St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-15
DEMOCRATS IN NUMBERS.
They'll Go to Chicago Union
Leaguers Preparing "V ake.'

They'll Go to Chicago - Union
Leaguers Preparing a "V ake.'
Minneapolis Will be well represented
at the Democratic national convention
in Chicago next week. A meeting of
Minneapolis Democrats was held in the
o ffice of James w. Lawrence last even
ing to make arrangements for going to
the convention. The meeting was COM
posed of members of the jefferson club,
some of the gentlemen present being
also members of the Cleveland club.
Both organizations will have a large
number of members OH hand in Chicago.
Over fifty were in attendance last even
ing, and at least zoo Democrats have
signitied their intention of going. The
business of the meeting last evening was
the appointment of the necessary conf
mitteeS on arrangements. The main point
at issue is the one of badges. Many of
the Jefferson club are in favor of going
to Chicago merely as Democratic club.
pledged to the cause OF no particular
candidate. Cleveland clubmen. on the
other hand. want TO wear Cleveland
badges, Last night a committee repre-
senting the membership of both organ
this matter of badges and re-
committee will report to the regular
meeting of the Cleveland club, at the
rooms OF this organization, 421 NicOllet
avenue. and TO an adjourned meeting of
the jefferson club in the Office of James
W. Lawrence, Oh the second floor of the
Boston block. Every member of both
clubs should attend. A committee was
also appointed to make the necessary
arrangements with regard to railroad
transportation.
A change has come over the spirit of
the Union league. No longer is it the
lion rampant of the local Republican
menagerie. 1t is the toothless old ex-
monarch of the forest, WHO blinks at
the gaping crowd and snoreS away his
lusty roar startled the echoes of the
woodland and rent the silent air
of the desert. His claws are
folded on his gently heaving breast
but he Stimulates the appearance of the
emeprOr of the animal domain because
he is fed for that purpose. The cOnven-
tiondid it all. The Union League met
Monday evening to make arrangements
for ratification meeting to indOrse the
action Of the late lamented (and occa
sionally cursed) Republican national
convention. Last night the league
met again, or part OF it
did, to hear reports and make
still further arrangements. The Union
league has decided to have ratification
meeting. 1t will be held in ArmOry
hall next Saturday evening. 1t will be
called a ratification meeting on the
bill. If it partakes in any degree of the
sessions preliminary to 1t, it will be
sort.of memorial service. or ''wa ke."
Last night about thirty-fve men
were present, presided over
by President Buffers, of the
Union League. President Buffers wore
a mOurnfu, reverential air, as if con-
scious of his presence in the house of
mourning, of standing face to face with
the grim mystery, the end of all life.
The members of the club followed his
example rigidly. They spoke in low
tones. with eyes cast down in solemn
reflection. John GoOdnOW was about
the only man who could so far throw
off the influence of the presence of the
corpse to be able to make the necessary
motions for the appointment of com
mittees. And the village dominic was
there-WiIli am Henry Eustis. He con-
doled with the Sorrowing family but
eulOgized the deceased, Blaine. The
sermon had the effect of arOusing the
ire of free-thinking member of the
fune raj cOrtege, and this furnished the
only incident of the evening. When
Eustis had finished Joseph It. Mannix
took the floor and scored in
no measured terms the sort of
doctrine Dominic Eustis had been
eXDOunding. Republicans were not
foreordained to eternal damnation be-
cause some political John Calvin said
SO. They would all go to glory. Before
he would subscribe TO such sentiments
he would give up his desk as moulder
of political opinion and go back to
chasing police items and coroner's
cases. For once Eustis was 'called."
and in the Showdown it was revealed
that he had been "bluffing."
What about the arrangements for the
ratification meeting? Oh. the meeting
will be called for next Saturday even
ing at Armory hall. All the necessary
committees have been appointed or pro-
vided for. The general supervisory
committee will be composed of man
from each ward, these men to be, so far
as possible, the presidents of the ward
clubs. the Union league, the Scandina-
Wan Union league, the Union Veterans |
league and the Flambeau club. George
A. Brackett will be asked to preside, in
recognition of his brilliant services as
chairman of the convention committee.
Fred Douglass, and as many more of the
convention visiting orators as have re-
mained in the city, will be asked to
speak. That is all.
While the Union League we're max