St. Paul daily globe., 1892-07-03

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same railroad concession that is grant
are here at a cost of $50 to each Of.
them. am told that there are dele
gates here from Wyoming who travelled
800 miles in farm wagons to reach the
nearest depot where they could take
the train for Omaha. Cheers and cries
of ''Hurrah for Wyoming."]
[ see OH yonder banner hoisted, the
banner of the great state of Massachu-
setts. and, we might say in the words
of Webster, ''There is Massachusetts;
she speaks for herself" [Cl eers.] On
your banner see the words "Spirit of
1776." This is the spirit that animates
this august gathering. We are the lin-
cal descendants of those men in home
spun and deerskins, those hunters, fish
ers and farmers who founded the ma
tion-a nation without millionaire and
without pauper. Loud cheers.
One hundred and sixteen years of
national life, under the management of
two great parties, has given us, accord
ing TO the different estimates. from 5000
to 10000 millionaires, and 100000
tramps; while the whole land is plaS-
tered with mortgages, and the whole
people are stepped to the lips iii pow
erty. My friends, every great fight that
liberty eliminated in this present gath
ering; every battlefield of the past
fought to make men more free, more
happy and more prosperous, has shed
the fruits of victory upon this great
assemblage. [Cheers.]
DepeN and His Cohorts.
What contrast to the Minneapolis
convention. The leading man OF that
body, the man most petted, and dined
and wined, was Chauncey NJ. Depew,
twenty times millionaire, president OF
two railroad companies and representa-
tive of the Vanderbilt's $500, ,00o. .00a.
And the members of that convention
wriggied upon their bellies before him.
Why. he could not sneeZe bat the Re
publican papers had pictures of him at
every point of the process. Laughter
and cheers.
had debate the other day in Min
neSota with representative speaker of
the Republican party, and l challenged
him to point to a man In the great con-
ventiOn who could he mentioned in one
breath with the great pllilanthfopists
and humanitarians who founded the Re-
publican party. l asked HIM to point
me out a single friend of labor in The
convention, ii single friend of the poor,
single friend of the mechanic. What
was the answer? l was given as the
sample of the phiianthropist Fred
Douglass. [Cheers. Why, / replied.
yon have had to go out OF your own color
to ind an example. [Cheers.
McKiniey's .Ereachery.
And when / asked for another name,
/ was given the name of William Me
Kinley Jr. llaughterl man who
put up the tariff for the benefit of the
prOtectionist manufacturers 10 increas.
the burdenstof the people. That is Re.
publican philanthropy. 1t would be q
miracle II the American people ha1 not
by this time appreciated Bill McKinleyss
philanthropy.
saw report of debate the othez
day in the United States senate. A
Democratic senator charged that TIN
man who had first been put at the head
OF the national executive committee Was
tool of monopoly, the attorney for the
great cattle combine, which has put
into the hands of the Big Four
of Chicago an immense fortune
by breaking down the price
of cattle from one end of the land to
tue other, while maintaining at the
same time prices of meat on the me-
chanic. What did the Republican say?
He said that the chairman of the Demo
cratic national committee was the rep
resentative OF tie Standard Oil COM
pany, bigger rascal Than the other
man. Cheers. | want 1t understood
that am not saying anything against
the rank and HE OF either of these par
ties. Cries of ''Good."l
Not Accusing the People.
The whole American people have
been in one or the other OF these par
ties, and, as the American people are.
III my Judgment, the best ,and nobiest
people en- the face of the earth, it would
not become He to accuse either of them :;
but the leaders, the politics and the
conventions of these parties are legiti-
mate subjects for comment. They
point i'll the direction OF this terrible
power of piutOcracy that has got the
whole country by the throat.
This battle in which we are employed
is the battle OF mankind. [Cheers. This
continent is the last great camping
ground OF the human race. If liberty
fail here, it fails forever. Every op-
pressed nation of the world is looking
upon this convention to discover
whether the star-spangled banner and
the stars and stripes shall float across
the country, steadily rising generations
after generations to higher levels of
culture and civilization. or if it shall
ffoat in solemn mockery above land
cursed as Europed is cursed, the middle
classes drivel Off the land, while con.
centrated in the hands of few is the
wealth provided by the tiller. [Cheers. I
Having quoted figures to show that the
possession of wealth in the hands-Of the
farmers had decreased from five-elghths
i'll 1850 to One-fifth in 1890. he declared
that no man could fail to see the
Dark and Terrible Future
into which they were advancing. Where
were their posterity to find land? The
great army of the dispossessed had al
ready reached the Pacific coast. They
looked out over the blue waters of that
mighty ocean and saw. India, China and
Japan, so densely populated that the
loss of single crop brings to millioIs
starvation. There are Continued he
with growing earnestness) but two
views before us; one of the great evils
which has cursed our country has been
sectional difference. l am glad to know
that this party proposes to wipe out
these differences forever. Loud cheers
sHaye you forgotten that the two old
parties have been holding their conven-
hons ever since the war closed. but
never has either of them dared to place
III nomination for either president or
vice president citizen of either of
those Southern states. I am willing
that the Southern delegates to this con-
yention should meet and agree upon
candidate for president, and l will
pledge for the man so nominated the
unanimous support of Minnesota.
can promise you the solid electoral vote
of Minnesota for the Peoples party.
believe can promise that Nebraska
Will go the same way, and North and
South Carolina and Georgia, and know
that we can count On Kansas. [ tell
you there is no such word as fail, SO far
as this movement is concerned.