Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-02-26

party leader and q. S. Senator has render
ed it impossible for us longer to support
him. We do not forget the services which
he has rendered the party, and while CIV
ing full credit therefor cannot but feel that
he has not only been amply rewarded by
the bestowaI of its abundant official and
pecuniary favors. but that the scale has
been turned against him by the evils and
defeats he has brought upon the party.
'In spirit of regretfulness at the neces-
sity which compells action, without NAL
ice, and with desire to be fair to Mr..
Quay, but determined to be loyal to the
Republican party, We will briefly outline
our reasons for opposing his reelection to
the U. S. Senate.
THIRTEEN REASONS.
I'VE oppose him because he has forced
unpopular nominations and platforms,
which have brought defeat to the party.
because he has instigated, or counte-
nanced, the defeat of the party's candid
ates to achieve some personal end.
Because he has repeatedly induced
delegates and legislators to misreprasent
the wishes of the majority of their con-
stituents.
Because he has aided in defeating legis-
lation to secure free ballot and a fair
count in the South; to the enactment of
which the party has been pledged and
which, as its national chairman, he was in
honor bound to have supported.
Because by reason of his frequent alb
sence from the Senate, and the diversion
of his time to Office getting, he has failed
to do the work he should have done in be-
half of legislation of vital Importance to
the State of Pennsylvania, or to initiate
and secure the enactment of a single im
portant national measure during his five
years of service at Washington.
because he has, both by words and ac-
tiens, discredited the pledged policy of his
party in behalf of a genuine. efficient and
business like reform of the civil service,
and has compelled office holders to devote
their time and money to political work in
his behalf
Because of his attempts to embarrass
the present sound and patriotic national
administration due to the fact that the
federal offices in this State were not placed
entirely at his disposal.
Because he has repeatedly opposed the
nomination Of the Hon. James G. Blaine
Tor the Presidency when the overwhelming
sentiment of the Republican voters of the
State was favorable to his selection, and
recently has pretended to be ardently in
favor of him in order that he might secure
national delegates whom he could dispose
of to his own a. vantage.
Because, so long as he dared to do SO
he opposed every change of party rules
calculated to increase the power of the
voters in county, district, State, or Nation.
Because he has had primaries and con-
ventions called long before there was any
necessity for so doing, in order to forestall
a growing public sentiment against him or
his candidates.
Because he has insisted that no recog-
milton should be accorded to any element
of the party or to any of its leaders who
were not willing to act with or be subs er-
Went o him.
Because the system which he has up
held has driven many able and honest
men out of the Republican party, or has
discouraged them from taking active part
in public life.
Because he has placed men in Office or
position so hampered by pledges to him that
they cannot faithfully perform their duties
to the State or to their party.
Because we believe the Republican
voters have a right to choose their Z. s.
Senators, instead of their being selected
by Office holders, without regard to char
acter, ability, or fitness.
"We issue this address by the authority
of the Pennsylvania Republican Associas
ton, whose Executive Committee we are,
which organization has its representatives
in every Republican county of the State,
and which was born of the necessity for
concerted action to oppose the banded
officialism which has been at the beck and
call of Mr.. Quay.
at is the purpose of our organization to
carry on the contest strictly within party
lines, and to secure the election ofa major
ity OF the Republican members of the next
Legislature who will unalterably oppose
the reelection of NJ. S. Quay to the II. S.
Senate, and who will favor the choice of
any honest Republican, as his successor,
whose personal character, intellectual and
forensic ability, statesmanlike qualities
and loyalty to the Republican party shall
stamp him as fitting representative ofthe
great Keystone State in the upper house of
Congress.
"To every patriotic Republican of Penn
splvania, who believes that the advance
ment of the principles of the Republican
party is above and beyond all personal in
terests, and who is opposed to political
bossism in every form, to all who wish to
see our great Commonwealth of Pennsyl-
vania properly represented at Harrisburg,
at Washington, and in our. National and
State conventions by the ablest and best of
her Republican voters; to all such, and
especially to the young men of our party,
in whose hands the future of the Republic
rests, we extend cordial invitation to
join US in this movement, and to notify US
of their willingness to do so by commun,
icating with the Pennsylvania Republican
Association at its permanent headquarters
rooms 4, and 6, COB Walnut ST., Phila-
delphia.
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