The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-28
THE CITY CAMPAIGN
REPUBLICAN RALLY
IN FIFTH A FIASCO
Germans in That BailiWick Stay
Away From Meeting at
St. Francis Hall.

The much advertised German meet
ing at st. Francis hall last night was a
disappointing affair to the Republican
managers, and Louis Schultz, who was
charged with the grave responsibility
OF making it success, is in disgrace
with his party organization. Not more
than fifty men gathered at the hall, and
OF this number not more than three or
four were Germans. There were thirty
1--WE men wearing Robert A. Smith but
tons confronting the speakers. At 8: 80
o'clock the hall was dark
An extraordinary effort had been
made by Schultz and his handful of
workers to get out a crowd for the
Fifth ward rally" The Republicans
had wagon bearing a banner adVer-
Using the meeting parading the streets
in the Fifth ward all day and postal
cards were sent to every German voter
In the ward by the local organization.
The result, in view of the extraordinary
effort to make the meeting a success, is
humiliating indeed, and the Fifth ward
VIII be given up as an unfruitful field
and the attention of the workers turned
to other territory.
Louis Schultz presided and the meet
ing was burlesque. Order could not
be maintained even by the stentorian
tones of Schultz. Col Kiefer was the
first speaker, but even with this adj
vantage his hearers soon began to leave
the hall, and after he had exploited
Vlous Republican administrations he
gave it up.
Wright Becomes VitrioIic.
Col. Wright followed with his usual
speech but had fortified himself with
some tax receipts which favored his
contention that taxes were higher now
than some years ago when st. Paul
school children were without schools
and every city department was demon
allied for lack of funds. Exasperated
by the Indifference of his audience he
grew Vitriolic and hurled epithet after
eplthet at the present administration
and declared that st. Paul was a by
word among the cities of the country
because of its NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
He reiterated his charges that some
body had attempted to bride him in the
hard times of 1893, but anybody who
remembers the tightness of the money
market then will believe that he placed
the figures too high.
Other speakers were Oscar Claussen,
former city engineer; Douglas Wright,
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German; John F. Bruggemann and H.
L. Mills.
Paul Martin presided at a meeting
held at Brack's hall, Concord and
Robe streets, in the Sixth ward, by
the Republicans last night There was
fair attendance, caused in part by
the wieners and other good things
served between times. Candidate
Wright rallied at the gang" and
charged graft in nearly all the city
departments, while he attempted to
contrOvert many of the statements of
the Democrats. He was uncharitable
enough to say that they were lies and
the singular of the term appeared at
very frequent intervals in his speech.
He admitted that there was no use in
trying to stop the social evil, but
thought that that class of people
should be segregated. Col. Wright
closed with an eXhOrtation that Re-
publican shoulders be put to Repub-
ican wheels and kept there after
election. He had forgotten his treat
ment Of the men who had elected him
twelve years ago.
Col. Kiefer, John Hedman, S. H
Reeves, F. B. Doran, Frank Arnold
Gustav Bruckner, Thomas Montgom-
cry and young Mr. Wright also spoke