New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-10-05
LAWLER AND PLUMMER.
The Sleepy Eye Correspondent Reviews
Their Speeches at that Place.

An Answer to the Claim That Plummer
had no Business to Quote from the.
Bible as he did.
Hon. j M. Thompson leaves this week
for the Pacific coast
The parents and two sisters of O. w.
and A. c. Hagen left on Monday for
Kansas City, after an extended visit.
Columbus Day will be appropriately
observed by the public schools of this
place The official program will be car
ried out
Rev. c. L. Lehnert and wife are at LIE
Sueur attending the annual session of
the Northern German NJ. E. Conference.
Rey. l.. will probably be returned for
another year, as he is a faithful and pop
ular pastor. -..-
DR.. J. W. Welcome and Editor Hays
OF the Dispatch are indulging in little
sparring (on paper regarding the Merth
case. There seems to be some doubt as
to whether the case in question was real
ly diphtheria or not. No new cases have
developed thus far.
Someone effected an entrance to Her
man Kath's saloon by means of the rear
window on Wednesday evening of last
Wnp ayytro faI IoJ
the till. The neatness of the lob indi-
Gates professional. Schneider & Schnei-
der's cash drawer was tapped the same
night to the tune of S., undoubtedly bv
the same artist.
u. W. Lawler and W. S. Hammond
were with us on Wednesday! Both are
gentlemanly fellows and were well re-
celved. Lawler made good speach
| for democrat); but we have get to
hear of one convert. The old wheel-hor-
ses OF the democracy were strengthened
III the faith, as, of course, they ALWAYS
are. Hammond made a frantic appeal
to the pops. for aid, and spoke in path
etlc manner, of his fathers and grand
! fathers records as soldiers and of what
he would do for the old soldiers if cleo
ted, judicously neglecting to mention
that W when the presidential chair was held
down by the present leader Of his party,
pension bills had decided tendency to
become afflicted with "innocuous desue-
tude."
The great and only Col. Plummer
spoke on Wednesday evening to thelarg-
est audience ever gathered here fora sim
liar purpose. Many were turned away
for want of room. AS a logical argu-
ment IN favor of protection, based upon
facts drawn from both sacred and pro-
fame history, his speech has never been
equalled in Sleepy Eye. His seemingly
inexhaustible fund of anecdotes. his rea-
dy wit, the evidence Of thorough literary
and historical research were a surprise
and a highly relished treat to his audi
tors His rather extended list of Bibli-
cal analogies, however, dir not find fav-
or with few who were somewhat often
ded and shocked at the speakers free
dom with Scripture which IN their opin-
ion, should not be banded about in DO
! litical discussions. 1t seems to U.s. how
ever, that as Government is of divine
origin, our laws are based uron the De-
calogue, politics are preached from the
pulpit, allusions to, and quotations from,
Scriptural history. made in everyday
conversation, it would not be very diff
ticult matter for Col. Plummer to Justify
himself.
! A goodly number of our citizens went
to the s'little slice chopped off of Germ
any, last Saturday evening to attend the
republican rally. ALI returned highly
! pleased with the success of the meeting,
and convinced that New Ulm does moth
ing by halves Honest John.
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