St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-25
Democrats Of Washington in
the Field Preparing for
'Ninety-Two.
Cleveland, Hill and Other
Leaders Encourage the
Workers.
Tacoma Is Ambitious to Sc
cure a Big National Con-
Vention.
Unique and Uncertain Politi-
Cal Contest Pending in
Nebraska.

SPOKANE FALLS, Wash, Sept. "a
There was large attendance at the
second days session of the convention
of Democratic clubs of Washington.
Henry Drum, of Tacoma, was elected
president, and Henry Hazard, of Ia
coma, secretary. In the afternoon a
large mass meeting was held. Senator
Faulkner, of West Virginia, was the
orator. A large number of letters of re-
greet were read. Ex-President Cleveland
by telegraph said:
NEW YORK Sept 24.-Henry Drum, Presi-
dent: Please present my congratulations and
best wishes to the workers in the Democratic
cause who meet to-day in your state. hope
this faith in the Intelligence of their coun-
trymen will induce them to rest their hopes
OF success upon the advocacy of wholesome
principles and measures which are truly
Democratic, as well as upon the thorough
party organization which their association of
Democratic clubs is so well calculated to sub
serve. The vindication of our principles can
be safely left TO the plain people of the land
when they are aroused TO thoughtfulness and
patriotic action. GROVER CLEVELAND.
Gov. Hill, of New York, among other
things, SAYS:
''The Republican party is frightened
by the emphatic protest of the people
last November against high tariff and
subsidies and force bills and exravagant
appropriations, and desiring new issue
III 1892, it is vainly seeking to divide
the Eastern Democracy from the West
ern by false and hypocritlcal professions
in behalf of an honest currency
blindly trusting that it can deceive by
its professions, while by its acts it COIL
large part of our currency and refuses
to take manly stand in favor OF the
only honest currency-the currency of
our fathers, and of the constitution"
Letters were also read from eX-Gov.
Gray, of Indiana: Senator Palmer, of
Illinois; Senator Villas, of Wisconsin;
Cows. Campbell, of Ohio; Toole, of
Montana; RUSSELL, of Massachusetts;
PattisoD, of Pennsylvania; Pennoyer,
of Oregon: Hon. Il. j. Phelps, eX-minis-
ter to England, and many others.
In the evening, at a large mass meet
ing, Congressman Bynum, of Indiana,
was the orator, and in the course of a
vigorous speech, he said: Free govern
ment cannot long endure except under
Democratic influence. The Republican
party, If 1t ever honestly pos
sessed, has long since abandoned
Democratic ideas, and stands
to-day the exponent of every heresy
which threatens the destruction of pop
MAR institutions. 1t is the avowed
friend and supporter of policy which
has impoverished and enslaved the
masses and enthroned the classes. Its
representatives, by class legislation,
have so corrupted the very fouD-
tains of free institutions, that
large body of our people are
demanding that the chains of
paternal government be securely rivet-
ed upon their arms, i'll the insane belief
that under national control they will
escape the dreadful oppression of CEN
tralized wealth. In their desperation
to perpetuate their party in power they
haue again and again. and each time
with greater violence than before, as
saulted the reserved sovereignty of the
States and of the people. They boldly
announce that the masses are no longer
fit to be trusted with the control and
management of their own elections, and
that in the keeping and custody of ire
sponsible and corrupt federal appoint
ees the right and franchises of the peo-
pie should be permanently lodged.
Their boosted friendship for the
agricultural industry has only resulted
in greater depression, and their pre-
tended efforts to benefit the wagework-
ers of the country, only in bringing to
our shores thousands of poor and igno-
rant laborers to compete in the mines
and in the factories at lower wages.
With such record it is only surpris-
ing that the wrath of the people was
not sufficiently excited to chaStise them
beyond recognition before the last cleo
ton