St. Paul daily globe., 1892-10-08
He Was Tied Up at Albert
Lea by Railroad Misman-
agement.
But Another Meeting Will Be
Held Tonight and He'll
Be Here.
Republicans Steal More Than
Their Share Of the Elec-
tion Judges.
Was w. j. Hastings Muir
dered ?--J. j. NeSbitt Has
a Woe.

Through the fault of the management
of the Minneapolis & ST. Louis railroad
hear j. Milton Turner last night at
Armory hall. The people were there.
thousands Of them, but Turner couldn't
appear. The following, one of several
teletrams from him last night, partially
explains the situation:
Say TO audience l can show conclusivelv
twas awkW ardness of railroad management
say that beg, in the name of our succeeding
cause they indulge me until tomorrow night
Cannot get locomotive. Leave here tomor-
row morning. j. MILTON TURNER.
Every effort possible was made by the
local Democrats 10 bring Mr.. Turner
here, but it couldn't be done. The rail-
road company could not or would not
furnish all engine and bring Mr.. Turner
OIL from Albert Lea. Several visits to
the st. Louis roundhouse and to the
officials of tie road were fruitiess.
But j. Milton Turner will be here
tonight. He left Albert Lea at O'clock
this morning, and there is no danger
that he won't be Oh hand. He will
speak at Armory hall, TOO.
Although Mir. Turner was unavo da-
bly, absent last night, the meeting was
held just the same. Over LOCO people
departed when they learned that Turner
couldn't come, but enough remained to
fill ArmOry hall.
Louis Il. Ihlon, the present and next
county attorney. who presided. was the
first speaker. He commented upon the
fact that this year sees. for the first
time, young mems Democratic club
enlisted III the work of the campaign.
Next he passed to the consideration of
another cheering fact-the presence on
public platform in the North of a col
ored man preaching the doctrine of
Democracy. 4 story, and Mr.. Thion
introduced George ID. Vashon, colored
man.
MIR. Vashon began his address with Il
few words eulogIstic of j. Milton Tur-
ner, the cOlored orator who had beer
expected to speak last night. He spoke
OF the days i'll the sos when little.
ragged darky boy of fourteen used to
come INTO st. Louis every two weeks on
his fathers farm wagon, and from the
tail of the wagon used to harangue the
street crowds on the question of slav-
cry. He was certain that j. Milton
Turner, the man, is as true to his
own principles and the principles of
Democracy as was jim Turner, the boy of
fourteen, to his principles and the prn
clpie OF freedom. A couple of weeks
mlttee OF Minnesota begged the national
committee to send a colored speaker
to this state. The colored men
OF Minnesota were falling out of line.
Fred Douglass W S asked to come, but
refused. He and his fellow cOlOred men
had been fooled too long by the Repub-
llcans. So John r. Lynch came in
stead. Lynch came to save his job
in Washington. Vashon related how
lie had heard Lynch speak once before.
wears ago. in Fayette, Miss, when he
himself was only sixteen years old.
Lynch sent out word that he wanted 10
speak i'll Fayeite. and the white men
wouldn't let him. The negroes rallied
with Winchesters to protect Lynch.
They didn't find him in danger, but
they heard him speak.
And so help me Cod" said VashOn,
81 believe he made the same speech he
made in Harmonic hall the other night.
de used one sentence that enables me
to identify it: Return the Republican
party to power and l believe, hope, we
Will have no more trouble with these
elections.'"
Some personal "reminiscences of days
IN the South during the reconstruction
''carpet-bag" period, which utterly dis
prove the assertions of Lynch that Dem
ocrats are the ones who diSfranchise the
cOl0red men in the South. Time is the
They are the outgroWth of the Repub-
lican misrule during the 'carpet-bag"
rule.
A few words were said about Harri-
son and his beloved force jill. During
the first two years Of his term Ben had
Republican house and a Republican
senate; yet he did nothing for the black
man. Were his force bill to become a
law now the scenes OF 1876 would be re-
peated, and the lives of a half million
black men pay the forfeit.
''Outside interference only makes
matters worse in the South. Every
John K. Lynch who comes to the North
to plead for ballots in the South pleads
for spades to dig the graves OF a half
million black men,"
4 few words ON the tariff came next.
The Republicans go back to the war of
the Rebellion for their arguments. He
would give them cards and spades and
90 back to the days Of the Revolutionary
war. That war OF seven years was
brought Oil because the American peo-
pie refused to be taxed more than the
needs of the government.
IF Mckinley is right" said VaShon,
'the minute mem of Concord and Lex
ington We're wrong. If Mckinley is
right George Washington was wrong,
and deserved the halter as much as JEFF
ferSon Davis. Washington is dead and
Mckinley is alive, and I'll put my trust
in Washington"
Cleveland and pension bills were con-
Sidered.
Il make this statement, and l chal-
lenge contradiction from any source
Grover Cleveland never vetoed a pen
sion bill that he wouldn't have been a
villain if he hadn't vetoed it. Grover
Cleveland is the president who made
| the pension list roll of honor"
Turner will be here tonight sure, and
the biggest political meeting of the cam
| paign SO far will be the result.
J. Milton Turner viii positive