Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-04


would create only temporary vacuum.
Mr. Scheffer, continuing his argument in
refutation of the radical charge that the
business interests of tho country would be
endangered by the election of Hancock,
mentioned long list of names of bankers
general business men, ETC., who were labor
ing by their voices and purses for the elec-
ton of Gen. Hancock, mentioning
among the st. Paul men,
known to all the people of
the State, p. Fl. Kelly, Bruno Beaupre, VIM.
Lee, j. j. Hill, w. Kittson, my partner, VIM
Dawson, your nominee for Congress, Gen
ID. 81. Siblsy, al of whom are worths dolla,
or two.
Mr. Schaffer then briefly referred to the
bete nOSre of the radical party, the bloody
shirt, citing as an instance of its falsity, and
of the honesty of the claim of the represen-
taslve men OF the South that their people
accepted the results of the war
IN good faith, the reports
of Gen. Grant, who, at the request of Presi.
dent Johnson, in 1S75,visited Louisian anda
other Southern States, in which, with on
earnestness and truthfulness that did credit
to his head and heart, he stated it as his de-
liberate opinion, formed from personal in
teroourse with the people of that section,
that they accepted IN its fullest sense all the
results OF the war, and were only anxious to
heal up the wounds caused thereby,
build up their waste PLACES, and
strengthen in every possible way the
bonds of the Union, doubly cemented as ii
had been by the blood and treasure Of the
people, in two wars, that would stand through
all time as the most memorable in the
worlds history.
Passing from this point Mr.. Seheffer
briefly alluded to Gen. Garfeld's military
record, during which he aptly introduced the
now somewhat celebrated sentiment of Gen.
Hayes, that soldier in the field in front of
an enemy who would turn his back upon his
comrades to accept political preferment
ought to be scalped.
Mr.. Schefer closed his speech, which oo-
cupied an hour and thirty minutes in 6eliv-
cry, with an earnest appeal to his hearers to
work earnestly and untiringly for the sue
cess of the Democratic national ticket, and
especially for the election of Gen. Sibley, the
Democratic nominee for Congress from this
district. Gen. Sibley, he said, was an honest,
upright, cultivated gentleman. 1t could be
truthfully said TO him, sans Deur ct sans
Tepr0che. His life has been an open book
of many leaves, not one clouded with o
stain. You cannot honor him by eleciing
him. You simply by 80 doing honor your
selves and the Office. And he should be
elected by good majority, and will be, if
his friends throughout the district bat half
do their duty. He said it was idle to think
the nominal Republican, majority in
the district could not be
overcome when such an insig-
niicant individual as himself had carried it.
His maj jori.y in the district when he ran for
treasurer against Col. Pfaender was 1881 to
which Washington county contributed 237.
AT the same time, his own county, Ramsey,
gave him 3,781 majority. He wanted to
give notice that Ramsey county proposed to
do still better than that for Gen. Sbley, and
If Washington county would follow in
Ramsey's footsteps there would be
no doubt of Gen. Sibley's election.
Mr.. Scheffers's remarks were frequently
interrupted by applause, and especially the
closing sentence, in which he promised the
audience another address before the ehd of
the campaign.
HON. JAMES SMITH, JR.
The band then gave another selection, at
the end OF which Hon. j. N. Castle, vice
president of the club. introduced Hon.
James Smith, Jr., of st. Paul, gen.
tleman, he said, whom he
met when he first landed in
Saltwater eighteen years ago. end had known
intimately ever since, as Il friend and advo-
cate of the best interests of the people.
Mr.. Smiths appearance was the signal for
a most enthusiastic demonstration Of ap-
plause, at the end Of which he said that ow-
ing to the lateness of the hour he would at
tempt no speech, but would in as few words
as possible give some of the
reasons which had induced
him to leave the Republican party-a party
which he had helped to organize in Ohio.
He then reviewed in O cursory manner the
history of the Republican party, down to
Gen. Grants administration, during which
the avalanche of scandals connected with it
through the scaIawags of the party getting
control, drove Sumner, Chase, Greeley and
other gaeat lights of the party, to seek po-
litical association with the Democratic party
Passing from this Mr.. Smith took up and
ridiouled the claims of the Republican party
that they put down the rebellion, instano
ing as proof of the falsity Of the claim sta
| tistics showing the prepondence of enlist
ments in Democratic localities, and the
fact that most of the great leaders of our
armies, Meade, Thomas, Hooker, Mcclellan,
Hancock, etc., were Democrats. Mr.. Smith
then passed to the radical bugaboo of the
solid South, and the payment of
rebel debts. The constitution, he said, pro-
hibited the payment of those debts. To So
cure their payment the National Congress
would have to pass a constitutional
amendment, which could only be done by a
vote of two-thirds of both branches. Then,
to make the amendment operative, it would
have to be adopted by three-f -fourths of the
| SfQfa nd ha
said, laying aside all consideration of the
South, suppose that three -fourths of the
States of the North would vote to pay the
rebel debt when we of Minnesota have re-
fused for years, and still refuse, to pay our
honest debts?
Passing from national to local politics, Mr..
Smith asked what had Mr.. Washburn done
during his incumbency of the
office of Congressman from the
Third district TO entitle him to reelection? !?
His sole aim, so far as shown by the record
had been to shield and save from the punish
ment they deserved the timber thieves of his
district. To do this he had secured the pas
sage of law giving those thieves the
privilege of settling with the government
by the purchase of the lands they had
despoiled, at one dollar and twenty-five
cents an acre. This in itself appeared
an innocent measure, but coupled with
it Mr.. Wahsburn had been prominently
connected with scheme for the improve
ment of the navigation of the upper Missis-
sippi above the falls of st. Anthony-where
nothing but logs had ever navigated OF ever
will. This grand improvement scheme con-
templated system of reservoirs, by which,
according to the government engineers
statement, 500, 600 acres of land would be
flooded. The system adopted, a commits
sion would be necessary to fix the damages
to private property and Washburn would
see that his pals in the thefts, Loren
Fletcher. Charley johnson, and others of
like ilk, will be given the appointment, by
whom these lands, from which they had