St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-26
WARM FOR wilson.
Fillmore County Democrats
Fire a Big Gun at Spring
Valley.
Great Enthusiasm Manifested
For the Two Winning
Wilson's.
Low Taxes Is the Cry That Is
Stirring the Voters to
Action,
Mot q Mny>1ny,f DnsyOo Tnc% 1oxy
Not a Moment Being Lost by
the United Democ-
Pacy.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe
SPRING VALLEY, Y,Sept.25.-The Demo-
Gratis of this place opened the cam
paign this evening, and right royalty
was it begun. Hon. Eugene NJ. Wilson
was the principal speaker. The Opera
house was packed and hundreds
turned away. For the past four weeks
much quiet work has been accom-
plished. A Wilson club was organized,
which has grown to about 175, every
one of whom feel confident there are
not sheep enough in Vermont and
Maine to prevent the reelection of Hon.
Thomas Wilson on the issue of tariff re-
form. Poll lists of every town in the
county have been carefully looked
over and compared with the vote of two
years ago, and the comparison is favora-
bic to the Democrats. Everything is
being done that is possible.
They are shaping the canvass.
They are sending out documents
and perfecting- their organization.
There is no friction. We are satisfied
with the outlook. There are names on
the club list of members who will vote
the Democratic ticket for the first time.
Tariff reform is the explanation. We
have twenty young men who were in
the parade last night, who will cast
their first vote on Nov. 6. They are good
workers. As soon as the club was Or
ganized speakers were chosen who
would intellgently discuss the tariff
question. One of these speakers was
Hon. Eugene NJ. Wilson, of Minneapo-
lis, Democratic candidate for governor,
and who was present tonight and ad-
dressed the largest audience ever as
sembled in Spring Valley. The Spring
Valley =, Wilson club, with red Ian
capeS, and the Wykoff, Fountain
and Preston clubs, with torches.
carrying appropriate transparences
and banners. headed by the band and
float
CARRYING GIRLS
singing the latest popular campaign
songs, formed OH Market street and
marched up Main and Broadway to the
opera house. AT the Commercial hotel
the procession saluted Hon. Z. NJ. Will
son, who responded by bow. Arriving
at the opera house the clubs opened
their ranks. and through the open lines
of colored fire, rockets and roman can
dies, and blazing flambeaus and torches
Mr.. Wilson, escorted by Hon. George
Farmer and the vice presidents of the
evening passed through and entered the
hall which was tastetully draped with
flags and portraits Of President
Cleveland and Hon. Allen G.
Thurman. Mr.. Wilson's speech was
characteristic of the man-plain and
honest. Mr.. Wilson's address was in
the unadulterated form of Northern
Democracy. He spoke of the Republi-
can doctrine of the tariff as throwing
dust in the eyes of the masses of the
people, and of the vast accumulation of
the surplus in the treasury. He spoke
of the willingness of the Republicans to
take the tax off from whisky rather than
surrender any part of their protective
system. He spoke of the tax on cloth
ing, or the materials from which it is
made: of the ''workingman being taxed
from the crown of his head to the soles
of his feet" He thought that the tax
on whisky should be retained, rather
than that upon iron, salt, sugar, wool
and other necessaries. Mr.. Will
son said the Mills bill was
very moderate measure for
tariff reduction; that the Democratic
party was the party for
THE FARMER AND LABORER
as it worked for their advantage
rather than that of the manufacturer
and capitalist. He spoke of the unjust
tax on sugar and other articles. He
maintained that in Minnesota in the
farming industry was invested six times
as much capital as in the manufacturing
I'D nd fha fo
reap the greater profits. The speech
was well taken, was eagerly listened
to and created an impression that will
be lasting. Mr.. Wilson was we'll enter
tanned during his stay here. He held
an informal reception at the Commercial
house in the afternoon. He was met at
he depot by a committee from the
Wilson club, with a band and
cannon booming in the park Oh the hill.
Mr.. Wilson will long remember his visit
in Spring Valley, and when the returns
are received by him he will know that
his talk here was not in vain. The Dem
ocratS cast Isl votes in 1856 for A. A.
AmeS, and 176 for Thomas Wilson, men,
Der of congress, All we expect to do
for the latter is to hold the vote at 176,
and to increase the vote for governor to
that of Thomas Wilson. The Democrats
will hold Fillmore county even for MEN,
Der of congress. This is all they can do.
and they are pledged to do that, and if
old Republican Fillmore is held even,
Thomas Wilson goes back to congress.
Should Eugene Wilson increase his
vote throughout the state in same pro-
portion as in Fillmore county, he will
be elected governor.
The Prohibitionists polled in Fillmore
county, in 1886, 2S7 votes. They will
poll IN November 400 votes, and the sec
retary of the county organization claims
! 500, or not vote. And they may, for
| nearly every village and crossroads
have Prohibition club, and they are
Offered by strong men. They have
| bankers, manufacturers and influential
| farmers in their ranks. They are put
| ting in money and time, and do not lack
| for speakers. This vote, almost without
exception, comes from the Republicans.
| Truly, the outlook in Fillmore is en-
| couraging for the friends of tariff re-
| form. Hon. A. A. Ames and Judge
| Thomas Wilson will speak in Spring
| Valley later in the season.
l. PRESTON SENDS A DELEGATION.
| Special to the Globe.
PRESTON, Mimi, Sept. pa party
numbering sixty persons went from
| here to attend the Wilson meeting at
! Spring Valley tonight, each person
taking torch to be used in the parade
Hoisted the Red Bandana.
Special to the Globe.
WAUsAU, Wis, Sept. 25.-The DEM
ocrats of this city to-day hoisted two
poles 112 feet high, and tonight, amid
Gro,y,.rlyo oDd tha hoomiDo of cannon