St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-23

to free the land, and to this end the law
of entail was repealed and that of pri-
mogenator abolished. But these men
could not foreSee that great develop
ment in the line of invention was dawn
ing upon the country; they could not
foresee that great corporations were to
spring into being to rob the people by
means of the great. progressive agency
OF invention. The speaker quoted from
Wendell Phillips to show that that
great orator foresaw the evil Il do not
me an this as senseleSS TRADE against
corporations or against wealth." con-
tinued tile speaker. But henceforwarG
it should be more than ever the duty of
Democracy to stand on the side of the
people, and if necessary for their pro-
lection, strike down any agency that
threatens them"
Mr.. Hall announced that a letter had
been received from William L.. Wilson,
expressing regret that he could not be
present. Another letter had been re-
ceived from Winfield S. Hammond, who
was to be present to respond to a toast,
but was unable to attend. The follow
ing letter of the same nature from
George w. Peck, of Milwaukee, was also
read:
LETTER FROM g. W. PECK
Your kind invitation received for which |
thank you, and the square Democrats assoc-
ated with you. | hope am the same Kind Of
Democrat that you are. | believe that when
Democrats make promises they should keep
them, go out of the business. / look upon
platform promises to the people the same as |
do promissory note given to bank. You
have got to pay your note when it is due or
the bank protests It, You have got to pay
your promise TO the people when you said you
would the people protest and when the
people protest your promissory promises. they
do 1t hard, and you will always wish you had
kept your promise.
The trouble with the Democratic party's
promises 70 the nation was that lot of
'squaw men hadn't sand enough to stand up
and fight. but crawled into the 'wickyup'
and pulled the buffalo robes over them and
let the squaws bring meals of boiled dog %
them. The people have finally got the squaw
men on the run, and driven them from the
reservation, and they are camping in the
cactus and subsisting the meat OF an oc-
casional sick kiote' which they can run
down.
But the Democratic party is stronger in its
weakness than it's opponent Is in all it's glory
and you will see that, commencing this
spring, elections will be carried by our party
right along until the Republicans will be
willing to admit that they have no sure thing
next fall. l believe If we nominate a Demo-
crat who never lies to his people who is not
coward and a trimmer, one whom the
people can tie to, SO he will be elected in
November.
81 regret that | cannot be with you on the
Both. leave for Mexico the 10th, to be gone
some weeks. When return l expect to visit
Faribault. and then | will. be glad to meet you
Democrats, to sit down and talk for an even
ing | can't speak. but can talk your arms
of, one at time.
j. Adam Bede, who was to respond
to the toast, THE President of the
United States" was also absent, so
Judge Flandrau was called upon as a
substitute to respond to the same toast
He spoke as follows:
JUDGE FLANDRAU'S ADDRESS
There is word in the worlds language
sweeter, dearer grander than all the rest
of the vocabulary-it is liberty. 1t is the
cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night
to the people of all nations 1t is the goal OF
all intelligent aspirations; to achieve and en-
joy. it,. men cheerfully hazard their lives,
might possess it. And Mr.. Chairman. the
office Of president of the United States is the
emblem the embodiment the incarnation of
liberty.
There is another word. Mr.. Chairman
that inspires the admiration of the world
and especially of the American world, and
gives to him who can call 1t his own
strength irresistible the cyclone that
fells the mighty forest. That word is cour-
age, and the present incumbent of the presi
Dental office is the unquestioned possessor
of this splendid attribute. in a degree far
superior to any of his predecessors since the
gallant Jackson.
placed him in the executive office. And cour-
age alone can keep the Democracy in power
And in my judgment. grand exhibition of
courage on the part of our party can accom-
plish that
I'VE are not handicapped with the third
term tradition. l believe that Grover Cleve-
land would be reelected by the American
people with the same enthusiasm they ex-
hibited in 1892; whether it is wise to run
counter to this deep-seated resolve of the
people that two terms is sufficient 1t is not
for me to say; but desperate tactics are
sometimes evolved from desperate situations,
and our country is in the throes of a crisis. !
II party should decide not TO call on the
present executive, he should decline such
an overture. then the next best road TO vic
tory is, to let him write our platform, and
have his authorship proclaimed from the
housetops of the nation.
'The day has passed for shufles and
straddles. The Democratic party must stand
firmly on the philosophical principles which
1t learned from Jefferson and jackson. and
it must announce them SO clearly that the
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