Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-09-25

nave fusion rejected after the party
had instructed for 1t at the polls. The
Quay machine was materially aided by
certain miserable and traitorous Dem
ocrats who hold jobs in the federal
departments in Philadelphia-Clev
land holdovers, who thus sold them
selves in order to retain their places.
PENNSYLVANIA'S CZAR.
William A. Stone is the first governor
of Pennsylvania who has undertaken
to set himself up as superior to the
constitution and to usurp the functions
of an emperor in a sovereign state OF
the American union. He appoints
United States senator when the consti-
tuition requires him to summon the leg
islature in extra session and when he
knows that the senate from its estab-
lishment has never received, but has
always rejected an applicant applying
under such circumstances with a gov
ernor's credentials.
He vetoes two proposed constitution
al amendments looking to a clean and
honest ballot because his boss disap-
proves of them, and which the consti-
tuition withdFaws from his considera-
ton. He takes his pen and roams
Nhi oNt1ii epPi Opi idtiOlS WIlltH HGutthlo
too large, striking here and there, thus
constituting himself bigger than the
legislature, and which no other gov
ernor ever dared to do. He signs bill
and files it among the statutes but sub
sequently, forming an unfavorable
opinion of the law, he reconsiders his
approval and imaglnes that he has re-
pealed the act. He sends for the au-
thnritjoC nf OF at oil tn
stitutions that have been given appro-
priations and compels them to accept a
lower amount at the point of the pistol,
or through the threat that arefusal will
cause him to veto the entire appropria-
ton. Thus things have come to pret-
ty pass in Pennsylvania when a gov
ernor becomes greater than the legsla-
ture and breaks the laws which he has
sworn to execute and obey.
PROOF is WANTED.
The claim is flaunted in the faces of
the people by the Republican machine
managers that the state treasury has
never lost dollar through the cutting
of banks holding state deposits, such as
the Delamater. the Peoples, the Key
stone, the Chestnut Street, and other
notoriously rotten political concerns.
But how do the people know the state
has never lost dollar? Where Is the
proof of it. where is the audit? We
have only the SAY so" of the QUAY
henchmen. The state is bankrupt and
cannot meet it's obligations even in
boom times. and the governor is COM
PEELED to strike right and left with his
veto, starving the schools, the insane
and the charitable institutions in order,
as he shouts, to save the states credit
AS Hamlet would remark, There's
something rotten in the state of Den
mark"
VETERAN QUAY.
Senator Quay is the possessor of a
| medal voted him by congress for al
legged bravery in the rebellion, but he
| loved his comrades so dearly that dur
ing the late national encampment held
in Philadelphia he was bobbing for eels
and angling for trout in the wilds of
| Canada. Quay has no time for an old
soldier except as delegate to a politi
cal convention or on election day.
A JOB FOR BEATH.
It Is now in order for General Bob
| Beath to reassemble the Pennsylvania
in Philadelphia in August, 1898, and
again eulogize Governor Stone as the
soldiers friend and famboyant cham
pion. OF course a little thing like
Stones discharge of old soldiers from
the state departments at Harrisburg to
| make room for Quay henchmen who
never saw "reb" or smelled gunpow-
der in their country's defense, and
which caused the Mckinley Veteran
association of Dauphin county and Ma
jor John c. Delaney to denounce him
need not be alluded to. But as De Wolf
Hopper would sing: There are things
and there are things t were better not
to dwell on
WHY JOSIAH WAS NAMED.
1t is the usual thing for the Quay
machine to allow the railroads and the
Standard Oil company to name the
| judges of the supreme and the superior
courts, but having a nomination for the
latter this year at his disposal the boss,
| in order to bring the mayor of Phila-
| delphia into camp, so as to have the
use of the delegates he controls and
make the city "a wide open town" for
election frauds, permitted that ambi-
tious gentleman, who is pipe laying for
the next Republican nomination for
governor, to name the candidate for the
superior court. This compelled the boss
to offenda great corporation by scratch
ing the eminent jurist whom 1t had in
| duced Governor Hastings to appoint.
| The mayor of Philadelphia, through
some subterranian reason, named Jo-
| siah Adams, who has since been found
| to be morally and professionally unfit
to place upon so important bench as
that of the superior court There is a
| grave scandal connected with his stew
ardship of an estate which brought him
to the verge of disbarment as an attor-
ney. Nearly nine years ago he was ap-
pointed, through the influence of the
men who had skinned the Penn Trust
and Safe Deposit Company as its re-
eeiver, and he has managed for a long
period to nurse this to his great finan-
cial benefit.
BOGUS ASSESSMENTS.
The September return of the voters
of Philadelphia has been completed by