The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-10-03
AN INDEPENDANT
BLAST.
ADDRESS OF THE STATE COMMITTEE
TO PENNSYLVANIA REPUBLICANS.
THE PEOPLE MUST RULE.

THE PEOPLE MUST RULE.
The following address was sent out
by the State Committee of Republi-
can Independents, last Thursday.
TO the Republicans of Pennsylvania:
We address you, fellow-citizens, as
Republicans, representing all sections
of this Common wealth, proud of the
history aud achievements of the great
party to which we belong and anxious
that in the future, as in the past, it
shall promote and obtain that highest
form of free government of the people,
by the people and for the people"
As Republicans we indorse the great
principles embodied in the platforms
and vindicated by the history of the
party of Lincoln, Sumner, Stevens,
Garfield and other illustrious leaders,
both living and dead. The Republi-
can party has still mission to fulfill
in the maintenance of the protective
system and in the guaranty of free
and secret ballot in the hands of every
citizen. We remember that the re-
publican party sprung from the man
hood and the conscience of the people
and we believe that its high and hon
| orable purposes cannot be sustained or
its mission fulfilled except by the pre-
servation of the same hi gh standard of
duty and honor which signalized its
| Birth.
Never in the history of the State
was it more necessary than now TO
seek to enforce the prerogative of a
free people to have controlling voice
in the nomination of those who may
administer the government of the Com
monwealth. And if, in the naking of
a nomination, convention fails to
register the choice of the majority and
simply carries out the dictates of an
autocratic boss, we believe that such a
nomination justlfies every Republican
in rebuking it at the polls.
Upon what ground does Mr.. Della
mater seek your support for the great
and responsible Office of Governor of
the Commonwealth? Is it the spon-
taneous voice of the people that calls
| him, or the methods of the ward poll
tician that obtains for him reconition
as a candidat-?
Mr.. Delamater has long been self
seeking-machine politician, who gain
ed the favor of the boss of the Repub-
lican party by his skilful use of the
methods of his political master.
As State Senator his record shows
him to have been an advocate of cor
porete interests, to the prejudice of
state interests of the people. HIS affila-
tion with the Standard Oil Company
is well known. He is charged with
defeating the tax bill for the reiet of
the farmers, the Billingsley bill for the
relief Of the oil men, and with hostility
to labor Observation-Disclosures out of
many others to indicate the tenor of
his craftsmanship.
While in the Senate he obtained
large sums of State money on deposit
in his bank, thereby using his political
power TO personal profit, and commit
ting an offense prohibited by the Con
stitution, one of the penalties of which
is disqualification for the Office he now
seeks.
But the circumstances attending
Mr. Delamaters nomination have fore
ed into prominence a far graver issue
than that of his personal fitness.
| Not only was the free choice of the
party thwarted by his nomination, but
subservient convention inserted in
the party platform (Which Mr.. Della
mater has unqualifedly indorsed) the
! following declaration:
"For the chairman of our national
committee, M. S. Quay, we feel a
lasting sense of gratitude for his
matchless services in the last Presi-
Dental campaign. As a citizen, a
member of the General Assembly, as
Secretary of the Commonwealth under
two successive administrations, as
State Treasurer by the overwhelming
suffrage of his fellow, citizens, and as
Senator of the United States, he has
won and retains our respect and con-
fdence.".
No untrammled convention would
have dared 10 make such an indorse
ment.
The record of Mr., Quay is, or should
be, known to every citizen. In 1875
the leading newspapers of the Repub,
lican party cast him from their ranks
for his prostitution of the Pardon
Board in connection with the riot bill
briberies. His conduct as the moving
, spirit and direct beneficiary of the
odious Recorders bill has not beer
forgotten by the citizens of Philadel
phia. Responsible accusers have re
peatedly and specifically charged hin
with malfeasance in Office, even with
emhezzlement of large sums of the
public moneys. These charges he has
seen fit neither to explain nor deny
even after they have gained currency
on the floor of the lower house of Con
grees.
Under those circumstances is is
reasonable TO insist that Mr. Delamater'
success will be Mr.. Quay's vindica
, tion.
Mr.. Quay, who already dispense
the Federal patronage of the State
purposes to control, as well, the exc
cutive and Legislative branches of the
government of the Commonwealth
To secure this end he had forced the
nomination of Mr.. Delamater for tn
high Office of Governor of Pennsylva
MIA, in the face of the indignant pro
: tests of thousands of the best Repub
licans of the State, and now asks tn
party to rati6y his choice. He ais,
proposes the election, as the leader o
the State Senate, of Chairman w. ii