St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-13
WASTED THEIR WIND.
Populists and Republicans
Hold q Joint Debate on
Losing Principles.
COME OUT HORSE AND HORSE
Carlston Equipped With Fiat
Ideas and Ozmun With
Past Party Glory.
LOWENSTEIN is SHOWN. UP.
George w. Freeman a Repub-
lican Candidate for the
Legislature.
LOWENSTEIN is SHOWN. UP.

"Prophecy VS.. The Improbable"
would be a good caption to the debate
that took place at Brandrs hall last
evening between E. II. Ozmun, Re-
publican candidate Tor the Senate in the
Twenty district, and Z. +.
Carlston, aspirant for the same Office for
the Populists.
At about s o'clock Mr.. Carlston, armed
with a bundle of manuscript and several
yards OF Populist newspaper clippings,
was introduced to about seventy-hve
| Populists and fifty Republicans by the
president of the Eighth Ward Banner
Peoples Party Central club, ii. F.
| Luhrseu. Mr.. Carlston had been in
training evidently for some time. I'M
| rolling a large package of manuscript.
Mr.. Carlston proceeded to larrup the
Republican party directly and the Peo-
pies party indirectly. His arguments
were not only voluminous, but
historical. He had ON hand
a compilation of statistics from
2O07 b. G. to the present day.
After arraigning the Republican party
for its misoeeds and lack of principles
he said:
81 charge the Republican party with
the whole responsibility of the present
demoralized condition Of public affairs.
The Republican party was controlled by
Wall and Lombard street. and If the
people want to better themselves. they
must see to it that every vestige of
fictitious capital and watered stock may
be squeezed out" be favored govern
ment ownership of railways and tele.
graph and postal savings bank, and the
plan of the initiative and referendum.
He
Accused His Opponent
OF being the servant of trusts and cor.
porations. and said that a vote for o.
nun is a vote for Washburn for senator.
Scoring the Republican party to a turn
again, he related the following as show
ing the difference between individual
and party:
"Gentlemen: l have no unkind word
to say of my opponent i'll this race. Mr..
Ozmun. | believe him to be an excel
lent gentleman of some ability and hon
esty of purpose, hut he is in a bad
crowd. | once knew a man who was
constantly in litigation, and although
seemingly often not quite in the light,
was remarkably successful in his law
ing. Once he had a very bad case, and
his attorney advised him to let the
matter drop, but the client exclaimed,
Go ahead with the suit, darn it; Pve
never lost YET Well. the jury brought
in a verdict against my friend in about
ten minutes. He then arose, and
looking hard at the jury, remarked:
Individually, you arr "a clever and In
t~elllgent a lot of men as | ever aw; but,
collectively, you are the meaneS rascalS
l ever had anything to do with And SO
it is with our Republican friends. In
d%ividually. they are all right; but col
lectively. as a party: they are the mean-
eSt rdScalS on EARTH"
MIR. Ozmun apol0giZed for the acts of
the Republicans. TO throw palliasion
on their misdeeds, he said it was just as
easy to be buncoed in a legislative hall
as on the street. 1t was difficult to run
a large government like this. And
her he went OH to sdy what the party
'had" done; referred to the war, aboli-
ton OF slavery, homestead act, high
tariff. Chinese exclusion act. ETC.. and
other history, but said nothing regard
Ing the present, or what the party
might do.
POpuIism Defended.
E. L. Writ then defended Populism.
Populism he declared TO be logical; not
fanatical, not anarchy, not socialism.
He became very passionate, ana proved
to be quite an emotional orator. AL
though he broke no furniture, he came
very near kicking down the roof.
L. q. Rogers followed Mr.. Writ,
and his remarks were in eX-
treme contrast to the %harangue
Of his predecessor. Mr.. Rogers remarks
were from the Republican view, but
they were patriotic. This country
hadn't gone to the dogs yet. and
wouldn't. He declared the tariff a side
issue, and stated ''whateyer party is in
power, this great republic is eternal
and i~ndestructlble." He could not
claim the Republican party is right on
all things.
Mr.. Rogers was followed by Col.
Pierce, who wound up the meeting with
Populistic u~tterances.