Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-05-05

American interests for revenge.
FREEDOM THE RIGHT OF ALL.
Emperors and despots read their
doom in the advancement of intelli-
gence the world over. No man was
born to be n slave. The dynasties of
Europe. that have en-ured for centur-
les, totter on their foundations, and the
time is not distant when titled aristoc-
racy will cease to usurp the rights OF
honest people.
Pennsylvania has been ruled for 40
years by political despots. avaricious,
cruel and corrupt.
The chains OF political seryitude
have been welded tighter and tighter
until every limb and muscle has felt
the steeled Imprisonment. Yet many
political monarchs and monarchies,
that for a time have flourished, have
been overthrown when met by their
deadliest foes-education and enlight-
enment-and the time is not far dis
tant when no Quay nor Andrews will
dare TO lift a murderous hand to strike
down tha political liberties and material
interests of the Republicans Of Penn
sylvania The swords of corporations,
nisused public funds and political pat
ronase are not TO forever menace
Pensylvaafa's greatnes.
We VIII not be discouraged il we
have many Bull Runs. There is sure
to be az Appomattox. The militia of
April wiz become the regulars of No
vember che deeper l get into the Sc
crets ars the more l learn OF the
methods sf this consolidated man
hood destroying and character attack
ing political crowd in Pennsylvania.
Ia I a.. bx- r,1ay
tate to stand UP straight and fight.
1t takes courage to face the Spanish
bullet but for some men II takes
greater courage TO face the reputation
destroying. character smirching, good
name assassinating bullets of the ma
Chine batteries. Today we see the ma
chine doubling and redoublirg its efforts
and money to turn back the rising tide
of condemnation. and when we see
their citadels of strength being shaken
we know that the day of emancipation
is near at hand.
History has shown that political
bosses have appeared strongest when
they were nearest their end. Boss
Tweed was thought TO be unconquer-
able six months before his power was
broken. and while he was in the very
shadow of the penitentiary, and Boss
John Y. McKane never lost an election
while he had his liberty He defied
the warnings of an outraged people
and scoffed at threatened justice until
a few days before he pat on the prison
stripes.
have shown that part No. l OF the
system is the state treasury, the great
central storehouse from which is dis
seminated wholesale corruption. /
have spoken OF part No. 2 of the polit-
ical system as the place controlling
and office promising branch, which
commands a premium for the place
and compels official rottenness and
slavery to satisfy the avarice and greed
of the bosses. l have analyZed part
No. of that political system as a
great combination to suppress legfti-
mate legislative news and distort ac-
tual facts relating to government.
Part No. Is the combined influence
of the great corporations always on
the side of the bosses. Part No.
is the both lavish and almost reckless
use Of vast sums of corruption money.
Part No. is the official legislation to
protect favored politicians organized
in speculatlons enabling them to COM
nit crimes without fear of punishment.
INDEPENDENCE A CRIME.
1t is a fact, though a Pennsylvania
should blush to say it. that any person
who may try to protect the honor and
guard the interests of his state, by op-
posing the Quay machine, takes his
business interests, his reputation and
almost his life in his own hands. No
sooner does a man show independence
and refuse to indorse the misdesds of
the political machine than he is taken
in hand to be disciplined.
If he is the employe of a corporation
he is threatened with discharge; IL he
is a merchant he is boycotted; if he is
q clerk the head of the firm Is notified
that he must be suppressed; If he is In
terested in a corporation the company's
interests are threatened: If he is a di-
rector or stockholder in a bank large
customers are found to threaten the
withdrawal Of their business: If he Is
a physician good patrons object; IL he
is lawyer his clients are given orders
and threaten to leave him: If he is
preacher members of his congregation
protest; If a man daring to be inde
pendent of political dIctation is in debt
he is threatened by those who hold
his obligations. This is not the result
OF accident. but of method.
MEN THE MACHINE FEARS.
II Is the result OF a carefully plan
ned and manipulated system that ex-
tends into every county in the state
and reaches all classes of business. 1t
Is every day and every year working
machinery; manned by host of politi-
cal retainers who report TO the central
Office the first symptoms of machine in
subordination. and who are expected TO
advise ways and means of applying
the silencing and crushing pressure.
But there is class OF men beyond
these Influences that the machine must
reach They are men who have to
their credit long years of honorable
professional and business records; men
who are leaders In their respective
communities; men whose very names
are synonyms for integrity and char
acter: men whom ordinary considera-
tion will not move. These men arc a
constant menace to the existence OF the
machine. and methods must be found
to keep them from taking an active
interest in politics.
To influence these men is to set in
motion the character torpedo. the repu-
tation smirching and the good name
destroying machine. II is worked by
the hands of a gang OF place holders
and place seekers who risk nothing by
trying to rob honest men of characters.
IT is a warning of what all who pro-
test must encounter The blackmailer
begins to operate That most CON
temptible OF human beings-the anony-
nous letter writer-starts his mSer-
able work. The scandal peddlcr. a
moral outcast. Iabors systematically TO
poison society with innuendO. insinua-
lions and base lies.
FALSE ACCUSATIONS MADE.
Detective agencies. composed of low
tools and thugs. are hired at great eX-
pense TO dog the footsteps of those who
dare work against the machine. They
are paid to fabricate stories invent
false evidence against any one whom
tho machine may wish 10 destroy Any
man who causes trouble is sure TO feel
their vengeance. Those connected In
any way with the persons of their
special hatred are not safe. The youth
or the aged are not spared. They do
not care for the gray haired mother or
innocent children. and this Is why men
dare not fight. Any man who enters
the arena OF Pennsylvania politics to-
day against the machine will not es-
cape It, Thus do they arrogate TO
themselves the sole right to your Offices
and assault you IL you venture toward