Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-05-28
Republican Leaders Stirring Up the Sinks Of
Corruption.
MILLIONS FOR A CAMPAIGN FUND.
The Protected AOnOpOGsS, Trusts and Pools
Rallying to Support the RObber
Tariff
SENSATIONAL POLITICAL DOCUMENT.
A Call for Money to DsbauGh the Voters Of
the Land-A Campaign Of Corruption
and Bribery to be Iuauguratsd
BY the Tariff League.

CINCINNATI, May 27.-That the Rspub-
lican party intends bending every energy
and going to greater lengths than ever be-
fore to elect its candidate for the Presi-
dency is becoming more apparent every
day.
1t is also becoming palmer each day that
the election is to be carried by the lavish
use of money.
The nonopOlists, the millionaires, the
capitalists, intend to pool their allied
wealth and carry the election against the
people.
The manufacturer intends to show that
high protective tariff enriehes only him
self and not the workingmen. All over
the country they are subscribing money
for the purpose Of carrying tho ensuing
election for the Republican party and to
obtain \ majority in the House and Senate
Of the United States. At the head of the
movement to secure an enormous fund TO
CONTROL THE EIECrIoSs
is the National Republican League OF the
United States, OF which James p. Foster,
OF New York, is President. Letters have
bsen seat out to every prominent Rspubli-
can capitalist in the country asking 10 the
strongest terms for subscription and ap-
pealing to them on the ground that it is
fight between protection and free trade "a
represented on the one side by the Repub
hcan and on the other side by the Dsmo-
cratic party.
To show that the movement is formida'
bic and that the fund bids fair H. reach an
amount that will be simply appalling is
shown by the fact that with each circular
is sent list of names showing what prom
inent Republican politicians and capital
ists have already contributed to the fund,
which is to makea robher tariff triumphant
at the next election. As will be seen fur
ther along Ex-Governor Charles Foster
gives 800, Ex-Governor +. A. Alger, Of
Michigan, gives $500, United States Sena-
tor Warner Miller, OF New York, gives
500, and Senator Evarts 500, Earl x
Wilson, the New York collar manufactur-
ers, give $500, and various other firms
give in sums ranging all the way from $25
to 500.
These and others are only given as
sample, but il can easily be seen that, if
the average is kept up in every State in
the Union, the fund will amount to mil
lions of dollars, and the party managers
will have enough money to buy every vote
in the country that is q purchssable guam
tity, and to corrupt and debauch the ma
chinery Of elections in general. The fol-
lowing circular letter WAS received by
Well-knoWn Republican manufacturer Of
this city, and is one of the most sensational
political documents ever circulated.
The SURPRISING LETTER
[Con6dentiall
Dictated HEADQUARTERS OF THEl !
REPUBLICAN LEAGUE OF THE U. s. |
NEw YORK, May %, 1888. J |
DEAR SIR: The Republican League of |
the United States desires to bring you |
face TO face with the startling fact that |
the coming Presidential election is not TO /
be fought on the old party lines which .
have heretofore divided Democrats and |
Republicans, but upon the direct issue
of free trade vs.. protection.
The League stands for protection, and is
ighung in your interest. 1t is no Fourth. |
ot-July organization for dress parade, hut is
an everyday working force of practical
political workers, who have in four moaths
enrolled an army OF over four hundred
thousand men to fight against. British .
Il. - ha
osacic HesSians who are fighting under |
her banners. 1t is useless TO argue the |
case Democracy stands for free trade and |
against your interests, and you know ii, |
no matter whether You have heretofore
been Democrat or Republican. High |
sounding platforms of words can not gain !
say this fact, nor fool You unless you wish /
to be fooled.
The coming campaign will be fought for |
protection under disadvantages never be- 1
fore encountered. Ninety-nine per cent. |
of the Federal officials are Democrats, and /
will contribute financially to the hoped-for /
success of the free-traders. Never before
has the Democratic free-trsde or tariff
reform" party been in 80 fortunate 9 posi-
ton.
The Republican Leagne is not composed
of theorists who are forever promising to
do something and never keeping their prom
ises IL has already done more than any
other political organization ever attempted
before the Presidential candidates had been
plaeed in the field. As our patriotic vol
uptsers spraug to the country's defense
when secession threatened its destruction,
20 at the call of the League vast armies
q al 10 k1ht thnnSQnh
times more dangerous foe to the country's
continued prosperity, free trade.
We will win this fight if you will
DO YoUR SHARE
and help us 10 finish what we have begun;
we want money and want il at once. We
are overwhelmed with calls for tariff docu-
ments and for speakers and organizers.
We propose to organize and fight against
free trade in every doubtful Congressional
and Legislative district IN the United
States. To-day there is but one msJority
in the Senate Of the United States when
the lines are drawn between Democrats
and Republicans, and unless much is done
the next Congress will see free trade
House, Senate and President, and then
good by to your prosperity.
It may not be Of your personal knowi-
edge, but il il fact nevertheless, that the
Of the United States who
are most benefited by our tariff laws have
been the least willing to contribute to the
success Of the party which gave them pro-
lection, and which Is about to engage in
life and death struggle with free trade.
A Republican United States Senator,
from a State which had never had Demo
cratic representative in either House Of
Coneress or . Democratic State officer, in
sueakipg of the well-known disposition oil
the manufacturing interest to lock mp its .
money, fold its hands and look on while
else fights for its success, says;
'gThe campaign which We are about to
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