The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-16
DEMOCRATS RALLY
IN EIGHTH WARD
Aid. Bantz, c. D. O'Brien and
Others Address Large En-
thusiastic Gathering.

Aid. Matthias Bantz gave an account
of his stewardship to an audience that
filled the big room in Tschida's hall,
Arundel and Lafond, in the Eighth
ward, last night. Every chair in the
hall was occupied and numbers stood
in the rear during the three hours that
the meeting continued.
The audience was interested all the
time and became enthusiastic-at the
mention of the names of popular men
on the Democratic ticket. Mayor
Smith was present, but did not spe2k.
Both he and City Comptrolle' 1t Ills
Betz received ovations when thy APP
peared at the meeting, and the Clain
that Kiefer will walk away with the big
end of the vote of the Eighth ward is
evidently entirely without foundation
in fact. George Mitsch ward chair
man, presided at the big gathering in
the Eighth last night, and a conserva-
tive estimate of the crowd present is
500.
Aid. Bantz was one of the last speak
ers, but the crowd waited until he.
should be called upon, though quite fire.
quently some enthusiastic friend in
the audience demanded that he should
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was devoted to an expose of the Repub-
ican claims of extravaganza in the adj
mln1stration of the city's business af-
fairs,
What extravaganza has there been?
Why don't they specify?'' he demanded,
and then he continued: "The home
rule charter sets aside certain
amount for every department of the
city government, and we haven't used
h1 ho0 ia
Tor that department, and which is au-
thOrlZed by the charter. Where do our
Republican critics expect to make a
saving? Do they intend to cut the
salaries paid the teachers in the public
schools, or is it in the pay of the fire
men, the police or the poor fellows
VINO work on the streets or in the
sewer department.?
Republicans Had Three Chances.
They realize that poor salaries mean
an inferior service from incompetent
people, and they don't dare say they
will do it. The Republicans have been
given three chances to show what they
could do in the way of administering
the affairs of the city, and each time
they have unceremOniously DISCHARGED
the men whom they had found in
charge and yet they are coming around
this year and asking for just one more
chance
"A good many stories are being told
through this ward and evidently I have
my snare of enemies. Well, a man who
hasn't any enemies hasn't any friends,
and a man who has no credit has NOT
any debts. They say 1 am opposed to
organized labor. No charge that has
ever been made against me has hurt
me like that charge. For eighteen
years L was known as a labor agitator
and when no. merchant tailor in ST
Paul would employ me, and 1 opened a
shop on my own account; the first man
who sewed a button for me was a
union tailor
L have never employed any other
since L have been in business in this
town, and for seven and a half years
the SHOP in which l am a partner was
the only shop using the union label in
this city 1t is true that my shop was
papered by non-uniOn men, but it was
a question whether to lose a mans
custom and the bill of goods which he
had bought on condition that he would
paper the shop in the spring. I ask
any fair-nlinded man if he would not
have done as l did.
Il was nominated at the Democratic
primaries out of a field of five candi-
dates. A plurality cast their ballots for
me, and L am nominated, and with
your assistance l will be elected. II I
had not been nominated, however, I
Will say that I would have been found
supporting the nominee. We are mem
bers of the Democratic party, and it is
a great Democratic principle that the
will of the majority must govern. If a
man does not believe in this principle
it is time he came out in the open and
went over to the other SIDE"
The Eighth ward alderman was re-
celVed with much enthusiasm, and his
election, which two weeks ago was by
some people considered in doubt is
now generally conceded. The opposi-
ton has failed to develop any. special
strength and Bantz is gaining friends
daily.
C. D. O'Brien Speaks.
G. D. O'Brien made a notable speech.
Mr.. O'Brien said he had been POLITICAL
ly dead for twenty years and the flow
ers on his grave We're weighted down
with heavy stones, but he could not sit
idly by and see his political party and
his friends SO shamefully abused and
Villified by the Republican orators and
their newspaper organs. He referred
especially to the use of cartoons and
said it was peculiar that in the last
month of the tWenty-fOur the Repub-
icans aWOke to find among what evil
neighbOrs they were living.
He referred to the integrity of the
men who are administering city affairs
and challenged the opposition to find
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