St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-22
ROusing Democratic Speeches at
the Fifth Ward Cleveland
and Hendricks Club.
The Twenty Years Congressional Cor
ner OF lingo Jim-'Twenty
Years of Congressional
Thieving."
DR.. Ames, H. Higbee and David B. Johnson
the Orators of the Evening.

dom hall last evening. 1t was enthusiastic
and the speeches were ''rattling' so to
speak. Judge Cochran set the ball in mo-
ton with brief address upon taking the
chair. He introduced as the first speaker
DIR. Ames, who is always greeted with
rounds of applause.
DIR. AMEs
eulogized Hon. o. G. Merriman. He cited
his record as a mayor and his career as a wa
ter commissioner. He said: ''To the gil
gantic intellect and ingenuity of Mr.. Merri-
man is due the admirable and effective water
works system. The people of this district
are now called upon to choose between two
citizens. You are acquainted with BOTH
They are both able men, they
are perhaps both honest men,
You cannot point to one dishonest
act in the life of Mr.. Merriman. Now l am
not going to charge Mr.. Gilillan with dis
honesty. For years he has represented east
Hennepin in our state legislature. Perhaps
he did it conscientiously and in good faith,
supposing he was acting in the interest OF
his constituency, but he fathered
some peculiar bills, some awfully
bad bills. Now one candidate is the genial,
warm hearted and noble O. c. Merriman g,
and his opponent is an icicle.
Of the Legislative ticket 1 shall say very
little. The Republican nominees are very
ordinary men. DR.. o. G. Evans is an ex-
cellent physician and if elected to the legis
lature he will be an admirable
man to move to adjourn. Laughter.
His contemporaries on the ticket will com
pare favorably with him. On the other hand
the Democratic legislative ticket is graced
with the names of such men as Hon. Frank
L. Morse and Judge Isaac Aewater, two men
to whom our city can point with pride.
Iwish to say few words regarding the judi
ciary. The Republicans have placed partizan
candidate IN the field, while the Democ rats
generously acceded to the wishes of the Hen
nepin county bar association and placed in
nomination man whom they named, the
Hon. seagreve Smith [applausel. He is an
attorney who has no superior in the state.'
DR.. Ames here paid his respects to the
county ticket, and his honor kept
his audience in continuous laughter
and he closed by urging that no hypocrite
be placed in Office. After the insult with
lican judiciary con vention, and the fair non
partisan proposition of the Democrats, there
are honest, fair minded Republicans who
declare that they will vote the Democratic
ticket If the devil was candidate.
H. HIGBEE,
Democrat from the state of Illinois and a
son of Judge Higbee, was introduced as a
worthy scion of worthy sire:
He was young but he had born a Demo
cratic torch so long as ne had been old
enough and had never sent SUBJ
stitute. He urged the holding of mass
meetings and holding conference.
He advocates enthusiastic work
even though the Republicans are largely in
the majority. ''We must meet' he said to
teach the Democratic doctrines. The Dem
ocratic doctrine is to localize the govern
eminent, while the Republicans believe in
| centraliZing the government at Washing ton.
The speaker reviewed the history Of the two
parties, the war with England, the war with
Mexico. These were conducted By the Dem
ocrats. They did not destroy the government
| Under the Democratic administration So per
cent of the carrying trade was carried by the
American navy. Now it is all done by for
eign nations under the Republican policy
The Republican party in 1861 was a good
party; inaugurated for good purpose. They
are not now the same party. Years ago,
all the plans of the party had to be
taken to Henry Ward Beecher, but
now we find him a Democrat, and the Re-
publicans stignatize him as one of the worst
men In the world. George VIM. Curtis used
to allege that the Republican was party of
education, morality and wealth. He called
| ha nnusnaro M LOT
find him a Democrat. 1t begins to
look as though the Democrats
were making educational acquaintance
The Republicans claim that they conducte d
the war. How did they! Stephen a. Doug
lass was found IN the front, and no one
doubted his Democracy. j. G. Blaine in his
book acknowledges the lie, acknowledges
that the Democrats played an important role
in the Federal army We have grand party
with good principles, aud we
ask you to vote the Democratic
ticket. We need reform. There have been
charges all along the time of corruption. In
'76 they promised TO reform the whisky
frauds. Next came the Star route frauds and
so on perfect succession of frauds We
want to put party in office who win over
haul the books in Washington aud
get at the foundation of the
| pClpClAohS0 " iuC
party. In 1876 the Democrats nominated a
man for the express purpose Of ferreting out
the frauds in Washington and he was elected
but he was cheated out of the office This
time the Democrats should show to the world
that they appreciate the wrong and vote for
another reform and, l assure you, if he
! is elected he will be seated.
Why the Republican party claim to be party
OF Providence. If that be so, why do they
follow up the Democratic partyl Year after
year they adopt the previous platform of the
| Democratic party. The Democratic party
pledged itself for the restoration of
the navy destroyed by the Repub-
licans, to reform the revenues and
now the Republicans haye acknowledged
that they have been doing our country an
injustice, and declare that the tariff must be
reformed and the money must be restored.
No Democrat should feel discouraged be-
cause Ohio went Republican. 1t is true that
twice the state cast Democratic majorities in
of years, but on national issues
West Virginia wen: Democratic Each party
has its own state. II New York and Indiana
/ 90 Democratic victory is ours. There is no
reason why the Democrats should not carry
/ these two states Thomas A. Hendricks car
/ RED Indiana in 1876 and he can in 1884
In New York the Republican ranks are
all broken up They have heretofore
relied upon the leadership of Beeeher, Conk-
/ ling, Curtis and the New York Ii0les They
are now all on the other side. We viii RELY
upon Mr.. Beecher, Mr.. Curtis and the TINES.
/ They diG great service for the 2. O. D.. and
/ they viii this year Go as much
for Cleveland. [Applause.1 The recep-
tons rendered Governor Cleveland were
/ absolutely spontaneous, while the receptions
/ rendered Blaine we're cooked up. One read
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