Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-01
OH WHAT A ROAST.

S. P. McCallmont, of Oil City, Pa,
one of the founders of the Republican
party, voter of 1856 and one of the
Oldest members of the Venango coun-
ty bar, has replied to a letter written
to him by Periv s. Heath, in charge
of Republican committee affairs in
Chicago, in which he literally skins
the Mckinley administration alive.
The full text of the letter follows, and
it is good enough to read and then be
passed around to neighbors and
friends:
ITO Republican National Committee
Gentlemen: Yours of October 10, with cir
cular 1nclosed, came duly to hand. l am
sorry to say l cannot sign the circular.
THE political acts of Benton and Cal
houn are now history, and We, although
old and feeble, live in the present. The
usurpation and disregard of the constitu-
ton and laws of the nation by William
Mckinley are present and unblushingly
awowed, and We're indorsedby the aggre-
cation of politicians who nominated him
at Philadelphia, and who assure us that
he will if elected do in the future as he
has done in the past.
How has that been? He has been over
three years in power, and no effort has
been made by him to control the railroad,
telegraph or other corporations. He has
crippled the Civil Service law and per-
mitted the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion to be snubbed and insulted until it
is useless. He has said no word and done
no deed looking to the enactment of a
graduated income tax, but every meas
ure that would tend to make the rich
richer and necessarily the poor poorer has
been sustained by him. He has appoint
ed commissioners to whitewash his Off
GERS, and when evidence was given that
compelled the conviction of one of them
the notes of the evidence were suppressed
and the sentence of the person convicted
from office on full pay of $4,000 per year
Truly the hypocrisy of Mckinley is only
eualedq by his impudence. l cannot see
how. the SANDER of Lincoln in 1864 can be a
justification for Mckinley in doing far
worse things than Lincoln was accused
Of
The Republican party as organized in
1886 had ceased to exist Organized to
make men free. incorporating IN its plat
form the immortal declaration that all
men are endowed with the inaiienable
rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness that all governments derive all
of their just powers from the consent of
the governed and denouncing slavery, po-
lygamy and the doctrine that might
makes right, the aggregation that has
stolen its name is engaged in ensaving
millions of people by one of the most
cruel, unnecessary, unholy, unjust, illegal
and unconstitutional wars ever waged
And 1t is being carried on with so much
drunkenness and debauchery that the
Americans are being rapidly destroyed
by disease, while the Filipinos are being
killed by thousands, all of which William
Mckinley, as, Commander In Chief of the
army and navy, could prevent by a word
The supporters of Mckinley are the
party of the rich, of the corporations
trusts and swindlers 1t is too rotten to
reform. and if not checked and destroyed
a few years more will see this the basest
of nations, the country of a very few rich
men and many miserably poor, held N
subsection by that most effectual and
fatal of all enemies of liberty a standing
army There is nothing safe while such
men rule; life is uncertain liberty is lost
and hope expires"
The letter has created a sensation among
Republicans, who are amazed at the
strong denunciat:on by Mr.. McCailmont