Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-12-24
ANDREWS CANDIDATE.
How the Crawford County Boss
Gets Into the Game.
THE FIRM CHAMPION OF PENR0SE
Bits Of Historical Fact which Show the
Alliance Between the Two Politicians
Andrews and His Chum and the Scheme
They Are Working.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. Is. - The Hon
Boies Penrose says he is against the
bosses" and for the people" He says
it boldly and deflantly, and IL the cam
paign were not so serious there might
be time to stop and laugh at the joke. But
he doesn't mean IL to be funny. He wants
u TO be taken seriously, for he recognizes
that the people will insist upon the cleo
ton Of their own candidate to the United
States senate That's why he wants to
make it believed that he has thrown off
the shackles Of the boss after his long ser
vitude. That's why he would like to make
1t believed that he has suddenly been con-
verted TO their interests as against the in
terests OF the bosses. But will the people
believe 1t? Not much. They are too we'll
posted to be deceived by any such nonsense
1t has often been asked whom dnas
Penrose represent? Who is this dillitente
young senator, this political STRIPPING,
who is being urged for the high honor Of
a seat in the senate OF the United Statesi
Whom does he represent, that he should
receive the greatest gift in the power Of
the state to awards
The answer is easy-Andrews, the dis
credited Crawford county boss, who was
responsible for Delamaters nomination
in 1890.
Andrews and Penrose.
Andrews and Penrose were classed as
the joint bosses of the state senate. They
are Damon and Pythias in a political sense
They make their interests identical. 1t was
Penrose who moved for the appointment
OF the committee to "Lexow" Philadel-
phia- 1t was Andrews who was made
chairman of that committee. Shades OF
Dickens was there ever such farces An
drews at the head Of the Investigating
committed One would as soon think of
the devil passing Judgment on his own
sins
Events have only confirmed this opinion
There isn't decent man In the entire city
Of Philadelphia who will not say that the
investigation has been a very thinly dis.
guised political scheme. 1t has been the
means of providing Andrews with politi.
cal headquarters at the most expensive
hotel in the city. for all of which the dear
people will pay-perhaps The same head
quarters have been utilized ms meeting
place for the Penrose clans and the state
will foot the bills-perhaps
And who is Andrews this man who Is
sponsor for Penroses Ask the people Of
Crawford county. They knew him so
well that even in the great tidal wave for
Mckinley in November they defeated
the entire Republican ticket, which
should have had at least 1900 majority.
Crawford county, where Mckinley at
tended school, carried root and branch by
the Democratsl and whyY Because the
people determined to convince the motor
ious politician that they were done with
him.
Why Andrews Is Discredited.
A fine champion truly for a senatorial
candidatel But this isn't all. 1t was An
drews who turned the state over to the
Democrats in 1890 Then they called him
"Delamater Andrews, because he used
his office as chairman Of the state COM
mittee to force the nomination of Delama-
ter against the judgment Of all who had
the interests OF the party at heart. When
Andrews was first candidate for the SEN
ate-lS90 - he was overwhelmingly de-
feated. In 1892 he tried for the house, and
test and he was seated by orders of tho
"bosses-" He owed his election in 1894 to
the Hastings wave, but this year he
was ignominiously defeated in his own
county when he was candidate for dele
gate to the national convention. Tho vote
Of Erie county, where he was not so well
of Crawford county stamped their opinion
indelibly aud administered n still more
stinging rebuke at the national election.
His Work for Penrose.
He is the original Penrose man. Their
interests are too closely welded to permit
OF anything else. Penrose Is ashamed to
admit it; but that's natural, and he Is
shrewd enough to see the danger Of suoh
an admission that's why he pretends
that he is against the bosses. For
months Andrews has been setting up
the state for Penrose. He commenced
by making "a contest for the chairman
ship of the state committee from which
contest he retired when there was a threat
of making his record public. He wanted
that Office to be tho better able TO attend
to his labors in behalf OF Penrose Not
the backer of Boies PenroseS Why then
those nightly conferences In the palatial
parlors in the city's most expensive hotelY
Without Andrews there would be no PEN
rose. His brother, w. II. Andrews, who
has been his trusted assistant in many
schemes, Is the chief literary worker in
the Penrose cause, using the rooms Of
the state committee in his labor.
A fine candidate of the people, truly, Is
the Hon Boies Penrose. 1t would be far
more Iuanly to admit the truth especially
when it is made manifest by unimpeach-
able evidence on all sides. Boies Penrose
is the candidate of Andrews. His success
Is necessary to the latter's success, for
people and he knows it, Against the
bosses, indeed Well, IL will not go down.
This Is one of the times when they can't
fool nvau gonna of thp rapDle