St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-26
Get Down on Your Knees;
Kow, and Apologize to
Judge Macdonald.
A Rousing Reception Ten
dered the Congressman
at Glencoe.
He Is Visited by q Delegation
of Fifteen to Twenty
Union Soldiers.

EEecial 10 the Globe.
GLENCOE, Oct 25.-Judgc Macdonald
arrived here yesterday, and met with
such Il warm-hearted reception as
showed his popularity and the rouslng
majority we will give. The greetings
of our people were more hearty than
usual, for they evidently wished to con-
vince him they condemned the base ana
unwarranted attacks that had been
made upon him by one Of their news
papers. Republicans were, if anything
different, more OutSpoken than Demo
Gratis in denOuncing the character OF
the campaign which his opponent, ID.
). Hall. is conducting. and had no hesl-
tation in saving that it would cause
Hall the loss of many votes. In the
evening a delegation of Union veterans,
numbering from fifteen to twenty,
among whom were Judge A. i. Fitch.
Col. Il. 5. Donaldson and Hon. William
johnson. proceeded to the hotel in
body and called upon Judge
Macdonald TO express to him
their approval OF his action
in congress and wishes for his success.
After entering the room Judge Fitch.
on lehalf OF the veterans. addressed
Judge Macdonald, stating that they had
called in body to express their appro-
baton of his course generally iii con-
gresS, and especially in behalf OF the
old soldiers of the Union army. lie
said that they had closely watched his
course and it met with hearty approval,
and that they had 10 doubt OF his re-
election; which would be aided largely
by the votes of
THE UNION VETERANS
who had found him to be a true and
tried friend. Judge M?cDonald. in re-
Spouse. expressed his pleasure at beng
the recipient of this call, which was so
unexpected and gratifying that he was
unable to express his feelings in lail-
guage which would satisfy him. lie
said that he had done his duty TO the
whole people as far as laid in his power,
and in 10 respect more than in his eff
forts to assist the old soldiers in Secur-
ing the allowance Of their claims, and
it was doubly gratifying TO him that
here in Glencoe he should be called
upon Dy 50 large a number.of them to-
testify their continued confidence and
to repudiate the attacks made upon him,
their town. After general
handshaking and friendly chat
all round. the veterans withdrew.
Early in the evening the band was out
PLAYING in front of the new city hall,
and when the hour of meeting arrived
the immense room zone of the largest in
the state) and gallery were packed to
overlooking. The meeting was organ
lied by the election of Col. r. S. Don
ADDISON as chairmhn, who, after a few
preliminary remarks, introduced Judge
IL
such a round of applause as would have
made Hall or his supporters feel like
withdrawing from the canvass. His
speech was similar to that delivered at
Hutchinson the evening before. As
there, he took up each of the ISLANDERS
important enough TO notice and dis
posed of them one after another to tine
full satisfaction of his audience. He
said, referring to tie Minneapolis
Tribune'S resurrection of atw2nty-SeYen-
year-old Republican conspiracy TO in
lure him, by Republican county at
tOrneV having an Indictment found
against him for illegal voting, that the
point attempted TO be maze by that pa
per was that he should have waived all
objections and gone TO trial OH the mer-
its, notwithstanding the alleged charge
was
OLD AND OUTLAWED.
The complete answer to that is that il
was a political fight: that the then
county attorney was candidate for re-
election. ana il was deemed of the ut
most political Importance that he be
placed before the people where he
would have TO admit that in advising
the Indictment he was ignorant of the
plaineSt provisions of statute law, or
was actuatcd by malice toward Judge
Macdonald. He said that il will be APP
parent to any fair-minded and intelll-
gent person that if he had waived the
fact of the charge being Outlawed and
attacked the county attorney before the
people, securing such an Indictment.
the answer of the county attorney
would have been: why did YOU not
demur To it?" and this would have been
held 10 be all answer by the average
voter. He said the animuS of this at
tack is shown by the false statement in
the Tribune that the record book in the
clerks Office had had leaves torn out of
il, statement that that paper would
have TO retract or face libel suit.
After speaking for over an hour in favor
of tariff reduction and revenue reform.
he closed with an appeal to the audi
ence TO lay aside party prejudice and
look al this question of the tariff as cit
liens who were determined to arrive at
she truth and vote accordingly: that if
they did this he had no doubt as to how
they would vote. He was frequently
apDlauded, and at the close of his
speech a large portion of the audience
pressed forward 10 take hun by the
hand.