Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-27
THE FRENCH MEETING.
Closing Up 10Th a BtGse Of GFory-Figures
that Don't Figure IN that Matter.

ular opinions and beliefs, be they Republican.
Democratic, Prohibition or Gresnback.
At eight O'Clock the meeting was called to
order by 2. Demeules. 4. Pelletier was called
the meeting for the honors conferred, he called
upon
A. sRoUMLARD,
of Wisconsin, to make an address. He
spoke exclusively in French. Upon tax
ing the platform, he appologized for
not being an orator-which his hearers. yery
soon concluded was meet. He briefly present.
ed his views of the present campaign advocat-
Ing the interests of Garfield and Arthur but
utterly failed to elicit the slightest enthusiasm
from his audience. However. in ustice to
the gentleman, it is well to say. he acquitted
himself very acceptably considering the cause
he espouses.
He was followed by more elaborate speech
by
HON. a. DEMEULEs,
Of this city. he chided his countrymen upon
their lock of affective and united organization
such as has been manifested by other nation
alities. He then gave comprehensive histor-
ical review of the Republican party since its
organization in 1S56-dwelling upon its great
achievements in abolishing slavery, securing
the present prosperity of our finance syatem,
and labored very heavily to show that change
in the administration would
be absolutely fatal to the
business interests and financial prosperity of
their adopted country. He then took his
hearers through. step by step, the early life of
Garfield, telling bow at the age of eighteen he
contracted and cut 100 cords of wood ;at the age
of twenty drove draft team, and other means
of securing livelihood. He rose, for ability
and gallantry, to generalship in the great re-
bellion. From this point in his history he took
him into the Oongression halls-all to show he
IL -
man" and otherwise spreading on an immense
amount of "taffy." He wanted them to com
pare Garfield with Gen. Hancock, who he &C.
corded great and brave soldier and general,
but" said he, Hancock had a father who
helped him to his final popularity and achieve
%ents." (Who ever heard Of this before p
He closed by acknowledging that
he had himself, in the interest
of his French friends (?) made an application
for position in our postoffics department, but
had been totally ignored. This he claimed
was wholly owing to the fact of his countrymen
not being organized-that their power and in
iuence was not felt by the Republican ring
leaders. He also said few words upon the
much mooted tariff question-with the worn
out hue and cry our readers have had retailed
to them SO many times, it would be waste of
time and space to reiterate. He said the Be
publican candidate for Congress,
GEN. SHELLEY,
had been pioneer resident of this State snd
had amassed an immense fortuue-not q cent
of which had been invested in industrial pur-
suits whereby the workingmen could receive
any benefit from it, but had put it in banks
and bonds, while on the other hand the Repub-
lican candidate, Gen. Washburn, had
invested his means in manu-
featuring interests, in the con-
struction and running of large mills and en-
ployed hundreds of laborers, and hence was
the poor mans friend. He paid particular
attention to the fact that it was the duty all
legal voters owed themselves and their families
to protect their interests to support him
whether Republicans or Democrats. he claim.
ed the right to break party lines aud vote for
any candidate if they considered him more to
their personal interests. He wanted them to
pay particular attention to the sayings of the
public press (Republican of couree) to keep
posted on the prominent issues of the day.
MONS. pELLETIER
was the next to speak. He thought it best to
vote on the side where the ''bread and butter,
comes from. He also reviewed the deplorabIe
lock of American French organizations, refer
ring in point to an instance of certain county
official of Hennepin. (Dr. Pinault, late county
physlcian,) who had been ignominiously dis
missed, on account of the lack of organic
power. He said he had been twenty years
voting with the minority, but if his country
men were all Republicans. they would COM
mand more influence and patronage-that lie,
their power would be felt and acknowledged.
After close scrutiny of his hearers, he dis
covered a strange face among the Frenchmen
in his audience. Who was he? Some one
came to his rescue by announcing chat it was
none less than
MONS. vILLIAUME d. vACHEBURNNE,
(surnamed VIM. D. Washburn.) His physique
at once strangely marked wonderful resem-
bance to the ancient Adglo-Saxon race. Mr..
q. Demeules very politely called upon this
noted imperial foreigner, who quickly
took a position in front Of
the audience, but mode.tly refused to
60 among the orators of the evening on the plat
form. He began with the customary broken
English and vivacious gesticulations of the
1aetcty AnaericGnized Freedman. He had not,
Qike Shakespeare's hero) come here to make o
speech. But strange,-yea, passing strange
to say, he instantly launched off in lengthy
and wearisome (his hearers thought sol adj
dress, reviewing the old long since exhausted
and worn out Issues of the late rebellion. He
branched off from this, with gusto and
emphasis, to the great and wonderful home
stead act. The lands had been protected from
land. sharks and spectators. (How long since?)
by the great and noble Republican Lawmakers
and legislators. He reviewed the ten COM
mittees Of the House of Representatives-the
important committees-the chairmen of which
were rebels. This is one of the offshoots
of the solid South. he labored
hard to convince his Frenchmen of the
Importance, yes vital Importance, of their vot-
ing with unit the Republican ticket Che be-
ing one of the candidates, of course). In fact,
he labored so hard and under such manifest
difficulty, that the gentlemen who were perse-
cuted for such an unreasonably lengthy, and
what all esteemed a thoroughly disgusting
harangue, that when he finally shut off steam
and returned to his seat, the audience evident
ly breathed freer and were glad it was over.
THE GLOBE MAN
was loudly called for-he being in the hall
taking notes-made short address, comparing
the merits and dement's of the opposing can
didates personally and the particular factions
they represent, mnch to the gratifi cation of
the numerous Democratic friends and coun-
trymen the misrepresentation of the Pioneer
Press to the contrary, notwithstanding.
DE-. PINAULT, OF ossEo,
was the next to take the rostrum, and cham
pion the cause of honest Democracy Just in |
augurated by the last speaker. He said while |
possibly there was not SO much material diff |
ference between the principal issues of the two |
great parties of the, fconntrysbut he conclu- |
sively showed a vast and marked difference
between the two Congressional candidates The |
emphatic demonstrations and repeated an |
plause of the audience showed that the pearls |
dropped from his lips were not without their