Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-11-03

pTOIllSeu nlI1 tSIODln) the lieutenant
governorship in return for four dele
gates from Lebanon who would do in
the state convention the bidding of
Senator Quay. At Lebanon, April 16
There was time we could boast of
free press. Today 1t exists in Penn
sylvania only in name. 'Some of
the great telegraph systems are no
longer safe conductors of private mes
sages. The superintendent of one great
company sits in the councils of the
machine. At >Bellefonte, April 10.
official figures show that the aver
age increased cost of running the three
departments of the state government
In the past four years Hastings term)
was $9T6.593.20, or about 43 per cent
more than the average cost for the
preceding six years. At Phillipsburg,
April %
This I know and speak deliberately,
without malice or prejudice that since
1861 the wheels OF Pennsylvania gov
ernment have rolled backward and the
Camerons and Quays have been re-
sponsible therefor. Whether done by
them in person or through Andrews
and other well paid servants, they are
equally responsible At West Chester,
April 20.
Two United States senators and a
score or more of congressman with q
state administration in and about the
state house at Harrisburg of their
choosing, the bosses and the legislature
owned by the bosses constitute a giant
that utterly defies the whole of Penn
sylvania's population and makes our
fair state the object of ridicule the wide
world over among all men except poll
ticians who spell Pennsylvania with
three P's. 1t is Pennsylvania, Poll
ticians Paradise. AT York, May 2.
Courts of law, with judges, some of
whom can only have their places by the
grace of the Quay-Andrews cabal, hold
court to try burglars and bullies, but
not a finger is laid upon those who
commit misdemeanor in legislative
and administrative office. The starving
man who picks a lock Is severely pun
ished. The slick aristocrat of politics
picks the treasury through approprla-
ton bills and contracts and the SOL
emn courts of Pennsylvania sleep with
their eyes open. AT Huntington, May 5.
A practical politician tells me that
more good men can be bought with
500 worth of passes than with $100
cash. At Huntington. May 5.
The Lexow committee of w. Fl. An
drews and Quay to blackmall Philadel-
phians probably cost 5,000 or at the
utmost $4,000 actual expenditure at
honest and usual rates of expenses
charged to individuals, and Senator
Andrews fought despera tely to get $685.
900. At Reading, May 6.
Absolutism is the worst form of des-
potism, and absolutsn exists in its
worst form il Pennsylvania today In
AtI -tat I.ty
Pennsylvania it is by boldness, de-
fiance and brutality that the bosses
maintain their power. At Reading,
May G.
The actual expense for every day the
legislature QG9O was in session was
more than $4,000. Thirty days were
lost by holding back the committee ap-
pointments, 30 more by the inexcusable
absence Of the speaker of the house
(since appointed by Mckinley to the
fattest Office in the state), and 30 more
In the movement to protect beer. Un-
less these awful eXtraVaganceS are
stopped by the smashing of the ma
chine, and stopped this very year. the
taxpayers will SOON face a deficit of
900 or S5,000,000. At Westfield,
May 8.
They got time vainly to try to mend
the broken banks that had the state
money. Down went Smedley Darling
toms West Chester bank with 100000
state money; the Peoples bank and the
Chestnut Street Philadelphia banks,
with S215, 900, and the Guarantors'
Cooper shop of finance in Philadelphia,
marking Philadelphia with three BIS
as the Banner Bank Bankrupt state
in 1898 in all the United States. And
all these banks were connected by de-
posits and management with the poll
tics of our state. AT Wellsboro, May IL.
The Republican party as at present
constituted is a most dangerous polit-
ical trust in Pennsylvania Easton,
May 13.
1 believe it would be better for a
great party to go down rather than
permit few thousand officeholders
oy virtue OF patronage control to be-
come absolute rulers of six millions of
people. At Mount Vernon, May 10.
He (Quay) has filed the statute
books of Pennsylvania with laws CIV
ing to the great corporations your
valuable franchises. He has so direct
I'd legislation that the privileges of cor
porations are well nigh absolute, while
their interests have been so well pro-
tected that an unjust proportion of tax
alton falls upon the people. At Athens,
April G.
At the last session he (Quay) killed
the antitrust bill. At Athens April g.
The needs of overcrowded asylums
and unhealthy hospitals count as
naught against the request of the man
with a political pull and who can de-
liver state delegates. At Athens,
April 6.
Whoever stands by the existing ring
writes approved over the conduct of
the state legislature. At Pottstown,
April 8.
The treasury thieves have not been
prosecuted because laws have been en-
acted and so amended for the past Is
years that those with the backing OF
the machine dare openly violate the
law without fear of harm. The
catalogue of crimes centering at the
capitol, all done by sworn and un-
faithful public servants, is the wonder
of the time. At Ashbourne.