St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-04-21
POPs' JUBILEE WEEK.
1t Will Be Observed for the Next
Seven Days.

1t Will Be Observed for the Next
Seven Days.
It is not generally known that yesterday
began 1.-THE state jubilee week" But the
Peoples Party State league so decreed. The
league also decreed that during this jubilee
week the Populists should convince them
selves of their own existence by speech,
song, barbecue, or otherwise, the financial
proceeds Of the resurrection to be devoted
to 1.-The dissemination of Populistic Htera-
ture." Ramsey county celebrated ''the grand
opening Of the state jubilee" at Market hall
last night with an entertainment, oratorical
musical, pictorial and stereopticaI. Although
tickets were nominally sold at so cents each,
the large hall was completely filled with
an orderly assembly, in which were many
women and children, and an enthusiasm that
should have been treasured up for Novem-
Der. j. G. Hanley, who, with p. ]. Fortune
and e. W. Bonham, had executively incubat-
ed the local jubilee, introduced Francis H.
Clarke, the presiding chairman Mr.
Clarke explained the object of Jubilee week"
Then the Misses May L. Kelly and Rank
played the piano pleasantly. score Of
sweet little girls, wearing blue and be-
starred waists, white skirts, red mandolin
sleeves, black hosiery, hair down their
backs and silvered shields for aprons, came
forward to represent '16 to 1 silverites."
With them was gilded FOOLS cap on a tiny
maiden and a boy in evening dress, the lat
ter children being respectively "a gold bug"
and ''Schoolmaster Conn., The whole fnan-
cial tableau was ''the Capital City Glee
club" directed by Mrs. M. E. Koen. While
Miss Kelly accompanied them on her piano
the club, waving little American flags, sang
''Annie Rooney" to words Of intense patriot
ism, and in front of big American flag.
More patriotic songs and additional patriot
ism from the piano preceded Mr.. Francis fail
ure to introduce Ignatius Donnelly, the orator
of the evening. at would be absurdity,"
said Mr.. Clark, ''to introduce Mr.. DonneIly."
But funny story ended with the Sage's
name and appearance. His reception was
most cordial After the final "wahoov' he
said that the Peoples party was, If dead, a
lively corpse; that 1t controlled one-third Of
the state vote last election, and would have
a majority today; that South Milwaukee had
elected every Populist candidate; that it
would be difficult to manufacture new party
so that it would "go"-he knew, because he
had helped to found the Republican party;
that the Rocky Mountain News, Of Denver,
was the only American daily of correct prin-
ciples; that the recorded vote of the Populist
party was altogether l. 750, 900; that the Popu-
list national convention at st. Louis July %
would fraternize with the free silver national
convention OF tne same uate ana agree on GER
tain broad features One of these broad feat
ures should be that the country could be gov
erned in behalf Of the real people and not of
the money-lending class. Another would be
that the country could not endure four more
years like the present year; still another feat
ure would repudiate 'the crime of '73. where
by in secret, without debate, even without the
knowledge of the president who signed the
enactment. silver, legal tender since the days
of Abraham, was demonetized." Foreign mon
ey lenders had done this, hoping by decreas-
ing the volume of money to increase its pur-
chasing power, and thus diminish the earn
ing capacity of the people. Tax sales had
filed ffty-six pages in q late issue of the Min
neapoiis Penny Press-"eyery line a SALE
Unimproyed property always being bought at