Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-12
Week of October Is.

IN MS hand. Then, too, the state
treasurer should be a business man.
Colonel Barnett is a gallant soldier,
who braved Mauser bullets and disease
in the far off swamps of Luzon, but
because he is soldier and a lawyer,
sans practice or reputation does not
prove him possessed of the qualifica-
tions of financier. But right here, it
may be, is where General Gobin's ex-
PLANTATION will fit as a piece of joiner
work. The Office snatching Goblin con
fessed to the grangers at the Williams s
Grove picnic that tine state treasurer
is only a clerk" Colonel Barnett
might, as state treasurer, make an
excellent and satisfactory clerk for his
boss, which his name is Quay, but the
contention of the Democrats is to ele-
vate this Office from the lot of a mere
clerk into a dignifed state official
who will own himself, and will carry
out his campaign pledges to the people
and "open the books"
HIPPODROMING THE TENTH.
Senator Quay could never be induced
to persuade President Mckinley to
make the late Colonel Hawkins, the
heroic commander of the Tenth regi-
ment, and who "died with his boots
on" a brigadier general. But Quay has
no qualms about hippodroming Colo
mel Hawkins regiment and exhibiting
1t as a Barnums show to save his own
hide and tallow
There should have been enough pa
triotism among the money kings of
Pittsburg and its wealthy vicinity to
have paid the bills for sending the
Fighting Tenth" to New York's jubi-
lation over Admiral Dewey. 1t is no.
torious, however, that the Republican
state committee la Jones, paid the
freight" not so much to exhibit the
sunburned heroes in the streets of New
York as to to display them as Philip
pine curios and as an advertisement
through the state of Pennsylvania and
in Philadelphia for the Republican
state ticket and Colonel Barnett for
state treasurer.
However, let this political trick pass
for whatever it may be worth. The
"sojer" boys were cheered and feasted
and champagned and kissed by good
looking young girls, hugged by older
ones and divided the honors of the
New York jubilee with the hero of
Manila bay himself. While the Tenth
was in Philadelphia individual mem
bers were interviewed as to the reports
that had been in private circulation
that Colonel Barnett is unpopular
in the regiment. 1t was established
that the gallant colonel is the unfortu-
nate victim of cephalic elephantiases,
or Napoleonic head and is a bit of
martinez, which frequently accompa-
nies this malady.
His men resented his treatment of
them, and his Indifference to their
comfort and we'll being. They recall
that while they were fighting Colonel
Barnett was recruiting in the United
States. 1t was also proven by these
interviews what Congressman Acheson
maintained in protesting to Quay
against Colonel Barnetts selection for
state treasurer that the bulk of the
Tenth regiment would oppose him and
vote against him. So unpopular is the
colonel in western PENNSYLVANIA,
where he has the reputation of having
for years kicked against the regular
Republican organization, that the state
committee will keep him campaigning
on the eastern side of the Alleghenies,
leaving "the warriors bold"-Gobin
and Stewart-to drape themselves in
the folds of the American flag on the
other side of the mountains and shout
for lead and sword as the true gospel
of American civilization and citizen
ship for the niggers of the Philippines
MARTIN GIVES A CRUMB OF CON-
FORT.
State Senator David Martin, the in
surgent chieftain of Philadelphia, has
created more than futter in the Quay
dovecote by an interview in which he
makes the prediction that a light vote
will be polled at the November cleo
tion, and says the hippodroming of the
Tenth regiment is a mistake and will
react. This is significant, coming from
politician of Martins importance and
! glrth, since it means that the anti
Quay insurgents have an understand
ing that they will go 'fshin' on cleo
tion day. This wise man of the east
also ventures the assertion that the
vote that will go into the Philadelphia
| boxes will be honest and that. better
| still IL will hn hnnnst1v cnT1ntad by tb n