Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-10-16
MKINLEY,s FAKE CAMPAIGN.

Gov. MCKINLEY, who in a few days
DAYS will try to make the workingmen
of BelIaire believe that high tariff taxes
are their only salvation, should explain
to them how it is so many Of them are
out of work while his own pet high
tariff is in full blast. The Cleveland
PIaiudcalcr handles MCKINLEY and H.
$. BUNDY, candidate for Congress in
the Tenth Ohio district, who has been
travelling with the Governor, without
gloves.
Mr.. BUNDY has been a furnace owner
and an employer Of labor for more than
forty years and should be excellent
authority upon the relations OF the
tariff to the iron manufacturing inter
est. He is an eloquent old gentleman,
and while MCKINLEY delivers the same
old speech Mr.. BUNDY furnishes the
illustration and the example.
One Of the things, and the principal
theme, upon which this veteran furnace
man loves to enlarge, and with which
BY the aid OF a ready wit he delights in
entertaining and amusing Republican
audiences, is his experience under Dem
ocratlc administrations away back be-
fore the war. His descriptions Of the
hardships-to the laborers-during the
dark DAYS Of 1857 have been known to
wrlug tears from the eyes Of laborers
who were at the self-same moment re-
eeiving less wages from furnaces owned
by the same nan
Il was noticeable that the harder the
times the higher the price Of furnace
store goods and the lower. the wages.
But this, we are told, was during
BUCuANAN's administration.
Let us see. The same furnace was
was still running at starvation wages
under Grants administration and final
ly blew out under a Republican admin
istratlou. The same gentleman has
been owner in entirety or q majority Of
shares Of several furnaces in that re-
gion-at least three-and they all had a
somewhat ~trou0lous pathway and final
" succumbed 20 fate, all Of them, with
possibly o exception, under Republi-
can administration or Republican tariff
laws, or both.
All these Improbable struggles are
no dlscredlt 20 the man. II HIS iron
business could not live under RepublI-
can tariff Jaws it was simply a misior-
tune-but had the laws really anything
to do with failureP That is . question
requiring some attention.
During all the years Of campaigning
under R%epublicau administration and
for the reelection of Republican admin
istrations the wages Of labor were kept
to the lowest possible figure, while the
laborers themselves were regularly as
sured, from the stump, that the good
times" they were enjoying were the
direct result Of wise Republican states
manship. There was very rarely, if
ever, o change of wages that was not q
cut-dOwn, and Mr.. BUNDY's furnaces
were paying IS low wages-all things
considered-at the time Of their shut
ting down under a Republican admins
trstion and Republican tariff exact
ments as they had paid at any time In
their history.
Now we have the picture of Gov,
MCKINLEY facing these same laborers,
many Of them old and gray, and solemn
" assuring them that it was the wisdom
Of himself and his party associates that
enabled his old friend 10 conduct his
business so long and so successfully, |
thus building them Up ia wealth and
the enjoyment Of happy homes. This
be proves by their old employer, !
while every workman who hears them
and who has had any experience knows
thFt in so far as be and Ms class are
.eoAeerned, there isn't enoIgh truth in