St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-19
THE GILLIES POW WOW.
A Few Mugwumps and Bill Window
Try to Set Fire to an Iceberg.
Flat, Stale and Improbable Wabbling and
Warbling ofthe Dismal Gang, Who try to
Hold Gilly Up by His Boot Straps.

making prepar atoms to get spontaneous
outponring of the masses.n A week ago q
call was issued which was signed by a hun
dred prominent names to give it character.
During the week the local papers had fire.
quent notices of the 'great meeting' and
yesterday a band was driven about the
streets to advertise it. As result of these
tactics Market hall was about two-thirds full
last evening, very fair showing
considering that it was generally understood
that the meeting was in the interest of Gil
lillian and that it was the intention to then
and there whip into the traces the element
which has held aloof and has been declaring
its intention to vote for honest, fair minded
.. e. Mcrriman, though he be a Democrat,
than for man who obtained his nominal
ton by methods which party even as cor
rupt and unprincipled as the Republican
party, cannot afford to tolerate. Gilfillan' IS
fearful plea at the committee meeting that
something should be done to wake up the
Republicans seemingly had some
effect for some of the promi-
nent Republicans named in the
call showed up. There were no cheers for
Gilhllan, however, nor any call for speech
from .'our candidate for congress-" the feel
ing being that he should not be brought forth
to aggravate any further the Fletcherites and
others who are to be brought over by appeals
to stand by the g. o. p.
THE MEETING.
About O'Clock AID Sly mounted the plat
form and said, Il nominate Hon. Geo. A.
Pillsbury as chairman of this meeting
Some one cried, Il second" an affirmative
vote OicG voce followed. Spa" Pillsbury ac-
cordiIgy assembled the steps and was about
to make speech when Aid. Sly cut him
short with another motion to the effect that
Mr.. Thorn bury be chosen for secretary. Aid
Sly next moved that the gentlemen whose
names mad been signed to the call for the
meeting should al be elected as vice-presi-
dents. The secretary who fortunately had a
copy of the call in his clothes proceeded to
read the list of 107 names. While he
read the atmosphere suddenly be-
came chilly, and a portion of the
audience proceeded to turn up its coat collar
instinctively. The cause was soon apparent,
as the Hon. J. B. Gilfillan was seen to enter
the room, followed by Hon. VIM. Window.
The spectacle of course created applause.
The secretary finished reading the list of
gentlemen to come forward and take seats
upon the platform. Just seven responded,
and after again urging them to come up and
show themselves the chair introduced F. F.
Davis, the Republican candidate for county
attorney.
Mr.. Davis is clerical looking young man
and speaks rather forcibly, although he evil
IDENTIFY has little of the elements which are
essential TO the composition of a successful
public speaker. He advanced nothing new
or startling and his speech was about
what might be expected from
most any Republican of moderate
forensic ability. He said thatahe should not
discuss in detail any of the issues of the cam
paign. What he thought was needed was
something to wake the Republicans up from
their nightmare and cause them to try to
crawl out of the slough of despond into which
they have fallen. He said the Democratic
party had been in the past actuated only by
one principle, and that was to act in opposi-
ton to the measures introduced and upheld
by the Republicans. Without directly charg-
ing the Democratic party with doing any
thing particularly heinous, he insinuated
that they had gotten up the war of the rebel
lion, had opposed construction, had fought
the passage of the pensions laws, the pro-
lection of labor, the Embarrassment of the
negro, resumption of specie payments, and
last, and least, the settlement of Minnesota
aud Dakota. He next mentioned
the names of Blaine and Logan
in eulogistic terms, and closed amid consid-
cradle applause as a result. He did not ap-
proach the real purpose of the meeting, be-
ing a candidate.
The chair next made a frantic appeal to
some of the vice presidents to come up and
sit beside Gilillan on the platform, calling
upon Geo. A. Bracket, viii Grimshaw,
Judge Terrence, r. G. Evans and others by
name to respond. Two or three responded
and the band appropriately struck up the
''Star Spangied Banner the first line of
which song, it will be remembered, begins
with ''Oh, say can you see:"
JUDGE REA.
Judge j. P. Rea was next introduced.
Judge Rea's speeches are too well known to
need much description. He is intensely
dramatic and attempts to make people weep
by the power of his burning eloquence. He
stood with one hand braced against a foot
light and appealed, yea, plead with the
people. While, he was proceeding in
his usual fashion to tear to pieces an
imaginary foe-for the enemy he described
cannot be recognized in the picture of the
Democratic party-some one cried out ''how
about the Republican TARIFF" This had the
effect of steering the judge in another direc-
ton and he devoted the balance of his time
principally to the accommodation of that
question. Coming down to the real purpose
of the meeting, he said that people should
vote for principles, not men, and that this
nominee for congress is good enough Re
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for voting for o. c Merriman, as he is a
good Democrat, but Republicans should not
vote for him. They should vote for Gilfllan
because he is a republican. He then closed
his address in q style which was painfully
like that of religious exhorter addressing q
crowd of hardened sinners.
After a refreshing recess of five minutes
during which the band played, the chair
man introduced Frank b. Hart as per
SON" of whom considerable had been heard.
Mr.. Hart in turn proceeded TO 90 against
the Democratic party in the go-as-you-please
style for quarter OF an hour. When he APP
preached the real object of the meeting, 1.-THE
uniting of the giilies and the antiquities
he talked little more TO the point than
Judge Rea. Last spring st. Paul got to-
gether ali the disgruntled Republicans and
sent them over to Minneapolis to attend the
congressional convention. They came and
before they went away had got away with
Minneapolis. There was dissatisfaction and
disagreement, but is it going 10 De helped
any by electing Democrat He was
informed that Capt. Merriman is good fair
minded. honest man. But when Capt. Mer-
riman gets to Washington he will only be
part of the Democratic party, and that party
is controlled by the southern congressman.
He then appealed to the cupidity and parti-
zanship of his hearers, by saying that Re
publicans are to be in power during the