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2 B O. Brooks, Joseph Smith, P. 11. Th.-rnton, Oeo. W. Womack, Wm Delaney. Charles J. Weyl, Tom 1-. :.!artin, Dr. H. Lankester, A. D McLeod, Alex. J. Stone, John Wagnener, John D. O'Brien, Sun. J. Duuuelly, Minneapolis— Jno C McCarthy, W. C. McCormack, • O. Tankenoff, W. H. Daniel. Frank W Uaer, William Baldwin, Jno. 11. lyes, F. J. Geist, Aaron Foupi ney, Rali>h Rc-es, John We^h. J. W. Tamm, O. 11. Crowloy. Lars V.. Rand, Paul Fontaine, T. P. Healy. J. B. t/ovington, P. M. Sta.-ey, C. F E«n Join B. Marker, J 1- M&cDonald, M. J. O'Connor, J. A. l.setTinan. ■ W. M. Campbell, Berndt Olson, W. EL Goodteg, A. llagv rum. V. J. V.oArdle, Frank Thome, F. B. Long. George Thill, George S. Canfleld, Henry «>v;nnor, George Cooke, H F Weasel. David B. Johnson, P. F. Peebles. N. C. Hardy, W. 1. Perkins Jr.. E. H. Krolwitz Otto Brtmer, John H. Nickell. Adolph Bremer. Charles M. Par.d, J. M. Hawthorne, Frank C. Brooks, J. J Murphy, John G. Quinn, I>r. O. S. S J ine, J. O. j'avis. S \\" Badger, Lewis U. Larson, H J Strouse Alonzo Phillips, J J Eg in E. H. Clement. A. K. Capehart, Leon D. Brown, J. C. Michael, '••'• A. Itr.ynolds, H E. Dri r. Weingart. Win. 11. Donahue, K-d .1. Conroy, J. Q Donnelly, Franklin G. Holbrook. John Kerwin. Alex Tod, Janus King. P. N. Stacy. James A. Meade, Harry A. Lund, Bdward Dahl, H. P. Pratt, WT.llam L. Abbott. S. A. Sto-kwell, T. F. Darragh, J. C. llaynes, a i-.. Lauer, K. 15. Hazard, Ch.irVs McDonald, E. R. Lynch, .li>t;n ! Kelly, E. S. Corscr, W. O'Halloran . V. R. Gibscn, ; i. Tombler, Wyoming, ilinn. P. H. Klrwan, Olivia. W. A. Statey. Frankfort. T. J. ratlin. Delano. 7.. H. Austin. Duluth. C. T. Zaninan. Molntoeh. Polk county. C. J. Hu-'ll, St. Anthony Park. Oerolt Cibson. New York. l>r E. H. IVrkins, Excels! t. Charl.-s C. Kolars, Le Sueur Center. As the last strains or' the -Queen s Idrce Handkerchief closed the musical programme Mr. Rosing arose amidst applause and said: •My f Heads: It is well that we Bhould draw a lesson from the Spanish war. Th£ soldiers who wont into battle with well-lined B'.Muaclis madtf the best fi;rht. We have pre paiud for that which is to come. It is not neceaary that I should offer to Senator j Jones a welcome from Minnesota. Democrats. 1 Every breath of ozone he has taken has been "full of welcome. But I extend, in my official capacity, the welcome of the state to j our disunnuif.hed gue*t." He referred to tho i R.-Vuhlii-an cartocn In which Senator Jones Is seen driving a wagon in which \V. J. Bryan. John Mnd and C. A. Towne are «\tt'her.'d. He evoked great applause at the mentton of the names of John Lind, at CMokaniauga. and at the mention of the name of Mr. Towne. His remarks were very brief and he closed by introducing T. D. O'Brien as toastruaater. GREETING TO HH, JOKES. To«iitnia.ster T. D. O'Brien Extend* It to the Evening's Goeit. Mr. O'Brien said: A toastmaster Is generally accorded a wide range fi>r his remarks. Commonly they take the form of criticism of the addresses al ready made, or rather hazardous predie'lons of those to be made. It occasionally hap pens that he is compelled to confine hlin ' eelf to aDpeals to the speakers to cut It »hort. as the committee has positively guar anteed tha.*. the evening's exercises would close before breakfast hour the succeeding morning. The announcement depresses the •pirits of those whose namew appear far down the list. No such announcement will be made here. With Gratiano we "bar tonight," and adopt the maxim that "The best of all ways To lengthen our days Is to steal a few hours from the night." Neither will I indulge in prophecy. Our gULSt of this evening has a large eccumula tion of my predictions made during the cam j>al«jn of 1596. none of which were fulfilled. I can. however, say to Senator Jones that ] this testimonial of our respect for him ia a ( pleasing duty, a duty because he is the head | of the creat Democratic party now engaged, j as we believe. In a gigantic struggle to per petuate the institutions of this government ! and constituting the hope of the republic. ■ 'A pleising duty, because we love him for , th« gallant battle he fought under the most j adverse eiivunurancc-s two years ago; and we I say to him tonight that the Democracy of i Minnesota, organized as it never has been, ! Is heart and soul with the Democracy of the j nation. With it in its contest against grant- I ing special privileges to the few, against j corporate greed and concentrated wealth; j ■with it in its fight for bimetallism. We I Etill believe in training our gun 3 upon the fortress we wish to demolish, and Republi can conventions may pile their resolutions I raounuin high without convincing us that i the way to secure bimetallism is to declare ! for the single gold standard. The senator will forgive us, however, if ; •we devote some of our attention tonight to ■ the particular struggle in which he finds us 1 «ii?iu: d. To us he Is .lames K. Jones, of • O-.v United States; our interests are hi 6 In- ' teraata, and we claim the right to burden him with our domestic affairs. For nearly forty years this state has been under the absolute control of the Republican i party, although during a great portion of ! that time a majority of the voters of the : BUte w«re in opposition, but by Willful manipulation the friends of good govern- < ment were kept divided and the Republicans i remained in control — that is, that party act «d as trustee for certain large holders hay- ! Ing what a lawyer would describe as the legal tlt!e to the administration, the equitable ! or real owner being the railroad corporations. ! It was only natural, therefore, that when i th.' three anti-Republican parties united upon ! a ringing declaration of prlnelrles, which constituted an indictment against the party In power, that the Republican party in con vention assembled availed itself of the right i accorded to every criminal and stood mute. ' There was nothing which could be roir.te>i to with priie. No promises which had been i kept. The greatest boast of the delegates ' ■was that they were smashing a corrupt ma- ' c-nlno which they themselves had built up, and so they commended the war, the cold Standard, came out string for good roads, and then did the bidding of their masters, tlie corporations. The last few months have given to the people of this country four literary curiosi- I tioa, for all of which I believe the Repubii- j can party can claim credit. There is Sampson's report in which he r _ l I 6 flfaop |3 El JBJ^^k JB^Pi SEVENTH AND CEDAR STS. *el. 7X2. Meat Market, 782. I 39 Cents For a bushel basket of fancy Transcendent Crab Apples, while this car load lasts. They ■will ni>t be here long at this price $1.25 Per Hanvl for fancy Duchess Apples- a j great bargain while they last. 12 Cents IVr pound for those fancy Selected Sprin-- Chickens. 25 Gent-. Tot six pounds of fine, large Sweet Potatoes. 15 cents A basket for Concord Grapes; fair quality. 5 Gents Per dozen for Minnesota Sweet Corn. 6'■ Gents A bar for Kirk's large 10c size White Cloud jt*>ap; 3Vsc per bar for the five-cert size Those wrappers are redeemed by J. S. Kirk A Cu. for benefit of your church. 20 Cents Per basket for fancy Washington Plums chtap^todaV* ° f M ' chigan Peac *es; good 'and 95 Cents For half-bushel boxes of fancy California i lello-w Freestone Peaches. 9 Cents A pound for Select Sugar Cured Smoked , B% Cents A pound for Sugar Cured Smoked Picnic Hams. ; 16 Cents A pound for choice Table Butter. 5 cents A pound for a fresh shipment of Whole Java ! Rice. i 3 Cents For a basket of fancy Minnesota Tomatoes. 9 (Jents For ten-pound bags of the Best Yellow Corn Meal. 19 Cents A pound for a Choice Creamery Butter 4 Cents For full-weight loaves of the Best Vienna Bread in this city. 10 Cents A gallon for full stre- gih (45 grain) White Wine v megar, in your own Jug. takes credit for winning a battle he never saw. Shafier's message givsn when thou sands of American soldiers were lying in the fever-laden trenches at Santiago, and the peo ple at home were waiting anxiously for news, that "C:ipt. Alger is well!" There is the Doodle Boole of Wisconsin, and last, but not least, the Republican platform of Min nesota. No political convention ever 6truck a more deadly blow at the Interests of the people ihan did the late Republican convention of this state. It is conceded by all students of the sub ject that the speediest ar.d best solution of the economic questions which beset us would come through the honest and fearless ad ministration of justice and the rules of law. A few months ago there was rendered by our supreme court a decision in the action known as the Stuenerson case, which to my mind is the most important decision of mod ern times. There the rule Is laid down that in considering the amount of earnings which a railroad may claim as a matter of right on which to base its rates, the coat of re producing the road and Its equipments Is tha test, and not the bonded Indebtedness nor the amount or value of its stock. Thus by a few strokes of the pen the su preme court of this state has eliminated tho chief evil in watered stock, and as for bonds the people nerd not care should the railroads continue to Issue them until even an Eng lish nobleman would be ashamed to lend his name to a syndicate for their disposal. That decision was unanimous, and every one of the Justices is entitled to our n^mlra t!on and respect for the fearless attitude of the court upon this momentous question; the Republicans, Start and Collins, no less than the Democrats. Mitchell, Canty and Buck, and another Republican who mada that decision ] possible by his indefatigable advocacy of thd | right was the present attorney g>Mieral, Mr. Childs; and yet of those six men, five, the three Judges who were candidates for re election. Justice Collins, a candidate for gov ernor, and Mr. Childs, a candidate for the supreme bench, were ignomlulously rejected by this machine-smashing Republican con vention, and sent to condole with A. Y. Mer rill, the hero of tho Anderson bill, and re flect how much more profitable it would have boen had their names been on the brief In opposition to the people's cause, for there Is found the name of the man this same con vention Indorsed for United States senator. Mr. O'Brien's remarks were punctu ated by vociferous applause. Hl3 hap py reference to the literary fulmi na tions of the past year and the points made In connection with the action of the supreme court were received with special delight. The gathering was demonstratively enthusiastic. A times Mr. O'Brien was interruiptecPby applause and in deed the same manifestations of in dorsement of the sentiments uttered were frequent through all of ihe speech - mak i n gr. A. T. Ankeny's introduction as a man who could talk on the political situa tion in Minnesota, was the sigrn for a renewal of the applause which con tinued to break out as the speaker re viewed the history of politics in this state and gave some figures in comment on the "normal Republican majority of 60,000 in Minnesota, ac cording: to the claims of our Republi can friends." Mr. Ankeny was fol lowed with close attention as he quoted figures to support facts. JTDGE ANKEXY'S ADDRESS. TLong Continued Control by One Par ty Cannot bat Re Baneful. Judge Ankeny said: Mr. Chairman: When Minnesota entered the Union in ISSB. the Democratio party was in political control. Now, forty years after, when we consider the wisdom and the justice embodied by the framers in our state con stitution, we cannot but accord to them both statesmanship and patriotism of the very highest order. After a long and most patient acquaintance with its admirable provisions I hesitate not to say that no builders of a s i 'ate, in any age or clime, ever more cleariy defined the true powers of government, or more sacredly guarded the just rights of the people. To set in operation this magnificent construction was confided to a Democrat—, our first and only governor — the luster of whose fame shines only the brighter as the years roll by. The name of Gov. Henry H. Sibley stands, and probably forever will stand, tho proudest In Minnesota's history. The Civil war coming on, the Republican party, here as elsewhere, obtained control. That aEcendenoy, from one cause or another, by hook or by crook, sometimes In good re pcrt and more often in ill report, has been maintained down to the present hour. While every other state In the great Northwest has frequently eeen cnanges in political ad ministration, here we are mournfully led to cxcl?.im: "Such as creation's dawn beheld, Beholdest thou it now!" STRENGTH OP PARTITSS. The Republican majority for president In this stpte during this time shows an average of about 28,000. The average majority for govern or has been less than 10, COO. Indeed, in several instances It has been uncomfort ab:y low. In 18C9 It was only 1947; in 18"3 5.49fi; in 1888. 2.6C0; in 1892. 2.267. and in the last campaign, wh<=n the majority for presi dent was ever 60,000, that of the present gov ernor over John Lind was only 3.582. Once only, and in 1862, the combined Democrats and FopuMsts carried the legislature, and the candidates for the supreme court were elected by an average majority of about in COO The man. therefore, who complacently slum- I bers in the belief that Minnesota Is at all I times and undtr all circumstances surely Re publican, and that come what may the al .'led forces cannot win in a given contest stands a fair chance of being disappointed! To Democrats the results are and have been mptters of secondary importance. They have abiding faith in their cause and they know that sooner or later the triumph must come. "WHERE REPUBLICANS FAILED. The conviction is fast settling down in the minds of thoughtful citizens that we have not. In the past forty years of Republican i control, made the most of our wonderful j natural advantages. When our state came ! into the Union we were on the very con- I fines of civilization. Today we are prac- ' tl.ally midway in the onfment. Our p ;pu- I lation was then about ITO.fXO: now It is ten ! times that number. Our assessed valuation i of real and personal property is about Sf>oo,- j 000.000. Astonishing as are the-© figures nnd ! Indicative of enormous growth, I sti'l just as confidently declare that they are by no j means what thoy ought to be. tf. during all I this period, just and fair conditions ha<! at I all times prevailed, the growth, develop- J ment. and progress would have been very much greater. In considering our favorible location In the sisterhood of s'ate-s, old you ever observe upon the map that the ; grpat lakes of the North stretch half way across the continent as if for the sole pur- ' pose of connecting us with the (rr»et wa- ! t»T ways and markets of the world? We have an area of over 83,000 square roflfs I It is larger than al! of Now England, vrth I Maryland and Delaware added. It It n<-«rly as large as the two big states of Pennsyl vania and Ohio. It has ."O.fOO.COf) aorea of agricultural, timber and mineral 'and' sm ply inexhaustible In their weal'h. We en- ; joy a climate which bears nealth and vip-^r upon every breeze. With over 3 000 miles of constructed railway, and a people mad* up of every other's best, and ta.*.t unfrylng into a splendid race, our capabilities am in deed such as to mock all our past, achfeve mentF, and to invite us to a destiny beyond i all human computation. Looking, therefore, at such conditions In their true light, the convfetion is rot a forced one that the narty so long in po'Hlcal control ha 3 br-en simply playing with th= Development of our vast rpsouro.es. Our en ergies have been misdirected, snmvtims par alvz-vi. and nur resources have bo»n wasted Wealth, ambition, greed and power r<*'-« been allowed to dcminat«, and as a conse quence, while perhaps the fcrtunste md favored few have srtxrn. neh. of the great masses who die and delve it must be said they have not as a rule prospered Of the-e It may be truthfully said: "They lower buckets Into emnf.v wellg And grow old in drawing nothing up!" CONTINUED CONTROL BANEFUL. Mr. Chairman: In my opinion there is nothing so baneful for any people as a long continued political control. It must be so la the very nature of things. The very wat rs require change to prevent stagnation and pollution. Even the seasons come and go. and the stars do not always shine. The ever fatal, tendency is for the whe«'s of gave-n --ment to get into a "rut," and the longer they continue the more difficult is tha work of extrication. Changing th* figure, things simply "drift." If there be wronxs- 'hey are covered up; if complaints, they are rat ted down. And so the political "machine," greased by the lubrications of official fe-s like a modern Juggernaut, moves ruthl-s»'y on. crashing and. crushing everything that stands in its way. Meanwhile, tha great prostrate body of the people, like Bozarrls lies bleeding at every vein." REFORMS DEMANDED. It would be Impossible m a brief address to set forth all the evils which demand re form. They are specifically Be t out In our platform, and Include such matters as the following: The proper care of our nubile lands; the just and equal taxation of Dron erty; the establishment of fair rates of transportation and. storage; the rigid control or our fiduciary Institutions; the regulation of official fees; the preservation of an inde pendent judiciary, and a full recognition of the rights and Interests of the toilers and 1 THE ST. PAUL GLOBE THURSDAY AUGUST 25, 1898. producers. Over nnd above all these Is the riglii.rul demand for a wise, just and com petent administration of public .affairs. Let us consider for a moment the first o' these — the public land 3. Under the various land grants the railroads of the state claim to own about 20.0O),0iK) acres, or two-flfths of the entire area. At a valuation of $5 per acre this would reach the modest sum. of SIOO.COJ.OOO. At ?10 per acre it would be double that sum. Congress at one time donated to the state the swamp landa, about 5,000,000 acres. It did this en the theory that the stale would be induced to drain them and re claim them, and so g!ve them value. Be tween ISUI and ISSfi the various legislatures of the state practically gave them all away to railroad companies, thereby expressing lta conviction that the proper way to drain these lands was to build a railroad over them. A greater farce was never enacted. I desire to say that I am no enemy of railroads, and I do not share in that general and sometimes senseless denunciation of them. They are among the greatest civilizerß of the agel They open up our prairies, transport to mar ket the produce of the settler, and bring back to him from the merchant the comforts and luxuries of life. But when we consider the generous donations from the state, every consideration of justice and honor demands that at all time 3 and at all places they should deal fairly and equitably with all classes of our people. The rates should be just and reasonable, and based, as our supreme court lately he!d In the Steeoerson case, not upon the extravagant cost of construction, watered stocks or princely salaries to officials, but upon a fair income upon the reasonable cost of a reproduction of the plant. Thus based, tho long existing controversy will cease, and both the shipper and carrier may prosper. With a prudeiit but firm man like fiov. Lind nt tho helm all such difficulties would vanish like tho morning dew. THE SCHOOL LANDS. Look for a moment at the school lands. The donations by congress to the state for public schools were tha doublo sections 16 and 36, and amounting to 3.030.C00 acres. These should seasonably have produced a school fund of fully $00.000,000. About three fourths of these lands have been sold, and the sum received is abjut $12,0C0,i00. It may Ultimately reach $20,000,000. Some were ag ricultural, some timber and others mineral lands. The fact is well known that thou sands of acres of the finest timber lands havo been sold at a price far less than their value. In iua.uy cases depredations have beea committed by trespassers and settlements made at ridiculous figures. In 1884 the lands covering the now famous Mountain Iron mine were duly selected by the state for ti>a benefit of the school fund. Yet it afterwards appeared that they had been relinquished and had fallen Into private hands. The value of this mine, covering about 500 acres, is today fully $12,000,000, a sum equal to all the school lands, timber trespasses and what not re ceived during all these years from the sales of the bulk of this splendid donation. What ever may be the excuse tendered, the fact remains that this one act of carelessness, if It be no worse, has shamefully betrayed one of the most sacred trusts ever committed to mortal hands. SOME MORE OP IT. Again: The railroad companies to whom such grants were made always claimed and were accorded the privilege of making their own selections. They accordingly expended large sums of money la surveys and never failed to find the best land. In 1894, however, Mr. Biermann., the Democratic state auditor, conceived it to be his duly to make the selections. He did so, and tendered the deeds, but the companies stubbornly refused to ac cept them. Thus deeds for some 270,000 acres, like so many waifs, seem to belong to no body. Meanwhile the lands escape taxation, and the people make up the difference. Who will triumph remains to be seen. All are familiar wkh the late decision of the supreme court, by which the unused railroad lands are now to be placed on the tax lists. They involve larids worth $15.000,, 000 to $20,000,000. A triumph was here gamed, the value of which is inestimable to the peo ple and the state. It involves proper taxa tion, wlsa administration, independenca of the judiciary, and justice to all c.asses. Not the least of the benefits will be that these lands so long held out of market and out | of taxation, may possibly in the near fu ture become smiling farms. Another evidence of mismanagement Is af forded in the mineral lands. Under present regulations any one may now lease 160 acres for one year for the purpose of prospect ing, and thereafter may take a contract for fifty years on a royalty of 25 cents per ton. This is practically a sale, and a private sale at that, which is forbidden by 'the con stitution. Man>-*_ abuses were formerly committed by taking a first year's lease and then, under the pretense of prospecting, the timber was taken off. There can be lit tle question that the state has in one way or another lost vast sums. The iron region of Minnesota is concededly the richest on the glabe, and it is of the utmost importance that lands still unsold or unleased Ehould be sacredly preserved so that the last dollar of their real value may be obtained; that the private miners and settlers shall be pro tected in their Just rights, and that fair rates of transportation shall be accorded to all for the marketing of their ores. It is only by such means that the state can at tain its proper and full development. PEOPLE ACCOMPLISH MUCH. Notwithstanding the fact 'that the state during all this time has been under Republi can control, the people have not been wholly silent and inactive. They have made them selves heard In more ways than one. The agitations at the fireside and on the hustings ! have seen their good effects in the passage , of better laws and often in the reinstatement of better methods. It is to such efforts that we have now better protection for the fruits of labor in the lien laws. The labor bureau, if properly conducted, would be of great help to the cause of the worklngmen. We no longer see the odious Plnkerton de tective axnone us enforcing unjust demands by dubious methods. The law against the intimidation of voters and the Australian bal lot makes at die polls the weak as powerful as the strong. Arbitration largely takes the place of the bludgeon, and at the time when the streets of Chicago ran with blood in a strike over Pullman care the difficulties here between the Greoi' Northern and the employes were ad . Justed easily and honorably. The board of I railroad and warehouse commissioners is a i step in the right direction, not only for J transportation, but for storage and inspec tion. All that is yet needed is that !t be wholly independent and thait the greed of the buyer may no longer by false measures [or grades wrong the producer. We no long er have special legislation, but the princl ; pie of direct legislation begins to operate ! as it has in the matter of taxing the unused j lands. A comfortable home now makes cheer ; ful the declining years of the old ve'eran ! The children of the 6.0C0 and over school ; districts of the state now have, or may have ' free text books and all the necessary sup- I plies for their education. Each and all of these grand instrumentalities and improve * mentß, and many more, have come to the peo : pie, no: by the trace of the party in power but often in defiance of it. They came as. Magna Charta came, as the bill of rights came— at the demand of an aroused and earnest people. RIPE FOR SUCCESS. The political conditions in this state wer« , never more hopeful for success. When tha ; war with a foreign power was going on all questions? of a national character, and which had heretofore divided the great political par ; ties, were by common consent for the time allowed to remain gilent. That war is prac tically over, and the great principle has been established not only for ourselves, but for j the world that no nation may longer oppress , another, even though it be its own colony. I »c now enter upon a new era, and eu tn j larged commerce will take to the remotest : p , art f ?* th * earch the enlarged produces of : the field and the loom. The world will grow more in a year than in a decade before Do these crowning and matchless glories belonjr to a party? * In God's name, I protest against the in famous assumption. They belong to all par- ' ; ties, ay, they are the common heritage of the race. In time like this therefore, when the ! p<x>ple of a state come to the selection of their officers for a proper administration of public affairs, the man who would ignore the evils under which we have so long suf- ! Eered, and seek to wrest from us and rp- ' { propnate to himself thes« common >nnors ! i and world wide in their influence and extent ; ' suould be promptly silenced as a brawler end disturber of the peace. Our noble leader, John Lind, though Mill absent in the military service of his country j , is with us by the inspiration of his great ' , name and his devotion to the cause of hu- I ; rr.anity. That c«m« alone is a tower of ' strength and Is a household word in every ; Minnesota home. His nomination was neitV^ ' w Jf, ÜBht P Q I enforce^- but it came as the I blessing of heaven comes, gracious,, soon- I uneous, and all-abounding He Is not ' j flighty, impetuous or headlong, but Is calm I ! prudent and deliberative. He is not meddle' ' some, subservient or litigious, but he la i courteous, manly, and tolerant. He never shirked a duiy nor betrayed a, trust. He ! never had a "policy," but his highest aim ' i has ever been to learn the wishes of tho ' i people and then bravely carry th<Mn out i Every interest however small, every Interest ' however large, would receive patient consld- ' eration at his hands. He Is emphatically a ' man of the people, a.nd every act at his "lira attests it. No man of his age in. all this broad land exhibits in his career so many of tile sterling qualities of head and heart of that greatest of all Americans— Abraham I in coin. You tell me the people of his state do not so .appreciate the man? I point you to his phenomenal run two years ago when the I heart of the country was rent with excite I ment, and when aggregations of wealth and ' power unexampled in the history of dollUpt i were hurlod against the sacred cause of the people. I deem it an auspicious omen that tiie able and dlstlnguish-ed leader who then led our hosts' site face- to face tonight with a few of: the true and tried supporters that made his work, a victory even in defeat You tell me. again, that the politic*! machine has not been destroyed, and I answer, true, but it is badly dilapidated and its operation i 3 now entrusted only to other but newer and more inexperienced hands. The old prac titioners who once made it a terror and a power now look smilingly on, awaiting with eouiT&sure the discomfiture of the pretenders. To my friends of the allied forces I need only cay: The day of our redemption is at hand! All that ia needed is heroic determi nation, sublime courage, and an honest de. votion to the Interests of the people. Then el.'all our noMe state stand proudly forth, and, gathering, up . the work of those who laid the foundations in the beginning, it will ba truly "redeemed, regenerated and disen thralled." "THE JUDICIARY." Patrick Fltzpatrick, of Winona, re sponded to the toast "The Judiciary." He spoke of the necessity of preserving the judiciary from the trammels of partisanship. Mr. Fitapatrick is one of the most prominent men of the First district ; was the nwninee for congress. He is happily witty and Mr. O'Brien in introducing 1 Mm referred to the remark of the Minneapolis Journal to the ef fect that he was the homeliest man in the First district, to which Mr. Fitz patri'ck replied by saying he was will ing to abide by the result of the vote of the homely men. In responding to the introduction last nlgTit, Mr. Fitz patrick said: Mr. Tcastmaster, in that campaign I was beaten by a majority of 10,000— which go«s to show that I was wrong, and there are more handsome men in the First than in any other dU'triet in the state. He referred to tho judiciary as the bulwarks of the liber ties of the people and eulogized the supreme bench of the state, and continued: Wlwn two years ago the Chicago platform criticised the exercise of the power of the courts and demanded its restriction, the Re publican press of this country went wild with Indignation over the assault on these un crownt d kings of the bench, yet a few weeks ago the Republican party of this state de nounced the idea of a continuance of the great members of the supreme bench in this state. They would place in the seats of a Mitchel!, a Canty and a Buck, a machine politician. This party, which is drunk with the drunkenness of power, which is wild with the rage for more power, and which is tottering to its ruin under the influence of a manifest destiny and a more manifest bar rel (laughter and ap-p:aus«), this party seeks to set aside a pure judiciary and to set about the rights they have taken from the people an extension of that Chinese wall they raised up and last labeled Dingleyism. The Republican party has destroyed the commerce of the country, the speaker said, in conclusion, and it now became the duty of the people to see to it that the judiciary was preserved from the threatened attack. Mr. Fitz patrick evoked lons continued ap plause by the fire an-d vigor of his remarks, which had the added merit of being very brief. J. L. Townley was introduced as tho most modest Democrat in the state of Minnesota. He besought him to speak up, and, as Mr. Townley is famed for a voice that has the quality of the clarion. "OCR BANK EXAMINER." Jolin i.. Townley Snya Bank Deposl tortt Know What He Hasn't Done. Mr. Townley said: This state baa no "bank examiner!" Section 410 of the General Statues of 160 i provides for a "public examiner," a» fol lows : "That a competent person, a skillful ac countant, shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the consent of tha senate, to examine state, county, city and all public and quasi-public institutions." Section 413 -gives this "public examiner" full power to visit, without prior notice, and fully examine into the ass2t3 *<nd business conduct of all banking institutions of the state. The law presumes that all public officers perform their respective duties! We all know that no such public duty has been performed in this state; and, therefore, we have the right to presume that we nave neither a public examiner nor a bank ex aminer. History and experience alike prove this to be true. We have an incumbent in the office behind a door that is marked "public ex aminer." What he has done, I cannot tell you. What he has not done, the sad bank de positors of St. Paul can tell you. This incumbent is a Republican functioo ary, and was created and appointed by a Republican governor and audited, examined, passed upon and confirmed by a Republican state Benate, and, hence, must be the very essence of real, actual, genuine Republican ism. As such essence, he has cost the state and its good people many millions of dollars by his failure to close up insolvent building societies and backs. Can the grand old party pc4nt with pride to thia dereliction of performance of duty? Observe the elephant's trunk hung lv shame! Personally of said incumbent I know naught, I do not know him. He is surround ed and clothed with the presumption o£ in nocence. So are all persons under trial on indictment! He has never been irdlcted yet, that I con learn. It would not avail if he were, for the amount is very large. I visited his office once, having given prior notice with others to inform him that a I building society, conducted by Republican I officers, now all Republican officeholders, was robbing the poor, and to obtain his aid for the people who were thus being plundered; and he actually "dozed off into a slumber." I withdrew, knowing him to be a quiet, j peaceful and inoffensive gentleman. Years afterward, that building society assigned— and as there ware no assets to pay the ex penses — a receiver was appointed. Again I assert, that this function of our state government is genuine Republicanism of the confidence sort. Kir.d of a go.d standard stuff, wherein its salary is the only product yielded. Seriously, gentlemen, our state was very wise in the statutory croation of th's office; its mission was and is to protect t'ae inno cent depositor, but under the present ex isting gold standard, where there is not sufficient volume of money to supply the needs of the people, we need a more active and competent performance of duty to main tain the rights of the citizens in this partic ular office and function. We have suffered much, and long, and patiently. You now ask me for tha remedy for this failure of pubMc duty. I i«k yon from Minneapolis, can the magnetic and eloquent Republican candidate of your city, Mr. E!ust!s, help us out, and if he ran will he do i»? You do not answer. What shall be done In this dire extremity? Let me in form you. Herald the great public and private Virtues and powers of Honest John Lind to the voters of this great state, and call them to your as sistance, and soon after Jan. 1 3899 the honest people will storm the capito! building in this city, and with one loud and long com mand, we will break in on the office of this somnambulist and ask him to go hence to | private life; and then we will show ail men I the difference between an honest perform anco of rubHc duty, and a Republican con fidence inefficiency. C. W. Stanton, of Appleton, respond \ ed to the toast, "Democracy, the Guar dian of the Farmers and Workshops." MR. STAXTON'S ADDRESS. Democracy, the Guardian of the Karma mid Workshops. Mr. Stanton said: Mr. Toastmaster and Fellow Democrats: Having been invited to make brief response : to a toast this evening, I am grateful to the commlttoe in charge for having considerately assigned to me a subject that is in itself an ■■ argument for, and a tribute to. Democracy '■ That Democracy is the "guardian of the farms and the workshops" is a proposition so : elementary and axiomatic that to submit argument in its support is wholly super fluous. Its verification is found on every page of the history of this grand country from the time of Thomas Jefferson down to the present day. And it is because this is , I true that we who are assembled here to nig-ht are Dpmdfratss*. \ The great interest of this great country ! the producing cftuce of all its property is found on the fife-ms" and In the workshops H<?Te all wealth'? originates, here are the peo ple upon whomi: nur national progress, pros perity and hepfilness depend, and here are found the interests upon which the griNit Democratic party has always lavished its careful attention and" bestowed its protecting i gi:ardiansihip. Those who daily follow the i injunction "in the tweat of thy face shalt I thou eat bread"<!are Wow, as they ever have I been, the bulwark j of law and order— the- i source of our nation's gre&tnees In time of peace, and its surest defenders in time of war. j 4 • A*nd it is a Satlstaition for me to know ; that the party V.-hicMi 'has always seemed to me to be the n«rests right has never ceaepd ' to admonish*. tl*» people that all shall stand equal before the law and that there shall be no discriminations in making, conetrueing- , or enforcing the law. A government so administered Is the guardian and bost friend of the farmers and ' workingnien. for their interests require no • special legislative favors; they need and ask. only fair play and equal rights and such has ' ever been accorded to them by the Demo cratic party; And so it Is to the Democratic party that the people have learned to turn for nid' and sympathy in time of trouble, for strength to resist encroachmpcifs upon their rights, for support and encouragement in the ad vocacy of just demand*— for a medium through which the common people may speak and be certain to be heard. No greater evidence of the truth that the Democratic party is the party— the agent or the farmers and the workingmen— the masses— ever was or ever can be given than was furnished- at Chicago in 1596 when, c".ad in the armor of a righteous cause — a cause as holy as the cause of liberty— the Demo cratic representatives of the people declared i r . l J lßln S words that this grand nation Biiouia no longer bow at the shrine of Mam mon; when It was proven that the principles V?' >n o w n; eh democracy resta ttre as everlast ,\ g ,i . the hlllß - and that t Q ey must be ap plied to new conditions as they arise. I can see one great reason why Democracy has never fulled <o be the guardian of th« farms and the workshops. It Is a reason that stands out pre-eminently and conspicuously above ail ot the many others. It Is that Democrats have the courage of their eonvio tions. They are never guilty of that most culpable of all inconsistencies— the lneonsist ency between a man's conviction and hla vote; between his conscience and his con duct. No Democrat caji be charged with an inconsistency like that. Constant loyalty to Democratic principles under the repeated discouragements of a minority vcte is, I take It, sufficient proof of this statement. Cherishing the virtues and the principles of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jaclison, inspired by the zeal and faithfulness of Wil liam J. Bryan and our distinguished guest, i-t 8 T manfu "y discharge all the duties wnicn Democracy imposes and earnestly carry on the work of human liberty and hu man happiness. Auspicious omens cheer us. uroat examples are before U3. Let us cher ish those hopes which belong to us; let ua devote ourselves to the great objects of our I arty and cur country; let us raise our con tortions to the magnitude and the importance of th« duties that devolve upon us; let our comprehensions be as broad as tho party for which wo act, our aspirations as high as its certain destiny, and imbued with the patriot ism and loyalty which is our heritage. Let us malre Minnesota one of the strong est and brightest links In that Democratic chain which is destined, I fond'.y believe, to soon unito all national effort In the inter ests of the farms and the workshops of our great republic. (Applause.) In Introducing James Gray, of Min neapolis, Mr. O'Brien begged the in dulgence of the company, if he should happen to say anything derogatory of St. Paul, for Mr. Gray would have to speak within limitations, for he was going to be the next mayor of Minne apolis. Mr. Gray was received with a warmth that demonstrated his popu larity, and he was particularly happy in his local illusions, putting himself on good terms with the St. Paulites -"by saying that, if the kick applied to "William Henry Eustis at the time of the census trouble in St. Paul and which overcame his Inertia and carried him sixteen feet should be applied again, and this time send him sixteen milea. POUTICS AND RK.FORM. James Gray Tells Why the One Is a» Practical aa the Other. Mr. Gray said: I might with propriety demand a division of th!a question. I know of nothing in th» law of banquets to compel a man to discuss two such divergent, almost belligerent, topics on one supper — politics on the one hand and reform on the other; politics before taking and reform after taking; politics in Minne apolis, reform in St. Paul. The purification of our politics la not nec essarily an Iridescent dream. The nation has broken the nightmare that held it to thi» repugnant idea. It is still weak, It Is cov ered with a cold chill, but it is awake. Po litical reform and reform politics, onoe two distinct, almost antagonistic branches of ef fort, have so far coalesced as to run a paral lel course. The man who now tries to re form our politicians Is alive to the fact that he must also give the politician pure material on which to work. The_ reformer who haa heretofore exhausted himself Inveighing against corrupt bodies of voters is no longer above learning the causes of their condition. We havo certainly made progress in locating the disease. We know that it breeda in c-ur large cities, that it spreads to the smaller ones, that it exists sporadically even in tha rural districts. Its germs have been seen, recognized, even at times touched by the grand jury. The father of all the bacilli is indeed the corrupt use of money in elections. Whether it is offered directly to an alderman or a member of congress or expend' d by a so-called committee to overwhelm the ver dict of the people, it is the death-dealing infection that pervades our whole political system. Our crude sense of Justice applies to the highwayman the rlgt>ra of the law; twenty years for twenty dollars (formerly he was hung). But for the knaves who ur.d«r the name of a campaign by corruption sap the independence, honor, nay, even the rea son ot our voters we reserve places at the council board; we feast them and toast them and make them tin gods in Minnesota — in Ohio only United States senators. The problem of pure politics la not an easy one to solve. It would b« simple to j say: "There is no need to use money in elections. The state prints the ballots; let the people vote for whom they choose." This Arcadian measure, however, would have but one effect. The people, not be'ng periodi cally stirred, would not respond to their duty. Only a minority would attend the elections, and the base element would control the ballot. Organization of the volunteer sort appears to be necessary. It remains for the law to establish the line of demarca tion between legitimate effort, which makes for the good of the community, and sordid treachery to the interests of the people. Legal attempts to stop corruption in elec tions result too often in compelling the bribers merely to change their has?. In this state it would seem as if th;-y had no diffi culty in Uefping a lap ahead of the law. Perhaps, as the Ir'shman remarked on an other occasion. "That was the intlntion." The Minnesota corrupt practices act does not measure up in any manner to the hoy's de scription of the horse^— it has not four leg*, neither has it one on each corner, nfither has it any corner. And yet America has made progress. We have succeeded fairly well in pro'ectfng the ballot. But, while we have safely guarded the ballot box, we have left thp primary, the key to the whole position, pra-tl'-aUy '-ri watched. The kind of legislation we have had In Minnesota on the prmary is just the kind of legislation w«? should expect fiom a dominant party. A "dominant" party s one usually more interested in pollinations than elections. It experts that any old tiling labeled Republican will puil through at the I polls. And we cannot dispute the propostfon —they have proved it on us too otten. But, While the dominant party Is Interest d in nominations, it is not nrcrssarily interested in good nominations. To show you that this is true I need only mention the fa-t that every man who voted fcf our prfs^nt caucus law thought he had it fixed so thit it woild allow him to be returned. Mo:-,t of th-m were returned. Those wno were n't wera certain that the state was being '.-ulncd by reform. Minnesota can £tand a erocd deal of that sort of ruin. If we can get .v'uson legislature there !g hope of accomplishing something for caucus reform, but If we wait for the dominant party to act we shall probably have to wait until all the "leaders" who have been promised promotion Wider the present system have passed out of sent. In that < j vent we shall very !ik"=l>r send, like Macbeth when the defendants of Ban quo file in procession across the stag", and exclaim with him: "What, will the line stretch out till the crack of doom?" Party lines, whrre they traverse thp real necessities of the people, are distinctly weaker today than they have ever b°en. Nearly all the practical movements for je form in city and state government have received their impetus from mm who l.ivke party lines In order to gain the'r ends. The lessonwre may gather from the facts !s that ■ parties are but limited trustees of the ;iow e r3 | 1 of the people. They do not own anything; j their powers are those of an agent held to | ; strict, accountability. When thry s^ek to set 1 up ownership, to exercise proprietary lights, | to acquire the fee in the ballet, they are apt to make Fad discoveries a? to the flcV.enesi of estimated majorities. Polit'cs and refoFjtt are thus brought closer together, for fh» party man fa not slow to eomp-o'iei-d Out his party rmist" be the agent of some iefl;ii-e movement In favor of the people cr !t will soon cease to be a party at all. He 1 arr.g this not from the hack whose voice and vote are always to be had, but from ill" "in dependent" who is ever on the dividing line, and who, without prejudice, !s cb'a to estimate for himself the good and e\ il Influences In all parties. It is this c'ass of vnfprs, quiet men who neither d-sire nor are fitted for leadership, men who^e rna<n desire is good government— from these lead ers, if they nre wise, learn that ■.vforna is just as practical as polit:c3. The programme for the speech-mak ing was changed by Toas'tmaKter O'Brien, who said he would take the liberty of making a substitute for the address cnlled for from Senator Jonos, and proposed the toast "The Health of William J. Bryan," and would »3k Ken. James K. Jones to respond. Un der tihe stimulus of the toast and the personality of the distinguished guest the assemblage went wild. As Senator Jo-nes arose the company arose with him a»d greeted him with deafening applause. The guests waved napkns ar.d shouted their approval of the man and the toast. Senator Jones spoke earnestly and went into the broad field of political economy and spoke broadly on a wide topic. His presence is im pressive, and his eminence in the party made hi« hearers listen with the knowl edge that the speaker would probably go Into the field of politics so deeply , Field, Schlick & Co. Lowest Prices on Record. Four lots of Ladies' Imported Underwear have just been receiv ed. We got them at a price which enables us to give them to our customers for MUCH LESS THAN COST OF IMPORTATION. It's high grade Underwear imported for the best retail trade in New York. Full assortments for Thursday. Ladies' Imported Swiss Ribbed Lisle and Cotton f\ P* Vests, cost $6.00 a dozen to import, lowest retail price Mrlf* 75 cents. Sale price A*LfV Ladies' Imported Swiss Ribbed Vests, high neck, n ffc short sleeves, coat $0.00 to import, lowest retail price 75 i \d\C cents. Sale price JLfW Ladies' Imported Swiss Ribbed Vests, high neck, P" g\ long- sleeves, cost 57.50 a dozen to import, lowest retail rfclir 1 price 85c. Sale price only Ul/V BEST OF ALL. Ladies' Imported Union Suits, black only high neck with long- or short sleeves or low neck; the nf| importing- price is iiO.OO a dozen, lowest retail value $1 |4Kf Our sale price only JLrVrV New Dress Goods. New Dress Goods in colors and black are shown in generous abundance. Among- the medium priced qualities these are partic ularly good values: NEW FANCY SUITINGS, 50c. 46-1 i. MOHAIR DIAGONALS, 75c 46-in. GRANITE SUITINGS, 85c. 50-in, PEBBLE CLOTHS, $1.00. SPECIAL BLACKS. — 15 pieces Fancy Armures and Jac quards, regular 75c and 85c qual ities will be sold today, Js^]|^% one day only, for DUG NEW SILKS.— Four cases of New Silks were unpacked yes terday. Lining Leaders. These prices on best Linings will make Dress Goods buying easy. The very best genuine French J A _ Haircloth, black and gray, all llf fl you want today for IvU Fine Silk-finished Rustle Taf- f teta, black only; full yard wide, ffl Thursday only | y Our very best 15c Silesias, if% in all colors, will be sold today I II A for lUU PIEL.D, SCHLICK & Co. that his remarks might be take as Indi cating the feeling of the National Dem ocratic commdttee on the actual UhsucS. H« got to the meait of his remarks -with little Introduction, and before he hear ers could quite follow him he was In the midst of a disquisition on the money question. His viewa were ex posed on a large scale, and he spoke with the fervor of a man knowing hia subject a.nd having It very close to hia heart. He waa interrupted by ap plause at times that was fervid and long-continued. His reference to the Spanish war and his declaration that the government was forced Into the war by the Democracy awoke the com psny to a great burst of enthusiasm, and his refutation of the Imputation of hia having been a colonel in the Civil war and his explanation that he j carried a musket was greeted with laughter. The senator spoke very rap- Idly for more than an hour. SENATOR JONES* SPEECH. He ftiscusMes Conditions Which Bring Prosperity to a Country. Mr. Chairman and Fellow Democrats: I am grateful to you for the cordial welcome that you have extended to me tonight, and for the counties of this occasion. I am aware it 18 not due me personally, but It come 3 from the fact that I have at this time the honor of being the chairman of the Demo cratic national committee, and have some thing ''o do with the management, control and direction of the Democratic effort in the coming camriftign. There have been from the beginning of this government two schools In politics. One haa believed in equal and exact justice to all and special privileges to none; the other has felt that special privilege should be ex tended to certain individuals and corpora tions, to certain favored men and organlza- ! tions; that certain men and organisations I shouM be the beneficiaries of th« law and | that such organizations should reap the re- ; ward of the labor of the toiling millions of j Continued <#v Fourth Faire. Adam Fetsch, Fifth and Robert. After dinner go to Adam Fetich's for you* cigar. ffn, AVlnlcw's Soothing Syr»ip Has been used for over flfty yean by million* of mothers for their children while teething. v»Jth I perfect sneccus. It soothes the child, softens tho i sums, aHays all pain ; cureg wind colic, and U the best remedy for Diarrhoea. Sold by Druicgiitg | In every part of the world. Be sore and ask for " Urn. Wlnslow'* Snothlnit Syrup," and fake no other kind. Twenty-flv> cents a bottto. . They Like the Eastern. The Normannies Singing Society likes tfre way the Eastern Ry. of Minnesota looks after the comfort of travelers. They will occupy a special car furnished by that line to take them to the head of the lakes on . Friday morning. A fine time Is expected, anfl many friends will accompany the popular singer?. On Thursday morning the Sioux I Falls and Fort. Dod^e singing societies wIM ' also travel via the Eastern Ry., thus ensur- I ing a comfortable run and quiok time to PulutlK \ Keep St P ( f&m In The /Lj V House. "Rock Spring"^ ft* Table Water /4 ife refreshing,, pure-, healthful, | ',1 j : inexpensive. The kinpr of bey- | 1 j erages. Ask your grocer for it, '' \ or order direct from *^© h JACOB RtES BOTTLING WORKS. Jle^ jfe> Sola Proprietors, \aC3P a^. Shakopee, - Minn. St. Paul Address. 40 W. Seventh St.. Tel. 1». The best Lining Cambric made f% in the United States.black and all #0 colors, Thursday— one day only. £m\i Muslin Underwear. Much of the new stock is now open. Well-made Underwear in handsome styles at lower prices than ever. NEW MUSLIN GOWNS, 750. NEW MUSLIN GOWNS, $1.00. NEW MUSLIN GOWNS, $1.25. UMBRELLA DRAWERS, 25c. UMBRELLA DRAWERS, 50c UMBRELLA DRAWERS, 75c. Cambric Utabrella Skirts, beauti fully trimmed, three different styles, formerly sold for $2.00, Jh i ff\ $2.25 and $2.50, will be \| hi I closed out at W I I V U Draperies. 100 pairs of Swiss Muslin Curtains, neatly made with 4-inch ruffle, full 3 yards long and 42 inches Af| wide. Thursday's great sale 11 11 ft price, only UUU 75 Rope Lambrequins, 19 strands of rope; 40 in. deep, for arches Aj pg\ and overdraperies. Price V| nil for Thursday only OIIUU 10 pieces Fish Net for Cur- 4ft tains, white or ecru, 28 inches I JO wide. Special Ifcll Edging to match, 5 inches wide, only 5 CENTS a yard. Railway Travel la Cheap Now Via Wis consin Central Line. _. Second Class. First Class. £ hea S° IS.OO Milwaukee 8 00 New York 1300 14 00 Philadelphia 13 00 WOO Baltimore 13.00 H.'OO Washington ....*. ...,13.00 14 00 Boston i 5.00 ifi.oo £' b " n 7 13.00 14.00 Buffalo 18.00 14.00 Syracuse 13. < X) 14 00 Toronto 13.00 14.00 Montreal 13.00 14.00 Ratea to other points In proportion. City Ticket Office, 373 Robert street, St. Paul. ' Eight Round Dollars To Chicago via th« new "Great Western Limited. Very low rates to Eastern point* via Chicago Great Western. Ticket office Robert and Fifth streets. ] The Popular f 1 Measured Telephone Service T *\ will oe introduced in St. Paul W 4on and after June lit, by the L j NORTHWESTERN [ J TELEPHONE t 4 EXCHANGE V 1 COMPANY — . > 1 which will enable k JEmMi foueiwitef <\ At Their Residence. • The Long Distance TelapPio/ia f < will bs furnished Residence L subscribers on four party, se- J < lective signal, metallic lines ► , within one mile of the Main or L Branch Offices of the Company T * at $30.00 per annum for 400 W 4 calls, and $4.00 for each addi- L ticnal 100 calls. $30 per annum T * permits the subscriber to talk W , from his residence 400 times L annually, and to talk to his res- T 4 idence an unlimited nnraberof r i times. L Telephone to No. 5, and a rep- T resentative of the Company F i will call and explain the new L system. This same class of service is 4 also offered to Business Sub- ► scribers at rates varying from f39. 00 per annum for 600 calls, r i to J63.00 per annum for 1,230 W 4 call9> ► ARTIST PHOTOGRAPHER, 101 K.IVI' KIXTiI STUKEf, Opp. Met. Oi.era Ilcue. Retouching for the trade. Kodaks, Camera* and Chemical*. Developing, finishing and en ]Rrv:iriir. I.iahtiiiir and Dark- Kootn instruction* Klveu free to those dealing with na. Tel. 1071. GRIGGS &CO.P 190-192 E. TbJrt SK, SL Paul L ROCERIEJ tupiiiy Hotels. Restaurants, Boarding Hnutet and all who buy in quJuatltjr.' Call *ad »e# what can be laved.