Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-06
A RING[NG SPEECH.
Hon. Ignatias Dennelly at Market Hall
Saturday Night.
REVIEW eF THE CAMPAIGN.
And Telling Points Against the Arch
Corraptionist w. d. Washburn'
EXTRACTS OF CONGRESS RECORD.
Showing Sworn Evidence That Wash
burn is q Bribe-Giyer.

[Stess,gra;,hic Report for st. Paul Glohe.l
Fellow Citizens: an, glad to SEQ that
You recognize merit. Men thst will rec
.ognize true merit the way you do
deserve to be able to bsild up a great city.
They have a saying i'm Europe
that every good american hopes to
90 to Paris when he dies,
4 Laughter Nearlg every good Minneso-
tian lives1a the hope that me vial be able
to go and live in st. Paul before he dies,
and participate in that hope and that
sentiment [Applause. I 'can never forget,
my friends, the cordial, tie honest and gen.
.erous seaport have akweys received at
the hands of tine people of ST. Path Ap7
pIause.2 Gentlensan, the pioneers thatlaid
the Foundation Of this city. some of whom
are here OF this platform. were
men indeed of exemplary charae-i
ters ard they gave the:
tincs of their characteristics to this new
city which has grown p&aere and they
made it the most liberal and the most cos
mopolitan CITY on the contineat ap-
.plausel, xndl hope some day. when y
make moahey enough Out of ny books
great applause to cone and build s
shanty here somewhere and live among
you applause and leave my bones among
YOU. And that, by the .way, reminds me of
the story of Scotch girl; smart, pretty
girl that had been eourted for about ten
years by q poor innocent
minded and very nodes and bashful fell
low, and despite all her encoEragements
his ti1niaity was SO great she could never
get him up to the popping point. Laugh
ter. He came .ez,e might, and after sit
ting for some time in profound silence, he
says. 'Mary, I have been thinking Well,
says she, 1;Joha," in an encouraging way,
sswhat have you been thinking about?" Il
have been thinking, Mary" seid he, ''of
buying lat" "0h," says
she, with greet encouragement, thinking
at last John was coming to the point.
ssYes, have been thinking of buying lot
in the cemetery" lin the cemetery! what
for?" ''That We may lay our bones to-
gether when we de- Said she: John,
don't you think we had better lay our
bones together before we die?" Great
laughter.
Now, my friends, have
NO PERSONAL INTEREST
in this contest. am not candidate for
any Office. / never expect to be. do not
live in this district. Ke0 can never
vote for me. think I hear
low hollow moan 60 up. Laughter.
Cold anguish at that announcement. Let
me tell you little story, my friends, of a
case that was on trial ic one of our
counties where the parties were aHfarmers,
and the witnesses we're all farmers and
farmers boys, and the case was protracted
to several days, and they had a farmers
boy On the stand, and the lawyer to get some
points out of him cross-questioned and
cross-questioned him until he was COM
pletely exhausted. Late IL the after
noon of the third day the lawyers
said to him-(he was Gaping terribly
the lawyer says to him, what were they
doing then?'' He said ''they was making
hay" "Where was thise" says the lawyer.
I'm the blacksmith shop" Laughter.
s'What time of the year was this ?" says the
lawyer. "About Christmas time" Laugh
ter. ''Whyr' says the lawyer. "what on
earth a-e you talking about. making hay
in blacksmith shop, and at Christmas
timer" SWELL" says he, sinister I amt
got no interest in this case. any how"
IGreat laughter
Now, had intended, my
friends. to permanently retire
from politics and public life.
did not suppose you would ever hear my
musical voice again. Laughter. made
up my mind to devote myself to literature.
wanted to study back to some period of
the earth's history anterior to the time
when the Washburn family began to run
for office; Great laughter. and the result
was, my friends, wrote book that dated
back before the deluge. Continued laugh
ter Well, I have written another book.
which Will shortly appear, the object of
which is to demonstrate that long ages ago
this earth of ours was struck by a
comets tail Laughter. and I would
say to you, confdentially, my friends. that
on Tuesday next Bill Washburn will con-
clude that that
COMET HAS COME BACK
again and hit the world another whack.
[Great laughter.
Now, I have, as say, no interest In this
struggle, but my old, long honored and
esteemed friend, DR.. Ames, loud cheering
came down to me at my home and asked
me as favor to come out and make some
speeches in this canvass. had
known DR.. Ames from his boy
hood. Twenty-Five years ago published
newspaper in Dakota county and this
Mr.. Ames was then printers devil in the
establishment And there is good deal
of the devil in him yet. [Great laughter.
What shall say to you tonight (Gen.
Bragg has ably and most lucidly covered
all the great issues of our national politics
and it would be superauous work to follow
him upon that tack.) What 1 shall say
to you tonight shall be 1Aore in the ma
ture of details and criticism
of Mr.. Nushburn's acts.
and some reasons why he should not have
your support, and hope you will hear.
Without trespassing upon the province of