The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-05-08
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The Legislature did well when it re-
jected Representative Lo,ch's propo-
sition to reduce the salary Of DR.. j.
q. Biddle, the surgeon in chief and
superintendent of the Miners Hos
pital at Fountain Springs. C)nserva.
tive thinkers have reached the con-
clusion that the Schuylkill Haven
statesman is rapidly building his
tomb and when his present term Of
Office expires he will be relagated to
the rear and heard of no more AS
prominent figure in Schuylkill county
politics. His conduct thus far has
been that of a man who seeks notorety
and he is divertiug his time from the
consideration of those things which
bear upon the interests of his con-
stituents to the more clownish tactics
of exploding sensational booms. His
trumpeting about the Philadelphia
electric trust, in which the people of
Schuylkill have no interest and his
uncaied for fight with the committee
ne caused to be appointed were alone
sufficient to worry his constituents,
and now that he has unwarrantly
attacked the best institution the work
ing people of this part Of the an
thracite coal field has the people who
sent him to the Legislature must be
d5gusted with him.
Representative Losch's attack on
Dr. Riddle was as coawrdly as it was
unctlled for. The grounds he put
forth to sustain his measure to reduce
the salary, if true, should have teen
uasd as basis for Dr. Biddle's re-
noval. but Losch knew that thesuper-
intendent had in no wise exposed him
self to such proceeding. He wanted
to get 8 slap at DR.. BiddIe and the
hosnital management and did it under
a false mask of reform. The slap was
a hard one and L0sch will find that
the voters of his own district as we'll
as the miners throughout this section
will continue to feel its sm0'uinG
,Hacts should he again come before
tbem As a candidate for pubic Office
The faith of the people. is as stroni
in the management of the Miners
Hospital to-day as it ever has beeI
and DR.. Biddie's popularity with then
was never greater, Mr.. Losch's in
situations that the institution
suffering from neglect by reason @
the superintendents trip to Europ
and hunting and fishing trips ar
obiiterated by the reports of peopl
who leave the institution daily atte
receiving invaluable treatment. True
the doctor did go to Europe and doe
absent himself from the hospit'
occasionally, but the color which Nj
Losch put on these trips is effeetuall
rubbed off by the public letter
Heber S. Thompson, vice president
the board of trustees of the institution
in which he says:
"Dr. Biddle has never been abroS
but once in all the years of his servit
in connection with the hospital an
then for about twelve weeks in whiC
the medical institutions of Europ
notably the great hospitals of Vienn
His health is not robust and Il
trustees have urged him to take sue
occasional recreation as is pOssib
without much absence from the he
pital. This has probably given rise
the charge OF his making hunting al
fishing excursions"
1t is hoped Mr.. Losch will soon q
quire some good sense and abandC
the bOmbastic tactics which ha
marked his brief career in the Legi
lature. If he does not he will qJ
the House with only a long record
mistakes and silly charges to give
constituents in return for the trU
which they have placed in him.
Meanwhile DR.. Biddle can rest
sured that the people are well satish
with his work at the Miners Hospi
and that they have no grounds up
which they can rebuke him in al
manner.