The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-01

when know you are going to elect sound
money man. (Applause.)
They attempt to array class against class
and the East against the West. They raise
this sectional issue. They say that freirhts
have not gone down in comparison with your
grains. Now we will see. In 1873 the freight
from Chicago to New York on a bushel Of
wheat, by allwater, was "a cents; by rail
alone. 1t was S31s cents; by half-rail and half
water 1t was % cents. Today by all rail
1t is 12% cents; by rail and water. 6A cents;
bushel, while your wheat Is up and If it
was so cents it would be just the price in
gold that 1t was in 1S73-but it amt; 1t is
only II cents now. You see they raise
sectional issue. They say that the East
must be blotted out. The East has changed
It's mode of farming. They take your prod
ucts. your crops; they have changed their
mode OF farming so as to buy your goods. 1t
is pretty good East for you. New York
built the Erie canal. Our rate from Buffalo
to New York last year was 2 lilo cents
bushel on your wheat. She built the canal at
her own expense; she never asked the West
to contribute dollar; she never asked the
general government to contribute a dollar;
she has kept that open for you. She has
made it possible to settle these eight great
states around the lakes and given it half the
population of the United States today. ZAP
plause).
This sectional issue! The soldier boys ought
to spit in their faces when they talk it.
thought you had settled, in 1851 and 1865 that
we were to have but one flag in this republic.
when the fire struck Chicago; when the biz
zard struck Chicago, didn't the whole Ameri-
can people, with one hand, reach to their
pockets to alleviate the sufferings of their
fellow beings?
STARTED IN LIFE POOR.
If any Of you want to find fault with me
because am wealthy, young man 1 want to
say to you one thing. I started in life g.
poorer boy than any of you; with a widowed
mother at eight years of age to take care
Of; barefooted from eight to twelve, stone
bruises on my feet. 1 have warmed many a
morning where the cows have lain all night on
the frosty ground; never knew what It was
to have new suit Of clothes until was four
teen years old; my mother, God bless her
used to cut them down for me from the older
children, but they were good enough to keen
me warm; my education received in the COM
mon schools of our state; what earned out
side at odd Jobs paid for select schooling, and
went to New York. and twenty years 1 was
successful And when l had lost my only son
and was looking in the grave rather than for
political honors, the nomination for congress
came can J., TO me IN my own district where lived
and In district that had been 1900 against
me was elected by 5000 majority | am NOT
AFRAID to trust you in this campaign. The
oemagogues rell you that the money power has
everything locked up The laboring men and
the farmers have two-thirds of the nation 8
money In their pockets, the banks less than
one-third.
Gov. Flower closed his able and elo-
quent address by saying that the
Indianapolis ticket was nominated upon
a Democratic platform, and while it
may be that this year we will have to
bury our platform In the ark Of the
covenant, we are marching on in
patriotic endeavor to save this Union
1t shall be saved, and our party shall
De saved. The declaration Of independ-
ence was our first platform and we will
maintain its principles to the last. In
the words of an old general Of Holland
when called upon by the enemy to sur
render his fort, we reply to. our open
ents: No, we will never surrender. We
will eat our horses and our mules, our
dogs and our cats, our rats and our
mice, and when they are gone we will
eat the flesh of our left arm to de-
fend with the right our grand republic.
Daniel w. LAWYER was then intro
duced and warmly received