The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-09-19
Nr. Campbell
1BB PORTED REJOlNDER
Of the President Of the Window
Glass Workers Association
II his Anonymous Assailants in
Democratic Organs.
Ills Principles Superior to His
Democratic Fealty.
A DEMOCRATIC BOOMERANG.
ropgrcssmcn Wilson, of West
Virginia, and Bynum,
of Indiana,
Said Fifteen Dollars n Month
HooJ IV,Dnc
4 DEMOCRATIC BOOMERANG.
Said Fifteen Dollars Il Month
are Good Wages,
And Mr.. Campbell is Prepared to
Swear They Said 1t.

wpIow Glass Workers Association,
Ia. written letter in reply to the ut
tack nude upon him which appeared in
The Pittsburgh Post, and was reproduced
IN the Wheeling Register yesterday.
The attack was in the shape of an inter
riav with an alleged member OF l.. A.
yo 3OD and was filed with what every
ore who knows Mr.. Campbell's past
record and his standing in labor circles
in Pittsburgh, knows to be gross mis-
rpresentations. In Mr.. CampbetPs
strong letter, produced below, he asserts
,bo, congressman Bynum and William
Wilson lour own Second district DEM
orntic Representative told him that
afa,,ndoRars month iras good Cdgcs."
The IyreLLlGExcRR hesitated to be-
lieyr that Mr.. Wilson, who poses as n
friend Of the labOring man, and who is
n.arlel as an intelligent man, should
declare that Fifteen dollars Il month
MA, seed wages" Thinking that per-
hans geographical error in the Pitts:
Iprb papers had placed Mr.. Campbell
in tRe light Of misrepresenting Mr. Will
son, the IyTEILIGENCER teIegraphed TO
him as follows: o.
"Are Won correctly reported in Pitts.
bnrI Times? Did Messrs. Bynum and
Wilson say fifteen dollars per month
was good wages, or did they say fifteen
dollars per week"
To this telegram, Mr.. Campbell immc'
diatcly replied Os follows:
prrrspuRdu, Pa, Sept. Is.
7oG, a1oiing Ia'cliccnctr:
Everything in the Times is true.
NIessrs, Bynum and Wilson said fifteen
dolarsa month was good wages. ] will
make affidavit to that effect.
JAMES CAMPBELL, President.
As Nlr. Campbell expresses his will
ingncss to make affidavit to his state
ment, there is no reason to doubt his
wonl.
The following is the article which APP
pearel in Yesterdays Pittsburgh Times,
including Mr.. Campbeifs letter in re-
ply to the attack referred to above:
President James Campbell, OF the
Window Glass Workers Association
and Master Workman OF L. A.
800, X. OF L., was very indignant
Yesterday at the anonymous interviews
the podhad publishedin the moreing re-
garling his reasons for defending him
sell and fellow workmen from the crush
ing disasters OF the Mills bill. He i'm
mediately wrote description OF his visit
10 Washington and to President Cleve-
land in behalf OF a tariff for window
glass aud took it to the Post to publish.
The authorities refused, whercupon he
Offered them regular advertising rates,
and was told that it would not be print
cd under any circumstances.
Following is the reply OF Mr.. Camp
bell to the structures OF the Post and its
anonymous glass workers:
PITTSBURGH, S. S., Sept II, 1888.
bhs Bhiorefhe Pittsburgh Times.
DEAR SR:-"In the issue OF the Posi-
Of this date there is an interview from
some one claiming to be a member OF l..
a. No, 800, and who asks the reporter to
withhold his name. The man who will
attack any ones action in the public
press and withhold his name, is Il base
ecoundrcI and unworthy the name OF
man, and is unfit to be member OF any
Organization. In so far us my record is
concerned us Il union workman, | never
did anything but what | would do again
under the same circumstances. Last
July the Wages Committee OF the or
glnizatiOn, composed OF six men from
New York State, six men from New
Jersey and six men from the West, com.
posed OF Democrats and Republicans,
metln Washington, D. c., for the pur.
pose OF appealing to the Democratic
members Of Congress to leave the tariff
on window glass remain us it was. The
committee got the cold shoulder from
al OF the Democratic members, and was
gwen to understand that the bill us
agreed upon by the Democratic caucus
would pass the House.
We then appealed to the Senate Fl.
nance Committee, which gave the full
committee hearing, which the Demo
cratic Ways and Means Committee had
refused 10 do. There was full and
complete statement furnished OF the
eject that reduction OF the tariff
would have on the wages of the window
gIaS workers; the Republican Commit.
!se assured the Wages Committee that
Ae @rli on window glass would not be
reduced. The Wages Committee theu
ueld Injecting and recommended to the
assembly, by II unanimous vote, that
me'e be u resolution drawn up and bl
voted on, that Local Union No. 300 sent
Uut orators TO speak in the interest O
Ito'ectlon. That resolution was sen
gul and voted on and was adopted by
tTstge majority, and the meeting, las
LHuly night, only carried out the in
SUUCtlonS OF the entire organization.
Now, the question Of my past acts ha
nothing to do with the question at issue
anu the trouble with the Post is that
AuoW too much about the Democrats
PA''y, and know what am talkin
SOout, and know just where the worker
interests lie, and l am not afraid to tel
Men SO. was raised a Democrat, IN,
NnIolKs are Democrats, but | am N
- aiulerlcan citizen and have the interes
VI VI my country at heart above any an
II political parties. have spent PAL
s' VI laree winters in Washington. / hay
seen and heard the Democratic member
SPEAK in Congress; and heard Mr.. Mill
ny ny thGt tariff in no way benefits lAbo
"neA represented his bill, which make
SIedGctlon OF so cents u box on windo
S.sS' he said that it was a moderate r
SCueuon. When the Ways and Near
committee refused TO hear me on IL
Juolect OF the tariff, the l.. A. 800 o
Ssted me TO lay our case before Presidel
cleveland, Ibid so; he assured me tn
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