Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-04-14

He plans indemnity bonds TO take
improper and dishonest advantage OF
the state treasury 10 assist In carrying
a payroll for unauthorized employees.
He protects the mileage grabbers
and has committees appointed on the
pretense of helping starving miners.
and his committees rob while on mer-
cy's mission.
He has attempted to take 81 ,O00 900
from your public schools to relieve the
brewers from paying their share OF the
taxes.
I want to be just to Senator Quay
and give him all the credit due him.
He did read in the United States senate
part of a large tariff speech that was
prepared for him in Philadelphia. He
threatened to read more, which forced
a compromise. Broken pledges to all
except the corporations mark his po-
litical pathway. yet he still finds ways
to favor corporations and to fool the
workingmen.
This year he is trying a new scheme.
He thinks he can win your votes for his
slate candidate upon the issue of an
immigration bill. & copy of which |
hold in My hand. 1t is as honest as
any claim they make. although as
matter of fact, his slated candidate is
the author of snly the enacting clause,
consisting OF 10 words. while the bill, 1
am reliably informed. belongs to Sena-
tor Lodge. Of Massachusetts"
At Royersford on Friday night last.
Mr.. Wanamaker held up the record of
William a. Stone to a great audience.
He showed how false had been William
A. Stone to his constituents in the
past; how he had broken his sacred
word in promising to vote for Mckin-
ley and then voting for Quay. 1t was
a most startling and scathing arraign-
ment of William y. Stone. Mr.. Wana-
maker said:
MR.. STONE AS A DELEGATE.
"The Republican voters of Allegheny
We're almost a unit for Mckinley. and
the known relations existing between
Mr.. Stone and Senator Quay. who was
also a candidate for the presidency,
were such as to arouse a storm of op-
position to EIr. Stone. To save him
self from defeat Mr. Stone. together
with his Quay colleague, signed and
forwarded TO the Republican county
caused the same to be published in the
Allegheny county papers. the following
pledge, bearing date of March %. 1896:
We pledge that we will honorably
and fully represent and vote in accord
ance with the will and preference, for
president, of a plurality of the Republ-
can voters of the congressional dis
trict within which we are candidates
Jala Nv
a plurality of those voting a prefer
ence at a primary election held pre-
vious to the meeting of the national
convention. in which we are delegates
after due notice has been given by
the chairman of the g, "uty commit
tee that they will have an opportunity
in said primaries to express such pref
erence.
(Signed) ROBERT MAFEE.
w. y. STONE.
THE publication of Mr.. stones
pledge to vote in accordance with the
will and preference of a plurality of the
Republicans in his congressional dis
trict, as expressed at the primaries.
relieved him of all opposition and he
was chosen a national delegate and in
structed by an overwhelming majority
Mckinley. But in the face of his
pledge and the binding instructions he
had received for Mckinley he voted for
Senator Quay: and 1 am informed by
close friend of Mr.. Stone that his
moral obligation did not trouble him
in the least, but so anxious was he to
know what effect it would have upon
his political future. If he disobeyed in
structions, that he went about asking
the judgement of other delegates.
THE MENACE TO TAXPAYERS.
IF Colonel Stone made a solemn
pledge in sc upon a most vital ques-
tion and defantly broke it to please his
master, on a question purely of senti-
ment. as his vote could do Mr.. Quay no
real good dare you as taxpayers place
faith in his promises to protect your in
terests, and dare you make him the
custodian of your affairs and the
guardian of your moneys? Can you be-
lieve that he will be less false to his
promises now than to his pledge in 90?
1t is because of this condition of
things in our state that l am here to
say to you that you do well to think
before you continue the old regime. /
do not ask you to take me. 1 do not
want you to save anything for me.
Save yourselves. Save your taxes, your
honor, your work or Quay and the
corporations who keep him in office will
own the state.
"Electing w. a. Stone is to elect
Quay and Andrews for four years.
Breaking up the slate now will save the
Republican party, which, If it does hon
estly and honorably, is invincible. If
1t does not it goes down like the old
Whig party, and woe to the blind lead
Srs who plunge the party of Lincoln
md Grant over the precipice."