Daily globe., 1883-11-04
THE nEpueL1oAN MEETING.

Col, Hicks Pounds the Prohibitienists and
Feods Them upon Puny Arguments for
Toting ron Lyziayd--"Yos Can't Elect
Your Nan, so To.e for Omrs"--Sendter
Mc1fstlen on the "Gran6 Old Party"-
The State Unirersitg a Republican Isssti-
tsstSon-- The State Refa-ln School the Pride
efthe LeQuaetouS Senator.
| The Republicans held mass meeting in
Market hall last evening. Sidwell's brass
band was called into reauisition to instill
semblancs of old time enthusiasm into
the faint hearts of the hired strikers who
we're to make their stereotypediefor at
| stump speech harrangue as of yore. They
we're depressed in spirits. Particularly on
| account of the fzzle at Peterson's hall, a
| week Friday, when the Hubbard demon
stration had been spontaneously con-
Yerted into the most enthusiastic
B1KRMANN MEETING.
It was without exception, all in all, the
'thinest" rally ever held in the city.
There was much more interest taken in
reading the following circ ular, which was
handed, together with Il campaign paper,
to every man in the hall:
THE ISSUE Is HOME AGAINST THE DRAMsnop.
The Republican and Democratic tickets rep
resent the license system and the continuance
| of the dramshop. The prohibition ticket rep
| resents the home, the wife, the child. Where
will you be counted Tuesday? The division Is
| fairly made, man votes so is he. The
Republican ticket represents the
men who defeated Hon. VIM.
Window, because he defeated the whisky ring
They ask us to endorse their candidates, but
| we remember that whsn we did these candi-
dates declined with sneers. We've done with
| endorsing! viii you vote for the license poll
cy which has given this city ECO dramshops?
This is the policy of the old parties, down With
| 1t! Homes and school houses to the front. Sa-
looqs, brothels, and gambling dens to oblivion.
Cast your ballot for God and home and native
| land.
| Here followed the entire ticket:
j. A. Wolverton called the meeting
to order. His tones were of the most dole
full character imaginable and sounded like
voice from tho tomb. He announced
that KnUty Nelson, the Norwegian hire
ling, would speak on Monday night, and
| then introduced the valiant Col. Il. G..
Hicks.
Mr.. Hicks is not one easily discouraged.
and it weuld be humiliating were ha not
!
zens" with bravery. He treated first what
the Republicans claim to be an apathy
among their ranks. He rehearsed war
matters as a matter of course. He never
loses an opportunity to do that.
He mentioned the candidacy OF David
A. Lydiard. He is fighting three cor
nered fire.
There is a party which is fighting the
| liquor question. I sometimes think they
are party CT ons idea. If there ID man
who belongs in those ranks ii is his duty
to vote for Lydiard" The speaker urged
this Upon the audience in view of the
| fact that Lydisrd is a temperance man.
That is, the Prohibitionists would be
treacherozs to their principles if they voted
the prohibition ticket and not vote the Re
| publican ticket. Pseudo argument. The
colonel grew so DRAMATIC AT TIMES as par
| ticuiar climaxes were reached that the
very hair of his listeners stood erect like
! quill5 on the back Of porcupine. But
| they survived. For the reason that the
| prohibitionists could not eject Mr. Dur
nam to the Office of treas
urer, he again argued was
good and sufficient reason for voting for
| Lydiard. His whole address was, in fact,
to the Prohibitionists. and in the course Of
| his speech he sllsged that the Democratic
candidate for treasurer, Hon. Matthew
Walsh, "drank his grog whenever he
liked" and therefore should not.,be elected.
There was painful absence of enthusi-
ssm. The people would not
be epthused by such arguments, especially
as the speaker addressed only prohibibi-
tionists and prohib1tionists unGoubtedly
felt more, by far, like greeting him with
hisses rather than salutinG his ears with
cheers or even this faintest applause.
SENATOR MCMILLAN
next stepped timtdiy TO tie
front. He began, as did
Col. Hicks, by making nu attack
in heroic manner upon cid Gen. pathy,
He wished his hearers 10 remember that
they were called upon to eieot 2 whole
| state administration, and that it ia Of vital
| Importance that everybody exercised his
franchise. Strange 10 ssy he seemed free
to acknowledge that all the intelligent
! portion Of his audience understood the
history of the two parties IL Minnesota
Nevertheless he straighteDed himself Il o
to his manly height aud recited the sans.
! Every thing accom- plishsd in the stale was
owing to the policy of the Republicaa
party. The university OF tue state of Min
nesota (Which has cost the state over
| $2,000,000, and which Is, nevertheless. nov
a bankrupt institntion) ia an
institution of The Republican
administration. The schools, the
normal schools, insane hospital, re-
| form school and RIl charitable institutions
ne said, reflects unboundsd credit upeu the
Republicans.
he FELT PROUD
of the reform school. He alleged that it
Was grand Republican institution. It
made his heart beat with pride and with
Joy when he thought of the bright young
men educated at this reform school and
sent out to the world yoang gentlemen Our
states prison receives them sooner or later
| rs the records will shoE.-Ed. He de-
clsred that the state is unblemished by q
single stain, as the result of continued
republican administration. He spoke of
the thrift and prosperity Of Minnesota
farmers and claimed all that prosperity
for the republican party, as though the
natural agricultural resources of the state.
sunshine and ram had not the slightest to