St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-16
GEORGE GERLICH'S TRIBUTE.
SIXTH WARD CITIZENS ENTER
TANNED BY A NUMBER OF
AMUSING SPEECHES.
Claim DOran Is Entitled to Support
for Going to the War and Get
ting Married.

VI Heh' moses IL Clapp ana Edward e. Rogers
to the eloquent and polished periods of Tim
othy Reardon and George Gerlich, addressed
an assemblage Of Sixth ward Republicans at
the West Side opera house last night The
theme and burden of their song-for they all
sang the same tune-was F. B. Doran. They
congratulated the Sixth warders upon the honor
accorded them by the selection of one of their
number as the Republican candidate for may
or. They paid tribute to his virtues as a
citizen and man, and put forth some rea-
sons why he should be elected mayor. There
were, according to these orators, two vital
reasons Mr.. poran possessed two conspic-
uous and valuable qualities not vouchsafed
to .. o. Cullen. Mr.. Doran was a member
OF the G. A. r.; Mr.. Cullen was not. Mr..
Doran was married man; Mr.. Cullen was a
bachelor. Cheers greeted this scathing ar
raignment Of the Democratic candidate.
1t was real nice meeting after all. In
point OF amusement 1t surpassed any polit-
1cal gathering Of the campaign. For this
credit is due to Assemblyman o. B, Lewis
the chairman Of the occasion, who, with the
skill OF an astute stage manager introduced
to the "kind attention of the audience" COM
fcal specialties by Messrs Reardon and
Gerlich, and Secretary Of State Albert Berg
tWlth songo These gentlemen served to
Keep the audience in the best of humor, by
relieving the monotony OF the more classical
efforts Of their fellow performers
when Chairman Lewis called the assem-
olage to order, the following distinguished
Republicans gazed complacently from their
seaCS on the stage upon the less distin-
gu1shed Republicans in the auditorium: F.
b. Doran, Capt. H. A. Castle, J. ]. McCardy,
Ed G. Rogers. Gen. Moses E. Clapp, Albert
Scn61fer- SQnratarU nf Cfota
Maj. John Espy, Senator Timothy Sheehan,
Fred s. Bryant, Col. Soren Listoe, Edward
Vanish, F. G. Stevens James Morrow, Col.
sam LoWenstein, Capt. Joe Burger D. M,
Sullivan, George Gerlich and Timothy Rear
don.
In the course Of his Introductory remarks
Mr.. Lewis said that the Republicans of the
Sixth ward were under obligations to the Re
publican party for naming as it's candidate
a man who lived within the sacred precincts
of the Sixth ward" The hallowed residents
of the sacred precincts cheered this senti-
ment in angelic chorus. Mr.. Lewis then re-
minded them Of what happened two years
ago, whereat they cheered not. The Sixth
ward Republicans had let O. golden oppor-
tunity slip upon that occasion and they must
atone for it by sending their fellow citizen
across the river with tremendous majority
Ii they failed to do the right thing this
time then every Republican ought to move
out of the ward.
While the Republicans were pondering over
this likely contingency, Mr.. Lewis introduced
the hero of the evening, Frank B. Doran, as
the next mayor Of st. Paul. Mr.. Doran was
the recipient of what he was pleased to term
an ovation, which it really was After
thanking his fellow citizens for their tumuI-
tucus demonstration, Mr.. Doran said that he
simply wanted to make a personal explana-
tion to show how it happened that he went
out of his ward two years ago without ma
jority. -,
Mr.. Doran proceeded to assure his hearers
that 1t had ever been his proud boast that
he was in all things an American citizen.
He employed Roman Catholics in his private
business, namely, the foreman and his book
keeper, and had never shown any favorit-
ism toward one class in preference to an
other, be he Catholic, Jew or Mohammedan.
Thereupon Mr.. Doran retired to his seat.
Albert Scheffer was the next speaker. Col.
Scheffers remarks were Of a jocose, good
natured character. calculated to show by the
citation of historical precedent that homely
men need not despair of winning public dis
tinction. Socrates was a homely man, but
he lived longer in fame than that beautiful
but stupid youth Alcbiades, the pink of
fashion.
Col. Scheffer then dipped into the future,
where he thought he saw Mayor Doran and
Comptroller McCardy comforting over some
resolution for the payment Of money. So vivid
was the speakers imagination that he fancied
he heard McCardy say to Doran: "Now,
Frank don't know about this" whereat the
visionary mayor replied, That's all right,
Mac" or 81 like you, Mac, but I'll run the
kitchen this time" Col. Scheffer dwelt upon
the virtue Of Mr.. Doran's aflliation with the
G. A. R. 1t would be splendid thing to have
Grand Army man for mayor during the G.
A. R. encampment. In closing, Col. Scheffer
called attention to that fatal sin of omission
committed by Mr.. Cullen. He had never mar
ried. Col. Scheffer could never, so he put it.
''enthuse over e bachelor" He believed in
taxing them and forcing them to become
men. st. Paul had never elected bachelor
mayor. This concluded Col. Scheffer's ad-
dress.
Chairman Lewis, realizing that the time had
arrived for some advertisement here an
nounced the first comic turn Of the evening
by introducing Assemblyman Reardon as the
most popular man in st. Paul. Looking for all
the world as though he believed it, Mr. Rear
don took the center Of the stage. A mighty
burst Of laughter and a stamping of feet greet
ed the statesman from the Ninth ward Paus-
Ing moment, his muse labored and brought
forth the following:
Il was surprised to see what 1 saw in the
G o b e this morning. If 1 wanted to I
could tell about large amount of money that
was paid two years ago for a perjured afi-
davit. The whole matter will be exposed
soon. could tell you more, but won't say
anything more tonight
And Mr.. Reardon took his seat amid shouts
of laughter.
Gen. Moses E. Clapp followed with brief
but stirring speech, as is characteristic of
this orator, in which he paid a tribute to
the character Of Mr.. Doran as a man and a
citizen.
Then Mr.. Lewis touched the proper but
ton and let George Gerlch loose Mr.. Ger
Itch was full Of enthusiasm, and in his right
hand he carried red. red rose. Raising it
and his voice aloft, he exclaimed:
81 hold in my hand a rose. (Applause) I
call 1t the blossom of the Republican party.
(Cheers) 1 give 1t to our standard bearer
F. B. Doran." Here Mr.. Gerlich stepped
back and handed the flower to Mr.. Doran.
But Mr.. Gerlich had more to say. Return
ing to the front of the stage, he continued:
You have orators here like Gen. Clapp,
Col. Scheffer. and there is Ed Rogers that
1 couldn't even hand a glass of water to.
(Laughter.) You know what happened two
years ago. and I told 'em so at the time.
Are going to be fooled again? 0augh-
ter) Abraham Lincoln says you can fool
half the nation once. but you can't fool 'em
twice. loud laughter.) After thus making
Father Abraham responsible for the forego-
ing sententious observation, Mr.. Gerlch re-
tired.
Ed G. Rogers, "the man who dispersed the
Democrats formerly In the office of the clerk
of courts for so Mr.. Lewis introduced him.
followed with a somewhat lengthy speech,
saturated with Republicanism and crammed
full of predictions of victory. Doran ought
to be elected. To meet the. G. A. R. men.
the city should elect one of them. Mr. Rogers