St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-01
A TAME RALLY.
j. B. Gllfillan Breaks the Ice, and
Dunnell EndeavOrs to Warm
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up the Audience.
Turner hall was moderately filed last even
ing by the Blaine and Logan clubs of the
city, the officers of which were called upon
by Gen. w. Ii. Johnston to take seats upon
the platform, after which he introduced Hon.
j. b. Gilfillan, of Minneapolis, who said that
he came to be a locker on, and thought it
tough that he should be called upon to break
the ice. He flattered himself that the young Re-
publicans were going to pocket the Demo-
cratic majority of Ramsey county, Gan ex-
cellent field for missionary work. basing
his hopes on the detection in favor of Gov.
Hubbard last fall. He then proceeded to
chant gloria to the Republican party for
the growth, prosperity and development of
the country during quarter of century's
rule and asserted the honesty of Republican
Office holders without an exception as a rea-
son why ''none of the rascals" should be
turned out of Office for the next decade
He then proceeded to figure out on the
Minneapolis high estimate basis that there
was only $23, 100000 in the public treasury
instead of 10000, 900 as Hendricks had
stated, and criticised the Democracy in re-
gard to the tariff, and stated that the party
had no doctrine either for tariff or reform.
In the Min neapolis fashion he then went on
to claim that everything that the country
now enjoyed was accreditable to Republi-
cans alone, and had the cheek to promise
further reform If Blaine was elected
The summit of the weakness of the argu-
ments adduced by the speaker was his as
sertion that the Republican party stood with
herd of unfinching, honest, faithful and
n 80
Of the ballot 6or of the Republic.
Hon. Mark II. Dunnel was then intro
ducei, who after paying tribute to the "mag-
nifcent'' record of Ben Butler, (Blaines
helper) went into an exordium over the SER
vices to the country of the grand
old party of the past, all
of whose great lights were dead and buried
or sought seclusion before the past twelve
years of ringsm and robbery were entered
upon by dominant party wearing the skin
OF dead lion. This party had been kept in
power he said because it had grown the coun-
try from bankruptcy and war to prosperity
and peace, and always kept its promises.
The second of the Democratic party was
disloyal all through the war and the people
remembered it while in a Republican gov
eminent. without fraud or pecula-
ton, honestly administered in all
things they had faith. 1t was all lie that
the Republican party had become wasteful,
extravagant and immoral, and that it was
only the skeleton of the old party of the
war. If it had been corrupt it ought to be
dismissed; bur it had not so fallen, but had
steadily advanced in good government
1t was observable that the speaker, while
he waded through maze after maze of party
history, putting his own party construction
upon it, made no allusiOn to Blaine
except to eulogize his speech in
1875 for resumption, to sustain the
wonderful astuteness and craftsmanship of
which Geo. F. Hoar, the Massachusetts, Re-
publican aristocrat was lugged in for author
ity, while not the slightest allusion was made
to the unanswerable arraignment of Blaine
in the celebrated Muligan letters.
The speaker concluded by stating that he
had promised his friend Blaine 80, 900 major
ity for Minnesota, but admitted that some
hard work would have to be done to do it,
which was the most truthful utterance of the
evening.
There was much surprise that Bill Wash
burne did not put in an appearance as ad-
vertised to top out the stack of bombastic
claims and assertions, but Dunnell was
fully equal to the emergency in talking
against time, in which he always takes the
pole.