Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-09-30
DENIED.
PRESIDENT CAMPBELL 'SSTAFEMENT
Denounced as q Bottomles False
hood.
CONGRESSMEN WILSON and BYNUM
Rsitsrats Their Denial Of the SIS 3 Month
Story.

Dsil, OI tno WlnQOW dlaSS HOrkerS' ASS0-
citation, made public charge that Repre-
sentatives Wilson, of West Virginia, and
Byuum, of Indiana, had told him that
"Sl5 month was good wages" for work
ingmsn. At that time the REGISTER de-
MED the statement, in behalf Of Mr.. Will
sor, and also published his card denouuc-
ing it as fslsehoOd. Campbsll replied.
reafirming his charge and making affidavit
thereto. The REGISTER Immediately
mailed bopies of the affidavit TO Messrs.
Wilson and Bynum, and has received the
following replies. The delay in their pub.
icstion is due to the fact that both gen
tlemen are serving the patty on the hust-
ings and considerable difficulty was ex-
perieueed in reaching them.
WASHINGTON, d. c., September 81.
To tie Editor Of TIE Register:
1 have Just read for the first time, in
the clipping you sent me, the affidavit of
James Campbell, as to an alleged convsr-
satiOn with Mr.. Bynum and myself, in the
wsys and Means Committee room, about
the 1st OF last March, in which he says:
''In talking of workingmen's wages"
(he is referring to glsssworksrs) II made
the statement that SIS a month
Was the rate of wages paid in Eu-
rops on certain work. Mr.. Bynum
and Wilson both spoke mp and
said that SIS month was good wages for
workingmeD. When asked how men
could raise family and educate their
children, they then said: II man had
his own home and garden patch il would
answer. They were then asked how .
workingmsn was going to get home and
patch OF ground working tor SIS. There
was more passed between as, but the
above is correct statement of the case re-
gardiug the SIS per month"
have distinct recollection of the con-
yersSLion between Mr.. Bynum and myself
and Mr.. Campbell, when he was intro.
duced to Us in the committee room last
spring, protesting to be representative of
=, glassW OTkers association who wished
to talk about the tariff on glass.
everyone else whom we supposed able 10
give us any information, to proceed, but
instead of attempting anything of that
kind he went of at once with some rather
ill-tempeIei and random assertions in ia
yor of protection, and threatened that the
working men would remember who were
their friends in this matter. After come
remarks of this kind. he said thatievery re-
duetion of the tariff on glass would reduce
i's price, and that would fall on labor
We contested this statement, telling him
that such re uction might diminish undue
profits, or impose on employers better
business methods and economies, but
would not affect the wages of labor, and
remarked, Take farm products as sn
example: the price of farm staples has
been declining for years, but the wages OF
the farm labOrer are about as good with
wheat at 80 cents as they were when 1t
was 81 so" He, at once, flew the agu-
ment and said that farm hands got SIS q
month, and asked how q man could live
on such wages. We told him he wss mis-
stating farm wages, that q farm hand, in
addition to his money wages, usually re-
cSlNcu ulS duu SbhCtiAuCo htio -
house and garden patch for his family. No
opinion was expressed or called for from
US as to the suficiency of these wages,
or any allusion made to SIS
q month except in the connection above
stated. 1 then then took down the Census
Report on Wages, by JOS. ID Weeks, with
whom he professed 10 he acquainted, and
sointsd out to him that our rates in the
propoeed Mills Bill not only covered all
possible difference between wages IN this
country and in Europe, but far more than
covered all the labor cost in glass produc-
ton, which silencsd him and he soon left
the room. His general talk and evident
psrtisapship impressed his interview more
strongly on my memory than any OF the
hundred / had while the tariff bill was be-
fore our Committee, and so convinced was
| that he eams neither to give or receive
information, and would prevert any con-
ysrsstion be might have with rs, that /
said very little and listened in silence to
him. But l WAS not prepared
for so shameless and baseless a
fslsehood as he has built up
on their interview, yet when one reads
cre IOrgeu eXtTdCbS lIOIu LuSiioh p'pSAo
sentiments falsely put into the mouth OF
the President, Mr.. Carlisle, Mr.. Mills and
other tariff IeGormers, he ought not to be
astonished at any mendscity in that l'ne.
Campbell has merely undertaken to do
for Mr.. Bynum and myself (also for Mr.,
Breckinridge, who authorizes me to say
that his statement as t) him is absolutely
false } what was done against Col. Morri-
son two years ago, but his invention Is so
little originsl and so inherently impossi-
BILE, that ne requires every man to believe
Mr.. Bynum and myself idiots before ne
can believe that either of rs ever made
such a statement to him as he claims.
reoeat as have heretofore said that It Is q
botto nless faltehood in every respect
VIM. l.. WILSON.
Mr.. Bynum telegrsphed his answer as
follows: 40
INDIANAPOLIS, September %.
To the Editor of the Wheeling Register
Have read Campbelps affidavit. He is
wilful liar and peIjurer. Will contradict
bis statements by affidavit.
W. d. BYNUM.