New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-20
MEETING IN A SILK MILL
MR.. MILLER IN A TEMPLE OF INDUSTRY.


MR. MILLER IN A TEMPLE OF INDUSTRY.
URGING UPON THE VOTERS OF THE NORTH
THEIR DUTY IN BEHALF OF THE AMERI
CAN PRINCIPLE OF PRoTECTIoN-Hls
SPEECH AT wHITEHALL-ADDREsS
BY A PROTECTION DEMOCRAT.
COLONEL RUSSELL
fpY TELEGRAPH THE TRIBUNE.
whitehall N Y. Oct 1e-warncr Miller maoe
long Journey norihwsrd to-day from Newoure' III
tho lower Hudson River valley, 70 "mtcnsi' Oh
Lake Champlain. At Troy he was Io'neu py 'on''
A. Francis former Minister 70 Austria ana Johh A.
uuackenbush. OF schaghticoke' the hcpuoicah canu'
5sse for Congress in this district in which Troy ana
whitehall are both situated The conversation OF
he travellers was largely upon the threatened fraud
,lept voting BY the Democrats In tho city OF Troy
The cities of Albany, Troy and Cohoes, Situated Is
they are within few miles OF each DINER, arc SUD
icct yearly to a vast amount OF illegal Young al
the hands Of Democratic rcpeaters, who MAKE
circuit OF. those cities election day. AS Edward
Murrhy. IT, the chairman OF the Democratic state
Comuittee lives in Troy and runs his big ale brewery
there the Republicans expect desperate chort py
him upon election day to roll up big vote Tor Davia
B. Hill, the only Democratic candidate In whom ne
seams 10 have an interest. Mr. Miller said to Mr..
Francis and Mr. Qusckenbnsh that II Governor LIN
had signed the bills providing that all voters residing
in cities of above 10000 inhabitants should register
their names personally every year. as voters are
REQUIRED 10 do in New-York City, the public calamity
threatened would have been prevented Mr. FRANCIS
said:
al am glad to state that tho Republicans OF Troy
have taken energetic steps to prevent the consum-
rn.t,on NJ the threatened fraud. Those Democratic
ropesters usually vote upon the names OF deao
men, or OF men who have moved out OF Iioy'
We have been hard at work for three weeks 10 ais
cover the actual voters and have succeeded ia pei,
suading the boards Of registry TO strike OH inc ro'iS
the names of over 100 dead men or ABSENCES
Tic Democrats, of course, have fought us at every
sicp and we anticipate still more ferocious re-
sistance from them, proceed In our WORK
of yer fyjng the registration lists, but we shall Keep
at our task couraeconsly until election day.
Mr. Miller was met at the railroad station by ex-
Congressman Henry G. Burleigh, Railroad Commits
sioner Isaac V. Baker IT,, William H. Icit, inc
Republican candidate for the Assembly; eX-Assem-
blyman James II. Manvle and ether leading ke
pubIIcans This evening Republican mass'neeflng
was held In the hall of the Dale SILK MILL winch
viii scat 1000 persons. Although 1t was rainy
night every seat In this hall was taken ana nun
dreds of persons stood in the aises and listened 10
the speeches. Three thousand people were pres
ont Previous 10 the mass meeting the Republican
clubs of Whitehall Fort Ann, Rutland, Fair Haven,
Ticonderoga, Putnam and Dresden TO the NUMBER
of 500 men paradcd through the chief streets Oh the
village and then marched into the hall OF the SILK
mill The silk industry has only been enslaDlished
a wear I'm Whitehall and is looked upon with great
prsde by the inhabitants The attack made upon
the protective tariff by the Democratic party Is
therefore, deeply resented by the voters OF the VII
Iage, who see that the silk mill would be destroyed
II the duty OF silk were removed. When warner
Miller entered the hall he turned to an acquaintance
and said
"This Will be holding political meeting In very
temple of industry"
Henry G. Burleigh called the meeting 10 order.
and the popular Malone Gee Club delighted every
one by singing several songs. Mr. Burleigh then
spoke Of the protected industries of Tconderoga ana
Whitehall, and argued that their prosperity would
be endangered If the Democratic party was confin-
ued in control of the Government. in 1883, when
Il was proposed to reduce the duty iron ore,
Smith NJ Weed, the leading Democrat OF the Lake
Champlan region, went in alarm to Washington ana
besough Senator Miller TO defend the iron interest,
and the latter did and secured II from destruction
Colonel Solomon W. Russell, Of Salem, who was
recently the Democratic candidate for county clerk
in Washington County, was the next speaker He
said that he had idea Of leaving the Democratic
party until President Cleveland sent his free-trade
message to Congress. The Mills bill completed his
conversion TO the Republican party. AS Demo-
crst who believed in protection to American industry
he could no longer belong to the Democratic party
Mr. Miller was welcomed with tremendous enthusi-
asm. In opening his speech he said that he thought
A4N'>'
a meeting for the protection of the American tariff
than such building as the silk mill The building
itself was standing speech for the protective tariff
Was IT not better that the hundreds Of laborers OF
Whitehall and Paterson y. j., should be employed In
silk-urakng than that all silk should be made IN
France and American money be sent there TO pay
foreign workngmen? Change the law imposing
duty on foreign silk and This silk mill would not be
worth the snap Of finger Mr. Miller read pol-
ton Of Governor HIPS speech at Newark last night
In which Mr. Hin said that he favored free raw ma
terias. Mr.. Miller commenting upon this statement
said:
When Smith NJ. Weed comes here next week tc
make you Democratic speech, ask him II he Is IN
favor Of abolshing the duty on that law material iron
ore.
Mr.. Miller said that he not surprised 10 see
Protection Democrat like Colonel Russell upon the
same platform as himself because 1t was apparent
that the workngmen Of the North irrespective OF
tariff. Tho voters of the North must not only elect
Harrison President, but they must also elect
majority of the members Of the House OF Represent
atives New-York had always given It's voice fol
protection TO American industry, whenever that Issue
had been squarcly presented Governor Hin had sal6
ropeatedly that the Mills bill. If IT became law would
not reduce any mans wages would not the wages
of the lumbermen and Of the salt makers be reduced
II lumber and salt were put on the free hstl Coy
ernor Hnl had said that the protective tarff made
ali he believes that" said Mr.. Miller, "he Is ar
arrant coward for not proposing TO repeal the whole
tariff system, instead Of suggesting, as he says d
reduction of .only 8 per cent"
Mr. Miller then turned to state issues and advocated
the passage of high license law and bill to secure
purity Of elections
CYNTHIA AND BELvA TO MAKE BIG FIGHT
Mrs cynthia Leonard the latest competitor in the