St. Paul daily globe., 1891-06-30
Citizens Of Pennsylvania Is
sue an Address Condemn
ing His Ways.
Quay's Rule Is Asserted to Be
Absolute, ,Unscruplous and
Disastrous.
ENJOYS Of the Chilian Insur-
gents Not Likely to Be-
Recognized.
Knights Of Labor Will Once
More Try to Reinstate the
Printers.

PHILADELPHIA, June 29.-An ad.
dress 10 the citizens of Pennsylvania,
signed by Rudolph Blankenburg, John
1. Bailey & Co.. Wharton Pepper,
George Burnham, Charles Heber Clark,
Rev. Stephen w. Dana, Rev. w. n.
McVickar. John Il. Converse, Rev.
Charles Wood, Rev. S. d. Mcconnell
and 136 others, was made public this
evening. The signers speak las Penn
sylvanians and Republicans" and their
action is a protest against Senator
Quay being longer controlling fac
tor in the affairs of the state.
The statement is made that the politi-
cal methods in the state are now cor
rupt. in sharp contrast to the DISPOSE
ton of the rank and file of the party.
The leadership is affirmed to be com
pletely within Senator Quay, absolute
In its control, unscrupulous in its
methods and disastrous in its results"
The public record of Senator Quay is
then touched. The paper says: MIR
quay is mainly responsible for
the overwhelming disaster which
befell the Republican party in
this state during the past autumn.
The single issue of the campaign, as de-
termined by Mr.. Gu ay himself, was the
vindicatlOn of his own personal and po-
litlcal character. The adoption of the
Republican platform involved declara-
ton OF confidence and respect for the
junior senator, and in the election of
the Republican.candidate the accept
ance of man who was nominated at
the dlctatiOn of Mr.. Quay. The
ha
the candidate, and political
revolution ensued. 1t might have been
supposed that the leader who had in
filcted such a wound upon his party,
and to whom it had given so overwhelm-
ing an evidence OF
A Lack of Confidence
in him, would have retired from public
prominence. Mr.. Quay, however, CON
tented himself with an elaborate de-
tense OF his record before the United
States senate. This was both untimely
and inconcfusiVe. Mr.. Quay and his
associates are charged with viola
ton of express party pledges" by the at
tItude they are said TO have assumed to-
ward the ballot reform bill, with openly
defylng the majority will, and with haY-
ing blundered stupidity politically"
The defeat of a bill to free the public
schools of Philadelphia from political
influence is charged against the legisla-
ture, The address continues thus:
There is fundamental fallacy in the
theory of politics which has for years
obtained in this state, and of
which Mr.. Quay has been the leading
exponent. 1t is that public offices are
spoils, the lawful property of the poll
tlcians who capture them and bv whom
they are dispensed in turn to their un-
derllngs as the prizes of war. The disas-
ter OF a looted treasury is explained by
the fact that the step from the fallacy
TO the startling and bold ap-
preparation of public funds to the
private uses of public officers
is long one in appearance only, not in
reality. That step has now been taken.
We are soon to nominate
an auditor general and state and city
treasurer. In making these nomina-
tions, If the elections are TO give these
posts to Republicans, we must see to it
that the men chosen are both honest
and of such firm character that they
cannot be twisted to dishonest pur-
poses. There was time when
Pennsylvania Rose in Arms
to victory at the presence of a hostile
invader upon her border, but the danger
was less than to-day, when the hands
of the public thief are upon her ballot
box, and have been through her treas
ury. The poison of political corruption
and dishonesty have alike affected
those who have promoted, and those
who have permitted 1t. 1t has produced
a paralysis, running through moral
causes to material results. With
great financial scandal, the black bot
tom of which has not yet been SCUM
ded, fastened upon Philadelphia, and
with the name of our state word of
political reproach throughout the coun-
try. we are convinced that the time is
ripe for changes. We appeal to the
to the sound sense of Re-
publicans throughout the state.
There must be more competent and
worthy leadership than that of Mr..
Quay, and the legislature must be
purged of those vino have placed them
selves on record as the enemies of
ballot reform. The political methods
adopted must be discontinued, and in
their place must be subt ituted only
those consistent with sound morals and
with the practice of honorable men.
That what we urge is not sentimen-
tality, but politics Of the practical sort,
the financial losses which the state and
individual S are now enduring would
seem to have clearly proved"