Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-09-28
TIE PIouA FRAUD.

/ not the only Democratic newspaper that is
| unfortunate in its tin plate arguments. The
/ trouble with all of them is that they assume
\ their facts and on that basis draw the de-
| auctions that suit their cause. The usual
| bad luck attends the PiQua tin plate story.
/ The proof of this will be found in another
/ cOlumn.-Intclligence
The proof cannot be found in another
column, as the mtGlligencer asserts, but
instead a long, labOred, stumbling ar
ticle, which discusses and explains
everything else except the fraud prac-
ticed by Mr.. MCKINLEY at Piqua. The
imposition was all the more contempt
BILE because all the prominent parties to
the deception must have known it.
The tin turned out at Piqua was not
the real tin plate at all, but species of
''terne" tin that was mixed in the pro-
portions Of about one pound Of tin TO
three OF lead. This was dumped into
spelling pot. and after bath, rolled to
give it a bright appearance so that it
would look like the fine tin of commerce.
The very comicsl feature about this
great tin plate mill was that it had not
over 100 pounds of pig tin on hand, and
in order that Major MCKINLEY might
accomplish the deception, several hun
dred pounds of pig lead had to be bar
rowed from a friendly superintendent
OF a neighbOring gas works.
To what straits are the tin plate
champions put to carry on their cam
paign Of humbug.
In this connection the REGISTER fur
nishes incontrovertiOle proof Of the dis
honest trickery that is being played
upon the people of Ohio by the Piqua
fraud. 1t is taken from the ST. Louis
Republic of last Saturday and should
be preserved and shown to all hood
winked people that they may see for
themselves how they are being played
for lot of gullIbe ninnies:
The other day, as was then duly an
nounced, the Republic received one Of
the Mckinley campaign "tin-plate"
medals, issued from an alleged tin-plate
works at PiQua, o. Suspectng that
instead of being higb-grade tin-plate-
a steel sheet coated with pure tin, as it
prOfeSSed 20 bet was merely cheap
iron dipped in lead, the Republic sent it
TO one of the best known analytical
chemist in the West, and this is his
report on it:
REGIS CHAUvENET & BRO, Analytical
Chemists and AssayerS, St. Louis, Septem-
ber2 3, 1S9l-We have made a qualitive
analysis of the medal sent Us and found re-
suits as follows:
The medal is a circular piece OF metal
with the inscription, Mckinley and Pro
lection. Made of Ohio Steel and California
Tin. Piqua, 1891"
The composition of the medal is wrought
template of rather an inferior grade, COW
cred with very thin coating OF tin and
lead alloy, in which the lead largely predOmi-
mates. There is certainly no steel in its
composition, and we doubt very much the
source claimed for the tin. Respectfully,
REGIS CHAUvENET Il Bro.
So this is what Mckinley and Pro-
lection" mean. Mr.. McKinley's badges
as ShOddy as the rest OF the monopoly
goods we get when we give an honest
dollar for Mckinley dollars WORTH
We are taxed S44 ton on tin-plate to
protect such stuff as this made Of cheap
sheet-irOn dipped In lead with trace
of tin in tin the words Of the analy-
sis, with the lead largely predomi-
mating" Not only does this shoddy
stuff purpOrt to be the best grade Of
Mckinley tin, but the Mckinley party
has adopted il as campaign emblem,
and il is worn all over Ohio by the ad-
vocates OF high taxation as an evidence
that to become highly prosperous you
need only to be highly taxed.
While Mr.. Mckinley is dwelling on
the dangers of debaSing the currency
with silver; while he is insisting that
his tin plate corporations must be paid
only In q John Sherman "honest dol
lar" the men who surrounded him as a
high tax claQue are wearing these
medals, each one of which in its con-
position is a complete exposure OF the
lie stamped on its face, each one of
which is debssed with cheap iron, used
instead of the steel it purports to be,
and with cheap lead, instead OF the
california tin," with which il claims
TO be coated.
1t is a fit campaign emblem for the
man who Is the author of the shoddy
dollars worth aud the author of an
enactment TO tax fat all wool value
into a cotton and shoddy yard OF cloth.