The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-06
No FEAR As 10 TIE ISSUE
LAST DEMOCRATIC WARD MEET
INGS WERE ENTHUsI-
ASTIC
GENERAL CONFIDENCE SHOWN
County Candidates Have Fought a
Clean Fight, and the Demo-
Gratis Will Return Them
to Office.

Not because OF any fears as to the out
come of the election today, bur because o!
d Strong desire to turn out enm9ssc and
show that the Democrats are alive first
last and all the time, the candidates an
adherents of the party held meetings
last night that in point of numbers
common sense argument and enthusias m
have not been surpassed during the cam
paign.
The Afro-American Fourth Wari Dem
ocrauc club registered it's last, strong,
healthy kicks against Republican admin
istration in its hall at 374 Minnesota
street The principal speakers on the
programme were Thomas r. Kane, Peter
Van Hoven and James Hickey. Mr..
Kane spoke in part as follows:
In view of the fact that the cam
palgn Is at an end and 1 have appoint
ments to speak in several other parts of
>-e city l know you will admit that
there is some substance in my excuse
IN not making any extended speech.
There is now little to be done In this
campaign; perhaps nothing; for you
nave all had time to make up your minds
how you are going to vote 1t occurred
to me as l stepped into this hall, low
ever, what change has come to this:
country the last fifty years. l was
forced to reflect and my mind vent back
through history to the time when the
stamp OF slavery was on the brow of the
colored man. Then the colored man had
no chance to show his valor, his nan
hood his uprightness, except as .'hance
happened in the small aqffairs of life
During our last war you were given
a chance to show your true worth to
the whole world. There was a moment
when our Stars and Stripes were in dam
ger of falling in defeat and the cnIcred
soldier rushed to the rescue. Nobly
the colored regiment acquitted them
selves in the Spanish war All the
men on the rosters, true to their name,
were soldiers, and this country owes
them debt of gratitude for services
rendered
But the colored race has at all times
been race oppressed. In this country
at the close of the Civil war the colored
man was given his freedom Old Abe
lincoln was at the head of the party that
advocated this freedom. Your fathers
and your mothers fathers loved the Re
publican party, but what's in a nans?
What was, may not always be. The
Republican party of today has no sem.
blance to the Republican party of I1lr-
coins time. 1t resembles 1t only in
name. So remember when you colorcd
voters cast your votes stand for he
party that advocates freedom. FraedGm
always; that's what we want. Fats
what you want. You, as representes Of
an oppressed race, ought to have love
for the principles of the Democratic par-
ty; great love; and I know you have. II
wants freedom, justice, equality to Ill
Il have noticed that the Republican
organs of late have sought to injure the
name of Honest John Lind They have
used methods that ought to make any
decent man blush, and without any war
rant, without any cause. I do not care
to repeat what they have printed; you
have probably all seen the shameful arr
ticles, but whatever they attempt, what
ever they. do, the charges will sink into
oblivion and the name of Honest John
Lind will be remembered long after these
papers have been forgotten. That is no
idle dream.
John Lind has made the best governor
Minnesota has ever had. It is of such
recent occurrence you must all know what
he has accomplished in the way of taxa
ton on mining properties and street rail-
way property. Under his ever watchful
eye, much property and thousands Of dol
lars have been saved to this state.
1T cannot be possible that the execu-
tive of such an efficient administration
should not be rewarded with a. second
term. The voters of this state tomorrow
will elect him, and that because he has
earned a second term
James Hickey, Democratic candidate
for the legislature from the Fourth ward
was the next speaker. The substance of
his speech was to the effect that the
PHILIPPINES were fighting for their free
dom, and that the colored voters of this
country ought to have no indecision as to
what party to adhere to.
He closed with the statement that if a
Democrat voted only part of the ticket,
he ought to vote all of it, and back up
the party from beginning to end, from
top TO bottom.
Peter Van Hoven. Democratic candi-
date for sheriff, cut his remarks very
short. He said that during the last few
days his opponent had been distributing
a circular in the Fourth ward asking the
support of the colored voters.
AT MARTINS OPERA HOUSE.
Another meeting was held at Martins
opera house, on the West Side. Chas.
Mcdonald, ward chairman, presided, and
in his introductory remarks said that the
outlook was never better for success.
Following were the speakers on the pro-
gramme Moritz Helm, Humphrey Bar
ton, Louis Betz, Col. ]. Hawthorne, Thos.
R. Kane Fred Ford, Dr. Stone keter