St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-17
Minnesota's Senior Senator
Endeavors to Explain the
Mckinley Bill.
Several Times He Tripped
Himself and Went in Deep
or as He Spoke.
Difficulties With the Registra-
ton Complexities Continue
to Arise.
City Attorney Russell Begins
to Modify--ROlities in
General.

"There was sound Of revelry by
night within the classic walls of
Armory hall, all of it due to the frantic
eXertions of some small boys with
| drums. There was congregated the
entire personnel of the Republican
| party in Minneapolis. Several speak
ers were to speak, so the bills said. Be-
| fore the speakers came tie Cecil an
| quartette sang about boy and a tack,
! chair and man. In the midst of the
song A. j. Blethen rOared, sit wasn't a
tack; it was a pima bent pin" On
the platform, besides the speakers. were
| }. S. Pillsbury, j. l.. Gibbs, Loren
| Fletcher. w. H. Eustis, George March
| ant and F. B. Hart, unaccompanied by
| Messrs. Tar and Feathers. Uncle
Loren" came IN directly behind Gov.
| Merriam, but didn't look bit as if he
enjoyed it. The ornamented gunny
sacks and TIN helmets of the Flam Film
club were conspicuous in front of the
J stage. EX-Gov. Pillsbury presided.
Gov. "Merriman" was introduced by
Mr.. Pillsbury, and started out by tell
ing his audience what great city Min
neapolis is. Then followed tiresome
| recitation OH the magnificence of Mill
nesOta. Then he declared that the
Farmers Alliance platform doesn't ask
for a thing which the Republicans
| have not long since granted.
| The Alliance was declared to be a
| Democratic attachment. The gov
ernOr'S dolls Quadrille" act did not
last long. AT the end he said much
about the party of Lincoln, Sumner,
| Grant, Garfield and, mark you, James
Ben Harrison, probably thinking that
Ben has no party. Ben johnson. the
boy actor, gave an imitation of young
| man singing song. Then C.. K. Davis
was trotted out.
The senator has shaved off his mus
tache and looks quite ministerial. His
! speech was quite ministerial. too, i. e.,
tiresome. He patted Merriam on the
back and called him good boy.
| Against Thomas Wilson he had not
word to say, although he wanted to.
| Snider, too, was refer ID to as a nice,
| lnoffenSive sort of chap. War issues
were revived by him. but his remarks in
that direction received but little en-
| enlargement. He mildly praised the
| Republican party for passing the anti
| trust bill, but treated the subject care
| fully, inasmuch as that law is dead
| letter. Then he launched into the
tariff bin thus:
1T was settled at the last election
that the tariff must be revised and that,
| while American
Industries Must He Protected,
the tariff a cry of "Open the WIN
dow''] on necessaries of life must be re-
| duced.'
That was his starting point. He never
| approached it again, nor did he try to
! tell how the tariff on neceSsaries of life
is reduced by the Mckinley bill.
This country is now the greatest
manufacturing nation On EARTH"
screamed the speaker. He did not add,
as he meant. ''Itls the biggest on earth,
but such a baby that it cannot stand
alone" "Sophistries. f" "lures. :" ''gilded
bait" were some of the expressions
| used by the senator III speaking of the
| arguments employed against the Nc
| Kinley sponge, but he did not attempt
| to advance facts or figures to disprove
| those ''sophistries" and lures"
Whence has fled that match
| force of logic with which
''Cush'' was wont to charm the public
| of Minnesota? Last night not cheer,
good life-siZed cheer, was heard when
he told what a lovely thing this tariff
bill is. Only by referring to jim Blaine
| OF stringing together glittering words
| without end or meaning, could the SEN
ator ''get nand.'
He undertook-and soon found it an
! unmanageable task-when he started
out to tell what good thing it was for
| the New Englander that he was able to
| have his farm and get fat working in a
factory fourteen hours out of the TWEEN
| ty-four, ana spending the rest of his
| time, with a family of ten, in two 7x9
| rooms.
1--WE have placed molasses and sugar
on the free list" said Davis. Why
didn't he say that sugar in the Nc
Kinley bill means only the very lowest
| grade of sugar, which nobody uses be-
fore it is refined, the retiner getting that
| free list benefit. That was not his
game.
1--WE want the Democratic party to
understand" continued he. THAT we
have no apologies to make; that we
Then followed another long diSSerta-
! ton on the beauties of the bill. after
which the speaker burst forth with:
"Demagogues tell you that this bill
makes the tariff Oh articles used by the
DOOR prOportienately very much larger
| than upon the articles used by the rich
Why, such statements are foolish. No
| government on earth would dare to do
such thing"
But the senator, aside from making
some quotations concerning jackknives
and raZors, did not undertake to prove
that the bill does not do this very thing.
Special stress was laid upon the reduc-
ton of the tariff on iron, yet iron man
ufacturing is big industry and should
be protected. He thought it a good
thing to put heavy tariff on wool, so
as to build up WOODEN factories in Min
nesota and Dakota. But just few mIn-
utes before he gloried in the putting of
sugar on the free list, and all Dakota
and Minnesota is talking about putting
up plants for the production of beet
sugar, which is expected to become a
great Northwestern industry. Then the
senator told about the suit of clothes he
had on. According to his figures the
suit cost him. made to order. S46.SO.
That illustrated the tenor of his whole
speech. A suit like he had on never
cost less than S25 in a ''hand-me-down''
shop. The senator then returned to
1.-the sugar question, thus:
Under this Mckinley bill. the people
are relieved from S55,OU0,OO of tariff pei
year to which they have heretofore been
subject
Alas for the senator's argument! He
had just before declared,
With His Fist I'm Air,
that "the tariff falls entirely upon the
producer and the importer" How about
that 500. 100000 being relief to the pro.
Queer and the importer? The rest OF
his speech was I'm the same vein.
If Senator Davis had been hired to
come up to Minneapolis and drop a 100
ton rock on S. p. Snider's political head
! he couldn't have done it better than he
did last night. In the first place, his
audience was not with him. He was
talking either above or below the
heads of his audience, for not more
than twenty-five men applaudeo
at any one time. His audience was al
intelligent one, and seemed to thor
oughly understand the Mckinley bill
but it couldn't laud Senator Davis ex
PLANTATION of it. His speech was mas:
of 81 says" Il believes."'I tells" bu
never did he say rpresentan argument
of which he could say, "You understand
how the matter stands" II Senator
Davis had family of ten children, al
equally intelligent and beautiful, he
wnnld scarcely surround five of then