St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-10
REPUBLICAN STRONGHOLD
Fairly Captured by the Democrats
Last Night.
ENTHUSIASM IN THE EIGHTH
The Hall Would Not Contain the Crowd
That Applauded for Tariff
Reform.

The Eighth ward has always been
hopelessly Republican. Even in 1886
when Mayor Ames swept the city like
cyclone and carried every ward but two,
the Eighth ward was one of these and
still cast two Republican votes for each
one Democratic. The Democrats re-
garded it as a promising mission
ary field and established a club,
which has been meeting with signal
success. Last night it inaugurated
grand rally at Avery hall and to the!
surprise of all, the attendance was so
large that fully half the people were
unable to enter the building. The Dem
ocrats were jubilant and the thick-and-'
thin Republicans confounded. r. L.
Cox, president of the club, presided and
Millard's band inspired the faithful
with patriotic music.
Chris Gallagher was the first speaker,
and said that when he first moved into
the Eighth ward, two years ago. he
found so many Republicans and so few
Democrats that he felt lonesome, and he
never expected to see SO many Demo-
Gratis for neighbors as he has now. But
this great change has been brought
abOat by the action of the Republican
party in compelling the Republicans
OF the West to pay tribute to the rich
manufacturers of the East. The Re-
publicans, in order to try and fool the
American workmen during this CAM
paign, have raised the cry of ''Protec-
tlOn of American homes," but they
don't say protection for the rich manu-
facturerS of the East, who compose the
great trusts which are plunderlng the
American people. Now one of the
cries that the Republicans have
raised Is that some of the English
papers favor the reelection of Grover
Cleveland. but let me tell you who this
good Republican party, which is SO
truly American, has nominated for vice
president on its national ticket.
Levi p. Morton, their candidate, we all
is his principal place of business? L
will tell you; it is in London,
England, and the name over the
door is the name of their can
didate for vice president. So you see in
order to get good American on their
ticket they have gone over TO England
and got London banker to accept the
nomination. Now they say that this
tariff is for the benefit of the American
labOring men, but it don't seem to bene-
fit them much, for they appear to be
poOiCl CfClN yC0l III oPiUC vi
the high protective tax which we are
paying TO help them to build these
American homes which we hear
so much about. But the men
who are not growing poorer
are the manufacturers, who are dividing
profits of from 40 to TO per cent every
year, and this is the way the protective
tariff protects the American wOrkmen.
These manufacturers, after dividing
their profits, invariably meet and cut
down the wages of their WOrkmen, and
that is the way the workmen are pro-
tected by our high tariff. Now you hear
great deal of talk about what good
man Harrison, the Republican nominee
for president is; and yet after he was
beaten by y"Blue Jeans Williams" for
governor of Indiana there was rail-
road strike in Indiana, and Gov. Will
Jams refused to order out the militia to
drive these wOrkmen back to their
work, and Mr.. Harrison, vino was the
corporation counsel of the railroad On
which the men had quit work, was very
eff l was governor these men would go
back to their work or get shot down in
their tracks," This is the man from
who the American wOrkmen are en-
pected to receive so much protection,
and who is such a good American citi-
zen that all American laboring men are
asked to support him.
A. T. Ankeny followed Mr.. Gala !
CHER. He spoke of the reforms which
had been inaugurated since Grover
Cleveland has been president of this re-
public. During the war, when our ex-
penSeS were about a million dollars a
day, taxes were put Oil almost every
thing which we used in order to |
pay the war expenses. That was
all right to levy those taxes at |
that time, for we needed all the money |
we could raise to carry on the war, but |
the war ended twenty-five years ago, |
and yet we still have these same high |
taxes. The Republicans say they have |
taken off some of these taxes, and so |
they have taken some few taxes. but in |
every case where they have abolished |
tax it has been for the benefit of the |
wealthy classes. But yet our taxes are
so high that the money is accumulating |
in the treasury until there is at present |
i'll the national treasury $40, 600, and |
SO much money has been withdrawn |
from business that we have our present |
hard times. He then read an extract |
from the Labor Signal, paper pub
lished in indianapolis in the interests of
the laboring people, in which Mr.. Harri-
sons past record on labor questions was
severely criticised.
f. A. Stevens made a short and
humorous address, which closed the
meeting.