St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-27
YOUNG NEWS B. & L. CLUB.
Addressed Last Evening by Hon. c. h.
Davis, Hon. g. E. Cole, Hon.
j. r. Gilfillan.

The Republican speakers last evening at
the meeting of the Blaine and Logan club,
on jackson street, congratulated themselves
on the fact that they were getting to be so
much like the Democrats that they could
come out in the rain to attend political meet
ings. The room was small one and con-
tanned about one hundred and twenty
five people, which was very small
audience, considering that the announce
ment was made that ex-Gov. Davis and Hon.
Gordon E. Cole would speak. The attend
ance of those who were there was caused in
considerable degree by the band, which
was stationed close TO the front windows,
which were open.
Gov. Davis, who was one of the principal
speakers, addressed the audience in his usual
scholarly and interesting manner. His
manner, however, seemed to indicate that
he had but little interest after all in the sue
cess of the Republican candidates. He
eulogized the Republican party and made the
usual claim that it saved the nation, and that
for the past quarter of a century had directed
the affairs of the nation III a manner that re-
flected credit and honor upon the organiza
Blaine in favor of protective tariff. A con-
siderable part of his short speech was d.
rected TO statement of the war record of
the Republican party, and the telling of a
few stories.
Hon.. Gordon E. Cole followed Mr.. Davis
and commenced by referring to the people
of Salt Lake City as illustrating what can be
done by people who sincerity believe in any
particular idea. Notwithstanding the fact that
that idea NAV be erroneous and wholly lack
ing in principle. He did not believe in a
protective tariff as Gov. Davis and Mr.. Blaine
do, and that was the great beauty of the Re-
publican party. individuals could hold their
own ideas and discuss them, too, if they
wished. He did not consider that the tariff
question cut much of a figure in this con-
test any way. Men in the Republican party
held different views on this subject. He
also eulogized the Republican party, and
thought it had a splendid record, one of
which it should be proud. He illustrated
this idea of diversity of opinions in the
Republican party by the statement that he
regretted that Mr.. Blaine came from a pro-
hibition state. He (Cole) did not believe in
prohibition, and yet he would support Blaine.
He thought the Republican party had served
the country well and deserved success in
this canvass.
Hon. ]. B. Gilfllan, of Minneapolis, who
was on the platform, on being called upon
expressed his thanks for the cordial recep-
ton accorded him, and invited his hearers
to go back three months to the opening of
the campaign when they received his nomi-
nation to congress with manifest approval.
| He was glad to see the same spirit mani
tested last night He was also glad to see
his hearers take stand on the right and
honest political platform. He did not come
to make a speech, but to be an
| ornament to the occasion. He went
over the record of the two parties
from 1860 down to the present time, and de-
clared that the Democratic party was all
wrong, while the Republican party was al
ways right. He also tried TO touch up the
tariff, but made poor work of it. His re-
marks throughout were weak and pointless
and utterly without interest.
The whole meeting was tame and wholly
lacking in interest and enthusiasm. At the
close of Mr.. Gilillan's remarks the meeting
came to a quiet and spiritless ending and
the audience left while the band played a
| kind of funeral march.