St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-05
ST. CLOUDS CYCLONE.
The One Which Visited the Place Last
Evening Was of Big Di-
menSionS,
But It Was Storm of Enthusiasm, and
Not a Death-Dealing
Blast.
Mayor Ames Opens the Gubernatorial
Campaign Among His Former
Patients,
Who Remember the Doctors DeVo-
ton and Hail Him as the Next
Governor.
lines at ST. Cloud.

stances. amid great enthusiasm, with the
blare of music and amid the glare of the
torches. 1t was one of the most successful
political meetings ever held in st. Cloud,
and the effect will be to encourage and
stimulate the zeal of the Democrats OF
Stearns county. The meeting was really
a combination of the forces Of st. Cloud
and Sank Rapids. very large delegation
coming over from the latter city. 1t was
first announced that the meeting would
be held in the court house,
but early in the afternoon it
became evident that this would not hold
the people and the opera house was Sc
cured DR.. AmeS. accompanied by Lars
NJ. Rand c. A. Gallagher, c. l.. Locke
and A. F. NOrdin. arrived on the $40 train
from Minneapolis and took supper at the
Grand Central hotel. Shortly before
o'clock the procession formed at the opera
house headed by the ST. Cloud band, with DR..
Ames and his body guard and the ST. Cloud
local committee in carriages. Every mem
Der of the procession carried torch or 2
transparency. and it was a most surprising
scene as they marched through the streets.
There were some novel and effective
INSCRIPTIONS ON THE TRANSPARENCIES,
among which were the following:
.Ames the Poor Mans Friend" mayor
Ames by 5000 MajorIty;" Down With the
Wheat Ring" "Pillsbury's Best VIII Be Nc
GilTs Worst" st. Cloud and Sank Rapids
Have Cause to Remember Ames;" 'All Hail
Dur Cyclone Friend, DR.. Ames;' 1.-The Cyclone
Sufferers Best Friend;'' st. Cloud Remem-
bers DR.. Ames; ""Little William Fletcher Can
Be Go.grnor This Time;'' ''McGill Knocked
Out by Ames:" Farmers Will Vote for Ames
and Beat the Wheat Ring who Nominated
Ames? The People, 'Workingmen, Vote
for Ames; He is Your Friend"
The procession returned to the opera
house after marching around number of
squares. and the crowd rushed in and soon
filled the large room to OVERLOOKING. Every
seat was taken in the parquette, as well as
In the gallery, and numbers were compelled
to stand in the rear. DR.. AmeS and num-
Der of prominent citizens, besides the Min
neapolis delegation, occupied seats on the
platform. When AmeS appeared on the
platform
THE APPLAUSE WAS DEAFENING.
and long continued. The st. Cloud band
played an inspiring all, at the conclusion OF
which President l.. r. Swift, of the Ames
club, called the meeting to order. he in
trOduced Mayor AmeS, after few prelim-
mary remarks, and the latter, after the ap-
plause had subsidized. referred feeGngly and
SlOqu0UllH W Ills hIOlb W Dl. O1OuO
Sank Rapids during the frightful cyclone
days and the different circumstances under
which he met them now. Instead
OF manned and blackened corpses
he finds enthusiastic men with
bands of music and torches. He drew
a contrast between the two state cOnven-
tons held in St. Paul. the Democratic full
of harmony and confidence, the Republican
just the contrary, there being bitter con-
test between the factions. He made the
point that the Republican party had out
lived Bits usefulness. The Democratic party
represented the people, the Republican the
Bosses He criticised and condemned the
wheat and elevator rings, and asserted that
they controlled and dictated the Republican
nominations He alluded to the fact that
Minnesota was oppressed with unjust laws
favOring the monopolists and the capitalists
and grinding down the lab0ring classes.
THE LEADERS WERE TO BLAME
for this state of affairs. When he was
nominated he insisted that the battle be
made upon live issues, especially. One
was to look after the old soldiers, another
to protect the laborer, and another to give
the farmer his rights. OF course the Re-
publicans followed suit, but these things
have been incorporated in the Republican
platforms for the last eight or
ten years, and nothing has ever
been done. He made an earnest,
eloquent and effective plea in favor of
justice to the old soldier, and described the
trials and fluctuations of the veterans, both
during and since the war. He advocated
the building of home for infirm and dis
abled soldiers by the state. The Repub-
licans wanted the national government to
do it. Why hadn't they done something
during the twenty years since the war?
They had, it seems just, awakened to the
fact that something ought to be done for the
soldiers of Minnesota. The speaker al
luded to the grievances of the laboring men
and said he believed they were entitled to all
they asked for. Capital should not be pro-
tected to
GRIND DOWN THE MASSES
Of the people He said the laboriug men
Of Minneapolis had elected him mayor, and
ae knew they did not ask for anything but
what was right. They were not fighting
against capital. If the farmers and labor
ing men were united. they could secure the
passage of laws which would right their
wrongs. He eXcoriated the elevator sys-
TEN and railroad discrimination in favor of
the capitalist, and alluded to the Pillsburys,
one of whom he had the pleasure of
knocking out last spring, as being at
the head of these grinding systems.
He reviewed the city hall ring in Mime
apoliS and the alleged steal which was
CLOSED over by an investigating committee
as gross Irregularities, and showed the Re-
publicanS to have been responsible. He
said the laboring men were fast becoming
educated. Important questions were dis
cuSSed by them, aud they were fast becom-
ing independent of their employers. They
could not be forced to vote for anybody
against their will. They could say
to the employer, ''You can con-
troll my hours of labor, but you
can't control my franchise" He made a
strong point out of the claim always made
by the Republicans thatthe Pillsburys had
done so much for Minneapolis. Now what
had the laboring men done for the P illsburys?
The Pillsburys owed all their riches to the
laboring men. He scathingly referred to
the charges that had been made against his
moral standing and character, and said the
fact that he had beaten this same
man Pillsbury by 5000 majority was q
sufficient refutation of the infamous slurs
and ISLANDERS that had been sent broadcast
by his enemies. 1t was vile and filthy
way of meeting him. casting a slur upor
from him that would naturally be cas-
for him.
A. GALLAGHER, OF MINNEAPOLIS,
followed and made a telling speech. He
first paid his respects to d young lad who
had been ringing a chestnut bell. He
drew pictures of the two candidates fol
governor, referring caustically to McGilr:
dyed mustache and his seventeen years
record as an Office holder. He saio
it was rumored that McGil
wore corsetS. but he could not
vouch for it. His eulogy of Ames was g
fine effort and the crowd maintained the
most perfect silence. When he referred tc
the services of Ames during the cyclone,
the mention of Ames' name in this connec
ton worked the crowd up to the highest