St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-01
EVENING ENTHUSIASM.
Messrs. Lawler, Hall and Meth
away Address a Big Crowd.

Special to the Globe.
FARIBAULT, Mimi, Aug. 3l.-The
great convention of the afternoon was
splendidly supplemented by mammoth
ratification meeting this evening in
Union hail. which will seat 1000 peo-
pie, and was filled to the doors. The
platform was occupied by Hon. ID. w.
LAWYER, candidate tor governor; Judge
j. Z. Nethaway, candidate for attorney
general: Hon. Peter Nelson, candidate
for secretary of state, and Hon. o. Nj.
Hall. candidate for congress. Hon. G.
w. Batchelder. one of the Oldest Demo-
Gratis in Faribault, still in harness, pre-
sided, and made a telling, hopeful
speech. setting forth the splendid
equipments of the state and congress
sional tickets.
Hon. o. Nj. Hall was the first speaker,
and while protesting that he was not
there to make speech at the present
time. made q brief review of his con-
greSslonal work, and said that the great
Issue of the campaign was the tariff,
anu the future prosperity of the Amer
lean people rested OH their ability and
their Willingness to remove from their
shoulders the great and increasing bur-
den OF taxation placed there at the IN
Stlgation Of the monouOlists. He was
cheered to the echo. and retired to give
place to Judge Nethaway amid round
after round OF applause.
Judge Nethaway was in his happlest
mood, and admitted the charge that he
was young man, but claimed that a
political experience of fifteen years was
sufficient to fit any man to Judge wisely
with which OF the great political parties
he should act. He gloried in two facts
first, that he was an American, and
second that he was a Democrat. After
general review of the political Situa-
ton he turned his attention to the tariff
on tin by request of Republican
friend. lie showed from the records
the great fraud of this tax OF
22I0 cents per pound on tin that the
much-lauded work of manufacture con-
sisted in importing the plates, which
come III tree, and escaping an extra
proht OF about LILO cents pound,
Which the American consumers have TO
pay. He showed the humbug of the
production of American tin. The Cali
10rnia mines, owned by an English Syn-
dictate, produced $1,000 worth at cost
of $4,000
The reception given Mr.. Lawler
would have turned the head of weaker
man. His address was magnificent.
He reviewed the history of taxation,
showing that the American tariff was
the creation of Alexander Hamilton. an
aristocrat, while a revenue tariff was
the work of Thomas jefferson, the au-
thor of the Declaration of independence
and organizer of the Democratic party.
Nh. LAWYER denied any disposition to
censure the founders of the Re
publican party, or its rank and
file, but he could not approve
of its present management and
leaders. His tribute to Grover Cleve-
land was forcible. and his contrasting
of Knute Nelson in congress and Knute
Nelson, candidate for governor of Min
neSota, was most effective. He alluded
to the sOphistries of Gen. George III.
Sheridan and exposed his war record.
he was not III the army, but after the
war was adlutant general of Louisiana.
Mr.. LAWYER held his audience to the
close and made splendid impression.