The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-26

" as Thomas d. O'Brien. OF St. Paul.
son Of the great philanthropist.
Dillon O'Brien. Mr.. O'Brien's speech
was like fountain of living water in
the midst of a parched and arid
desert. Unfortunately the hirelinq
Globe gives but brief report of his
remarks.
Mr.. OBrien said that at the foun-
dation OF this government the people
were essentially an agricultural peo-
pie. and it was the aim Of the first
statesmen to free the land, and to
this end the law of entail was re-
pealed and that of primogeniture abol-
ished. But these men could not fore
see that great development in the
line OF invention was dawning 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 snow that
that great orator foresaw the evil. Il
90 not mean this as senseless TRADE
against corporations or against
wealth" continued the speaker. "But
hencefOrward it should be more than
ever the duty of Democracy to stand
on the side of the people, and If necessary
for their protection, strike do,cn any oqe,,cy
Mdt threatens them.
Bully for Tom O'Brien! Worthy
son Of an illustrious father. Scion of
the most oppressed race in the world
he does not intend that his native
land shall fall under the hoofs of the
same arroga Mt and cruel power which
trampled the country of his ances-
tors, for centuries, into unspeakable
wretchedness.
We think we can see the bank-tool.
Hamlin, adjusting his eyeglasses, and
gazing at Tom in establishment, and
then turning to the little dancing
master, O. M. Hall, and enquiring:-
"Who the devil is that? He must be
a Populst! Why do you permit such
cranks to air their views in such a re-
specially servile gathering as this?"
Alas and alas for Democracy! lit
had been ruled by such men as Tom
OBrien it would, to-day, be believed in
and worshipped by millions; instead
of being, as it is, the wretched and
played-out ally of Repub licanism and
tool OF Plutocracy.
The spirits of Washington and JEFF
ferson gathered at crack in the floor
Of heaven. and moaned and groaned
and grew sick at the stomach, as they
looked down on Hamlin and Hall and
Flandrau.
Why disturb the repose of the
sainted dead by holding such ban
quets?
And then General Becker, ere visited
the glimpses Of the moon" and we
read:
"Gen Becker was called for, and said
he was greatly encouraged by the en-
thusiam exhibited on this occasion.
AS illustrating his candidacy for gov
ernor, Gen. Becker told good story,
and said he had no regret in regard to
that candidacy, and whenever his
services are are required in support Of
democracy, it has only to command
him.
Which, being interpreted, means
that he was ready to run for governor
again, as often as called upon, if
thereby he could persuade his Repub-
lican opponent to promise to conti9u1
him in the Office of r. R. Commissions
er, with 50, 900 year and pickings.
And he didn't care tinker's curse il
every time he ran he reduced the
Democratic vote one-half. by trading
it away to the corporations. He
wanted that $4,000 a year and wanted
it badly.
And then c.. D. O'Brien made a
speech. Although the two old parties
are practically one, and should stand
by each other, as they did in the
Becker campaign, yet Chris's com
bativeness and natural honesty are so
great that he could not refrain from
pitching into the friend and brother.
the G.. o. P, in a most significant
manner.
"What," he asks, 'have we lost by
our last defeat?"
Nothing. Chris; nothing. You
hadn't anything to lose. You have
the same assurance of safety from the
blows Of fortune. that the tramp has
from the assaults of pick-pocket.
Then he continues:
HAS the Democracy Of this state
ever turned the state house into a
brothel? Or has the supreme court
ever had to close the state library be-
cause Of the practices carried on
therein? No. let those who hold Office
to bring disgrace upon the state in
that manner hold them as long as
they can. but some day an avenginy
people will mete out to them their
deserts"
We had heard such reports before:
the air is thick with them; but really
it leading Democrats are to pull on
the ligament," in that fashion, the
God-and- Morality-party will repudiate
them, and refuse to buy them again,
and even Becker in that contingency,
cannot save them.
look leedle oudt." gentlemen.
This OBrien family has an unhappy
faculty of telling the truth, which is
most destructive to the entente cordial
of the allied forces of Plutocracy. Let
them be suppressed at once, or Roths-
child will refuse to lend any more
money in Minnesota. And as foreign
capital, and not the fertility OF our
own soil, is the real source of our
greatness, we will dry up and blow
away; and nothing will be left but the