Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-06-09
SITUATION is SERIOUS.


SITUATION Is SERIOUS. T
Nv friends. 1t would be delightfully."- I
ridiculous # IL was not also serious.
We might be quite willing 70 be /
amused. to be taken for light headed. /
half witted unsoDhisticated clodhop- /
pers Of city and country, were il not /
that the consequences are all tremend- :
ously fraught with evil.
What do YOU and l care who is gov !
ernor ii he be a man that owns him
self and can be certified as honest, in /
telIigent and guaranteed for fidelity TO
the people and not to any one man or
a dozen men OF the political machine
now built or to be built hereafter?
What was the deliverance at the
Bou~se conference but heartfelt, man
~ Republican appeal, and notice OF de-
termiu5d ana continued protest against
the Quay Andrews machine
What was the three months' long,
earnest, laborious, enthusiastic. fruit
ful crusade IA dozen counties of this
state but an unfolding OF the reasons
why the political machine can no long
er command support for long slated.
boss marked machine riveted Candi-
dates What was the meaning OF the
great assem- hlaEls Of people. like this.
day and :Icat. throughout the COM
monwealjE. the earnest forceful ex-
ecutive work Of The old and truc. but
rot now style. Republican press IN our
own and othe. states. counseling Penn
sylvania Republicans 10 caution, and
pointing out dangers il slate and ma
chine methods were this year persisted
in?
The convention has come and gone.
= q. IrNrz~t1y .t-Hot II
ed 10 do, and all the time doggedly
meant TO 90. exactly what public sentl-
ment. never before more crystalized,
asked and urged il not 10 DO. Who has
Il served The bosses, and the bosses
only, and their rctainers. Who are its
candidates? Their chief is the long
back chosen manager who shall ope-
rate the machine for four years. with
the power of the governors Office, and
| his appoiutees assisting him. Who are
the others? Respectable soldiers. hon
ored civilians, each 10 have hold OF
the handles of the political basket 10
help 10 carry it through the crowd and
deliver 1t safely TO the machine fisher
men.
THE STATE PLATFORM.
What is the platform? a confused COM
| ed authors General Bingham's, bright
standard; perhaps it was afterward
edited or uneGited. AS II stands IL IS
| reminder OF one mans way of tell
ing the time of day who said when the
hands of my clock point TO 2 and il
strikes IL. / know it is half-past I.
The most pitiful part of that plat
| form is the congratulations TO the
brewers as supporters of the state and
benefactors of the people in relieving
| them by license fees, saying nothing
| of the close TO a million dollar appro-
| priation TO penitentiary and work.
| houses, known TO be largely filed by
| the curse OF Intoxicating liquors. and
| saying nothing OF the larger blight on
| families broken UP by the business pa
| raded in that platform, by small two
| penny statesmanship as reducing and
| relieving state taxation. Bear in mind
| I am not discussing a brewers or liquor
| selling business. l am speaking OF tho
| infantile craftsmanship that mistakes
| the condition os taxation and makes
| the farmers and all who live inside the
| state of Pennsylvania TO pay their
| taxes, class of charity patients at the
| door Of the brewer and barkeeper.
| I am also a Republican unwilling to
| surrender the Republican party TO help
| any Populistic Liberty. Prohibition,
| independent or Democrat by insulting
| the taxpayers with being dependent on
| the distillers and brewers.
Honestly. where is the man that is
| thinking all around large thoughts over
| all the situation and not a small patch
| of the war or the present situation Of
| politics? 1 believe I only know one in
| the country, and his name Is William
| Mckinley; in Pennsylvania l cannot
| find another not even by looking into
| my own looking glass.
| SUMMARY OF THE SITUATION.
| Let me shorten today's speech by a
| brief summary OF the situation. The
| forced nomination of William A. Stone
l for governor stands for all that Quay
| wants and for all that Quayism means.
The credit or the obloquy of the NOM
| ination is clearly defined in the special
1 iy selected candidate who is absolutely
| dependent on the power of the machine
| for his preferment, The history of this
| state Is barren Of q single instance in
1 which a candidate, named and elected
| by Quay, was strong enough to assert
| official manhood in opposition TO the
| corrupt demand of his exacting master.
| This boss makes no mistake IN the Sc
1 lection OF the agents to execute his
| will. and after months of lodging and
| deceit, of plotting and scheminR, he
| comes into the open and avows himself
| for William A. Stone in confirmation of
| the cabal of mercenaries who met at
| Avalon on that fateful Sunday in May.
| Whatever may be the individual merit
| of William A. Stone. il is wholly lost
| by reason of the corrupt advocacy Of
his nomination by such Infamous man
| ayers.
From almost every election precinct
| In the state is heard an earnest pro-
test against such machine methods,
and the deep regret that the arbitrary
| power exercised at the convention must
surely bring inevitable danger TO its
| nominee.
PEOPLE WILL SAVE THE COM
MONWEALTH.
The outraged people are determined
10 save this magnificent commonwealth
| from infamy and shame by rescuing
the party from such disgraceful man
| agement. The repeated charges, unan-
| swered and undenied, that this clique
| has systematically robbed the treas
ury of the state, thwarted and presi-
| dent in maintaining the national honor,
| speculated In the public funds, fed
| eral appointments and corrupt lesisla-
ton, and defied public sentiment, fur
| nish grave reasons OF warning when
| these bosses now seek to extend their
| power so that the vicious legislation
| which was defeated by the valorous rs
in 1896, shall be revived and confirmed
by their governor and their legislature
in 1899.
Honest men everywhere are called
upon by imperative necessity as this
lawless band in control of the Repub-
lican party leads another march to-
| ward the treasury and Its power against
the real welfare of the people.
| Ny argument IL not ended, but must
! close today by saying your only bull
| wark against what doubt not will be
worse than the legislature OF 81.
| mean thereby the legislature of 'se.
/ came here today expressly to ask
you to give your votes to w. NJ. Dow
| dell and for the three true men, your
| neiehbors and trusted friends. JEFF
| freys, Phillips and Moore, who were
tried IN the fire of the last legislature
| and came out unburnt by fraud and
| dishonor.
| Keep your county right in the next
| legislature by sending these men back
| again. To wait for some other time to
| strike q blow at the machine is haZ-
| ardous in the extreme, to strike now at
| the first election at the primaries is
| the duty OF the hour; strike while the
iron is hot. and make it hotter by striE-