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The sun., 1900-10-06
Explosion Kills Two.

Shamokin, Pa. Oct. 5.-An explosion
at the Reury Powder mills near here
killed tS-c men and fatally inj lred am
lthcr.
The sun., 1900-10-06

Clam Chowder tonight at Shields sa-
loon, 5th street between King and
French streets.
The sun., 1900-10-06
General Markets.

New York, Oct 5.
FiotR r State and western inactive and held
from 10 to 2go. Above buyers views; Minnesota
patents. Si2oalGl; winter straights, S3.55a3.65;
winter cxtia,, S2.7la3; winter patents, SS70l4
WHEAT Nell and lower in response to bear.
ish cables, liquidation and easier northwest mar
kes December, - i1lGas27sc.; May, S59sas5%c.
RNE-Quiet; state, 5ja5dc., c. i. f., New York;
No. western, j9aic f. o. b., ahoat.
CORN-tluet, hut very steady on light offer
ings OF nearby property and fair cash demand;
December l2lsa12Ac.
OATS-Dull and steady; track, white, state, ga
3ic; track white western, 27a3ie
PORk-Steady; mess, $1325a4.25; family, Sl6a
1850.
LARD-Easier prime western stcam 7.17ihc
BUTTER-tiuet and steady; state dairy, 151Aa
20c.; creamery, 1Ga2lc.
CHEESE-Dull and weak; large white, lila
111sc.; small white, 11Aa11asc.
EGGS-strong state and Pennsylvania 1sa21c;
western, loss off, poe
SUGAR-Raw barely steady; fair refining, 4Ac;
centrifugal, 06 test &C.. refined easy; crushed,
g. l5c.: powdered, 5.s5c.
TURPENTlNE-Firm at 40laa4lc.
MOLASSES- Steady; New Orleans, 4Sa5sc.
RICE-Steady; domestic, 43sa6lac.; Japan, Az
a5c.
TALLow-steady; city, 47sa5c; country, AKA
tsc.
HAY = Steady; shipping, T5a77l5c.; good to
sloice. S2laaO9loc
The sun., 1900-10-06
Michigan soIons to Meet.

Detroit. Oct. 5.-Giovcrnor Pingree will
call special session of the state legisla-
turc to be convened ut Lansing on
Wednesday or Thursday of next week.
The object is to consider joint resolu-
tion authorizing submission to the people
at the general election next month of
constitutional amendment to permit the
taxing of railroads ana other corpora
tionS on the value Of their property in
stead of specifically upon their earnings
rs ut preSent.
The sun., 1900-10-06
National League Games.

Batteries-Scott and Peitz; Sudhoff
and Robinson. Umpire Emslie.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-30
THIS is THE PENALTY.

Yesterdays issue of the Intelligent
Ger contained the following in its edi-
torial columns:
The country is relieved Of a fearful
tension. At the Democratic meetin :
at the Grand Opera House Friday
night, a certain prominent lawyer of
Ohio county, of wide influence, and Of
alleged gold proclivities. solemnly
and with malice aforethought an
nounced to a receptive audience that
he would positively on the 9th day Of
November, between the hours of sun
rise and sunset, deposit one legal, IN
Influenced ballot for that grand cham
pion of rights of man, William Jen-
nings Bryan, of the state of Nebraska.
Pass the celery, please.
The gentleman thus flippantly re
fsxred to is Colonel Robert White, one
OF the best and best known citizens of
Wheeling. Four years ago Colonel
White was one of those who declined
to support Mr.. Bryan and the regular
Democracy, and cast his vote for an,
other presidential ticket AT that
time he was made much of by the In
telligencer, and there was great JOY
in the office of the Republican organ
over Col. Whites divorce from his old
time political friends. In the early
stages of this campaign Col. White
was treated with great Difference and
respect by the local administration
crowd They cared nothing for him
especially, but they hoped and believ-
ed that he would stand next Tuesday
where he stood four years ago, and
within two weeks the Colonels name
appeared in the columns of the Intel
ligencer as one of the vice presidents
of a Republican meeting-of course
without his knowledge or consent
The folks who compile long lists OF
vice presidents of Republican meet
ings from the city directory hoped
thus TO influence Col. White, as .hey
hoped to influence others by like
unauthorized use Of their names
But they were laboring under false
impression regarding CoA White, and
when they ascertained that he had re-
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-30

81 believe me Porto Rico Tariff
bill is unconstitutional and violates
all our agreements with the pledges
to the Porto acknowledgement
Edmunds.
~ regard the Porto Rico Tariff bill
as most serious departure from
right OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Har-
risOn.
'The attempt to make three-quar-
ter citizens out of the Porto Ricans
is certainly OriginaI."-Ex-Spea
Reed.
These distinguished men are all Re-
publicans, but they could not ard
cannot agree with the monstrous and
un-American policy of Mr.. Mckinley
as to Porto Rico. He has violated
both the letter and the principle of
the Constitution of the United States.
and yet has the transcendent assur-
ance to ask the people to indorse his
course. They will never do L. The
precedent is too dangerous.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-30

turned heart and soul to the Democ-
racy, the Intelligencer, out OF revenge,
and in the hope of intimidating
others, ridicules fim-not by name,
but in such a manner that eve. ybody
would know who was meant. And
ridicule or abuse will be the por-
tion of every other man, Republican
or former Democrat who may, like
the open-hearted, whole-souled and
considerable former editor of the
Wheeling Intelligencer, now deceased
and whose death was widely lamented
lby men of all parties, dare to carry
their sovereignty under their hats
and vote according to the dictates OF
conscience and from a conscientious
sense of duty. Time was when such
an article as that we quote from the
Intelligencer would never have APP
peared in the columns of that paper
But that was years ago. New men
are at the helm, and the conduct OF
the Republican organ is different
And as a result of the change no man
is safe from ridicule or abuse unless
he pledges fealty to the local ring and
the national administration through
thick and thin.
When Senator Wellington, of Mary
land, a Republican, announced his in
ability to vote the Republican ticket
this year, the Intelligencer denounced
him. and continues to do so. When
Hon. Webster Davis, assistant Secre-
tary of State under President McKin-
ley, came out for Bryan and the DEM
ocratic cause, with ample reason, the
Intelligencer threw things at him
and in its venom and small souled
craftsmanship ii has hurled invective
at others equally prominent. Col.
Robert White is the latest victim of
it's pusillanimity, and a like fate is re-
served for any other gentleman who
may elect to call his vote his own. If
they would escape the vituperation Of
the Intelligencer they must avoid
public or even private Indication or
how they are going to register their
political opinion on the 9Th day Of
November
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-30
Scott, actually believe and practice.


McKinley's Trust Alliance.
Pittsburg Post.
1t was reserved for United States
Senator Scott. of West Virginia, to
play the part of Burchard in this cam
paign in its closing stages. He is at
the head of the eastern campaign COM
mittee, with headquarters in New York.
and therefore entrusted with all the
secrets of the contest, so far as the bat
tie is concerned on the part of the Re-
publicans. Senator Scott has always
been under suspicion of being hand IN
glove with the trusts, and knows of
their contribution to the Mckinley
campaign, to be repaid by government
al favors. At the New York headquar-
tiers on Friday night. when the leaders
were gathered and indulging in brief
speeches on the outlook, Senator Scott,
in the course of his speech, used this
language:
81 believe in trusts. If it was not
for the Standard Oil Company. this
prosperity that We have wouldn't be
here to-day
When 1t became known that there
was a reporter present who had taken
down Senator Scott's speech, the lead
ers about the festive board became
panic-stricken. All the influence and
power of the party was set in motion
to destroy the political significance of
the truth as expounded by Scott. The
reporter was approached TO cancel or
discredit his own report, but he was
not amenable to such discipline. He
did his duty in taking down Scott's
speech on public occasion, and if the
West Virginian blabbed out what was
in his mind on him the responsibility
would rest, and the reporter would not
certify to a falsehood to extricate Scott
from his Burchardizing. no matter
what might be the effect in West Vir-
ginia, where the trusts are very i'm
portant and telling issue. Senator
Scott came out in a statement on Sat-
urday with the lame explanation that
what he said was in private CONVEX
sation, overheard and exaggerated by
the newspaper reporter This is the
usual explanation of laundering states
men, and in this case Scott blundered
by telling what was in his mind on a
public occasion and with reporters
present. 1t was probably intended as
an appeal for the enlargement of
trust subscriptions to the campaign
fund, with the distribution of which
Scott holds important relations.
There is nothing surprising in Sena-
tor SCOTS plea for the trusts and his
defense of the most powerful and ty-
rannical of the lot-that is, the great
Standard monopoly, which is engaged
in the work of aiding McKinley's cleo
ton with vast resources and energy.
and besides that is seeking to control
congressional and legislative elections
| in Pennsylvania. 1t is the private
boast of Republicans, when Offering
odds in the way of election bets, that
the trusts are with them in this can
vass, and therefore they cannot be
beaten. This being so, they must
shoulder the o6ium as well as reap
the benefits.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-30
FRAUD is INTENDED.

Every fair-minded man must be con-
WINGED that the Republican managers
in West Virginia intend to perpetrate
gross frauds at the election to occur a
week from to-day. Many things point
to this. One is the large number OF
strangers, both white and black, who
have recently made their appearance
in the villages and towns all over the
State. These people come from no one
knows where, have no visible means
of support, and yet they have money.
After election day they will disappear
as quickly and mysteriously as they
came-unless they are arrested and
locked up.
Another and convincing piece Of ".
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-30
SOME PRESS COMMENTS ON
SCOTS BAD BREAK.
Tinid Senator Scott.

Timfd Senator Scott.
Chicago Chronicle.
1t is a pity that Senator Scott OF
West Virginia lacks the courage of his
convictions, for he is worthy repre-
sentative of the Republican party.
When Senator Scott declared at the
Belshazzers feast given to Governor
Roosevelt. at New York Friday night,
that trusts were good things, he merely
put into words the sentiments which all
Republican leaders entertain, but which
they are too cowardly to express open
ly. He should have reiterated and
maintained his views instead Of seek
ing to hedge" when he discovered
that a newspaper representative was
present. That would not only have
been courageous but honest.
Scott and Fairchild on Trusts.
Philadelphia Record.
Senator Scott, OF West Virginia, an
active member of Chairman Hanna s
Committee, lacks the frankness of most
of his political associates in regard to
the Trusts. He takes needless pains
to deny that he said at the Roosevelt
dinner in New York on Friday night:
''The Trusts are a good thing" and
that he cited the Standard Oil Company
in support of his opinion. While he
produces Cornelius n Bliss and other
witnesses, who sat near him and did
not hear this, he half admits it by ex-
pressing his surprise that "a dinner
ko1, IL =
have been taken seriously and then so
woefully distorted" The reporter of
the Associated Press, who insists upon
the correctness of his statement. ap-
pears to have been unable TO tell just
when to take the distinguished West
Virginia Senator seriously and when
in jest in the matter of the Trust mon
opolies.
But why should Senator Scott be at
SO much trouble to explain away as a
jest what leading champions of the ad-
mlnlstration are seriously proclaiming
every day from the platform? To the
intelligent agent of the Associated
Press nothing could appear more natur-
al than remark of any supporter of
Mr.. Mckinley in favor of the Trusts:
and he could hardly imagine that SEN
ator Scott was merely indulging in a
poor joke. On that very night the re-
porter heard ex-Secretary Fairchsld
make a speech which was largely de-
voted to defense of the Trusts. In
this speech, as reported in the New
York newspapers, Mr.. Clevelands for
mer Secretary of the Treasury pro-
claimed that the Trusts were not only
a good thing but natural and neces-
sary outcome of quick transportation
and communication. The way to
abolish the business combinations that
have become universal" under this
evolution, he says, is to enact a law
forbidding the use of steam and cleo
tricity." This is not a much better
jest that that of Senator Scott about
the Trusts; but its author is not likely
to repudiate it. What Mr.. Fairchild
says of the Trusts, which he regards
as mere imaginary danger, is what
most of the leading supporters of the
administration, including Senator
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-30
THE SOLE QUESTION"

It is a question of business-self-pre
acknowledgements.
This is unexpected, but true. The
Intelligencer's declaration fits the case
exactly. From the administrative
standpoint it is merely a question OF
business" for the trusts, and of self
preservation for the office-holders.
The paramount issue, from Republi-
can standpoint, could scarcely have
been more tersely expressed. Bust
ness" and "self-preservation." These
are the Republican watchwords, and
make I'D the notices emblaZoned upon
the ensigns and standards of the once
grand old party. Liberty, equality, JUS
tice, patriotism, and a just considera-
ton of the rights of others no longer
have place and have ceased to be fac
tors. Business and "self-preserva-
ton" take the places once held by
larger and more patriotic expressions
in the minds of the office-holding
crowd, and the old-time appeals to the
patriotism of the people are relegated
to the scrap pile, to be there buried
amid dust and ashes.
1t is monstrous declaration-that
of the Intelligencer. The injustice in
Porto Rico is a mere question of bus
mess" The maintenance of the grasp
upon Cuba is merely business" The
conquest of the Philippines is ''busi-
ness" pure and simple, although it
involves the vassalage of eight or nine
majesty the Sultan of Sulu was bus
mess proposition, and the demand for
a standing army of one hundred thous-
and men, is, we presume, purely self
preservation" And there are many
other things, all of them in the line of
business" and "self-preservation,"
from the shameful delay in the punish
ment of Captain Carter down through
the defalcations of Rathbone and
Nicely, and the public scandals and
rank incompetency of every degree;
the expenditure of hundreds of millions
for conquest, the shedding of blood
the infliction of unmeasured suffering,
disease, and death and insanity: the
continuance of the war taxes, the prop
agation of trusts, the Gripping of the
civil service-all are in the interests of
business" and MISREPRESENTATION" for
an administration dishonorable in its
acts, and thoroughly discredited By the
people.
The Intelligencer is a good deal like
Minority Senator Scott. Governor
Roosevelt and Mark Hanna. If it
would only keep its mouth shut its
party would get decent burial.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-30
PARTIsANsHIP RUN WILD.

We wish to call renewed attention
to the bitterly unfair partisanship OF
the Wheeling Intelligencer, and partic-
ularly to remind the organized labor
of Wheeling and Ohio county that it
cannot now. as in the past, obtain
business or fairness at the hands of the
local administration organ.
The case in point relates to the In
telligencer's narration, yesterday
morning, of the proceedings of Sun
days session of the Ohio Valley Trades
and Labor Assembly.
dorsed the candidacy of John Kunkle,
of Brooke county, for State Senator,
and the Intelligencer's headlines the
following morning asserted that no
business of Importance was transacted,
although that particular piece of bus
mess was highly important to work
ingmen, for it assured them that a
representative workingman would OBJ
tain a seat in the upper house of the
State Legislature, and that there he
would watch over the interests of wage
earners. Workingmen would infinite
ly prefer John Kunkle in the State Sen
ate to S. George, yet the endorsement
of Mr.. Kunkle, in the eyes of the In
telligencer, was a matter of no import
ance
Last Sunday the Assembly held an
other meeting, and, always on the alert
to further the interests of labor and to
advance the cause of labor candidates,
as it should ever be-, it endorsed Mr..
John S. Byrne as a candidate for
County Commissioner in Centre district.
That ensures his election, and gives
labor a representative in the govern
ment of this county THE WHEEL
ING INTELLIGENCER FAILED AND
REFUSED TO RECORD THE FACT,
and its working and wage-earning
the fact save through the Register of
Monday morning or by word of mouth.
The information was deliberately with
held. against the interests of wage
earners. And this by a journal pre-
tending to publish the news of the day
for the information of it's readers.
What do workjngmen think of this
method OF reporting the proceedings of
a representative labor meeting? OF
necessity they can have no faith in
any statement such paper may make.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-30

| idence was the affidavits printed IN the
Register yesterday morning. The men
who signed these papers testified unuer
oath, and in the presence of witnesses,
that they were asked to come to West
| Virginia, and that the matter of vot-
ing would be arranged" That means
that arrangements had been perfected
for the casting CT dishonest ballots, and
(, that for every ballot so cast the vote
| Of an honest citizen of the State would
| be nullified. Several thousands of
these men are now in the State. Others
will arrive during the presen. week.
They will vote once, if possible, and as
many more times as they can. for they
! will be shifted along the railroads on
election day from one precinct to an
other and from one county to another.
But. one of the greatest evidences of
intended fraud is afforded in the fail
ure and refusal Of Republican Chair
man w. M. o. Dawson, to either ac-
knowledge or respond to the letter
written by Chairman James Miller, of
the Democratic Executive Commit
| tee, in which letter Mr. Dawson was
invited and urged to cooperate in an
effort to maintain the purity OF the
ballot in this State. Mr.. DAWSON
DECLINES TO ENTER INTO ANY
SUCH ARRANGEMENT. What is
the inference? 1t is fair one that he
knows what is going on, and does not
care to interfere.
THIS GAME OF FRAUD MUST BE
STOPPED. The good citizens of the
State, irrespective of politics and with
out regard to party fealty, ought to i'm
mediately combine and determine that
any illegal voter, of whatever party,
shall first be prevented from casting
ballot, and then be arrested and prose-
cuted and punished to the fullest ex-
tent of the law. And above and be-
yond that, the people who instigate
that sort of thing, who "pay the
| freight" and arrange for the importa-
ton of fraudulent voters ought to be
gone after in the United States Court
and landed in the penitentiary. That's
the way to stop this outrageous fraud
upon the rights of citizens William
NJ. o. Dawson, Chairman of the Repub-
lican State Executive Committee, re-
fuses to aid in maintaining the purity
of the ballot box. Then let the people
act for themselves. Watch every
stranger Follow him up. Challenge
| his vote If he swears it in, nab him
| for perjury as well as for illegal yot-
ing. Find tut who is at the bottom OF
| it. and then go after them. Get at the
root of the evil. And don't let up I'M
| til the doors of the penitentiary are I'M
| locked. and the warden's assistants
have brought forth the last suit or
striped clothing in stock.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-30

Did you ever notice the count OF
Republican clubs given in the local
columns of the Intelligencer? There
are always just even numbers-50, 40,
go, so or 100. We have watched the
columns of our truthful contempt
rary pretty closely, and have yet to
see that any command turned out
anything but even and round num-
bers. It's curious.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-30
THE PRINCE OF THE MASQUERADE

The Devil was dying of ennui:
SO he sauntered forth from his den,
Ana ne came by the Springs OF Mundane
And gazed on the Sons of Men.
And he sighed at the Centurv's ending.
For he saw the world at peace;
knack?
These piping times must cease"
III.
So he filched a Moralist's mantle,
And went on his jaunty course.
In his ra.ment fine. with the air benign
OF a Civiizing Force.
First be whispered word to the States
QUICK out with thy idle knifel
Else the People thy trust, will IN harness
Go. preach them the Strenuous LITER
OF people, that lived in quiet,
go, Benevolent Man, 10 that Primitive
And Assimila,e those folk"
And the Statesman sprang at the sum-
And donned his warriors coat;
Cried the Devil, "Hurrah"' as each man
With his hand at his neighbours throat.
VI.
And straightway the Prophets of Progress
Joined piously I'm the din
And the Devil cried, "Seel These Ny
Ministers be-
And this is My Chamberlain"
VIII
He slyly spake to the Rulers:
"Ts your ancient vaor cold2"
And the seas grew black where the War
ships track
Made straight for the shores OF gold;
Till the world was filled with mourning.
As they called for more and more;
And men held their breath as the pallid
Rode proud in the van of war;
Which so vastly amused the Devil,
That the tears ran down his face.
And he ,wwaagged his tail, as men cried
MAKE way for the Dominant Racer
XII
The Devil slipped into the Pulpit:
"'Tis the spread Of the Cross| no
And The iiesf Priest with nod asked tho bless
On me ! March OF the sanctihed Fist.
XII
With the voice Of the Peoples Teachers,
The Devil disguised himself;
"Hurrahr It rang. "A the bullets sang,
For Destiny, Duty and Peif.
XIII
He laughed at the Backward Nations
Dropt into the CouuucrorA NAV,
And he chuckled long a the Poets song
OF The Spread OF Chr.sts Word ana
Law.
XIV.
And he shook his sides IS he watched
Nor once did his soft laugh cease,
AS the Dominant Race ran its gnastly
In he Name OF the Prince Of Peace"
XIV.
so The Devil went back 70 bis study
Quoth he with wink and q nod;
sire the true way stll to do Ny WIZ
7sIs "a cali II the Work Of God
-McCready Sykes, In Life
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-30

Republican success in West Vlr-
gfnia means a renewed lease of power
for the political ring, the re-intrench-
ment of the office-holding few for
four years more, higher taxation, a
continuance of extravaganza and the
mismanagement of State institutions.
I'VE surely have had plentiful suffi-
cheney of those things.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-30

The trials of the Cuban carpet-bag
thieves has been fixed for after the
election although they could just as
well have been tried before. They
will probably be convicted. If Nc
Kinley should be reelected they will
probably be pardoned.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-30

There is nothing more painful to
contemplate in the present campaign
than the decadence of the Republican
marching club, as compared with for
mer years. The ranks are so TIN the
organizations remind one of regi-
ments returning from war after three
or four years of hard fighting.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-30

Have any of Mr.. SCOTS political
friends purchased any of the negroes
VINO sit around on the fences in West
Virginia? If SO, what was the pre-
vailing price?