St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-11
CHARLES EVANS HOLT
The Choice of the Third Party for
Mayor.
Deacon Nettleton Roasted by the People Last
Night.
Everybody Jubilant in the Hope that
PilIsbury Will Be Defeated.

PilIsbury Will Be Defeated.
The meeting of the Prohibitionists held at
Market hall last evening filled the spacious
hall to OVERLOOKING and was the most enthu
siastic gathering of the campaign.
In the front and rear of the
platform and on the walls
were huge pieces of canvas
bearing the following inscriptions, which are
the words of Geo. A. Pillsbury: 81 am not
a candidate for the Republican nomination
for mayor against J. T. Wyman." II can
not in honor be a candidate against J. 7.
Wyman for the mayoralty." 81 cannot, 1
will not, shall not under any circumstances
be a candidate for mayor"
In contrast with the preceding were the
following utterances of the Republican NOM
inee, conspicuously posted up in group:
'It was with reluctance allowed my name
to be used at the conYention;" II accept as
Republican upon Republican platform,
and I would not accept in any other way"
II think the Republicans have the power to
dictate what kind of government the city
shall have" The following notices were
also displayed: ''How would the people like
G. A. P. as dictatoI!'' care dictators work
ingmen's friends?'
At z o'clock the meeting was called to Or
der by s. P. Williams, the president of the
Reform club. He explained the object of the
meeting, and introduced the Hog. Charles
Evans Holt as the representative of j. 7.
Wyman, saying he would speak for that gen.
tleman and explain his absence on the occa-
sion.
Mr.. Holt said he was authorized by Wy
man to talk for him at the meeting; that
Wyman was Frustrated, and was almost sick,
or quite so. The PROSTATE man felt within
himself burning indignation against those
who subjected him to such humiliation. He
is not in sympathy with the movement
against him, but was in hearty
sympathy with the peoples move
ment and determined to continue in the path
from which he had been diverted. The
speaker honored Mr.. Wyman and believed
there was not more honorable man in the
city, and if elected mayor he would be the
peer of any mayor Minneapolis has ever had.
Mr.. Wyman proposes to aid this movement,
and is prohibitionist despite the statements
of ''our grandmother at the city
hall. Deacon Nettleton was then severely
commented on for the irresolute manner in
which he had acted toward Mr.. Wyman. The
humorous way in which the deacon was re-
ferred to elected thunders of applause and
created roars of laughter.
The next speaker introduced to the meet
ing was the redoubtable and irrepressible w.
w. Satterlee, who delivered
powerful address and was frequently ap
plauded as he proceeded.
He said it became his duty, and he found it
difficult task, to review the work of the
past two weeks because it is is exceedingly
complicated and is necessary to speak in the
face of prejudice, and yet if they would
patiently hear him he would present the
case in comprehensive manner.
For the past five years the city has been run
on the broad gauge, open policy. The city
seems to have been opened at one end to re-
ceive all the thieves, the burglars and the
criminals and the otherend has been closed to
prevent their escape. 1t has been the pur
pose of our law and order citizens to put
a stop to this state of things. Up
on what we do tonight for
the redemption of the city may depend the
accomplishment of the requisite reforms in
the municipal government. To meet the
universal demand for united effort for the
redemption of the city caucuses were held
in the parlors of our citizens, and the move
ment came from all parties and was non
partisan in its character The men who met
in the parlor caucuses were better men
than those who subsequently met in open
convention, and disregarded their united
efforts for reform. The men who had met
in parlor caucuses were not prohibitionists,
but men who were DESTROYS Of having the
ordinances of the city enforced to restrain
the sale of intoxicating liquor on the Sab
hot r1rOhihitiop did
nize J. T.Wyman as prohibtionist, but they
considered him man who was in sympathy
with the prohibition movement. Mr.. Satter-
lee then referred to the action of the Republi-
can convention in nominating Geo. A. Pills
bury, and rejecting j. T. Wyman, the candi-
date of the people. AS man and citizen
the prohibition party had no objection to Mr..
Pillsbury; he had promised not to run
against Wyman, and afterward received the
nomination as a Republican from the
Republican party in convention assembled.
Deacon Nettleton had the party lash applied
to him and he succumbed to the party die
tation. Mr.. Satterlee here described the
feelings of the sanity deacon for his change
of base from Wyman to Pillsbury and caused
the greatest laughter among the audience.
The Pioneer Press, the Journal, the Ne,uS Let
ter, the Sunday Morming Call
and the Picayaale Democratic Leader,
were graphically pictured as bearing their
pressure upon the good deacon to relinquish
his advocacy of Wyman on the ground that
he was Satterlee man. Geo. A. Pillsbury
declared he could not honorably be candi-
date against Wyman for the mayoralty. In
the history of the state there has not been an
instance in which such high handed cor
ruption of the party machine was brought
to bear as in the Republican convention to
get Mr.. Wyman off the track. Judge Rea
rose in the convention and precluded the
possibility of giving the meeting any chance
to express the sentiments of the men pres
ent by moving that Geo. A. Pillsbury
be made the unanimous choice of
the convention. Mr.. Satterlee then gave the
names of several prominent citizens whose
names were attached to the call for the with
drawal of Mr.. Wyman from the contest, and
declared that their names were procured
through Misrepresentation. Among those
whose names were procured through fraud
are James Iverson, Mr.. johnson and Father
James McGolrick, the last named being no
politician, but clergyman who signed the first
call for the promotion of good order and
morality in this city.
The defeat of Geo. A. Pillsbury is q fore
gone conclusion. The two great curses of
the country from Manitoba to the Gulf of