Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-10-06
in the Keystone State.


Delamater, the ring boss candidate for
governor, was nominated at Doodle Boss
Quay's dictation, and there are lots of
Republicans outside OF the ring boss
crew of that state who are gesting bold
enough to revolt against Doodle Boss
QUAY rule, and have issued an appeal to
the citizens of the state. We give an
extract from it, which expresses their
reasons for protesting against such rule !:
The platform of the Republican party
i'm Pennsylvania endorses without quail
fcation or reserve the Junior senator of
this state, Mathew 5. Quay, Il man
whose very name has entered the polit-
ical vocabulary rs term of political
domination and corruption; a man
whose way to political eminence has
been won by no distinguished servic to-
the nation or state, neither by the con
ceptiOn nor the the execution of a single
great or beneficient public measure, but
solely by chicanery and political cOrrup-
ton, by the creation of an immense
army of servile followers through bribes
of public office and by the skillful dis
tributiOn Of public patronage. This
man has so successfully increased his
own power that he is to-day among the
most influential, if he /, not indeed the
most influential of Republicans, and in
his own state his personal will has vir-
tually usurped the will of the people.
He is at least popularity understood to
have controlled the last Republican
state convention. and to have imposed
upon it can lidate of his own selection.
But to crown his own dishOnor and
the shame of the commonwealth, he
stands for months silent under public,
repeated and specific accusations of the
greatest official misconduct, of having
taken from the treasury of the state
large sums of money, with the knowl-
edge of its official guardian. In this
man the Republican party platform ex-
presses entire confidence, and 1t calls
upon the citizens OF Pennsylvania 10 ell
dorse both him and it by the election of
Mr.. Delamater as governor of the state.
No more serious, clear, or unavOida-
BILE issue than this could be presented To
the people. Mr.. Quay is the acknOwl-
edged, nnbiushing champion of polite
al corruptiontionists. He is silent under
"a recent, responsible and repeated charge
of the embezZlement of public money !;
he selects Mr.. Delamater us candidate
for governor, and plant convention
ratifies his selection; the party platform
endorses MIR. Quay, and Mr.. Delamater
stands on the party platform and on no
other. The conclusion is irresistible
that the election of MIR. Delamater will
have rs its main and most potent result
the public approval of Mr.. Quay, and
his permanent intrenchment in the Re-
publican party of the state as its at
knowledgel leader and counsellor, the
repi sentative of its principles and the
exponent Of irs policy.
Are the men who saw the Republican
party begotten, through the eloquence.
the craftsmanship, the lofty public
morality of Sumner, the political gen.
ius. the all-embracing humanity and
self-sacrifice of Lincoln, through the
great popular hatred of wrong and OPP
piession, through the great and first
awakening of national heart and ma
tional conscience-dead. that they
should accept such lame and impotent,
such disgraceful conclusion to Il great
party history as this? Indeed all keen