Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-09-28
BOODLERS' TRIALS OFF.
A Political Judge Comes in Handy
For the Machine.
GEN. REEDER PLAYS C0NARD'S ROLE

Ing as FRIENDS OF organized LABOR, Are
Backing Judge Paxson, Labor's Arch En-
emy, For Interstate Commerce Commits
sioner.
Especial Correspondence.)
Philadelphia, Sept. 25.-It required
no political Virgins to forecast Chair
man Reeder's rejection of Chairman
Killings general challenge for palaver
between the stump orators of both par
ties of living campaign issues, the
freemen of the state to act as judges.
Reeder's ridiculous and Fallstaffian
retreat has raised a broad grin on the
fair face of the ancient commonwealth.
The Independent papers have nailed
him to the cross for a coward. They
have javalined. him and his party as
being afraid to meet honest discussion
of Republican trusteeship of the state.
The Quayites have barricaded them
selves behind the dusky warriors of
Luzon, who are struggling for their
God inherited liberties as the American
colonists fought for theirs against
George III, and into whom the McKin-
ley 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 Eanna's continued pro-
pretorship of president, has to do
with the election of a judge of the su-
perior court and a state treasurer Of
Pennsylvania.
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their cause so indefensible, that no
wonder it is General Reeder sinks like
an abashed canine to the precincts of
his own kennel.
The Quay machine has secured ma
terial vantage, however, within the
week. 1t has succeeded In warding off
the trials of the indicted boodlers who
were 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
nave given lie B campaign d
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 it should be construed Is made
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 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 of
Dauphin county long after he had
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
niflcation and bastardy and corner
lounglng, 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 intensely
concerned. In order thus to save the
Republican campaign from embarrass-
ment by reviving at this time the
crowning scandal of the last legisla-
ture the Dauphin court has postponed
these Doodle cases until the January
term of court. This is another case Of
Quay "winking the other eye" at O
political judge.
HERE, LABORING MAN, LIST.
Governor Stone has Justly aroused
the wrath and indignation of organized
labor throughout the state by person
ally visiting Washington and adding
his squeak and "me too" to the power
full appeals of Senator Penrose and
Quay to President Mckinley to name
ex-Chief Justice PaXson as a mem-
Der of the interstate commerce COM
mission.
Two years ago a similar attempt
failed through the protests of the la
Dor organizations and by Senator Gull
lom, of Illinois. the father of the law
creating the commission, threatening
to defeat Parsons confirmation by the
senate should the president nominate
him. The presidential nerve then
failed, although he and Hanna had
solemnly obligated themselves in the
campaign OF 1896 to thus appoint Pax
son in return for Doodle and votes the
great eastern railroad corporations
gave Mckinley and Hanna.
Paxson's utter subserviency to any
thing and to everything in the cor
poration flesh pot line while he adorn-
ed the supreme bench of Pennsylva-