The Irish standard., 1900-10-06

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At 8 o'clock Governor Lind, Mayor
Gray, Senator Stockwell aud NJ. e.
Neary made their appearance upon the
stage, the governor in the lead. AS
soon as the audience caught sight Of
him it burst into cheers. Flags were
waved to and fro, and from the center
section came the dull ''Ski-U-Mah' of
the University club.
1t took Chairman Winston fully five
minutes to again secure quiet. When
the. crowd subsidized he introduced
Mayor Gray, and again the audience
hurst into cheers. Mayor Gray COLI
fined his speech almost entirely to
municipal issues. He spoke of his. er-
forts in behalf of union labor, and com
plimented Chief of Police Doyle on the
efficiency of his administration of the
department. The mayor was frequent
ly interrupted by applause, and there
was nothing of that soreness manifest
ed, which the Republicans claim to eX-
list in the Democratic ranks against
him.
Governor Lind was the next speaker.
and although he was somewhat hoarse
and spoke with difficulty in conse-
quence, he warmed up as he proceeded,
and delivered what was pronounced to
be the best political speech he has ever
made in Minneapolis, and that is say,
ing much. AS the mayor had confined
himself to city issues, so the governor
devoted much of his time to the dis
.cussion of state issues. He ridicule0
the statements made by Republican
leaders two years ago to the effect thae
the credit of the state would be in
jured by his election, and said that
after events proved their claims to
have been utterly unfounded.
AT one point in his address the gov.
ernor spoke of the full dinner pail
argument, in manner that caught the
crowd. MY friends" said he. ~ am
heartily sick of this dinner-pail argyll
ment. l feel that it is humiliating. l
have sometimes thought that it might
have been we'll if 1 had been born of
some other race than the one from
which descend; for one purpose, and
one only, that is to be enabled to tell
a story You never heard of a Swede,
so far as l know, you never heard OF
one of Swedish descent who could tell
a story But can relate a little Incl,
dent of fact that is very distinct in
my memory.
'As you all know and appreciate, l
was born and lived on a farm for
good many years of my life. We had
an old horse, and it is the first horse
that we had i'll this country, that we
called Prince. He often saw hard
work; in fact that was his daily por-
ton; sometimes hard usage; and when
he was turned out on the luxurious
green prairie grass he was not always
willing to be caught. He was not
anxious to be captured; in fact. he sus-
pected my father Of evil designs. So
he would shun him as much as lie
could. Father would say, John, get ~
pail with some oats; go and take
Prince
Il used to try him with the wooden
pail, but the oats wouldn't rattle, so
l took a little tin pail that we had-a
two-quart pail-and I used to put
handful of oats in that pail and say,
Prince, Prince and rattle the oats.
Prince, foolish fellow-well that he
was foolish, but he heard the rattle Of
the oats, he would see the dinner pain
and he would come.
"My friends, since first heard this
dinner pail argument 1 have thought
to myself, did old Prince ever weigh in
his mind the equivalent between the
mouthful of oats and the harness tina,
SO rested on his back and that dragged
upon him all day."
During the governors address Bryan
made his appearance. The crowd saw
him as he entered, and in IL second the
entire audience was in al uproar. Men
leaped upon their chairs, and cheered.
Flags waved, the band played and fin
ally the cheers became yells, the great
throng rocking slowly back and forth
on the waves of it's own enthusiasm.
1t was such tribute as Mr.. Bryan
alone is capable of arousing, and he
stood there, through it all, bowling to
right and left, his eyes alight with the
triumph Of the moment.
1t had been decided, however, that
Mr.. Bryan should address the outside
meeting first, and although the crowd
inside was at first unwilling to let him
go, he finally overcame all objections
by saying:
"You people inside have seats here,
hut you should have some feeling for
those who are on the outside waiting.
believe in equal right to al! and spe
cial privileges to none, even if you are
inside.'
This decision was received with APP
plause, and as he passed out the big
crowd settled down to listen to Senator
Stockwell, and to await Bryan's re.
turn. 1t was 10 o'clock when Mr..
Bryan again appeared, and he spoke
for just one hour. In closing he urged
upon the people to support the city,
county, congressional and state tickets
at the coming election.
In both speeches Mr.. Bryan referred
to the lice trust" scoring the Repub-
lican party roundly for misrepresenta
lions with regard to that combination.
He said:
How absurd it is for the chairman
of the Republican committee to say
there are no trusts in the country, and
for every Republican to believe that
there is an ice trust in New York!
whenever a Democrat says any
thing on the trust question, every Re-
publican, forgetting what Mr.. Hanna
says, mentions the ice trust. am 60,
ing to tell you about it, and you will
never interrupt another Democratic
speaker with a suggestion of It. That
is the only trust the Republicans know
anything about-and they don't know
much about that, because they get
their information from Republican pa.
pers. and they never get any correct
information from that source during Il
campaign.
"AIr. Hanna has given three defens-
es of trusts: First, that there are nv
trusts; second. that they are good;
third, that if they are bad they will
take care of you. What a consolation
it must be to be-a Republican and
feel that he is saved with Mark Han