Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-10-24
HACkETT'S CIRCULAR.


honest Newspapers Denounce the Re.
publican Scheme for Bribing Voters.
Mr. Harrison perhaps is not response.
BILE for Hackett's doings, but he must be
aware of this scandalous direction in
which his campaign is being moved.
and he can put stop to it if he will.
He knows that with the enormous sums
of money fried out of the protected
manufacturers in 1888 more was done
to debauch the franchise and under.
mine the foundation of a free govern.
ment than can repeatedly be endured
with any safety to the nation Presi.
dent Harrison cannot afford again to be
an accessory, before or after the fact, in
such crime against government and
society as was openly committed by the
Republican managers and openly boast.
ed of by them in 1SSS.-Springfeld Re
publican.
A MERE BEATING OF ToMToMs.
The chief significance of the exposure
is that it is a confession ON the part OF
the Republican managers thus early il
the campaign that their only hope OF
success lies in bribery. All loud swell.
ing pretensions that President Harrison
is to be reelected as the result of a
campaign of education go for nothing il
the light of the revelation afforded by
the publication of the Hackett circular
The SO called campaign of education is
to be a mere beating of tomtoms, while
Hackett and his agents with "the abil
ity to keep secret" are purchasing the
venal voters with the golden stream fur.
nlshed by the protected manufacturer
Philadelphia Times.
CLOCKS OF ONE" SCHEME.
Chairman Hackett explains that he
was after Democratic names for the dis.
tribution of campaign documents. That
makes the import of the circular all the
more clear. Does it require "an exer.
else of discretion and the ability to keeI
secret to get names to which to ad.
dress campaign literature? 1t is simply
a blocks of one edition of Dudley's nouo.
rious blocks of five circular of 1885,
Hackett is getting up in New York
such ''list" as Dudley worked up in
lndiana.-Springfield Republican.
ARRANGING FOR SYSTEMATIC BRIBERY
Chairman Hackett says that he mere.
ly wants the names of Democrats to
whom circulars and documents may be
sent. The plausibility of this explana.
tion is smashed into bits by the injunc.
tions of discretion and secrecy contained
in this confidential" circular. Repub.
licans, those of you who are honest and
candid, do you approve of this palpable
attempt to arrange for systematic brib.
cry? Does it indicate clean election OF
clean administration by the Repub-
hcan leaders who are striving to benefit
by it?-Newburg Register.
HACKETT's GREATEST SIN.
1t is reported that the publication OF
the circular has caused CONSERVATION at
all the Republican headquarters. Talk
about removing Hackett from the chair
manship of the state executive commit
tee has already begun. His greatest
sin in the eyes of the Republican man.
ayers is that he was found out.-Syra.
cuse Courier.
AN ILL ADVISED CIRCULAR.
The only fault charged to Mr.. Hackett
is the careless way he did his work. The
desperate fight the Republicans are max
ing in the hopeless cause of carrying
New York state could not be better
shown than in Chairman Hackett's i'll
advised MISUNDERSTANDING Post.
BLOCKS OF FIVE TACTICS REPEATED.
What do Republicans who are op-
posed to corruption of the ballot box
think of the adoption in New York by
their state committee of Dudleys "blocks
of five" tactics in Indiana four years agoi
Rochester Union.