St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-29
NEARING THE VICTORY.
A ROUND or SATURDAY NIGHT en-
5HUSfGSM
THOUSANDS OF DEMOCRATS

Come Out to the Various Ward
A:eetings-The Third Ward
Eclipses ltself-Clos;ng Meet
ing at Market Hall Monday
Night-Political Caravan on
Joyous.
One of the brilliant meetings of the
municipal campaign was that Of the
Third ward Democracy last evening, at
headquarters hail. corner of Seventh
and Wacouta streets. Every, seat was
taken and standing room was at a pre-
MUM. at least 500 were unable to
eain,entrance at all.
As the band played lively air r. A.
Smith arrived. making mis- way TO the
platform amid cheers that could easily
have been heard at the city hall. drowIi-
ing the music for few moments, when
the band juined in the welcoms to ST.
Paui's next mayor with 1.-The Conquer
ing Hero Comes"
That sterling young Democrat and
president of the Third Ward club, E. j.
Darragh, presided. In a five-minute
speech he reused great enthusiasm
which reached its climax as he intro
duced r. A. Smith, the first speaker.
The eX-mayor and the next mayor re-
turned his sincere thanks for the cordi-
atty of the welcome accorded him. He
made his remarks brief, congratulating
his fellow Democrats upon the certainty
OF victory at the polls OH iday next.
Hon. ID. w. Lawler said that the en-
thusiasm shown by the Third Ward
Democrats was the presage of victory.
significant Of the glory of the triumph
TO be achieved over the city hall in
trenchment of corruption and spells.
He hastily Sketched the worth of the
candidate for mayor. and all the Demo
cratic candidates, among whom are no
SIS assemblymeD nor $40 divorce law
erS. He reviewed the administration
of the last two years, and in Scathing
terms depicted the narrowness, hypoc-
risy and corruption which Was its only
and entire record. In. a magnificent
peroratiOn he drew picture of DrmU
cratic history, tearing away the film Of
Republican chaff and falsehUod, coming
from towards who refused the Demo-
cratic challenge to show that in thirty
years of Democratic administration
dollar had bsen sQGandered or wasted.
Judge j. j. McCafferty said it was in
the air that next Tuesday would wit
ness glorious Democratic triumph.
victory of the people, for the people. 10y
the people. To prove this. he gave a
Republican estimate given him by lead
Ing politicians of that party Yesterday
afternoon. the figures being:
Doran. Coco votes.
j. II. Davidson, 7, 300 votes.
K. A. Smith. 5000 votes.
They give it up, said the speaker
the Republicans are not in it,
After referring to the splendid work
beiHg done by the young men in the
tam aign, and the worlhiness of the
Democratic candidates, naming many
ofltlienl, Judge MeCafferty with tran
scendent eloquence repudiated the Re-
publican lie, of which they ought 10 be
ashamed. that the people of st. Paul
are bigoted and sectarian. No city of
the country is more thorough American,
unbiased, unprecedented IN every fiber
than the city of st. Paul. 1t is an
American city because a Democratic
city, because Democracy is American-
ism. honorable and loyal to the best, the
purest. the highest type OF manhood. =
%. Z. Holman saidethat his Interest in
the campaign came from his sense of
duty to do what was i'll his power to
rescue the city from bad government
and give it good government. The oD-
position is OH the run. he said, as wit
ness the falsehoods told by the Pioneer
Press and the startling series of retrac-
tiens it has beer forced TO make, day
after day, resulting from the mad accu-
saions resorted 10 as cover for defeat.
DIR. A. J. Stone made a telling speech,
sparkling with augmentation, filled
with hard facts. touching Republican
misrule in municipal affairs.
Other speeches were made by T. d.
O'Brien, }. j. Parker. John Il. Ives,
William Rhodes and F. l.. McGhee, and
1t was nearly midnight when the meet
ing concluded
The evening was profitable one for
Democracy and for the. peoples cause,
and the Third ward will do its duty at
the Tuesday elections.