Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-10-23
ASKING FOR THE VOTES.
DEMOCRATIC ORATORS AND CANDl-
DATES MAKE ADDRESSES.


Thursday Evenings Meeting a Success
and Several Fine Speeches Made for the
County Ticket-The Nominees Favor
ably Received by the Voters of Town.
The rally held by the Democrats on
Thursday evening brought together a
number of people at the opera house,
and the meeting was quite success.
Bernard Mclaughlin, of the county
committee, called the assemblage to
to order. John D. Hayes, Esq, was
chosen chairman; A. M. McNulty, secre-
tary, and the vice presidents were as
follows: D. j. Mccarthy, Sol. Baucher,
Charles Dusheck, Patrick Burke, Condy
O'Donnell, P. M. Boyle, John Wagner,
A. w. Washburn and Thos. A. Buckley.
The first speaker was Stanley w.
Davenport, candidate for register. He
made very pleasant address, and was
followed by Messrs. Ray, McGraw and
Ddllard, who spoke briefly and to the
point.
Hon. G. Ben johnson, of Wilkes
Barre, made stirring address in which
he refuted the assertions of the Repub-
licans in laying the cause of the present
industrial depression at the door of the
Democratic party. The causes of the
hard times" were traced to their source,
viz, to the high tariff, and are not due
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Upon the tariff question Mr.. johnson
. spoke plainly and forcibly, and his allu-
sions to rent, interest and wages, and
their connections, caught the audience
at once.
AS the speaker demolished one after
another of the supporting phrases of pro-
lection and drew nearer to the true
Democratic doctrine the free traders of
the audience gave him unstinted ap-
plause. 1t appeared, then, that he
thought he had gone too far and he came
back to the point of explaining that the
Democrats wanted a tariff for revenue
only and that such a tariff was necessary
to support the government. With that
declaration Mr.. johnson lost the sup
port of the greater part of the audience,
which was composed largely of the
friends of free trade.
Later on he gave very good descrip-
ton and illustration of the workings of
the Sherman silver law, how it operates
against the working classes and why it
should be repealed. Coming down to
local politics he showed the necessity of
full vote in off years in order to maintain
party organization and discipline, and his
tribute to the successful methods used
in this work by Tammany Hall was well
applauded.
P. A. O'Boyle, of Pittston, assistant
district attorney, followed with one of
the most eloquent speeches ever deliver
ed in Freeland. He held the audience
for almost an hour while he shattered
the idols and false gods to which the
Republicans would have American peo-
pie give worship. His sarcastic refer
ences to the statemenst that we should
thank Hon. William Mckinley and his
fellow-framers of class legislation, in
stead of Almighty God, for the blessings
and greatness of the United States, were
keen and cut deep. His likening of
Grover Cleveland to Jefferson and jack
son, in their sturdy and immovable de-
fense of the peoples rights, made the
building ring with applause. The
speech throughout was brilliant and well
delivered.
District Attorney Garman closed the
the meeting with half-dozen of his
humorous anecdotes. The st. Patrick's
cornet band rendered several selections
before and after the speaking.
Mr.. McGarry, candidate for treasurer,
was here during the afternoon, but was
called on business to Wilkes Barre and
was unable to remain for the meeting.