Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-07-22


into deeper water. The new ward lead
er's combine in Philadelphia is about
going to pieces. and the bosses are at
their wits ends to save the machine
from going to utter smash before the
fall elections
OF all the sensations. however, the
open break between Governor Hast
ings and Quay is the greatest. II
means war to the knife now. The gov
ernor evidently has 10 hope OF ever
uniting with Quay again. in view OF the
letter's shameless attempt to make the
people OF the state believe that he and
the governor were fast and firm
friends. The governor promptly de-
MED this statement. and there the mat
ter stands.
Story of the Fight.
The complete story of the fight be-
tween the governor and Quay is as
follows:
The senior senator has been moving
heaven and earth to get the Becker
bill approved. This notorious measure
puts the entire machinery of the city
of Philadelphia in the hands of IS Sc
Iect counciImen. 1t provides that every
person appointed to office by the mayor,
must be approved by three-ffths of the
select counc!Imen Of that city. 1t is
Senator Quay's scheme. His object is
TO get control of the city of Philadel-
phia.
There has been considerable doubt all
along as 10 the attitude of the COVER
Ror. Quay has been afraid that he
would veto the bill. which was passed
only after the most strenuous efforts.
! Quay and Penrose therefore journeyed
from Washington to Harrisburg to see
the governor about II. They expected
TO cajole o. coerce him into signing the
bill But they didn't know the kind of
stuff the governor was made of. Quay
had in the past found the governor to
be good natured and a man who be
lieved in the word Of other men. But
Governor Hastings has other views
now. Quay will never again be able
to play upon the confding nature and
big heartedness of Daniel H Hastings.
He came up from Washington with
this idea in view. He brought Senator
penrose with him. Now, Senator Pen
rose has no more influence in Pennsyl-
vania politics than a man outside the
state. II Quay were TO die tomorrow,
Penrose would serve out his term and
never be heard of again. Quay's fatal
mistake was in bringing Penrose with
him. for Penro<e, in addition to having
an exaggerated idea of his own i'm
portance. is cordially disliked by every
body around the departments in Har-
risburg.
Penrose Sat Upon.
Quay and Penrose met the governor
In, oa oh hlr NNritI nohndu
present but Frank Reeder, secretary
of the commonwealth. When the two
senators had finished their requests
about the Becker bill, the governor
| fatty told them that he would make
no promises as to what he would do.
Then Quay opened his sample box of
promises. and limited to the governor
that he might make him the next
| United States senator; that he, Quay,
was about ready to retire, etc, etc,
| etc But the governor wasn't to be
fooled by any such stuff and he again
repeated that he would make no prom
| ises He considered the Becker bill a
very doubtful measure. This made
| Penrose angry, and he began to sneer
| just us ne ufo when two and a half
years ago he sneered at Senator Finn
| in the senate, and that gentleman gave
| him 'raking out" that Will never be
| forgotten by those who heard it,
! Governor Hastings listened calmly
| TO the young senator's sneering state
ments that h=-the governor-had bet
| ter be careful or his friend Major Nc
Cauey might be beaten for auditor
general, and in case he still refused
| to approve the Becker bill, his recent
| appointees to the bench in Philadelphia
| might be refused a nomination. 1t was
altogether the most brazen attempt to
threaten and coerce an official in the
discharge of his sworn duty that has
perhaps ever been seen or heard of in
Pennsylvania.
Then the governor cut loose. He
spared neither words or the man He
| told Penrose just what he thought of
him and his threats. He said with a
| burst of Indignation that momentarily
paralyzed Penrose:
You or no other man can come into
my office and tell me what I shall or
shall not DO. II doesn't lie in your
mouth to threaten me. young man, and
you can't do It, You can bulidoze the
legislature into passing your Internal
bills, but you can't scare me into sign
ing them. If YOU have no regard for
the peopleswhom you represent. have,
and the sooner you know it the better"
Penrose never opened his lips I'm re-
ply, while Quay sat by listening in sur
prise. After the governor had spoken
he tried to be witty and told the gov-
ernor and Penrose that young fell
lows" shouldn't quarrel. He also an
nounced th~n and there that he had
changed his mind and would be a can
didate to succeed himself in the United
States senate next year.
That IS the story. The instant Quay
found that he couldn't scare or fool the
governor into signing the Becker bill
he threw off the mask and declared
himself. He became frightened, and Is
terribly frightened today, for he has
another big fight on hand, and he sees
defeat staring him in the face next
year.
Quay Is Frightened.
The result of this is that another
fight, as big as that of 1895, is on again
The machine has been running things
too hard. and there is to be break up.
The last legislature, Quays legislature.
was the most notorious in the history of
the state. 1t has been denounced in
every county in the commonwealth.
The governor has before him now two
of the most dangerous bills ever passed.
One is the new mercantile tax law,
While Senator Quay was limiting for
something to tax, so that he could save
the beer trust from taxation, he hit on
this mercantile tax scheme.
Making Merchants Pay.
1t increases the mercantile tax of
every grocer, storekeeper and mer-
chant in business in the state. 1t
doubles and trebles the tax on big
stores. Every merchant. big and little.
in the state is up in arms over it. Well
they may be. And yet II is only a sam
pie OF the work of Mr.. Quay's legisla-
ture.
The other bill js known as the Simon
bill. 1t compels every country village,
every borough or city to buy out any
other electric plant within its borders
before such borough or city can estab-
lsh an electric pIaEt of Its own. 1t is
most nefarious scheme but Senator
Quay wants it passed also.
One of the most pertinent and ring
ing utterances on the subject of this
last Legislature Is from an interview
with Frank Willing Leach in the Phila-
delphia Press of Friday last. In that
interview. had with a reporter in Har-
risburg, Mr.. Leach says:
The People In War Paint.
Whether or not the existing strained
relations between Senator Quay and
Governor Hastings VIII continue 1 do
not know, hut one thing is very clear