St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-23
rEIELASr OLE MCLEAN.
He Made a sPubiic'' Address TO a
EiGfePn.Dollar Audience.

He Made a ssPubiic'' Address TO a
Fi3teen-DoIlar Audience.
The reason why Dr.. Mclean has shown
such anxiety to keep himself and his
troubles before the public, despite the pub
lies desire to ignore them, came out yester-
day. He has been persistently advertising
by meandS of handbills and such news
papers as would reproduce them gratui-
tously, that he was going to give two lee
lures on yesterday afternoon and evening
at Market hall in which he would make i'll
teresting revelations. AS many as two OF
three hundred people were attracted to the
hall Yesterday, and were confronted by a
placard announcing that 80 cents would buy
their admittance. About fifty people
thought they would get their moneys worth
and came in, and for forty-hve minutes or
so beguiied the time while waiting for the
preacher by amusing themselves as wait
ing crowd always will. They greeted with
tumultuouS cheers every addition to their
number, and even reporters were not free
from their guying. Finally CZpt. Burger,
who was sitting i'll the rear end OF the hall,
became anxious as to when the show would
begin and started for the platform to find
the speaker of the afternoon. Some one
some features that recently appeared in a
caricatWe OF the doctor, and Immediately
set up ii violent applause which seemed to
embarrass the captain very much. Finally
Dr. Mclean appeared upon the plat
form and was appropriately received. He
began by addressing the throne of grace. in
which he crayed blessing for pretty much
everybody, and then announced his text,
Job XxXii, 10: Therefore, [ say hearken
unto me. | also will show my opinion. f"
In a somewhat disconnected manner the
speaker mentioned some of the desirable
features of this planet as place Of habita-
ton. He likened himself to Lord Byron,
who went to bed one night and found him
self famous next morning. He read a
letter from the session of the Dayton Ave
nue. Presbyterian church. dated week ago
last Saturday night, announcing that he
mustn't preach there the following Sunday.
Having read this he went back to the times
of revolution, and announced that revolu-
ton IS the first law of nature, and that,
therefore, he was going to tell the truth.
He spoke of his history in connection with
the Ninth Presbyterian church, which has
been published. He said that he had met
with constant opposition from the session
of the Presbyterian church. He reverted
10 In6 HldttoT Ol Tie salary, WHICH was 10
be about 500 month, but which was not
paid, all his receipts for three months
being S35. He was popular with the
church, save few members. Fault
had been found with him because
he was surgeon. He claimed
in exculpation that God Almighty was a
surgeon, having removed rib from Adam
by a surgical operation. He had worked
hard and faithfully and had been but
poorly rewarded. He then proceeded to his
defense, in which he jumped particularly
hard upon the Dispatch, its editor and
Deacon Wilson, and applied to them Mark
Antony'S sarcastic remarks about honor
able men. He then paid his respects to
Mrs. Rayson, picturing her as a marvel of
female loneliness, with curly brown hair,
rosy cheeks and lips like lilies dipped in
sherry wine. In regard to the poker story
he claimed that she used it to frizzle her
hair and wanted to use it upon him for the
same purpose. He admitted that she could
run and had enough steam in her upper
story to run steam engine. She had a
new story every day, nothing monotonous
about her. The remainder of the address
was in the nature of fierce denunciation
of the editor of the Dispatch and Deacon
Wilson, to whom he alluded in various vio-
lent terms as dishonorable calumniators of
the honesty of man and the purity of
women. He closed by announcing that
owing to the marketmaster' refusal to open
the hall IN the evening the evening address
would not be delivered.