Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-11-10
POLITICAL MEETING.

Mr. Washburn Is Serenaded and Makes
| HIS First Political ispeec1.-The Cam
pGign Still in FrOGress in Minneapolis-
The Firm of HooE d Hick:se9 Make a
| Final Appearonce-Ihe Curtain Desce7ads
| to SIo,c M,.sic-The Tail OF the Bloody
| Ssirt-TdbIe0n!
Most of the people of the Third Congress
sional district are laboring under the impress
| sion that the Congressional campaign closed on
| last Tuesday. This is a mistake.
| Last night about O clock a procession of
about 100 or 200 formed in front Of the Nicol-
! let and, headed by a brass band marched to
| the palatial residence of emminent fellow
citizen, Gen. W. D. Washburn. Arr wing in
| front of the aforesaid P. v. the band layed a
"choon," and 200 voices vociferously cal led for
| "Washburn Washburn Wash-b-u-r-n /! ="
| The eminent military commander made his
| appearance on the porch and was introduced to
| the assembled multitude by Mayor Rand who
presides over the city MI. Washburn is elected
| to represent. Mr.. Washburn was saluted with
applause, and stepping forward made good
speech-for an amateur political orator, but 4
very unwise and a very narrow speech for
! statesman.
The GLOBE will not attempt to report it. but
will briefly and fairly give the outline. He
hrst thanked those present FOR the compliment
u oHc seFauaue, Jneu Ne SpONe about uldil-
clous assaults upon himself, which
had even extended to the business
interests and men of our beautiful city.
He thanked the people present for hurting
back the foul and malignant aspersions upon
Minneapolis-not Republicans alone. but those
excellent gentlemen, those noble fellows, those
high-toned Democrats who had helped HIM out
of an ugly scrape. cloud applause from the
Democrats.) He touched briefly upon the fnan-
cial question, as to how the nation had voted
for honest money, but finding he was liable to
get into deeper water than he could ford,
lieyed the child was now born who
would live to see within a radius
of ten miles of where he then stood. THAT
don't take in st. PauI-see?-REp.) a city as
large as Chicago or st. Louis. (This same
sentiment was expressed by Brother Cad in
precisely the same language at the Blaine
scramble during the fair. Ideas are catching in
1.-THE family.') And then he said much more
but not one calm pacific, statesmsnlike word;
not one sentence to pour oil upon the troubled
waters OF closed campaign; not one word that
would indicate that he was not even yet filled
with bitter personal animosity toward those
who had opposed his election; not one
word that could be twisted into an evidence
that he was wiling to bury the past and enter
Congress as the representative of the whole
people.
His seat had better be contested, for he is
unfit to represent the intelligent people of
Minnesota.
Then he sat down, and the show went on,
with Mr. Hooker as the chief clown. Hooker
retailed again the stale jokes Of the campaign,
got up a simpering giegle two; but what's
the use to enlarge Hooker, when God made
Hooker SO very small, and printers ink so
scarce. 1t was before election speech, practiced
for months in the water closet
and in the silent watches of the night, to cap
ture the plaudits of district school houses.
Music
And then Hicks !!
Vale.
Descending curtain to slow music amid a
gorgeous display of red fire, with few swithes
of the rear tail of the bloody shirt
Now, boys, is the campaign over?