Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-12-01

lthey turned to ID 'lnoeracy, as did the
bankers and trugI in 1892. when they
became suspicious of BENJAMIN Harri.
lson,s unfavorable attitude toward
them. he having refused to vote the
anti.sherman trust law and expressed
lopinions unfaVprable to their none
Itary designs. From that day he was
doomed, but the eople never dreamed
LOT the solidarity fof plutoeracy's oppo'
sition to- the reelection of the man
under whose administration more Ia
ibor was employed a: a greater rate OF
Iwage than in a like period in the his.
tory of the nation, and the balance OF
TRADE over other nations, in our favor
Twas greater thalls;eyer before, reach
ling sos, DOC, 600. The masses of the
|deluded Democracy do not yet realize
THAT the election Of Grover Cleveland
was clear case of "cold.decking'
them. He was no sooner installed in
Ioffice than he declared that the anti
TRUST law was unconstitutional and
that it could not he enforced, and he
never tried it. He called an extra ses-
sion of Congress to repeal the Sher-
man Silver Purel using Clause, alleg-
/ ing that it. was responsible for the
panic through Which we had passed.
..Ingratitued is fhe basest of all
crimes and the subsidized press
which is owned b, the trusts has made
| a political -scape goat and football of
Cleveland ever siace, using his admin
listration as great Bugaboo to
brighten the people into supporting
their chosen candidates on the other
side. History repeats itself. The
press not long since adroitly, on the
Democratic side, boosted the Dragging,
brutal bully, Theodore Roosevelt, who
had served then Tor seven long years,
assailing mans IL iyate characters. de-
Tending trusts, beiraying the people,
protecting political criminals who
crouched under his sheltering wing is
now the subject III ridicule ;.nd even
calummy, heaped upon him by Wall
Street and the other selfish interests,
until stunned into speechlessness Gas
incredible as thaa may SEEM the
covering coward # Sagmore Efill, and
San Juan Hill is, sulking from sight
and no longer to i.e seen by reporters,
whom he- formerly met with the ex-
ILLUMINATION, "Del';=g=h-t-e-d to see
you" IT,
Rehabilitation of the. trusts forces
made necessary by the opposition OF
insurgency, it, sought re-inforcements
from the Democratic ranks, where it
found a most caTdial welcome, with
the rallying ranks, ready and willing
to defeat every ;nsurgent who had
voiced his opposition to the iniquotus
Payne-Aldrich Tariff Bill, OF which
they complained, and with "Ghouldish
glee," the tumbleabugs with golden
wings are emerging from their
sretreaI of ''inocuous de-
suetude" and wtfh smiling counter
ances they embrace the Congressman
elect, who are nc " busy deluf'ng the
dougt nut Democrats with expressions
of thanks for the wisdom they dis
played in making selections 'of men to
represent the masses (omitting the
mp in the last world.
The trusts and>sorrupt corac rations
will do little Accommodating and
take a few chances with Democratic
leginsiators, taken on probation, as
they are well fortified by late appoint
ments on the Federal Courts, SO they
need have no fear that adverse !egis-
lation can run the gaunt4eet.
In ours, the First Congressional Dis
trict Of West Vi,;rinia the Standard
Oil Company, Baltimore & OHIO Rail-
Grad company, he Fairmont Coal &
Coke Company and al THE subsidiary
branches of the Standard Oil Com
Lany. known as gas companies, that
have hitherto, for many years, sup
ported Republican, candidates, sudden
" reversed steauf and suppor,sd John
w. Davis, congressman elect Lv about
$500, as against a Republican ma
lority of 3,700 two years ago. Quite
an uprising of the trusts. The success
sor to w. P Hubbard is stopping over
with lengthy "sufsssions" 70 the dear
people, expressing his sincere thanks
for the Overwhelming victory. which
caused smile To reach from the
farthest pumping station in Wost Vir-
ginia to John D. tPockefeiler's honest
~ visage in New York. The same
John w. Davis appeared before the
courts when the liberty Of Mother
Jones. rs years Of age, was at stake
and for herl voice in behalf OF the
miners. served time in the prison cells.