St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-25
The Alliance Standard-Bearer
the Attraction at a Big
Meeting
| At Which He Proves Himself
+ a Finished Campaign
r. Orator.
Tall Pine Erwin Powerfully
Arraigns the Misrule Of
r Radicals.
Sixth Ward Democrats Have
a Splendid Show of En-
g, thusiaSm.

Js Three thousand people are a great
many to be gathered within the range
of the voice of one man at political
meeting, but that is conservative esti-
mate of the size Of the audience that
shouted itself hoarse in the jackson
street rink last evening when Hon S.
NJ. Owen, the Alliance candidate for
governor of Minnesota, was introduced
by the chairman of the meeting, j. c.
Meyer. On the stage at this time were
W. w. Erwin, George W. Sprague and
a number of the representatives of the
labor end of the Alliance combination.
Prominent seats in the hall were held
down by such well-known men as E. j.
Hodgson. DR.. j. II. Murphy, P. w.
Locke, Hugh FL. Campbell, ''Charley"
Mccarthy, 81. P. Hall, Chief of Police
Clark. Tim Reardon, William Pitt Muir
ray, Frank Nj. Trissali, j. q. Donnelly
meeung-several times larger than
the Alliance vote will be in
this county. Both parties were
represented in the crowd, AID
from the manner in which everything
scoring Republicanlsm was applauded
it was evident that the Democrats were
largely in the majority. 1t was a thor
oughly good-humored crowd. however,
ana there was plenty of applause for
all the speakers whenever they made a
good point, regardless of which of the
old parties it struck the harder.
Candidate Owen soon demonstrated
that he is no longer novice on the
stump. The speech he gave last even
taylt x..ah
effort as one might expect from hero
of many campaigns. instead of less than
half of one. Indeed, one who heard MIR.
Owen S speech of acceptance III the hall
OF the house of representative three
months ago yesterday, would hardly
have believed that the polished cam
paign orator who opened last evenings
meeting was the same man. He has
developed into one of the most enter
tanning of speakers, and has all the
tricks of the artful and favor-seeking
advocate down to perfection. He COM
menced his speech last evening with the
remark:
This Is rapidly becoming nation by and
for the dollar, and the present political par
Ties stand for perpetuation of this. The
Alliance party, on the contrary, stands for
the destruction of those systems through
which it requires but the genius of a robber
to amass n fortune. The Alliance is not op-
posed to railroads where those railroads got
their dollars honestly"
Passing on to the subject of the pres
ent delegation representing Minnesota
at Washington. the speaker handled
them without gloves, and declared that
they had demonstrated that they had
no sympathy with the people who
elected them.
while these men went to Washington"
Owen nh
and convictions and. bowling in the dust
voted as King Caucus dictates, you shouted
yourselves hoarse simply@because your man
came out ahead-that is, your dog licked.
Get this
Fear Of Free Trade
out of your heads, working men," was the
way in which he passed on to the tariff ques-
uon. The tariff can never be so low as to
impair wages tariff tax is the meauest
and most contemplate tax ever conceived. l
sometimes think it creation of the devil,
but have since apologized to the devil"
This sally provoked roar, in the
midst OF which the speaker started out
on new tack.
while the tariff has done much towards
centralizing the wealth of this country" he
said, 1T is not all to blame. This party of
ours has been organized to reform many
other evils. 1t is built on broad. strong and
patriotic motives and yet, IN spite of this,
the party that once stood for all that was
right and good has now nothing else to do
than to- abuse and villify us. 1t offers us
nothing and merely cries out, Vote for US,
or you will elect the Democrats Now l
want to
Tell You COnfdentIalIy
thet If you all vote the Alliance ticket there
viii be no danger of the election of the DEM
ocrats: the Alliance one will be the chosen
one. The TWO Old parties are to-day standing
on each side of us like two interrogation
points. They do not know that revolution
has broken out, and it will strike them in
November
Here the speaker turned the laugh on
the very enthusiastic Democrats pres
ent by paying great tribute to the
goodness of the Democratic party.
Here he stopped. The Democrats
laughed, and Mr.. Owen added Tin Min
nesota." He explained this by saying
that as it had never beeu in power in
the state it had had no chance to go
wrong. A meeting in Minneapolis took
the Alliance nominee away. to the train
in hurry at this time and the Tall
Pine" was introduced to the audience
by the chairman.
81 would prefer to be little more on
"a level with the jury" began Mr..
Erwin. as he peered over the edge of
the basket-like platform suspended
from the roof of the old skating-rink
He confessed that he had pardonable
pride in being permitted to address so
many of his fellow-citiZens, and went
on to explain why he had never before
taken any interest in politics. The
growth of the money powerin politics
was traced in graphic manner, and
the vast audience Shrieked when the
speaker, holding up his hands, cried
out:
''oh, UNIV orthy sons Of most noble sires,
men of my age
Cannot Look Back
on the days of their youth without tears. No
man then sold his vote. and no one then be-
trayed the trust reposed in him in q represen-
tative capacity All the forces of the repub-
lie have been retired before this royal son of
gold. The pulpit even, which mp to 1860
rang out for honesty, right now stands
silent to beg of wealth and power the money
that shall feed the family of the pulpit
prince"
The descent of the legal profession
was touched on. and the Tall Pine,
throwing one leg over the balustrade,
declared that corruption filled every ay-
enue of the public walk. The putting
down of the rebellion turned the atten-
ton of the people away from the specu-
iatOrs. and while the voters talked war
the other fellows bought bonds at
30 cents on the dollar. seized land
grants for the building of railroads, and
soon had the common people sin the
hoie." The workings of protection We're
described at length. and the promises
of Thad Stevens and others at the COM
mencement of the war that the increase
i'll the tariff was only temporary. ne de-
manded SHOULD be redeemed. Mr.. Err
wins speech was filled with fig
ures of speech, and was, taken all
in all, a powerful arraignment of the
party in power. In closing he. TO the
disappointment of the crowd. did not
roast Gov. Merriam very hard. He
referred tor the methods rich men have
of eyading the taxgatherer and re-
marked that the people of st. Paul
knew the present governor and his
methods quite as well as he.
The meeting closed with a short, but
forcible, address by Rev. George NJ.
Muller, of New York.
SPLENDID IN THE SIXTH.