Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-03-17
Comparing Their Records.

had not maze SOOu lePASSohu Va
the people, but how far short of the
truth Robinson Genes, Mr.. Moore's an
swer shows. All good Republicans
would have preferred the primary can
vass be made in the usual way before
the people, let the people decide VINO
should be the nominees, then abide by |
the will of the people This is the kind |
of canvass desired as we are informed,
bv Mr.. Moore himself and we wish to |
saw he was not responsible for any
newspaper article until attacked by |
Thomas Robinson IN the Eagle, when /
he ar swerec pack over his own sigma
:nre. As Mr. Robinson did not wish 70 /
have n fair canvass he began the at |
tack on Mr. Moore by his article III the /
issue Of the Eagle of February Gath, be |
cause paper or two, without the
knowledge of Mr.. Moore, spoke approx
ingly of his record as legislator. This |
riled Thomas Robinson's righteous ~ |
soul to such an extent that he could no
longer restrain himself, and breaking
over all party rules and customs, sin
gled out Mr. Moore as his target ana
onened fire. Inasmuch, then, as Mr.
Robinson has seen proper to hold up
Mr. Moore's record in his unfair and
earbled way, we think it proper to
hold up, side by side, the record of both
men and then the people can decide for
for themselves who is the most faithful
servant.
MANY wears ago Mr.. Robinson was
candidate before the people for the Leg
islature The main question before the |
neonle then was, whether the State law
iaying tax of so much per ton on all
freight hauled over the PENNSYLVANIA |
Railroad should be repealed. Mr. ROD |
inson was against the repeal OF the tax
law. and on that ground made his can
vass. and was elected. To be true to ,
his people he should have voted as he
canyassed. against repeal, but when |
he got to Harrisburg and came to act, |
the record shows, he voted for the re |
peal of the tonnage tax law, Just the OPP |
nosite of what he was elected to do.
How about Mr.. Moore! He was ell
ected to the Legislature took his seat,
and the first bill of Importance to re,
quire his attention was Pipe L!ne Dill
that the oil people said affected their
interests. The bill was fought Vlgor-
ously on both sides; Mr.. Moore standing
by and made the fight on the floor OF |
the House for his constituents, recelV- |
ing their hearty approval, and even
gaining compliments from the Leaders,
on the other side for his fairness IN the
contest, and the ability with which ne
made the fight Mr.. Robinson was on
the other side, against the people OF MS
County.
Another bill of importance to our
people was known as the WOODS
Water Bill" and Of so much importance
was it that over fourteen hundred cltl-
zens of Butler signed petition asking |
our members to work and vote against
the bill, which Mr. Moore did, although |
Thomas Robinson requested him to |
vote for the bill, saying the bill was |
all right and should be passed.
Who best represents the people? Not
hard TO answer.
Among the duties of the members IN
the last session was the election OF Z.
S. Senator The people of Philadelphia |
claimed the Senator and the contest |
narrowed down between Boise Penrose
and John Wanamaker. At first MT
Robinson was against Penrose, and gave
his reasons at length, saying IN effect, |
that Penrose was an unit man soclaliy |
and morally to represent the people III
the u. S. Senate, and said "as between
a man of the character of Penrose and
a superintendent of Sunday School |
he'-Robinson, would support the
man who run the Sunday School -
(many of our readers will remember
the reasons in detail given by Mr.. Rob
inson) and his paper
The Eagle in its issue of June the
11th, 1896, (if we remember the date,
took ground in favor of Mr. Wana-
maker. Mr.. Robinson also stated ''the
members from Butler County, with the
good moral community behind them,
could not as between the two n-dA
maker" but strange to say in the face
of all this when the time came to act |
Mr.. Robinson had turned completely
around and said, under all the circum
stances he believed the interests of But
ler County would be better cared for
by supporting Penrose." Peculiar man
this, what brolght about this change
of heart?"
In our Hospital matter we have
another instance of how well Mr.. Rob-
inson serves (?) the people. That we
were and are badly in need of a Hospi
tai our people long knew. Mr.. Robin
son and some others several years ago
foxmed an organization, got charter,
and applied to the Legislature for an
appropriation which was obtained |
$12, 500 beng appropriated on condition
that the Hospital people headed by Mr.
Robinson would raise Sl0,0 900 to help |
put up the buildings. Thus The matter
rested until the next Legislature met |
two years after the appropriation was
granted No funds having been raised, |
the appropriation lapsed The next |
Legislature was applied 70 and an ap |
preparation of $4,000 passed both |
houses but was vetoed by the Governor |
ON the ground that Mr.. Robinson and |
his party had not raised the money re
quired by the first appropriation law |
and seemed to be making no effort to |
raise the money. Thus matters rested |
for some time, nothing being done and |
the need of Hospital becoming more
apparent every day. There appearing |
to be nothing doing by Mr.. Robinson |
and his people, others stepped to the |
front, among them a number of the |
good women of our town, formed an
organization, got a charter, went to |
work and in due time raised $4,000, |
bought and paid for lot and began the |
work of building. Then what do we
have? Mr. Robinson seems to wake
up, he is reminded he had charter for
a Hospital, resurrects it, and when Mr..
Moore presents bill to the Legislature
for an appropriation for maintenance OF
the new Hospital that was well under
way, Mr.. Robinson has bill presented
if he can't get subscriptions he will ap-
ply for an appropriation asks for Sl4,
500 and keeps his bill as an obstruction
to the bill of those who are going ahead.
Mr.. Robinson keeps up the fight along
the line, and in the Butler Times of
Augest 3rd, 1897, he has column and
half article criticising the ladies and
others who by that time have the work
we'll underway, and after denying that
the ladies had raised the money claim
ed says, Il don't believe that Mr.. Car
negie will ever give them dollar, if he
has given them quasi promise it is
based on some colored statement that
the facts will not warrant, or in other
words that these good women. who met
Mr.. Carnegie, had secured subscrip-
ton by false pretenses. Unkind in
Thomas to say so. He further says,
since the selection of this site, what are
the Sc, 600 subscriptions WORTH Certain
ly not worth fifty per cent. of the face
value" What are the facts? Notwith