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Amateur Contest for the Dcina9ovue'a
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Amateur Contest for the Dciuagoguc's
t Championship.
A fair sized crowd Of men. women and
children gathered last night in the empty LOT
opposite Squire schultze's office, In the
Eighth ward, where a speakers platform had
been erected, and orna,nen.el with two loco.
motive headlights. Only small proportion
Of the meeting wa, composed q voters, the
music furnished for the occasion BY the Opera
llouse band.
Mr.. Phil Dickson was made President OF
the meeting. and John 0. iendleton was The
first speaker. After the meeting was over u
reporter heard a well known citizen OF the
south End ask another which OF the speakers
made The best speech. "rendleton," hc re-.
sponded; and then In MI explanatory tone,
1T WIS shortest" To do MIR. Pendleion Jus.
tice, however, he did make the best speech;
Indeed hc was the only one OF the three ora.
tors who appealed In the slightest 10 bis
hearers reason, lie started ont on a very
good Democratic speech, but became so hoarse
that he was Obliged to quit soon. lie said
the tariff issue Was a man Of straw set up by
the Republicans for themselves 10 knock
down. lie attempted to show that the Dem.
ocracy haa adopted and io,tered tariff iegis.
lalion whenever In power. lie ridiculed the
idea that Gen. Gall from III agricultural com.
n,unity, could be a better friend OF pro-
tectiye tariiI ihnn Mr. Good, who was raised
right here In Wheeling" lie appealed to
the German voters Of Ohio county 10 vote
against Coil, because ut Wellsburg he had
spoken from platform OH which was dis.
played banner bearing the legend, ''Gotf
aud Temperance" Mr.. Pendleton possibly
does not know that that banner was dis.
played by a Democrat for Joke, and that
that Is why Gen. Golf jgnored,t.
Mr.. NJ. +. Fame was next introduced. lie
promptly distinguished himself by brilliant
efforts to win the championship, and had his
competitor been anybody but Mr.. Robinson
the contest must have been decided In his
favor. There was not an argument, not q
sentence addressed to the reason OF ihtelli.
gent men, from one end Of his talk to the
other. lie very frankly admitted that he did
not know how to interest city audience,
though out In tho country districts he
knew what they wanted. He commenced by
Inserting that the Republican party with Hub.
bell money had bought up aii the hacks in
the city, lie predicted that they would
need them, for they were going to have a
great biz funeral next week. lie said that
Doll was from, tho blue grass regions Of liar.
rison county, and out there the people were
out und out free traders. lie appealed 10
the Democrats To wait till they could hear
fromJ. Hanson Good on the subject, forgettul
that they Ind been waiting and ciamorlng to
hear from him Oh that very subject for 10
these many days. Col, he sale, was million.
Il Il
"oli Bill English" These defeated "Ol,l
Bill" and the speaker thought they would
d-feNt Goh. At Benwood twelve years age
tariff when asked TO by Il Wheeling work Ing,
freq trade, and likewise all the great papers
nj the North, including the Cincinnati Ton,
,Iercial.
Frame wont on TO soy that Il the Demo
cratic party had been In power the Ameri.
can citizens in Ireland would never have
been imprisoned. But his main point was
III appeal to the local pride Of his hearers to
elect Il Wheeling man To Congress. In liar.
rison county, where they have had the Con,
gresstian for twelve years, they ore organi.
zing home protection associations. md 'iu
the name OF God have we here In Wheeling
tie greatest city in the State. not pride
enough to vote for one OF our own boys?'
Another reason TINT Good should be elected
was that he had been slandered by the Re.
puhlicans.
John 8. Robinson was then introduced. lie
gave his audience free permission 70 applaud
all they wanted To, but they did not want to
a great deal. He said the Democrats would
bury the Republicans so deep beneath their
ballots that it would take Coil and all his
friends two year0 to even find out where
the Republican party IL at lie wished the
Republicans would put up somebody 10 beat
besides Coil; thoy were tired beating him.
He sud the Republicans boldly declare tia.
II they canlot win the district fairly they
will buy it. About the tariff be agreed thai
1t was an issue raised by the Republicans
themselves He did not like to talk on it
IIis heprers probably knew as much about il
as he did. liz might without doing any VIC
lence to trn tn have said more, IL told Il
story, though, which to his mind afforded a
metaphor tor the tariff. 1t was about a
skunk and an lrisEmAn. Tie latter was asku,
Il be proposel-i0 kill the former, and replied
that he did not-"let it alone and 1t will
stink itself to DEATH" So 1t WINS with the
tariff. Let it alone and It would stink itselI
TO death. Heuppealed to the workingmen to
"st'lE 10 their friend" and referred
TO tile fight about the establishment Of the
Board Of Public Works and AoafA Of Control
OF the Water Works to show that III. Good
was the friend Of the massest md opposed 10
DISTINGUISHING" them. lie again attempted
to create prejudice against Golf by saying
that he was rich, and wound up with a
sacrilegious story and a more protane appli-
cation.
IN the course Of his remarks Robinson
took OCCASION to nuke personal attack Oh
Nj. B. A. Gallgan.
Take the meeting as n whole, 1t was . tai|,
ure. Mr.. Fendleton showed signs OF making
some remarks worthy Of thought and atten-
ton, and had his severe hoarsencss not in.
,erfered no doubt would have done so. The
other two gentlemen would be profitable in.
yestments Tor the Republicans, could they
be induced TO 50 into intelligent coumuni
ties and make series Of Democratic
speeches. 49, -.,