St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-21
DANA HALL PACKED.
A Rousing Meeting Of Demo-
Gratis Last Evening in the
Sixth Ward. -,
Mayor AmeS Gives the "Ma-
jOrS" and "Colonels" a
Bit Of Sarcasm.
Aid. Johnson and Deacon Net
Teton Came in for a
Gentle Roast.
Addresses by Mr.. Winston,
Judge Rand, John 7. Byrnes
and Others.

capacity last evening on the occasion OF
Democratic meeting under the aus
pices of the city committee. The audi
ence was composed mainly of working
men, who paid the utmost attention to
the addresses. The stage was decorated
with American flags and handsome Oil
paintings of Cleveland and Thurman.
MAYOR AMES OPENED.
G. Neuman acted as chairman, and
acquitted himself with credit. He first
introduced Mayor Ames. who was en-
Enthusiastically received. He opened
his address by referring to his official
career, and made the statement that no
one had ever dared to charge him with
abusing the trust repOSed in him by the
people. He next turned his attention
to the Republican press of Minneapolis,
and stated that the men who wrote the
articles speaking ill of the Democratic
officials when the facts did not bear out
the statement were contemplate liars.
II am about to leave the mayors
chair" continued the mayor, land l am
glad to see that as good man as p. B.
Winston has been named to succeed me.
| should feel ashamed to turn it over to
such man as Capt. Babb. You need
a man for mayor who has nerve enough
to say yes and no. You do not want
any old ladies there, but you do want
man who will fittingly represent the
city. | want to see man there who
will help the city in every way.
1T has been said that Mr.. Winston
was soldier in the rebel army. He
did serve in that army, yet |, as one of
the old soldiers, honor him. The men
who are criticising Mr.. Winston are
such men as Maj Haskell, Col King,
and Maj Blethen. The editor of the
Pioneer Press, an Englishman who dare
not become naturalized. is abusing Mr..
Winston. During the time | was in the
army saw thousands of such men as
Mr.. Winston received most cordially by
the Union soldiers. At the cOnclu-
sion of the war we extended
what Inequalities we could to
them. That's the way the old soldiers
received the rebel soldiers. Now, l am
getting sick of the bloody shirt bust
ness, and really believe that the men
ShO are Haunting it to the breeze all tire
time are only fit to be placed under the
skirts of it. / claim that an old soldier
is entitled to all honor, and to respect
and aid in time of necessity. You will
remember that it was a Democrat who
started the soldiers home, and took the
old soldiers out of the various poor
houses around the state. When the Re-
publicanS tell you not to vote for Mr..
Winston because he was a soldier in the
rebel army, ju st ask them why they
voted for Gen. ROsSer some years ago,
and elected 3. +. Nelson an alderman.
A rebel soldier is all right when he is
Republican, but devil incarnate
when he is Democrat.
| believe that public office is public
trust, and were | in the position to do
it would make abuses in office penal
offense, and L would send such guilty
persons to state prison, to spend the
rest of their natural life in breaking
stone. There have been dark places in
Minneapolis history, but thank God
they are not on the Democratic pages.
1t was during a Republican adminiStra-
ton when some $4,000 worth of re-
pairs on the city hall cost nearly $4,000.
The mayor next took up the police
commission and severely roasted the
Republican legislature which Great d
the commission. He referred to K. M.
Johnson and Deacon Nettleton as
1.-TWO puppets" and said that Mime
apols was to-day nearly in the same
condition as Ireland. ''There is no
home rule here" continued the mayor,
land the only thing there is left for you
to do is to vote. You can do that. but |
after the votes are counted. know that |
two years ago L was counted out of the |
When legislatures take |
from the people their right believe in |
rebellion. do not want to see rebellion
come again, as you can elect the man of
your choice with your votes. Don't al
low man to say, as was said two years |
ago, that the laboring men of Minneap-
oils can be bought for 81 per head! If |
a man says that, you knock him down,
and if am there l will not see it if l /
am an officer"
Continuing, Mr.. Ames referred feel
ingly to the ''dinner-pail brigade which
had placed him in Office. You now hold |
the power to elect men in your hands,"
he said, land if you allow scheming
politicians to be elected it is your own
fault. Education is necessary to the
workingmen of to-day, for without edu-
cation you can do nothing"
By one or two humorous illustrations
the speaker showed how false was the
statement that protection protected the
men. These illustrations were
we'll received, and the applause Of the
audience was an evidence that the
points were not lost. 1t was the pro-
tected capitalists, he said, who were
against the laboring men.
III cOHCluAluS, odlu IIlO IHdyOi- |
want to ask you to drop all your local
contests in the various wards. You
must elect Democrats if you are going
to perpetuate the abolition of the con-
tract labor system, and inforce the
eight-hour law"
JUDGE LARS NJ. RAND
followed: IF l am elected" said he.
in opening his address. ''yOu may de-
pend upon me to do honor to the office.
/ desire to cali your attention to the
fact that you must register before you
can vote. Do not neglect this important
matter. This contest is one between
the people and the monOp-
olists. The issue in Minneapolis
is for local self government,
rather than which party shall win. 1t
us all what policy shall be pur-
sued, and since the farmers of the state
have seen fit to try to run our city. we
should wake up and show them that we
can run it ourselves. 1t is not the
masses who have forbidden the citizens
of Minneapolis to run the city, but it is
two or three men, VINO have set
up as rulers, When
these men saw that Mayor Ames
was elected they got the leg
islature to create the police commission,
and take the police out of the hands of
the mayor. There is not another city in
the stale that elects municipal officers |
at this time, and this is Republican