St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-03

.'Shut up your baZoos." The speaker
proceeded: IL am going to hold up my
hand and say that whenthe present city
officials were elected they were genial
fellows, nice gentlemen and good men
in every respect" The crowd raised
the roof with cheers at this admission.
He continued: "Now. If you are gen
tlemen--if you are gentlemen you Will
let me proceed"
Certainly. Go on. You are doing
WE'LL" came the response in a chorus.
The speaker wanted to know what
the people were going to do with Smith,
and the crowd responded promptly,
Effect him." He called some of tie
men near him some hard names, and
proceeded to say that Smith had served,
two terms and had made good mayor,
at which a goOdnatured cneer again
shook the building. After this vIhe
speaker got down TO what he intended,
to do. namely, roast the administration.
but he could not find anything to att
tack except the legislation in the inter-
est of st. Paul.
The crowd began to thin out, when he,
waved copy Of the laws above, his
head in frantic manner and said 1hat.
many pages had been devoted to legisla-;
ton in the interest of the city. BE DID,
city had been increased in the past ten.
years. This line of talk was received
with silence, and the orator sought some
means of creating enthusiasm, so he adj,
mitted that the city had grown from a
village to city in that tine. Of course
the crowd responded with good-natured
cheers. He then tried to say something
to liven up the supporters of the mon
grel ticket. He tried ridicule of
the present officials and abused them
roundiy in another tack. :Despairing
in this, he asserted that the ',gang'
would be turned out. He tried every
conceivable tax for a half hour or
more, but MS auditors neither cheered
nor gave any indication of sympathy.
Seeing that the only way to receive en-
eouYagement WAS to compliment the
gang, he tackled again and was ap-
plauded when he spoke we'll of Mayor
Smith. He said that the only kick he
had was because the legislature had
voted to allow an increase in the bonded
debt. and he again waved the statutes
above his head and said: ut is all
written down here"
When some one asked il the .tielega-
ton that asked the passage of the law
WAS not headed 10y Gen. Sanborn and
made up chiefly of Republicans. and the
law passed by a Republican legislature,
he repsSed: Yes. but that if they had
been Democrats they could have been
bought up just the same with wine
supperS." At this the crowd eheered
again. He wanted to know why the
present council had not let the city
printing to an evening paper at 3alower
bid. Some one asked him if the Repub-
licans would let it to the lowest bidder.
Sod .,I-
into trap by the next question. which
was: ''Why did the Republican council
let the printing to the Pioneer at 40
cents all inch when an evening paper
had it the year before at 2S cents, and
bid the same for it the year it was
raised and given to the Pioneer? This
question was too hard to answer and
the crowd app1auded when it was
ignored. ;a -. 47-
The speaker went on at considerable
length and silence reigned until he ap-
pealed for applause by admitting that
the Democrats had given the city, a
good administration. After each of
these admissions he would say they
would not continue to give the city a
good administration. After he sat down
Col. Joubert mounted the rostrum to
speak, but Col. Wright reached for his
coat-tails and pulled him dOWn.il The
band struck up dead march about the
time voice proposed three cheers for
Col. Wright. A few voices respaRdedD
Then some one proposed three cheers
for Robert Smith, and the hallfairly.
shook with the:responSe. 80. i
The meeting was very good-natured
one, but it was apparent that to- call
citizens meeting in the central part of.
the city Will bring out a crowd that is
largely Democratic nj. >