The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-17
SENATOR HISCOCk
His Fine Meeting at the Terminal
Station Saturday Night.
A CONVINCING, ELOQUENT SPEECH.
Several Questions %PropOunded are
Answered Promptly and to the
Satisfaction of the Audience "a
CoIored Orator from Ohio also
Makes a Strong Argument for
Republican Principles.


The Hiscock meeting on Saturday
night in the Terminal railway square
was a great success and protectionists
were correspondingly happy. In the
first place the square itself is an ideal
spot for a public gathering. A neat
stand had been erected on the north
front of the railway station, neatly dec
Grated with the national colors and
brilliant with the light of many lamps
and a big headlight. The square was
packed with people-it could have been
said that it was black with people fit
had not been for the prevalence OF
the grandfather's hat. 1t was a'splen-
did night for an outdoor meeting, and
it is we'll that tho idea OF meeting in a
hall was abandoned, for no hall in
Wheeling would have held half the
crowd that Tor nearly three hours lis
tened to the speaking.
There was no effort to make a street
demonstration, but the Young Mems
Republican Escort Club, the Colored
Republican Club and the First Ward
Republican Club were out in force,
burning red fire and marching to the
music of Meyers band aud their own
drum corps. The streets were lined
with people, who interchanged hurrahs
tor Harrison and Cleveland in a good
natured way. Senator Hiscock ak
pressed himself delighted with the au-
dience, its number and its deep inter-
est, and the audience was noless pleased
with him. A couple OF Democratic
brethren, one of them in particular,
added much to the Zest OF the occasion
with Interruptions.
J.. X. Hall, chairman OF the county
committee, called the meeting to order
and proposed Charles Burdett Hart for
chairman. The chairman in q few
words which brought cheers from the
crowd introduced the Hon. Frank His
cock, senior United States senator from
New York. Senator Hiscock has been
speaking in Indiana and to large out
door audiences and feared that his over-
taxed voice might fail him; but the
further he went the better his voice
was. lie is a man OF size far beyond
the average, OF fine presence and pre-
possessing bearing. His style is colby
logical and a~rgumentative. He says
that he never cracked a joke on the
stump in his life, for public questions
do not impress him that way. Ii he
had hammered out a joke every second
he could not have held his hearers with
a tighter grip as he calmly set forth the
difference between the two great parties
on the questions OF protection to Amer
lean industries and Of an honest dollar
good everywhere. I.
TIME TO KEEP THEIR PLEDGE.
He said it was difficult to understand
how men could demand protection and
vote for free trade. He spoke OF West
Virginia delegations with others COM
ing 10 Washington and asking OF the
Republican senate what had been de-
MED them by the Democratic house,
some Of the visitors saying that they
had voted the Democratic ticket for the
last time. lie hoped they would now
redeem their promise and help TO
bring their state in line with the policy
in which they believe. Somebody
wanted to know what about Carnegie.
Senator Hiscock said he doubted not
that capital in this country may be
rapacious, but he wanted to know
whether American capital is more
grasping than the capital OF England,
Germany, France or any other country.
He wanted to know whether there was
less oppression oflabor in THE oldcountry
than here. He saidhe believed in organ
lied labor and organized capital, and he
asserted without fear OF contradiction
that labor in the United States is better
paid than in any other country on the
face OF the earth-twice as well paid Us
in the best paying countries in the old
world. It has been agreed by a commit
tee Of senators, Democrats and Republic
cans, that labor in this country receives
out OF every dollar at least forty-four
cents more than the best paid labor in
the old world receives, and this is an
enormous sum that goes straight into
the pockets of the workingmen OF this
country. It was not necessary for him
to attack or defend Mr.. Carnegie. He
dealt in the facts and they spoke for
themselves. Senator Hiscock discussed
the sugar question and dealt the Democ-
racy heavy blows on the proposition to
substitute state bank money for the
best money the world has seen, good
dollar for dollar wherever it goes. Z
SOME ENTERTAINING INTERRUPTIONS.