Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-22

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and it declares:
There is not a candidate on the Republi
can ticket in any way identified with The
order
To make that assertion positively the
writer Of 1t would himself have to be a
member Of the A. P. A., for all members
Of that secret political order arc re-
CURED 10 take cast iron oath that they
twill not reveal, disclose, or in any
manner make known the name, person,
or individuality OF any member of this
order either by word, sign, or other
wise, whereby the membership Of
this order may become known
TO anY person not q member Of the
same"-so ashamed Of themselves and
of their un-American organization and
so cowsrdly are these contemplate re-
ligious bigots. Hence neither the Reg
IsTER nor anyone but an A. P. A. could
give the IntelHgGncer documentary
proof" Of the REGISTERS charges in
this regard demanded so boldly, nor for
the same reason can the InteUigencer
deny those charges. the only means
we have Of judging being the acknowl-
edgements or the known Affiliations of
the men referred to and the work
OF the Republican committee. The
Iptelltq6ncer is we'll aware that
documentary proof, particularly since
the matter has been so thoroughly
aired, would be almost as difficult to OBJ
tain now as proof of the identity Of the
devil, though it is capable of demon
stration that Republican Congressional
Committees, local and national, have
been handling A. P. A. literature,
though Of late secretly. and finally with
a bold denial that they have been or are
doing anything OF the sort. 1t is
known positively that 2.379, 500 copies
of the pamphlet containing the speech
Of Congressman LINTON, of Michigan.
in defense Of the A. P. A. in opposition
to Congressman WEADOCK's expose of
the orders oaths Of feslty and secret
tenets, were placed to Unions credit
in the House folding room and that
enormous quantities Of this A. P. A.
literature have been and are being sent
out under the franks Of Mr.. LINTON
and Chairman BABCoCK through the
agency OF the Republican Con-
gressional Committee, which under
took the work OF distributing
these A. P. A. pamphlets together with
its own campaign stuff. Aud through
The agency Of the National Committee
the local Republican Committee has re-
ceived and distributed large quantities
OF this A. P. A. literature. II the IN
tclliqepcer does not know this it is blind,
and when it denies that a member Of
that Republican committee was instru-
mental in bringing Prof. RUDOLPH, al A.
2. A. lecturer, to this city 1t is either
ignorant or guilty Of de-
li6erate falsehood, and furthermore,
when it states that the president OF the
local A. P. A. did not speak from the
Republican stump with DovENER,
WHITAKER and other Republican can
didates as an A. P. A. but as Republi-
can, it is guilty Of the most transparent
deception and falsehood, for the A. P.
A. is especially organized for political
purposes, and when its president takes
the stump he does so in behalf
of the political organization
of which he is leader, and he has
spoken from the Republican stump, be-
cause he is Republican and because the
local A. P. Ais an adjunct to the Repub-
hcan machine. In this State the A. 2. A.
has no ticket OF its own. In some
other States it has separate tickets, in
others it has fused with the Republican
party; in still others it has captured the
Republican machine, as it has IN Ohio
county, where il was able TO turn
down at least one Of the regular Repuo-
licsns slated and substitute its own
man on the Republican county ticket.
VIII the IIltclligenccr deny that Mr.. Il.
F. BEHRENS had been fully assured
place on the Republican ticket as
representative OF the large German.
American element in this county? that
he was by all odds the strongest man on
the Republican slate? that the Hteth-
Gencer's representatives. in the conven-
ton worked for him tooth and nail, but
we're defeated, aud Mr.. BEHRENs turned
down because he was foreigner" and
an American born and bred" put in
mis- placs?-though Mr.. BEHRENs is as
good an American citizen as any man
who took part in that convention.
Does the htelligeHcer mean to say it
does not know what faction beat it in
It's own party convention, nor that it
was the same faction that worked
through the snti-foreigner plank
in the Republican platform? II
il does not know that that
faction represented the local branch Of
the same A. P. A. that secured the de-
feat Of the anti-sectarian plank quoted
above in the New York Republican
Convention; the same A. P. A. whose
pamphlets the National Republican
Congressional Committee has sent out