The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-04-12
FROM THE STATE CAPITOL.

will be crowded with work each morning
noon and night, yet many bills, some
good, some bad, will fall by the way side
for lack of time. The question of revenue
has been ofas much Importance as the
question of U. S. Senator. The Ways
and Means committee of the House, how
ever, has found the means and ways out
of the trouble and it all remains with the
Senate now to concur. What they will
do with the revenue bills sent them is
yet question, On the passage of these
bills depends the financial holp that the
many charities of the State Will get The
House has faithfully tried TO keep the
State from any additional Indebtedness
while at the same time assisting
all worthy charities as far as pos
sible under the circumstances. Notwit, :
standing all the hue and cry raised by
the Wanamaker papers the Sll, 100000
for public schools is in the general appro>
priation bill, just as the FOREST REPUB-
LIcAN said it would be. No one here
seriously thought it would be otherwise.
nc luCd, hO"ONOlY SoNO GIL OPPOibuhNg
for some papers and some members to
pose as defenders, etc., of the public
schools. The Governor has been very
much misquoted on this subject. His
position was and is simply that if we
give the Sll,00O,0OO we must have the
revenue to pay it with.
When this school question was up in
the House, Capt. Skinner, member from
Fulton, made the remark that in his
county school teachers could get boarding
for $500 per month. Instantly Slater of
Philadelphia, who weighs 800 pounds,go
mp and asked Skinner "if he (Slater)
could get boarding in Fulton county at
$500 per month";" This brought down
the house, but Skinner got even
by saying, "No, he could not, for
he (Skinner) had seen the hotel pro-
prietor where Slater boards shedding
floods of tears as he witnessed Slater eat
ing at the price of $1,000 per week." The
bribery investigation iogs along the same
old way. Statements are made Of offers
all the way from fifty dollars up to five
thousand for votes. The idea Of fellow
posing as moral hero in refusing fifty
dollars as the price of his honor is rather
ridiculous, while the five thousand dollar
affair raises the doubt of its genuineness.
Then, again, we have the offers of from a
place on committee to postmaster at a
good salary. This puts the parties in
about the same shape. The curious part
of the whole affair is that in the great ma
jority of cases the men who made the
offers could not have given anything.
How much of this was done just as sort
of "feelers" in order that the laundering
detective force in pay of the "gang" might
strike victim and thus possibly claim a
share of the big reward, is not definitely
known. The trend of the investigation
has been to catch Quayite. The result
has been that but one Quay man, and he
very Indirectly, has even been ap-
preached; they are not of the approach
able kind. Yet it is hardly fair to call
them Quayites, for the truth is that they
stand where they do from principle.
They are standing by the party nominee.
Senator Quay has not tried to deliver
these votes to anyone else, and will not
try, but say what 1 know to be true
that he could not if he wanted TO. The
regulars are not taking orders from any
man. On the other hand steering com.
mittee of the insurgents every morning
tells the insurgents for whom they are tC
vote that day, and yet they howl abou
knows what the anti-Quay papers will
predict this week, but one thing is GER
tain, the U. s. Senator will be MS. Quay
or a man the regulars select, and it's jus
as likely to be NJ. S. @. as any other man
There has been much talk of Senator
Magee's future actien. do not believ,
that he will, after moving to make Quay,
nomination unanimous, break from tn
regulars. But if he did he could not TAX
enough to dictate nominee or fix al
election.
My judgment is that no change will b
made until after Quay's trial. If acquit
ed, and the majority opinion is that h
will be, he will be elected with votes t
spare. 1t looks now as if his enemie
feared the trial more than Quay does.
may tell some things that the enem.
thought was not known. When it is al
over and the real history written, tn
geod people of this State, regardless {
party or faction, will be surprised and in
dignant at the jobbery and meanness
motive to say nothing of worse things th
were behind it all.
cannot close this brief letter without
just tribute to our neighbor, Senate
Cummings. In all that stands for integr
ty and manliHess personally, and all thf
which is best for his district and the CON
monwealth, the Senator from tho XLVII
district stands pre-eminent. He is genia
generous and fair. He is an orator, states
man and gentleman, and "here's Ion
lie and happiness to HIM" S. S. t.
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