The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-09
A NIGHT OF ORATORY
Three Splendid Speakers on
Political Issues.
HON. GEO. TURNER. or SPOKANE
Greas Gathering Last Night 20 Listen 70
Judge Turner, Hon. W. ii. Doe.
little and Capt MeCanerty.

Seattle opera house last night was well
attended. They listened care fully to the
speeches and manifested much enthusiasm
ut the telling paints made. John Arthur
called the meeting to order and announced
the following officers:
Chairman, George b. Adair; secretay, F. B.
Wrestling: vice presidents. A. p. Burweii, U. K
Mess, w. T. Fitzgerald, r. Toklss, J. b. Mac
DougalI, Mortimer O'Connor. W. II. Humphrey.
II. e. stumer, l. A. Treen, Patrick Kirk, 6. A.
Lafayette, =. A. Pontius, W. II. Bogardus, N.
J. Mooney. Thomas Fleming. A. G. Austin.
Harold Preston, w. D. Wood, N. j..
Ssgis, ". b. Robertson, c. l. Webb, o.
J.. Carr, Howard Lewis, Emil Anderson,
Robert Marshall, E. Kelley, Thomas Corbett
X. b. Ossrand, A. A. Garner, T. G. Seufelder,
David Petre, George W. Buiiene, l. g. Willard,
Conrad Brehm, August Meihorn. W. s. Burdets,
George Barry, John & Mccormick, B. Oxendine.
7. r. Dyer, Dr.. @. II. RandeIl, d. A. Spencer, }.
~ Hilton, w. II. Cowie, John c. Koher, Otto
Hartung, }. A. johnson. w. D. Hooker, W. ID.
Eddie. J. E. Hawkins, Ralph Simon. Moses
Korn. G. w. Yancey, Amasa Miller, d. b. Phe-
Ian, Fred W. Dickfnan, }. J. McGiivra.
Mr.. Adair introduced as the first speaker
Capt. John MeCafferty. His argument
was almost entirely made up of an appeal
to the Irish-American voters to vote the
Republican ticket and not, by aiding the
Democracy and free trade, to reduce the
United States to the rank of British prov
inces." He said that the English had
foisted free trade on Ireland, France, Bel
GUM and Germany. but that the awaken
ing sense of those people had repudiated
1t and that prosperity had been the result.
All questions, he declared, must yield TO
the tariff, since it means existence. The
silver question, one term for the presi-
dent, reforms and changes were all local
and would settle themselves. But the
tariff was vital and necessary to our indie
pendence and was tho question OF the
hour. mo Irishman." he declared,
could consistently vote the English free
trade ticket. For thirty years, he de-
clared, he had been fighting the fight Of
humanity in many lands, yet today he
knew his worst enemies were Irishmen.
As to the parties, he knew them both, and
gave hfs word that the Republic
can party was the party for Irishmen.
He had talked with Sheridan, Sherman
and Blaine and canvasscd with Harrison,
and was in a position to say, to give his
word for it. Egan's appointment by Mr..
Blaine, he said, was intended as a slap to
England. He quoted some statistics on
W6EE2 III tuG huokTaidu ColOIiit9 anu,
though they were lower than i'm the United
States, were 40 to so per cent. higher than
In England. To the women in the audi
ence. he said. he particularly addressed
himself in the statement that 10000 of
their sex died yearly on the streets of Lon
don, q result he declared to be due to En-
glands commercial policy. The most re-
markable of Mr.. McCafferty's statements
was in relation to trade and labor organi-
xstions. Upon the honesty and capacity
Of these men, he said. depended the solu-
ton Of the relations of capital and labor,
whether arbitration or blood should be the
arhitrament. The leaders in Australia
had not been honest and capable and
labor in Australia had been reduced nearly
to tho level of England. "You can do what
you wish through labor organizations,
shape laws and dictate your own prosper
ity. For my part am in favor of per-
uniting no man to cast o vote who is not q
member of some recognized labor organi-
cation: and in ten years from the time that
IL accomplished You will have settled the
labor question, and to you as laboring men
/ say the Republican party is your party"
Hon. George Turner, of Spokane. was
the next speaker. He paid glowing
tribute to the Sound country and declared
that all it owed but its brains and pluck
was due to TIE fiscal and commercial
policy of the Republican party. Iron,
coal. fisheries. lumber. all the character
istic industries of the Sound were depend
ent on protection, bound up in the success
of the Republican party. Mr.. Turner then
went into an exhaustive review of the
history of the Republican party Lead
ing no 20 its monied policy after the
clese of the war and the question of I'M
limited greenbacks. From this he
braached into an argument against the
free coinage of silver, declaring that the
greenback craze and the silver question
were on a par with each other Forty
eight millions were now bought by the
government under the act of 1890. ..If all
the silver OF American production used in
the arts were coined beside it would add
to the stock of coinage an amount equal to
b cents per head of the people. But why
discuss this question: Surprising the
widest present demands OF fiat and cor
rupt or debssed money were granted,
would 1t be any easier TO get for those who
do not now have ite Would you not then
IS now have 70 give some vaiue, some work.
something of equal value for it?"
On the question OF the tariff and the
Democracy's stand Mr.. Turner declared
that the Calhoun notification scheme, the
rebel constitution and the present Demo-
cratic platform were identical. The
speaker then touched on the Southern
question and the disfranchisemcni of the
colored men. The condition. political and
civil. OF these citizens, was practically no
hat ae thar, En~sny E, 1s 81
that the colored men had been technically
freed and actually re-enslavcd. Speaking
Go the third party people and their claims
of oppression, he asked whether thew
knew that /, o00. eco American citizens were
DISTINGUISHED in the Soush2 Was IL not a
nearer, more sacred duty to them 90 aid in
rendering vital, truthful and forcetul,
every declaration OF the United States con-
stitation guaranteeing equal rights TO all
citixensg The Peoples party were an.
faithful 90 this great duty in saying, as they
did in their platform. that bayonets cannot
uphold this government bus that il must
rest in the love and affection of the pso-
pie. and in their other proposition that
the Australian ballot was the cure for the
great crime OF acknowledgements. "Wlu
the Australian ballot cure the mursierous
night riders and ballot box~stufiers of the
SOUTH Aud II il does, vii. the gang that
control these state governments consent 10
its adoptionr" The Australian ballot is
In force in Asksnsss; 5o,oo men were dis
franchisei there the last election. The
state of Alabama q, its last election, he
was informed aud believed. had gone a.
oco Republican: yet the returns showed a
Democratic majority OF io.oca Cleveland
bad said in his acceptance tina. the Repub-
liean party desired the ''force bill" because