Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-10-02

to kiss Major McKINLEY's ''tin" pic
ture, in which "lead largely predomi-
Mates"
Should this American "tin" ever be
used for anything besides cam
paign emblems; should it be used
commercially for cans or cooking
utensils, wholesale poisoning of the
people who used them and ate food out
of them would surely result
1t is not alone on the strength of the
chemical analysis that is based the as
sertion that this Mckinley "tin" is
deadly, but also upon the statements of
witnesses, one of whom, Mr.. LEOPOLD
KIEFEB, superintendent of the Piqua
Water Works, furnished the lead to
the Cincinnati Corrugated Iron Works
to turn out American ''tin" campaign
badges for MCKINLEY. Mr.. KIEFER
publishes the following interesting all
davlt:
Personally appeared before me Leopold
Kiefer, who, being duly sworn, deposeth
and says that on or about the hfteeHtn OF
September there came an employee OF the
Cincinnati Corrugating Company, OF
Piqua, Ohio, named Daily, to my resi-
dence, SAYING: "Have you 1000 pounds OF
lead on hand" / replied l have only about
400 pounds belonging to the Water WorAs'
Mr.. Daily said his firm wanted 1t at once.
l put on my hat and started to our once
with him, and on the way L asked hl I'm,
"What do YOU want with so much Iead.
His reply was, 1--WE are laying some water
pipe and must have it at once" asked
him who is going to lay the pipe, and MS
replv was. 81 ann l then said: You are
not a licensed plumber, and have no right
as Superintendent of our Water Works 70
allow you to touch any of our mains. He
went away and in about half an hour later
Mr. Hicks drove up in front of my store,
came in and said: 81 have TO confess 10
you for what purpose want this lead. we
are going 10 make some tin for the Mchln-
lev meeting, and our lead from Missouri IS
DELAYED on the road" l gave them the
lead. Mr.. Hicks asked me to keep it a
secret, or words to that effect.
LEOPOLD KIEFER.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
oath day of September, 1891.
]. w. HATCH,
Notary Public, Miami County, Ohio.
President HICKS, of the Corrugating
Co., admitted to Mr.. KIEFER that they
had not eUen figured on the cost of max
ing terne plate. Aud all the while
Major MCKINLEY was pointing with
pride to Piqua's great tin-plate mill!
Just before the Mckinley meeting at
Cincinnati the company had consigned
to them five pigs of tin-3OO pounds.
Two other pigs were subsequently pur-
chased, which were left untouched "for
show" This information was gathered
from the railroad freight office.
The 300 pounds of pig tin was
then melted with 1000 pounds Of lead
pipe from the water works, furnished
by Mr.. KIEFER, and wrought-iron
dipped into the deadly compound, the
result being American "tin-plate!'
Mr.. KIEFER wakes wroth as
he proceeds. "Great terne-
plate establishment" says he;
great political bluff, and nothing else.
This plant of the Rolling Mills and Cor
rugating Company was given to these
people, and every favor shown them
in establishing them here by Democrats
as we'll as Republicans. We are all
tax payers, and we have to pay for the
next ten years yet for having located
this establishment in our midst. We
are proud of this establishment and are
still willing to extend our courtesies to
them so long as they will not use their
plant for a political purpose as they
have done. Mr.. MCKINLEY knew very
well when he made his speech in Music
Hall that there was no tin plate factory
here. Mr.. MCKINLEY knew when he
dipped a few sheets of iron into an old
kettle belonging to the galvanizing de-
partment that no preparations had
been made for a tin plate factory. He
either willfully deceived the Cincinnati
public or was deceived by this
Piqua concern"
So long as the Cincinnati Corrugating
Co. confines its efforts to the making of
political badges for the ''little Napo-
leon" of Ohio, little harm will result-ex-
cept to babies whose proud Republican
fathers give them Mckinley buttons to
suck-for the American tin-plate fraud
has been sufficiently exposed to warrant
the belief that only the very ignorant
and simple will be fooled by it; but
should the bluff be extended further,
and any sort of kitchen utensils, dinner
buckets or cans actually be made Of
the stuff, and put into actual use among
the people, the results would be far diff
ferent-they would be deadly. 1t might
be we'll for the boards OF health wherever
these American "tin-plate mills" exist,
to keep an eye on their product, if
there be any, and note the uses to which
it is put.
WHO Is RESPONSIBLE?
The situation in regard to an adequate
supply Of water to this community is at
the danger point and relief is as far off
as ever.
One of the most surprising as we'll as