Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-13

congress 10 get q contract OF 3O,OOO,OOO
or $4O,OOO,000 for the paltry sum of $1,-
100000. He challenged Washburn to dare
to contradict the statements. He would
meet him at any time to discuss, and salts
fy the voters of the congressional district
before November z. He explained to the
audience that Ignatius Donnelly had writ
ten him he should go into the field
and eniighten the voters upon
Washburn's career in Washington
the two last weeks in the campaign, but
was now busy upon a book about to
be published, Donnelly would speak in
Minneapolis. DR.. Ames closed amid en-
thusiastic applause. The band played
selection, at the conclusion of which
hon. EUGENE NJ. WILSON
delivered one of his characteristic speeches.
replete with good sense and humor. He
spoke of the foolish explanations made by
Republicans Of their defeats upon all oc-
caslons. At one time it was prohibition.
at another whisky, and SO on. The Repub-
llcan party is now in the throes of disso-
luton because the honest members of
the party are deserting it
with disgust. They cannot
reform it, for reformation will throttle it,
It has been built up and maintained upon
the spoils system, and by that corrupt sys-
tenn and that alone can it survive. He
spoke of the allegation of the Journal, that
the Republican party had naturally alien
ated aesthetic people. It is the fact, that
people demand purity in politics; that
revolution was surely working its way to
success in New York. He spoke of HUB
bell. who was more jealous than prudent,
who had let the cat out of the bag by writ
ing threatening letters. The people don't
want an election bought, and the result is
the people are told by the machine men
OF the party ''we don't want you" AS
the speaker mentioned the name of DR..
Ames, it elected applause and cheers. He
he spoke of the letter OF declination writ
ten by Washburn in answer to DR.. Ames'
challenge. The only and rational reason
for the declaration was inadvertently ment-
Toned In that letter, in the words: 81 can
not interest an audience upon the issues"
The speaker said he was not before the
people to tell them that DR.. Ames did go
to war and Washburn, brave soldier gem
eral that he was, staid at home. The
speaker wanted to know what
was the record Washburn boasts. Was it
that which Mr.. Kelly referred to, where
American citizens were languishing un-
tried in British dungeons? The speaker
considered the tariff question the great
dividing line between the two parties. He
then mentioned many of the evils of tho
present tariff system. Washburn claims
it is to protect the laboring class by max
ing everything they eat, drink and wear
cost more. That's the record Washburn
boasts. Mr.. Wilson continued at length
upon the tariff question, and his remarks
were greeted with applause. He said the
congressional campaign opened with
that meeting. The issue is,
can poor man go to
congress? We want to know in this Fourth
congressionional distrect whether man
can go to congress upon his merits or upon
his dollars. We know how Washburn has
been elected before, and we have every
reason to believe, ,he will spend more money
than in any past campaign. The speaker
then for a moment divested Washburn of
wealth, and as poor man devoid of abili-
ty, talent or principle pictured him graph
ically to the audience. The Demo crat is
neither prohibition nor whisky party,
but believes in the free and full rights of
all citizens.
COL. GLENN.
being loudly called for, re-
sponded IN happy address
He stated that he was engaged in erecting
an electric light mast on Bridge square.
During the afternoon as, he was working
there, eight prominent Republicans called
upon him and requested him to attend
the demonstration and do all he could to
advance the cause of DR.. Ames, ''for," said
they, 'we have no more use for Washburn
in congress than the farmer has for fifth
wheel on his wagon since we have heard
from Ohio" (Cheers.) The Congressional
Globe few months ago published a certain
letter upon Chinese emigration which was
never read in congress. Oond and pro-
longed cheers.) The speaker received one
~ WIZ NeOOeO NOAooAAAAS peculiar pdlu
for epistle. He read it and wondered how
man could change so completely in two
short years. To illustrate he spoke of a
little episode which had occurred in Anoka
two years before the advent of the never
delivered Chinese speech, when this man
who expressed (on paper) such solicitude
for laborers on the Pacific slope, but did
his utmost to starve his employees in Anoka.
Washburn pays for articles printed in the
Minneapolis and other papers which
speak of the wonderful bills which
Washburn had secured the passage of, but
carefully avoid speaking specifically. The
speaker had, while Washburn was in con-
gress, written him three times to do some
thing in the interests of large number of
poor laborers who had worked upon a gov
ernment contract at Fort Smelling, and had
been swindled out of their earnings, but
Washburn ignored them. For this are the
laboring men of this district indebted to
this selfish aristoorat, whose time was 80
taken up in looking up lands for himself
to prevent his righting the wrongs of these
poor laboring men who had been swindled
out of their money. The papers