Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-10-31
MR.. HUBBARD's RECORD.
4 Benwood Correspondent Has Some
Cheerful Comments to Make.

u DNhAonh N0AANeFooANHN A'e' RCaN
Cheerful Comments to Make.
10 ne Editor Of he Register.
SrR:-A correspondent Of the REGIS
TER recently attacked the anti-labor
record OF Hon. w. p. Hubbard while
member Of the West Virginia LegiSla
ture. Your correspondent, was pleas
ed TO note, did not rely on mere aSser-
tion or rumor, but gave what he repre-
scented as extracts from the Journal OF
the House of Delegates. As friend OF
labor with the sole desire of getting at
the facts. have taken the trouble TO
examine the record, thinking your cor
respondent had probably miSrepreSent-
ed Mr.. Hubbard for political ends But
l find that he was right in every par
ticular. l learn from the Journal OF the
House Of Delegates referred TO that Mr..
Hubbard
Voted against the bill TO make eight
hours a legal days labor.
II that bill had passed it would have
been q long step toward accomplishing
what the labOring men have been so
long striving for in what is known as
the eight hour movement" 1t would
have settled the matter so far as West
Virginia is concerned. But il was de-
feated by the influence and vote Of Mr..
Hubbard. Every trade and labor as
sembly in the United States is on record
in favor of an eight hour law.
Mr.. Hubbard voted against IL.
How. then, can workingmen consist
entity vote 10 send such a man to Con-
greSs where his vote would be cast in
the same direction and where he would
have greater opportunities OF thwartng
the objects Of organized labor?
He voted 10 amend the Miners bill so
that no person, no matter how cOmpe-
tent ne might be, could hold the office
of Mine Inspector unless he was COM
petent civil engineer
Civil engineers are generally the pro
duet of our polytechnic colleges, and
know but little about practical mining.
The amendment could have had no
other object than 10 prevent any miner
from holding the Office.
But later he voted TO indefinitely post
poue the Miners BILL and thus killed IT,.
IL may be urged in Mr.. Hubbard's IA
vor that he doubted the wisdom OF pass
ing an eight hour law. Granted. Did
he also doubt the wisdom of passing a
law for the protection Of the health and
lives of miners? The thousands OF men
entombed alive and who have met death
by mine accidents, some Of them here
in our own State, furnish Sulhclent
reply to such wisdom.
That Mr.. Hubbard is by nature OPP
posed 70 the rule of the common peo-
Pile" is further shown by his course on
the bill 20 incorporate the town OF Ben
wood He moved 10 insert in the char
ter of this town
A property qualification for voting.
lie moved to amend the bill so as to
permit stockholders in the mills OF
Benwood. whether residents of the town
or not. TO vote at all municipal elections,
thus placing the town under the con-
troll of two gigantic corporations.
No comment i needed on this. The
simple statement of the proposition
ought to be sufficient to arouse the in
dignation of every friend Of an untram-
meled ballot.
IobServe that Mr. Hubbard'S friends
are as silent as oysters about these
charges. 1t is evident that they con-
slider that the least said about them
the better il will be for their candidate.
But they are true, and they speak
trumpet tougued against him as an
enemy Of the people. l hope, Mr.. Edi-
tor. You will not allow them to be lost
sight of in the activity of the pending
campaign. BENWOop.