Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-18
Ex.Master Workman John COffey
Talks on the Issues of the
Present State Campaign.
HE SAYS THE TARIFF ISN'T In 1T.
Major Mckinley to Talk Tariff and Sena.
tor Emery to Give the Inside
History of \. Y.
PROMINENT POLITICIANS TO BE HERE.
soushsids Majority for the E1-eOvsrnOr Predicted By
an Alderman.

last night, which brought out the iulI
strength of the organization hereabout and
put sitting room in the hall on Smithfleld
street at a premium. 4 number of veterans
were present, including the Snowden town.
shin sage and Mr.. Reel, of Allegheny. A.
H. Rowand. ST., presided.
The first speaker. and the trump card of
the evening, was John Coffey. of Philadel-
phia, for four years Master Workman of
the Eastern District Green Bottle Blowers,
and q man of great earnestness of purpose.
Mr.. Coffey summed up the records of Messrs.
Pattison and Delamater, and found in the
former all that goes to make up the beau
ideal representative and head of 5,OOO,-
900 people, who have all the laws
that are needed, and more too, and
simply want man in the Executive
chair who has the honesty and courage
to see that those laws are faithfully
and honestly executed. He reviewed Mr..
Pattison's course as Controller of Philadel-
phia and rs Governor of the State, and
found in him man OF earnest, honest pur-
pose, with an eye single to the good of the
people, irrespective OF class. On the other
hand, Mr.. Coffey pictured the Republican
issue, so far as the Governorship is con-
cerned, as . mere whitewash of Senator
Quay. Delamater had been chosen as the
scapegoat who is to carry Quay's shortcom-
ings with him into the wilderness. Capital
istic greed is eating the States substance,
and corporations who wish to put them
selves above the law are Delamater's back
ers, and the only interests he represents,
aside from these, is NJ. S. Q.
NO TARIFF IN THIS CAMPAIGN.
In conclusion, Mr.. Coffey referred to the
Mckinley tariff, and held that it should
have no place in the issue. He also said
he had been placed on the manufacturers
black list because he had refused to sign a
petition for a powerful corporation unless
that corporation would 6isplace 700 boys
and give their places to 200 men who had
zoo wives to support, and several times 700
sons and daughters. These 200 men were
denied employment, and the places of self
respecting workmen given to cheap labor to
produce goods made high under a tariff
supposed to be in the interest of American
labor
W. j. Bremen spoke next. He said he
wanted it understood that he was not at all
modest or apologetic in his request to be
allowed to occupy "the seat at present dis
graced by Mr.. Dalzell," and that a man
who had acted as did the latter in the
Breckenridge case, acted the part of dis
honest man, and yet some people had the
effrontery to say that there were Democrats
in this district who would support him.
L., ToS ,,x.1 hot fhox-
think this Congressional district dishonest
enough to return Mr. Dalzell."
Mr.. Bremen said there had not in ten
wears been q man elected to Congress in this
district, except Hopkins, whose election had
not been secured by the bulldozing of men
in the mills, and yet Dalzell and his sup
porters had the efrontery to profess to be
shocked by election methods In the South.
He said it was an open boast that Mckinley
would be reelected by the shameless ex-
penditure of Doodle.
COMPLIMENTS TO AN OPPONENT.
In conclusion, said Mr.. Bremen: "You
want to elect me, for the next Congress Will
be Democratic, and Dalzell will be of less
use to you than tobacco sign. What has
Dalzell done except help to unseat men
whose titles to their seats were better than
his and to get the Government recruit
ing station on Penn avenue condemned,
in order that his property next door might
be enhanced in value? In the next Con-
gress he will be, if elected, relegated TO the
Committee on Alligators, so you see I'm the
man YOU want. The tariff is not in issue in
this State campaign. The Mckinley bill
has been passed, and the Democrats will
be unable to repeal it. unless 1t prove SO bad
for the interests OF the people as 10 rouse a
sentiment that will sweep it out OF exist
ence, This talk of Pattison refusing to par
don the miners sent 10 the workhouse is all
bosh. 1 was interested in that case. and
know that Pattison had no more power to
pardon them than had"
d. J. Mccarthy, who took prominent
part eight years ago, when Pattison was
running tor the same office, kept the crowd
in a roar for an hour, rs usual illustrating
his arguments by anecdotes. He gave an
extended dissertation on arboriculture, and
| told how one fruit might be made grow on
the stem of another. The possibilities are
almost infinite, but, said MIR. Mccarthy:
"You cannot get honest fruit by grating
George w. Delamater on NJ. S. Quay"
He concluded BY boosting Mr.. Bremen.
1t is said that Mr.. Coffey has been doing
some very effective work in this neighbor-
hood of late, and he was forced to leave the
meeting as soon as he concluded his speech
| in order to fill another appointment.