St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-28
Instead Of a Non-Par tiSan
Affair 1t Was Thoroughly
Hide Bound.
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS
Flour City Politics - Bold
FoOtpadS--WoodWard Makes
His Bluff Good.


governor and Robert Pratt for mayor
1t was misn0mer in another and villa
respect-four lawyers and one clergy.
| man were the speakers of the evening
Judging from the temper Of the audi
ence, the conclusion was irresistibly
forced upon one that the people present
considered themselves as being the sub,
IectS OF confidence game. Cat calls.
misses, questions, answers to the speak
ers' Undergraduates, applause at mop
perfume times, and general riotous
feeling were the features of the evening.
Z. a. Plllsbury presided. In few
appropriate remarks he stated that the
object of the meeting was to enable the
business men of Minneapolis to meet
together in friendly manner and dis
cuSs the questions which were of the
utmost interest to all. A number of
gentlemen treated the audience to
their views. Some of them said
they had not come prepared
to make speeches. Such EXPLANATION
was wholly unnecessary. The two
principal speakers of the evening were
Judge j. NJ. Shaw and Rev. Wayland
Hoyt, he who so violently opposed the
very idea of the church being in poll
tics, and who has repeatedly accused
the Catholic church with being in "ca-
boots" with the Democratic party.
Prior to any speech making. Fl. n.
Foote announced that the meeting was
strictly non-partisan enc. Tbereupun
WE. Gooding asked if speakers other
than Republicans would be permitted
to address the audience. Mr.. Foote re-
sponded in the affirmative. Another
gentleman in the audience asked, "Who
pays for the theater?" Mr.. Foote, more
frankly than politically, replied, The
Republican city committee"
Old Denny brook Scenes.
During this time, a Mr.. Robertson
made his way to the platform and was
about to address the meeting when b.
Nj. johnson, chairman of the Republic
an general executive committee, quickly
approached him and fOrciDly removed
MIN from the platform. inc
scenes of old Donnybrook were re-en-
acted. Five hundred discordant voices
rent the air. Everybody seemed to
think his mission was to enlighten and
Inform everybody else. The meeting
got completely away from the chairman,
but being composed of law-abiding citi-
zens, as ali Minneapolis assemblages
are, nothing more than yociferatous, cat
calls, huwiS ana Kisses were INDUCED
i'll.
AS before minated, several indiffer-
ent addresses were made by divers
speakers. When Judge Shaw's time to
ha ~ ,,rIa hi
languidly assumed a semi-upright
posture. looked around as it in semi
trance, and when he was satisfied he
was awake, walked to the front
his text. ''Reasons why 1 would not
vote the Democratic or Popullst ticket"
Then he Immediately began to indulge
in a long. loud calamity howl. lie
pictured the prosperity of the country
under thirty years OF Republican wise
administrator. when everybody was
prosperous aud happy, and want in
American homes was unknown. Thaw-
ing out. he screeched at the top of his
voice:
Are you all prosperous and happy
now?'
The audience saw the point of the
judges stupid joke. and some laughed.
l.,
The judge seemed well satisfied with
Ills efforts thus far, and launched forth
into what Tom Reed says is dead for the
next three years-the tariff question
The Judge wandered Off into labyrinth
OF statistics, and when he came back
many OF his auditors
Were Quietly Doing.
He next essayed the silver question.
Therein, he said, lies the danger il
this man Owen be elected The
Pops were up in arms in a moment.
Judging from their objections, strenu-
| ouSly urged, 1t seemed as if at least
one-half Of the audience was composed
of Populists. The Judge attempted a
play supon the word ''Owen.n re-
ferring in lugubrious way to debts.
| Some Populist evidently resented this
! by shouting 20 (pshaw) Shawro
BY an ingenious course of reasoning,
peculiar TO, and only understood bV
himself, he showed that with Owen in
the gubernatorial chair, and a silver
dollar worth only accents. Iaboring men
who now receive 81 Il day would then.
il reality, obtain only 81 day.
Next, the Judge INDUCED in lecture
ON patriotism. He compared Gov. Alt
geld to Jefferson Davis, S. NJ. Owen to
Gov. Altgeld, and the citizen VINO would
vote for S. NJ. Owen, he unhes.tatingly
declared, was no better than either, and
all of them were outright anarchists.
During this illumination the Judge ac-
tuaily warmed up, and cOmplacently
| took his seat.
Hoyt Has Time of 1t.
The Masonic quartette was called into
reQulsitlon by the chairman, and they
i soon dlspelled the chill caused by Judge
| Shaw. The contrast was so marked that
| when the quartette retired and the
chairman introduced Rev. Wayland
| Hoyt, the audience insisted that
the quartette should be recalled.
also, possibly anticipating the
roast" which the reverend
| gentleman subsequently gave. E. NJ.
| johnson was instantly ON his feet. mo-
uonlng with both hands aid one FOOT
the quartette to keep out, as they had
already retired into the wings. Mr. Royt
advanced to the front OF the platform.
but it was useless. The audience con-
tlnued to clap and stamp for the return
| OF the quartette. Their wish was COM
piled with, to the visible discontinue
of the reverend business man''-Mr.
Hoyt. After the Quartette had con-
Guided catching ditty. the Rev. Way
land Hoyt was permitted to speak.
He opened in self-sufficient sort of
a way. He threw back the lapels of his
coat, said that he, for one, would not
vote The Democratic ticket, because he
had suffered too much during the past
eighteen months from Democratic in
competency. He almost shed tears
when citing the long list of disasters
which has overtaken the country during
that time He said the mills. factories
and FORCES are Idle, the busy
marts deserted and the county is in
terrible. tremendous condition, and
that nothing can rescue the country
from ruin but the restoration of that
one party of high moral ideas, which
had its birth in principles of justice and
which has ever been since its organiza-
ton the workingman's friend. lie, too,
attempted 10 expound the silver aues-
ton, but got no further than where
Judge Shaw had left Tin a mud,
die. lie then expounGed the Constl-