Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-30

about run out Of material for misrepre-
seDtation have finally hit upon the
falsehood that Mr.. WILSON and Senator
J CAMDEN are Eat outs" and do not
agree upon the subject OF the
tariff. II makes no difference to
these able and persistent Republican
/ falsifers that Mr.. Wilson has been
travelling about In Senator CAMDEN's
private car speaking with the Senator
himself from its platform; the falsifiers
20 right on fslsiiying just the same. II
is not their intention or aim TO consider
the truth but to obscure aud falsify it.
We need hardly say there is nothing
, whatever 10 the statement that
! Senator CAMDEN ana Mr.. Wilson have
not at all times during the last
session aud IN and out Of Congress
been in perfect accord on the tariff
question. On this very point Senator
CAMDEN has been speaking side by side
with Mr.. Wilson, and where the Sena-
tor has been best known he has intro
duced Mr. Wilson TO his audiences as
the most conspicuous representative OF
Democratic tariff reform OF whom West
Virginia Is proud. Ii is upon mber
coal, iron ore, etc, products Of West
Virginia in which DO man has more
vital interest than Senator JOHNSON n
CAMDEN, that the Republican fslsifiers
say be differs with Mr.. WILSON
Mr.. CAMDEN'S record 10 she Senate
proves this false but we shall let the
Senator himself, speak specifically upon
his attitude on the tariff as regards
these products Of West Virginia. At
Monongah and elsewhere where Senator
CAMDEN has spoken be has made his
position plain.
Il voted for free lumber, free salt,
and free wool, said he, land in the
caucus for free iron ore, did not have
an opportunity to express my opinion
on il or free coal. but will say, in all
frankness, that did not attach much i'm
portance to the duties on coal and iron
ore, as many others Interested in these
products havs done. l don't believe
there is any country that can come into
competition to any damaging extent in
our home markets with our coal. The
States OF Pennsylvania, West Virginia
and Virginia produce the finest coal in
the world, aud these mines in the Fair
mont district have been for months
shipping weekly cargoes OF coal and
coke 10 Mexico. Cuba and other coun-
tries in competition with other coal. AT
all events, I feel that our coal
interests will not suffer under
the benign aud directing influence of
the Democratic party" As to the
natural reduction in the price OF mining
following the boom in coal prices dur
iug the recent great coal strike, Sen
atOr CAMDEN 1T has been freely
that the recent reduction OF |
five cents for mining 10 this. district is
the result Of the tariff on coal. This is |
no0 so; the tariff on coal has 10 nowiss !
affected the price OF mining or tue saIe
of coal There has been no coat imported
INTO the country under the present iaIo
that iroul9 not hare been imported under I
the lIcKmlcy bill IN the same period Of |
TIME"
Senator CAMDEN went on to state
that he had read a letter to the presi-
dent'of the Mouongah Company stating
that il was impossible to make sales at
the lakes at prices heretofore obtained,
This was due simply to oVerproduction.
He said he was assured by coal men
that the Mono0gah mines are paying
fully as much, il not more, for mining
than the regions Of Pennsylvania and
Ohio, which control the accessible mar
kets upon which this region depends
for its outlets.
Mr. CAMDEN's plea tor the election OF
Mr.. WILSON is a peculiarly strong one
aud is based on facts, common sense
and business judgment. As probably
the largest owner Of coal, lumber and
ore lands aud railroads dependent d.
rectIy upon these industries for success,
these simple and emphatic utterances
from Senator CAMDEN are very signid-
cant. They are the utterances Of a
practical man who probably has a great
or material stake in the welfare Of West
VirgIuia's special industries than any
other man in the State. What a con-
trast they present to the falsehOod and
misrepresentation Of the selfish and ir-
responsible politicians who oppose Mr..
WILSON and Mr.. CAMDEN, and who
care not a snap Of their fingers for
West Virginia, her industries or her
people beyond obtaining the lattsr's
votes.
WORKING THE AP. a SCHEME.
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