St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-22

Arctander. ut only asked that bill
be introduced into the legislature. which
would soon adjourn, giving to the city
council the right to buy up the street
railway system at fair appraised
value. and run it in the interest of the
city. remember how that petition was
carried into the city council by two big
strong men. What happened? The
president of the council, Mr., Johnson,
Lowry's tool, said, Referred to the
committee OH ways and means.'
Do you know what that meant?
1t meant that the petition and its 21,000
names was buried. Some aldermen, at
our request, asked that it be given a
hearing; at least decent burial. To Ce
| that the rules would have to be Sus
pended by a two-thirds vote. Emerson
| Cole, now candidate for the legislature
| from the Fourth and Tenth wards. voted
| against it. A resolution demanding
that the street cars be started OH the
| following Tuesday OF that the charter
be forfeited. was passed. The city clerk
| and the president of the council had to
| sign it before it could go to the mayor.
| Monday morning came, no johnson;
Tuesday, no johnson. Mr.. johnson ap-
| peared Wednesday noon. The papers
| said he had been hiding in his cellar.
| Mr.. Arctander then read and COM
| mented upon the Democratic platform,
which promises an eight-hour day on
| public work and the reform of existing
| abuses. He also called attention to the
| fact that when the Democrats were in
power an eight-hour day was fixed. But
that ordinance was repealed as soon as
| the Republicans came in.
"Wheie is the Republican city plat
form?' he asked. Have you seen it?
Have you heard of it? They haven't
any. They've nominated their candi-
dates and said, Tom Lowry picked
| them. We've Endorsed them. Now you
elect them.' How do you like it?'
Then he discussed the legislative can.
didates. johnson and Bradish, in the
Thirtipth district Pillsbury, Blethen
and Swanson in the Thlrty-second, all
connected and identified with the street
railway com pany. OF Swanson, he
said:
Hes an ignorant Norwegian. Pm 9
him. Before he was elected to the
council he pledged himself to vote
against any movement to repeal the
eight-hOur ordinance. He voted to re
peal it, and when asked why he broke
his pledge he faltered, Ill didn't
know what the word repeal meant
He spoke of A. j. Boardman, who ha:
always fought for Lowry interests il
the park board; of A. c. Haugan, wht
has done the same; of Emerson Cole
who stands on the same platform; O.
w. G. Nye, Lowry's lobbyist. OF these
candidates he said he knew that the,
were corrupt. He suspected the mel
who had been nominated alongside O
them to belong to the same crowd.
Next he took up the Judiciary. whiel
he deemed more important than the leg
islature even, for there the laws ar,
construed. land you'd be surprised t,
see how they can construe sometimes,
he added. He went OIL to say that Judg
Young is Lowry's candidate, becaus
six years ago when Young ran agains
hind his ticket, Lowry had written let
ters to the papers advocating Young
election. He continued:
mat was six Years ago, bnt the sam,
Tom Lowry and the same Judge You
are now before you. During t
eli htee Il wears he has been on t
h, nch, Judge Young has grown, In
c. nociously p ,rhaps, for l want to gi
him the benefit OF the doubt, to fay,
the rich men and the CORPORATIONS 1;
a aInst the poor man. You have n,
d ,ubt seen poor men who are sum.
corporations for wages or for damage
for injuries received, before Judg,
Young. AS soon as the plaintiffs at
> tOrney has rested his case you have seer
the rich mans lawyers jump up anc
move to dismiss, and seen Judge Youne
stroke his whlskerS and lick his chops
and get ready to, figuratively speaking
Kick that poor man out OF court.
don't say this without proof [ say y
Understandings, because know wha
treatment will receive when l have 1
case before that judge after talking this
way"
Then he took up three damage cases
in particular, in which the plaintiff hao
been non-suited or the jury ordered tc
find for the Defendant. One was thai
of man who had lost an arm in one OF
the mills: -anotI.e r that of the widow OF
man who had been killed on the rail
road; another, that of the widow of one
of the men killed by the fall of the
walls of the st. Anthony elevator. AL
three cases were carried to the supreme
court, and in all Judge Young's de.
ciSion had been reversed, the case had
been tried again and verdict had been
secured. They were illustrations OF
YOung's animus. The speaker was fire.
quently interrupted by applause.