The evening times., 1899-01-11
D0LAN TRYING TO OUST
PRESIDENT RATCHFORJ j
JEALOUSY CAUSES THE ROW
Head of the Miners Union Accused
OF Trying to Use the Organization
1sr + for Political Eacrt.

of Trying to Use the Organization
esf for Political Eject
The factional strife that has develop ID
in the United Mine Workers Con. euti IN,
now in SESSION at FEtsbarg, p.o. isss
scme interesting disclosures.
Dispatches nom t-ti-oGrs tOaay t.y
mat "hat is known 10 tae l. - DO IL
wing OF the n4ne4s oIs.n.I. l.o "a
spa ung an attempt To .Olle .>.tiO.aI
President RatchIoId olt Ci Lie con, :
tcn. 1ney Dasv .lu4. ar -ume4t Oh lie
TACT tnat Mr. HatlA Ok. Ia, .ce, a.
membership on tul Mt o..a. IN u trIal
Commission no" II wurh ln t4is c ty, AMI
that hIs retention o. t.- OIH - .. y =
dent oG the NaIioAa. NJ ne n o.. r. a
soclatlon is coAtIaIy To rue. aA- N 4.e
is no longer emitted 10 pa. t.clp-t- II tie
deliberations o1 the n4Iners IN On.
Mir. katchford left :, as. II tyA % .,-on-
day to attend the f.tt-bu . s-t.eri-.
he was cogniZant of the l->t -, [ i VI ter
fight vas 10 be made on u.... aAd w-aI
prepared for IL. lis assoo.4t-s e
Industrial Commission aid .lca
here are watching the strugs.e
terest. The story leading up 10
tempt to oust Mir. Rat,hforu is .on, U.ie
Ii found its inception in politics and IA
CUsy, If the statements OF aIr. R.tcn ord
friends are correct.
Pat Dolan is an aspirant for the Office of
president OF tie National Mine Workers
Association, winch position MIR Ratchford
ROW occupies. 1t is understood tnat Mr.
Ratchford wants to see John Mitchell of
Spring Valley, illinois, succeed TO the pres
idency. Mr. Mitchell is now vice president
of the organization. The Doian faction
have injected politics into the fight. They
claim that Ratchiord is a Republican and
that he is scheming to secure an admins
tration for the miners that can be depend
ed upon TO aid that party when it needs as
sstance.
Ii is said that this reasoning found root
with the old Mcbride contingent who il is
alleged, are open enemies OF iiatchford and
jealous of the latter's successful manage
ment of the miners organization. 1t is
recalled that the administration OF Mcbride
fol!ed in its methods and conduct of the
great miners strike of 1894. But notwith-
standing the jealousy of the Mcbride ele-
lAent and their alleged inexcusable oppo-
sltlon. Mr.. RatchIord has succeeded in
getting himself elected 20 official positions
IL the miners body with marked regularity
from 1882 until the present. Leaving his
picks in the mines of Ohio for local official
position he has advanced continuously to
his present leadership
/. L. Lewis, who is associated with Do
Ian in his fight on Ratchford is a brother
of ". I. Lewis, who was State commits
sioner of labor Then MIR. Mckinley was
governor of Ohio. w. T. Lewis. when Mr.
Mckinley became President, wanted the
position OF Commissioner of immigration
Mr.. Mckinley gave the place to Mr. Pow
derly. MIR. Lewis was much disgruntled.
New his brother is said TO ba using him
and his friends to aid the satisfaction of
Doian's ambition.
A close friend of Mr.. Ratchford in his
city, who understands the mining situa-
tion from end TO end, said this morning
that The Dolan-Lewis set were doomed to
failure. Mr.. Mitchell. whose cause Mr.
RatchfOrd is espCusing, is, he claimed. a
Democrat and that nearly all of his lead
ing adherents in the mining presidential
contrCTersy are of the same political COM
pleXiCn. Hence the charge that Mr.. Ratch-
ford Is engaged in an effort 10 elect a lead
er who viii turn the mining association TO
use for Mr.. Mckinley in his political of-
forts is absurd. MIR. Ratchford. this
friend said was for Mr.. Mitchell because
he knew him TO be an able and honorable