Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-10-20
WEAVER'S TREACHERY.
WHAT THE lAB0RING MEN THINK
AB0UT 1T.
There Is Only One Great Question Before
the People,-"Shall This Country
Become q Monarchy, or
Shall Il Remain
Free2'
SOME VALUABLE LESSONS DRAWN
FROM THE LATE ELECTIONS.

PHILADELPHIA, October 16.-Jamef
Wright. leader OF the Labor
party in this city, and delegate to its
nominating Convention at Chicago, as
well as present member OF the Green
back State Committee, has followed the
example OF Messrs. Hughes and Devices,
and cut loose from General Weaver.
This action was brought about by the
result of the Indiapa election. In Mr..
Wright's tailor snop, On South Second
street, to-day, an informal delegation oil
lsboring men called on him to ascertain
his views on the Indiana result. 1t was
then and there ne made known his in
tention Of leaving Weaver, whom he
had previously supported with all his
might. -.
"Ii Weaver isn't paid by the Republi.
can party, he is doing terrible sight oil
work for them for nothing" he said.
There was big surprise in store for the
politicians in the prospective action oil
the Labor party in this city during the
next week. Weaver has all along
been advising. strsight-out ticket In
Indiana" he said. 1--WE now see. what
he means. The ticket has been 80
straiyht-out that there is nothing lett oil
il for the Greenbackers. The same
would have been the case in Maine II
Weayer's advice had been taken. The
difference was that the people oil Maine
were little too independent to be d.
rected bv Weaver. They knew their
business better than he did. BY not
needing his advice they got two mem.
bers of Congress and the Governor. If
the Indiana Greenbackers had done the
same, they would have sent their men
10 Congress instead OF losing every
t;reenback- Labor candidate in the cleo
tiOn.
There is going TO be mighty change
in things i'm the next two weeks. The
real struggle is just beginning. Weaver
need do no more, Tor he's done enough.
The laoorine people are not blind, nor
are they fools. They are not politl-
clans, nor Government paupers, always
CRYING out against change and doing
ali they can to keep in power the Old
CLIQUE of robbersand plunderers because
they happen TO get the crumbs that tall
from the thieves table. The laboring
man knows nothing OF political favor,
nor does he care to know. lie Is not
hungry after office, nor has he any axe
TO grind. When the axe grinding poll
tician goes about the country making
speeches aud telling the people why hls
party ought to continue in power, the
worEingmen simply look at his position
and ask themselves whether he lsspeak.
ing from disinterested standpoint, and
that settles it.
"The laboring man is not a political
pauper. Every cent he gets, every
piece Of bread he puts into his mouth,
he earns by hard work. There is moth
ing on God's eaith dearer TO him than
his independence. How long that can
continue under the present state OF
things. when we read OF employers and
CAPITALISTS using their position and their
influence and their money to force their
laborers TO vote 10 keep in power the
old set of riugsters. When we read OF
the means employed. the threats held
over their heads. and the warnings and
intimidatiOns, We wonder whether We
are any longer living in free country,
or country OF despotism. These are
the facts and they speak for themselves.
There il no getting around them. Poll.
ticiaps may talk about tariff and solid
South, and all that, they may throw
dust in the peoples eyes in thousand
different WAYS. They may talk around
the subject and try to lead the minds OF
the people off the real issue, but it will
do no good.
There is only one great question be-
fore the people: Shall the country be-
come a monarchy, or shall it remain
free? Republican papers may laugh
and ridicule. Republican politicians
may scott and jeer, but this does not
explain away or answer the facts. Ten
wears ago such thing "a dischargiug a
man on account OF his political views,or
Of coming INTO the workingmen's de-
partment, bullying them like cattle as |
have heard Republican foreman in
certain factory has done in this town
ten wears ago such thing was the ex-
ception; and if it had happened then, as
il did in this case. the workingmen
would have resented it right and left,
and it might have been policy for the
foreman to get out OF their way pretty
Quick. The coercion ot the working
men by their employers, not only In
this city, but elsewhere, are facts. The
proofs are at hand, and l defy anybody
TO deny it"
At SIR. Wrights house tonight a
meeting OF local leaders was held,and all
who apoke repudiated Weaver. while
there was a common understanding that
whatever Hopping" there was to be
done should be OF no benefit to the Re-
publican party. 1t is promised that
Hancock will get the great bulk OF the
Greenback vote in Pennsylvania.