Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-03-09

WHAT sonr or DEMocRACY9
The Fairmout Inder, which calls It.
self Democratic. has been yelping and
snaopne at the heels Of the REGISTER
even since the beginning Of the discus
sion Of the Wilson tariff bill. Little az
tention has been paid to its attacks, for
they have been selfish, un-Democratic
and contemplate. It's resort to false
hood and Misrepresentation is untOr-
tunate for t. For instance, it says:
The wheeling REGISTER has at length
ascertained through the courtesy Of the
Manufacturers Record, that there is such
thing as the Whitney syndicate. This is
An advance step for the REGISTER in its
discussion Of the local tariff. Now let IL
ACQUIRE some other Information that almost
everyone else is familiar with on the sub
iect. and it win soon see the error Of its
views from a West Virginia Democratic
standpoint
The Inder knows this is DELHI
crate misrepresentation. 1t is the
more repreheDsible coming from a
paper which preteads to uphold Demo
cratic principles and tariff reform.
When a Demo cratic paper resorts to
trick circulars sent out by tariff oene-
fciaries it is time for it to quit the Dem
ocracy and get into a more cOngenial
political sphere.
The REGISTER published the article
Of the Manufacturers Record and show
ed wherein that sheet was grossly in
error in its criticism or else had no
other object than to misrepresont the
REGISTER.
This is the paragraph selected from
the REGIsrER by the Manufacturers
Record for it's purpose:
''There never was any such concern as
the Whitney Syndicate This INVENTION
of the Republican leaders was exploded
long ago by Mr.. Whitney himself, who ex-
pressly and emphatically denied that he
was interested in any such concern or knew
of anyone else who was.
Then the Record went on to show
that there is a coal syndicate in BOs-
ton headed by HENRY NJ. WHITNEY.
There may be a half dozen other coal
''syndicates" in the United States head
ed by men named WHITNEY, but the
Manufacturers Record and the Fair
mont IndcT and the Wheeling Iltelt-
qcncer, the latter Of which yesterday
published the Record article without
giving the REGIsrER's reply to it, know
there is no concern in existence such as
that held up as a bugaboo by Republi-
can politicians and their organs to
brighten the people.
IL was stated that ex-Secretary VIII
LIAM C. WHITNEY was at the head of
great syndicate which had purchased
vast tracts Of coal lands in Nova Scotia
on the strength Of the Democratic
promise Of free coal. This falsehood
was repeated and reiterated and is even
still going the rounds Of the Republican
press, despite Mr.. WHITNEY's emphatic
denial long ago that he was interested
in any such concern or knew Of any one
else who was. The Boston coal COM
pany operates in Boston, not in Nova
Scotia, and was in existence before free
coal was thought to be a possibility.
Whether or not it owns coal land in
Nova Scotia we do not know, but it
makes no difference in the present dis
cussion whether it does or not These
are the plain and we'll known facts
about a Republican lie which has been
nailed down tight.
The mdcr presents sorry spec
tacle in revamping campaign lies
against the Democracy that even Re-
publican organs have discarded as
burnt powder I. appears that our
Fairmont contemporary is Democratic
only when Democratic principles do not
conflict With It's own personal and selfish
interests. which is not Democracy, and
is even worse than McKinleyiSm.