The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-11

EApoSltlOn mall IN minneapolis held
1000 men and large number Of women
last night. They were there to testify
their regard for and their appreciation
OF the personal services of John Lind.
the Democratic and Peoples party can
dldate for governor, and to attest their
devotion to the principles he advocates.
Only bare patch Of empty seats was
to be found, and that where the stage
could not be seen.
The cheers that greeted Mr. Lind
were a testimonial Of high personal
regard; but they were neither more
sonorous nor significant than the senti-
ments echoed from that platform. that
found responsive chords in a legion of
human hearts that heard them, and
that will be received with equal cor
diality in the hearts OF these that read
them.
That principle, not party, should be
the guide Of the American voter was
applauded to the echo. That that au-
dience was not enslaved by the meshes
OF any party organization was indubi-
tably testified.
But the greatest enthusiasm was
aroused when Mr.. Lind himself, in a
sedate, and in no sense grandiloquent,
speech. riddled with the solid shot of
fact and logic and the raking canister
of history the false premises set up by
William Henry Eustis as a platform"
on which the Minnesota voters should
pile their suffrages.
Mr. Lind had a patient audience, and
he was gently dealt with while he
taught, by graduation, his throat the
size Of the hall.
RIDICULE FOR EUSTIS.
But, when he referred to William
Henry's plea that he should be elected
"for the moral effect it would have in
the capitals of Europe ripping flood
of laughter rolled in rollicking cascades
from every gallery. Mr.. Lind's satire
had been heard, and when he followed
this with
why not vote to produce a moral
effect in our own capitalist"
The very roof rang with enthusiastic
applause. So, too, when, after citing
the Steenerson decision, Mr.. Lind paid
tribute to the union judges, Buck,
Carty and Mitchell, and pointed out
the singular coincidence that all the
Republicans who had been prominent
in that fight for the people had been
unsuccessful candidates for party NOM
nations this fall, the audience demon
stl ated it's judgment Of such treatment
with unmistakable disapproval.
WHY EUSTIS IS SILENT.
Mr. Lind's reference to Mr. Eustis'
reticence on state issues was also re-
ceived with significant expression, and
every one laughed when Mr.. Lind said
he couldn't blame Mr.. Eustis much, in
view of the party record, for not want
ing to touch upon those issues.
The 1891 legislature, against which
the Republicans have said so much,
was referred ito, and Mr.. Lind's hint
that the Republican governor then in
office might have circumvented any
tendencies to eXtrava gance on the part
of the lawmakers was popular. In de-
fense Of that legislature, however, 1t
might be added that 1t had given to
the state the legislation which put the
twine plant at the Saltwater prison on
a solid footing and broke the back Of
the cordage trust. This had saved the
farmers Of the state millions Of dol
lars, but recently the cordage trust had
found g. way to beat it, and the entire
output of the prison plant had been
of before the season for using
the same and at figures far below those
which subsequently, prevailed. It was
this legislature, too, which had given
the state the legislation which made
possible the Steenerson rate case de-
cision, one of the greatest blessings
that had fallen on the people of the
state in years, a decision that would
be historic in Its stand for the rights
of the people as against the aggres-
sicns of corporations.
Mr. Lind hurried through some por-
tions Of his speech on account of the
effort Of some who lived at a distance
to catch their last cars. He referred
to the burden of taxation, which, he
said, was especially burdensome if the
taxes Were unjustly levied or If the
taxpayers had reason to believe that
they were not devoted rightly to the
public purposes. II fancy" he remark
ed, that taxes must have been es-
pecially hard to pay in Minneapolis
these last few years.
WILL SERVE THE PEOPLE.
Mr. Lind assured his audience that
If elected he and his co-workers on the
ticket, whose election was as important
as his own, would undertake to
see that the laws were properly admin
istered, and if laws were found that
bore unequally upon the citizens.
steps would be taken to so modify them
or repeal them that the injustice would
be eradicated. The state had squan-
dered enough of the swamp lands to
macadamize every road in the state.
There was still, however. swamp land