St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-22
THIRD WARD 1AMMAAY.
DEMOCRATS HOLD A MASS MEETING
IN HUNTS HALL.
SMITH AND GALLAGHER.

cStlng ".OcIaf"-SpeecheS and
Refreshments lnvigorating
Music.
The mass meeting and social In
hunts hall, corner Plymouth avenue
and Third street, last night, under the,
auspices of the Third Ward Tammany'
club. was bowling success, using the
term In figurative sense. The brawnyy
Democrats, the majority of them beard
ed like pard, enjoyed themselves in "a
manner that savored of much hilarity.
They packed the dingy hall on
the third floor until the very
supports groaned with the excess Of
weight. If they line up in as formidas
BILE manner at the polls as they did in
the hall. there will be the dell to pay
in the Third ward next November
They aLplauded the speakers vigor-
ously. and with energetic stamping Of
rect demonstrated their approval of
the old-line Democratic doctrine eX-
pounded. On the old fashioned balcony.
which runs across the hall and forms
the top of the "side rooms" was
stationed the orchestra" And
such an orchestra! 1t was
composed of three Swarthy Italians
with blue-black hair. who played music
that was eXhilarating, to say the least.
they spun off on a harp, violin and
flute everything from airs picked out
from comic operas to times dear to the
SONS of the ''auld sod' and fantasies
that delighted the French and other
foreign members of the club.
The amiable city bill poster, the Lead
er of the Third ward Trojans, Michael
J. Bresiauer. called the meeting to or
der and installed &. w. Chapman as
chairman. He was f1anked on either
side by ward celebrities. among them
the lean and hungry Cassius" George
McAllister-and the Falstaffian QuIst.
The speakers of the evening were A. d.
Smith and Chris Gallagher, the we'll
known followers of Lycurgus. Mr..
Smith was the first speaker.
During this discourse he said it was
meet to organize, for great was the order
of organization. IL was well nigh omni-
potent, and to demonstrate this he re-
lated the incidents of ancient history
which tell of the success of Alexander
the Great. He then reviewed i'm brief
the status of the Democratic national
administration, aud remarked that as
approaching, 1t was necessary to con-
slider the situation. The all-absorbing
question was "Where are we at?'' AL
though there was much about the adj
ministration he did not coincide with,
yet there were two principles of reform
wrought that should entitle the party 10
encOmiums of praise. These two reforms
were: The repeal of the federal cleo
ton law and the passage OF the Wilson
bill.
The speaker conjured his audience
not to forget their duty toward tariff
reform. He asked the question:: us
the Democratic party going to abandon
this glorious principle of tariff ref0rm?'
and answered it himself in the mega
tive. 1t seemed to him impossible that
such state of affairs should come
about. 1t was all bosh that the Demo-
cratic party was responsible for the
hard times. The hard times-a panic
is bound 10 come once so often
and the present condition of affairs
was in its inception when Carnegie
shut down his mills. Democrats must DO
their duty, and if they have any prin-
ciples they should stick by them. Dem
ocracy is code of principles. 1t doesn't
mean anything to say" am Demo-
GRAFT" but it means living questions and
issues. The speaker said he was
Democrat because lie believed the party
was capable OF reforming Itself and in
itself.
The Democratic press. the speaker
said, was evidently controlled by Wall
street. Not that the press of the North
west was receiving money, but they
we're prone to take their views from the
New York papers, which are controlled
by Wall street. The papers were wrong
on the question of bimetallism.
1--WE have reason to be dissatisfied"
said the speaker, lin the matter of ap-
pointments. believe in the adage TO
the victors belong the spoils.' and to
the hard workers the appointments
He paid his compliments to the man
who sis trying for the appointment of
an applicant for collector of Minnesota,
a man who nobody ever heard was
Democrat. and who has the support of
that maudlin dotard, Baldwin, of Du-
luth." The nerve of Hornblower. of
New York, in endeavoring to secure the
nomination as judge of the supreme
court, MIR. Smith characterized as colOs-
sal. Hornblower, he said, was "a di-
minutiye, pigmatic, microscopic Lillipu-
tiap."
During the time Mr.. Smith took tor
the delivery Of his speech, walters
passed about the audience and dispensed
refreshments. The effect was joviality
and an enhancement Of the interest in
the proceedings. When Mr.. Smith had
concluded, a white haired old Tam
manyte rushed up and grasping both
his hands, said:
Don't go away! l don't know who
you are, but God bless you all the
same"
Mr.. Gallagher. who followed the
portly representative of the great army
of Smiths. stated he was wholly un.
prepared TO make a speech. He was
glad, however, TO express sentiment
of surprise and pleasure at the evidence
of such good organization in the Tam
many club. Organization was the only
thing to insure victory to any party:
Mr.. Gallagher then made several
sarcastic and amusing illusions TO
Loren Fletcher as politician.
These peanut politicians, he said, who
are great men in Minneapolis are small
potatoes in Washing ton. If the news
paper correspondents from the North
west did not boom them by sending
home interviews, they would never be
heard of.
"lmagine," said the speaker, "the
kind of congress you would have if
every seat was nlled with men OF Loren
Fletcher's caliber."
In criticising the Republican party
Mr.. Gallagher SAID it had always been a
trading party. 1t had but one God, and
that God was money. Its one aim was
tile tariff, and they worked it to death.
When Loren Fletcher was in the
city he was interviewed as !, to
the chances of the passage of his bill
for the establishment of COUPLE
of subpostotfices in Minneapolis. He
replied that he was on several impor-
tant committees, and lie thought he
could trade off and get his pill through.
This "trade OFF, was the whole frame
work of the Republican party. the
speaker said. 1t would all be well if
Fletcher were the only one to trade off.
but they were doing it all over the
country. ~
"Mr. Mckinley will he in the city
next week." continued the speaker.
lie will undoubtedly tell you how
many manufacturers have closed up
IL bo all