The daily gazette., 1880-10-27
FIRST EDITION.
HANCOCK.
The Great Soldier Statesman.
MEETING AT the LocAN
MOUSE.

The Democrats of the Seventh
waId held forth at the Logan House
Inc attendance was small owing
no doubt to the threa tening aspeci
OF the weather, in fact a short time
before = O'Clock it was decided to
Hall. W '"0 oi'y
The Blue Hens Chicken Club oI
tha Seventh ward, headed by the
Miiiap Military Band turned out
and marched parkway out 10 Rising
sun, and met the Victor DUPONT
| Club. The clubs did not remain AT
Fthe meeting, but gave a short street
Albert Constable, Esq. of Elkton,
was to have spoken, but owing to
sickness in his family he could not
pe present. The meeting was call
ed to order at 8I5 O'Clock by the
election of the following officers
| President-James w. Ware.
vlce-Presidents - Samuel G.,
Peirce, j. Parke P6stles. s. k7l.l4
Secretaries-James d. Canning
Frank L. Kane. q d.l..l / L4i l @ -
| After the organization of the meet
ing mad been completed, Mr.. Ware,
introduced William Dean, ESQ. of
Newark. Mr.. Dean spoke for about
an hour and half, and confined him.
sell mainly to the tariff question:
he said that he did not come to
make a speech as the time for that
had gone by with him bat he would
talk a little while with them. The
great cry at the present time is that
II Hancock Ii elected tho tariff will
De done away and the country ruin
ed. lie would more particularly call
the attention OF his auditor to the
tariff Of 1867 which was passed in
order to protect the wooden mills.
During 1867 the mills were kept busy
OWING no doubt to the fact that hun
dreds OF soldiers had returned home,
who were tired OF wearing the blue
aud desired to wear other material :.
Before the year was out things took
a downward turn, and kept on going
down until they finally closed, and
all this u4der the great tariff OF 1867.
The mill of which he is part own
er after having been idle six months
started up and was run for the bene-
ht Of the operators. They continued
to run for two years, al which time
they took account of stock, and found
they had as many yards of goods, as
many pounds of wool, as much ma
chinery, etc., butwhen they came to
figure up the dollars and cents col
umn, they found they were out $780,
900, So you see the tariff so much
spC ken OF did not protect us from
loss. He had his all invested in the
woolen business and he expected to
continue in it, no difference who was
elected. The people who tell you if
Hancock is elected, the mills will
stop, do not believe IL themselves, If
they did they would not put all the
money they have in manufactOr
The manufacturers profess to be the
workingman's friend. How have
they shown il ? What do they care
for youp Why two years ago there
were over million tramps in this
country and If the manufacturers
were such great friends to the work
ingman why did they not provide
employment for those tramps? Then
why did not the present tariff come
to your relief at that time. If high
tariff affected your wages why did 1t
not give you big wages from 1873 to
1876. Let us 60 to New England
the hot-bed of high tariff, and what
do we find there? We find the cor
porations there combining against
the laboring people for the purpose
of cutting down their wages. Why
there are plenty of working people
in the New England States who have
been reduced to the condition of the
pauper laborers of Europe. He had
read in the New York Ecoaon,ist
where corporation in New England
manufactured corsets. They en-
ployed about three hundred and
compelled them to purchase their
own cotton, and then paid them rs
cents per dozen for making the cor
sets, and there were five thousand
stitches in a corset.
l. IL was not necessary TO go so far as
| New England. He knew OF hands en-
ployed In the mines on Iron Hill, who
during the summer were paid only 90
cents a day, and In winter rs cents. 80
you see that the present high tariffs not
| giving you high wages, as is promised by
the manufacturers In speaking OF the
difference in wages in this country and
England, Mr.. Dean said that he had
son-in.law reasiding in Leeds, and when
he visited this coustry last summer and
inquired the rate Of wages paid here In
woollen mlllsa and when Informed, he sa.d
they were not more than 20 per cen
higher.
Mr. Dean closed his remarks by urging
upon his hearers to vote as they pleased
and not as their employers dictated. lie
considered that 1t was no business OF th'
employer how his employees voted 80 a
they performed their work faithfully
Harry Sharpley, Esq, followed Mr.
Dean, In carefully prepared speech II
which be reviewed. the tariff, fret
ships, Garfield's record, and closed Will
an eulogy on Hancock.
WILL MARCH TO POSITIONS.