Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-26
Respectfully yours,
/. V. DELOCHE.
AN EXAMPLE,
OF How Corporation Influence is Being
Worked for Mckinley.
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Worked for Mckinley.
Weston, W. Va, October "a.
To the Editor of the Register
Sir:-For some weeks posters have
been generally circulated and cOnspicu-
ousiy displayed, announcing that Mr..
Atkinson and others would speak herd
to-day. 1t is called the Railway
Mems Ncn-Parusan Sound Money
Club" An arch has been constructed
across Second street, from which hang
the pictures of Mckinley and Palmer, as
an evidence of the non-partisan charac-
ter of the meeting. There is 10 be a
nOn-partisan sound money parade which
will march under the arch, presumably
under the pictures Of Mr.. Mckinley and
Mr.. Palmer with hats off. The speeches
are to be made by Mr.. Atkinson and Mr..
Adams. Republican sound money
speakers. Judging from the speakers,
il is manifest, however, that the whole
affair is under the auspices OF Mark
Hanna.
For some time before Mr.. Bryan was
at Clarksburg, we endeavOTed 10 secure
low rates on the railroads and insisted
that we ought 10 have a fare of 90 cents
10 ClarksbUrg and return. but the best
we could possibly do was 10 cents. For
the occasion of to-day, however, the
rates are only 90 cents from Clarksburg
10 Weston and return. In other words,
il is worth % cents more TO convey a
passenger from Weston 20 Clarksburg
and back than Dc Is To- convey him from
Clarksburg 10 Weston and return, not
withs-and.ng Weston is The center of tho
w. Va. a. p. railroad system. Rates
are 'ess in -he same ratio from all other
points.
A number Of Democrats who took
advantage OF the exceedingly low rates.
have noticed the difference In favor of
t0-d5y's meeting. and have remarked IT,
The name Of the organization under
whose 20 ended auspices the meeting
Is he'd Us THE Railway Sound Money
CLUB. bus Senator Cgmden was invited
t0 address the meeting N the name OF
"The Rai,say Mems N0n-ParLsan
Sound Money Club N his reply the
honorable gentleman says much about
money. and. indeed. the railway COM
pany which IS the moving power in this
with The money OF our county and town.
The county has made it a present Of
$4,000 as viii be shown by reference to
order Book No. 1, page 146. in the Of
fee Of our Clerk OF the County Court,
and the town has donated $4,000 to the
same object. The donations are called
subscriptions TO stock. When this
brilliant financial achievement was
worked. the railway company was
called a corporation, and the work 1t
was undertaking great public enter
prise. Freight trains are not running
to-day, the purpose being to afford the
men an opportunity to attend the meet
ing and march in the procession. In
other words, the public business is sus-
pended in the interests of the Republi-
can party. II is fair 70 presume, since
the company has gone out of business
and into politics for the Republican
party, it will be generous enough TO re-
turn TO Democrats the portion of the
$50, 900 voted and paid by them. We
would like TO have our share and think,
under the circumstances, we are en-
titled to It, Many Democrats wear gold
badges and march to keep their posi-
tons. who will as surely vote for Bryan
as November comes. No such high
handed perversion Of public power was
ever witnessed in this section, and in
timidation and coercion are in full force.
The desperate and combined fighs
against Andrew Jackson by the money
power In 1882 was but a tame affair as
compared with the corporate conspiracy
against Bryan to-day.
FOR RAILROADS IN THEIR PLACE.