St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-29

house. He was kept busy shaking hands
during his stay, and he and Judge Wilson
had pleasant chat. The KassOn band
played several tunes in front of COolidge'S
hall before the meeting opened. The large
hall was completely filed with an audience
of the best people of KassOn and the solid
farmers of the surrounding country. 1t
was a crowd of men who. once forming an
opinion cannot be moved by
campaign sophistry. The meeting
was meverv respect a success and
the effect most gratifying. A. j.
Leach, chairman of the county committee,
called the meeting to order and introduced
the Judge. The Judge laid stress on the
point that the old issues between the par
ties were obiterated and that the most inl-
portant issues to be considered now are the
watering of railroad stock and the centrali-
cation OF capital. He used w. D. Wash
burn as an illustration of how poor man
may become millionaire in a few years
through the
ISSUING OF wATERED STOCK.
Referring to the meeting at Minneapolis
when &. X. Davis was followed by j. B.
Gihllan with speech, the speaker raised
laugh by remarking that it was like bring
ing in the ice cream after the champagne.
The tariff received considerable share of
attention, the protection policy being sharply
criticised and reduction and modification
advocated. The evading of taxation by
rich men and the devices by which capital
lists hold large bodies of land in the name
of railroads and pay no tax, were roundly
censured and condemned. The trickery of
capitalists who have large amounts of money
a week OF two before the assessor comes
around but who invest in government
bonds and escape taxation, and then week
after sell the bonds again and have the use
of the money during the year, was severely
criticised. He showed how his opponents
had deliberately mlsrepresented him by
spreading broadcast the allegation that he
was railroad attorney. and denied that he
had ever been the salaried attorney of any
railroad or corporation. He reviewed his
record while a member OF the leg Stature,
and
THE TELLING POINTS
were loudly applauded. He explained the
charge made against him that he had been
a stakeholder in the Redwood Falls branch
of the No ,hwd tern railroad He asserted
that he never had at any time. nor does he
hold now, one dollars worth of stock or in
terest in the road. His name was simply
used in the articles of incorporation as one
convenience, which is very often done i'll
other cases. He characterized the charge
as an infamous falsehOed, unworthy of
reputable man. The men who made the
charge against him knew it was lie. and
yet they deliberately made use of it to in
jure him. The same wiIful and infamous
ISLANDERS were used against him by inslnua-
ting or charging that he had formulated
legislation i'm the interest of the tax sharks.
1t was not necessary to pay attention to it.
His whole life mad been known to be i'll
opposition to tax sharks. and he never
would accept case where it was attempted
to gain possession of mans property
through tax title. His traducers knew
too that this was a lie, but they do not care
if it Injuries Wilson. He again
DIssEcTED ATTORNEY GENERAL HAHN,
the reading of the latter's letters producing
great laughter. The charge by Window
that he charged Sc. 900 for what he agreed
to do for $1,000 was etfectually exploded.
The action of the Winona Republican was
characterized as cowardly and contemplate.
When Window mace the speech, in which
this charge was made, it was announced
that the Republican would publish it, but
that paper did not dare do so because the
people of WinOna knew it was false
Still the publishers have sent the speech
ont in supplement form and in the weekly,
and scattered it over the district outside OF
Winona county. The judges speech
made fine impression. and his exconation
of this SANDER was heartily applauded by
his hearers. Judge Wilson speaks at
Winona tomorrow night. Albert Lea Sat
urday night, and KushfOrd Monday night.