Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-09-22
JIMWoop.
The Irish "0rator" Speaks at Bsa-
wood.
FAIR AUDIENCE AND POOR SPEECH.
His Peculiar Way Of Putting Things.--
Judge West and Anthony
lally at Mingo Iunc-
tion,


BESwoop, W. Va, September 90
Exclusive. Mr.. Jim Woods who has
been heralded as the untutored Irish miner
from Indiana, spoke to fair audience hero
last evening, and of all the political har.
rangues, for we cannot dignity it BY call
it a speech, we have ever had the fortune
or misfortune to hear, this one contained
the most aagrant Misrepresentation not to
ssy deliberate ialsehoods He began BY
extending an invitation through the chair
man to any person in the audience who de-
sired to question him upon any point, and
he would
Ghesrfully Answer All Inquiries.
As to the truth Of this the sequel will show.
During the course Of his remarks he stated
that the Democratic platform contained
plank as follows:
I'VE demand tariff for revenue excla.
sively."
Whereupon gentleman in the audience
spoke to the speaker, asking il he might
ask question without being considered
impertinent to which he ssssnted. The
gentleman then asked him to prove the
assertion he had made BY reading the
Democratic platform. This he by his 81
lence refused 10 do, but continued on with
bis remarks He was again asked II the
Republican party was
Preserving the Dignity Of American Labor
by permitting the importation Of Hungari-
ans in the Hooking Valley, 10 take the
places Of the miners who had refused 10
submit to large reduction in their wages.
lie answered by denying what every man.
woman and child knows 10 be true who
reads, that Hungarians were taken there
and are there at the present time, guarded
by State militia. lie declared that the
Democrats were free traders, and their chief
sim and delight was 10 ruin the prosperity Of
the country. He claimed he had been
democrat, and had always permitted Dan
voorhees, and Tom Hendricks TO do his
reading and thinking for him, previous to
the year 1880. This We are inclined TO
think was the nearest approach 10 the truth
he uttered dunng his remarks. IL -
he said, these two men did his
reading and thinking for him previous
10 the year 1880, which, BY the way, was
the year Of Dorsey's advent In the State Of
Indiana, il is q fair inference that
Dorsey's ''soap'
has great deal to do with his reading and
thinking since that memorable year. His
charge that Gen. Bragg, in his speech in
the Chicago convention, had said, Let the
Irish 90 to HI" was in keeping with the
remainder of his talk. He also asserted ~
fact that the Democratic party OF New
York had never elected an Irishman TO any
office within their gift, although that ele'
ment constitute the bulk Of the Democratic
strength, an untruth which 10 10 Hagrsnt
that we need only refer TO it to show the
character Of his remarks. Taking Il oil In
all, il was the most incoherent jumble Of
words thrown together in mass without
referenee to grammar or any Of the osdi-
nary rules Of speech, that we have ever
heard.
In conclusion, we win state that the gen
tleman who asked him to read the platform
called upon him yesterday morning, aud
handing him q copy Of the Democratic
platform. demanded that he make his state
ment good or stand branded with having
wilfully misrepresented the fact. Aftes
reading it he declared, that while II did not
say it in 80 many words, nevertheless IL
meant it. A very inadequate loophoie.