St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-10
ON THE RACK.
Democratic Orators Show Up the
Republican Party.

The Fourth Ward Democrats organ
lied club at $50 Robert street last
night. A most enthusiastic meeting
was held, lasting over two hours. Harry
c. Glenn was chosen president.
Judge j. j. McCafferty delivered
speech of an hour and a half, replete
in eloquence, fact and argument, and
was enthusiastically applauded. He COM
pared Capt. Castle with Congressman
Snider. and said the former was a giant
in intellect compared with the lat
ter. Capt. Castle was the author
of the mechanics lien law.
He eulogized the ability of
Thomas Wilson. and said he would
make a governor incomparably su-
perior TO the present executive.
Judge McCafferty, referring to an
evening paper in reference to his
taking S500fee for legal services, said
1T is my business if choose to charge
that fee. ] am not running for Office Of clerk
of courts, ana never expect to. can staud
yilifying. The Minneapolis papers have
done that for months. But to Witty me is no
reason why O Conner should not be elected
Judge McCatferty spoke in detail of
the capabilities of nj. f. Kahn, A. n.
d. O'Brie9i, and others. The mention
of each name was greeted with APP
plauSe.
Hon. D. w. Lawler followed. After
referring to the ability and fitness OF
Chairman Fuller, of the county commit
tee. he proceeded to discuss the great
issues of this campaign. He said:
II want to call attention to the campaign
of two years ago. The tariff or 1860 was
satisfactory to the people. 1t protected labor
and was all that was desired by the farmer
When in 1862 a higher tariff was imposed.
as a war measure. it was justified on the
same grounds that congress suspended the
writ of habeas corpus-on the same
grounds that they suspended the trial
by jury-merely as war measure.
They promised solemnly to repeal it when
the war was over. 1t is thirty years since the
firing on Fort Sulnpter: 1t is twenty-five
years since Lee surrendered and the war
tariff has been increased from time to time.
Two years ago the Republican party solemnly
pledged themselves to reduce it. They said
they would not trust the Democrats to revise
it in accordance with the Mckinley bill
Two years have passed and by fraud and
purchase they have increased rather than
diminished the Infamous burdens of taxa
ton. One year and seven months have
passed since Benjamin Harrison, staggering
under the load of his grandfather's hat,
entered the White house, supported by Re
publican congress all promising tariff reform,
and they now confront us with the infamous
Mckinley bill.
Mr.. Lawler read extracts from a
Pioneer Press editorial, which stated
that the tariff has not been reformedsin
accordance with the pledges of the Re-
publican party. He continued:
There is only one man of high intellect
from this state in congress-that is Senator
Davis-and he should properly belong to the
Democratic party His record will show that.
When he spoke in the senate in favor of free
binding twine, he claimed that. when the
factories threatened to stop making twlne in
case the tariff was taken off, that they were
violating the criminal law and should
be punished. When it comes to
the time that the Minnesota rep
resentafives cannot secure protection
to the people of Minnesota it is high time to
discard narty lines aud elect men that viii