Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-06

Issued by Hon.. r. n. Carskndon to
Leading Republicans.
Following is the full text of the chal-
lenge issued by Hon. T. R. Carskadon.
Prohibition candidate for Governor,
to Senator S. B. Elkins, A, B. White,
Republican candidate for Governor; A.
G. Dayton, Republican candidate for
Congress in the Second district; Gov
ernor G. W. Atkinson and others. The
I~ntelligencer refusing to print this
challenge, the Register gives it public
ity:
A Challenge.
The Honorable S. B. Elkins, having
in his masterful address. in 1885, be-
fore the Alumni of his Alma Mater,
the University of Missouri, speaking
by invitation latter a years time for
preparatory on the subject OF the
antagonism between labor and CAPT.
tai, said, endorsed by James G. Blaine
and Whitelaw Reid, this war be-
tween capital and labor must cease or
1t will wreck our whole industrial
system and social fabric" saying at
the same time that every advance
upon the part of the people, every
eeform in their interest, has been
resisted" that reform and reyolu-
ton begin with the people and new
with rulers" that rulers (partiesJ
are content with power and 40 not
want a change" saying further that
1.-The time is close at hand when gam
bling in stocks and products will be
put under more wholesome restraint;
when refined receptions and dishonest
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law as crimes and punished according
(which crimes, instead of being
%restrined, have, by permission of his,
the dominant party of the country,
spread like the green bay tree until
the business of the country has become
a seething mass of robbery of the peo-
pie for the enrichment of the trusts.
Believing and knowing hat every as
sertion made by the Honorable Senator
as quoted from his profound and phil
osophical address, except as to the re-
straint and punishment of trusts, is true
l charge that as a leader of his great
party, now controlling this State and
nation, he being recognized as the head
OF the party in West Virginia, he and
the party are deliberately resisting and
opposing the greatest reform of the age
in their opposition to the people and
party that stands for the prohibition
of legalized drunkard making-the
damnation of 100, 900 souls annually,
and worse than waste of one billion and
a half dollars of the peoples substance
each year-and of which all orthodox
churches of the land have repeatedly
declared cannot be licensed without
sin, and which his great party organ,
the New York Tribune, says lis a curse
more debasing and degrading than
slavery or polygamy, lying at the cen
ert OF all social and political mischief,
silencing the voice of religion and sad
dening millions below the plane of
healthy saveagery," and which Secre-
tary Window, deceased, said was polit-
ically, financially and morally the
greatest issue before the American peo-
pie and the destruction of which he
said most truly Stands NEXT on the
calendar of the worlds progress" This
opposition of his party, as theoretically
he admits, being solely for the retention
of political power.
Having been honored as the guber-
material candidate of the people and
party striving for advancement and re-
form in their interests, | challenge the
Honorable Senator and my able and
distinguished competitor, A. B. White,
or any other Republican leaders or
speakers of national reputation to meet
me on the hustings anywhere in the
State to deny or disprove before our
S~OyereignS the DeODla the charges T
have made. WHEN THE DEMOCRATS
ARE IN POWER AND RESPONSE
BILE for like crimes and misdemeanors
they will receive like challenge and
treatment. / will furnish hall accom-
modations for debate and contribute
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS to tho
Galveston sufferers for each joint dis
cussion granted me. An early reply
is respectfully solicited.
Respectfully your friend,
I. R. CARSKADON,
Prohibition Candidate for Governor.