The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-08-21
As to Comm reial Travellers

It may be true that number Of
Democratic commercial travellers who
supported Mckinley will vote for Bryan
this year, and that many Of them will
still refuse to trust Bryan. 1t may also
be true that some disgruntled Republ!.
can knights Of Gthe road" Wills turn
their backs on prosperity and walk in
the paths Of the foolish, but one thing is
certain there will not be $4,000 OF them
who will follow their erring brothers,
as has been claimed by the Democratic
press OF the country, Inspired by Il
Bryan cdictj sent out from Lincoln, Ne.
braska. .s:i.' n
In! tttl connection the Buffalo News
has had some real fun with one OF Its
New York contemporaries. The cata-
ract Journal, OF Niagara Falls. The
Journal was SO foolish In defending
Organism the other day to remark
that "the News, OF course. has nothing
to say about the commercial travellers.
The secretary Of the national organiza-
ton Informed Alr. Bryan the other day
that $4,000 commercial travellers have
been thrown out Of employment as a
result OF the operation of trusts, and he
said that Ill Of these men would sup-
port Mr.. Bryan. There is no doubt that
most of.them WILL" n. 81. 3 X II
The News after fully digesting the ut
terance comes back at the Cataract
Journal with an appetite for more OF
the same stuff. 1t says:
There is not q word OF truth In what
the secretary says. II the secretary said
anything like the above. The CONNER
cial travellers never lost o situation
through any act Of the Republican
party. Those who were thrown out of
employment by the trusts, which. 1t Is
now shown, are Democratic more than
they are Republican, found employment
again either as owners of opposition
trusts or as agents for new business
combinations which grew out OF the RI
valry engendered by the purchase OF
the old establishments and organiza-
tions.
( The good times which President Nc
kinley's protective tariff brought upon
the country opened new revenues OF
trade, and the commercial travellers
have reaped a reward as well as other
industrial representatives. The prom-
Uses of 1896 were kept to them as well us
to other workers. Commercial travellers
are gathering in club organizations IN
New York and elsewhere. The News
told the other day of splendid club
organization Just formed in New York
City, whose monday meetings are at
tended by larger crowds than can
gather In the hall on Broadway used for
the headquarters OF the club. Mckin-
ley and Roosevelt clubs IRE being
formed by commercial travellers in Chi
,cago. Boston,, Philadelphia and other
cities throughout the country.
This matter of the $4,000 commercial
travellers, out OF employment, Joining
the Calamity" band OF MINISTRIES to
sing doiefui songs for campaign pur-
poses is more conducive OF humor than
serious remark, for it is story thrown
GU; from Lincoln. where the ready
writer's for Bryan are manufacturing
stories at which they laugh as they cast
them broadcast upon the country.
But the following from the Lockport
Journal exposes the true inwardness Of
the secretary's story, which IS taken in
dead earnest by the Cataract Journal.
The Journal says: 80
THAT. commercial traveller who at
tempted TO organize q Bryan CONNER
cial Travellers Club in Buffalo on satur-
day night, and who failed because he
could find no Organized commercial
travellers, has now advertised for some
IN the Buffalo papers. Pretty hard
lines when one has to seek the want
columns OF newspapers TO run down n
few of those $4,000 travelling men who
have come over to Bryan this year"