The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-09

lsler. Mr.. Donald was present in place
| or Mayor Vollmar, of Davenport, who
was unavoidably detained. The adj
dresses were alb in German except that
] of Mr.. LAWYERS Enthusiasm ran high,
and all the speakers were frequently
| applauded. Among those on the plat
form We're A. w. Schweppe, of st.
James; John b. THEM, of Buffalo: H
Schroeder, of Shakopee; Hon. Henry
Hoeffken, of Norwood; P. c.. Schmidt,
of Duluth; Eugene sBellar, of Chisago;
and other prominent sound money
| Germans of theg state.
Mr.. Donald said that he represented
Mr. Vollmar, the boy mayor of Daven-
| port, who was somewhat like Mr. Bry-
an In age. but IN every other way the
men differ radically. Mr. Vollmar's
brains have grown faster than his
body, but Bryan's brains have been
! outWorn by his physical being, and
therefore the latters ideas are rather
confused. But these confused ideas
are very dangerous. They have been
systematically inoculated into the peo-
| pie for the last ten years
and must be counteGacted i'm
mediately, or it may seriously in
-jure the health Of the individual. The
poison has been distilled into the
people of America by those lying
pamphlets Of the silver men, their lying
apostles who preach the false gospel In
every corner of the country. They
abuse the word free. They use it in
a sense which is pleasing to their en-
ployers, the silver kings. But the rest
OF the American people would scarcely
relish that kind of a free speech.
! There are all kinds. of queer ideas
abroad as to what free silver really
means. An old neighbor of mine actu-
ally thought that boxes would be
erected on the street corners into which
you could drop a paper dollar and Sc
cure sixteen silver dollars
Mr. Donald then explained the real
meaning of free silver, and gave a
striking illustration of the difference
OF the purchasing power of silver
ooilar under free, and under limited
coinage
He said that one Of the great argu-
ments OF the silver men was that the
United States was independent of other
countries Politically. WE are but
commercially we are not" said the
speaker. I'VE have to sell our goods
In Europe, and we can therefore be
compared to merchant who is depend
ent upon his customers and we can not
AFFORD to lose any of them. But we
VIII lose them most surely if the free
coinage OF silver Is established"
In closing the speaker said: s'It
seems to me can hear the voices Of
the green hills of the Southern battle
ne!ds, warning their countrymen Of
louay 70 protect the flag from shame
ana dlsgrace-the flag for which they
had given up their hearts blood"
lie appealed to every good German
american citizen to listen to those
voices from the dead and to put forth
every possible energy for the triunp of
the great cause. The speaker quoted
largely from President Garfield, whom
ne called our second martyred presi-
cent. Garfield 20 years ago denounced
the 1ree coinage act as then proposed,
as great crime. Then the silver in
the dollar was worth 80 cents. Today
1t Is only IS cents If Garfield could
rise from his coffin, would he not de-
nounce the present attempt of the sill
yer men as a still greater crime?''
The address was called by those pres
ent one OF the most eloquent ever de-
Hvered in the German language in the
city Mr.. Donald is very scholarly
man ana may well be called the Carl
Schurz Of the West
The address by DR.. Mencke was re-
plete with convincing statistics, but
was less eloquent than that of sMr.
Donald. Mr.. Mencke alluded several
times to the tariff platform in the Re-
publican doctrine, and in view Of the
fact that the meeting was non-parti-
san affair, the address did not attain
70 the popularity that the others did.
Yet the speakers currency arguments
were excellent. 4aefia.-g-
Daniel w. LAWYER was the last speak
er or the evening, and he fairly brought
the assembled Germans to their feet by
his burst Of eloquence In opening.
Mr.. Lawler said that he had studied
the grand old German language since
his childhood, and was very familiar
| with 1T, but never, until he heard the
masterful address Of Editor Donald did
he realize that 1t was such a beautiful
language to speak the truth in.
I'VE find ourselves today in the
midst of very important, very serious
| political crisis. For the first time in
the history of the nation. we find
presidential candidate seeking to ar
raign one class against another, one
man against another, and attempting
to rekindle the fires Of sectionalism.
When Bryan made his pilgrimage to
the East he said in a public speech:
I am now going into the enemy's
! country / say that any man. be he
mean or be he great is a traitor to
the peace and unitysof the country to
make such an utterance as that Bryan
| has tried to arraigni2 the poor against
! the rich, the unfortunate against the
| fortunate He has told them that it is
within their power to take what does
not justly belong to them He has
| said that we are unable to compete
with the nations of the world; that we
! are not able to maintain 100 cent dol
! lar, and in doing this he practically
] says that we are an insolvent nation.
and ready to go into the hands of a
receiver. He has attacked our federal
1 courts, and wants to place the reversal
of judgments within the power of a
! national legislature. which can be cor
rupted with money. For over 200 years.
the courts Of En- gland and America
have been the only places of refuge
| to which the people can fly with the
absolute confidence which goes out to
! the undefiled; courts which have stood
! greater than the orders of kings or
courts, above the influence Of congress
have gone on year after year as steady
as the everlasting rock. He would
smite this refuge from us. Such a man
as this is not only unfit to be the
president of the American people, but
he is unfit to bear the name of Ameri-
can citizenship.
ST hope shall never make such
slanderous slip of the tongue as to
ever term such doctrine as that pro-
mulgated by the Chicago and st. Louis
conventions, Democratic. (Cheers). 1t
was not Democratic. It was Populistic
and anarchistic sentiment, obtained by
packing the convention and throwing
out the vote of the sovereign state OF
Michigan.
IF the spirit of manly sentiment al
| ready shown In Minnesota grows in
the future as 1t has in the past, then
1 Organism and Populism will be buried
under a landslide of eternal oblivion.
This campaign is no child's play. The