Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-09-28

the undsrhand practices Of the Repub'
Hcan politicians to make political capi-
tai out OF nothing is their deliberate
and studied attempt to materially in
lure the farmer, who is just recovering
in some degree from the effects Of Nc
Kinley bnrdsns, aud TO retard that re-
eovery and II possible reduce him to &C
tual ruin by ineessant lying on the
stump and by the circulation OF false
reports of the prices OF his products
and conditions OF his industry.
1t is hard to believe that partisanship
has such a hold upon any set Of men as
to proups them to iDjure the commu9F
ty that gives them their bread and but
ter that they NAV make party Capital
out Of its loss By falsely charging up
the the same to their political enemies,
but it is the truth.
The Tntelliqencer iskhe head aud front
Of this calamity campaign inOhio comfy.
It has been bending every energy Of late
to prevent any improvement in bust
ness and especially to keep down the,
prices Of the farmers products. 1t
has even gone so far as to start raid
Or the farmers land, to decry its value
and howl down the farmers prospect
In general.
The Ipteuiaencer and the politicians
and candidates whose organ it Is,
would, Just at this time, like nothing
better than to see every farm in Ohio
county in the hands OF tho sheriff.
They have actually brought willing
witness Ia the person Of a money-lender
to farmers and rich Republican poll
ticisn-farmer Of the rural districts, w.
NJ. DUNLAP, TO bear witnes that the
farmers Of this neigh borhood are headed
straight for the Sheriff. Hear Mr.. DUN
LAP in an interview yesterday with
the Tntslligenccr:
Only intense economy enables the
average farmer 70 keep his/head above
water. BY this economy ,5ome Of them
are holding the sheriff at bay, but be IS
bound to get a number OF them before
long.
This is as utterly false IS is Mr..
DUNLAP's talk ab0at the rotten con-
ditiOR and low pfices in general OF
the farmers products, and his further
vicious statements about the alleged
depreciation aud general worthlessness
OF Ohio cognty farm land. In fact, to
read the false and malignant utterances
Of Mr.. DUNLAP published with joyous
prominence under display head" by
the Intelligence. a stranger would be
ledLto believe that farms were going for
song in this county, that they were
not worth cultivating, that the farmers
were the most pOverty-stricken Of our
citizens and had nothing to sell that
was worth anything. or that was not
donraciatins auu onnld be bought later
at much lower prices or Tor nothing
Now this kind of talk, INDUCED in so
prominently, utterly false though 1t be,
does vast injury to our hard working
farmers in more ways than one. Buyers
with their pockets aud heads full OF such
stuff 20 TO him and offer him hall prices
for his products, and if he objects to let
ting them 20 for that they show him
these published lies and point out that
nothing he has to sell ia worth anything
or II they are after his land, that even
that is valuelesS.
Note the political conclusion MI
DUNLAP draws from the calamity pic
ture Of the Ohio county farmer which
be paints from his Imagination to suit
his political desires. Says he:
mis- will be non-voting year with the
Democratic farmer. He is not ready TO
staDd up ana Oe counted on the republican
side. out he is ready to stay at home from
the nolis in NOvemh Der. This Is what some
of them will do in Liberty district.
Will they, indeed, Mr.. DUNLAP! On
the contrary, the REGISTER fiads them
throughout Ohio county highly and
most righteously indignant az the pol
itical party that is trying to ruin them
20 carry out its political plans.
Do these Republican politicians be-
Ueve the farmers have no thinking ma
cbinery OF their own, or are ignorant
OF the political trick that is being tried
on them and will endorse the party
tia, il doing its best to ruin them to
make good its calamity howl? Let the
T,,teIli0encer, or Mr.. DUNLAP, or Can
didate DovENER, who is preaching
calamity and keeping out Of Mr.. How
ARDS wav, go among the farmers
Of Ohio county If they hold
that view. They will find very
lively set Of people, who so far from
beipg negatively" affected, politically
or being almost ready to stand up and
be counted with the Republican party,
are. Cd the contrary, bitter and loud
and deep in their denunciations OF the
nolitieal ORGANIZATION that is trampling
on their interests to raise itself and de
nepdipQ upon its ability to create ruiz
and distress among them for its sue
cess. Deep down in their hearts anC
regardless OF all party utilization d.
these hard working farmers most jnstl!
resent the basslsss calamity campaign
that is being waged against theiE in
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terests
Fvarv farmer in Ohio county an