The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1886-10-20
A SAD APPAIR.
RepuAl1SssIn S;I 4; 59laEsI.sR ss;ss.., which
John. A. HntehInson On the
WaF.Patlhl

Hon. Jno. A, Hutchinson, leader
Of the forlorn Republican hope in
this Congressional district, spoke
10 q limited number Of his admir-.
ers in this city last Saturday night.
His coming had been widely ad-
yer.ised and I gigantic demonstra.
tion was expected, but great ex.
pectations are rarely ever fulfilled,
and Nj HuichinSon should not be
unduly depressed by the fact that
this meeting was the most complete
failure ever recorded In the cam.
paign annals ofthis city. S
Nj. Ha.chiasen ascended the
platform on the corner Of third
Avenue aud Ninth Street, upon
which a few weeks ago the mys-
teries Of che manufacture Of Indian
medicine were revealed and the
wild notes Of Indian song given to
the ambient air by'a gang Of pat.
ent medicine fellows, accompanied
by a detachment Of degenerate sb.
origines. Night after night dur.
ing a three weeks stay here the
medicine men drew crowds that
filled the vacant square and over.
flowed into the streets, buying In.
dian Katonka and Mustang Lini.
ment as fast as the medicine men
could hand 1t out.
When John Hutchinson mount.
ed the historic platform, which was
lighted by Eve oil lampS, two cam.
paign torches, the silver crescent
Of a new moon and the orators
speCtacles, he found his political
KatOnka was not as popular as the
Indian article, for he looked upon
a silent and sad assemblage Of, at
most, not more than two hundred
and City alleged souls. He turned
to look at the dignitaries upon the
platform and was by their funeral
gravity aud I.wish.T.was.o s.out.of.this
expression, reminded of that "party
in a psrlor, all silent and all dam.
ned"
1t may be safely asserted that
when he saw wha. a scrape he was
in be would have been willing To
have given ten dollars If be had
never been born. He saw that he
was in for IL, however, and cleared
the husks from his throat, button.
I'd up hlS ororeOat, aud said bis
say.
From the claims Of his Republi.
can friends that be was an orator
from away back and a holy terror,
those Of US who had never heard
Hutchinson we're expecting to hear
an intelligen. discussion Of the is.
sues and slever yituperation Of
things Democratic; but in both Of
these expectations we we're disap.
pointed. The principal part of bis
speech was devoted to tariff, and
upon this question be reached the
climax Of absurdity, He attempt.
ed to Justify tariff upon arguments
peculiarly his own, which be sought
to bolster up with evidence and
statistics manufactured out Of
hand. It was not TO be expected
that even an intelligent man could
justify the robbery Of the go called
protective tariff, but Il was less I'd
be expected tina. a candidate for
congress should know so little about
political economy as TO say:
with one hand We keep the
goods Of foreign manufacturers out
Of our market, and with the other
We offer for sale in foreign markets
goods Of our own manufacture"
Just how American mauufact.
urers, who have to be protected
against foreign competition, are
able TO undersell foreign manufact.
urers In their own markets Mr..
Hutchinson did not explain. All
his remarks on the tariff we're as
absurd as this.
The rest Of his speech was de.
voted to misrepressnIing Mr.. Hogg,
telling old stories, denouncing
Cleveland's administration without
giving any specific reason for it,
and the Olsomargarine bill. He
failed 10 color bis speech with any
Of the lurid flights in which be Of
yore handed his enemies over 10
death and damnation, but was as
mild as the Rev. HopleY Porter.
During the speech the "CrOwd''
grew smaller BY degrees and beau.i.
fully less, not q hundred people re.
naming until the winding up.
Not one honest round Of applause
greeted the orator, At various al.
legged points, a few ardent Repub.
licans tried to whOop, but their
feeble clamor only served TO make