St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-19
Unparalleled Enthusiasm at the Monster
Democratic Mass Meeting in st. Paul
Last Night.
Able Speakers Foretell the Coming Vic
tory and Give Reasons for
That Faith.
A Great Outpourtng of the Friends Of
Ames and Rice--The War
Is On.
Republicans Indorse X. A. Smith for
Senator--Doings of County DEM
Ocrats.
A ROusiDg Rally.

unOugn Tile nl66Llng was announced 10 Degln
at O'Clock, half an hour before that time
nearly every seat in the hall was occupied.
and when called to order promptly ON the
hour there was not even standing room in
any corner of the floor or gallery. Many
went away because they could not get near
enough to the door to hear the speakers
Enthusiasm reigned supreme. Everyone of
the audience was stirred mp to campaign
pitch and the mention OF any of the Dem
ocratlc candidates, particularly Ames and
Rice, was sufficient to set them half wild,
and was manifested by long and continued
applause and enthusiastic cheers. Previous
to the meeting the band played in front of
the building, but after the meeting opened
there was very little use for the musicians,
the thousands OF threats in the hall pro-
ducing more pleasant music than the brass
instruments. The meeting had been fully
organized in advance, with E. st. Julian
Cox as chairman, and long list of vice
presidents, SO that when the time arrived
there was no hitch. On the stage were
seated Mayor Rice, Hon. e. u. O'Bren,
Gen. Johnson, ID. w. LAWYER, E. FL. Wood,
Luth Jaeger, l.. A. Normandn, j. IL.
Col L. OLeary, Col. William Crooks,
Ss III,
and others. By arrangement the speeches
had been limited to ten minutes each.
After music by the band r. st. Julien
Cox called the meeting to order. He said
that it was new thing in the history of
political meetings to have them fully or
gained and fully manned and ready to
listen to the speakers when called to order.
He saw something in the faces before him
hot 70 Ia -
candidates in the state and in Ramsey
county, with Next Governor Ames at their
head. Tremendous applause. He then
read the programme of the evenings meet
ing. and eoQuently introduced Mayor Rice
who was received with cheers,
MAYOR ice SPEAKS.
Mayor Rice said: Friends and fellow citi-
Zens. 1t affords me pleasure to appear be-
fore you tonight. The recent Democratic
convention did ME the honor 10 nominate me
for congress. Ii that nomination is ratified
by the people shall go to Washington in full
accord with the able administration now gov
erning this country. l have no preference
for race or color. Applause. Each one
has just as many rights as any other and no
more. The state convention has nominated a
man OF brains for governor. Applause. |
The Republican party has dominated this
state for twenty-six long years. 1t was
formed to abolish slavery and has fulfilled its
mission. Its usefulness is gone. 1t is
not the past, but the living
present that you are to think of. Do you
think the Republicans should rule twenty-siX
years longer, or do you think few doses of
DR.. Ames pills would do good? There is now
a grand national administration, with no
hangers-on around the different departments
in Washington to fitch the nations money or
get fat contracts or jobs. / think the Demo
tQt iS a he an
on it will do honor to positions in the county,
aud l hope you will sustain them heartily.
Mayor Rice was enthusiastically ap-
plauded throughout, and as he sat down
these rOusing cheers were given for Rice
for congress and three more for Next Gov
ernor AmeS. Calls were then made for
other speakers, but the chair insisted
on adhering to the programme, and intro
duced Luth Jaeger. candidate for secretary
of state. He said he would say but little of
the state ticket, but more of the legislative
candidates. The state might possibly get
along with bad governor. but with bad
legislature the situation would be serious
indeed He laid great stress on the import
ance of electng the Democratic candidates
for the legislature. Carrying the idea still
further, it was important for good reliable
men to go to congress, and as such he pro-
nOunced Edmund Rice. the candidate in
this district. as the proper man.
HON. c. d. O'BRIEN.
Great applause greeted the introduction
of Hon. G. ID. O'Bren as representative
of an oppressed race, race crushed down
by tyranny. He spoke substantially as
follows:
We are here to consider the selection of
those who will represent you for the next two
years. In the division of the speaking it has
been allotted TO me to say something of the
county ticket. / love the United States, /
love the state, but Ramsey county is my
and here l expect to die. Applause. No
man carries the votes OF Ramsey county in
his pocket Each of you represent vote,
and you know how independently you cast it.
Let us glance at the political history of Ram
sey county and at Democratic action in the
past to see what are the promises for the
future. know what u mess is served
up in the newspapers about this gang
or that ring. The Democrats have served
the county i'll the past, and we are pre-em-
nentiy to- day the banner county, not only of
the state, but of the whole Northwest. You
have never knOwua Democratic officer to be
a defaulter in Ramsey county, or a Demo-
cratic officer to shrink from his duty. The
verdict of the people, like that of a jury, is
always right. Now my Republican friends
will tell you that the intelligence is arrayed
against US. At every legislature you see one
or two Republican members from Ramsey
county appeal to the country members to
pass laws to disfranchise the Democratic
voters OF Ramsey county. Who IS it that has
represented our business as being so dis
graceful that man who engages in it should
be expatriated? Who is it that says II am
boiler than thou?'' Let any of you
take your experience in this can
vass, and when any man who tells
you TO do this or that, tell you this story
about one. and some story about another can
didate, / tell you to look into his motives.
There is something wrong when the two were
walking together two months ago, and it has
come to this applausel. There never was
an attempt so insidious as the one made this
fall. Democrat after Democrat could have
been nominated If they would nave consented
to carry schemes through the legislature.
want to see these questions discussed fairly,
to be brought back to the time when opinions
were respected, when the man behind the bar
is Just as good as the man who stands outside
the bar. Applause]. don't propose because
of this aristocracy among us to become
nice gentleman and step up to the bar and
call a man scouDdrel who gives me drink.
IApplause |. 1t is all right to keep it in the
cellar and get drunk at home. Tremendous
applausel. / distrust the man who puts
things in false issue. / dstrust a temper
ance man when he gets drunk on the sly and
tells me a saloonkeeper is not my fellow citi-
zen. This city under the administration of
my friend, Mayor Rice, is the model of law
and order all over the country in a time of
excitement. In a neighboring city, where
Republicans have run rampant for years,
how is it? Men now standing with Winches-
ter rifles facing each other, and we know not
how soon the crack OF the rife will send 81
thrill of terror to our hearts. Loud and pro-
longed applause]
L. A. NORMANDIN.
The chair introduced L. A. Normandin. He
said he was proud of three things. The first
was the manner in which these Democratic
conventions had been held, state, county and
congressional
The second was the unity and harmony of
the Democrats of the state to-day. You may
call me Republican" he said, "but you all
know that the order of knights of Labor has
no politics in it" Loud applause. He re-
ferred to the appearance of the workingmen
in the county convention, and the cordiality
with which they were received, the en-
thusiasm with which NJ +. Kaiu Iapplausel
was nominated for county auditor, and
enumerated the nominations of NJ. f. DAILY,
Robert Newell and himself, labor candidates
who were Endorsed by that convention. He
also smoke of A T.. Robinson aS beinv hoo IF