The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-20
INSULT TosWoRNNGMEN.

o EsshNeF'ht bhu Dcnucthuc '1e.saVs So
Indiana, ,Denounccs Isrya,s for his In-
suits to American iNvsrLn,ci--F Fusion
With Popnilsts Also Denounced. ",
Pittsburgh Dispatch: Hardly any
more severe blow has been dealt TO 'th,
| Bryan campaign than the letter OF s.
p. Sheerln. of Logansport. This Is botb
on, account of the man who wrote the
letter and the character OF the letter
itself MI ,4'S "a !, Z. ,5,l 3 b
Mr.. Sheerin Is one OF the Democratic
! wheelhorses In Indiana. and Is a power
In the Democratic section where he
lives. He has been a worker on the
state committee for twenty, years, and
has done active work on the Democrats
| ic National cXecutivG&in past presiden-
man to bend the knee'to Organism Is n
significant Indication, especially at
this stage of the campaign, ,t.s Z!
OF the telling character of the letter
the render can judge by some extracts
from II, the whole document being one
which would occupy. q couple OF col
umns ofsthe Dispatch. He i|rsttIad-
dresses himself to the fusion deal be-
tween the Popocrats and gPopulists. 'i3a
IT regard the action Of. the Indiana
| Democratic state committee In retiring
| five OF the duly nominated Democratic
electors and supplying their places with
five Populists, taken from the Populist
electoral ticket, as the most Infamous
political proceeding ever attempted or
contaminated IN this state. FL.
1T is In violation OF every Demo-
cratic faith and contrary to everygrule
OF Democratic practice. It Is wholly
without precedent and absolutely
without authority.
Speaking for myself shall not
vote the Bryan-Sewall-Wats elector-
al ticket. owe much to the Demo-
cratic party OF Indiana. and, having
| reached the above conclusion, 1t Is pro-
per that frankly state why shall not
do so. am Democrat, and intend to
remain Democrat. am not a Pop
ulst, and do not intend to become a
Populist. The vital principles of the
two parties are dramatically opposed.
There can be no coalition or fusion be-
tween them upon principles.
Turning tol'the national aspects Of the
campaign, Mr.. Sheerln expresses him
self in even stronger language. He
says:
THE situation In Indiana has its
counterpart In every other state of The
union where sacrifice of principle TO
| greed for office has been possible. This
has been campaign OF degrading In
fuence from the beginning. The Presi-
DENTAL candidate has appealed to the
prejudice and hate Of men rather than
to their intelligence and love Of coun-
| try.
Posing as the special champion Of
labor, he has insulted the dignity and
manhood Of 100000 wage-earners OF
the country.
The presidential nominee Of the
| Chicago convention has marked out a
different course for the labOrlrg men
Of this country than that for which the
old party has 50 nobly and consistently
commended, and has sought to rAegnte
the worliingman to a plane almost as
low as that occupied by the slaves, Of
the south before the war. -
Could anything be more degrading
or humi!lating to an honest man, earn
Ing his bread by honest toll. selling
nothing to his employer but his time
and skill, than being told tn public
speeches by a candidate for the highest
office in.the gift OF this free and en-
heightened people to meet attempts at
coercion not by manly and vigorous
assertion Of personal independence and
political equity, but by a cringing ex-
hibition of meanness, cowardice and
hypocrisy. 5ii5l
Put on their buttons and badges
says Bryan, Join their clubs and
march In their professions. pretend to
be a Republican. but You have the
Australian ballot law In this state, and
when You are alone with your Creator
You can vote your sentiments. don't
care II you are Republicans every 9TH
or day in the year, so that you are
Democrats on election day." q
| Gould anything be more Insulting to
american manhood than this? No man
who ever worked with workingmen for
a living could have given utterance to
| such a degraded sentiment. 1t Is UNI
manly, un-American and ur-Demo-
cratic, and should meet its proper re-
bukc at the polls"