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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22

the fiscal years ending September 30,
1899, and September 90. 1900. exceed
the appropriations for the fiscal years
1893 and 1894 by 100000, an increase
OF more than forty per cent. in six
years, while the legitimate increase
should not have been more than ten
Ter cent, leaving balance OF $780,
Coo to he charged up to Republican ex-
travagance In other words, the peo-
pie are paying an average OF nearly
quarter of a million dollars more per
year for the privilege of Republican
rule than they were called upon to
pay for Democratic government, not
only equally good, but better. In real
ity, the Republican administration, in
justice to the people, should have re-
dIced taxation, for it has had largely
Increased receipts from sources other
than direct taxation. For instance.
the receipts from corporations under
MIR. Ohley were S159.427, under Mr..
Chiffon $298,S93, and under MI. Daw-
son, Republican, $456,s52. This shows
tremendous increase in this form of
State revenue, and the difference might
have been applied to relieving the
great body of the people OF some of the
burdens imposed upon them through
taxation. On the other hand, despite
the assertion of Col Fitch to the con-
trary, the burden of taxation has been
increased over a large section Of the
State through an increased assessment,
and notably so in the larger and most
populous counties of the State. Col.
Fitch appealed to the people to think
over these matters. We hope they
will, and that they may be iaforme;l
as to few of the facts in the case.
we submit the figures quoted above.
There are others, too, equally as per-
tinent and important When apollo
gists for the present Republican admin
istration in West Virginia commence
to quote figures, they are putting wea-
pons into the hands of the popular OPP
position.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22
CAPTAIN J. S. BROWN AND
HIS HANDSOME WIFE.
Have Left Toronto After Gaining the
Acme of Social saccess-,rhe Cup-
tain Wanted In SteubenvtIle.

tain wanted Ia SfeubenvtIte.
Special TO the Register.
TORONTO, O., September 21.--Capt.
j. S. Brown, late proprietor OF the
Windsor Hotel, the largest In the city,
is mysteriously missing as Is his hand
some wife. The couple came here last
Spring from Pittsburg, and took charge
of the Windsor. They made quite a
reputation for the hotel and cut wide
swath in local social circles. on ac-
count of their sociability.
The Captain would probably weigh
1926 pounds and was yeritable Apollo
belvidere, while his wife was CORES
pondingly large proportioned and hand
some. They soon gathered about them
those socially inclined and the hotel
became very popular.
In connection with the hotel was a
bar, and this. got the Captain into
trouble.
He was recently arrested at the In
stance of the prosecuting attorney and
taken to Steubenville by two officers
and charged with Illegal liquor sell
ing. He gave bond in the sum OF 5000
and yesterday, the day OF the hearing,
he failed to appear and the bond was
declared forfeited. 1t Is said the couple
returned to Pittsburg.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22
FOUR NEGROES LYNCHED.
They Were Participants in an Outs
rageous Robbery In which "a
Woman Was Brutality Beaten.


NEW ORLEANS. La, September 81.
In Bloody" >Tangipoah Parish last
night. four negroes were hanged after
the jail in the village of Ponchatoula had
been broken open and the prisoners, ac-
cused of robbing the family OF Henry
Holfeber, had been taken from their
cells Mrs Louise Holfelter, who re-
sisted the colored men, was choked and
beaten so numerically that she lost
her mind. Wholesale lynchings are
feared. The men lynohed were:
Isaiah Rollins. aged Is; Nathaniel
Bowman, AZ: Charles Elliott, 20; Geo.
Bickham, 20.
There were fourteen coIored suspects
in the Pontchatoula Jail accused of
various robberies. Last night at nine
O'Clock a committee of white citizens
called on Sheriff Nix and demanded the
keys to the Jail. The sheriff refused to
produce them. Axes were brought and
.ae jail was immediately broken open.
Four suspects were hanged TO tree
about two blocks away after being made
to confess having participated in the
burglary of Holfelter's house.
Not until seven O'Clock this morning
were the bodies cut down. Meantime
the coronerS jury returned a verdict or
death "by unknown hands,"
Citizens secured the parish through
out the night arrestlng all the negroes
they could get their hands on. These
were crowded inbo the little Jail at
Pontchatoula and a wholesale lynching
is feared.
Mayor Jackson and the sheriff arc
using every means to restore order. but
are making slow progress. The better
element among the colored population
is fleeing to the churches, where the
time is being spent in prayer
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22
Much Abuse OF oIney.

Springfield Mass. Republican.
The attack on Mr.. Olney because Of his
support of Mr.. Bryan takes general differ
ent lines Ire is brutal" in his comments
on Mr. Mckinley; he wants to be the
Democratic candidate himself in 1904. when
he will be In his SEVENTEEN year; he hash t
voted in Boston since 1895: he wrote a
magazine article that our national "lso-
iation' was thing OF the past. and. con-
sequently. he has no right to think the
acquisition Of the Philippines a blunder;
he is the original imperialist himself. be-
cause he forced England TO treat q. small
nation as she would a big one. Mr.. Oh
ney takes all this trouncing and says moth
ing. declining resolutely to be interviewed.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22
SENATOR H0AR on RECORD.

IN the United States Senate April
It'll, 1900, Senator Hoar, Republican,
said: (see Congressional Record, Page
1856:
Il believe that, if not to-day or to-
morrow, yet at an early day, better
knowledge of the facts, the light of ex-
perience. the love of liberty and justice
which still burns in the hearts of the
Republican masses in this country,
will bring that party back to the prin-
ciples and policy upon which it planted
itself in the beginning.
We are told that if we oppose the
policy of our imperialistic and expand
ing friends we are bound to suggest
some policy of our own as substitute
for theirs. We are asked what we
would do in this difficult emergency
It is a question not difficult TO answer.
/ for one am ready to answer it.
"Q) / would declare now that we
would not take these Islands to govern
them against their will.
"(2) would reject a cession of SOW
areignty which implies that sovereignty.
may be bought and sold without the
consent of the people. Spain had no
rightful sovereignty over the Philip
pine Islands. She could not rightfully
sell 1t to us. We could not rightfully
ouy it from her.
"(3) / would require all foreign
governments to keep out of these ISL
ands
60 / would offer to the people of
the Philippines our help in maintaining
order until they have a reasonable OPP
portunity to establish a government of
their own.
"(5) would aid them by advice, Fl
they desire it, to set up free and in
dependent government.
"t6) l would invite all great powers
of Europe to unite in an agreement
that their independence shall not be m
terfered with by us, by themselves,
of by any one of them with the con-
sent of the others. AS to this am not
so sure should like quite as we'll
TO tell it is not to be done whether they
consent OF not.
go / would declare that the United
States would enforce the same doc
trine as applicable to the Philippines
that we declare as to Mexico and Hayti
and the South American Republics. 1t
IS true the Monroe doctrine, doctrine
based largely upon our regard for our
own interest. is not applicable either in
-erms or In principle to distant Asiatic
territory. But undoubtedly, having
driven cut Spain, we are bound, and
have the right to secure for the people
we have liberated an opportunity, I'M
disturbed and in peace. to establish a
new government for themselves.
"(S) / would then, in not distant
future, leave them to work out their
own salvation, as every nation on
earth from the beginning of time, has
wrought out its own salvation. Let
them work out their own salvation, as
our own ancestors slowly and in long
centuries wrought out theirs; as Ger
many, as Switzerland, as France, in
brifer periods, wrought out theirs; all
Of them within century, some of them
within the life of generation. TO at
tempt to impose freedom from without
on any people is to disregard all the
lessons of history. It is to attempt.
" "A gift of that which Is not to be given
BY oil the blended powers of earth and
Heaven"
100 l would strike out of our
legislation the oath of allegiance to us
and substitute IN oath of allegiance to
their own country"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22
Issue of Vital Moment.

ST. Louis Republic.
The vote to be cast in November will de-
eide whether or not we are to hold fast to
our old doctrines or accept those which
control the course of the European mon
arches. On the side of adherence to
American faith is honor. the truest glory,
the stability of free institutions. the spread
of liberty, our continued growth In great
ness. On the side of an adoption of the
creed of the old world Is imperialism, mill
itarism, grinding taxes, the eternal men
ace of war, the hatred Of all peoples, the
final extinction. of liberty.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22

Mrs. C. F. Kerr, the wealthy widow
of a Wall street, New York, broker,
had a recent unpleasant and very
strange experience in the Adirondacks.
She was out boating with Mr.. Bailey
of Philadelphia, when somebody on the
shore fired a rife shot. The bullet
passed under the arm OF the guide in
the beat, through Mr.. Bailey's body,
and then through Mrs. Kerr's right leg
Mr.. Bailey may possibly recover, but
Mrs. Kerr has lost her limb through
amputation, the bone having been
badly shattered. The man who fired
the shot was attempting to hit deer.
He's about as bad marksman as the
average woman who throws stones at
a dog
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22
A FEW FACTS.

The Inteiligencer still maintains that
II stands for the law" bat it neglects
to add the specification that it stands
for that sort of law which meets out
swift punishment to the poor man and
winks at the unlawful acts of the big
corporation engaged in wholesale rob-
berry of the people. The Intelligencer
belongs to that class which favors
nominal sentence to him who steals
millions or violates sacred trusts, and
gives the thief of needed suit of
clothes the full penalty as an example.
The element of justice is lacking in
the case of man, like Captain Car
ter, for instance, who stole a million
and half and got five years imprls-
onment, and the man who steals goods
valued at twenty-five dollars and also
gets five years. The majority of the
people are not very much in love with
that sort of law. And they don't take
kindly to government by injunction,
either.
The trouble with the Wheeling In
telligencer and others of it's ilk is, that
while it pretends to be very solicitous
about the welfare of the workingman
about election time, It's whole sym
pathy Is with the trust and monopoly
element, and the interests OF the COM
bines and the interests of the common
people are not the same. The Intelli-
gencer and the party it represents has
no sympathy for labor, except in-so-
far as it may secure the labor vote
to further the interests of the few. And
the workingman is observing this I'M
doubted truth, and seeing it, is wond-
ering how he could have been bam-
boozled for so long.
The Republican party, under its pres
ent management and with it's recent
and present policies, cannot. in the
very nature of things, have anything
in common with either the wage work
err or the farmer. The two elements
are wholly incompatible. They will
no more mix than will oil and water.
The Republican party depends upon
two ideas for success. One is the con-
tinued pretense of working in the in
terests Of the people. The other is
the cash contributions Of capitalists
and corporations and the money wrung
from the helpless office-holders. I'm
less the voters can be fooled again all
the money in the country won't save
Mckinley. Unless they get the money,
false pretense will not be sufficient TO
prevail. They must succeed upon both
| points-humbug and falsehood as to
| their attitude, and have large slush
fund besides. The National Commit
tee and its agents are attempting the
one thing, and Mark Hanna Is accumu-
lating the coin. But neither Hanna
| nor the Committee have achieved any
marked success as yet. The people are
apathetic as regards the Republican
cause. Wage earners look askance OF
smile In most discouraging manner
when Republican stumpers tell them
how prosperous they are and how much
the alleged grand old party has done
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22

Washington Post.
Without any military experience what
ever-unless we count few months with
the cowboys in South Dakota or chance
visit to some militia picnic at Peekskill.
N. Y.-he plunged into the Spanish-Amer-
lean war; showed the regular officers how
to attend to their business; instructed
General Shafter very fully as to every
move in the campaign; charged San Juan
hill and captured it sngle-handed, and
even went so far as to give the secretary
of war several very valuable hints at
time when the latter was all at sea and
did not know which way to turn for safe
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22

for them, while the capital Of the coun-
Try bess to be excused when Hanna
passes the contribution box. The cor
porations contributed millions four
years ago, where they only give him
hundreds OF thousands now. The cor
porations are managed and controlled
by shrewd business men, and they
know the conditions are altered. In
1896 they had something to gain, and
made the investment, well knowing
that under MciSinleyism they would
be permitted and helped to form the
great combines we have seen come In
to being during the past three years.
They were well aware that Republic
can Congress would not deal with their
designs in the interests of the people,
and that Republican President would
never advocate any such legislation
or sign a really dangerous bill should
it by any chance pass. Now they have
gotten all they could possibly desire,
and see no necessity for making the
costly effort of four years ago. The
eyes Of the farmers and wage earners
have also been opened. Republican
dinner pail prosperity" is delusion
and fraud, as every farmer and work.
ing man who gives even cursory
glance at the facts knows. If earn
ings, in ssme instances, have increas-
ed a small fraction, the cost OF neces-
saries has increased in far greater pro-
portion. For instance
Flour, per bag, $2.15 to s2.75; in
crease of about 3. per cent.
Sugar, per pound, to cents; in
crease OF about 40 per cent.
Oil, per gallon, II to 10 cents; In
crease Of about % per cent
Clothes, increase Of about 25 per
cent
Tobacco, per pound. % to 35 cents;
increase of about So per cent.
Soup meat, per pound, 9 to IA cents;
increase of about sc per cent.
Veal, per pound, II to 16 cents; in
crease of about SO per cent.
Beefsteak, per pound, IL to Is cents;
increase of about SO per cent.
Ham, per pound, IL to Is cents; in
crease OF about IS per cent.
Crackers, per pound, to 10 cents;
increase of about 100 per cent.
Condensed milk, three cans for %
cents, two cans for 25 cents; increase
of about so per cent.
Shoes advanced, increased of about
80 per cent.
Rubber boots, per pair, from $2.25
to 1925; increase OF about A per
ce.t.
Stove coal. per ton, $3.50 to $3.50;
increase of about 81 per cent.
Chestnut coal. per ton, 81 to $3.50;
increase of about $50 per cent.
Ginghams, per yard to cents; In
crease of about 60 per cent.
Average increase of about 90 per
ee1t on the sixteen articles in above
list
Increase in living expenses, so per
cent.
Increase in wages 5s4t,dT
And how about the man whose wages
have not been increased under this be-
nign Republican regime? And what
of the man whose earnings have ac-
tually decreased? What prosperity ar
gument can possibly apply to them? Or
to the great body of the people?
There has been great prosperity to a
few, but it has been the prosperity en-
bodied in the Biblical phrase: For
whosovere hath, to him shall be given
and he shall have more abundance;
but whatsoever hath not, shall be taken
away even that he hath" The essence
of Republican prosperity is contained
in that sentence, and the people. know
it fully and realize it well.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22

FOxBORO. Mass, Sept 2l.--David
Lewis Shepard and his wife. an aged
couple, who have lived In this town
for many years, were found murdered
in their beds this morning. their
threats having been cut with a knife.
Their son. William r. Shepard. AZ years
Of age, who has shown evidences OF In
sanity for some time. Ii missing, and
there is reason to believe that he COM
mitted the crime. while mentally de-
ranged. Mr. Shepard and his wife were
each about IS years q age. and quite
Well-to-do-
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22

New York Herald.
The practical joker is generally a good
natured fellow with certain asinine ten
denotes which are irresistible. His idea of
fun is that of man who has weak
heart and soft head. He laughs till he
bursts button when he sees his victim
misery, but the medicine he gives he is
never willing 10 take. Altogether he Is a
poor creature who ought never to be let
out of the cage.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22
Old Earl Lii will bear watching.
Christian Atrocities in China.


Atlanta Constitution.
Whatever the apparent exigencies Of the
military situation, little good can come to
the cause of Christianity IL the soldiers of
the Christian nations are allowed to car
ry on warfare after barbaric methods.
The fact that such methods have been
resorted to by barbarian armies in the
past-even the fact of the murder and
rapine by the Chinese hordes-does not
warrant this kind of reprisal. The pun
ishment of an armed enemy in open war
fare is one thing; the robbery of nom
combatants, the burning of villages and
the terrible crimes against innocent wom-
en- constitute another and entirely differ
ent thing and one which brings black
blot upon the name of whatever nation
may be involved through it's soldiery.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22
Hanna's Money Campaign.

Washington Times.
1t is not strange that 1t is still hunt
that Mr.. Hanna is mostly engaged upon.
He is necessarily calling upon the trusts
for more money. He is using it prudently,
but upon schemes which eat up money as
freely as does a hay rick. Just what
those schemes are we do not know, or,
knowing, do not care to say at present;
but those who had opportunities to watch
the campaign of 1896 critically may per-
haps feel justified in guessing.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22
THE FETTEKs OF TRUSTS IN POLL
TICS.

Before the end of tie present CAM
paign the country is likely to witness
scandalous Illustrations Of the extension
to politics and government of the chok-
ing and lettering power which the
trusts have already displayed so plain
ly in the industries of the United States.
These great combinations of capital for
the purposes of monopoly will not be
content to remain quiet through a
struggle which. concerns them as vitality
as does the choice between William Nc
Kinley and William j. Bryan.
1t will be in order, before election
day, to convey to The wage-earners en-
ploy5d by the trusts pointed hints that
their interests will be served best by the
success of the Republican ticket. The
trust magnates know their friends
They do nos cherish any foolish doubts
as to the relative value and effective
ness of the efforts Which both of the
two great parties have promised to
make to correct ills which the country
suffers at the hands of the monopolis-
tic, giant corporations of the times.
Then the tremendous weight of the
pressure which trusts can bring to bear
on their political enemies will be better
understood than it is now. Then the
wage-earners of the United States, to
the number of scores of thousands, will
feel the terrible one-sidedness of strug
Cling for any liberty of action against
employers who control practically the
whole market in which these working
men can hope to sell their labor.
The very immensely OF the new in
dustrial giants of the times is calculat-
ed to undermine political independence
in the United States. 1t is overawing,
paralyzlng, TO anita gonisits who are only
separate units in the mass of many mil
lions of poor men dependent, like them
selves, upon their daily toll for bread.
tories were controlled, for the most
part, by separate and. independent own
ers, the wage-earner who was unfairly
treated in one place always felt that he
might find work, though often at great
personal inconvenience and sacrifice,
in some other city or town. Now he
faces gigantic combinations, with rami-
fications far and wide, which may cas-
lily deprive him of all opportunity to
obtain employment in his own field of
labor. 1t is no light matter to risk the
anger of such masters by refusing to
vote as they please to direct those who
are dependent upon them for chance
to earn living.
This may easily become the very
worst form of trust tyranny and, the
greatest of trust perils. 1t strikes hard
at the very foundation of American lib
erty, and 1t threatens to make ten men
in control of monopolistic combinations
of capital more powerful in the affairs
of the government than ten thousand
workingmen. If that state of things
shall come to pass, there will be peril
Gus times, indeed, for the republic.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22
Why Mckinley Quotes Himself.

Omaha World-Herald
1t will be cheerfully confessed that Will
liam Mckinley will find more to bolster
up his cause in the writings of William
Mckinley than he will in the writings of
Abraham Lincoln. This explains why Nc
rNipley quotes Mckinley and ignores Lin
coin
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22
SEEKING HOMES.

TACOMA Wash, Sept 21.-TIun-
dreds CT land seekers from the central
west are arriving at Brewster. Okano-
gon county, to secure locations In the
Colville Indian reservation, which VIII
be opened for settlement on October
10. Between 5000 and 5000 settlers
will enter the reserve.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22

Memphis Comuercial Appeal.
The theory that Mckinley is a divine
healer who can mend the price of cotton
and corn. restore health to the markets.
ward off the hog cholera, enlarge the
goober crop, make the hens lay eggs and
the cows give milk. create famines abroad.
present the country with $500. 900 Of gold
and act as a universal hair restorer is
receiving some severe jolts.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22

The Akron, Ohio. grand jury, inves-
tigating the recent riot there, examined
one hundred and eighty witnesses and
one arrest has been made. at this rate
the majority of the guilty parties have
very little to fear.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22

Dovener says the only antitrust leg
islation we have had came from the
Republicans. And under that anti
trust legislation the trusts have -four
ished like green bay tree, and we
have fifty times as many as ever be-
fore. Does the Captain really expect
people having common sense to take
that sort of statement seriously?
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22
1t Is Not q Joke.

Atlanta journal.
Roosevelt is trying 10 treat Imperialism
as a joke. This is in accord with the Re-
publican plan of campaign. but 1t does not
divert that attention of the people from
the great issue now before them.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22
Captain Dovener says:

There is no such thing as imperial
ism in this country. There is no such
issue"
Wonder If the Captain really ex-
poets anybody to believe that sort OF
thing?