The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-15
MINNEAPOLIS.
CHAMPIONS COMING
PALMER AND BUCKNER TO PREACH
SOUND MONEY IN THE MILL
CITY.
HARRISON is WANTED, TOO.
EFFORT WILL BE MADE TO Sc
CURE VISIT FROM HIM AND
FROM FORAKER.
PILLsBURY TO THE LABoRING MEN
Mill Owner Shows Employees That
Their Interests Are Identical
in This Campaign.

Gen. John M. Palmer, of Illinois, and
Gen. S. B. Buckner, of Kentucky, the
nominees for president and vice presi-
dent of the National Democratic party,
will speak in Minneapolis, at the Ex-
position hall, Saturday evening, Oct.
"a. They will also be accompanied by
Congressman John P Irish, the elo-
Quent exponent of honest money from
California. Arrangements for this
meeting will be made at a meeting of
the Minneapolis Sound Money Democ-
racy at their headquarters, Wright
block, next Monday night At that
time F. w. M. Cutcheon, of st. Paul,
will give an account of his trip through
Indiana and other states in the interest
of real Democracy and sound money.
A conference of representative young
men of the city, representing several
political organizations, was held at
Union league rooms last evening, for
the purpose of considering the advisa-
bllity of holding grand young mems
rally some time Immediately before the
election. The talk was to have the
Exposition building, and if possible to
get some noted speakers to the city
A committee was selected to see what
speaker could be secured, the commit
tee to confer with the state central
committee at ST. Paul The names of
BENZ. Harrison, Gov J. B. Foraker and
many others were considered. The dem
onstration will be in the interests of
sound money, and will be in other re-
spects non-partisan.
Charles A. Pillsbury delivered
o. no
last evening, before the Fourth Ward
Republican club, at the Union League
rooms, last evening. 1t was addressed
to labCring men, and the arguments
adduced were simply unanswerable
He said in brief: mo less than 80 per
cent of the employers of labor in the
country as well as the mercE ants and
majority Of the most intelligent
farmers have reached the conclusion
that free and unlimited coinage Of
silver by this country at the present
time would be dangerous experiment.
No matter about theory and what they
ought to believe, the fact remains that
they have reached this conclusion Now
are the interests of the employers of
labor different from the interests Of
the laborer? AS an Illustration, take
the mills of the city with which I am
connected We employ say 1000 men.
Now is it not to our advantage to
pay them the lowest possible wages,
and even to pay them in deprecated
money? In one way it would be- but
from another point of view we are very
much interested in having the laboring
people well paid and prosperous. We
sell our flour to thousands of families.
During hard times the sales of flour
the most needed of all products, falls
off 20 per cent. The laboring men are
the great consumers, and manufacture
ers would be stupid not to want the
laboring people to be prosperous. There
is great talk in this campaign of the
capitalist. Where are the capitalists?
A few men in this city borrow more
money during certain months each
year, for the purpose Of keeping up
business and giving employment to
their men than all the rest of the peo-
pie borrow in their lives. If they can
not obtain this money the mills must
Of necessity shut down. If I believed
that free silver would benefit the labor
ing man l would be the loudest advo-
cate Of free silver in the city, because
It would be to my best interests But
1 honestly believe that the laboring
man would be the first to suffer from
a depreciation of the currency"
Several other speakers were listened
to, and music was furnished by the
Apollo club.
Hon. D. F. Reese, of st. Paul, and
Fred B. Snider, are billed to speak to-
morrow evening at the Oak street wig
wan IN the Second ward.
A meeting of the executive commit
tee of the Mckinley and Hobart Bicy
Gle league of the city was held at Union
lea que rooms last evening, and ar
rangements were discussed for mass
meeting of Republican bicycle riders,
to be held in Harmonic hall next week.
The exact date has not yet been fixed,
but the idea is to have present all men
who are candidates for the state legis-
lature. and give each man a chance
to go on record as to his views on the
question of good roads. 1t is believed
that a monster meeting will be the
result.
The University Republican club held
q meeting in the Oak street wigwam
last evening, at which several good
speeches were heard Joel B. Gregory,
president Of the club, presided. j. s..
! Lane, Coed Citizens candidate for al
derman Of the Second ward, was the