Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-10-19
COERCION!
SENSATIONAL. CAMPAIGN OF COER"
ClON AND INTIMIDATION.

Fair Means, So They Determine to
Win by Foul-sensationa' Proceedings
of Sound Money League-A New
Observation-Disclosures Bow Stands for Co.
eroloD-Rureau Notes. Etc.
Reform PRESS BUREAU.
ST.. PAUL, Oct. Is, 1900.
The sensation of tho week has been
the meeting of the Sound Money League
in Raudenbusch hall in this CITY and
the campaign of coercion and lntimlda'
ton which was there inaugurated.
The call for this meeting had been
signed by a number Of business men.
mainly members of large wholesale
houses, combines and syndicates, with
hardly a shrinking Of middle class
business men among them.
This call came from the class most
directly con cerned with the trusts and
money powers that have determined to
secure the election of Mckinley, by
fair means or foul.
When Bryan made his triumphal
tour of the state and called forth such
al overw helming and irresistible dis
play of enthusiasm that swept over the
country like tidal wave and carried
everything before it, the Repu bllcan
leaders realized that their cause was
hopeless, and seeing that they could
not win by fair means, they deter
mined to fight BY foul, and this meet
ing was one Of the results.
The sentiments of the resolutions
adopted at this meeting were extreme;
but the speakers we're positively rabld.
The chief speaker of the evening was
Mr.. Grover, who was certainly plain
spoken enough and left no ground for
misunderstanding as to the purpose OF
che meeting. Among other things he
defended government by injunction,
such as was employed on the striking
miners in Idaho. But it was Mr.. Jesse
Gregg of the firm of Nichols & Dean
that expressed it in all it's brutal blunt
ness. Said Mr.. Gregg:
II was in New York last week, and
passing down the street was surprised
to observe large banner floating from
a business house upon which was the
inscription: 'Bryan's Travelling Mems
Club In our firm we have 20 travel
ing men at work, and I do not know
how but one of them is going to vote
this fall, but want to say to you gen.
tlemen that if any one of these travel
ing men should vote for Bryan, and
knew it, I would discharge him imme-
diately. Don't understand me to say
that would discharge him for being
Democrat, would discharge him for
being damned fool. Iwould presume
that any man who didn't have better
sense than to vote for Bryan, didn't
have sense enough to represent our
business
The audience received this speech
with ringing applause, and thus ap-
proved the sentiments expressed and
subscribed to them as their own.
The morning papers brought an &C.
count of the meeting and the speeches,
aud soon it became the all absorbing
topic of the streets. Everywhere on
the street corners groups of men were
excitedly discussing it, and when the
papers reached the outlying towns and
country districts, kilograms and letters
of inquiry began to pour in at the
Democratic headquarters from all sides
and very soon it became evident that
in the excitement and interest aroused
all over the state and adjoining states,
this incident would surpass in sensa.
tional interest even the celebrated
Burchard episode which defeated
Blaine in "a.
Coming in the wake of Roosevelt
rabid speech here III the Auditorium,
in which he put Democrats on level
with horsethieyes, and made that ia
NOUS assertion:
'They stand for lawlessness and dis
order, for dishonor and dishonesty, for
license and disaster at home, and COW.
ardly shrinking from duty abroad. u
1t has made St. Paul the storm center
of the Burchardism of the present cam.
paign, and shows more plainly than
anything else to what desperate straits
the Republican party OF Minnesota
feels itself reduced.
This speech of Gregg's harmonic,
we'll with Rooseyelt's famous or rathe,
infamous speech here in the Audito
rum, and the passage in ROOSEVELT
book, "Ranch Life and the Huntine
TRAIL" Century Co. lS99) in which hi
accuses the cowboys of drunkenness
and rioting, yet declares that they ar
much better fellows and pleasantel
companions than farmers and farm
hands, and tells the world that tn
mechanics and laboring mon of grea
city are SO far beneath those same COW
boys whom he charges with drunken
ness and rioting, that they are not ever
to be mentioned IN the same breath
The passage reads literally as follows
WHEN DRUNK ON THE VII
famous WHISKY OF THE FROM
TIER TOWNS THEY CUT MAI
ANTICS, RIDING THEIR HORSE
INTO THE SALOONS, FIRING
THEIR PISTOLS RIGHT AND LEFT
from boisterous light heartedness rattle
than from any viciousness and indule
ing too often in deadly shooting ARRAY
brought Oh either by the Academia
contact Of the moment or on accoun
of some long standing grudge, or Del
hans hecause Of bad blood hetvaop t1r