St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-29
FIFTH WARD CLUB.
The Cleveland and Hendricks
Club Of the Fifth Ward listen
to Stirring Speeches.
Judge Cochran, Weed Munro, A. Il
Aukeny and Judge Root Upon
the Situation,
An Encouraging Prospect---A Tribute to the
Standard Bearer---A Man
of Destiny.

The Fifth Ward Cleveland, Hendricks and
Merriman club held its weekly meeting in
Window hall last night, and was
presided over by Judge Cochran, candidate
for county attorney.
In opening the president made a few re-
marks of an encouraging nature, respecting
the local campaign, and he urged every one,
that is every Democrat, TO do his duty man
fully until the close of election day. He in
troduced
WEED MUNRO,
who showed the unfitness OF Blaine for presi-
dent, he being self convicted of having m ade
use Of his position in congress for personal
gain. He charged Blaine with being an un-
truthful man in his statements about the
Mulligan letters, and said he is not man
who will stand by his friends; he is treacher-
Gus. Mr. Munro read from the New
York Times of late date an article
which commented upon the famous Gail
Hamilton letter, which was approved by him.
From the standpoint OF an attorney and
member of the bar of Hennepin county, Mr..
Munro paid his respects to the partisan can
didacy of Judge Young, man totally unfit
by nature and intellect to sit upon the bench.
He is man who prejudges every case which
comes before him for trial. The speaker
then warmly advocated the election of Judge
SeagraYe Smith.
Judge Cochran said then when we read
| the election returns of Hennepin county
next Wednesday morning we will find that
We are indebted to ]. J. Ankeny for much
and effective work, and A. T. Ankeny, his
brother, is fully active in the cause.
A. T. ANKENY
was then introduced and he spoke as fol-
! lows:
81 am one Of those people who admire and
love Grover Cleveland [applause], even
when the sentiment was so strong for Til
den, believed in the candidacy of Grover
Cleveland; believed he would be nomi-
mated and believe he is the man who is to
convey us on to victory. 1 believe he be-
longs to that class of people who are signif-
cantly designated in history as men of des-
! tiny. Washington's destiny was to lead his
country to freedom. Does any man believe
that at the outbreak of the war there was any
other man than Abraham Lincoln who could
take lead in the bloody tragedy! There were
men of destiny. / believe it is the destiny
Of Grover Cleveland to work out the great
| problem of national reformation. The ne
cessities of the time brings forth the man,
and now Grover Cleveland is presented to US
as the man of the hour.
Grover Cleveland was a man unknown to
most politicians; a man who had never been
! in congress; a man who had never been in
Washington, but he was not unknown to all.
The New York delegation went into the
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they had never pleaded before. They
laid before that convention Grover
| Clevelands record; his record as a consci-
entious and honest sheriff; his record as
mayor of one of the leading cities of the
country, and his record as governor of the
! great state of New York, and this record was
| enough to secure the nomination. He is
man beloved and admired by all who know
! him. Wherever he goes he is followed by
| throngs of citizens ready TO do him
honor, and compared TO it the Blaine
hippodrome was mere side show. He is a
man who never wrote anything which ne
| asked any one to burn. When the malignant
charges were made against his private char
acter; made when they found it impossible
to point to any dishonest or questionable act
in his public career, he did not deny each
and every allegation, and then in a private
letter to Fisher admit his guilt. No, sir, he
plainly and frankly told The truth,
Gen. Baker on Saturday night said Blaine
and Cleveland cannot be compared. 1 say
they can be compared. One is an example
of truth and integrity and the other is a
colossal liar. Applause.
What has the present administration done
that entities it 10 four more years to reign.
They Republicans are now arraigned before
the people to say whether they saved the
country or not. The people saved
the couHtry-it was not a party. The Repub-
lican party is guilty of acts of omission as
well as commission, which would make the
very angels weep. Applause. The whole
gist of Blaine's argument is threat to the
working men of the country that if they do
not support the Republican party they will
be reduced to the pauper labor of Europe.
| When John Logan said that Blaine was
speaking upon the tariff he, too, in
the interest of Blaine, for Logan
is only the tail of the ticket, sent to Wash
ington for book on statistics. He stumped
down in the state of Iowa. He said, ~ see
here,n reading from the statistics, THAT in
1860 you had only 100, 900 people in this
state and now you have 1000, 900. Now
where did you get these people! Why from
the protective tariff"
Now | can imagine hearing this statesman
say: In 1860 there were only 10000
babies in this state; now see you have 100,
0O0. Where did these babies come from !!
And | can imagine those people answering
back in profound seriousness, they came
from the high protective tariff. Loud APP
plause. What sheer nonsense. Can any
intelligent nan believe in such a doctrinel
II does no. seem so to me. 1t is fallacious
from its incipiency.
Now don't you hear Of banks bursting all
over the country: Don't YOU see the water
trickling out of the stocks! Don't YOU see
distrust and lack of confidence everywherei
Don't you hear the. groans of the miners in
0hiot Don't you think it sounds well for
them to talk about lowering wages And
they talk abou; our prosperity.
For severs, years, TIE fact
is We have been growing from tad 10 worse.
The trouble is We have no market for our
manufactures. Throw down this great
Chinese wall which tie Republicans have
built up around the country and offer our
goods in all the markets of the world and we
will have prosperity and not till then. Why
is it that all save one Of the I'VE congressman
7 OF this state voted for doing away
with the high tariff Because they
knew it was unjust and because they knew
that the country demanded il.
The working men of this country hold the
KEY 70 the situation. When they are told
that they are to be trodden down by the pau
per labor Of Europe, let them say in reply
that in no other country on the earth do they
enjoy the privileges which they hold here.
Let them say that in no other
country do they hold, as they do here,th bal
lot ct them say that before they are ciit