Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-11-04
VOTE early, vote straight, and
see that your neighbor does the
same thing.
BASE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

Made by j. a. Burtt Against Judge Elem.
Ing, Conclusively Refuted.
WHEELING, ". Va, October 80, 1888.
To he Editor Of h Registr.
am informed to-day that J. II. Burt,
dealt in the fculest misrepresentation OF
facts, in his speech at Elm Grove, last
night The story is short, the elect on 90
near at hand, that l fear there is not time
to get the exact fscts in the case, to do
justice; Mr.. Burtt's object was to damage
Judge Fleming. in the estimstion Of the
60 | miners, living ard working in the
neightoChocd Of Elm Grove. This is a
g>cdy number of them, at this late hour
If he can do anything to pei en- them
against the Judge, he will be rewarded, by
,h,s, who have employed him to do their
dirty work.
Mr. Burtt stated tha. the mire, and
the coke works that the Judge was inter
ested in did not pay the scale price f the
dis riot, Tor did they pay as much for min
ing coal as oilers do who are engaged in
mining coal 10 make coke.
Iwaut to say just ferp, that neither the
West Virginia or Pennsylvania coal end
coke operators belong to the Federation OF
Coal Owners and Opera ors and Miners and
Mine L b r5Ss. Ttey sre entirely an in
dependent usintss, ard their coal is CT a
different character altogether from the
ccal that is owned and operated for the
markes. If Mr.. Jennings companies
aye payirg thirty-two certs per ton for
mining a coking coal, as Mr.. Burtt Gays
they are doing, they a:e paying a higher
| price for mining than the Conn Is lille re-
gion paid when they were selling coke
| for So 90 psr ton. COking coal Is
not screened, ror is it Paid fJr by The
ton; az under ia I'd the situato,, l kn:w
the Counellsv.lls people to get coal mired
for one cent per bushel, which would he
% cents per ton, when ;hey were ceiling
coke at So so per ton. The coking busi.
ness is q new one, comparatively speaking,
in West Virginia. Tee coke made h s b
entsr the market in competition with Con
nel!syi lie coke. And in the face of tie
strong o:posit.on. of the strong CJnneils.
vile combination, CON pased Of such strong
and powe full capitalists IS the II. C. Flick
company. with the CarnGigits snd such
me i 4 them, the Soho n makers Hutc, :
iCeOI tlou btBc = uOM III luS ldte tl THESE
facts can Mr.. BUT CT his ptrtizans, aft ri
this kni of dirty work, to gain a political
advantage ever man, or men, who are
doing a great work in developing the
Sass res, urcss, and creating new indus
trieS, to make work for oar ct re ~, NJ,
Fleming . company pays cash, scmeth ny
no. known in thu Conn llsvi lie gion, ever
under the restraints of law pas led to CT M
pei them to d, So
The organ ton of fe6erati n mine
owners and operators and mine lab rers
and miners is for the government If the
railroad shipp rs of coal only. 1t does not
even incju'e TIE Monongahela River
mines ard miners, and has thing what
ever TO do withaR,ef soft or coki 90 Il
fields of c NJ e'lsvilfe AID the newly
oper ed Wet Virginia mines on the same
veiffs, in which il 6ge Elem ing is interest
ed. Y,ucan Tn areiore see what foul n
justice Mr. Blu is willing to perpetrate 10
ipjure the Judges election. From one
who wants to sea ro!ti g but
FAIR PLAY.