St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-18
IN THE FESTIVE FIFTH.
Democratic Orators Enthus

Democratic Orators Enthuse
Crowds at the Cleveland Club.
The last faint echoes-and the speeches
must have been very faint judging from
the echoes-Of the Snider-Republican
meeting last Monday night. had hardly
escaped through the windows of C. S.
p. S. hall, when last night it re-echoed
with good Democratic tariff doctrine
and telling speeches ON the
local ticket. President Warner
riddled the Republican Snider
speeches so effectually that the echoes
of their sophiStrieS will never reach be-
yond the platform again. Mr.. SnIder,
he said, had nothing TO talk about but
the appropriation he had helped secure
for national purposes. On the appro-
priation for the st. Paul postoffice he
had nothing to say, having not pushed
it one inch further than it stood under
that grand old Democrat. Edmund Rice.
Neither had he anything to say on the
Mckinley bill. The speaker then
demonstrated by facts and figures
how MIR. Snider, by his vote, had
helped to increase the burdensome tax
alton that rests on the already bowed
down shoulders of every workingman
and farmer in the West. On thirty-five
articles which he mentioned, that are in
common use in every household, the
average per cent had been raised from
40, in 1874, to 5414 in 1890. He referred
to local politics, and stated that without
success in them you could never reach
success in national affairs. As all in
stance of this he cited the case of the
last spring election, when the Republi-
can sheriff manned the polls with
his deputies. He eulOgiZed the whole
county ticket, calling attention to the
point that four OF the candidates were
born and raised in this county and their
fathers had had successful careers be-
fore them-Richard Il. O'Connor,
Charley Haas, Thomas ID. O'Brien and
Capt. William Hanft. Nelson, as the
only man of his nationality, on either
ticket, and M. f. Kahn, as a laboring
man. sprung from the printers case.
Davie 5. PEBBLES was the next speaker.
and spoke on the tariff and the negro
question.
Pierce Butler. the Demosthenese of
the Eighth ward, one of the brightest
and most eloquent speakers i'll the
county of Ramsey, entertained the au-
dlence for over half an hour with an eX
hauStive review of the state, county
and legislative tickets, fittingiy illus
trated by sketches and stories
In speaking of public sentiment,
he told the story of how man
had gone through railroad train
polling it as to choice for presidential
candidates in 1884. When he had
reached the end he found his totals
ninety-fve for Blaine and five for Cleve-
land. At the next station, while wait
ing, he related the circumstance to the
section hand and claimed it as sure in
dication of Blaine's election. The sec
ton hand replied: ''Oh, that don't
amount to anything, just wait till the
gravel train comes ill.," He com
pared the different manner in which
the two candidates for governor secured
their nominations. Thomas Wilson
was nominated by the people, Merriam
was nominated by money. When Mer-
rlam was first nominated there were
four candidates in the field and when
the convention met the secret ballot
was sprung and an adjournment
secured over night. Republicans say
and when Republicans said so he as a
Democrat had right to use it-tllat
during that night enough votes
were bought to control the
convention and secure the nomi-
nation of the present governor.
He urged the importance of voting the
straight ticket, finding the name of the
Democrat at the head of each, and put
ting opposite it the croSs-mark. their
only mark of salvation, regardless OF
personal friendship for any candidate
on the other ticket, as he was in too
bad company.
Charles Ringwald closed the meeting
with short speech on local Issues.