The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1886-10-20
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Huntington Advertiser, October Q.
Hon. Jno. a, Hutchinson, leader
Of the forlorn Republican hope in
this Congressional district, spoke
TO q limited number Of his admir-
srs IN this city last Saturday night,
His coming had been widely I'D,
yer.ised and 4 gigantic demonstfa.
ton was expected, but great ex'
pec.ations are rarely ever fulfilled,
and Nj. Hulchipson should not be
unduly depressed by the fact that
this meeting was the most complete
failure ever recorded In the cam
paign annals Of this city. 81
Mr. Hutobinson ascended the
platform on the corner Of third
Avenue aud Ninth Street, upon
which a few weeks ago the mys.
teries Of the manufactured Indian
medicine were revealed and the
wild notes Of Indian song given to
the ambient air bya gang Of pat.
ent medicine fellows, accompanied
by a detachment Of degenerate alb.
origines. Night after night dur
ing a three weeks stay here the
medicine men drew crowds that
filled tho vacant square and over.
flowed into the streets, buying Ia.
dian Katonka aud Mustang Lini.
ment as fast as the medicine men
could hand II 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 and I.wish.I.wasou this
expression, reminded Of that "party
in a parlOr, all silent and all dam
ned"
1t may be safely asserted that
when be saw wha. a sCrape be was
in be would have been willing 10
have given ten dollars il be had
never been born. He saw that he
was in for II, however, and cleared
the husks from his throat, button.
I'd up his overcOat, and said hi
say.
From the claims Of his Republi.
can friends that he was an orator
from away back and holy terror,
those Of US who had never heard
Hutchinson we're expecting to hear
an intelligent discussion Of the is.
sues and slever vituperation 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 Wn,whiCh be sought
to bolster up with evidence aud
statistics manufactured out Of
hand. II was not to be expected
that even an intelligent man could
justify the robbery Of the so called
protective tariff, but IL was less ID
be expected that 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 manufact.
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 wi.hou.
giving any specific reason for it,
and the olsomargarine bill. He
failed to color bis speech with any
Of the lurid flights 10 which he Of
yore handed his enemies over to
death and damnatiOn, but was as
mild as The Rev. HOpley Porter.
During the speech the "Crowd"
grew smaller BY degrees and beauti.
fully less, not a hundred people re.