St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-21
WAR HORSE WILSON.
The Sturdy Old Veteran Of the First Dis
trict Captures the Grand Meadow
Voters.
lie Tells Them Some Plain Home Truths
About the DcingS of the
Republicans,
And Places the Tariff Issue in Clear
Light Before His
Hearers.
Mayor Ames And His Fellow Speak.
ers Receive a Warm Welcome
at LftchfieId.
wilson at Grand Meadow.

Special to the Globe.
GRAND MEADOW, MIMI, Oct. Colon
Thomas Wilson addressed a very large
audience at Grand Meadow this evening.
The marked enthusiasm which greetS him
at every move is an earnest of the great
Democratic victory of Nov. 2. The charac-
ter of his audiences shows how deep seated
is the political revolution now taking place.
Old and tried Republicans. the substantial
elements of the various localities, are break
ing loose from party ties that have 50 long
led them to uphold the Republican rings and
cliQueS at whose hands they have suffered.
Judge Wilson discussed the great revolution
that is breaking up party lines. and SAID
that men are now voting for men and prln-
ciples. regardless of old traditions, and are
now alive to the real issues of the present
To illustrate this, the labor difficulties and
the organization Of farmers alliances were
dwelt upon and unhesitatingly Endorsed as
being necessary to the advance OF our in
StitutiOnS and the
PRECIPITATION OF PERSONAL LIBERTY.
The first among the live questions was
the interest of the old soldiers who had de-
Tended and preserved the Union. He adVo-
Gated their rights and Endorsed the platform
of the party on that question. He said he
was III favor of our past war and at that
time was a Republican. but to-day is
Democrat He supported the live issues OF
the present. forgetting the dead past. The
war and the men who were the movers and
directors of it received and do resolve his
earnest and heartfelt gratitude and support.
But this is now matter Of sentiment and
veneration. 1t is past. He then discussed
the duties that the people would expect
him to perform, should they elect him to
congress They would not expect HIM to
discuss and press the dead issues of the
war; but rather the great living questions
OF the present. first of which is
THE TARIFF
which OppreSseS the farming interests of
the Vest for the benefit of the mmeyed
corpol ations of the East. He discussed it
in a very able and satisfactory manner and
his IDEAS were in marked accord with the
audience. composed Of the farmers of the
surrounding district He also spoke of the
power of concentrated capital and the
means to which it resorted to choke off
individual competition. whereby the rich
have been gro ing richer and the poor
poorer. Before the war men had chance
to rise from the position of emplOye to that
of employer, but this is changed to-day by
the aggregated and combined capital of
corporations organized to subserve selfish
interests and against individual enterprise.
He said he could mention twenty men in
the United States who could preciptate
financial crisis at any time, and give US an
other Black Friday.
THE RAILROAD QUESTION
as it exists to-day was taken up and argued
from the standpoint Of the people and
against extortion by stock watering and
other unfair means, against which the peo-
pie and the Democratic party are now ar
rayed Another subject discussed as being
contrary to the public good and the general
welfare OF the farming districts was the dis
elimination in rates between localities
whereby places being nearer TO the TEL
minus of a railroad are made to pay a
higher rate than one five or ten times the
distance. A ten-strike was made that will
count in the game when the votes are
counted. There is no doubt that the farm
ers of this district will let Mr.. Lovely re-
main home among his friends at Albert
Lea two years at least. 1t is in the air
that this district will roll up a majority for
Wilson beyond any estimate now made by
conservative men.