St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-19
THEIR BOSS EFFORT.
Rsuublicans of Minneapolis Hold What
They Call Their Rally of the
Campaign.
4 Good Procession, But a Big UroWu
Talked Away By Very Poor
Speeches.
Republicans All Broken UP py LILO
Disappearance OF Their Ban
ner Array.
enthusiastic Democratic Campaign
Work--Various Notes OF
the Canvass.

meant street paTaUe anu d mass iS
# the Casino and was duly accepted as
heir GROWING effort and climax OF the
ampaign. 1t had long been advertised
,nd was doomed by every means known to
he astute managers of the Republican cam
,aign as the grandeSt event the party would
NOW this fall. As such the Democrats
.heerfulIy accepted it. and not one could
,e found last night who was wiling 10
secrv or belittle ii: on the contrary, 1t was
With a universal feeling or satls.
fac1IOn flat the Democrats witnessed
this ..crowning event" There was
real nice torchlight procession. several
bands. numerous tranSparencies, two dozen
new broons and about as many handsome
gentlemen with gorgeous SaSheS, mounted
On skittish horses. Nearly every ward
turned out a club and nearly every club
mad band, while in nearly every case the
,lub outnumbered the band. TO show
their excess of patriotism some or the
marchers carried three torches each. though
numerous small boys on the sidewalk
offered to join their numerous boy frlends
n the line and carry
THE EXTRA TORCHES.
Some of the tranSparencleS bore Win strlct
pressure on the times, the most conspicuous
beng one borne by the Eighth ward con-
tingent, saying: 'McGtll is Good Enough
for U.s. implying that he might not, per-
hapS. be good enough for somebody else.
The county ticket was gorgeously olazoneS
forth and one transparency concealed the
name of Gilfllan. in small letters, away
down in one corner. The procession was
headed by the kidgloved gentlemen of the
Union league. and included the colored
Robert Elliot club. of st. Paul. Its
members were variOuSly estimated from 500
to l. 500. conservative Republicans giving
the first figure and enthusiastic ones the
last. The line marched about the city for
4 half hour and ended at the Casino,
where the meeting was held. There the
crowd became apparent, for over 5000 per-
sons were packed in, filing all the seats
and overlooking into the aiSles. 1t was
quite large gathering, even for 1.-The rally
Of the campaign" The rink was curiouSly
,>repared for the occasion, as it glittered
with the notices of the WOmen'S Christian
Temperance Union. whose meetings begin
tomorrow, but everything went and
nobody was unhappy. ''Ihe Pohtlcal
School. the Saloon" stared in the faces OF
the orators on the stage, but they
NEVER SAID A WORD.
This group of orators came in together and
was made up of W. d. Washhurn, K. Is.
Landon, A. r. McGill, j. i. Gillian, c.
A. PillSbury and others Of lesser light.
". D. Washburn called the meeting to Or
der and announced himself as chairman.
saving it gave him the usual pleasure.
Here Mai. Hicks caught his eye, and pull
ing out ream of legal cap, read list OF
some $50 vice presidents, which list had
nearly every born voter OF the party IN
cluded. The preliminaries being happily
settled, Hon. c. K. Davis, OF st. Paul, was
introduced as the orator OF the evening.
1t was a long time before he got
down to business. but when he did,
he began jeremiad On the
defeat Of Blaine, and warned his hearers
that unless Minnesota did her duty to the
Republican cause this fall that disaster
would be repeated in 1883. First. he took
up the labor question. which is prominent
in politics, and. reading from manuscript,
dwelt upon the relations of the Republican
party to labor So long as he INDUCED in
party generalities and pretty platitudes he
was wildly applauded, but whenever he
left his manuscript and began to particu-
larize the crowd sat in disappointed silence.
Presently he took up the tariff question and
dwelt upon the beauties of protection IN
general way, but utterly without commit
ting himself, further than saying the present
war tariff did not Cypress the people, but
rather permitted such display OF varied
products as was shown at the recent
MINNEAPOLIS EXPOSITION.
This fell so fiat that he told story of
doubtful morality, which set the men in
grin and caused the ladies present to blush
in shame. The distinguished orator then
grew satirical and laughed over the civil
service reform, reading secret pOstoffice
circulars and winding up with 1.-The ap-
pointment Of Kelly and DOran to the die
tatorship of Minnesota" The admission OF
Dakota. Clevelands pension vetoeS and
various other national matters were
touched upon, the speaker having now con-
sumed an hour of time without referring to
a local matter. The succeeding half
hour was occupied in bloody shirt speech
of the most marked character, even the red
shirt, the shotgun and the tissue ballot re-
appearing in oft-repeated recurrence.
Finally he came down to state politics and
proceeded to dismember the Democratic
platform. When that was accomplished, he
turned to McGill, whom he pronounced
soldier and a gentleman, who had sat IN
Office under every governor for seventeen
years. He said he had been accused of
MALIGNING MAYOR AMEs,
but that was a sort of campaigning he
never INDUCED in, Let his own people
Judge of him in the the election so near at
hand This was all he said, turning
abruptly to the congressional candidate
and giving Gilfillan a great send-off. He
mentioned his efforts IN behalf of the
Northern Pacific railroad, but not hand
was raised in applause of this. So good
a congressman he said Gilfillan was that
no necessity for change existed. Finally,
he closed his speech with a patriotic ap-
peal to the audience to draw party lines to the
closest tension, and vote the ticket straight.
1t was, as whole. a jerkey and unSatis-
factory effort, eloquent at times, but always
general and never once particular. With
the exception of the ''smutty" story, it
might be ranked as an average campaign
effort, but certainly not what might have
been expected from "MinAesota'S leading
orator"
The band played pretty and relieving
air, and at its conclusion the air grew Sensi-
bly, cooler, as John B. GilfiIlan was intro
duced as 1.-The present and next congress
man." Mr.. Gilfillan made very good
campaign speech. though the circumstances
WtEc fctY UtSCOuIdSluS. IHG CIONQ. WHICH
had steadily ebbed during the speech of
Mr.. Davis. went out in droyes when he
concluded, and Mr.. GiIfllan's voice was
sadly interrupted by the noiseOf the retreat.
Part of his effort was
BLOODY SHIRT
in a measure. and he contracted the pleas
ing habit of saying ''thoSe men who were
arrayed against us in the civil war;" and
''those men we fought" until some one in
the audience asked what regiment he be-
longed to. He also spoke of the tariff. and
devoted his hour to reading lot of stats
tics to show what calamity would overtake
the country in case system of free trade
should be inaugurated, while the crowd
slowly ebbed away, leaving the galleries.
once packed full, now empty and des
olate. In speaking of the tariff
he quoted ''the GLOBE the great
Democratic paper of the Northwest" as
saying he would not attempt to refute the
tariff attitude of Edmund Rice, but he said
he die now and here refute it. He stood
against the state Republican platform, and