Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-02-09

] want to talk to you seriously. Inc
position which we have taken we who
have refused to be driven by party eau
Gus, has not been taken seliishly, has
not been taken unadvisably. Now we
know, as perhaps some of you do not
know, that caucus has become at Har-
risburg the slaughter-house In which
public opinion is killed and turned over
a dead corpse into the hands OF the boss
es You imagine to yourselves thaI
you have something to do with the reg
uiatlon of your affairs You imagine
/ that when you elect Representatives
to 60 to Harrisburg that they are to
represent your will. But, again and
again you are disappointed when they
get there to find that they are represent
ing the will of somebody else and that
for the first time, after the election Is
over, they learn that there is somebody
else acknowledgement is better and whose
will is more worthy of respect.
"After you 60 to Harrisburg the Hon.
NJ. S Quay sends word to you that he
wants to see you at the Lochiel Hotel.
Who is Quay? Oh, he is the Senator
at large! Laughter.) Well, you are
brought into his august presence, and
Mr. Quay says to you:
What can I do for you?" "Would
you like to have psster and folder. or
a place on a committee 7" Laughter)
"And you answer; "Yes, l would
like to have paster and folder, because
if doa't get a paster and folder my
constituents will think have no ln1u-
ence at Harrisburg, and that have no
business there" Laughter. "If | don't
get a psster aud folder | don't amount
to anything" (La1ghter)
That's craftsmanship, my friend,
Mr.. Kaufman says, after the Pennsyl-
vania fashionl (Laughtef.) ]
Quay replies: I'VE want to show
your constituents that you have influence
here; and suppose you would like to
be properly placed on the committees!
Now we have an arrangement OF our
own by which we distribute these
things to the good boys who come up
here but you must be good boy and
do as we tell you. daughter andcon-
tusion.) How are you on the question
of Z. S. SENATOR"
"They instructed us to vote for
Galusha A. Grow for the U s. Senate" ]"
"Oh, yes! But your people do not
fully comprehend the situation. y Laugh
ter J "They don't know exactly the OBJ
jections there are against Mr. Grow !;
they are not the best Judges who is best
qualified to represent thes grea. State
| in the U. S. Senate at Washington"
"But we are instructed
"Yes. Oh, well, you can vote for
him once, that will satisfy your instruc-
tors after that you will vote as we
would have you vote" Laughter.)
"Now. that's one of the ways they
come there from every section of the
State. They believe that these bosses
have the distribution-the sole prerog-
ative of saying who shall be the iani-
tor, who shall be the sergeant-at-arms,
who shall be the pastors and folders.
All these Offices belong to the members
of the Legislature for she purpose OF
| CARRYING on the business. We go to
these members and say to them:
Here, do your duty like men Do
what your constituents sent you here
to do, and if you want q paster and fol-
der and your county is entitled to have
a pastcr and folder you can have these
offices because they belong to you of
right" But they are afraid. They
say: "Oh, l don't know; I don't
know whether we can win; and if we
don't win we might be left" Laugh-
ter
"These fellows have them so COM
pletely cowed, thatfor the paltry Offices
that belong to them and you they sell
out the rights of the people, and betray
their trust on the question of such high
Importance as the U. S. Senatorship.
This is done year after year, and
year after year, and year after year.
"There is another method by which
a simple minority of the Republicans
can control the majority. and that is by
the party caucus. Take Allegheny
county for example: There are II
members They meet together in eau
Gus at Pittsburg there are six, say,
who desire to vote for Galusha A.
Grow. The delegation come together
and pass resolution that the majori-
ty of the delegation control the rest of
! the delegation, and they shall vote as
a unit, and the consequence is that
there are II votes tor Harry w. OH
yer, Jr.
"Your representatives Of the city of
Philadelphia meet together and say we
will have caucus, and we will vote
as unit Say there are ten represen-
tatives who are for Grow for the U. 5
Senator, the rest of the delegation may
be scattered among Oliver and the
others. They take vote, and tnfy find
the delegation for Oliver. There you
have ten Republican delegates who are
for Grow who come to Harrisburg and
vote against Grow and for Oliver.
They do that same thing in Ches.
ter county, and in Lancaster county,
and this is done year after year in AL
legheny county, and in the city of Phila-
delphia. When all these members come
together at Harrisburg here are these
six votes from Allegheny and ten from
Philadelphia, Is votes that ought to
be for Mr.. Grow and cast for Harry
w. Oliver, Jr, aud fora man that these
men don'twant.
They influence some of these men,
bers by the distribution of patronage,
by distributing Offices and favors that
do not belong to them, butte the men,
bers of the Legislature They distrib-
ute your patronage for the purpose of
defeating your will. So you can see
how minority can control majority.
This is done over and over again and
this s the way you find the will of the
people defeated.
Now in order to prevent this. seeing