West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1904-12-15
THE WAY HE DONE 1T.


companies in Fayette county for
"Tax Reform" and for which the
Wheeling Intelligencer paid him
such high tribute, is myth and
creation of the editorial brain.
With the negroes and the coal CON-
panies at Hero billions command il
did not require superhuman effort
on the part of Dillon to produce
good results In Republican county.
1t turns out that the Wheeling
Telegraph, one of the strong Re.
publican papers of the State, has
some inside information how the
coal companies fought Dillon and
Tax Reform in Fayette county. 1t
will be another eye-opener to the
farmers of Preston county who vote
the straight Republican ticket be-
cause they have been taught and
educated by the Bosses that it is an
objectionable sin TO vote for a Dem
ocrat. They will be at the mour-
ner's bench two years hence seeking
change Of heart when they discov-
er how neatly they have been trap
ped by the so-called tax reform
which our own Uncle Joe Davis and
Cousin Baldwin Freeland helped to
enact.
We will let the Republican Wheel.
ing Telegraph throw a little lime.
light on the way in which the coal
companies, steel trusts and other
corporations fought Dawson and
Tax Reform. We quote from the
Telegraph that the Republican far
merS may judge for themselves if
the Democrats misrepresented the
tax issue:
The story is told, which has been
common property for weeks past,
that some days prior to The election
a deal was entered into with the
Standard Oil Company and the great
steel Trust, which controls the Flat
Top coal region, and various other
monled institutions, which were
affected through the enactment of
the tax laws at the special session
last summer, by which they practi-
cally named the tax commissioner
IN lieu OF their support for the Re-
publican candidate for Governor.
The appointment of Mr.. Dillon sub
Stimulates the allegations beyond
peradventure, and the Republican
party today is treated to a fine
example of the trading process on
the part of gentlemen who espoused
tax reform to the limit, and who
evidently colluded with the very
corporations they feigned to be
fighting.
If the Republican farmers and
laboringmen can extract a droy of
comfort out of the manner in which
their party is held in bondage by
the corporations and trusts then are
welcome to it. They are always
willing to give the party another
trial, and each succeeding trial sinks
the party deeper in the mire of
political perfdy. They laugh at the
discontinue of the Democrats in
Their defeat, forgetful Of the fact
that in helping to defeat the Demo.
Gratis that they are defeating the
party which would have enacted
laws which would have been bene.
fetal to them as farmers and labor
ing people.
When we endeavored to impress
upon them the gravity of the situa-
ton, and cited to them that the new
tax laws were dictated by the cor
porsilons and railroads, they scorn-
ed our citations and characterized
them as Campaign lies" Now
that the monied interests have tn
umphed once more they grow bold
and demand the appointment of
ofhcers promised them and the en-.
actment Of legislation which will
enable them to add to their millions.
The Standard Oil people care moth
ing for political parties unless they
can handle them and use them 10
enhance their interests. They will
not contribute political campaign
fund TO a political party unless it
pledges itself to do nothing to iniure
the interests Of the Standard Oil
Company.
There is one thing about the in
famous, and they are aothing ifI
they are not infamous, tax laws, and
that is that they will bear equally
as heavily upon the Republican
farmer and workingman as the Dem.
ocratic farmer and workingman. In
this respect they are placed on an
equality and when the Sheriff pre-.
SCENTS the tax receipt the Republican
viii not be ia ibat happy frame Of
mind 20 laugh at his Democrat
friend and twit him about "cam.
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