Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-10-24
WY HB SKIPPED.
GOVERNOR KKINLEY HAD A TIP ON ElNA-
WILLIE,
And So BE Mads BIS Speech in Bsllaire,
Instead Of Up at the Big
Mil.

tue maps uOI III VIC pOS'Oi-iSS
directory. 1t has always been
found on the list OF places at
which Republican meetings were to be
held during every Ohio campaign for
ten years or more. Mckinley will not
be there this fall, nor will any other
Republican OF prominence. In the past
such men as Blaine, Logan, Sherman,
Foraker. Mckinley, "Blll" Gibson.
Foster, Golf, in fact the greatest polit-
ical stumpers OF the Republican party,
have addressed the people Of Etnaville.
"Etnaville is the midway point be-
tween Martins Ferry and Bridgeport.
and there are located the immense iron
works Of the Etna-Standard Iron and
Steel Company. There are 1,500 voters
who can be assembled at a meeting at
Etnaville, and Of the l, 500 all were Re-
publicans but perhaps so. TIL last fall
they were firm believers in protection.
These 1000 are two.thirds Welchmen.
This summer they had TO accept an
other reduction, which places the wages
OF the mill hands much lower than they
have ever been. This is why the man
ayers of the Republican campaign had
Mckinley skip from East Liverpool to
Bellaire, leaving Etnaville out.
IF Mckinley had appeared at Etna-
vile he would not have been allowed 10
deliver line Of his set speech. The
mill men had list of topics mapped out
for him, and he would have been COM
PEELED 10 discuss them or stop talking.
Worthy Evans was to have acted as
spokesman had Mckinley come. He is
fine looking man, fifty years old, gray
haired and clean shaver.
81 am Worthy Llewellyn Evans
pronounced by himself Ivvuns, with
the accent on the last syllable), said he
In reply TO a question. When asked
what the workmen about Ktnavile
thought OF protection in general and on
the iron and steel trades In particular,
he said:
"Weel, me mon, I'll tell thee; we do
be maxim iron an steel in this mill as
cheap as ever | saw tmade in Wales.
We do be gettin' little more money,
but when we count the time that's lost
it's no more for the year I've been In
the country since '67, and the manufac-
turers do be askin' we TO work for less
each year. 1t seems as II they do make
times hard and prices lower every sum-
mer, just when 1t is time to settle the
scale for the year, an we do get the
benefit OF it In lower wages. Wages
come down, no matter II the tariff
be high or low, an do We as
we will, they have their way.
We be maxim more than in Wales
to-day, but it is because so much OF the
wealth Of Wales Is tied up in estates
which earn nothing, and because the
workers there are not independent as
they are ere. 1t seems TO me, II we do
have TO come doom to the level OF the
Welshmen, the trade OF this country
should be free from the burdens, an we
as work In mills should have the bene-
fits of cheap living. We will soon be
on the same wage level, no matter
about the tariff, for the man who hires
handles the money first an g only gives
we what g thinks e must. No mat
ter low ard times is, the men who
own the mil live just the same.
Docs thee think any mon wat owns
stock In the mill ERE as stayed FROM
the Worlds Fair because the mill as
been stopped this summer? Nay, me
mon, they went but we do be stayin'
ere savin' as 'ow we may live this win
ter do the mill no start Protection Is
all very weel II it did protect all alike;
II ard times came to all alike, an we
as works did be remembered wen II
was different. Nay, me mon, we do be
buildin' castles for the rich an 'ovels
for the workers. For ten years ave
made no more than a Twin, an
'ad | no got me 'ome before the man
ufacturers began combinin' l would
be poor as a church mouse. In them
ten years this mon an that mon, an
hundreds OF 'em. ave made fortunes
from our labor while we was a comm
doom. Protection would be good enough
did the benefits be divided as they
should, but we as work have no way TO
make 'em divide. Our union as tried
il, an 1t is as strong as any In the
world, but 'unger an Pinkertons an
militia makes the best OF 'em sick OF a
fight. They do make protection laws
for 'em all an then make some more
laws for the rich as witch gives 'em all
that protection do be gettin' for EN- all.
"'How about McKinley's chances
here?' l asked.
81 do be very sorry Mckinley Gas
Evans pronounced ~ have no come
ERE. We had some questions to ask i'm
ABBOTT the wages we do be gettin' now,
an wy. as e said, they have not been
goin' up or even holdin' their own.
mckinley made some solemn promises
on the platform over by the mill Of
fee wen e was ruunIn' for Governor
before, and they ave no been fulfilled.
,Ad e ave come an said like a mon e
was mistaken, for one would ave re-
spected i'm for it, but e as gone
like fy-be-niRht, an many a
mon as was for In over all
other men in the world ave lost
their respect for i'm. e may be
elected, but there's boun' TO be a change
before many years People is thinkin'
more'n they used 20. l can see were
was wrong, an l ouly wish l could
make the words fow till IL could be un-
derstood by all the men In the mill. But
most OF 'em is seem IL now, or they will
be before long. Men as wat In good
times spen; their time in the gin mills.
when not In the iron mills are resdin
these ard times an are learning were
they stand. They don't have the money
to waste for grog, an it's good thing,
too, for il gives 'em time 70 think. II
the mill 'ud be closed all the winter, IN
the spring the men would be far more
Intelligent"