The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-11
ARE DISCUSSED IN A PAPER AT
ONCE AMUSING AND AGGRES-
SIVE.
wEARERs OF THE TRI-coLoR
Have One of the Most Enjoyable
Banquets of Recent Years at
the Ryan.

Fellowship. There were over 200 vetera ns
there, each of them a General This.
Major That, a Captain This, or a
Colonel That, while around the fringe
OF that titled galaxy of warriors, a few
favored guests were permitted to i'm
bihe that which was offered to eat.
drink or hear
A number Of companions present were
from Minneapolis. Among the guests
OF honor for the evening were Capt.
E. s. Dudley, u S. A; J. H. Allen.
Walter Driscoll, Capt. J. J. McCarly.
n. L. Davis, Dr. A. Sweeney. DR.. 7.
Z. Schadle, DR.. J. F. Fulton. Prof. J..
r. Jewett, Phillip S. Harris, Tracy
Lyon, Augustus Lyon Jr., Hon. w. H.
Sanborn, Hon. H. r. Brill, A. B. Stick
ney. Col. ]. F. jacques, Gen M. F..
F1oWer, Maj. j. S. Dana, F. G. Prest,
Prof. w. S. Pattee, G. H. Daggett. DR..
U. X. Metcalf, Theo. Schurmeier. Chas.
>. Fattee, Geo H. Prince, Geo. B. Pull
yer, william Lindeke and others.
Gen. John r. Brooke, U. S. A. acted
as master of ceremonies during the
evening. Prior to the social session a.
business meeting was held, but no busi-
ness or public interest was transacted
IL was announced that Feb. II. a meet
ing OF the Legion would be held at the
west MOTEL, Minneapolis, to commence
rate the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
capt. II. A. Castle delighted the Leg
ION with his paper upon the Boys in
Blue Grown Gray" The address was
an hour in length, and it was notable
for it's abandonment of battle statistics
ana detail, 1t was a glowing eulogy of
the old soldier, but the speaker noanae
co 70 weave some original humor and
slmlie. The captain has a way of ele-
Fatlns MS hearers upon the pinnacle
OF his eloquence, causing them to hang
III anxious suspense for a final burst of
syhtax, and then dropping them with
a Gull and sickening thud at wholly
irrelevant but fetching smile For in
stance, after eulogizing the glory of
personal self-sacrifice in the defensa IF
ones country, the captain closed the
pyrotechnic flight of imagination bv
saying: And SO companions, honesty
and honor is always the best policy
When there is not too much at stake. 4"
Inc captain started off with a refer
ence to the late campaign. He said:
IL IS generally admitted that we have lust
vast hem1spherical catastrophe The eamnaign
torches are extinguished; the paroxvsn Of
nysterIcs' lHumined by an aurora borealis
Vex and vaunt no more The shout 90 49,
loren pearer screaming himself into grinne
ana pneumonia is quenched The heller and
tne howler are alike silent-they have folded
Inelr tents like Arabs and fed in wild dismay
The candidate no longer inhales +ha mir -
WHISKY sours or clasps hands chiefly noticeable
as rIcn 1eedlng ground for microbes The
p i,erd CHAIRMAN, reyeling in his labor of
lucre poWlegged but full of enthusiasm has
subsded. The able editor Carving aronnd a
mead weighted down with Unpublished matter
can can gaze down the famboyant vista Of his
VICTORIOUS career and take a needed rest
me voice of one crying from special trains
WIN Fungus IN MS throat, to warn mankind
against the conspiracy to pass a plugged
collar on his suffering countrymen is snd-
denly hushed. The orator whose seductive
notes were rainbows melting into song can
now sadly mediate on blind-stagger luck in
pollI1cs; the senatorial aspirant can gather
IN votes on q rising market the triumnhant
boss can accept from his Chicago admirers
the nnest bouquet its slaughterhouses Weld:
the average honest partisan can rejoice in
the temporary submergence of that SneciaI1v
super-righteous mugwump element the "sav-
ing nve per cent of voters who usually
k Keep the country from going to destruction
by sereneiy, sweetly holding the balance Of
power. The alleged campaign of lungs lar
eeny and lunacy is ended. The wind-Weavers
and phrase-coiners are dumb, and we have
escaped ff we have escaped from the desner
ate situation of one whose incurabIe disease
has been attacked by an infallible remedy.
Herr Most with string of transatlantic
g1ttuTais roaming from his lips, and Herr
Altgeld brandishing his goId-clause lease
before our blinking eyes, entered into the
very sinew and substance of our recurring
Nightmares. We scorned them, and our scorn
bites, usually. But this time it fell harm
less, one of Chauncey Depew's ouadren1al
four-track, block-system presidential boo1ns.
The nightmare raved and ravaged even as a
wildcat in the mountains until the haIJots
came down like an avalanche and smothereJ
it-ballots called 'fsnow fakes in the old
chestnut, but now each six inches wide thir
ty-two inches long and many-hued, that way
farers need not err. We accept the result
with a smile that is childlike and grand. The
country is safe-again. In fact we begin
to suspect that the nightmare was after all.
the fond, familiar fea-bite of antiquity The
country is safe again-safe as a fire risk on
crude asbestos stored in a vacant lot And
now the resonance Of Mornings new, be-
wftching AMI lady-Hke. female electoral vote
splits flames blazon trumpet into hair pins
carrying the assurance that henceforth Dresi-
dents are liable to be nominated by intuition
and elected by instinct
The country is safe again. The men who
helped to save it once before and are still
willing to admit the fact, have rather enjoyed
Witnessing the excitement attendant upon the
operation We have Just been told in a
magazine article, by the philosophic son of a
rebel sire. that the rebellion was put down
principally by its own pestiferous, irredeem-
able Confederate currency. Three weeks ago
we would have swallowed this revelation with
out qualm. Now we have leisure to turn
1t over and cross examine it We also have
leisure and, l trust. a disposition to recur
to some features Of that old old story Of dar-
ing and devotion and sacrifice. in the days
when the country was saved once before-in
the days of the deeds that shaped up a
country worth lighting for. worth saving, wor-
thy to be saved again in these gallant golden
days Of 1896. AS lending a variety to that
old, old story, making it, perhaps. not quite
old, and bringing it, so to speak, some
what up to date, l will tonight talk a little
about the adventures and achievements Of
the Union soldier since the war, under the
title Of 1.-The Boys in Blue Grown Gray.
Can't Castle then followed with a
semi-humorous address upon the career
of the soldier since the war. He opened
as follows:
''There were no giants in those days which
tried mems souls, and stored their bodies
with unpensionable ailments. Giants, mostly
p apochryphal fought battles single handed
in periods of antiquity now remote and malo-
dorous. The last samples persisted some CEN
turtles ago. painfully regretted. Their spears
were rust their clubs were dust their souls
are with the saints 1--WE trust long prior to
1851.
1.-THE men who put down the slave holders
rebellion were mostly boys. 1t is estimated
that the soldiers Of the Union averaged only
nineteen years of age when the roar of the
first gun broke upon Fort Sumters walls and
echoed down the aisles OF time. besides shat
tering a large invoice of miscellaneous crock
ery. No such burden ever fell upon the youth
Of any era. No such imperial manhood was
ever developed in single generation. Greece
moulded countless heroes of her own, and has
thrust her hand into every mass of mortal
clay that has been fashioned into beauty, or
power, OF glory since the Gays Oh the oeml-
gods.
heroism than that which made our golden
age iilustrious, conspicuous. lurid trolley
car In a thunder storm. for all ensuing
years" The captain continued in the same