Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-20

1had issues, closfly drawn and clev-
erly presented. This year they have
Hanna and the proposition to reward
him for services which thousands of
Republican voters admit shame-faced-
ly that he rendered
The result is that thousands of Re-
publicans, probably enough of them to
overcome the meagre majority of 1896,
will vote for Democratic representa-
tives to the Legislature. They stom-
ached Hanna and Hanna's methods
to secure the election of a President.
but they will assert their manhood
and rebuke his elevation to the Senate.
The Republican bosses are moving
heaven and earth that Democratic
candidates Ter, the Legislature may be
: feffated. Hanna and his lieutenants
I've caused the word to go forth that
epublican committeeman and work
whose bailiwicks do not show I'D
II in the election may expect moth
at the hands of the administration.
oh Hanna makes no bones of as
ng to control. There are postmas-
ehips and other Federal appoint
ents all over Ohio that will not be
iyen out till after the election has de-
ided which applicant has done the
Est work for Hanna. Notable among
Them are Martins Ferry, Bridgeport
and Bellaire. In each of these towns
there are dozens of applicants and
their friends working teeth and toe
nails to get creditable showing before
the Great Boss when the time shall
come for him to tell Mckinley which
~>Were the most faithful servants and
which contributed most to Hannas
vote getting.
The methods to which they are re-
sorting are of the most despicable
character, but nowhere are they so
low, disgusting and discrtditable as in
Bellajre, where the fight is against
John Campbell, an honest, capable
union workingman, who has been per-
secuted repeatedly for both his poll
tics and his unionism, and who is now
not only the Democratic candidate for
representative, but the endorsed, prais-
ed and beloved candidate of the work
ingmen of Belmont county as well.
Campbell is steel worker by trade,
and for eleven years was employed by
the Beliaire steel works. During that
time, on account of his capacity to
present their grievances in the best
light, and to declare for them with
the greatest force their demands. he
acted as committeeman for the Anal
gamated Association, and was fire.
quently on the carpet before the heads
of the corporation that employed him.
1t is not charged by his employers
that he was not courteous in present
ing the claims of his fellows nor that
he was unduly insistent, untractable
or boisterous. But he is a union man
and a firm believer in the right of
workingmen to organize and demand
from their employers what they deem
justice and equity. He also believes
that strikes as last resort. which en-
ployers refuse recognition or Confer
ence, are necessary.
Last fall Campbell, who has ALWAYS
been an unfiinching Democrat, was one
OF The heartiest supporters of Bryan.
free silver and the Chicago platform.
The above are two bf Campbelrs
strongest traits. =
Both are traits which are not pom
nlar with at least a nart of the man
\ agement of the Bell lire Steel Com
Kpany; facts proA2 not by Camn-
eii assertion the bare asser-
OF hlsN feilo vorkmen, but by
u the men erred to in both
recent andEe tie past.
en- II can for Campbell to
LOT MS ton at the steel
~ Kew go, the company