St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-14

This is Jeffersonfan night. L may
say, in the words Of the Scripture.
He being tdead, yet liveth.,.t
Just so long, gentlemen. as the
memory of Thomas Jeffersonsas He-.
vered as it is here tonight, so long VII
live and prosper the republic. But
have been assigned to speak of the
pioneers Of the Democracy, I pFesarhe
because I antedate Columbus on this
North American continent"
Then began brilliant enumera ton
of the pioneers of Minnesota's Democ-
racy, in which the speaker was spar-
ticularly happy. The long list of
names of the almost forgotten follow
ers of Jefferson in the Northwest was
interspersed with rare stories of in
cidents of those early days. In rapid
review passed the names of Robert
A. Smith. George L. Becker, Louis
Robert, w. P. Murray, John B.sGris-
void, David Olmstead, D. A. Robin
son and Robert Emmett, of StfsPaul ;;
of Isaac Atwater, Judge Lochren,
Winthrop Young, r. T. Russell;, Jim
Lawrence ST.. John Rollins, Dr. A
Ames ST.. John H. Steele, the first
white inhabitant of st. Anthony; of
Frank Steele, of Fort Smelling; H. H.
Sibley, of Mendoza; Jim Bates, of
Itasca: Sylvan Lowry and Dave Gill
lem, of ST. Cloud; Joe Roulett, of Penn
bina
AFTER MANY YEARS.
It was unfortunate, the judge said,
that the Democracy did not gain a
national victory until after thirty
four years of Republican misrule, but
the steady hand of President Cleye-
land had steered the ship of state in
safety. He said he could not speak
of pioneers without speaking of that
pioneer of pioneers, Thomas Jefferson,
whose hope it was to diffuse power,
among the people rather than to con-
centrate it in the hands of the govern
ment. After eulogizing the simple
character of Jefferson, he said the
Democracy had but to follow his
teachings to be patriotic citizens of a
great Republic.
Just so long" said he, LAS we keep
from this Capitalization, and keen
the power in the hands of the peo-e
ple-leaving the Federal power to
look after the foreign relations, and
protect the individual rights of the
people. SO long will our Republic
stand
Z. Nice. Reeve was the next speaker,
to whom had been assigned the toast
of honor, Thomas Jefferson" and
his eulogy of the sage of Monticello
was an eloquent and scholarly effort.
He traced the career of Jefferson, and
spoke of his nobleness in laying aside
the honors of his station to be again
private citizen. Mr.. McReeve was
followed by A. T. Ankeny, who spoke
on
POLITICS AND THE CITIZEN.
He said: 81 suppose the object of the
committee in selecting me to speak nm
this toast was to give an example of
man VINO had been a great deal in
politics, and and never got ANYTHING
out of 1T. The idea of politics has
changed greatly since the time of JEFF
ferson. 1t is often said nowadays that
a man who goes into politics simply
loses that much time from his bust
ness. That is a mistaken idea, and has
harmed politics greatly. A man should
not be stigmatized by being called a.
politician. 1t should be an honor. Al
man who is ashamed to engage in poll.
ties is drone in society. Politics: is
the science of government, or rather
nowadays, the art of winning eleel
lions, and l assert that the man who
serves his party best serves his coun-
try best, but institutions have changed
and we have imported from across
the water an institution called civil
service reform, a thing wholly TN
American. 1t destroys the independ.
ence Of the citizen and is simalY de-
signed to perpetuate a party in power
go into the next campaign with the
understanding that TO the victors be-
long the spoils,' and you will have
watchword of victory. When you have
won, let there be a clean sweep of
Offices. ;(Applause) That, I say. will
be watchword of success, and I hope
to see it made the policy of our party
in the next campaign"
These words struck a responsive
chord, and were interrupted by fire.
quent applause.
CLOSED BY SMITH.
o. d. Smith made the last address,,
taking for his subject women in Pol
tiles" ut was a question original with
America" he said, this woman stuff
rage idea. 1t was mostly comprised of
iong-haired men and short-haired wo-
men," He then spied the programme
with some original and amusing ac-
counts of instances of women in poll
tics. Here in Minneapolis our only
experience has been that where a
woman was put up for office three
fourths of the women organized to
defeat her. - Youmay think am some
what cynical" he continued, 'but my
opinion is that the best influence wo-
men can have in politics is to remain
at home"