St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-28
COLD WATER ADVOCATES.
Market Hall Crowded With Enthusiastic
Prohibitionists.
HUGH HARRISON'S IDEAS.
Banquet in Aid Of the Temperance
Cause and Its Standard Bearer
in This Campaign.

Six long tables stretched from end to
end of market hall, heavily laden with
a tempting array of edibleS, with tea,
coffee and the purest of cold water on
the side, were the centeIs of attraction
for the Prohibitionists of st. Paul last
evening. At $50 o'clock a delegation
filling six coaches arrived from Min
neapoliS, and the 500 participants were
at once given places at the banquet ia
bles, the candidates for Office on the
state and legislative tickets being as
signed seats at the end of one of the
center tables near the platform, Rev.
w. w. Dawlew, master of ceremonies,
sitting at the head. The banquet was
prefaced by short prayer and
musical selection by the st.
Paul Cadet band, after which
Rev. w. W. Dawley welcomed
the visitors as 1.-The representatives of
United States, party which protected
the families of the nation and the
homes Of the people" He then intro
duced George F. Wells, who responded
to the toast, 'Our Platform" the men
tioning of the names of the leading can
didates, Fisk and Brooks, calling forth
loud applause. II. w. Knapp, of
Minneapolis, responded to the toast,
''Hennepin County," and was followed
by Rev. F. p. Holman, of st. Paul, who
delivered the most eloquent address of
the occasion in response to the toast,
'Our Candidates" "Our standard
bearers" he said, ''are men whom
we do not have to defend,
and we can fight not with
shield foremost, but with sword fore
most" He referred to his party as an
organization concerning whose prin-
were not in the position of the party
that desired to impose heavy tax on
wool in the interests of labor, and at
the same time annually admit to the
country 100000 labOrerS of the most
INFERIOR CLASS OF EUROPEANS.
G. A. Sherlie, of the corps of speakers
working in the interest of the cause
throughout the state, was the next on
the programme. The folio wing teIe-
gram was received from him at AleXan-
dria:
ITO John S. Hawkins. Market Hall
Regret being absent. Prohibition vote
increases here. The fight is between
Harrison and Wilson. No Banker Mer-
riam wanted"
Rev. James Pinkham, of Minneapolis,
responded to the toast, ''The Fourth
District" and was followed by Rev. w.
w. Satterlee on National Prohibition"
Hon. Hugh Harrison, candidate for
governor, was the next speaker and
was greeted with lOng-continued APP
plause. minnesota" was the subject
assigned him. He stated that he had
already been charged with being in the
pay of the Democratic party, but
he knew that those present were
cogniZant of the source from which
such charges emanated, and believed
they would stand by the Prohibition
party and send his slandererS to the
rear in November. He believed the
Republican party was now out of the
race and that the contest for suprem-
acy would eventually be limited to
the Prohibitionists and the opposing
element now in the opposition parties.
There was practically no difference be-
tween the Republicans and Democrats
of his assertion regarding this,
he quoted the statement of Gen.
A. r. McCiill concerning the presidents
message in December which was as fol-
lows: 1.-THE people of the Northwest
are naturally tariff reformers. There is
no essential difference between the
Democrats and Republicans on the
issue. BY all means let action be
taken at once on the message"
The last speaker was l.. p. Johnson,
a Scandinavian. who responded to "Onr
Mother Country" He said that
Among all the nationalities of
this vast country there is no
class that is more for prohibition
than the Scandinavians, and they will
stand by their friends, the Prohibition
lists. Scandinavians are doing more for
temperance than any other foreign ma
tiOnality in the country"