Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-09-14
THE CAMPAIGN op INTIMIDATION.

So fragrant has become the abuse OF
inumidating labor on the part OF the
single gold standard plutocrats that even
the official head Of the Knights Of Labor,
! General Master Workman J. R. SOver-
eign, has felt called upon to make official
protest against the infamous outrage
against the rights Of American citizen
ship and American manhood. He pub
fishes in the Silver Knigh,-Watchman,
of Washington, D. c., lengthy article
giving his reasons for such action in
detail, which he prefaces with the fol-
, lowing card:
/ ONCE Of General Master Workman.
ORDER OF KNIGHTS OF LABOR,
Sulphur Springs. Ark. Sept. =, 1895.
Editor Silver Enight-Watchman Wash
ington, d. c.:
I Dear Sir: In the DOUBTFUL STATES
of the Mississippi Valley EVERY klND
/ OF THREAT possible TO carry out Is be-
/ ing IMPOSED on THE LABORNG
| PEOPLE TO whip them into line for Nc
Einley and the single gold standard.
I WORKING PEOPLE everywhere VINO Ia
vor free silver ARE THREATENED
4 WITH DISCHARGE because OF their po-
litical opinions. II seems 10 me very i'm
/ uOrtant that We should command the labor
/ hcld and / hope through the aid or friends
/ of our cause TO be able to begin operation
at Chicago not later than September %.
| The CONTINUATION OF FREE GOV
| ERNMENT IN AMERICA DEMANDS
| THAT WE WIN THIS FIGHT FOR THE
PEOPLE. Hoping 10 receive your en-
| couragement and support in the work l
| have undertaken, l remain
Respectfully yours.
Holm r YER EI(fN.
G. NJ. w.
The men in the employ OF every rail
road in the country, with very few eX-
ceptions. and The employees. also, OF
many establishments. great and small,
/ throughout the United States, are wit
nesses to the truth of the above state
m Mt. Many of these employees who be-
| lieve in free coinage of gold and silver
according to the Constitution, are act
ually afraid to open their mouths on the
subject. for fear Of discharge and the
consequent loss Of support for them-
selves and those dependent upon them.
This is in no sense an exaggeration of
most d.sgraceful and alarming situa-
tion-alerming. because, when the plain
: American people, who are mainly The
men who work for wages in the cities
l. and the men who ill the soil in the
country. are by any msans deprived of
their free choice in our elections then
and there is an end of popular govern
ment. Of government by the people and
for the people, and We will have sub
situ,ad for this government of our
fathers a government Of special ana
privil =ged classes. who alone will con-
troll the suffrage and make the laws.
This would be intolerable TO any sane
American who had any knowledge of,
or respect for, the sacred institutions Of
his country.
Our gold friends may call it arraying
the mass $ against the classes if they
will. but That will not alter The plain
and undeniable fact that it is enc of the
CONTINGENCIES that confront the Amer
lean people in the present campaign. TIE
intimidation Of labor in every section Of
the country is in progress to-day with
view of influencing the votes Of the men
who labor, in ths coming campaign. Il
constitutes the worst insult that could
possibly be offered 10 the intelligence
of labor or to any free man. l, is these
cowardly in,imidators, who are engaged
! in yelling anarchist and "repudia-
tor" at honest workingmen and farm
ers. VINO are the real anarchists. the real
repudiators Of American institutions.