The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-25
GREETING TO MIR. JONES.
Toastmaster Il. ID. 0'Brien Extends 1t
to the Evenings Guest.

Mr.. O'Brien said:
A POSTMASTER is generally accorded wide
range for his remarks. Commonly they take
the form of criticism Of the addresses al
ready made, or rather hazardous predictions
of those to be made. 1t occasionally hap
pens that he is compelled to conf1ne him
self to appeals to the speakers to cut 1t
short, as the committee has positively guar
anteed that the evenings exercises would
close before breakfast hour the succeeding
morning. The announcement depresses the
spirits of those whose names appear far down
the list. No such announcement will be
made here. With Gratiano We bar tonight
and adopt the maxim that
THE best of all ways
To lengthen our days
Is to steal a few hours from the night"
Neither will I indulge in prophecy. Our
guest Of this evening has large eccumuia-
ton Of my predictions made during the cam
paIgn of 1896. none OF which were fulfilled.
can. however, say TO Senator Jones that
this testimonial Of our respect for him is a
pleasing duty, a duty because he is the head
OF the great Democratic party now engaged,
as we believe in a gigantic struggle to per-
petuate the institutions Of this government
and constituting the hope Of the republic
A pleasing duty, because we love him for
the gallant battle he fought under the most
adverse circumstances two years ago; and We
say to him tonight that the Democracy of
Minnesota. organized as it never has been,
is heart and soul with the Democracy of the
ing special privileges to the few. against
corporate greed and concentrated wealth
with 1t in its fight for bimetallism. We
still believe in training our guns upon the
fortress wish to demolish, and Republic
can conventions may pile their resolutions
mountain high without convincing us that
the way to secure bimetal,ism is to declare
for the single gold standard
The senator will forgive US. however. If
We devote some Of our attention tonight to
the particular struggle in which he finds us
engaged. To US he is James X. Jones. of
the United States; interests are his in
terests, and We claim the right to burden
him with our domestic affairs.
For nearly forty years this state has been
under the absolute control of the Republican
party, although during great portion of
that time a majority of the voters OF the
state were in opposition. but by cSilful
manipulation the friends of good govern
ment were kept divided and the Republicans
remained in controi-that is that party act
ed as trustee for certain large holders hav-
ing what a lawyer would describe as the
legal title to the administration the equitable
or real owner being the railroad corporations
1t was only natural therefore, that when
the three anti Republican parties united upon
ringing declaration OF principles, which
constituted indictment against the party
In power, that the Republican party in con-
vention assembled availed itself of the right
accorded to every criminal and stood mute
10 with pride No promises which had been
kept. The greatest boast OF the delegates
was that they smashing a corrupt ma
chine which they themselves had built up
and so they commended the war the gold
standard, came out strong for coed roads
and then did the bidding of their masters
the corporations.
The last few months have given to the
people OF this country four literary curios-
ties, for all of which I believe the ReGubii-
can party can claim credit.
There Is Simpsons report in which he