St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-25
ST. PAUL NEWS.
SMALL RETURNS.
The Grand Rally Last Night OF the
Grand Old Party Almost
Ends in FiZZle.

Last evening the grand old party concen-
tcated all their magnetism and all their latent
energies lin the shape of Dicks little band,
small transparency, and the black brigade
drummers) to secure grand rally at Market
hail. 1t was confidentially asserted by some
OF the stalwarts of the party that there would
be at least 1900 persons present to hear
Gen. Baker lay out Cleveland, and clear the
skirts of the immaculate Blaine
of the Mulligan letters mud
but sad to tell all the magnetism, all the
noise of the noisiest of bands and the thud-
ding and cumming of the black brigade
drums and the sorry Pickering of the penny
dip in the solitary transparency did not sue
coed in half filing the hall. All the Blaine
aud Logan clubs had been enioined to at
tend to swell the great gathering. but with
the clubs and the bandsmen and the seven
colored drummers and the street gamins the
hall was not half full, and very large num-
Der of these were youths and greater
number children. 1t was half
past eight before Mr.. Stanford Newell
introduced Gen. Baker, who had evidently
come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. He
commenced his address by stating that he
regretted that men of all parties were not OF
more cleanly politics. The flood gates OF
personal defamation had been opened, he
said, during the present campaign as never
before, but the veracious and gallant speaker
forgot to say who and which party opened
these gates of filth. He was sure, however,
that when Blaine slept the sleep Of all flesh
he would shine 'as clear as the sun in the
morning. In referring to the Multi
gan and Fisher letters he said he had nothing
to say except the letters themselves told all
there was in them and to refer to the proud
answer Blaine gave when he walked down
through the aisles of congress with the letters
in his hands and "his accusers SUNK away
with fear and timidity.'' His election to the
senate was the expression Of the house upon
the letters. And as proof Of the plumed
knights honesty the speaker said Garfield
chose him for his purity and integrity to be
Lis premier. The speaker was surprised that
intelligent people should desire the election
of a Democratic president. There was moth
ing in the party history to show that the
iiaIty should be trusted with the government
Of the nation. And there was no reason for
change anyway, in the speakers eyes,
and be tried to brighten his audience
with Tie terrible effects Il change of admin
lstratiOn would have upon the country. This
part Ot the address visibly affected the Office
holders present, and the magnanimous gen.
eral was visibly affected himself as was shown
by his tremuious accents twas turn the ras-
cal out ringing in his e2rsD He then pro-
ceeded to hang out the old sanguinary gar
ment that any me would think had rotted
before this time. and said the Democrats of
the north had coalcsced with the Democrats
Of the south, and ''solid SOUTH was stariu q
the nation in the face. The confederate
states were saying, sat this election we will
give 1873 electoral votes" and asking
the north to give forty-eight more and undo
all the war has accomplished. At this point
a large number Of those present left the hall,
and from this out the speaker found him self
wholly unable to hold his audience, which
grew delightfully."- less every minute-melted
away like msts before that morning sun the
speaker alluded to. He gave a short sketch
of Blaine's career as teacher, without MOTTO
ing his marriages, as editor, as senator, as
speaker, saying in the speakers chair he was
unequalled except by Henry Clay. CHe, of
course, did not mention the pri-
yate note to the friends of the Rock Island
eeteme, ''move the members out of order,")
and lastly 10 his grand book the gospel ac-
coTdjug to st. James Blaine. He spoke of
him, u doubt this time truthfully, as a typical
Republican. The speaker next turned to
Black Jack, and after extolling him, pitched
into Grover Cleveland and Hendricks as
men without any experience-the one a man
without record and yet having too much of
record, and the other the type of a stay-at-
home coward, weakening the arms of the
country in its great struggle. He urged all
old soldiers to vote for Logan. Referring to
Blaine's foreign policy, he said it was only
carving out the Monroe doctriue-
non interference with European politics
aud concluded with hint that for the sake
Of Minnesota the Republicans would probably
annex the rich and magnificent regions OF
Manitoba. British Columbia and the Saskat-
chewau valley, which the general averred
were lost 20 the country by the Democrats.
By the time the general finished there were
not more than two score OF people in the hall,
who did their best to cheer for Blaine, but
hzzled ont on a call for cheer for Gifllan
the name froze the breath in the throats
even OF the seven drummers.