St. Paul daily globe., 1886-10-10
AMES AT SALTWATER.
The Democratic Candidate Enthuses
the Prison City.
He VIII Not Conduct a Mud-Slfng1ng
Campaign.

At 7:25 the train on the Duluth road
steamed into the depot, and from 1t alighted
Mayor A. A. Ames. A. F.Nordin and Chris A.
Gallagher. The party were met at the depot
by Hon. E. w. Durant and escorted by
the Saltwater band, headed by q
squad of police, they marched to the opera
house, where they were Joined by Hon.
Edmund Rice, of st. Paul. AS meeting was
announced al South Saltwater for the same
hour, Mr.. NOrdin at once entered a carriage
and was driven there to open that meeting. to
be followed by DIR. Ames at the conclusion of
his opera house speech. The genial doctor
took station at the head of the first flight OF
stairs, and as the crowd surSed past him into
the opera house, shook hands with them
right and left. On entering the house
the distinguished gentlemen were re-
eeived with loud applause. E. W.
Durant called the meeting to order,
and nominated W. G. Brunson as chairman.
Mr.. Brunson, upon taking the chair, thanked
those present for the courtesy done blm by
his selection to preside over such meeting.
We had the two mayors of our great Twin
Cities here, one 1s
THE STANDARD BEARER
for governor and the other for congress. He
was proud to introduce TO them Mayor Ames,
Doe Ames, of Minneapolis. The doctor
stepped to the 'front.' amid loud applause, and
said: ''Gentlem en-: On my trip from Du-
luth met such reception as to make me
believe that the people intended to make it
unanimous. The Democrats have made strong
nominations this fall. Wilson, Macdonald,
and Rice were men against whose honesty
not one word had ever been brought. The
way to win was to nominate hohest men.
The conventions of the two great parties
presented a great contrast. Three hu ndred
representative men of one party met, and.
after due deliberation. nominated their ticket
ir1On no nj "a naf nd OF
teen hours of wrangling, nominated ticket
that was full of strife. The man at the head
of the ticket had been in Office seventeen
years under the Republican party. He did
not assail his honesty. The
MID SINGING
all came from the other side. The masses Of
the Republican party did not nominate McGill,
but the bosses did. When he (Ames) was
nominated he asked that three planks be put
in the platform. The first was that the state
should care for her veterantS, the second that
labor should be protected and the third that
the farmer should be protected from the
sharks that stand ready to degour him. The
Republicans made a platform of promises,
but for twenty years that was all they had
done. The farmers asked for bread and they
got a brick bat. Some of the corporations
had told him that the less he said about them
the more votes he would get at the election.
He did not care how quick they beat him.
He would say what he thought
of them. The corporations and rings were
expressing the farmers and laboring men and
they ought to have relief from them. The
word had gone forth and this was to be a mud
singing campaign on the part Of his op-
ponents. He had stood the discharge of their
mud batteries for ten years and he was
ready for them now. They called him COM
munist. One thing he would say, as sworn
official, it was his duty to Protect
CAPITAL AND LABOR
in his city, and he would do it with his blood
if necessary, but so long as he
was mayor Of Minneapolis no labor
ing man should be trod upon. The time
was when labOring men were discharged and
put on the black list for voting for him.
Thank God, that day was past. The Repub-
lican candidates feared to meet Wilson, Mac
Donald. Rice and Ames upon the platform
but had determined to wage a campaign of
filth. Let it come. They could not win with
the people in that way.
DIR. Ames was cheered enthusiastically
again and again during his speech and when
ever his name was mentioned by those who
followed him it was met with applause. The
Minneapolis delegation. over three hundred
strong, came over on a special on the Omaha,
arriving during Ames' speech and were
greeted with cheers as they entered the hail
headed by the drum corps. Mayer Rice fol-
lowed Mayor Ames and he in turn was fol-
lowed by Chris a. Gallagher, of Minneapolis,
who both made stirring speeches. Hon. E.
w. Durant made a strong speech and for
maIly opened his campaign for state senator.
Mr. Nor in closed the evening in q brief but
strong address. The opera house was
crowded and the meeting full of enthusiasm.