The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-05-24

Latest Tactics of the Insurgents to
Recall the Legislature Would Mean
the Expenditure of Hundreds Of
Thousands ofDollars in Salaries and
Other Expenses.
Especial Correspondence)
Harrisburg, May 2S-And now the
party wreckers. who still have the ef-
frontery to style themselves Republic
cans, are demanding that the governor
shall call an extra session of the legis-
lature. They go so far as to threaten 10
appeal to the courts to compel him 10
obey their behests. The newspapers
carrying the Wanamaker advertisement
in Philadelphia and where political
policy is controlled by this immense
business patronage, have started in to
malign the governor and to endeavor
to create sentiment against him for
his courageous action in using his veto
power to bring the expenditures OF the
state down to within the revenues ana
to protect the credit of the common
wealth by advocating a reduction or
the bonded debt of the state, and, II
possible to wipe it out entirely before
the END Of his term. These are the
Same parers that supported Swallowin
opposi,l 10 the nominee on the Re-
public ticket last fall, that made
the Ci gejgn against the election of
the F. '.'ican caucus nominee for
United -ates senator, and that failed
in eve,v NOve made to disctedit and
humili''y Colonel Quay, not only dur
ing hi ~vass for senator, but in his
great i'''e AGAINST the conspirators
who hor0l to eliminate him from poll
tics thrwurh the courts of Philadelphia.
SYNrlcATE NEWS ATTACKS.
These newspaper organs, with the
syndicat attacks on Governor Stone.
will fai' rs signally to accomplish
their = ruse as they did in their pre-
vious s.3rts. The people are wide
awake tc the influences back of these
papers sid they also know how un-
called fu@ and unfair are the criti
cisms uf the governor. They know
that Governor Stone time and again
appealed 20 the insurgents in the leg
islature 70 drop factional politics and
consider the interests of the people
without partisan bias. He made
number Of recommendations pointing
out the needs of the state, the abso-
lutte necessity for raising revenue to
meet the deficit in the state treasury,
and to the fact that unless they did
so there would have to be a general
cutting down of all the appropriations.
No attention was paid to these warn
ings from the governor. The insur-
gents by combinations with the Demo-
Gratis defeated all the revenue bills
which the governor recommended and
then helped to pass immense appro-
prlations when they knew there would
not be funds to meet them should the
governor sign the bills.
Governor Stone. confronted as he was
by a condition for which he was not
responsible, bravely faced the issue
and cut down appropriations right and
left. He was obliged to strike out the
$500,O00 item which was put in the
school appropriation bill for the an
nual purchase of text books. This ac-
tion seems to have stirred up the book
trust agents all over the state and
they have Joined with the insurgents
in denouncing the governor.
CANNOT INTIMIDATE STONE.
But there will be no extra session.
Governor Stone was too brave a SOL
dier in the civil war to be intimidated
now by band of political guerrillas.
He does not propose that the state
shall be put to the expense of hun
dreds Of thousands of dollars through
the reconvening of the legislature. He
knows that he is right and believes the
people also appreciate the fact. Some
of the members of the legislature who
are clamoring for an extra session
may not be actuated by desire to
get hold OF the $500 which each mem
ber would get in additional salary. if
an extra session were called but they
would get it all The same. The peo-
pie, who would have to foot the bills
with the extra expense of clerk hire
printing and the wages of an army
of minor employees of the house. are
not at all anxious for the reconvenipg
OF the legislature. They have had a
sad experience in that direction.
The people remember the scandals
that followed the calling of the extra
session of the legislature by Pattison
and they do not want a repetition of
this unsayory record.
The reduction in the school apnro-
priation which these men take as
pretext for demanding the reconvening
OF the legislature to raise additional
revenue, is but a temporary cut. II
is behaved the books on hand will
be amrle in many cases to last until
the n7St session of the legislature.
when more money can be had for thai
purpOca The fact that a round mill
lion dollars has been spent for school
books caring the last two years. in the
opinion Of well-informed men, should
make y unnecessary to purchase many
books 1t this time.
EDITOR F0CHT's COMMENT.
Ex-Representative Benjamin X.
Focht, Of Union county, who is famil-
lar WIN the methods of the book trust
IN oTi!sting tic services of agents and
foist.1f their books upon the state re-
garC of the needs of the pupils
thov some light upon the present agi-
tatiol for an extra session of the legis-
latrTr
ut took a courageous man to meet
the issue, and the governor did it,"
said Mr. Focht, in commenting upon
the action of the executive. "He well
kref the weapons the Democrats and
Insurgents would make of his act, and
to have dared to do what he thought
tisii at this time is proof of his cour-
ase md entities HIM to the confidence