Judge Tarvin given hearty welcome by flint glass workers in Muncie, IN

TARVIN

Given Hearty Welcome

By the Flint Glass Workers of

Muncie, Indiana.

To Whom He Talks on Big

National Questions.

Mayor Jones Finds the Gas Belt City

Unique in Some Respects —

Routine Action.

SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER

MUNCIE, IND., July 11. — The second day of the Flint glass workers convention was one characterized by the assembling of the hundreds of delegates and thousands of friends of Labor at Heekin Park. It was 3 o’clock before Judge Leffler called the meeting to order. After short addresses by Mayor Tuhey, Senator Ball, President Smith and others, Judge Tarvin of Covington, Ky., was introduced. He was accorded a hearty welcome when he arose to address the audience. After expressing the more than ordinary pleasure he felt in addressing an assemblage composed of union men striving for the betterment of labor, he said: “I have always stood for the laboring people, and it may not be inappropriate for me to state here one particular reason I have for approaching the workmen. Years ago for political reasons and as the result of conspiracy I was disbarred from practicing my profession. Things

LOOKED DARK FOR ME

And my family, but I stayed on and became a candidate for the office of the man who had by his word forbidden me to continue in my life's work. And I was elected by a majority, every vote of which was cast by men whose hands were hardened by toil. I am with the workingman all the time. It used to be said a few years ago, quite often, that the working man had no right to consider matters of the Government; that he did not possess the information sufficient to form correct conclusions on such matters. It was declared that it required an expert and a scholar to know and to judge of what was being done by the Government of this country. We know different now. The laboring people are the backbone of the nation. It was Samuel Adams, in revolutionary times, who said: “Truth loves an appeal to the common people,’ and if there is anything in our free government worthy of being preserved this must be true. There is not a single dollars worth of goods made nor any value created except by the manual labor of the common people. What is true in the industrial world holds everywhere. It was the common people who fought every battle of this country from Bunker Hill to Appomattox.

"If I were not afraid to introduce politics on such an occasion as this (‘Let her go, Judge!’) I might say that is all the Democratic Party and the Chicago platform mean."

CARLISLE’S MISTAKE

Judge Tarvin then expressed himself on the monetary question, making many derogatory remarks on his fellow-townsman, John G Carlisle. He showed how the war bonds had been bought at 50 cents on the dollar, and their purchasers had doubled their money in the transaction. He spoke at some length of the demonetization act of 1873, declaring that it was passed by a Congress and signed by a president who knew nothing of its import nor learned the scope of the legislation until 18 months afterward. Reverting to Mr. Carlisle's position on the monetary question, he quoted his vote in 1873 on the Bland-Allison act, and quoted the distinguished Kentuckian as declaring that the act of 1873 had brought more woe to this country than might be suffered by wars, pestilence and famine. By ardent manipulation, he said, of the currency and by control of the means of production, the people have been robbed of their own.

"We have had too much of John G. Carlisle, Henry Watterson and other leaders. Two per cent of the people now own three fourths of the property, and 23% of the people only possess one fourth of the wealth of this country and did all the work.

THE ONLY REMEDY.

"The remedy of the working people is to stand for themselves and to elect such representatives as will further their interests. The laborer must protect himself, and it is such organizations as the A. F. G. W. U. that are helping along the improvement that will reach its zenith in the years to come.” Then the unequal distribution of wealth was treated at length by Judge Tarvin. So were the trusts, which he characterized as the creatures of the protective tariff. He criticized importation. He said the common people did not realize their power, and did not fully recognize that government is a thing to drive and a thing to be driven by.

In continuing he again reverted to political questions, and declared that if the next Democratic National Convention should go back and forth on the Chicago platform of 1899 or hedge in the slightest degree on the necessary plank, he would walk out of that convention and would never support any candidate or candidates it might nominate.

ROUTINE WORK.

The Flint Glass Workers Convention settled down to routine work today. The Committee on Credentials reported, and one seat was contested. This controversy consumed the greatest portion of the day. Late in the afternoon president Smith began the work of appointing his trade committees. The delegates are devoting themselves strictly to business, but it is hard to obtain any sentiment upon the principal question. A vote for the amalgamation of the flints, the greens and prescription will be passed, but beyond this little can be told. To-night the delegates engaged in a trolley ride over the city. Judge Tarvin and Mayor Jones departed today, but the latter will return as he regards Muncie as an interesting study from a sociological standpoint, saying the city in some respects is unique among the industrial cities of the country.