lord until intemperance has dis
appeared from our midst; and the bad
men who live by selling poison to their
fellow men are punished as they de-
serve.
Peter Flicker drew near the speaker.
"Behold our country, Oh Lord Be-
hold Douglas and New Trier. Too
long, too long. Oh Lord ,have the poll
tics of Dakota county been ruled by a
lot of beer-guzzling Dutch
The words were scarcely uttered
ere Peter drew off and icrying, stake
dat. he smote the preacher under
the left ear. and he fell,
AS falls on Mount Ayernus
The thunder smitten oak y
Then Mr.. Editor Bedlam broke loose
again. The Irish and English conflict
was nothing to it.
Peter got up on the counter among
the beer glasses and made a speech:
''Oh yaW.' he cried shaking his fists
and growing very red in the face, ..oh
yaW. ven you want our votes den We
is your sherman yellow citizens;;'
and ven you hat got de offices den We
is ''de peer-guzzlin Dutch. by CT!
Oh yaw, | knows you. You gets me
to run for county treasurer, oh yaw,
and you say Go in Peter unit VIM
you get us the Sherman votes in
Marshan unit Hampton unit Douglas
unit We viii get you de Republicaner
votes iii Castle Rock unit Waterford
unit so veiter.' INT | goes in to vim
and gets my Sherman frients to vote
for Johnny Newton unit Sharley Baker
unit de whole t-d cumboodle. and
don't YIN. No; not much not by a
long sight. You republickaners vote
for q Brien and you gives him Won
tousand majority, because | am a
I'd Dutchman--a peer-guzzling
Dntchman. How high is dot :
You calls dis party! 1t is a
schwlndle. And then | tries to sell a
leetle peer to the convention, to get
pack de money vot / lost in de election.
unit dot Jim Morse he tries to hat me
put out: unit dot I'd Steb he runs
away with vun of my peer kegs: and
lots of you fellers thinks my peer and
don't pays me for it.iby ct. You
calls dis party. / tells you it is a
schwindle. 1t isn't a Peoples Party
at all. it is Goot Templars Lodge Z"
How much farther the indignant
Peter would have proceeded it is hard
to say; but at this point Jim Morse
flung boot at his head and O'Leary
got hold Of his legs and down he came.
There was rush and the crowd were
piled on each other five deep and the
uproar was dreadful. It was. as the
poet says:
As il men fought upon the earth,
And hends in upper air.
I'm .-aiy, Ch,rln,- Dol-n~
counter and shouted "order!' In vain
lie Due called Time" John Kenne.
dy stood overt he struggling, surging,
mass. with his hands behind his back
and delighted smile on his face, crv-
ing BE Cad. this is beautiful, this is
magnificent
There was an alarm at the door.
and the police and posse of citizens
rushed in, followed by the fire depart
ment. In little while the combat
ants were separated. The police pro-
posed to arrest all hands. lie Duo OBJ.
Jected. >earles said they conldn' t
constitutionaily do so;-.that the
| people had right to meet in politi.
cal conventions and discuss ques-
tons.
DO you call that discussionl" en-
quired the chief of police.
Certainly" said >earles, lit was
quiet settlement of a mooted cues.
ton: and for his part he thought it
all wrong for the police to interrupt
the discussion before the question was
decided"
precisely, said Charley Baker
how are we ever to get platform
for the Peoples Party if these outside
influences are to interfere with onI
perfect action. This is some of Don
nell VS. work
The police withdrew. The fire de
paTtment wanted to know il there
would be any objection to playing OF
the convention This proposition
however did not seem TO meet witt
general acceptance.
] Here Judge Sullivan rose to q poin