St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-23
RlDDLEO BY A WOMAN
Mrs. Lease, the Populist Ora
tor, Scores the Repub-
liean Party,
And Predicts That It Will Not
Carry a Single West
ern State.
Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado
and Nevada Are Certain
for Weaver.
EIonopolists Te pifically
Dressed Down by Her
Caustic Tongue.

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last evening, and as the Peoples party
committee was unwilling to pay s56l for
a special train to take her there. it was
decided to give her an opportunity to
speak to a St. Paul audience. A. o. II.
hall in the Market house was securely
and it was packed full to hear the dis
hnguiShed woman stump speaker.
Republicans elsewhere may have had
hopes of securing the conversion of Mrs.
Lease to tLeir party, but if such should
happen she will have to reverse her
speech of last night and discuss issues
from widely different standpoint, for
as matter of fact she riddled the Re
publican party and theories from the
beginning to the end of her speech, and
had no abuse for the Democratic, and
seldom alluded TO it except to express
belief that both old parties will he
swallowed up by the Peoples party.
Mr.. Lease began her address by stat
ing that she heard, few days ago. on
her arrival at Des Moines, that she had
been claimed by the Republicans. and
would go to New York TO ask the peo-
pie to vote for Harrison. Such PROPOSE
ton was ridiculed by the woman. She
declared that she believed in the OrthO-
dOX hell. and would surely go there if
she should advocate the election of Har-
rison. She then asserted that she
would not advocate the election of either
Harrison or Cleveland.
Republican Party About Dead.
Mrs. Lease then gave a glowing ac-
count of her tour with Gen. Weaver in
the South and West. They had been
uraptad Inv Immense otdipnonS nvarv-
where. In Colorado they found that
four out of five votes of the entire
people will be cast for the Peo-
pies party. Over forty papers in
that state have come out for the Peo-
pies party, and it will surely carry that
Republican stronghold. In Nevada the
same condition of affairs was found.
Practically there is no electoral ticket
there but that of the Peoples party.
In California the same revolution is
going on. and the people are stamped
Ing from the old parties. This is the
most monopoly-ridden state in the
Union, and the people have grown
tired of the past thirty years of rob
berry. In Washington they were greet
ed with the greatest enthusiasm. and in
Oregon and Wyoming the uprising is
great enough to turn down the party in
power. In the latter the land
grabbing and cattle robbery has
Disguised the Republicans and they
are going over by the scores and
hundreds to the Peoples party. She
mention ed the names of many promi
nent men in those states who have come
ont for the Peoples party, and quoted
from several of them. She stated that
Senator Walcott had said in his Denver
speech that the decentralization of..silver
robs the miners to the extent of $780,
100000; it robs the farmers of the West
four times that much, and the cotton
growers of the South Of five times as
much as both the others. She added,
"Ths act alone ought to condemn the
Republican party to obloquy." In
Kansas she asserted that the Peoples
party will be able to pass any law it
wants and keep out of power the party
that has been abusing the peoples
rights fer twenty-five years, and will
preach the funeral of both the
old parties. In the South she predicted
the election OF KOlb as governor of Ala
Dama. Her face.was lit up with smile
when she referred to the egg omelet
brigade of the South, and spoke of the
reception they received there. She said
the bowling against them in the South
came from tine hoodlums of the cities,
who were boys. Teey greeted them
eX-Confederate, the farmers and.in fact,
the great mass OF the white peo-
pie of the South she declared are
coming over to the Peoples party.
She paid a glowing tribute to the 10y
atty of the eX-Confederates. and de-
clared that they realize more fully than
the people of the North that the issues
of the war are settled and are the
leaders in the effort to destroy fractional
strlfes. She declared that the Peoples
party alone can eradicate factlOnal feel
ings and unite the North and South.
She blamed both parties Tor not pass
ing a silver bill, and declared that to be
tue issue in the present history of the
country, and not the tariff. 1t never
was the paramount issue of this country
in her view.
Rocking the NlOnOpoIies.
She asserted that the country had
been prosperous under low tariff. and
a high tariff has not been able to pre-.
vent prosperity, even if it has almost
buried agriculture and brought want
upon thousands. She then proceeded
to place the monopolleS on the rack and
to depict the evils of tariff that made
it possible to amass riches in the hands
of the few. She then proceeded to com
pliment very highly Thomas G. Shear
is the greatest lawyer and Stats
tician of the country, and pro-
ceeded to quote some of the state
ments which lie has made and which
she expressed hope he will reiterate
in his speech at the Democratic meeting
in ST. Paul Monday night. She sale
that this gentleman asserts that 30,0Gi
people own the great part of the wealth
of this country, and that under existing
conditions it will be but a couple of de
cades until $4,000 will own the entire
country.
She alluded to the strikes OF the coun
try, and criticised in severe terms The
policy of protecting monopolies by the
state militia, and permitting the pluto
Gratis to use the soldiery to protect then
in robbing the people. She declared
that the country has lost more by elias:
legislation in the past 25 years than any
other country lost in 100 years under th'
expressions OF conqueror. She APP
pealed to the people to resort to tht
ballot as the effective weapon to rlt
themselves of the grasp OF monopol!
and the crucial condition into which thu
country has been drawn. She declared
that the old party is not fighting TO
patriotism, but against being turned GU
of office, for fear that the records of thu
past thirty years will he opened and thu
jugglery of the party in power exposed
She used the word parties in the plural
but in manner that left the impression
that she referred especial to the part.
now in power.
Mrs. Lease spoke for an hour and
half and elected most enthusiastic ap
plause, which lasted for minutes a
times. Strong expressions of approva
and cries of good were often heard
She was urged to go on when sh
thought she had spoken long enough
and did extend her speech.