St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-23
Democrats Of st. Paul Meet
and Organize a Perma-
nent Club.
To Disse inmate Democratic
Principles Will Be It's Only
Object.
Charley" Gilman Announces
Il Himself an Independent
Candidate.
Gen. Baker and w. w. Erwin
Start Out to Stump the
Second

The Democrats of st. Paul have long
needed permanent club around which
to rally the youth and enthusiasm of the
party. This feeling of need, however,
failed to do anything toward the organi-
zation OF such club. and it was left for
several enthusiastic young Democrats
to start the movement which eliminated
in the organization of the It'll
den club'' last evening. This
meeting was held in the New
York Life building and was attended
by half a hundred of the working Dem-
Ocracy of the city.
Albert b. Ovitt, one of the rising
young attorneys of the Ramsey county
bar, was chosen chairman of the meet
ing. and Pierce Butler secretary. A
constitution. modelled after that of the
Young Mems Democratic Club of Bos-
ton, was adopted, and the election of
permanent officers was next taken up.
Mr.. Ovitt was chosen president;
John E. Hearn and 81. H..
Hillman were made vice presidents:
lin were unanimously elected secretary
and treasurer. respectively. of the or
ganizatiOn. There five officers, together
with o. HI. O'Neil and William George,
constitute the executive committee.
Hon. Dan W. Lawler, who had been in
vited to attend the meeting, sent the
following letter:
ST PAUL, Mimi, Sept. %, lS90.-Gentle-
men: / regret that a previous engagement
prevents me from accepting your invitation
to attend the meeting of the Tilden club this
evening. For the work which you are doing
you are entitled TO the gratitude of all good
citizens The name which you have chosen
for your club is guaranty OF patriotism and
an augury of success Samuel j. Tilden was
the Moses as Grover Cleveland is the Joshua
OF the Democratic party of our day. Out
from the bondage of an infamous slavery the
people are marching, and Egypt with its
brickyards and flesh-pots will soon be left
behind. You do well to chaml ion the peo-
pies cause and pledge your fealty in this
campaign to party which appeals to intelli-
gence and justice for success. All that is
best in the young manhood of America is at
tracted to the Democratic party. and it is
winning the hearts and brains of men be-
cause it has the right of the argument and
the courage of conviction. Our opponents
stumble and falter along the road with
threadbare tricks and stale impostures.
Two years ago every Republican candidate
or congress in Minnesota denounced the
war tariff and begged to be permitted to vote
for its reduction. 1T must be reduced by
its friends" The war tariff then was
d per cent; now, by the grace of five Min
81 per cent.
The Republican party of the state is in an
amusing plight Its state platform. con-
structed by that skillful artificer of japanese
toys the president of the Tariff Reform
league, is about as Ineligible as the oracles
of Delphi or the witches of Macbeth
The platform of the Fifth congressional
district declares for a revenue tariff. and the
convention which renominated Mr.. Snider
swallowed the Mckinley bill with an almost
PENNSYLVANIA appetite. The senior senator
from this state has run the gauntlet of The
Republican senate with piece of binding
Irvine in his hand, and about his painting
form the party artists are throwing a
halo brighter than that which en-
circls Eneas emerging from smoking
Troy with his father on his back.
When 'Mckinley's own" our worthy
REPRESENTATIVES, In congress are explaining
Merriam's tariff reduction speech which he
is now scattering broadcast will arise from
among the audience and challenge to joint
debate. Was it the Republican party of Min
nesota that the king saw in his dream:
This images head was of fine gold, his
breast and his arms of silver, his belly and
his thighs of brass. his legs of iron, his feet
part of iron and part of clay. A stone
the image upon his feet, that were of
iron and clay, and broke them to pieces.
Then was the iron. the clay, the brass
the silver and the gold broken to
The summer threshing floors. and the wind
carried them away, that no place was found
for them: and the stone that smote the inn
age became great mountain and filed the
whole earth" Very respectfully,
This caustic review of the political
situation was received with applause
so hearty that it demonstrated that not
only was the crowd intensely patriotic
aud Democratic, but that it also had
very warm side for that brilliant and
popular young Democrat, Dan Lawler.
The executive committee was di-
rected to report on the subject
of permanent headquarters at
the meeting to be held in the
court house next Monday evening.
Club rooms will be secured and fitted
up as soon as possible, and it is eX-
pected that the third meeting of the
club can be held in a home of its own.
At the Monday evening meeting Hon.
Dan w. LAWYER has consented to de-
liver,an address on the purposes and
objects of the Tilden club. Before the
meeting broke UP all the members
signed the constitution and thus be-
came charter members. Among those
present were:
A. B. Ovitt, David F. PEBBLES John D. Nc
Laughiin, James Monahan, Harris s. Singer,
r. S. McGrath, Daniel Mullen Jr.. A. j. Gall
braith. P. M. Farley, q. FL. O'Nelll, ?. nj.
DAILY, John E. Hearn. E. II, Wood. ii. Fl. Hill
man, j. c. Mangan, William George. T. d.
O'Brien, G. r. OReilly. John A Terney,
Samuel Lisburger, lillian Koch and Charles
Bechhoefer.
The objects of the Tilden club, as set
out in the constitution, are not to pro-
mote the political ambitions of any
man or clique of men, but Ito foster
and disseminate Democratic principles;
to secure the active participation in
politics of those who have hitherto been
Indifferent to political duties. or who
have been prevented from performing
them; tn bring about the election of
honest and capable men to all public
offices; and TO secure the purity of cleo
tons"
This quotation from the fun
damental law of the organiza-
ton sufficiently and thoroughly, re-
flutes. the claim that the club is.
didates either before or after conve IL
tons. The one purpose of this move
ment is to strengthen and promote the
principles of Democracy by adding
little:o of the social with the political. An
effort will be made to secure very
arge.membership, and with this eX-
pectation the dues have been fixed
at so small sum that no Democrat can
be shut out on that score. Unlike the
Union League Republican club. the
''Tilden club is no silk-stocklng affair,
and every Democrat of high or low de-
gree will be welcomed if he desires to
ally himself with the earnest and work
ing Democracy of st. Paul and Ramsey
county.
The Democrats of the First ward met
last night at the corner of Bedford and
Decatur streets to organize club. Dan
Aberle was called to the chair, and T.
Mullane acted as secretary. The meeting
was representative in character and
numbers. Speeches were made by Dan
Aberle, Hugh CAMPBELL and others. A
committee was appointed to solicit
membership, and make other arrange
ments looking toward a permanent Or
ganlzation Monday night.
81 am going to be elected" were the
the words with which Gen. j. 81. Baker,
the Alliance nominee for congress in
the Second district, greeted a GLOBE
reporter at the Merchants yesterday.
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