The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-09-28
Martins Ferry Letter.
MARTINS FERRY, A., Sept. 81

MARTINS FERRY, w. sept. -.
Editors lntellisenccr. D.,
The Hon. (?l NJ. A. Foran, who was
billed here as "Ohio's Greenback Cham.
piOn and WorkingmenA Fayorite," spoke
in Commercial Hall last evening. The
hall was not filled TO a perfect iullness,
and over one-third OF those present were
Republicans, who were anxious to hear
this great champion OF the workingmen,
for there are those here who are BY trade
coopers, and belonged TO the International
Union, Of which the Hon. Mr.. Foran was
at one time the respected President, aa
quite number here know TO their sor.
row. Mr.. ForAn ceased some time ago
TO act as President OF the COoper's Union
and report has it that since that time he
built one Of the finest houses on the West
Side, at Cleveland.
Mr.. Foran gavo expression TO his zeal
for the welfare Of the workingmen aud
made manifest his love for them by sur.
rendering hiS valuable lime in acting as
President OF the Coopers' Union for the
moderate sum Of one'hundred and twen.
ty.fve dollars month and an office su.
perbly fitted up, free Of rent, and every
possible contingency in theWay Of expense
paid out OF the funds Of the subordinate
Unions, aggregating the sell.Sacriicing
Foran sum Of over seven hundred dol.
lars per month.
III appears upon the statement OF one
OF the coopers and from the journal
published by the International Union,
that Foran, who had business in Colum.
bus, came here to settle difficulty, and
under datO,pf July %, 1878, in the i0urn.
al is Expenses OF executive 10 Martina
Ferry, and return 50 75." The Union
here paid his hotel expenses and his
fare TO Cleveland and have it in
black and white, and now some OF them
want to know why is this thus; and yel
all the time he Is the workingmens
favorite, their political and social idol
There are other little thing, in the re-
report alluded 10 above that look Just q
little queer to those who footed the bills
Mr.. Foran opened his address with al.
most classic elegance, saying that he
"kicked like a steer" when the Demo
cratic Central Committee proposed tc
send him down here 10 make speeches
But the questions at issue were OF such
momentOus Importance to his fellow
workingmen that he had to consent, al,
though he ielt he ought to be at home
earning bread for his family. (sic) Ills
theme was corruption, and he exhausted
his entire pot house vocabulary OF damns
hellIShs, Intervals, &c, and still in his
own estimate failed 10 do Justice to the
occasion. His harrangue, so far as 1t had
any influence at all, was simply calculat.
Ell to carry out the design Of ali such men
as Foran, viz: To array in hostile ranks
the workingman and the capitalist. This
he evidently considered his best holt here.
AT last no made center shot on Two
prominent Democrats, because they are
the only persons in town who Gli Ihe
measure OF his description; those who live
in fine houses, ridN In new carriages and
dress in purple and Rne linen every dny
There was at least one unaasy Dsmorrs =,
in the hall who filled the iii eyNcllv
Perhaps he got a new Idea and leSrnsj
that II was disgrace 10 be the owner n
surplus shekelJ. When as 10 taxes, Why
he outshines our own Rosie, ior he
demonstrated them we'll. Measured by
his logic and figures, many Of our poor
telt that they were thousands Of dollars
poorer than they were two days agone,
or before this philosopher had in their
very presence wruug from the mystic
AAbics the secret that the poor paid all
the taxes, though they owned not a dol.
lars worth OF real or personal property,
The panacea for all this was Demo.
cratic supremacy. Republican rule meant
bread riots, gaIling guns, war and blood.
A colorCd workingman summed up the
speech as the bluest Ot w0lered skim
milk, and sour at that
Mr. Ebb Martin while picking apples
fell from the tree, and striking upon his