The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-14
ALL FOR HOME FIRST.
Slogan Of the Highland Repub-
lican Club.
THE ISSUE FOR KING COUNTY.
An Enthusiastic Meeting In the First
Ward-Ballard Republican Eally-
Ward Meetings Tonight.

The Highland Republican Club of the
Fifth and Sixth precincts of the First
ward held the most enthusiastic meeting
of the campaign last evening in the St.
Louis block, corner of South Eleventh
and Jackson streets. The room was we'll
nlied and the audience while onlv atten-
tive at first finally became enthusiastic,
and the meeting closed after a three hours
session amidst wild cheering. in which
members OF the Peoples party joined. W.
1. scott, president of the club, presided
and was also the closing speaker. The
speakers OF the evening were: H. l.. Sizer,
Frank q. Haddock, DR.. A. P. Mitten,
Sharies Weber ana the president. Will
White, candidate for representative, was
called upon, but declined owing to the late
ness of the hour.
IL IL. Sizetr, while a graceful speaker.
does not depend on imprisoned oratory
to move or convince his hearers. He talks
PLAIN facts in plain way, and backs his
statements with statistics and historical
references. He opened his speech with a
few remarks on the Washington canal
lie characterized it as a project which af-
fected the whole state, project which in
conformity with history in all places and
all times called on government aid. Turn
ing to the national issues, he said that as
result of his Investigations on the tin
question in Seattle he found that the price of
TIN had been materially reduced by the Nc
kinley bill. Where, before the bill went
into effect, box of tin cost Sc. p. now the
same amount could be purchased for s.. SIS.
Unexplained the Democratic trick whereby
tin peddlers were hired to go through the
country and scare the farmers by present.
ing their wares much advanced. Abstracts
rom papers throughout the country were
introduced to show that manufacturers
were putting more goods upon the
market and employing more men than
at any time before the Mckinley bill went
INTO effect, and wages were higher and
prices lower. He suggested that in place
Oh the Peoples party money plank that
government issue rubber stamps to indi-
v,dl'als who desired them, and allow them
as lndiyiduals to issue their own money at
Will. He simply suggested it, thinking it
as feasible and safe. In touching on the
tariff question he showed that a protec-
tive duty eventually lowers the price OF
goods to the consumer, instead OF raising
1t, as the Democrats and Populists con-
tend.
frank G. Haddock. the next speaker.
devoted the greater portion of his speech
to the tariff. He took as an example of
the benefits of protection the steel rail
business. which now was so important a
feature in the United States commercial
world, and explained how England put on
the price to the United States, and how
the Democrats howled when the Republi-
can party proposed \ tariff, on the prin-
cipie that steel could be produced at home.
He touched on the tin question and the
Telegraph editorials on the subject, when a
voice said: You mean the Tacoma
paper2"
The machinery is here, but the brains
are in Tacoma" was the speakers reply.
and the audience went wild with laughter
and applause.
Figures were presented showing that the
TN plate Industry was not only making
good progress in this country, nut was
making exceptional advancement and now
ten companies were producing His re-
marks on the relation of the tariff to the
iaboringmen were very effective
DIR. A. L. Mitten referred to the inioui-
tous warfare being made in other parts of
the state against Seattle and said if resi-
ueht oi Seattie TOOK part III such q course
he was not fit to live in the city.
That's so, that's So" came from the
crowd, and when the doctor finished his
plea for tho canal and pointed to the stand
Seattle would be taking by gong Demo-
cratic the cheering was prolonged and
cries OF Home first, politics next" were
heard on ali sides.
Charles Weber then took the floor and
declared that the workingman should see
In the coming election that his interest
lay in voting for those who stood opposed
to the Northern Pacific, a line of battle
which Seattle had always faced and found
Its influences now at every turn
w. L. Scott dwet ably on financial prob
lens. and declared that he did not want to
return to system where money had no
solid value and was at a discount from 2JS
to per cent. even in the states where is
sued. He closed by declaring that the
Republican party had given the United
States sound currency, and he saw no
good reason for tampering with it.