Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-12
A FLAG CAMPAIGN.
Quay Exploits the Tenth Regiment
For the Machine.
SOLDIERS MONoPoLIzE STUMP.
The Republican state Committee Pays
the Expenses of the Tenth Regiment
to the Dewey Celebration in New
York-Can the Flag Save the I'M
periled Machines?
Especial Correspondence

York-Can the Flag Save the I'M
periled Machines.
Especial Correspondence)
Philadelphia, Oct. 2.-As patriotism,
according to old Ben Jonson, is the last
refuge of a scoundrel so the waving of
the flag and an appeal to the martial
spirit of the electors is the final re-
source of the Quay machine driven to
bay and waiting for the fatal shot to
be fired into its gangrened carcass.
1t is no secret that Boss Quay was
seriously thinking of an abandonment
of his originally proposed rally round
the flag, boys" and od-blessMcKin-
icy campaign, suppressing the leather
lung and brass throated stump scream
er-preferring to trust his luck to the
Indifference of the people and on the
principle illustrated by the following
story:
Dad" said the youthful citizen of
Dead Mans Gulch, "thar's a big rat
tlesnake under the bed" "All right"
replied the old man, composedly, list
let him stay thar-kase eff you poster
the varmit he'll spring his rattle and
wake yer nom, and then thar'll be the
devil to pay"
But howl of protest went up against
Quaker meetin' campaign from
county chairmen and local candi-
dates. In a great many counties
that contain the seeds of revolution
that were planted at previous upris-
ings against the Republican machine
the insurgents are either sullen or
openly threatening, making things look
as blue as indigo for the county tickets.
The party henchmen and the nervous
candidates, therefore, stretched out
their hands to the boss. appealing like
shipwrecked mariners for him lothrow
out the life line or Davy Jones' locker
or Mr.. McGinty's mishap would be
their fate
BRING FORTH THE STARRY FLAG.
Hence, it has been decided to at
tempt to arouse the dormant party
spirit and to impress the lukewarm
Republicans with the fearful import
ance of paying a visit to the polls and
voting early and often that the i'm
perialistic policy of Mckinley and
Hanna of making American citizens of
the Filipinos with the aid of Krag-
Jorgensen bullets may be upheld in
cidentally and Quay permitted to re-
vaults
Keeping the martial and fluttering
flag campaign ever in view Chairman
Reeder has been directed to turn Colo.
mel Barnett loose and allow him to
Swing around the circle" Two mill
tary parties of campaign orators have
been organized to sally forth from
Harrisburg, one headed by the youth
full Barnett and including a number of
the members of the Tenth regiment
who intend to vote for the colonel
for state treasurer and the other com.
posed of professional soldier political
swashbuclSlerS like General Goblin and
Colonel Tom Stewart. This last band
of grim warriors wear the service
stripes of long and patient office hold
ing. Goblin as political Poo Bah, like
old Sol Gill's watch, is "equaled by
few and eXcelled by none" and can
be depended upon implicitly to put
his foot" in it by making some bad
break of speech, as he did during the
senatorial deadlock last spring AMI
again at the Williams Grove Granger
picnic.
Colonel Tom Stewards greed for Of
flee is not yet appeased, anu he has
a latest patent lightning rod up in
hope that the next governorship will
strike him. Colonel Stewart was a
warrior of great prowess in the civil
lwar. story is related of him. At
the first days fight at Gettysburg Tom
had pileu the rebel dead in a great
heap under the withering fire of his
Springfield, when the attention of his
colonel was attracted to his fearful
execution. The colonel riding I'D to
him and pointing to the pyramid of
his slain said: Tom, cease firing ana
go home; you've killed enough"
WELL, WHY DIDN'T HE REMAINa
This martial array of shoulder strap-
ped and gold laced orators is cunning
Ily intended to divert the attention of
the ring enslaved people from the
home issues that directly concern them
most. 1t is the ingenious policy of
,l1uropean rulers and statesmen when
their people become unrestful and
threaten to bring out the block and the
ak TO divert their minds from their
domestic troubles with a comic opera
lmbroglio with some obligipg power.
1his is what Quay, crafty and foxy, is
doing, but the Democratic leaders and
candidates mean to keep him to his
mutton.
1t will be interesting to note Colonel
Barnetts clarion voice ringing out that
"a vote for Colonel Barnett is a vote to
Sustain the HannaMcKinley subjuga-
tion of the Philippines in direct contra
vention of the immortal aphorism of
the constitution of the United States
that "all men are created free and
equal"
II 1t is essential that Pennsylvania
shall vote to keep Quay's stock spec
Iulative grip o. the state treasury in
lorder to sustain the American position
jim the Orient why was it that Colonel
| Barnett deemed it wise and patriotic
to return to his native shores from the
philippines, and thus weaken the
hands of President Mckinley? Colonel
Barnett had the opportunity of re-en-
| listing in Manila, but he preferred his
| Blackstone to sword; he preferred
running for office in Pennsylvania to
running after the FiliDinos with q gun