St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-31
TRUE DOCTRINE IN FIFTH.
housing Meeting in Behalf of the
Democratic Ticket.

The Fifth Ward Cleveland club. with cal
cium light and portraits, tariff oratory and
county candidates, entertained the Demo-
Gratis of that ward last evening. The meet
ing was presided over by William Koch. the
secretary, who introduced Capt. G.. H. Moffett
as the first speaker. He spoke briefly on the
tariff, and Quilted most effectually the sophis-
tries of that wide waist banded man from
Maine, who was sent out here to help the
Republicans in their forlorn hope of carry
Ing the district and state, 1t being gen.
orally conceded that the county ticket was
already elected. During Capt Moffetts
speech Thomas d. o. Brien, the next county
attorney At Ramsey county. entered the hall
ana was cheered to the echo. He was invited
on the platform, and made a short speech on
the county ticket. At this point President
Koch invited that grand old man. of Ram
sey county, George Mitsch. TO the platform
accompanied Dy Paul Lavalle, brother cam
didate for commissioner, and Charles Ring
valid, the next member of the Legislature
from the Fifth ward.
ExMarshal W. M. Campbell, chairman Of
the State Democratic central committee was
next introduced and made tariff speech OF
considerable length and great deal of in
tereSt. He explained a tariff for revenue
only with incidental protection in COMPARE
son with a tariff for protection only and an
incidental revenue, sc that no one. not even
three small boys who had taken front seats
could misunderstood ii. The question OF
higher or lower wages was illustrated by the
story of Mike. the lrshman, who had u Re-
publican hlgh-Drotection master, who tried
to induce him to vote for that party on the
plea that his wages would be higher, when
the son of the green isle replied: ',Dade
and if they would you'd niver ask me to
vote that way" knowing full we'll by
his keen Irish perception that his master
wanted to hire help as cheap as he
| could. He showed that there was no tariff
| on laboring men or people coming into this
! country to come into competition with our
| citizens but once. when there was a tax of
| $40 on every negro slave that came from
| Africa to protect the Southern planter who
| was raising negroes. He quoted many ex
| tracts from DANES G. Blaine's book, which
! coincided with the Democratic plat
| form of to-day, and stated that the
| country was never so prosperous az ii was
| under low tariff rule which argument he
| clinched by reading William M. Evarts' views
as embodied in consular reports he furnished
to congress. He had admired Senator Davis
for thirty years; but between the committee
room where he pied for free binding Irvine
and the halls of congress where he voted to
tax 1t. and had not the courage to vote for his
constituents, but as the caucus dictated, he
had lost the admiration that once filled his
bosom with pride. He closed with an appeal
to vote for necessary and lust taxation as
against unnecessary and unjust taxation.
MessrS. Mitsch aud Lavalee. having an en-
gagement elsewhere, here rose to leave the
platform, when President Koch proposed
three cheers for the father and son of the
Ramsey county commissioners which was
responded to with hearty good will.
Portraits of the state and county officers
were then presented by calcium lights on
canvass, and they were fittingiy eulogized by
Capt. George H. Moffett, rs they appeared in
rotation. He paid especial compliments to
r. II. O'Connor, A. N. Nelson. Thomas D.
O'Brien, NJ. F. Kahn, CHI 'rles FL "a and Capt.
William Hanft
There will be two meetings under the aus
pices of the Cleveland club Monday evening
mkt one at C.S P. S. hall and one at Ayds