Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-10-25
WERE FOR BRYAN.
RaiIroaders Who Represented the Silver
Cause, Yet dad to Come to Iowa Yester-


day.
1t is altogether probable that at least
One-half of the railroad men who came
to Wheeling yesterday, in response 10
the movement headed by the big cor
pOrations, ware Bryan men, out and
cut, and will vote for the candidate OF
The people on election day.
Yesterday afternoon, after the arrival
of big train load of railroaders from
Pittsburg, a committee OF five OF the
men called at the Register office, pulled
Bryan badges out of their pockets, put
them on, and announced that they were
Bryan men and that two-thirds Of their
fellow workmen, who thought il besc
to come to Wheeling on a free political
trip, were the same way. One Of
the committee said:
I'VE were laid off for to-day, and I'M
derstood that it would be a good thing
for US 10 come TO Wheeling. But we
are not out a, the Park Casino, as you
can sse, and there are scores of others
who are not there Ii didn't cost a
cent to come, and we came, but on cleo
ton day mark Us down solid for Will
lam Jennings Bryan for President. We
have 10 do pretty much what the Com
pany officials say fore election day,
but on election day well do as we
please"
Three cheers and a tiger for the B. &
@. railroad men,
After the above delegation had left
the Register Office. another railroad
man, wearing a yellow Mckinley badge.
called and stated that he was secretary
of a large Bryan and Sewall club al
Wall Pa. composed of railroad men.
This club included many members who
have always been Republicans, but will
vote this year for Bryan and free silver.
He said that every member of the club
was in Wheeling wearing yellow badges,
having been instructed to come, and
were tod that unless they did come that
they would be regarded with disfayor.
Fearing that they might lose their jobs,
they decided to attend and take in the
free trip, but on election day they would
vote as they wished.
These are only a few instances OF
many. Another railroad man from
Newark, o.. who also was in line yes
a.
q Register reporter that the railroad
men at Newark were practically unit
for Bryan. There are a great many
railroad men at Newark, as the B. & o.
shops are located there. This party
with whom the Register reporter talk
ed is a gentleman Of veracity. He gives
some interesting figures as TO the
strength Of Bryan and Mckinley among
the railroad men in his town.
He said that in the blacksmith shop,
where thirty men were employed, there
were only three Republicans; in the car
shop, where tWenty-fCur men worked,
there were just four Republicans; in the
foundry there were twenty-eight men,
and not a single Republican. He said
further that every one Of these men at
tended the railway mems gold mass
meeting yesterday and wore Mckinley
badges.
Another rai,roader among the large
delegation from GlenwoOd, Pa, stated
that half of the men who came to
Wheeling and who worked in the Glen
wood shops were Bryan men. A young
man Of the same delegation said he
worked at BIduuOck, Ia, where OdI-
negie's great steel plant is loca,ed. He
said that the men employed in Brad
dock mills were coming over 10 Bryan
in large numbers. Several large ex-
cursions of mill men had gone to Can
ton and came back home cheering for
Bryan.
There is no doubt that the reports
which have gone over the country that
Bryan men We're wearing Mckinley
badges and marching in Republican
parades are based on fact.
Seeing and hearing is believing, and
there is not the leas. doubt that thous-
ands Of working men who to-day are
yelling for the Canton hermit and dis
playing yellow colors, VIII on election
day vote for William Jennings Bryan.
Last night as the railroad men were
marching through the streets under ban
hers bearing McKinley's picture IT,
spectators on the sidewalks were as
founded to hear many of them cheer for
Bryan.