Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-19

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'Ihe REGISTER was forced to acknowl-
edge yesterday that, so far as the Re-
publican managers here are concerned,
there is no truth in the charge" that
they are in political cahoots with the
A. P. A., it told what was not true.
The REGISTER stated that so far as
public recognition OF the A. P. A., by
the local Repu blican managers was
concerned they had dropped that IN
American organization like the wrong
end Of hot poker, but the REGISTER
| went on TO state what is the indisputa-
BILE fact, which is known to every man
in Wheeling who has anything
TO do with the practical side
of the local campaign, that these
same Republican managers are
working the A. P A. secretly-for 1t is
essentially a secret organization-and
working it for all there is in it. But
they have stopped bringing A. P. A.
lecturers here to publicly work for the
Republican ticket. They had enough
Of that sort of work in very short
trial OF it. Though Prof. RUDOLPH, the
A. P. A. lecturer, was brought here
through the efforts of member Of the
Republican committee, the Republican
organ was compelled TO publicly dis
countenance him with show of vir-
tue day or two afterward. when it was
found that this open alliance with this
bigoted religio-political organization
WAS driving many more votes out OF the
Republican party than it brought in.
OF course there is q general virtuous
denial all along the line by the Repub
lican managers that they know any
thing about the a. 2. A. ELKINs de-
MES that money is his chief argument
in this campaign. Denials are cheap.
1t requires no talent at all to say
liant So" But tits so, just the same
and the A. p. A. is being worked in the
interest of the Republican party just as
strongly to-day as ever, though secretly,
for 1t would not do TO let the general
public into the secret, FOR it would make
short work OF the party guilty Of such
vicious and un-American methods.
But will the IlstelIigeacer or the local
Republican managers deny that the local
president of the A. p A. is Republi-
can leader who has spoken from the
same platform with Capt. DovENER, Mr.. |
WHITAKER and other Republican can
didates?
They will not attempt to deny it, for
1t cannot be denied. That gentleman
has only very recently taken to
attempting to disguise the fact that the
a. P. a. is but an adjunct to the Re-
publican machine.
The local Republican managers and
the HltGIigenCer will probably deny
that the A. P. A. controlled the Re-
publican county convention and forced
through its own Legislative ticket and
the adoption of the anti-for-
slgner plank of the platform. The InteL-
,onveo,ioSSh i RehROw lgd that place on the
ticket was solemnly promised Mr.. d. +.
BEHRENs II be would but ac-
cept it. He agreed but the IN
faction found 1t
could lot deliver the goods. The a. T.
A. in almost the same breath that it
forced through the anti-toreigner plank J
of the platform voted down Mr.. BEH-
eENs because he was citizen OF foreign
extraction and put their own man 10 his
place. No one in the Republican party
has better cause to know the power OF
the A. 2. A. in the Republican party
than the Intelligcncer, which has felt it,
and a denial Of the fact from that
source has a particularly droll flavor
from the fact that the A. P. A.
proved stronger than the hltelLigencer
in the latter's own party convention.
Members Of the Republican committee
of this district are to-day secretly en-
gagged in the work Of circulating A. P.
A. literature sent out, some of it under
government frank, by the National
Republican Congressional Committee
the public denial OF the fact by Chair
man BABcoCK to the contrary, notwith-
standing. As we have said, it is easy TO
deny. 1t is quite another thing to DIS
prove. And it has been proven that the
Republican National Committee has
sent out A. 2. A. literature.
INtrying to squirm out Of its lie about
the taking off of "27 of the 67 freight
crews" of The Panhandle railroad, the
Calamity Hololcr says it didn't mean
the Pewiky but the whole p, c., c, u
ST. L.! 1t is equally false concerning
the whole system, but since when did
the Calamity HOl0ter learn that the great
p. & st. L. had but sixty-seven
freight crews? It plainly meant the
Pewiky and intended to injure local
busigess. The lie is too raw.
If "SELAH" will send the REGISTER
his name, not necessarily for puolica-
ton, we will be glad to publish his
interesting communication. He should
know the REGISTER pays no attention