The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-10-20
IN SPTI|E,OFRA AIN.
The rIorris Meeting Was Success
Notwithstanding the Battle Of
I. the Elements Outside.
Our Congressman Made Brilliant
Speech He Will Receive an &
Increased Majority.

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81 Speech He Will Receive an
Increased Majority.
Although the elements conspired
against the success of the Morris meet
ing there were. between l5Ost 200 peo-
pie present to hear our congressman
speak storm was a. great disap-
pointment to people living in the
country for in all the adjoining towns
arrangennents had been made to bring
large parties, but the darkness and
raj was too. much for the projectors
and only those who had come to- town
with the intention Of remaining over
night we're able to be present.
Considering the torrents which
drenched everyone who set a foot out
side Monday yening the meeting was
. success and b the Globe seatSa re-.
porter who was entirely blind, politi-.
callys he would not have been rash
enough to call the meeting a FROST
Chairman Briggs opened the meet
ing with few appropriate remarks
and introduced Congressman Morris.
Mr.. Morris appearance. was signal
for applause and he caught the audi
ence from the start. He said it was
not necessary for d platform speaker
to- deliver long address in this cam
paign. Men had memories and it was
only necessary for a speaker to
brighten them eup little to ensure
epublieans success at the polls. This
year the calamity howlers we're silent.
In 1896 there were thousands OF men
with nothing to do standing on the
street corners talking politics and adj
vancing remedies for the evils of the
times. Populist speakers travelled
over the district with Dun's and Brad
streets reports under one arm and
Coins Financial School, under the
other. They would read from the re-.
ports that so many mills, shops and
factories had been closed, so many
banks and firms. had failed and so
many men had been thrown out.pf em7
[ploaune Mt. Thes reports were q Farming
and greatly SO because they were true
Then Shey would offer the arguments,
Iof Coin Harvey as a cure-all. The Re-.
tpublacans foug 1t hard TO maintain the
Financial system of the country as it
was then and won a remarkable VIC
tory, A president was elected and a
house and senate to support him and
almost Immediately there was a no.
ticeable improvement. There was no
time lost by the administration. The
day following his Inauguration Presi-
dentM cKinley called special session
of congress to enact a revenue meas
ure. This congress met March Is and
March 81 the house had passed the
| bill. The silverites in the senate had
blocked every move so far as they were
able by long debates and innumerable
parliamentary tangles but the measure
finally passed and went to the presf-
dent, though not until the last of July.
It was not until this bill reached the
senate that the people of this district
discovered exactly how false a friend
they had in Charles A. Towne No
industry in the district furnishes en-
ployment to so many men as lumber
ing, but when So schedule was pro-
posed Mr.. Towne appeared among the
lobbyists against the bill, although a
protested protectionist, and labored to:
put lumber on the free list. Thelobby.
failed and the protection a forded lum-
Der was Immediately felt in laboring
communities. Mills, idle for months
before, started their saws. Men who
had not worked for months were busy
and wages were raised from $40 and
Sl8 per month to S22 and $40 for labor
ers in the woods Mr.. s1Towne in re-
cent speech at West Duluth had at
tempted to justify his position, when
charged with being employed as a lob
byist by the Canadian lumbermen.
He acknowledged that his services had
been purchased, but claimed that it
was his privilege as an attorney ito ac-
cept such money. His influence which
the lumbermen purchased had been
given him by the votes OF the men
whom he sought.to injure and his act
was one resembling treachery Judge