The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-09-28
DOODLERS TRIALS OH.
A Political Judge Comes in Handy
For the Machine.
TH. REEDER Plays COXARD'S ROLE

ing as Friends of Organized Labor, Are
Backing Judge Paxson, Labor's Arch En-
emy, For Interstate Commerce Commis-
sioner.
Especial Correspondence)
Philadelphia, Sept. 25.-lt required
10 political Virgins to forecast Chair
nan Reeder's rejection of Chairman
Killings general challenge for palaver
between the stump orators of both par
ties of living campaign issues, the
reemen of the state to act as judges.
Reeder's ridiculous and Fallstafilan
retreat has raised broad grin on the
fair face of the ancient commonwealth.
Fhe Independent papers have nailed
aim to the cross for a coward. They
have javalined him and his party as
being afraid to meet honest discussion
II Republican trusteeship of the state.
The Quayites have barricaded them
selves behind the dusky warriors or
Luzon, who are struggling for their
God inherited liberties as the American
eolonists fought for theirs against
George III, and into whom the Mckin-
10y administration is shooting the con-
stitution of the United States through
The muzzles of Springfield rifles and
Mark Hanna's dollar mark tattooed
person as though American imperial
ism as decried by Washington and
Jefferson and Lincoln. and the un-
speakable Hanna's continued pro-
prfetorship of a president, has to do
with the election of a judge Of the su-
psrior court and a state treasurer OF
Pennsylvania.
Their armor is so weak and flimsy,
their cause SO indefensible, that no
wonder it is General Reeder sinks like
IN abashed canine to the precincts OF
his own kennel.
The Quay machine has secured ma
terfal vantage, however, within the
week. 1t has succeeded in warding of
he trials of the indicted boodlers who
we're caught redhanded in their at
tempts to bribe Democrats and insur-
gents in the last legislature to defame
themselves by voting for Quay for
senator and for the McCarrell bill,
which he thought necessary to save
him and his son from the frowning
walls of the penitentiary.
If these notorious cases, which were
billed for trial in the Dauphin court
last week, had gone on they would
have given the machines campaign a
pair of beautiful black eyes, and
would have provided the Democrats
with an ammunition train sufficient to
have blown up the Harrisburg plat
form and the entire Quay aggregation
Of plundering patriots. But witness
how fate is employed by the Key
stones Napoleon of politics to keep
him on his roller skates.
WHERE A POLITICAL JUDGE
COMES IN.
A United States district judge Is re-
tired on age A Judge of the Dauphin
court who possessed some little in
dependence of thought and action and
some true conception of the law and
how 1t should be construed Is made
a federal Judge by Quay, thus filling
the vacancy. The Dauphin court is
an essential function and asset of the
dominant machine, since its jurisdic-
tion extends over distinctive state
questions and particularly questions
arising under the accursed Baker bal
lot law. Quay, mark you, puts in this
vacancy on the Dauphin bench a pro-
fessional politician and henchman who
for some years had been at the head
of the sub-machine as chairman of the
county committee.
To the shame of the judiciary, this
political judge had the temerity to
cling to his Craftsmanship of the Re-
publican executive committee ol
Dauphin county long after he hat
qualified for judge. And this po'
litical Judge was handy thing for the
machine to have in these Doodle cases
He and the amiable district attorney
conveniently found that the stuffed
docket was too crowded with petty Of
fenses, such as hen roost robbing, as
sault and battery, crap playing, for
nification and bastardy and cornel
l0unging, to try these Doodle cases
which aim at the very vitals Of popu
lar government and in which the peo
pie of the whole state are intensel.
concerned In order thus to save tn
Republican campaign from embarrass
ment by reviving at this time tn
erowning scandal of the last legisla
ture the Dauphin court has postpone,
these Doodle cases until the Januar.
term of court. This is another case O
Quay "winking the other eye" at
political Judge.
HERE, LABORING MAN. LIST.
Governor Stone has Justly arouse
the wrath and indignation of organize
labor throughout the state by person
ally visiting Washington and addin
his squeak and "me too" to the power
full appeals of Senator Penrose an
Quay to President Mckinley to nam
ex-Chief Justice Paxson as a mem
her of the interstate commerce CON
mission.
Two years ago similar attemI
failed through the protests of the Ia
Dor organizations and by Senator Gu
lom, of Illinois. the father of the la
creating the commission, threatenin
to defeat Parsons confirmation by tn
senate should the president nominal
him. The presidential nerve the
failed, although he and Hanna ha
solemnly obligated themselves in til
campaign of 1896 to thus appoint Pa,
son In return for Doodle and votes tt
great eastern railroad corporation
gave Mckinley and Hanna.
Parsons utter subserviency to an.
thing. and to everything in the co
poration flesh pot line while he adorl
cd the supreme bench of Pennsylv
MIA and his hatred of and antipatl