St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-25
THE REPS RALLY.
Bill Washburn Does Not Show
Himself Although Advertised
as a Drawing Card.
But GiFs Man Friday, Eustis, Was
There in All His Forensic Glory,
and Elucidated.
The laundering of Lord Gordon Awoke the
Night Airs and Made Timid Ladies
Tremble.
The Young Han from Chicago-Fra'ilsie
Ddeis-and His Supplicatioms.

TOT d long tlIue IL mas D66n ln nOuuCcQ anu
heralded that the Republicans of sunny
south side were to have grand rally in Shat
fer's hall last night. The thing occurred,
proverbially buncomb speeches, brass bands
and all. But the great Bill Wash
burn failed to show his colors
although he was down Oh the
menu. Bill is no respector OF persons
nor things now that he is, like Dr.. Aines, out
of politics, and he can snap his finger az the
Republican elements and laugh the crazy
Office seekers to scorn. His nest is feathered
and what does he care for his disciples.
W. Eustis was the first speaker. His Gu
phonious voice, as a matter of course stirred
some of the patriotic souls Of his auditors
until their effewescence could scarcely con-
tain themselves, while others thought it was
a regular oldfashioned camp meeting and
could scarcely refrain from crying out at The
most patriotic points, "AmcE."
At this exciting junction Dr.. Drew felt
constrained to announce that the precincts
of the bloody Sixth ward had been changed
| and that everybody should see that he was
| enrolled at the proper place.
laundering Gordon was then introduced
by this same DR.. Drew, he who owes great
party fealty, as it were, and who evidently
wants TO pay the debt. The entire Sixth
ward began to tremble. Even the harvester
works, that great Republican institution
which compels each and every workingman
employed therein to go to the
polls and vote the straight Republican ticket,
with the peril of a peremptory dismissal, if
| the mandate was not most strictly followed
| in the nomination, trembled until it was
! feared it would be RACED to the ground and,
| tguratvely speaking, not one brick would be
| left standing upon another. 1t was that
voice, those laundering tones which occa-
stoned it. The deniZens of this mundane
! sphere within ''miles and miles around''
rushed to the streets with the supposition
that another earthquake had stirred the
Democrats and threatened to open a deep
cavern and en&uf them in the very bowels
of the earth. Gordon thundered in the in
tcrests of, and advocated the infamous high
tariff outrage. He had not advanced far in
his argument THAT is what he called it),
when he grasped his throat as does McCul-
| Tough, when he delights his au-
dience with his powerful rem
dition of the tragic role of Virginius
and be cried out in a voice that rang in the
ears of the great unwashed, for minutes,
perhaps more, "confound that frog" 1t
must have been a joke, At last the people
gathered by the noise aud hustle thought so
for they laughed. and laundering Gordon
took drink. The GLOBE asked of an ac-
comm odating gentleman what the liquid
was. (that is, what was its character its ma
ture), which the gentleman lifted to his
clean cut and classical lips and gulped down
with relish. The gentleman said: 'That
is not pale sherry; it is nothing but water
which has been pumped through the pipes
from thai crib in the river, that crib which the
Journal says is perfectly horrible; absolutely
filled with filth and excrescence." On! how
Gordon shouted about the system of land
grants to railways. His sophistry had
little effect happily. He said
the land grant system was
the child of the Democracy. Now, the
declaration elected no enthusiasm whatever.
His auditors must have known better They
failed to applaud, at all events. They were
as dumb as an oyster. laundering Gordon
then branched out upon the railway bond
robbery of Minnesota, and had the supreme
cheek to lay the Inauguration of that at the
door of the Democracy. In fact as he pro-
ceeded in his harangue it would seem that
not single enactment which now stands
upon the statutes had ever been conceived
or advocated by the Republicans. Yet he
said he would undertake to say the Republ-
can party had kept its every pledge, even its
pledges, it is presumed, to the monopolies
and corporations which have sapped the
fundamental principles of this government
He yelled ''The Republican party have turned
the rascals OUT but why the rascal
lingo Jim is still the standard bearer he did
not try 10 explain. Gordon's tongue is very
like that of the proverbial old woman, of
whom it has been said at hangs in the
middle and ways at both ends,'' and his
effusion was an avalanch of words. He paid
homage in course of his speech to the won
derfnl administration of Arthur and
alleged in words emphatic that
There never was before such
an immaculate administration 1t was alb
solute perfection. Then he spoke of Cleve-
land and-ohl what a chestnut--that Cleve-
land had been Halpin to increase the popu-
lation, that he had obeyed the scriptural
injunction, increase and multiply" and
the great unwashed shouted and snickered
as though the joke was new.
II. A Davis, Chicago, followed in a spread
eagle effort. His cry was, this great Ameri-
can country, etc. His finger he shook very
like Jack Bunsby in his thrilling narratives.
He compared, yes he is quite a philosopher
and speaks metaphorically, he compared this
great American government to COW, and
said Great Britain was milking our govern
ment, Johnny Bull might have had much
to do with the COW, but he is a bad mixer
and every time he has pressed his fingers
to the teats the COW has kicked
the pail over and blinded Johny Bulls ewes.
Davis eloquence was so warm and waxing
that he got into deep waters. Then how he
displayed his amphibious abilities. He can
not be drowned. There is an old saying
that man born be to hung cannot lie
drowned, Davis yelled with sonorous tones
(he is not corsumptive) some
thing about its being impossible to
choke flea with brick bat, whatever that
meant. He had never known or seen the
Democratic party, yet in the next breath be
set himself up as an almanac-Jones, per-
hsps Grays-and said he knew all about the
Democracy, They are trying to ride two
horses,r he said, land by
and BY they will find they
have no place TO sit down" This exclama-
ton must have been overwhelmingly funny
for these young Republicans set up a spas
modic laugh, not ''larf," but genuine old
fashioned laugh. A few hearers began to
feel tired and vamoosed the ranch. The
speaker was not at all disconnected and
branched off upon the free trade affair, and
Gilfilan looked as cold as ever. no matter
how Sly YOU keep it, that statesman. like al.
dermau from the Fourth ward, pulled
up his great coat about his
generous ears. and his handsome face looked
pinched and cold. Frank Davis, the can
didate for county attorney. is hot blooded
young American, but despite his manly
efforts to overcome the frigid agency, he
shivered and shook, and right here this
orator from Chicago, with eye glasses and