St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-20
CAMPAIGN STRETCHES.

Republican meeting on Monday night that is
slgnlhcant OF the entire campaign. That fea-
ture was A. X. McGill sitting on exhibition
on the platform, silent and neglected, with
none so poor to do him reverence. The na-
tive imbecility of a man was never made
more apparent. Though the candidate for
governor and the man for whom PRINCIPALLY
the campaign Is made, there be sat utterly
lost and helpless. an image of inactivity He
was not introduced, he did not speak. his
very presence even was not made known TO
the crowd, and pushed back into corner
almost out OF sight, he sat there, the puppet
and tool that he is. So it has been all through
the campaign. He but represents the wheat
ring and has no identity of his own. Hun
dredS OF people commented on this fact on
Monday night.
That meeting was great black eve for
Davis and Gilfillan, but especially Gillian
1t was fine audience that assembled there
and the Democrats do not deny it. 1t con-
tanned nearly all the Republican voters of the
city. They expected to hear so distinguished
an orator as G. K. Davis dissect the local
campaign and give "a lively discussion Of
state issues, but they were disappointed He
gave merely a bloody-shirt harangue and q
dissertation on the beauties of the party OF
the past. had nothing to say. Accepting
the warning, he dropped his abuse of Mayor
gument. No wonder the crowd went before
he was half through. But Gillian was coldly
and deliberately insulted. AS soon as he was
announced people began to troop out leav-
ing him to talk to empty benches. They pre-
ferred even Davis slnutty stories to Gil
fllan's tariff twaddle on How Voted Right
and My Four Colleagues Voted Wrong.''
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Capt. Osgood who is as good Republican
q iS I'D md
says: ''Darned, if he amt really afraid Ames
will be elected" because, as he knows, 1.-The
farmers are going to flock 10 him in crowds
Capt. Osgood has just returned from Apple
ton, where Republican mass meeting was
held on Monday 1t was wheat day and about
five hundred farmers were in the town with
wheat. He went to the mass meeting and
found three speakers and just four men in
the building, yet there were 500 farmers doing
nothing, but sedulOusly keeping away from
the Republican meeting. He went among
the farmers and found them almost unani-
mously opposed to McGill and in favor of
Ames. So he came home very much depressed
and has made up his mind that Ames is to be
elected.
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A Republican orator, who has just returned
from trip through the interior of the state,
told a friend, very conf1dentialy, that he had
had very poor trip. Said he: ut doesn't
ers. They know too much. They sit and
take in all you say. and then very suddenly
floor you with question. One of them asked
me about some wheat business, and knocked
me out, for couldn't tell him anything about
it. They make a business of politics and get
right down to it. One Of them asked me Of
the bearing of McGills nomination on the
wheat ring, and said it would floor US if we
couldn't explain it away. They hate the
Millers' association worse than poison, and
the idea has gone all over the state that the
election of McGill means the triumph of the
ring. and down goes the price of wheat.
tell you the Pillsburys and Loren Fletchers
will be the Jonahs to down US this time
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'sWhat will be the effect of the strike on the
chances for Ames?'' asked a young man of
the Democratic managers, yesterday.
1.-The effect; why good, of course. Didn't
he bring everything out all right, in spite of
the fact that Republican papers, Republican
politicians, Republican railroad companies
and Republican emissaries were doing all in
their power to bring on trouble. When the
railroad managers wanted to shoot men down
and bring on riot, and when business men
were bowling for a special police army of
/ 600 men, which would have plunged the city
into state of anarchy, wasn't it his inf1u-
ence that prevented it and brought about
peaceful solution? Don't you suppose he will
get every organized labor vote in Minneapo-
lis? You can bet he will He is their friend,
even when duty compels him to take course
against Them
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1.-THE flag is a great issue in this campaign"
said member of the Republican county COM
mttee, yesterday. lit is not who will control
the state, the people or the wheat ring but
who will steal the most flags. We began it up
in Fergus Falls and the Democrats are trying
to get even with US down here Never mind.
some fine morning they'll wake up and find
their Ames banner gone. Democrats amt the
only ones who can get drunk and pull flags
down."