Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-10-02
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A FeU Remarks

BY WALTER B. HILTON


LITTLE CHOICE is left you in voting this fall. You
will not be confused by multiplicity of candidates upon
multitude OF tickets There but four candidates and
four tickets.
For one, there is Julian G.. Hearne who, as member
OF the state legislature succeeded in killing the clause in
your present city charter limiting public franchises 80
years. thus permitting the Wheeling Traction company
slip you for half century-gettng free of
cost franchise worth millions to the SPECTATORS
lions that being taken out Of your pockets AS em
Der Of the State Senate he opposed the genuine Work
mems Compensation Bill that offered by the Trades
Assembly, in conjunction with the Business Mems Asso
caton the Municipal League and the Board of Trade and
tried to make the present weak farce weaker yet
the Introduction OF amendments that would have killed it
entirely and would have turned your sick and nur
ed workers to the tender erces of foreign insurance
porations He himself capitalist believing in the sys
TEN that rob you and be depended upon to continue
that SYSTEM by which he grows weather. while you grow
poorer.
For another, you have Mansfield NJ Nicely, corpora
ton lawyer who has given all his legal talent to weaving
about you the laws that hold you like fly in SPIDERS
web Not content with that he has been member Of the
State militia the organization which shoots you down if
you dare to complain about the conditions that Nicely
and his k prepare for you. He capitalist himself and
believes continuing to exploit you He is particularly
the candidate of Clarence W. Watson and the Consoda
ton Coal Company Of Fairmont and Clarksburg con
that maintains state of slavery among it's thousands
Of oppressed miners has Scared the hlsdes with many
hundreds OF unmarked graves OF the victims OF prevent
able explosions and that beats up by armed thugs any
who dares to come among the slaves and
bring them word OF hope
Then there is George A. Laughin, who has done
anything in all his life but exploit the workers. and who
now gets his easy living from union manufacturing
plants scattered through West Virginia Ohio and Indiana
He has been active for many years trying to keep the
workngman from getting glass Of beer, figuring per-
haps that this could be eliminated he could still further
reduce wage-while he is himself noted for possessing
one Of the best stocked private gin mills wine cellars
in this section of the country He too believes in con
tnung the oppression Of the worker believes it perfect
y right and proper to take part OF the workers wages
every day and call it prot take part Of the bingham Of
the dress Of the workers wife, and make it into silk and
satin for the women of the rich.
themselves by different party names-ont
pretends to be Republican, another Democran and the
latter Full Boozer something like that But the only
difference between them is the difference Of thieves
the division of the spoils They all agreed upon rob-
bling YOU.
Really, you have choice between them. As the
delegates to the Ohio Valley Trades and Labor Assembly
said Sunday there nothing left for the worker do but
to vote for the Socialist candidate for Congress.