St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-27
sIecial Reports from the GLoBE Mankato oflic
October pa
W1I. WINDOW sTUMPING.
Brief Outline IF the Spcpch-TTe IrisItDlen
OJ Blue Earth County triH Vote Demo-
cratic

MAYKATo, Oct. 25.-The Hon. VIM. Win
dom spoke at the Opera house in this city
last evening, and as the Southern Mime
sofa department of the GLOBE appears to be
rather non-political institution, 1 would
ike as an Independent citizen and a Demo
crat to make few comments upon it. In
the first place, the report of the torchlight
procession given in the GLOBE was literally
correct There were $50 torches in line, in
Guiding those carried by small boys who
lighted the Germania and Cadet bands.
There were, as stated, eighty-two men and
flty-one boys (minors) in the procession
proper, the larger part of the latter being
from the Normal school, who carried trans
parency with Normal school upon it. Right
here 1 want to state that Presi-
dent Soaring told the scholars that
he heartily approved of their
joining the procession and hoped that they
would all turn out and attend the meeting
Our educational in situations have heretofore
been regarded as non-partisian politically
speaking, but if our second Normal school is
to be made nursery of Republicsnism those
OF Us who desire our boys to have fair edu-
cation and an opportunity to form their poll
teal opinions unpartially had better send
them elsewhere. The second Normal school will
come before our state legislature this winter
for an appropriation of $40, 900. If granted
this money must come from Democrats as
well as Republicans, and it is quite time that
this species OF political instruction was
eliminated from an institution supported by
common public. Another feature of the
procession was the fact that while there
is a very large Irish ele-
ment in this city and vicinity
just one solitary Irish citizen who was old
enough to vote was observed in line.
No one need think for a moment that the
Irish Of Blue Earth City, are ready to vote
the Republican ticket yet awhile. Another
feature worthy of note was the frequent
cheers for Cleveland along the route of the
procession, even the small boys upon the
street joining in the cry. A bystander re-
marked that the procession was aptiy illus
trative of from the cradle to the grave"
but l forbear further comment upon the
pow WOW and come to the speech of Mr.
Window.
At the outset he alluded to the recent
speech of Blaine at Rochester, n. Y, and
said that he summed up his political platform
in these four brief sentences:
peace with all nations, re-establishment
of our commerce upon the seas, encourage
ment to all OF our industries, and protection
to American citizens, free born and adopted
at home and abroad.' These four heads he
proceeded to make the subject of his speech.
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and did not enter into much comment upon
it. Second, re-establishment Of commerce,
he dwelt bat briefly upon, but tried to show
that the destruction of our American shipping
was mainly due to the English cruisers dur
ing the war and the introduction of iron
SHIPS by the British, and also that
since 1897 England had sub
sidized her merchant marine
in one manner or another to the enormous
amount of $3.50, 600, 900, and were at present
doing so at the rate of SO, 600, 900 a year He
did not state that for nearly twenty years
since the war a continuous Republican adj
ministration had never raised It's finger
towards the establishment of our saugh-
tered merchant marine except to inaugurate
one grant that which another William, after
ward a congressman, and at that time his
most intimate personal and political friend,
and who maintained a joint domestic estab-
/ lshment with him in Washington, went
! little later, over into Canada to avoid con-
gressional investigation about il. He very
wisely forbore TO make any illusion 10 Spa
! ciic Mail Subsidy nor did he say when or
how Blaine and the Republican party were
| to re-establish American commerce on the
high seas. 1t was evidently too great a
conundrum and he judiciOusly gave it up
without trying to solve it. He
only remarked that we could
not compete with England in
| ship-building if the tariff were removed with
without calling attention TO the fact that we
were not building any Nth the aid of the
tariff.
Mr.. Window then brauched off onto the
tariff question which he devoted nineteen
tweutieths Of his time to. He admitted on
the start that the Democratic party was not
free trade party but tariff FOR reUeaue only
party, about the only solid chunk of truth
to be tished out of his two hours of sophistry
and untruths. He read from the st. Paul
| DAILY GLOBE the statement that recently the
Canadian Pacific railway has contracted for
| for large amount OF steel rails at $50. 80 per
/ ton. which was just two dollars per ton less
than they could import them from England
/ duty free.all cf which he placed to the credit
| OF the enormous protective tariff on that
/ commodity of course, and also showed that
we were at present selling a great many
manufactured articles in England. Our
agricultural products in 1850 were $40.
! 600, 600, 900 in round numbers, which
exceeded the entire property valuation of
Italy, one and one-half times that of Spain
ana three times that of Norway and Sweden
Our manufactured articles in 1850 reached
the enormous valuation of IS, 1863, OOO, 600.
which was greater than that OF any other ma
ton on earth not excepting England, and
that only S per cent. of our agricultural pro-
ducts were exported. He made no allusion
to the fact that there was an enormous over
production in almost every line of manufae-
tured goods because of the ruinous Rrpubli-
can policy which had destroyed American
shipp nc and had practically closed every
avenue Of access TO foreign markets to our
American manufacturers. He said that the
people who la5Ored in the factories would
vote the r publican ticket because it was
that party which protected their labor and
forgot to state that he could not include
among those who would vote with him the
tens OF thousands who were to-day idle and
whose families were crying for bread
on accouDto. the ruinols policy of the Re
publican party which had closed half of the
factories and worksh, ps OF the nation
Mr.. Window, when be choked himself of
of the tariff question, went into the personal
matter Of the two candidates. Said the Dem
ocrstic canvass was full OF yituperation aud
abuse Of Blaine. and that their cry was
'Mulligsu, Mulligan;'' that a Democratic
committee appointed at his tBiaine's) own
request TO investigate that mstte- never re-
ported, neglecting to add that it was pending
their investigation Of the matter that Mr.