The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-10-28
DRIVEN TO DESPERATION.

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Most Desperate Campaign Methods Ever
Before Known in Ohio Politics.
The dirty scandal against the private
character of John Mcbride, in the Mis-
wander libel at Columbus, met with an
early and miserable failure. Foraker
and his convict companions have dis
gusted the decent people of both parties,
with skinning affidavits, and horrible
penitentiary sensations manufactured
for campaign purposes. 1t would be
supposed after two such signal failures
to make political capital by d~isreputable
means, that the Republican mud-sling-
ers would take some lessons on decency,
but it seems they have nothing else 10
run the campaign with. Lately they sent
one of their most notorious assistants,
Gessner, of the Cincinnati Times Star,
to Chicago, to hatch up a story that
John Mcbride sold out the miners dur
ing their strike in 1884. Gessner pre-
tends to have obtained his information
from Pinkerton's detectives. The story
occupies three columns of the Times
Star and is composed principally of in
situations. but Mr.. McBride's name is
SO i%ngeniously mixed in with detective
talk, and the speculations of the writer,
as to lead the reader, who can believe
any thing this correspondent may write,
to suppose that Mcbride was bribed to
settle the strike f%avorably to the oper-
ators.
After writing two columns to prove
that there was bribery in the settlement
of the strike, Gessner says:
en- D;oha,+o. ao,ld 800 a1-..;.t- -
that any evidence had accumulated in his
agency against Mcbride. He had talked
the matter over with his men who had been
employed in the Hooking Valley, and remem-
bered hearing many of them say that several
prominent Knights of Labor agitators had
been bought of. He did not remember the
names, nor could he say that Mcbride was
one OF Them
1t is we'll known that John Mcbride,
at that time. as he is now, was the Pres
ident of the Miners Union, and if he
had had any negotiations whatever
upon any matter with the Pinkertons,
his name, above all others, would have
been marked and remembered. But
this shows the kind of grounds the
SANDER is based upon.
This re-lie-able correspondent, after
seeing two of Pinkerton's detectives,
either of whom would have willingly
sworn to anything he knew would have
injured John Mcbride, says that Nc
Bride was certainly bribed, but that he
was too sharp to be caught. Without
producing n single line or word of
evidence, this fellow then concludes:
John Mcbride seems to have resisted the
attempts of words at bribery, but McBride
is one of the leaders of the labor organiza-
ton. and he must have known how much
devilm mt was going on. Never before has
the inside history OF the strike been SO given
to the world as by the foregoing statements
of Pinkerton and Wood. There is no attempt
to make political capital out of it. It shows
the laboring classes of Ohio something about
them. Will they lend themselves to the
Democratic party by the support of a man
for the cause of the poor minersT'
This is of the most rascally and
dishonorable attempts to injure a man
that ever was made. The Republican
leaders who hired this man Gessner to
manufacture this story, expect that
there are miners in the Hooking Val
ley ignorant enough to take his vile in
situations for truth. And of course all
the Trips, Trays and Sweethearts of the
Republican press will repeat it, and try
to make their readers believe the in
famous lie.
The proof hat Governor Foraker
cares more for his party than he does
for the welfare of the State and its vayi-
Gus institutions is conclusive from bis
action toward the Xenia Soldiers and
Sailors Orphans Home. Fooled in his
attempt to reorganize the institution by
threats he has now dismissed trustee
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