St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-16
DEMOCRACY AWAKE.
Minnesota Association and
Central Comm ittee
MEET AT THE RYAN TODAY
Important Business Meetings
in the Afternoon.
BANQUET IN THE EVENING.
Rare Dish Of Toasts and List
Of Responses.
rs A UNIQUE ORGANIZATION.

This afternoon and evening the Dem.
ocracy of Minnesota will hold an event
at the Ryan. Principally it will be inn
portant meetings OF the state central
committee and the Democratic associa.
tton, but it will be garnished by side
events, such as banquet and speeches
by distinguished lights of the party. II
is the third annual meeting.
The business meeting of the Minne-
sofa Democratic association will be held
at p. m., and the Democratic state
central committee will meet at o. m. in
parlor 4.
The banquet will be given in the
ordinary, beginning at o'clock sharp.
The programme of toasts and speakers
is as follows:
G. d. O'Brien. POSTMASTER.
The fat man answered: Shut your mouth
and hear the genuine creed;
The true essentials of a feast are only fun
and feed
Holmes.
"Groyer Cleveland, Man and Presi-
dent" G. ]. Haines
"Aristocrat, autocrat, Democrat; what care I,
SO he be man and dare not lie"
-Tennyson
"Our Party; Its Opportunity and Its
Duty" Thomas Wilson.
''Oh, Neptune. You can save me if you will;
you can sink me if you Will; but, whatever
happen, L Will hold my rudder true
Seneca.
''The Democratic Soldier and PEN
sions." John P. Rea.
Now are our brows bound with victorious
wreaths;
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Our stern alarums turned to merry meetings;
Our dreadful marches to delightful measure.
Grim -yisaged war hath smoothed his
Wrlnkled 'front.'
Shakespeare.
"The Young Democracy"-F. WIN.
CutcheOn.
In vain we call old notions fudge
And bend our conscience 10 our dealing:
The Ten commandments will not bulge,
ana steatlng Will continue stealing
Lowell.
"The Minnesota Democratic AssocIa-
tion''-W. Nj. Campbell.
"Cnorganized good intentions are never
productive OF results. ."-Groyer Cleveland.
Il am Indifferent as to how men vote, but
am az deeply concerned as to how they think.
II we can get men to th Ii right we can trust
them to vote right"-Renry George.
Our Lusty Infants"-J. Adam Bede.
Not knowme? Everybody knows,
ana gladly gives his mite" quoth he:
why, I'm babe in swaddling clos;
am an infant industry
You doubt my word? Excuse these tearst
They flow for you and not for mel
Young man. for more than seventy years
I've been all Infant Industry. Lowell.
"The Democratic Press''-John s,
ohnson.
Here shall the Press the peoples right
maintain,
Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain"
Joseph Story.
The Minnesota Democratic associa.
tion stands unique among the organizas
tions of the party. While some have
some of its features none has all of its
methods and purposes. 1t is the out
growth of defective organization of
the state party, necessity of conditions
seemingly incapable of Improvement.
That defect. inherent in the present sys-
tennis in the temporary existence of the
activities of the state and local subordi.
nate committees which are appointed on
the verge of campaign to conduct the
struggle, and, having conducted it in a
sort of a DOnnybrook way, the energies
and sense of responsibility for further
work lapse into an innocuous deSuetude
until another campaign calls for repe-
tltion of this spasmodic activity.
The campaign of 1890 convinced those
connected with it that if the party was
ever to accomplish any thing there must
be continuous activity. The work must
be kept up between campaigns. The
preparation for the next must be begun
as soon as one is ended. To do this was
the purpose of the organization. 1t is
an assistant, body ancillary to the
state committee, and its work in that
line has been the gathering of all of
those data which such committee must
have to make its efforts effective. When
the state central committee is formed
by the nominating convention the asso-
citation places at its disposal its offices,
its information and its services.
Another feature of the work Is the
spread of reading matter instructive on
the questions of policy about which
parties differ, and on those policies
which the Democratic party maintains.
1t aims to use the winter months IN this
educational work. The association sent
out in 1898 over million pieces of such
matter and addressed directly to voters
from the pGll it has made, aud is now
engaged In sendiug ont reading matter
upon questions OF finance and taxation.
The support of the association in this
work is derived from memberships
which have been reduced to So annually
and from subscriptions. The growth
of the association during the first two
wears of its existence was very slow, the
membership for the first year being l24,
and for the second year 24S. The in
crease in membership during the third
year brings the total membership to
date up to 1.149, covering nearly every
one of the eighty counties in the state.
The association issued this year its first
manual, giving the history of the asSo-
citation and the list of Its members
classified by counties.