St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-17
MABEN's SECOND SPEECH.
He Defines His Arguments and
Gets in Several ROaStS.

Gets in Several Roasts.
G. B. Maben, editor of the Free
Lance, is not satisfied with the forensic
dueP' of Saturday night with Matt Gal
lagher ct al, and. wants another argu-
ment. He writes letter to the GLOBE,
in which his peculiar sentiments come
straight to the front. Addressed to the
editor of the GLOBE it is as follows:
In his half-colum article to-day, head
ed "a Fierce Forensic Duel" your
quill-puSher gets about as near the
truth as A. D. Smith does in represent
ing his precinct in a county convention.
Smith has not been elected as delegate
in the last two years, and only gets
some delegate outside his own pre-
cinct, and the last time he got it
from Coreorantown man. 1.-The
Free Lance, a little paper published
at intervals" is a siX-cOlumn, eight
page weekly, and has not missed one
issue since it first appearance Oct. 49,
1887. 1t has regular subscription list
of over 1000 names, and is published
pie and ''sits down hard" on
such sham reformers and am
bilious nonentities as 'Manufact-
urer'' B. ClOutier and Attorney A. d.
Smith. The former as alderman and
member of the legislature, has not made
an enviable record, and his wasteful ex-
pendjture of public money and arbi-
trary methods of lowering street grades,
damaging property owners thousands OF
dollars, are sufficient to insure notsonly
his own defeat, but that of the whole
Democratic ticket in the Fourth
ward, if the down town 'bosses" are
fonlich Qnnnph to mt him M, tha fialyat
A. ID. Smith has no following, and his
habit of calling honest laboring men
'hoodlums," "chumps," ''dog- collar
gang" ETC., has killed him deader than
door nail. He is only noticed in about
the same spirit that a pedestrian kicks
at a NANCY little cur. AS far as Matt Gal
lagher is concerned, he is after
Office and wants to be on the
strong side. He has been ''for Ames,
and against Ames," and against Clou-
tier, and for ClOutier." Maben's first
not admitted because Matt Gallagher
was on it, so we were told at the time
by the adherents of both the Ames and
Glenn factions. His jumping" is so
uncertain that it seems no one
cares to put much confidence in
his political friendship. No editorial
has appeared in the Free Lance lat
lacking organized labor" and Matt
Gallagher failed to produce anything
akin to it in his fve-minute speech at
the debate. The Lance is opposed SIM
which they uphold ''strikes" and "boy-
colts" against non-union men who at
tempt to work on the same job. This
pugnacious candidate for modestly
lucrative Office county clerk dare not
debate the subject through any paper,
or before any audience in the city and
confine himself strictly to the questions
contained in the following resolution,
viz:
Resolved, That an employer is justiiable
in not discharglng an honest, competent and
faithful workman who refuses to join the
union and that it is wrong for such an
employer to be ''boycotted for not discharg-
ing the nom union workman at the request of
the labor unions.
If he is so anxious to "spread his coat
tails'' let him answer Maben's speech,
which will appear in full in the next is
sue of the Lance. If they will do so the
Lance will print his (Gallagher's) argu-
ment in full. In the debate last Satur-
day he did not attempt to answer it in
the least, and if his "Soul was up in
arms' no one knew it. Even his able
assistants kept as far away from the
real question as a cat does from hot
soap. lHeTe were Ildlly UNION men
present, but unbiased observers
say if vote had been taken, the result
would have been about even. Gallagher
probably was afraid of the vote, or he
would have called for it. To test
Gallagher and Smiths confidence in
their ability to rout Maben and WEIGH
''horse, foot and dragons" in debate
of the above resolution, hereby chal-
lenge them to meet us in Maben's hall
for two hours debate on Saturday
evening. July %, at which time we will
insist on vote by the audience. If
their ''sand" is equal to their wind"
they will come to time. Respectfully,
g. r MAREN