St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-26
Seventy-Four Thousand Per-
sons Listen to His Words
of Wisdom.
He Rejoices in the Fact That
Democrats Are on
Top.
They Are Fighting a Good
Fight and Will Be
Victorious.

CINCINNATI, Oct. 20.-DemOcrallcu udy
at the Centennial was a magnificent
success. The streets were full of
strangers at an early hour and all were
bent in the direction of the exposition
building. At ten O'Clock the gal
leries of Music Hall began to fill
up the people remaining in their
vantage seats until the parading
Democracy marched in. Judge Thur
man was literally besieged all morning
by friends, who called at the Grand
hotel to pay their respects. and he was
SO delayed that he did not get breakfast
until IL o'clock. At II the parlor doors
were thrown open, and until the
time of his departure for the
reviewing stand on the centen-
nial grounds the judge shook hands
with hundreds of ladies and gentlemen
who crowded in to see him. Hon. John
G. Carlisle arrived at the hotel at p.
m., and accompanied Judge Thurman
and party to the reviewing stand, where
they remained until the procession
bad passed by. Fully two hun
dred Democratic clubs we're in line,
mostly uniformed. The paraders were
one hour and thirty minutes in passing,
and during this time Judge Thurman
remained standing with his head un-
covered. The clubs marched into
Music hall from Elm street and were
greeted with
A TREMENDOUS OVATION.
The crowd inside the building when
the exercises began is VariOuSly eSti-
mated at from $4,000 and $4,000. The
ladies of the reception committee, in
handsome street costume, wore white
satin badges, and the little girls were
dressed in white, with purple sashes,
with the names of the states
diagonal. When Judge Thurman
rose to speak, these children
clustered around him and waved BAN
danas. The greeting the Old Roman re-
ceived from the vast crowd was sur
prising. 1t was several minutes before
quiet could be restored. Judge Thur
man spoke as follows:
My friends, when you insisted that /
should come down here in the center of
this building to speak to you the few
words that have to say. you forgot one
thing-you forgot to provide turn
table, so that might be turned around
and speak to those who are now behind
me as well as to those who are
before me. [Cries of "Good."] Now
you have little advantage in
that; you have little advantage
over those who are at my right hand
compelled to turn my back very unwill-
ingly indeed; for to say nothing of the
men who are behind me, there are
many beautiful ladies there, into whose
faces l would much rather look than
into your faces, my fellow voters.
Laughter My friends, this has been
to me a
DAY OF UNALLOYED PLEASURE,
When | left home | had no idea of
making a political speech on this Occa-
sion. did not know that it would be
proper to do so; but when l got here |
was told that iG was in order and exactly
proper for me to speak to you on politi-
cal topics to-day, and that it was right
on what are called the Republican,
Democratic, Prohibition days, and any
other kind of a day that may be men-
toned at this centennial was day Of
free speech, and that man had a right
to pour out his whole soul. [Cheers. |
And, therefore, l shall say something
on politics as wei as my almost
broken voice will permit. My friends,
there are several other reasons
why l am happy to-day. | cannot
express to you i'll words the admiration
| feel for the Democracy of Cincinnati,
and of Hamilton county, for organizing
this magnificent demonstration [cheersl,
and l cannot sufficiently express the
thanks and the admiration l feel for the
Democracy of the other parts of the
of cfo IN
but of other states who have
come here to join you in this manifesto
ton of your Democratic attachments
and principles. and, therefore, being a
Democrat, dyed in the wool [cheers and
applausel, being so from my boyhood
up, and having before me the Demo
Gratis of this gOodly city Of Cincinnati
and always with pleasure to me if not
with profit to them, l am rejOiced that
[ stand once more i'll their midst, to say
to you that you are
FIGHTING TIE GOOD FIGHT,
and if you continue to fight it to the
end as you are doing to day, victory will
brood on your banners. Cheers. Gen
tlemen, we are in the most extra
ordinary campaign that / have ever
known of the many in which L have
taken part during my life; we are
in campaign in which our ad-
versaries have the braZen auda-
city to tell the people that the
way to make people rich is to make
them pay more taxes than their gov
ernment wants. [Cheers. That the
way to benefit the condition of a man is
to tax him from the crown of his head
to the soles of his feet, everything that
he wears, to tax the clothing
I. III
the implements of his trade-every-
thing which is necessary to his exist
ence and comfort as an American cit
izen. And that is preached up for wis
dom; that is called protection of the Ia
boring man. As if you could protect a
laboring man by robbing him of his
earnings, verifying the adage
of robbing Peter to pay Paul lap
plausel. Now, my friends, and you
who are labOring men, want to speak
to you and say to you that this is the de-
ceptiOn and deluSion that is preached
to you by the Republican leaders this
year. During pause, a gentleman in
the audience presented to Judge Thur
man horseshoe. which he said he had
picked up. and that it was emblematic
of victory.l | will nail it on my door to
keep away the
WITCHES THAT PREACH PROTECTION.
[Cheers and applause.l All! but say
these Republican orators, you Demo
Gratis are enemies of the laboring man.
Is that Sc? Well, that is the strangest
of all things, if there could be any
stranger thing than that which /
have already mentioned. All the
privileges they ENJOY, all the
happiness they have ON earth is
derived from Democratic principles
which have cheered them in their strug-