The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-09-14

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is afflicted with the gubernatorial mi
crobe. This mayor is necessary to
Quay in his business. He needs him
every hour. Thereupon he allowed
himself to be held up The Quaker
mayor had lawyer friend who had
delivered the oily speech to the dele
gates who had nominated him for
mayor. 1t mattered not that this man
was accused of cutting estates that
unfortunate depositors and stockhold-
ers protested against the court giving
their affairs into his hands, or that
he had nursed fat receiverships for
years, while the undertakers were
planting the disgusted and defrauded
creditors.
Mayor Ashbridge demanded this
lawyers nomination as the price OF the
Philadelphia delegation to the state
convention for the delivery Of other
delegates in the future and the throw
ing of the town wide open on election
day.
In order to oblige this mayor and
carry out the agreement Judge Beeber,
who had been appointed by Governor
Hastings to please the president of a
powerful corporation, and who has
since died. had to be elbowed off the
bench.
Beeber brought immense pressure
to bear on Quay in order to save his
hide and tallow, but what did this
weigh in the scales with the mayor of
Philadelphia and his ability to deliver
and produce to the Quay machine?
Therefore the name of Beeber was
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court judge and that of Adams sub
stituted. The slate was then complete.
save for one more name-the candi-
date for state treasurer.
Quay had recognized that the indig-
nant people were only waiting for the
polls to open to smash him and his
machine as punishment for the
iniquities Of the last legislature and
the high handed conduct of Governor
Stone. But he had an inspiration. He
would initiate Tom Platt's Roosevelt
game in New York and gull the peo-
pie with a Spanish-Filipino war hero,
and this would enable him to ignore
state issues. and by showing McKin-
ley's colonial expansion and imperial
policy to the firing line in the cam
paign he would pull the leg Of the
national administration. Thus Mat
thew would be able to kill two birds,
as it were. with one stone.
But he required a real hero. Moth
ing in the sawdust or hay foot, straw
foot line for him. He wanted Colonel
Hawkins. 1t appeared that the Poo
Bahing Elkin. who was disposed to
hang out political shingle of his own.
had choice in Lieutenant Colonel
Barnett, who had ran barefoot with
him when a lad among the hills OF
Indiana county. The prentice boys
sided with Elkin and row was i'm
minent in the jealous family when the
distressing intelligence was received
that Colonel Hawkins. the hero, had
died on shipboard en- route from the
jungles of Luzon.
And so Quay was forced to take
what was left and to ignore Congr ess-
man Acheson and the Washington
county organization, who complained
that Barnett was a constitutional and
nickel plated kicker and had been try
ing for years to make ticket ripping
and caucus boiling popular in the
politics of his county.
And thus was the slate made. In
the entire Quay menagerie but the
growl Of a single animal was heard
Boss Connell, of Lackawanna, was
swishing his tail in anger, paving the
earth and throwing the dirt in clouds
on his back because of the sidetracking
of the political Judge Archibald, whom
he was chaperoning for the supreme
court. Connell, who Is impulsive,
threatened to enter the arena of the
convention and raise the roof off the
state by exposing the corporation in
fluences that was debating the nomi-
nation of Brown. Connell was molli-
fed, however, by being taken behind
the door and promised the next nomi-
nation for governor fresh from the
gold brick factory. Thus the Quay ma
chine, as the outSrowth of the state
convention Of '99, has already hung
the promise of the next governorship
in two stockings-that of Mayor Ash
bridge and that of Magnate Connell.
The state convention ratified the pro-
gram Of Pasha Quay, who overseered
the job in person in every particular.
The only kick that marred the harmo-
ny that prevailed came from Insurgent
Chief Finn, who was brave enough to
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protested against the fearful and Won
derful platform that included the uni
verse in its scope, except the issues in
which the people OF Pennsylvania are
vitality interested In.
This fearful and wonderful platform.
which Is strung out to such length that
man would have to take a day off If
he had the curiosity to read it, fell
upon the state like pebble in a pond,
producing hardly ripple.
The people saw in 1t a cowardly eva
sion of the home issues that have been
raised by the Democrats. They re-
sent the self assertion that the Quay
ties are the only patriots in Pennsyl-
vania, and they laugh at the theatrical
spectacle of draping the machines
candidates with the American flag and
decorating them with the streamers
on which is printed Mark Hanna and
Mckinley must be saved"
The insurgents. following the gan
falon OF Chief Finn, objected strenu-
ously to the platform as a whole. be-
cause it wilfully antagonized the anti
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