Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-19
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uV IOh 10 CUN lO.
WHERE TOU CAN SPEND THE DAl
IF YOU DON'T KNOW Any BETTER.
Deacon Gilmore Makes An Explanation
Which Does Not Explsin-Small Att end.
ancs-Stili Unable to Pay Lecturers
a General sostteration-The Brass Band
and Other Leading Attractions Leave.
Ill weeds are sure to thrive" said the pa
tient and long suffering Mrs. Quilp, but even
this rule seems to have its exception in thu
case of Deacon Gilmore's band of sacro-
sancts, now playing their fantastic tricks
before high heaven on the shores of Lake
Minnetonka. These so-called moral weeds
are i'll enough certainly to thrive under any
and all circumstances, but just and aveng-
ing fate seems to have ordained that no sue
cess should attend them and their mounte-
bank exhibitions given under the flimsy
guise of pseudo Christianity. TO this end
even the elements seem to have entered o
decided protest against the further desecra-
ton of the cause of the pure and undefled
religion of the Great Master, when yester-
day the clouds gathered and drizzling rain
ensusd which continued through the day and
efectually squelched tie fictitious fervor of
the half hundred professed Christians still
holding out there.
The farce, it is undeniable, bears every
prospect of being "played'-on its last legs,
so to speak, The arrivals yesterday, ali
told were less than fifty and most of these
returned in the evening, having in their
brief sojourn drank at the Gilmore fountain
Of soul-selling salvation at twenty-five cents
a head more than their stomachs, unused to
the nauseous compound, could safely bear.
DEACON GILMORE EXPLAINS.
Yesterday was decidedly the thinnest day
cerned. At no time were there moro than
one hundred or one hundred and twenty five
persons on the grounds, including all classes.
The usual morning exercises were gone
through with as per programme, but when
tie IL O'Clock lecture was reached, the truly
good Deacon Gilmore called fer song out
of that favorite song book of his-cheap for
cash at 25 cents. When this had been done
the deacon felt refreshed and braced for a
speech. He felt it was his duty to make an
apology. His conscience, infnitesimal though
it be, smote him under the goading prod of
the GLOBE, and loudly demanded retrac-
ton. 10 be more specific, it will be remem-
bered that on the second day of the assembly
narrow minded Boston fanatic named
Townsend took occasion, in the course of
lecture, to retail stale Republican lies about
the disloyalty and reasonable malignancy
of the Southern people-he we'll knowing at
the time that among his auditors were several
distinguished Southerners who in the late
war had served in the Southern army. The
object of the remarks was pable-nothiug
less than an Intentional insult, which,
however, passed over without being no.
ticed. The GLOBE at tho time expressed
its opinion freely about the matter and need
not recapitulate it here. At this late date the
good deacon has come to a realizing sense of
the ill advised and indefensible course of
low nsend, and has also discovered bylaw
of the asso citation which prohibits all "polit-
ical and sectarian contro versies." He then
proceeded to make one of his usual rambling
and disconnected speeches on the subject,
and wound up by reading, as the expression
of the views of the association, the follow
in G, which he said he had reduced to writing
that there might be no Misrepresentation or
misunderstanding of what he said:
The Minnetonka Lake Park association,
ut the time of its organization, adopted tho
following bylaw in reference to the assem-
bly,, article 10, section II:
"All the exercises of the assembly, and so
far as, under the direction of the board or
any of Its officers, all exercises on the
grounds shall be conducted on a broad,
Catholic, unsectarian basis, and all political
and all sectarian controversies shall be
avoided"
Without in any manner intimating what
may or may not be the sentiments of the
association in regard to views dis
tasteful to visitors from some
sections of our common country
expressed by lecturers, who came prepared
with lectures more suited to different lati-
tude and different condition of things than
those which surround us; without express
ing any rebuke, the president, speaking for
the association and rejecting the view ex-
pressed in the bylaw quoted, regrets that
sentiments distasteful to large and much
respected portion of our visitors, should
have found their way into some of the lee
lures delivered at this assembly.
While the association would leave the lec-
turers so untrammeled as to afford everyone
the largest individuality in the expression,
we wish to make known our desire that the
letter and the spirit of this by law quoted
shall in furtherance of fraternity be rigidly
adhered to-
All this is very we'll, but when it is taken
into consideration that Gilmore himself was
the first to applaud when Townsend made an
Objectionable remark, his disclaimer of
yesterday can be estimated at it's true value.
The GLOBE charged at the time and now
charges that when Townsend made his
most Objectionable remarks Gilmore
was the first man in all the audience to ap-
plaud. He was seen by numbers who are
willing to testify that he clapped his hands
and was one of the most demonstrative to
testify his appreciation of the reverend bigot's
unnecessary and unseemly illusions. He
now processes to regret that such sentiments
were uttered, and says the spirit Of the by
law shall be rigidly enforced, Sin furtherance
OF fraternity" But is he sincere If the
good deacon has experienced change of
heart, it is unquestionably through the min
istrations of the GLOBE, which has done and
will do its best-its whole duty-in evange-
lizing and retaining his obdurate heart.
But knowing as much of the ex president of
the Clear Lake association as does the GLOBE,
it has little confidence in his professions of
regret, aud very mnch fears that not sense
of the utter improperly and bad taste of
Townsend, but a well-grounded fear of dam
age to the association and his standing
therein was the moving cause of the fore
going disclaimer. He certainly, for such a
protested Christian. showed no sign of any
longing for 'fraternity,'' and apart from
zsetting bad example to others, willfully
violated rule Of his own association, of
which he must have been cognizant. But
the GLOBE has already made manifest to the