St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-03
A Wonderful Demonstration at Hast
ingS Saturday Night.
Dear, Dear, Dear Mr.. Fisher-Burn, Burn,
Burn this Letter.
Ljr.iy Times In Dahota County.


bcrs ON feast days at their church. Saturday
was All Saints Day" and despite the bad
roads the people all turned out men, women
and children. The district committee had
made an appointment for Mr.. Donnelly to
speak there at one O'Clock. Strait heard Of
!, and thought that it would not do 10 let his
rival have complete possession Of the
field, and 50, accompanied by the
u. 5. revenue collector Bickel and
a banker from Hastings, named Barbaras,
b. went out there. Mr. Donneily at 2 O'Clock
commenced TO address a large audience
gathered in the hall. There were no seats
for the crowd and Mr. Donnelly spoke
from "a bench. He opened his speech as
follows:
Fellow citizens: This being All Saints
Dry, all the. sinners in the Third con-
grcssional district have assembled here.
Laughter.
We read in the book of job:
Now there was a day when the sons Of
God came to present themselves before the
Lord. ana satan came also among Them
Major Strait is in a saloon across the street.
LGreat laughterand applause.
have sent delegation, with Mr.. Rip
linger at its head, to invite him here, and
either by himself or some friends, TO discuss
The questions Of the day with me. / under
stand that he has brought Mr.. Barbaras, of
Hastings, with him to assure you farmers
that if / am elected TO congress wheat will
mt be worth ten cents bushel more the
next day. Think of the insult that
this barbarouS-4-+n puts upon you
farmers. Laus Teri You are all pack
OF fools, this banker thinks, and you believe
that the election Of a congressman in Mime
sofa will Immediately affect the price of wheat
all over the world; and it is
necessary for this wiseacre to
come out from Hastings to assure YOU that
such is not the fact! applause. But you
do understand that in politics there are al
ways two courses Of action, one that tends,
in the long run, to Cypress and impoverish
the people and endanger free institutions;
and another that tends, in the long run, TO
enrich and lift up the people and render free
institutions secure"
Mr.. Donnelly then proceeded to compare
these two courses of action and to tell what
they are. While he was speaking Major
Strait, finding the saloons all empty, en-
tered the hall accompanied by his hackers.
Mr.. Donuelly said
Il see Major Strait is present. I propose
to talk of him and to him. This is the first
time he has faced me in this campaign. He
has lodged me like a twill o. the wisp,"
while his horde of hired blackguards have
followed in my train covering
me with lies. I want to say
right to Major Straits face lust
what 1 have said about him, behind his
back"
Mr.. DonnelIy here proceeded to excoriate
Straight's record in congress, in a sledge-
hammer style, while the crowd cheered and
laughed.
Mr.. Donnelly said:
''Major Strait has made a most base and
dishonOrable campaign. He has not only
hired men and newspapers to lie about me
in a shameful manner, but he is trying to
buy his way back into congress with beer
and greenbacks lie knows that You people
are nearly all Democrats, yet he is here,
after betraying your interest in congress,
seeking to get your votes with few glasses
of beer. applause ana cheers.) B ut he is
going further, he is pouring fourth his own
money, or the money Of the Minneapolis
millers' association (applause) all over this
district to corrupt the voters. There is a
poor man in Morristown, Rice county,
named Levi Morris. | have Just come from
there. This Levi placed three dollars in the
hands of friend of mine to purshase his
vote; the money was refused. He then pro-
duced a roll of bank bills. My friend said to
him SIS that Straits moneyH' He replied,
mot by a ID sight. II may have been
Straits money once, but it is my money
now; and propose to save enough out of il
to buy me a suit of clothes after the cleo
ton" Laughter and applause.) This is
the way Major Strait proposes to win.
After Mr.. Donnolly had gone for the major
IL.
were loud cries for Strait and the major
advanced, white as a sheet and trembling
and looking like baited badger, to reply. In
mild and pensive way he proceeded to deny
q number of Mr. Donnelly's statements,
amid perfectly silent audience, not a cheer
greeting him.
Mr.. Donnelly replied in about half an
hours speech, and he bore down so heavily
on the major that he at one time sprang ia
the bench and advanced as if about to strike
his competitor, but Mr.. Donnelly faced him
without flinching, and the major went back
to his seat. The major had denied that he
gave any money to Levi Morris. Mr.. Don.
nelly replied that he had not stated that
Strait gave Morris the monel
directly-it probably came through one
of Straits strikers in FaribauIt Then Mr.
not furnish large sum Of money to Sam
Durham of Faribault.n
Major Strait replied:
81 never paid one cent to Sam Durham OF
any other man in the district for political
purposes"
Mr.. Donnelly replied
MAY the Lord have mercy on your SOUL
(Great laughter and applause.) "Why,n he
added, ''the Republicans of Faribault arc
complaining that you have put all the cam
paign money into Sam Dunham's hands anG
that Sam is working for you alone, without
regard to the success of the county ticket
and Sam is rushing all over the county pour
ing out the money for you. If it is not YOU
money whose money is it!'' (Applause.)
Strait denied that he was working ut his
mill in combination with the Minneapolis
Millers' association, but Mr.. Donnellv cross
examined him and forced him to admit tina
the millers did not dare to buy within the
territory assigned to him.
Said Donnelly:
"YOu rob the farmers on one side of th,
line and the millers' ring robs them on tn,
other side of the line and you agree to keeI
down the price of wheat TO Tho
same standard. If this is not working in
continuation with the Minneapolis miller's
ring, what is it9''
Mr.. Donnelly charged that Strait and the
Minneapolis ring had hired the Pionee,. Pres
10 blackboard him. Said Strait, 'EHayn't
YOU been hlackguarded before?' eyes. ;
said Mr. Donnelly, ''but never TO the extern
have been in this canvass; and it is not il
the nature of things that / should be 81
abused unless the papers had been paid TO
doing so. One would think to read Tia
papers that was running for president o