Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-24
AMES CLUB NO. 4.
ANOTHER CLUB ORGANISED 4TTURN.
ER'S HALL, EAST MINNEAPOLIS.
Stirring Speeches by DR.. Ames, Col. Glenn,
Knock Down Delivered by Ed A. Stevens


semb!ed in the East Side Turner's hall last
evening to participate in the formation OF
an East Minneapolis Ames club. Brooks
band contributed some music after which
the club was duly organized and the fol-
lowing officers elected:
NV. Glenn, president; Patrick Lee, Mat.
= Bredemas, l.. G. Salisbury, John L. Lee
and John Josephs, vice presidents; Scion
Armstrong, secretary, and John Orth, treas
urer.
Col. NJ. W. Glenn. the president Of the club
was the first speaker, and delivered one OF
his usual red hot Democratic addresses.
closing by promising to speak again at a
grand jolliication to be held on Novem-
Der S.
In response to loud calls Mr.. D. B. John
son stepped out on the stage and was in
troduced by Col. Glenn as ''our candidate
for representative"
Mr.. Johnson began by speaking Of the
obligation meeting which was held the
day after the last election and predicted a
much grander jubilee on the evening
of the Sth of November, and continued.
''Dr. Ames is not only the candidate of
the Democratic party, but he is the cand1-
date of all laboring men and fair minded
men in this district. DIR. Ames is man of
the people, and Washburn is not. DR..
Ames has gone time and again to visit
sick people from whom ne did not expect
to receive one cent of pay, and it was
just as much of q loss to him as
Mr.. Washburn's charities are to him.
and one thing is worthy Of note, and that
is this, DR.. Ames' charities we're not per-
formed just before election in order that
the daily papers could get hold Of them and
publish and enlarge upon them, but every
man III this district knows that no poor
man has ever asked a favor of DIR. Ames
and been refused
Mr.. Johnson reviewed the administra-
ton of ex-Presidents Hayes and Garfield,
touching on the question of
civil service reform and the Hubbell tax
Oh ofice-hoiders and said:
''And Mr.. Washburn is member of this
committee that sustains Itself by robbing
the less fortunate officials, and this thing
is so disgraceful that even the newspapers
cannot countenance it, He then read
several extracts from various Republican
papers. dlSO LiS SloCCl Vi CA-OONerIlOf
Yale, recently delivered at Winona cs pub
llshed III the GLOBE of yesterday, and
strongly denounced the sentiments con-
tanned therein.
ED. A. STEVENS
was then introduced and stated that he had
prepared speech-a good speech-a red
hot speech-but it was written one and
H.
the statesmanlike language of Mr.. Wash
burn and many other congressman for
''leave to print his remarks in the GLOBE"
inasmuch as he had sore throat, land as DR..
Ames and number of others were present
and prepared to talk. Leave was granted,
whereupon Mr.. Stevens presented
the GLOBE reporter with
the following graphic and
startling expose of how Mr.. Washburn
has deceived and defrauded the people of
Minneapolis during his connection with its
pet railroad an expose which will cause
rafting among the dry bones of the oppo-
sition. Read and wonder how such man
as Washburn can Try claim to being a rep
resentatve.
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen Il do not
believe that in politics, any more than in
anything else, it is paying investment to
deal in falsehood. Campaign lies, like
Others, generally return to plague the in
ventor. Nor do believe that even the
truth should at all times be spoken, for
frequently silence is better. But where a
man is a candidate for Office his record, so
far as it affects the public, becomes public
property, and at such time I believe it
well to stand on the old dinner-pail plat
form of ''Tell the truth-no matter who
it hits -
w. D. Washburn is again candidate for
congress, and makes special point of his
alleged loyalty to Minneapolis and her
people. His record-such as it isis a
public target, and for one I propose to
aim at the BULBS eye every time. If
say that w. D. Washburn has proved false
to the interests of Minneapolis, that he has
again and again violated his plighted faith.
that he has sold out not only railroad,
but our city and his own brother, I state
what will be nothing new to many and
what will prove conclusively before I get
through.
At the meeting of the North Minneapolis
Ames club last Friday evening, stated
that Charlie johnson (whO is a far ADLER
general than Washburn) had become
alarmed because of the exposures being
made by DR.. Ames. ans, especially in re-
gard to the claim that Washburn had sold
Minneapolis and the Minneapolis & St.
Louis railroad, at one and the same time:
that becoming alarmed he had written up
an interview, submitted it to Washburn
for approval, which interview would ap-
pear in the papers in day or two. The
next days Erening Journal contained the
interview, the introduction to which lying
ly asserted that a reporter of that paper
was sent for it, in which interview Wash
burn takes the ground that instead of sell
ing out to the Rock Island railroad he
bought that great corporation, but he
didn't explain how it happened that he re-
ceived over a million and a quarter of
dollars for the privilege of buying it.
Inasmuch as the interview is so worded
as to purposely mislead, I have devoted
a day or two to looking up the
facts and have got them.
''Facts are stubborn things" and I chal-
enge Mr.. Washburn, or any friend of his,
deny any statement shall make. and
announce publicly that if challenged I am
authorized to bring witnesses upon the
stand whose presence would make the pine