St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-18
RIEL.S FRIENDS.
They Parade the Streets and Arrange
Organize Party.

Special to the Globe.
MONTREAL, Que, Nov. 1.-THE city
has regained its usual appearance. Save
half-mast ever the city hall, yesterdays
demonstration is almost forgotten. Peel
Deane, one of the jurors in the trial OF Riel
at Regina, passed through the city to-day.
Speaking of the trial, he said he never ex-
pected the sentence of death would be
carried out. They thought that
the recommendation to mercy would be
acted on by the government, and that the
utmost penalty would be imprisonment for
life. The jury knew that the half-breeds
had grievances, and it was for this reason
they recommended Riel to mercy. A depu-
tation waited upon the mayor and repre-
scented to him that the floating of the tri-
color over the city hall is in bad taste
and calculated to produce irritation.
The mayor said he thought
it was a mistake and ordered
it removed. A great mass meeting OF RiePs
sympathizers is arranged for Sunday. A
new French-Canadian national party has
been formed, Oh account OF recent events.
1t will not antagoniZe English interests,
but fraternize French-Canadian interests.
Three hundred students OF Victoria univer-
sity, led by their president, La Rose, pa
raded the streets tonight, grooming and yell
ing. La Rose bore baton in the shape of
human bone, and transparency with a
picture of Aid. Wilson hanging in effigy.
Wilson protested in the city council yester-
day at that body's action against the gov
eminent. The students proceeded to Nell
sons place of business, followed by a crowd
of several thousand, and then marched
to his residence, there burning Wilson i'll
effigy in front of his door. Orators ha-
rangued the crowd. Then they marched to
the Gazette Office, where groaning was in
dulged in and Minister White, proprietor of
the Gazette. was burned in effigy. The
crowd dispersed without making any
trouble.
TORONTO, Nov. 1.-THE Globe LIB
eral) to-day says:
Another act of the terrible Northwest trag
edy closed on Monday morning, and on the
27th, it is said, eight Indians will be hanged
All these horrors might have been avoided if
Sir John Macdonald had done his duty as
minister of the interior and premier of
Canada, and there would have been no rebel
lion, and Canada would have been spared all
this dreadful loss of life, which is national
disgrace, and which appears to be national
judgment. The ani1nosities of race, which
were smouldering, and which all true
friends of Canada hoped would soon be
quite extinguished, have again leaped into
flame, which may consume much that the
people of Canada value most dearly. We
now see in the bloodshed and the treasure
wasted and the enmities of race revived some
of the baueful effects of restoring power to
men who had shown how greatly they could
abuse it,
The Mail conservative says:
"Riel met his fate yesterday like man of
courage. He betrayed no signs of insanity
but, on the contrary, bore himself as became
one on his way to meet his God. Now that
Justice has been done the excitement in
Quebec appears to have subsidized suddenly.
Rough demagogues are still at work, but the
good sense and patriotism of the people are
not likely to be disturbed by their base ap-
peals."
AN OLD LETTER.
NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-THE Irish World
in its next issue will publish long letter
from Louis Riel, under date of Batoche,
May 6, last. The editor prefaces it by say
ing that it reached him May Is; that Riel
was then prisoner. and that its publica-
ton was withheld lest it should prejudice
Riers case. 1t contains nothing new,
being devoted to repetition of the
story of the half-breeds' wrongs
ana 10 remuneration Oh EnSldliu anu Ely
lshmen. He accuses them of land robber-
les in the Northwest, in Ireland, Scotland.
India, Australia and the islands of the In
dian ocean. Even the United States, he
says, has permitted them to acquire land
without preteXt, by occupancy for cattle
grazing, enough to make several large
states, and charges President Cleveland and
Secretary Bayard with putting the United
States in the position of an ally to England
in putting down the Northwest rebellion by
allowing British soldiers and ammunition
to pass over American railroads and permit
ting federal soldiers to teach the Queens
own the use of the Calling gun.