St. Paul daily globe., 1894-09-02
FILINGS AT MAYOR SMITH
Charges That the City Hall
Worked Against Thomas
Wilson.
PEOPLE CALL "RATS" AT HIM,
But Townley, Never Feazed,
Keeps on With His Self
Amusement.

There was buYid atmosphere at the
quarters Of the Sixth Ward Democratic
club. corner of South Robert street and
Fairfield avenue. last night. John l..
TOwnley, the delegate who was res.
Diluted" out of the Democratic conven-
tiOn, ''shook back at his friends. the
the enemy" for their action regarding
him on that memorable occasion.
Mr.. Townley said, in substance, that
at first the club had decided to have
nothing to do with the convention. They
subsequently realized that it would be
good thing, after all. and, after "a
happy contest, ,"selected their delegation
and he had been among the chosen. He
said he felt proud of his associates, for
among them was his butcher, his grocer,
and so on. He gave the history of his
walk-out from the gathering. He said
that j. j. McCafferty had asked him IL
he would support Judge Willis. Mr..
Townley then explained that two years
ago Judge Willis came TO him with the
SANE question, saying his practice had
run down owing to his having lost sew.
eral big cases, etc. Townley told McCaf.
ferty he
Would Not support Willis,
at which, he said, McCaffsrsy said they
would throw him out OF the convention
il he did not Townley replied that he
believed the Sixth ward had something
to say on this score. Here q voice in
the crowd said: "Give us straight
Democracy."l Mr.. Townley said that
the insult to him couched in the OBJ
jectionabie resolution was an insult to
the Sixth ward. Then he went into
some ancient political history. He said
that in 1856 Robert A. Smith came here
and went into convention looking for
Office.
He was then, as he always has
been," said Mr.. Townley, ambitious
for political Office. But the other fellow
got the nomination. Mr.. Smith then
went II alone on an independent ticket.
and won. In 1888 Charles Ringwald
ran for Democratic alderman in the
Fifth ward. Mr.. Smith, after the CAM.
paign opened, accepted the Republican
nomination, aud again wOn." He de-
clared that the city hall crowd worked
against Thomas Wilson in 1890, when !
he ran for governor OIL the Democratic
ticket. Coming down to the campaign
last spring, he said that the nomina-
tion for mayor for o. o. Cullen was
sought. and believed that he could have
carried the city. "Then the gang
jumped on him." A voice near the
door said "Rats!"l Then the speaker
adverted to the appointment of NJ. j.
Costello as Mayor Smiths private sec
retary, characterizing him as "a rabid,
buiiheaded Republican" An
Attack on Dan w. LaVEIer
followed. and Judge McCatferty was
not spared. lie accused Dick O'Connor
and Thomas Prendergast as indorsing
gambling hells. and said thar Mayor
Smith, in allowing them, also indorsed
them. He charged the various city
and county Democratic officials will h
treachery and fraud. and declared that
they had safely eDtrenched them
selves behind legislative enactments.
He scored o. E. Holman, as chairman
of the recent convention, and sarcastic
ally referred to him as the man who had
overruled himself three times in the
convention at the beck of Mayor Smith.
He thought DR.. Stone strange figure
in politics. He referred to Judge Me-
Catferty as one who ''seeks for the city
attorneyship. II he cannot get anything
eise." I'VE are assembled" said he.
ITO select our servants. not our detrac-
tors. We are here to select successor
to Judge Olivier and Richard O'Connor.
We are here to select successor to
Charlie Haas, whose knowledge is con-
fined to his ability to gaze at steer and
tell what it weighs and how much it il
worth. We are seeking for
Man to Succeed Kahn
not the Cain that killed Abel-but a
man that can take kain's place. We
are here to break down gang despotism.
We are here to break up the gang, from
Holman down to JOhn2ie Clancy. They
have all nursed so long at the public
teat that they have lost their wits.''
Judge Macarthur arose and began to
take few shots at Townley's fiery
He wramed up in defense of
Dan Lawler, whom he thought Townley
had outrageously scored, and finally
grew personal in his remarks against
The chair called the speaker to order,
but he persisted in trying to talk, which
resulted in the president of the club
declaring the meeting adjourned to next
night.