St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-31
AN ERA OF REGENERATION.
Secretary Villas Says 1t Will Be
gin Next Tuesday.

Special to the Globe.
DETROIT, Mich. Oct. 3O.-A magnif-
lccnt asSemblage of 5000 people
greeted Secretary of the Interior w.
F. Villas when he entered the Detroit
rink tonight. and his splendid oratory
aroused his hearers to high pitch of
enthusiasm. Secretary Villas, in
part, said: ''The canvass through
which we have passed, or
now so nearly worked our course,
has been among the most remarkable,
and will remain among the most memoir
able of our political history. l believe
it will work an era of regeneration in
the political progress of the nation and
the personal advancement and happi-
ness of our people. The most ordinary
observer cannot but remark the great
tranformation manifested by this can
vasS in the aspect of opposing
parties. The Democratic party has
put On again the armour OF
its youth, and takes the field with
out pausing for apologies or defense of
errors, but, as in the old days, again the
vanguard of liberty and progress, Zap
plausel it is the party of free men, reso-
Iutely intent TO achieve the fruits OF
high principles and carry forward the
destiny of the nation and the race. lap
plause.] The old controversy OF ages
past, the old controversy which repre-
SCENTS on the one side the aspiration and
growth of humanity, and on the other the
clutch of rank and power OIL tile masses
of mankind, is as yet to be fought out
on the line of history, OIL the line of
human PROGRESS. Democracy confronts
again its ancient enemies of quasi
AND MONOPOT.Y.
and makes open war to enforce the de-
mand of its youth and its age, that every
measure of legislation, every form Of
taxation, every agency of admin
istration shall be guided and ruled to
advance the common interests of all;
Tapplausel that no class and no order
of men shall be the pets of law and gov
eminent above their fellows. From the
earliest ages the struggle between the
rank and power on the one hand and
the people on the other, has been waged
by argument sometimes, and some
times in bloody strife, but always,
under Gods providence, with a
steady movement on toward the
acknowledgements of the many from
the domination of the few. ApplauSel.
Upon the foundation of class interest
the federalist planted himself at the be-
VI Jul SONEl tiiiA llOhl
that day to this, in one form or another,
the same doctrine has by hook and by
crook ingeniously wrought its way un-
der different DISCUSSES" After an eX-
haustive review of the administration of
the Republican party from 1861 until
1857, the speaker resumed: but now
once more OH foot, with
ITS SORES IN PLASTER,
it ESSAYS again the losing fight. 1t is a
death struggle now, and none. know it
better than the leaders of that party.
Conscious of their desperate condition
and prospects, they fight ferociously as
Satan on the battlementS of heaven. for
they see behind them the bettomless
depths of political. perdition. They
have again taken up the shrewder arts
of inherited policy, though not without
some reluctance. Long toying to test
the temper of the people, at last, an
other candidate being named. their real
leader. not Welding his authority. re-
turned from his perch of observation on
British castle to personally guide the
canvass. And when you come to think
how the right decision of this contest
should promote alike the welfare Of all
the people of the land, that
nothing can so much contribute
to the good ends of a preSi-
dental election as truthful state
/ ment and fair argument, by which an
honest Judgment ia the voter can be
aided, then what spectacle is Repub-
licanism pNrsonified in Blaine, their
+, demigod and idol, as he appears on the
! public platforms of this canvass. He
found his cOuntrymen StHdiOuS OF a
great public question. searching eveay
avenue for information. How did he
discharge the plain duty of a help
full friend? He has discharged it
everywhere according to the policy
of class rule, by misrepresentation and
sophistry. The burden OF his opening
speech was the reckless assertion that
the business interests of the country
were depressed and suffering because
of President Cleveland's tariff message
of last December. He was over
wheimed with contradictions drawn
from leading Republican papers of that
very week, for whatever the heat of
political campaigning there is one
class of editors who have to tell
the truth as they find it; that is the class
of editors who write the business facts
for the business world i'll that little
read column by the common public, the
business column of the newspapers.
Nothing daunted-fOr this is all Old eX-
perienee to HMM two or three days
more he opened bundle OF alleged sta
tistics, upon which he declared that the
laborerS of Massachusetts saved more
than the laborers of Great Britain. He
had hardly ceased to speak before refu-
tation deluged him and his
VOICE WAS UTTERLY SILENCED
on the point by the rising flood of in
formation. Now he had gotten home to
Maine and he opened there new vein.
He arraigned the president because he
had attacked the trusts which Cypress
the people. And Mr.. Blaine served
notice on the people and the president
that these trusts were largely private
concerns with which neither Mr..
Cleveland Dor they had any
thig to do. Do not think
Mr.. Blaine was so big a fool in
this. as sometimes has been imputed to
him. He doubtless acted upon d cool
calculation of the whole effect. 1t was
necessary to notify those from whose
Golfers the SinewS of war were to come
that their interests would be boldly de-
Tended. With that rod he smOte the
rock from which has flowed the golden
stream of life to their canvass, the last
favorite argument they addressed to the
electors of America. But not all of his
party managers have his hardihood. So,
while they reaped its fruits they
sent him West to practice miSrepre-
sentation upon another line. have no
purpose to follow him through it all. l
am only using him to illustrate this
policy of contempt for the people. mis-
representation and argument, which the
party possesses by Inheritance and APP
parently pursues from conviction. Yet
one instance more, the arch-hypOcrisy
of which is peculiarly entertaining. He,
James G. Blaine-the victim of indie
pendent reform from his own party
the very
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areformers; he, the greatest living