Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-09-09


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B As is natural with organs Of q
party that breeds phariseeism and
cant, republican papers are fond Of
talking about the high purposes,
morals, and rectitude Of the republl-
can party. That these high sound
ing words are q cloak for political.
hypocrisy and turpitode is apparent
when the history Of the republican
psrty is considered. Pretending TO-
be essentially liberal in ideas and as
pirations, in state after stat, the.
party has become the tool of de-
signing and INSCRIPTIONS politicians,
who have used it for their personal
ends. And all this with little or no
protest from the rank and file of in.
telligence. The republican party in.
the state of Pennsylvania has had
an almost unchecked career for
many years, with result which
might have been anticipated. The
exactions OF the ring which controls
that great state have become at last
so infamous and uncomfortable that a
league of business men has BEEN
formed to redeem the state. On
Thursday OF last week; at meeting
in Philadelphia, John Wasamaker
delivered a scathing arraignment of
the men who control the republican
party OF the state. It is true that
Wanamaker is sorehead, but that
does not lessen the force of his state
ments, the truth of which has not
been denied. When thieves fall out.
honest men get their dues. In hisad-
dress, speaking OF the last senator
;al election, Wanamaker said:
men became articles, pieces Of furni-
ture, in The Quay stock, with prices
attached IN plain figures, and the re-
publican ticket bore this plain device:
Buy me off with an office or money!
Court rooms, Capitol rooms, corridors.
and close corners OF hotels became the
common market place for votes. The
whole business Of electing a United
States Senator was an arithmetical
problem and check book. That same
night-tbe night that settled the election
OF United States Senator-after the
vote had been taken and become a mat
ter OF record, legislators and leaders,
showing the character of the machine
and the spirit OF the men, made pro-
cessions in the streets with brass bands,
conducting mock religious exercises with
mock hymns. and kneeling on the high
way in mock prayers, amid loud laugh
ter and saclilegious ribaldry, raised,
| wi tn bribe-stained hands their altar Of
warship with shouting, Great is our
Diana OF Pennsylvania. i: q. - :.
did ever before in the history of any:
State Capitol, q Legislature and its
henchmen on the night Of it's first meet.
ing so defy public sentiment and out
rage decency by making sport in public
OF religious thines under the shadow of
it's State buildings. The last
legislature almanac is black Calendar
of dark and dismal days for Pennsyl-
vania. The hideous and profane orgies
at the beginning OF the season quickly
began. the persistent persecution OF the
seventy-si who dared to stand outindi-
vidually and who thereafter compacted
to stand against the Quay machine COL
lectively, cursed from beginning to end
and violently threatened by swollen lips
as If the profanity and fury of the Quay
machine could sweep the earth; the
strange, openly charged suspicious burn
ing OF the Capitol with it's destruction of
State papers, snuffed out like candle:
the onslaught on the Treasury by
means OF the Andrews-Lexow bills pad
ded pay rolls; junketing committee bills;
investigating minutes and olio COM
mitlees; padded appropriation bills;
Grace Church scandals, eliminating in
the Reeder-Elkins-Mylin- Haywood and
theirs indemnity bond, crime as gross
a fraud, so palpable that even pliable,
complacent State Treasurer halted in
the presence of so great an iniquity and
required seven OF his companions to
hold him up in his awful position by an
indemnity bond; the desperate rvs,s-
lance OF the Quay-Andrews machine to
paying interest on State moneys and
narrow escape OF despoiling the schools
to keep the brewers bargain, the break
up OF the Governors Cabinet, Attor-
ney-Generals Office, retiring the Premier
and Assistant Attorney general. fol-
lowed by the astounding but partial
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