Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-20
APOSTATE BURTT.
CHAIRMAN lG0SHORN HANDLES OUR PEL-
Low -TOWNSMAN WITHOUT GLOVES.
he Suspicious Mr.. Burtt's Motives Expresses Sorrow
for His Political Suicide and Advises Him
10 Order His Political Coffin.

Special Ttleoram 10 ute Register.
CHARLESTON, September 19.-The fol,
lowing circular has been issed by Hon. j.
w. Goshorn, Chairman of the State Execu.
tive Committee of the Union Labor party
of West Virginia, in answer to j. II.
Burtt's declina'ion as candidate for Au-
ditor on the State ticket of the Union
Labor party:
J. II. Burt, Wheeling, Late Candidate for
Auditor on the Union Labor IScket:
Your letter of declination as candidate
for Auditor on the State ticket Of the Union
Labor party, together with an elaborate
apparent explanation for your apostacy,
has been reosivsd. 1t seems exceedingly
strange that You should adopt this course
at this late day, after having known the
position of all the parties for months.
You pretend that the tariff question re-.
duires such action on your part, and that
it ia the Governments duty to protect
the American people from foreign impor-
tstions.o Do you honestly believe that
the Republicans are honest in their adv0-
cacy of protection and the prevention of
foreign inportations? Then why do Re-
publican manufacturers import pauper
labor from Europe by the shipload to op.
press American labor? How is it that all
protected manufacturers become million
aires while their employees, except such as
are protected" by powerful labor OF.
gspjzstiop. receive no higher wages and
work no less hours than men employed in
other industriesp
You claim to he member of the Green
back Labor party. You are certainly very
poorly posted as to its principles if you
consider the tariff an issue. as compared
with the far more important questions Of
the abolition of usury, monopoly and
trusts. As q Greenbscker, you ought to
know that it is not foreign cheap labor,
hut foreign cheap money, that enables for
siyn manufacturers to compete with
American manufacturers.
l am really sorry for you. Sorry for the
ignorance you display, and sorry to see
you commit political suicide by joining
one of the old Doodle parties. They will
use You now, because Of the little notori-
ETY. you succeeded in obtaining as mem
ber of our party, but after election, when
they know that you have no longer any
influence among the labor element be-
cause you betrayed their interests to
a party of monopoly, they will cast
You aside like squeezed lemon,
and as far as the Union Labor party is
concerned, its members will certainly have
nothing more to do with you, on account
of your desertion to tho ensmy. The
deadest men, politically, are the Green
back traitors. Look at the fate Of all
those men who betrayed the reform move
ment az You did. Think OF Moses W.
Field, Solon Chase, Brick Pomeroy, and
the other Greenback renegades. There are
aone 80 poor as to do them reverence.
You have Joined the army of backsliders.
d. not fatter yourself, that it will make
6 particle of difference TO the great move
mept for industrial emancipation, whether
YOU strike your colors and desert to the
enemy or not. Revolutions never go
hackuard," and other men, with more
backbone and more honesty than the few
dessrters, will be ready to fill the breach,
Streeter and Cunningham will receive
larger vote than auy reform candidates
that were ever nominated, and when our
party gets into power, as it certainly will
in time, the petty spoils seekers who de-
sert the cause now will be gone and for
gotten.
Now, order your political coffin, and af-
ter the November election prepare to enter
your political grave. The mourners will
he few. Good bye.
Respectfully yours,
J. w. GosHoRN,
Ch. Ex. Com. u. L. Party.