St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-09
TURNER WAS THERE.
Last Night 1.-The Black De-
mosthenes" Electrified the
Listening Thousands.
Colored Men Realize That
They Have Been Cheat
ed for Years.
Divorce Of Mrs. Harry B.
Baker From Her Fast
Young Husband.
DR.. Forbes Case Still Bothers
the Conference.-The
Houses Burned.

before and unable to reach the city and
speak as per programme. The dlsap-
continent of Friday night. however,
Dnly served to wiet the desire of Min
neapolitans to hear the famous speaker,
Rnd when the meeting was called
10 order last night by County Attorney
Than, there was scarcely room 10
breathe in that vast hall. 1t was crowd
ed clear to the doors, and many people
were forced to 60 away because there
was no room. Mr.. THAN. as chairman,
made a few remarks, and then Intro
duced Chris Gallagher, who gave the
audience a treat in the line of tariff
speeches. He scored the Tribune
and its owner, Thomas Lowry. and
thereby touched popular chord in the
hearts of the audience. The Tribune,
he said, could not show where the wages
of airy of its employees had been In
creased since the advent of the lnta-
nous Mckinley tariff law, and he was
sure the street railway company had re-
duced the wages of its employees rather
than increased them. The company
paid lower wages to its employees than
any other street car company in the
United States. He made a facetlouS
remark concerning the police commits
sion. He said:
''rhere hasn't been any tariff on po-
licemen since the police commission was
abolished"
After Mr.. Gallagher's speech, and
during the meeting, the Cleveland Glee
club sang selections. The First Regi-
ment National Guard Drum and Flte
corps also rendered several Insplrating
-nI. i IL, ,,f 10 N
verSity Democratic club, which present.
ed itself at the meeting in body When
Mr.. Turner was introduced, the ap-
plauSe was deafening, and the portly
colored gentleman took his position CD
the platform with modest mien.
The speech he delivered will long De
remembered in this city. 1t was So full
of natural poetry and pathoS that the
audience could almost imagine the
balmy Zephyrs of the sunny south pass
ing over their heads. Tie speaker gave
vent to touch OF nature when he re-
marked that he wished he could dismiss
from the minds OF the audience his
color and lie looked upon as man with
the rest of them.
Cause of Human Liberty.
81 am here" he said. {" and the audi
ence is here. for the one cause.-The OPP
preston of the laborIng man. We are
all here for the cause of human liberty,
the common brotherhood of man, which
is surely destined TO succeed"
Grover Cleveland, he said, was the
true advocate of human liberty, and no
sooner had the words been uttered than
the audience bcrSt forth into prolonged
cheering. The name of the next preSi-
dent was the key TO their hearts, and
during Mr.. Turner's speech, whenever
he referred to him the ovation
was an enthusiastic one. Cleve-
land, he said, borrowed no reci-
procity from another statesman;
he had no 'BlOckSof- hye-Dudley,
and no Clarkson. He stood upon the
great principles of the Democratic
party. and was for the people and with
the people at every turn. At this point
MIR. Turner could not refrain making a
few satirical remarks about the little
man who, at the present time, occupies
the presidential chair. But ne made
them in neatly turned manner. The
labor, Said Mr. Turner. was
not new one. 1t was embodied
in the struggle of the bondman and the
freedman, in the persecution of the chill
dren of penury and suffering by the
pampered sons of affluence and luxury.
1t was all as old as the world. The dis
position of the strong to override the
weak did not belong to the Republican
party, for it was as old as the
said that the Democrats were for
the tariff for revenue only, the
matter was crystallized and the tariff
was eXemplified. 1t had no place for
the poor man, for the Mckinley law was
formulated by and for tie oppressive
wealth of the country. Ii was not hui
man liberty, and without human lib
erty human slavery existed. The tariff
was as false as the pretenSeS of the Re-
publican party to capture the negro
vote. The negroes had been 50 drilled
and drummed into believing they
owed their very existence to the
Republican party, that heretofore its
politics had been looked upon by the
colored men as sort OF religion. Mr.
Turner thanked God that tie colored
man was at last awakening to the reali-
cation of the wrong that Was being
done him aud how his credulity was
beirr p.ayed upon by INSCRIPTIONS
poiuolan- and office grabbers. In the
last republican convention held
III ti..o city the politicians had
Juggled the force bill i'll order
to again capture, as they thought, the
colored vote. Without this vote it was
as impossible for the Republican party
to elect president as il would be for
the speaker to walk to London. Bnt
this convention, said Mr.. Turner, build
ed TO the negro vote in a manner they
little dreamed of, and this coming cleo
tiOn would prove it.
Ecasting John H Lynch.
Mr.. Turner paid his compliments to
lnh / ,fisa hnIJ
who spoke TO an audience in this CITY
last Monday night, and in manner
that would not have pleased this worthy
gentleman. John IL. Lynch had been in
office ever since he left the little school
house under The hill in Natchez, and if
not in office, contrasting offices. asa man
who could create offices and elect him.
self he was wonder, and it was because
of such as he, Bruce and Douglas, that
the negroes OF the country were turn
ing Democrats. Such men did not rep
resent the black men, who create the
millions of bales of cotton in the South
the black men who live along the rim
pling brooks of the South and sleep amid
the aroma of Southern flowers. Lynch
said Mr. Turner, was not only persist
ent OficehOlder, but & confoundedly
Stingy one, and he was willing TO bel
that Harrison did not fry much fat Out
Of Lynch.
''All the colOred man ask,' continued
the speaker, lis that he be placed on his
merit, and that if the survival of the
ftteSt be true. that it be practiced, and
if his intellectual attachments make him
the fittest, that he be not barred because
of his color. We will take the coloreG
vote away from Harrison in Indiana
for the colOred men of that state have
awakened TO the fact that the party he
represents cannot be the friend of the
colored folk as long as it advocates the
measures it practices at present. Under
the administration of the honest anC
loyal son of his country-GrOver Cleve
land-we will have an investigation Of
the reasons why the poor old Uncle
Tom of the cotton fields of the South
shall not have his rights. The
interests of the colored laboring