St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-30
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Ex-Mayor Ames Shows Up the Record
of the Republican Candidate,
And Tells of tho Local Corruption Fund
Saved to Elect GiIfilIan.


anch last evening to hear from ex-Mayor
Ames some political truths from a Demo-
cratic and local standpoint. After being in
troduced by Mr.. Galway, the chairman of the
meeting, DR.. Ames thanked his audience TO
the cordial greeting given him, and expressed
his pleasure at meeting his friends of the
East side. He first proceeded to speak of the
principles of the Democracy, respect and
reverence for which has kept the party to-
gether all these years. He next referred to
the splendid political record of Grover
reply to some of the SANDERS which
have been uttered against him. He eX
planned why Mr.. Cleveland was obliged to
vote the elevated railroad bill or else make
the state of New York repudiator, and ven
tiated the lie that he had by any private or
official act done anything in opposition TO
the benefit OF the working man. He denied
that Mr.. Cleveland had ever vetoed a bill
giving an appropriation to a Catholic or
phan asylum, and stated that
such bill was vetoed by Gov. Cornell, a
Republican. he gave as his authority the
lieutenant governor and attorney general of
New York.
On the other hand he took up the record
OF JAS. G. Blaine as an honest man and
showed how he had used his official position
to secure the passage of bill to put ST., 600
in his own packet. He also spoke briefly of the
Mulligan letters and other notorious schemes
in connection with the tattooed mans rec
ord. The English papers are advocating
Rlainpfs plpntiOn viii rri.- lilo tn
the statement that his aggressive" policy
will be calculated to secure freedom for Ire
land, and as a specimen of this same policy
showed how Blaine as secretary of state had
allowed an American to lie In an English
prison for = year and had refused TO interfere.
He condemned in caustic language the
low lived methods employed in the campaign
in villifying and blackening the private char
acters of the presidential candidates in order
to detract attention from the real issues of
the campaign. Now the Republicans have
finally jumped to higher plane, and the
Democrats have jumped little higher,
so at last We are getting
at some of these questions and are not pry-
ing into what may have or not be said with
truth of the wild oats of the candidates. The
Republicans usually are travelling on their
record and what record it is. That party,
like all parties, was probably at first pure,
but is now corrupt, and as in local politics so
in national politics, is all for the rich and
powerful; as it is il the city in the state and
so in our national politics. Republicans will
spend SIS, 900 to secure an Office with
salary of only $4,000 year and even then
manage to go free. Here in this city there
is no rich man who cannot get clear from
the police, no matter what he may be ar
rested for. 1t is so in the state politics-for
instance look at the pine thieves who were
never punished for their stealings. l know
whereof / speak, and am informed that in
the canvass made of the
city by the Republicans that there have been
more Democrats found than Republicans.
That canvass cost 81, 900 or S., 600, and what
was it made for! So they can find out who
they could buy. Shame on such methods
and on the party that employs them. Look
at the Republican leaders that are SHAKING
the bloody shirt, scarce a man of
them ever was in battle
Look at General (D Washburn,
a man who was never nearer battle than
the st. Croix river. Two-thirds of the regi-
ment Twas in was composed of Democrats.
and when we went to the war these noble
politicians of the Republican stripe-Gilfllan
was one of 'em-said ''when you come back
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get the offices. When we got back we
went to the Republicans and asked
them to nominate certain old soldiers, part
Republicans and part Democrats. Would
they do it, / should say not. Then we
went to the Democrats and they adjourned
their convention and said they would help
elect soldier to be clerk. We held sol
dier's convention and put up ticket CT Re-
publicans and Democrats, and the Republic
cans fought that ticket tooth and nail And
these are the people who now would
shake the bloody shirt here at home, and
that is where to judge them where you know
them.
This Republican party imagines itself the
great party of moral ideas and calls itself
honest when its record is fraud and it is
maintained by fraud. Look at them at
home, and they are just SO everywhere else.
Last year their cry was, ''We must reform
and have a Republican administration be-
cause we are so wicked" A single item
will show what mean. Under my admin
istratioD there were five houses of prostitu-
ton in the city, and now there
are seventeen, while the brick blocks fairly
TEEN with women of i'll fame, still they DOR
acknowledge it and the city don't condemn
this state of affairs. Night before last a GER
tain public official went to a woman and
attempted to make her pay money TO him to
avoid being arrested. Mayor Pillsbury can
have the name of the man if he wants
it, but he won't ask it. It's rather late in the
day, but if Mayor Pillsbury win give me
proof that one of my appointees did an act
like this will have him brought into conrt
tomorrow. He is one of the spies who has
by threats of exposure and prosecution man
aged to get control of the property of man
whom he found doing something wrong. l
will furnish Mayor Pillsbury the
proof of this If he wants
it. The Ereuisg Journal says. ''Vote for the
Republicans and we viii get good times"
We have Republican president, Republican
governor and Republican mayor and council
and have got hard times.
After further expose Of the hypocritical
management OF the Republicans on local
politics. the mayor said, speaking of the
character OF the men running for president,
'Here is a secret. Thirteen years
ago James g. Blaine's mother
died at st. Paul. His sister also
lived there and was Major Walkers wife,
When Blaine's mother died Bishop Ireland's
brother was one OF the pail bearers. Her
body was sent east for burial, and James G.
Blaine, when notified, wouldn't leave his
business long enough to go TO the funeral.
All l want to say in this connection
is that If shows the man.