Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
THE TARIFF TAKERS.
They Had Housewarming at No. 81
Sixth Avenue Last Night
THE TARIFF AND WEST VIRGINIA.
Hon. John Dalzell Would Use the Treasury
Surplus to Dam Rivers.
NEW CLUB HOUSE AND APPOINTMENTS

The Young Mems Republican Tariff Club
began housekeeping in its new quarters,
No. 81 Sixth avenue, last evening by giving
house-warming in the most approved
style and with all modern improvements, as
house agents say. Toerge's Orchestra and
the Apollo Quartet filed in the intervals
with music, and politicians ,cooed softly in
corners where they could hear themselves
think undisturbed by the crush that filed
the club house from cellar to garret.
AS the crowd gathered the first thing was
an inspection of the new quarters, and all
were found in such shape as the combined
efforts and genius by dozen different kinds
of mechanics could accomplish in six weeks.
The guests, under the guidance of Mr..
james Riddell, the owner of the club coon,
General Harrison" began with the base
ment, its large ice storeroom and commodi-
GUS kitchen, and from thence worked their
way up to the first floor, where the cafe and
dining room are.
REGARDLESS OF COST.
This room is gotten up regardless, etc.,
and Is not carpeted as most of the rooms are,
but an elegant hard wood floor serves a
much better purpose than would carpet.
The main parlor, second floor front, in its
rear the private parlor, for the use of the
Board of Directors; back of this the billiard
and poolroom, and still back, the bathroom,
are all equipped with taste and elegance
and with every appliance that modern de-
generacy makes necessary for comfort. No
less complete is the third floor suite, the
front being the library and reading room,
the next back being fitted up for games
such as chess, draughts, dominoes, etc., and
back of this are the assembly, hall and cloak
rooms, the former being capable of accommo-
dating 100 people, with little crowding.
Portraits of the favorite chiefs of the
party are hung on the walls Of nearly all
the rooms and suggestion of GOODNESS was
lent by the copious allotment of floral deco
ration. Not much of the night was wasted
in words, most of the speeches being short
and there was consequently plenty OF time
to devote to gustatory pleasures. To give
list of the guests would be to name over
about all the active Republican politicians
of the city, and some people who were not
politicians, and here and there Democrat
who might be supposed to- have come for the
purpose of inuring himself to hearing his
party lampooned, for though love feast
there was some rather strong language used
at times.
THE DEDICAToRY SPEECH
Was made BY Thomas M. Mcfarland, ESQ.,,
who rehearsed the history Of the club and
its work. In conclusion he read letters of
regret from President Harrison, General
Alger and Congressman Kea3 and then in
troduced Mr.. Cowden, Chairman of the Re
publican Executive Committee of West Vir-
ginia, who spoke briefly. He said the Dem
ocratic party of West Virginia was in the
throes of dissolution, and that its death
farki fha tot Gfof hot hos oolI
the elements of prosperity in abundance,
minerals. hard wood, good water and
the best of climates. But the rule
of the Bourbon Democracy has
asphyxiated all enterprise as far
it has been able. The speaker said Penn
sylvanians had done much to develop
West Virginia, and as rule they, no mat
ter what their politics may be, when they
arrive become working Republicans in q
short time. s'The situation makes them
such, as but few honest men can long live
there and remain Democrats.
In conclusion, the speaker told of the
West Virginia election last fall, and said it
wasn't over yet and wasn't likely to be for
four years to come. The Mills bill, he said,
would have killed industry in West Vir-
ginia which cannot live without protective
tariff.
P. s. Newmyer. Esq, of Connellsville,
spoke of political clubs and their work and
how it should be done to make Republican
ism success He would be willing to have
millionaires for members, but thought the
bone and sinew made the most effective
workers to be found.
DALZELL's WISDOM.
Hon. John Dalzell was called to discuss
the subject "Our City" He indicated how
much taffy might be INDUCED in regarding
the past of the city, but said the chief inter-
est centered in the present and future. She
stands at the head of manufacturing cities
in the United States, and chiefly because of
the fostering influence of protective policy
given by and maintained by the Republican
party. Leaving the city the speaker dis
coursed of the water ways, and said he would
urge and vote for the depletion of the sur
plus in freeing the Monongahela from toll
gates, .slackwater1ng the Ohio and Alle-
gheny rivers and connecting Pittsburg with
Lake Erie. He held tbss such work would
be worth more than dozen Nicaraugua ship
canals This, he held, was the most inn
portant question for the future. To estab-
lish this the perpetuity of the Republican
party is a necessity.
Shortly after 10 o'clock the speech max
ing was over, and the President announced
that the rest of the evening the assemblage
might feel itself at liberty to follow the
bent of its inclinations, and the odor of
sleeping coffee stealing up the stairway
seemed to be creating appetites.