Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-07-25


Makes Some Statements Con-
csraing News Sent Out from
Fairnont, and Used by the In
.eI;igencer-The Situation Gloomy
for the Strikers in the Kanawha
Vallsv-Reports That the Situa-
ton in the Norfolk & Western IS
= Being Suppressed.
Special to the Register.
Fairmont, W. Va, July 24.-Mon-
dav will settle the results Of the efforts
Of the organizers in the Fairmont re-
gion. To-day was pay day at the Wat
son mines and tonight many a keg OF
beer has been carried to the miners
homes and many a schooner has gone to
miners over the bars. With a slight
degree OF intoxicatiOn the excitement
Of the situation will appeal to them,
and they will probably not go to work
Monday. 'If they do go to work Mon
dav." said Senator Camden to-day, "all
the organizers in the country could
not get them out" The Senator's opin-
ion is held by the large majority OF
the people here and it may be author
itatively stated that if the miners do
not come out that day the leaders will
never return 10 this district from their
Aconference at Wheeling.
''The effort then will be, said an or
Aanizer to-day. Ito stop the railroads
from hauling the coal. and Ratchford
saws that can be done. That, Of course,
will be our last blow, but you will find
if the men in this district don't come
ont that Ratchford has never yet
PLAYED a trump. The strike has just
begun"
That the operators await the coming
of Monday morning with anxiety they
a hAn~asues do not deny. On the action
he men that day biRses M6reheld,
HlIl.a---s-TuTuer from that place, to-
Ny. "All they have been waiting for
was to know what New England and
Montana were going to do and private
meSsengers bore them cheering word
lafter the speaking here last night"
At MOnongah many Of the men say
openly that they are going to work
Tuesday If the men in the region don't
sjOin them in the movement.
A prominent business man said to-
Hay: Il believe the organizers will sue
Reed in getting the men out Monday.
! -
|hight but when / see men march six
miles and back after midnight I know
n hey mean business. Ratchford is
blain-sp6ken and his words have had
meet"
To-day Debs and Mahon did not go
TO Clarksburg, but sent Rae instead.
They are resting up for the four big
meetings to be held tomorrow. THE
men are coming out sure" said Mahon
tonight; "mark the prediction"
This morning Debs was told about
Burdette saying ne was not a Debs
man. 'Well. l am a Burdette man"
said Dehs. "and I think him one Of the
grandest men in this country"
This morning. fifty OF the strikers
from MonOngah went to the West
Fairmont mines to try to induce the
men employed there not to go to work.
After a long party, every man went to
work, and the MonOngah men marched
home disheartened.
One Of the Watson miners. speaking
for himself and others. tonight said:
eve will work Just as long as there is
rOrk to do. We will carry Winchester
lies to and from the mines and will
hve them handy to use in case the /
ne is attacked"
"The Intelligencer quotes so freely I
om the Pittsburg Disaatch's side Of
e Deb's interview" that the Regis
man called on him at his Dollar +
ptel' and asked for the facts in the |
Sc.
ut is rarely that I ask space in a |
gwspaper," he said, "to correct mis- |
presentations. but the Register has
BEEN so fair with me that I cannot but /
be honest with it.
'T wired the Register that no such
interview was had and this the Dis
patch admits by stating that the same
interview was obtained by Mr.. John
NJ Maxwell, representing the Chicago
Tribune. I am glad Of this for the sake
N Mr.. McKirdv. for on arriving here
he work Of Mr.. McKirdy was com
mended to me by Mr.. Mahon and others
and must admit that the reports Of
Mr.. McKirdy which came to my notice
nreviaas S to the alleged "interview"
ntirely fair and IN all regards
Die 10 himself and the paper
esents. Fhis will account for
rprise upon reading an alleged
ew signed by him. which 7 never
q which I shall show did me
Injustice.
nit me to saw" he went on. that
hal is not made on my own per-
ccount. The cause Of the strug-
miners. which have at heart. and
may be injured by false reports.
De my apology for this commune
Il for the fact. On arriving here
axwell. Of the Chicago Tribune,
how well he knew me during
icago strike. Before seeing Mr..
I'm I was told that an intimate !
Of mine was here representing
hicago Tribune may have met