Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-05-01
ANTl=QUAY MEN
ISSUE AN ADDRESS
State Their Position With Refer
ence to the Battle Against
Machine Rule.
Especial Correspondence.)

The anti-Quay members Of the SEN
ate and house of representatives of the
state Of Pennsylvania, being about to
separate, after the closing of the men,
orable session of 1899, make the fol-
lowing statements:
THE evils of Quay and Quayism.
against which we have been and shall
continue to contend, have succeeded in
forcing an adjournment of the legisla-
ture without the passage of any Of the
laws for which there issuch crying need
and without the electing of a United
States senator.
AT the election of 1898 the people,
at the polls, clearly indicated their op-
position to ex-senator Quay by the
selection of a majority of the members
of the legislature opposed to his return
to the senate. The minority support
ing Mr.. Quay has been large enough,
however, to prevent the election of a
United States senator, and has re-
fused every proposition to elect some
other man than ex-senator Quay, their
doctrine being that of rule or ruin
the election of Quay or nobody.
1--WE have, from the first, stood ready
and willing to elect any honest Repub-
lltdn Vi " IuC Ohlltu
States senate, and to bring about that
end have cast our votes at various
times for such sterling Republicans
and distinguished citizens as the Hon.
John Dalzell Judge John Stewart, Col
onel E. A. Irwin, Hon. Charles W.
Stone, Hon. Charles Tubbs, Colonel
George F. HUFF, Hon. Charles Emory
Smith, Alvin Markle, Esq, Hon. Cal
win Wells, Judge Charles e. Rice, Hon.
Benjamin +. Jones and others.
I'VE have offered to place in nomi-
nation any distinguished Republican In
Pennsylvania. at all times standing
ready to vote for any of the great army
Of reputable men who would honor the
state as It's representative in the Uni
ted States senate, but the men opposed
to us have insisted that no election
should be had unless we accepted d
man who Is under indictment charged
with the crime of unlawfully using the
peoples money, and who is now on
trial in the city of Philadelphia.
Every reason existing at the be-
ginning of the session for opposing
Mr.. Quay existed at the time of taking
the last ballot, with overwhelming ad-
ditional reasons and the evidence al
ready given to the public in the trial
of the case against him in Philadel-
phia has completely vindicated our op-
position, if vindication were needed.
''It has been shown by the books OF
| the Peoples bank of Philadelphia,
that he has been in conspiracy with
the treasurers of the state, to use for
his own personal benefit the moneys
of the commonwealth. 1t has been
shown that during the past IL years
he has had the use Of over 81 300 900
out Of the Peoples bank, of Philadel-
phia, alone, belonging to the people
and upon which he has not paid to
the state one dollar of interest
And we call special attention to the
astonishing fact that this corrupt use
OF state funds was being carried on at
a time when the public schools, the
hospitals, the asylums for the insane
homes for the aged, institutions for
the deaf, dumb and blind, and many
other charitable institutions of the
state were suffering for the want OF
the money which had been appropri-
ated to them by the Legislature.
But the whole truth within the
covers Of the books Of the defunct Peo-
| pies bank will never be known to the
| public, as the defendant Mr.. Quay
has pleaded the statute of limitation
which confines the commonwealth to
the period during which Haywood, an
other of the defendants, occupied the
Office of state treasurer. We have full
confidence that the people of this state
will not allow any man to represent
them in the United States senate who
pleads the statute of Limitation to pro-
tect him from a criminal prosecution.
"The failure to elect United States
senator is only one Of the many evils
brought upon the state by the machi.
nations of the Quay members of the
legislature of 1899.
The house of representatives for
the first time in 20 years was an anti
Quay body, and the senate was as cer-
tainly controlled by the friends of Mr..
Quay. Every good measure which was
brought before the house was promptly
passed, and every bad measure was
promptly defeated. We assert, without
fear of successful contradiction, that
the record of the senates work In this
respect is the exact reverse to that of
the house. Nearly every. good measure
sent to the senate from the house was
promptly defeated, and the bad meas
ures with which we have had to con-
tend in this legislature have gen.
orally originated in the Quay faction
OF the senate.
"The house attempted to raise the
necessary revenue to wipe out the
deficit in the state treasury, to con-
duct the state government and care for
its charitable institutions by taxing
beer and increasing the taxation on
corporations, but both measures were
promptly throttled by the Quay-con-
trolled senate. The house promptly
passed the bill submitted by the tax
conference, which proposed to impose
the burden of taxation impartially on
all classes Of property, but this bill
met the same fate at the hands of the
Quayites in the senate.
"The thoughtful men OF all parties
and factions admit that reforms are
greatly needed in the present ballot
laws of the state, and such reforms
we're proposed and passed by the house
the result in the senate being the same
with tho othar raforD1 bille rafar