St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-19
MR.. SABIN A SPEAKER.
The Junior Minnesota Senator Makes an
Eloquent Impromptu Address at
the Garret Banquet,
And, By Way of Parenthesis, Puts in a
Few Good Words for the North
Star State.
william Pitt Lynde, the Noted Mil
waukee Lawyer. Dead--Sketch
of His Life.
Thomas Clark of Superior Makes an
Assignments Wisconsin EN-
beZzler Caught.
Senator Sabin OH minnesota,

Special to the Globe.
New YORK, Dec. Ex-senator Sabin
was in New York Wednesday and present
at the banquet rendered by Mr.. WiInan and
his associates Of the Staten Island Improve
ment company to President Garrett of the
Baltimore d Ohio railroad, who has rec
emily consolidated the Staten Island inter
ests and is making the same the terminal
for his New York business. The senator
occupied seat at the guest table which was
assigned to the mayor of Philadelphia, who,
being absent, left his toast to Philadelphia
without response, and on its being an
nounced by President Wman, calls were
the Western terminus of the Baltimore &
OHIO railway. Mr.. Wlman. president of
the Staten Island company, introducing
Mlnnesota's Junior member, paid hand
some tribute to Minnesota and the West.
when was substantially as follows: |
nave very great pleasure, gentlemen, III re-
spouse 10 your calls to announce the pres
sence here tonight of a DISTINGUISHED
gentleman of the West. gentleman repre-
senting the great state of Minnesota. which
is as largely, if not more so. interested in
the development of this new railroad enter
prise as any other section. being the largest
wheat producing state and having the most
extensive milling manufactures in the
world, and it affords me great pleasure to
present to you Senator Sabin of Minnesota.
and ask you to drink the health to that
great and growing state. To which Senator
Sabin responded: Mr.. President l am
sensible OF the courtesy and honor YOU do
my state and myself by the very
FLATTERING ALLUSIoN
and cordial greeting extended tonight I
am. however, as you know, the recipient of
this favor as the result Of the happy acct
dent which detained me in New York to-
night, and l only wish that the accident
might have occurred early in the day. and [
been notified that response was expected
on this occasion, that l might. as
my friends and neighbors have done.
gathered my scattered thoughts to-
gether and carefully noted down
few impromptu remarks in which might
nave httlnglv expressed the appreciation
which feel for the complimentary allusion
to the great and prosperous West and es-
peclally the young state Of Minnesota which
have the honor to represent. and whose
growth in the past has been almost phenom-
email and whose future, in our estimation,
is almost beyond the comprehension of even
our Western enthusiasm. This occasion.
Mr.. President, is one in which the state of
Minnesota and the great West mngle in en-
Joyment and cOngratulatiOn with you to-
night. The extension of the Baltimore q
ONO railroad to its terminus on an Eastern
seaboard at one Of the finest harbors on the
coast marks a new era in the great subject
OF cheap transportation to seapOrts, a sub
ject to which the productive and industrial
interests of the great Northwest are turning
of yr-ifh
hope, and the extension of this great trunk
line, which has been built and equipped
and operated in the interests of the stock
holders and business interests of the coun-
try instead of being built and operated in
the interests of the construction COMPANY
and
LOADED DOWN WITH wATERED STOCK
and bonds for several times its actual cost
and on which fictitious and enormous vau-
atoms were created out of nothing, and
which overburdened and oppressed produ-
GERS Of the West are paving from their hard
earnings to self-elected railroad magnates
and capitalists of the country, and in this
connection permit me to say to the brilliant
| and enterprsing young president of the
Baltimore q Ohio railway that when this
great work OF supplying your missing link
is accomplished, we invite you to turn your
attention to that land of promise, the new
Northwest, and if you will drop us tele-
gram over the lines of that other great cor
poration of yours. which has also proved
potent factor in regulating other watered
monopolies, we will without delay relieve
you of the great expense and burden of the
arduous labor and patentnegotiation which
has secured the contamination of the ter.
minal facilities which we celebrate tonight
and cheerfully and thankfully join hands
with you, and together we will join the head
of navigation on the Atlantic with the head
of navigation on the great Father of Waters
in the midst of the most fertile and fair por-
ton of this fair land. and from which we
will furnish you golden grain with which to
fill the miles Of solid elevators which you
expect will line your beautiful harbor and
when that suspicious occasion arrives the
industries and people of the state which
am proud to represent will turn out and
welcome and banquet you, and to which
feast we most cordially extend an invitation
to you all.