The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-10-06

Then the miner will get justice. l will
ask Mr.. Roy few questions. You say
there is no truth in my statement, and
that am lying for the benefit of Mr..
Warwick. You know / spoke the truth,
and that it is you that lies. Did not you
tell me at Columbus that If il had to be
a fight between you and John Mcbride,
that you would make it bitter one;
that you intended to defeat him this
fail, and the only way you could do it
was to attack Mr.. John g. War wick, and
you know it is one of the meanest and
contemplate ways to do 1t that IL mean
man would resort to; but it is of no
avail, for you are known too we'll. Since
you have made yourself so conspicuous in
the affair, you have made votes for
John g. Warwick and John Mcbride by
80 doing, to my knowledge. Your re-
taliatiOn will be returned twO-fOld.
Again you say that | am an inYeterate
Democratic politician. | do not deny
that am Democrat. But it would be
hard to tell what you are. You have
boxed the political compass, You was
Democrat under Gov. Aliens admins
tratIOn; back TO the Greenback party
with Hayes'5 administration, and now
what. are your tool of Charley Foster.
Shame on you, And, have some stabil-
ity about you. MHen you were in Mas
u
crat for information against me. Then
you went from him to a coal operator
for the same. You laid around for nearly
two days like dog, in the operators
Office, for you was told he was not my
friend, for you know some of the coal
operators have no great love for me, and
to them you went. Shame on you, Andy.
Then you went to Youngstown Hill and
prompted some of your tools to write a
letter against me. You know, Andy, that
| am better man than you are, or any OF
your tools. You know | have suf-
fered as much or more than any
miner in Ohio; but 1 never made
myself leech to draw the hearts blood
from my fellow men, as some l could
name, and never used my fellow men
as cats-paws to get to Office. You said
| was vtctimiZed at different places. |
know | was with vengeance. The last
time | was VictimiZed it was with one
of your educated bosses, that was so
ignorant that he ruined one of the best
mines in the State of Ohio and lost
thousands of tons of coal that could have
been worked. and he was one of the
d-s tyrants that ever lived. He swOre
that he would ruin me and my two SONS
but he has not done it yet. You said in
the Cleveland Herald that Mcbride hold
ing the position of President of the
State Miners Union he should not ac-
cept the nomination for Representative.
Your reason was because Mr.. John Syne
would not let his name be mentioned
for Congress. l wOuld not say anything
disrespectful of dead man. But there
is a vast difference between Mcbride
and Syne. Mr.. Mcbride is fully cOmpe-
tent for the position and am sorry to say
Mr.. Syne is not, and Mr.. Syne knows it
and would not let his name be mention
ed. /, sir, have some knowledge of the
capacity of the officers of that union,
and if any of them want to be placed i'll
like position, and | am digging coal, l
will have something to say ABOUT it.
But in conclusion let me say that Messrs.
Warwick and Mcbride are fully cOmpe-
tent to Gil any position within the gift
of the people, and bear in mind that
next Tuesday they will both be elected,
and have got it of late that independ-
ent of a few tools that you have, you do
not want to see miner raised In life
above the days labor in the union.
Your conduct towards Mcbride confirms
that. Yours, &C., ROBERT BELL.
MAssILLoN, October 9TH, 1883.