Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-23

standing or a great party to assume the
position that proposed law Is just ana
needed and then antagonize its pas
sage because possibly one man to
whom they are opposed politically may
become a beneficiary of the law. To do
that would be to drag a big party from
high plane down to pretty low level.
Senator Quay is entitled to a fair and
impartial trial. If acquitted he should
be respected accordingly, and If con-
victed he should be properly punished.
No honorable man who has taken the
oath as a member of the legislature,
in my opinion, would be justified in OPP
posing a measure, even if an enemy
should be benefited by it, If he be-
lieved fits provisions TO be just and
proper He should support it loyalty as
a man If he thought it to be right. If
he believed it to be wrong he should OPP
pose it. No one is justified in making a
political issue out of a moral question"
UNCLE JOE" SHELLEY.
The advent of "Uncle Joe" Sibley, the
untrammeled leader of the Democracy
of the northwest, has created a stir
in the political world. Sibley came
out in a long statement to the
public in which he clearly set
forth his views on the United States
senatorship. He favors the election of
a Democrat to the United States sem
ate, and says that If the boiling Re-
publicans will not take jerks they
should be given an opportunity to vote
for some other good Democrat. If they
fail to do this, they must take the con-
sequences. He doubts the sincerity Of
the Martin-F Finn crowd and takes
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the Wanamaker press bureau has been
maligning Democrats who have the
courage to think and act for them
selves.
"rhe Democracy of Pennsylvania"
says Mr.. Sibley, for years have pro-
claimed their loyal purpose il granted
the power, to purify methods and prac-
tices which have brought blight on the
fair fame of the commonwealth. There
have been elected and sent as repre-
sentatives of Pennsylvania Democracy
81 members of the Pennsylvania legis-
lature. Al their homes these people
bear exalted regulations for high char
acter, capacity and honesty. Their
neighbors, friends and families have
trusted them 10 come to Harrisburg
and maintain their virtue and their
honor linsullied. 1t is a notorious fact
however, that Democratic members Of
the legislature have been dogged by
spies that night and day they have
been the subjects of espionage. Demo-
cratic members may differ the one
from the other, but the inuendoes and
insults heaped upon those who attempt
to reflect the will of their constituents
and perform their duties is an insult
not alone to the Democratic member
ship OF the legislature, but an insult
to the entire Democracy of the COM
monwealth. to which we should not
submit without protest. Through the
assaults of n corrupted press the dog
eing of members footsteps by night
and day by paid detectives and hire
spies writing letters To members wives
and families threatening To visit their
Indignation. not atone upon the Of
Tending Democrat. but threatening to
carry their concentrated venom to the
punishment cf their wives and chill
dren through the generations Yet to
come. this is the condition of affairs ex-
listing today in Harrisburg. This is a
condition against which honest Democ-
racy revolts. and against which, for
one, / shall not cease my best effo,ts
90 correct.