The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-09-21

the saddle, started up toward the head
waters for big game and got as far as
Washington county, but not being a
"koerful 1njuu," he neglected to de-
stroy his trail. He is reputed to have
made proposition" to an insurgent
member who was still strong in the
faith and who made report to the in
surgent chiefs. But at all events
Uncle Bill, whether he smelt "a plain
clothes man" or not hastily chucked his
Bible and night shirt into grip and
departed for the far away land of the
Montezumas, where he is che pro-
prietor of a gold mine-the real thing
not the kind producing the gold bricks
of politics.
ANNOYED BY KILLINGS PERSIS-
TENCY
But the troubles of the machine do
not end with this by darned sight.
State Chairman Killing some time ago
sent a challenge to General Reeder
proposing Joint debate between the
state candidates, but the communica-
tion evidently found its way to the
dead letter Office. Chairman Killing
has hung on to General Reeder's ear
however like a tick-seed to a coon's
shin, and has again proposed a series
of joint debates on state issues. In the
last communication he says
"That all the matters at issue in
this campaign, the election of a state
treasurer, as well as judges of the SUI
preme and superior courts, may be
properly discussed we respectfully
suggest that we have throughout the
state a number of Joint debates, the
dot to{ls nf tho hp n1ntnallV
agreed upon by us. Let the speakers
of both sides address the same audi
ence from the same platform. Let
each side present it's case to the voters
for their benefit. These matters ought
to and can be discussed in fair and
proper spirit. You will please let us
hear from you regarding this sub
ject at an early date"
This challenge has been in the pos
session of General Reeder for some
days, and he is treating 1t like the
man with an elephant on his hands"
| That he will turn it's picture to the
wall is about as foregone conclusion
as that the ascendency of the Repub-
| lican party means higher taxes and
administration. He will fall back
on the defense that the Republican
| the Philippines and that a Democrat
has no right to live; that 1t is silent
as to state issues, and that he has
therefore no authority to raise and
| discuss issues that are not included
in that fearful and wonderful party"
1 deliverance.
| His position reminds me of the Jer-
! sey justice of the peace who remarked
81,
quoting him the supreme court in the
course of a case that 'he wanted 1t
understood that this court don't pro-
pose to go outside of the state of New
Jersey for it's law" Death and tax
alton are always with us, and so are
troubles with the Quay machine.
STONES FOOT IN IT.
The latest veXation is due to the
stupidity of Governor Stone the First.
Certain long range politicians set a
trap for Stone. which he unconscious
ly walked into. He was an easy
mark 1t was deemed desirable that
an expression on trusts should be OBJ
tanned from some conspicuous mem
ber, some shining light" of the Quay
household, since the Quay platform is
as silent on the subject as the tomb
of the Capulets."
1t was believed that Quay himself
was too old and experienced a fox tC
even smell at the bait so the trap was
set for Stone. The editor of the New
York World was induced to invite
Governor Stone to write that Demo
cratic paper a screed on the question
of trusts, which is now banking VI
like storm cloud on the poltca
horizon. To the general surprise tn,
Keystone executive complied with {
rough hewn defense of the trusts anC
of the promoters of trusts. He CAV,
his ipse dixit that trusts, although
undisguised blessings to mankind, ar,
not political issue, nor are the.
,. likely to become such. No fee-gorge,
attorney of John d. Rockefeller o
Phil Armour could have defended o
apologized with more zeal and bold
ness or less skill and ingenuity thes
criminal aggregations of capital tina
are making the consumer squirm lik
skinned eels and are handing the ma
ton over to a soulless money feuda
oligarchy.
PENROSE AND ANDREWS TRAP
. PED.
= The trap was again baited and Sena
tor Penrose and Bill Andrews, the rec
= ognized lieutenants of the machine
= were interviewed by the Philadelphi
!, North American. and they PRACTICAL
h indorsed the trust position taken
e Governor Stone, and so by this round
t about way the trust has been mad
: an issue in this falls campaign, an
n is so rated.
: FUSION IN CHESTER.
The experiment of fusion on count
- offices between the Democrats and til
. good government and anti-machir
=, forces in Chester has attracted vic
- attention. 1t is regarded by the mi
- chine leaders much as the people of tt
~ southern communities look upon a
. outbreak of yellow fever or the al
~ thorities of continental Europe IL
20 bubonic plague. 1t must be stampt
" out and quarantined against, lest
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