St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-13

were Hon. ex-Gov. Ramsey, Hon. Albert
SchaefTer, and last and least Hon. S. L..
Pierce, st. Paul lawyer. The meeting was
called to order by Vim. Wilson, retired lin
horny revenue Office clerk, who introduced
as the first speaker of the evening Gov Ram
sey who was greeted by applause by the large
audience of ladies and gentlemen present. The
governor addressed the people for an half
hour very entertainingly on the subject of
the early history of Minnesota, and after a
slight testimonial to the ability of Major
Strait for doing odd jobs around Washington
sat down.
This speaker was followed by Pierce, the
st. Paul lawyer, who, by the way, to suit the
occasion, claimed to be Democrat, but who
| does not know the name of the Democratic
candidate for president, but thinks he is a
man who used to be hangman down in
Buffalo. The gentleman made very sad
effort to utter Democratic speech through
republican.
He first startled ''my dear Democratic
friends" by stating that Minnesota is not a
doubtful state in tne national campaign, !"
and to place this momentious question be-
yond all possibility of doubt, he followed
up the statement by saying that ''whether
this is true or not 1t is a fact" The resources
of the speakers mind being exhausted, he
was obliged to read the greater part of his
speech from clippings taken from Donnelly's
own paper, the 'A1sti-naoHopoliSt, - and from
the st. Paul GLOBE, but the gentle
mans poor qualifications as a public
reader completely spoiled the effect of what
might otherwise proved fair speech, if he
had confined himself exclusively to the clip
pings from these two papers, but in order to
| convince the good people of Shskopee of his
great erudition he threw out some historical
Information, such as that Samuel j. Tilden
ran FOR the presidency In 1868, and that Gov.
Hubbard ran against Donnelly for congress
| over in Minneapolis in 1873, and that S. P.
Hall was the editor of the GLOBE.
After going on atgreat length in unquali-
fed abuse of Mr.. Donnelly and vehemently,
with great deal of gesticulating like q mule
! kicking the cans out OF milk wagon, brand
ing Mr.. D. as liar, ETC., he closed his re-
marks by saying that his relations with Mr..
D. had always been very pleasant, and sup
plemented the above by adding that he had
great deal of faith in Mr.. D. loud applausel.
Contrary to all expectations, not one word
was said in relation to Mr.. Donnelly's late
|. speech here or in Glencoe, and Pierce's ar
gument consisted of the worst bombast and
buncombe, with about the strength and
body of adulterated butternilk, and although
the gentleman may be a good lawyer he is
evidently far better qualified to run shout
ing camp meeting than to make a political
speech. No man in Shakopee, whether
Democrat or Republican, will deny that the
speech made by the nervous, excited lawyer,
has caused the greatest dissatisfaction, be
cause it was expected by the people here that
an able argument would be made on the
majors behalf The st. Paul
speaker did not offer one in
telligent or convincing argument, on
the contrary he showed himself to be a man
but slightly acquainted with the deep subject
OF politics, and the many mistakes he made
were carefully noticed by the audience. The
only compliment paid Mr.. Pierce was done
by himself when, towards the close OF his
speech, he said: II thank you for what
| have said" etc. Confused and bewildered,
and between the fumbling of manuscripts,
eye glasses, and his search for copy of the
Testament, from which he tried to trace
Straits" ancestry back to the Bible,
he made himself ridiculous, and
the audience plainly and undeniablv showed
signs of disgust, and thus Mr.. Pierce closed
one of the most senseless speeches ever
listened to by the people of our town.
Not to forget the head miller who made
himself so prominent at the time of DON
nelly's speech. l must mention the fact that
he was present and sound asleep most of the
time in the back part of the house, and was
heard to say that he was ''out of politics.
Hon. Albert Scheffer in a short speech adj
dressed the Germans. He made an unsuc-
cessful attempt to apologize for and explain
his Inconsistency in stumping against Mr..
Strait six years ago, in favor of Mr.. Paeher,
and haf 81, -
kopee to urge them tosupport man against
whom he himself had worked hard to defeat.
Mr.. S. could consequently carry no influence,
and his German friends say, ''too thin
Mr.. So
In conclusion it is not too much to say
that the meeting was disgrace to Mr. Strait
and made votes for Donuellv.