The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-10-27
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with the purpose of their selection.
Winona Drift.
Special Correspondence of tne Irish Standard
Judge Wilson spCke at Plainview.
this county, last evening. The large
audience which greeted him despite
the rain and bad roads is convincing
proof Of the hold Judge has upon the
confidence and admiration of the peo-
pie i'm the First district. Duanels is
lost beyond all doubt andJudge Wilson.
Will be returned to congress by q large
majority.
The f. L. I. D. CLUB held regular
meeting in st. Thomas hall Friday
evening, October 10. The leading feat
ures of the programme presented OH
that occasion were All oration bv ". j.
Smith and a recitation by Miss Nellie
AfcGrath, of Saltwater, who is eng.aeI
as teacher in the public schools of this
city. This WIS Miss McGrath's first
appearance before the society, and She
did herself credit indeed. The society
is to be congratulated u / having secured
50 valuable member as Miss McGrath
gives evidence Of being.
There is not much change here iu
loca! politics. Fakler is still in the
field, an independent candidate for
county treasurer, against Frank L.
Cutter, the regular Democratic non1l--
nee, and James O'Brien is a.so hopping
about with Wild determined look.
Cotter and Flynn are ali right. and
Fakler and Jimmie will surely be done
for. There are many places which
these Independent Office seekers might
fil., but the one place for which all suck
rnen are peculiarly fitted is oblivion to
which the two worthless OF Winona
county will surely be consigned on No.
yember 6.
A delegation of Sioux City business
men visited Winona last week to look
into the industries of the city, SO as to
be able to form some estimate of the
probable benefits which Sioux City
would derive from Win0na By reason Of
direct railroad communications be-
tween the two places. They all ex~
pressed great surprise at the wealth
and vast industries of Winona and
went away satisfied that branch line
of railroad running from Sioux City to
connect with the Winona & South
western railroad at a point yet to be
determined would be mutually beneli-
cial, and concluded that such connect
ing line would be built next season by
company of Sioux city business men.
Hon. e. Nj. Wilson and Chris. A. Gal
lagher addressed large and enthusi-
astic audience Of not less than 14OO here
last Monday night. Mr.. Wilson dis
.cussed the issues honestly, fairly and
intelligently. His address was rather
scholarly lecture uDon principle
than stump speech in any sense. He
arose above parties and rightly assum-
ing the intelligence of the hundreds
who sat before him he presented reasons
and facts in support Of his position,
leaving the field of rant. cant and abuse
out of his address entirely. Mr.. Will.
son made many friends by biz manly.
scholarly, clean address, which is sec,-1
ond only to that of Frank Hurd, who
spoke here some time ago. and which is>
still fresh in the minds of all those who
heard it. Mr.. Gallagher addressed the
vast audience after Mr.. Wilson finished
and held the close attention Of all pres
ent MIR. GALLAGHER is an orator with
out doubt, and the hearty applause
with which his rounded arguments and
illustrations were received showed
plainly the appreciation Of his audience
he roasted Pat Ford and J. E. Finnerty
for presumlng to lead the Irish race in.
IAmerica. He said: There is no such
thing here as the Irish vote; we are AZ
Amer{ca citizens and as such ;'we yot4s.''9's')