The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-05

! have talked with the train hands on
the Ohio Central and the Baltimore <
Ohio roads, and they assure me privately
that the bulk OF their associates are for
Mckinley. because they believe that free
silver would utterly ruin the railways
and destroy their occupation.
Men who have been all through the
coal mines within the last week-Im-
partial men who are not mixed UP In
pOlitics-say that the miners are heavily
for Mckinley. The labor OF West Viz
Ginla Is not az n rule organized, and can
not be dominated by walking delegates
or purchased by leaders. All the great
coal operators and all the small opera
tors are against Bryan. and they have
done every thing In their p~wcr to cdu-
cate their employees on the financial Qucs-
ton.
Even In the widest and shaGgiest will
dcrnesscs Of the south and east the Re-
publicans are standing fast. In Logan
county. where the old Confederate feel
Ing Is still strong among the wild and
lawlcss hill men, there arc many Demo-
Gratis who have abandoned their party
this year. while not Il single holtcr has
been reported 20 the Republican commit
tee. All through this savage region.
which witnessed the Hatfield Mccoy
border war-a land whose hills and val
leys arc rcopled with men fierce and
scornful OF human life-the silver cause
hns failed to make Roadway. and surely
here. II anywhere, the revolution might
be expected to gain power.
| have myself In other years ridden
over these mountains, and | found the
conditions OF lie almost medieval.
Here little patches OF corn arc raised
upon hillSldcS so steep and so unfertll.
as 10 amaze strangers. Family Quarrels
and bloody vendettas are frequent. a
justice OF the peace once tried u man
for murder and sentenced him to be
hanged. II there was any part Of West
Virginia where Bryan might hope TO
find friends, It was In this uncnuth and
inhOspitnble nclEhOorhood. But even
the unlettercd mOuntnInccrs have re-
fused TO yield to the craze.
The Various Stntr Tickets.
There are five state tickets In the field.
The Democrats and Republicans have
nominated full state tIckts. besides o n
| grcsamen. The sound money Democrats
have named Palmer and Huckncr cleo
tors and Will print the Democratic state
ticket on their ballots on condition that
sound money Democrats are TO be per-
mltted to speak at free silver Democrat
Ic meetings. Then there Is the Prohibit
ton tIckct-presIdcntlnl. congressional
and state. The Popullsts. who will pro-
badly indorse bryan. have nominated n
full state ticket and have named con
gressmcn In the First and Fourth dis
tricts, while In the Second and Third
districts they have fused with the Dem
ocrats.
The Republican candidate for Eovcr-
nor. G.. W. Atkinson. Is making Il hard
fight. General Watts. the free silver
candidate for governor. Is sick in bed.
The Democrats In nearly every county
say that unless they get a heavy cam
pnign fund they are lost. II Is the same
story | hnvc heard In many other states.
The party II dcmorallzcd. lcadcrlcss and
beaten. Mr.. Bryan may make n few
votes during his tour through the state
this week. but West virginia will give
her vote to Mckinley.
The cUuntcnance Of Stephen b. Elklng
IL n pleasant thing to look upon In these
days. ! have heard him complain Of
poverty. II may he true that the Re-
pnblicnnB will Hood West virginia with
money In the last week Of the campaign,
in order to roll up n crushing majority,
but the state Ia undoubtedly Republican
ns 1t stands, II gave n Republican mn
jnrlty OF more than $4,000 two years nEo
when the break In the Democratic party
was thrilling compared TO tho present SIT
nation.