The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-09-29
PERNICl0US IDEAS
poLDIY ApvANoED N PUBLIC
ny Men with More Cheek than Judgment
False Arguments, Supplemented by APP
PeaIs to PrsIudIces already Excited
Last Nights AIsetlnga Flz1le,

Several Jays since tue R0'ealleu lHDOr
organs Of this city announced for last ev'
enipg, labor mass meeting, to be held in
the Capitol rink, at the corner Of Market
AMI Sixteenth streets, and to be addressed
by Benjamin W. Goodhus State Lecturer
oil the K, Of l.. for the State Of Illinois, on
general labor topics. The Sunday issue Of
the Grispdnce announced that change OF
programme had been arranged, and that
Mr.. Goodhue would speak on the "strike
Of the Wheeling Printers and the Doings
OF Rat Printers Generally"
1t was given out that the Illinois orator
was on hia way to Richmond to attend
the meeting OF the National Assembly
and that he would speak in this city AZ
per announcement, and at Petersburg
and at some point on the line OF the b. q
0. In the interior Of the State,
There wsa o meeting held at the rink
last night, hut 1t was by no means q great
success On the contrary 1t waG about
the coolest, most dismal failure aud Z
macs meeting only in name, Mr.. Good
hue was not present and the crowd Wal
wolully small AMI undemonstratlve.
'''' A SCARCITY OF GAs-CoAL GAS,
The meeting was announced to be helt
at 1880 o'clock. Atthst hour there Wal
a crowd Of about fifty gathered about th'
corner, who for want Of something else t.
do loafed around waiting for the doors Il
open that they might find y retreat from
| the cold rain, At X, OF l., hall there wa
u goodly crowd attending meeting o
Prosperity Assembly. At last 1t wa
given out that something was wron!
with the gas meter, and that the populRCt
would have TO wait until that had beel
fixed aud a light obtained. At eigk.
o'clock the doors were opened Rn'
a few burners lighted, About one hun
bred and fifty people then sauntered Il
and seated themselves about the vas
place.
A glance around and q study Of thos
there showed that the better class G
workingmen, the ones who thlnk and &C
Tor thomsolYeB and arc not driven by
lot Of professional hAranguers, were mist
ing. They pro4itea by staying away On
not listening to the folly tina: wac eS
pounded. ..
Those who were there when the door
were opened had q drssry wait Of half a
hour before tho exercises opened. Dul
ing this time they were very well entel
tanned, better, in fact, than at any othe
time during tho evening, by the antics
y chubby, bare.iooted boy who oCCupie
the skating surface and raced and rompe
with himself to his hearts content.
was given out coon after the doors wer
opened that Goodhuo was not in the city
and that q local "love.feast" would b
held.
There were those who suggested that
ives never the intention to have Goodhu
here, and that he was advertised merel
to give the local lights chance to talk.
GooDuuE HAD REASONS.
II was about $3.50 o'clock when n nun
Dor Of members from Prosperity Assem-
bly, put in an appearance, and l.. H. Pa
telson, one Of the Registers strikers, pre-
pogod Michael Owens, a young glas
worker, as chairman. AT this time %
would have been q large estimate Of til
number present, and AZ no time was til
meeting any larger. Several looked i
out Of curiosity and then slipped out, a
Though ashamed Of themselves for eve
having looked in.
Chairman 0wens, in calling tho meetin
| to order, read q dispatch from Goodhu
10 JOIN EehmRnn, aent from Chicago
stating tina. he could not be present IN
that he had sent his reasons by lcttel
Mr.. Owens then stated that no propose
calling OH the speakers ho might notice il
the crowd, and Tor tho fret speaker name
| William s. Meek, ono Of the RepubliCaI
candidates for the House Of Delegate
from this county.
Meek was standing right at the platform
cooked aud primel for the event, aud a
once stepped to the front. He bad no
that easy assurance that usually chars Cter
izeB him; he Ialtered in bis speech re
peatedly, and seemed i'll at ease.
MR.. MEEK SURPRISED.
Ho said: My presence here is as much 0