Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-20
THE GOLD BUG CAMPAIGN.
A Few Samples of the Methods They
Are Employing.

BulldOzing, Coercion, and Bribery
Resorted to and Publicly Upheld
by the Gold Standard Newspa-
pers- Plutocratic Single Stand
ard Advocates Using Vile Means
to Scare Their Employees
Threats That the Australian Bal
lot is Not Secret-The Latest Re
publican Proclamation and It's
Value-The Records Postal Card
Ballot and What 1t Shows.
Chicago, October 19.-Three events
of recent date prove the utter despera-
ton Of the gold cause and its advocates.
In their utter defiance of common polit.-
cal decency and in their disregard
of public opinion the gold-bugs have
totally ruined whatever chance MIR. Nc
Kinley may have had of success.
The first, and perhaps the most sig
nifcant, was the threat made by Mr.
Edward Lauterbach, Chairman Of the
Republican Committee, Of New York
In a speech delivered by Mr.. Lauter-
bach az a millionaire's banquet in New
York City, last Saturday night, the po-
ltical boss of New York made the as
founding declaration that in the event
OF Bryan's success we will not abide
by that decision When confronted by
this statement in cold type, Mr. Lauter-
bach made a modification. He said,
we may not abide by that decision -
If this were the statement of some
irresponsible ward politician and not
that of an acknowledged leader of
large facion OF the Republican party,
it would have been of little cOnse-
quence. If Mr. Iauterbach stood alone
in The expression of this threat 1t
might pass unnoticed. But such is not
the case.
Thousands of gold standard advo-
Gates, not only in New York, but in
Chicago, and other great cities of popu-
latiOn and wealth, endorse the revo-
lutionary threat uttered by the New
York Republican leader. In every
fashionable club in Chicago this decla-
ration of war in the event of Mr..
Bryan's election has been loudly ap-
plauded and endorsed. Over wine
tables Chicago milliona!res have openly
boasted that in the event that they
are unable TO carry this election by
coercion. wholesale
BRIBERY AND VIOLENCE
ar the polls they will appeal TO force
of arms rather than submit TO the trl-
umph of the free silver cause. The
serene conf tence these men had sew
eral weeks ago that mOny could secure
the election of Mr.. Mckinley has dis
2DDeared They are now becoming
aware for the first time that the e.ec-
tiCn of Mr.. Bryan is inevitable, and
their rage and hatred knows no BOUNDS.
The second startling development IN
the open advocacy Of the gold standard
Drass Of coercion. In recent editorials
the Chicago Iuter-OCean and the Chicago
Evening Post brazenly defended and en-
courage coercion. In an editorial COM
meDtiug on the Crawford case at ST.
Louis. the Chicago Evening Post gives
utterance to an expression which IS an
insult TO the American people
In an editorial on this outrage the
Chicago Evening Post says
Mr.. Crawford can beat the charge
if he will 90 into court and claim that
he discharged his employees because
.heir announcement of an intention to
vote for Bryan proved them unfit to
discharge their duties inteil.gently.
The same paper has recently pub
Iished several editorials OF similar pur-
port ~
In a leading editorial published on
Saturday. September Il, the Chicago
Tnrer-Ocean makes this astonishing
s-atement. ct is true that a coercive
disnosirion has been shown by some,
Dprhaps many II is not only the privl-
lege but the duty of employers to explain
tbe business bearings Of the election to
those i'm their employ, that they may
vote in-ellgently. Such explanation IS
NOT coercion. Even when it goes so far
as 10 state positively that the election Oh
BRYAN would mean reduction OF, say
one-half of the force employed. Nhhe
-be Australian ballot insures immunity
from dictation. it would not be difficult
for an employer to find out to his own
satisfaction how his men voted. and
sbould he decide to reduce his pay roll
he would naturally want the men VINO
helped bring on the panic TO suffer.
THE THIRD DEVELOPMENT
i a}so found i'm the above editorial,
which states that under the Australian
ballot system il is possible for an en-
Dlover TO ascertain how his men voted.
This is an absolute falsehood. but from
now on the gold cOnspiraJors will circu-
late reports among their workmen that
the Australian ballot booths afford them
no protection. This is the most despis-
able outrage vet committed in the name
of "bonest money The Australian
hallo- boOrh affords absolute protection
AGAINST the bullying boss. be ne an en-
nlover or a ward politician.
The Republican managers nave mil
Hon. of dollars at their disposal. and are
s,endine money with a recklessness tha2
,,.iu land scores of them in the peniten-
tiarv i'm case they fail as they surely
VIII They are openly bOasting that
tbev have bought up the Democratic
i,5gas of election in Chicago; that they
nil have hired sluggers at the polls; th31
- fnacessarv they will break into the bal
io- hoo-bs and into the returns Of pre-
cincts which 90 agains, theu' ana mn
auv that. controlling the election ma
cb'nerv and the returning board they
viii vii roll up an overwhelming majority,
M matter what the original result may
If wild and unsubstantiated claims
could win an election, Nj. Mckinley s
triumph is assured. .-
'.1'ti-r5 TJF LATEST PROCLAMATION
came from c. J. Corey. Mr.. Corey has
been entrusted with the hazardous po-
s,rion of swinging the commercial tray-
80 go. ir-o line for gold. Inasmuch as 90