Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-09-28

rushing with his judicial gown to the
rescue of Carnegie in the great strike
at Homestead.
Here we have the great triumvirate
Quay, Penrose and Stone-thus urg-
ing Paxson, the arch and dangerous
enemy of labor. for a powerful federal
post and who notoriously seeks it, that
he may serve his corporation masters
and help neutralize this beneficent law
which the people only secured from
congress by taking the corporations by
the throat. If the laboring man be
searching for substantial reason for
jabbing the Quay ticket at the coming
election here is one that should ap-
peal directly to his own sense of self
protection.
FUSION is THE REAL THING.
The horse play of Senator Snyder,
Auditor General McCauley and Larry
Eyre, the Republican ringsters of Ches-
ter county, who are stretching out their
arms to high Heaven to save them. to
bolster up a straight goods Democratic
ticket in that county, in order to Grip
pie fusion" by screaming that Colonel
Guffey and State Chairman Killing are
agin it, has fallen like chunk of lead.
legs.
There are in Chester. as l wrote last
week, some half dozen of false breed
of Democrats who are willing to do
dirty work for the Quay machine i'll
exchange for being permitted to retain
minor jobs under the Mckinley ad
ministration. Their pretended indig-
nation at the consummation of "fu-
hn &c nd in
dependents is so bald that it can be
classed as the prime joke of the cam
paign. They have been playing the
Three Tailors of Tooley Street by
meetin' In convention and resolving
that 1--WE the &C." and nominating an
alleged square timber Democratic tick
ct, planting it on platform thinly
vanished with eulogies of Colonel
mean to vote the Quay ticket this
fall and against Bryan next fall. In
deed, they are stumped to find a
name for their decoy duck ticket, as
the law prevents them from masquer-
aiding as Democrats, and which they
don't intend to vote themselves.
In the meantime both Colonel Cuff
fey and Chairman Killing came for
ward and gave these ex-Democrats and
Quay tools a blow between the eyes.
"The fusion ticket in Chester" says
Colonel Guffey will win. The Dem
ocratic party is practically solid, des-
pite the feeble efforts of a few office
holders to protect their jobs by car
rying out the orders of the Quay ma
chine. l most heartily endorse the
position taken by State Chairman Rill-
ing and County Chairman Cavanaugh.
1t Is unquestionably the duty of all
true Democrats in Chester county and
elsewhere to form fusion with all ele-
ments that are working for the over
throw of the Quay machine"
HARMONY IS THE WATCHWORD.
Colonel Guffey and Candidates Reilly
and Greasy, when they visited state
headquarters last week, reported that
nowhere is a sign of discord in the
Democratic phalanx to be found. There
is not single threatening cloud on the
fair and promising horizon. In Phila-
delphia, which is the weak spot, be-
cause of the thorough organization
there of the ballot thieves by the Re-
publican state and city machines, all
factional rancor and discord has dis
appeared, giving place to amity and
sunshine. The county conventions the
other day were harmonious, and the
ticket honors divided between the late
warning factions. The outlook for the
Democratic state ticket coming under
the wire a winner is Frightening every
"a hours, and the danger to the Quay
machine is assuming such threaten
ing aspect that "the old man" has
been compelled to take the reins in his
own hands and play some of those al
legged masterful and magical political
strokes of his which he failed to do
last winter, when his prentice boys
were fooling around the legislature
trying to elect him United States SEN
ator.
The state Democratic leaders and
the executive and finance committees
are booked to confer in this city this
week, when campaign plans will be
mapped out, the question of financing
them discussed and a red hot fight or
dered all along the line of hostilities.
The Business Mems State League is
prepared to meet and formally en-
dorse both Superior Court Candidate
Reilly and State Treasury Candidate
Greasy The Quay candidate for the
Intermediate court, Commodore Ad-
ans, has such an unsavory reputation
as lawyer of the shyster class, while
SO much Is known of his private life
as a sport, that the independents find
it impossible to hold him on their po-
litical stomachs, even with anchors
and guy ropes, while the honesty and
claims of Greasy cannot be ignored.
The Independents want to break into
the state treasury and learn the dark
secrets of it's vaults. They look upon
the state treasury as the machine cit
adel, which 1t truly is, believing that
If it can be captured Quay's grip on
powerful moneyed interests can be
broken and his opportunities for spec
ulating with its funds prevented, that
his downfall and end will be fastened,
since he will be unable to command
the money to corrupt and buy the
venal, on whom he relies for his sue
Cesses.
AND THE CAT CAME BACK.
The joy of the Quay prentice boys,
Ellsin, Durham, Eyre and Penrose, over
the demotion of Uncle Bill Andrews
from his place as chief of staff was as
short as a butterfly's life. He failed to