The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-28
COLORED DEMOCRATS
HOLD Big MEETING
Hall on East Third Street Is the
Scene of an Enthusiastic
Meeting.

The hall at No. 40 East Third street
was the scene of a large gathering last
night when meeting of colored people
was held under the auspices Of the
Fourth Ward American Demo-
cratic club. All the seats in the hall
were occupied and many stood during
the progress, of the meeting. There
were a number of good speeches, and
| the pretensions of the Republicans were
riddled by Michael Doran Jr., r. D.
O'Brien, James Hickey, N. H. Casey,
Edward Jackson, Louis Betz, J. ]. Re
gan, Robert Bercie and J. B. Covington.
1t was pointed out that the Repub-
licans promised a close corporation and
condition where capital could not be
induced to invest it's surplus in the up
building of the city's material inter
ests. The allegations of extravaganza
were shown up and their correctness
controverted at every point.
Cornelius A. Hughes, editor of the
Iroquois, was the principal speaker of
the evening. Mr.. Hughes is a colored
man and is thoroughly familiar with
local conditions. He said, in part:
In the absence of any well defined
issue in the present campaign except
publican machine to decently admins
ter the affairs of city government,
which it has thrice manifested within
the last twelve years on the occasions
in which the citizens of St. Paul had
intrusted them with the reins of city
government, 1 feel that I can only gen.
eraliZe. 1t shall be true as long as we
shall live that he serves his party best
who serves his country most. 1 care
not who the man may be. l care not
what his prejudices may be. do not
care what his past devotion and at
tachment to his party may be. 7 main
tain that in the hour when he discovers
his party direction is antagonistic to
his cOuntry'S welfare he is unworthy
of citizenship if he does not turn his
back upon his party and his face to-
wards his country.
CoIored People Are Thinking.
''Hailing, as l do, from a constituent
cy whose attitude to the Democracy
has been largely that of antagonism,
there may be some in this audience
who still consider it an anomaly that
a cOlored man should take active in
tereSt in the success of the Democratic
party. To such 1 desire to say that 1
have evidence that there are in this
country today many thousands of
young colored men and women ripe
1fOIn COu0S0 anu uISn SCnOOlS OI the
country, who are giving as great a
depth of thought to the many ques-
lions of political science and economy
which confront the nation as do the
most profound thinkers among the
whites.
81 shall not dwell upon the fact that
to the Democratic board of education
you owe most of the representation
which you ever had from the school
department, nor shall 1 generaliZe on
the fact that it was to them that you
owe the first position and, I think, the
only position ever held in the munich
pal courts of st. Paul, that of bailiff.
l shall particulariZe upon none Of these
points, but 1 merely urge upon you
to become the thinking class Of peo-
pie. 1 urge upon you to examine the
records, both public and private, of
the gentlemen whom the two political
parties have placed before you, and if
you shall proceed along the lines of in
telligent reasons. there can be but one
result as to your choice for suffrage
May 8. From r. A. Smith to Jimmie
Cormican, the Democrats have given
you a local ticket which any man with
the welfare of st. Paul at heart can
safely well afford to shout for, root for
and vote for"