Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-06-12
PENNSYLVANIA POLITICS.
HUMlLlATlNG POSITION OF THE
GREAT KEYSTONE STATE.
Great State, But a Small Factor in Ma
tional Affairs, Except on Election Day
or When Volunteers Are Called"
Scored by the Washington "Post."

AHh1TS, Except ItIect1On DAY
or When Volunteers Are Called"
Scored by the Washington "Post."
Pennsylvania's humiliating position
in the national game of politics now
being played for the organization of the
next house of representatives is re-
cognized and commented on in Wash
ington. The sorry figure the states
big delegation cuts in the matter of in
tluence in the Republican house has
been observed since Mr.. Reed took
himself out of the speakership PROPOSE
tion.
The following paragraph in an ultra
Quay organ furnishes text to the
Washington Post for some observations
in its issue of Friday on Pennsylvania
place in national politics. The para
graph reads: Pennsylvania has made
herself felt in this speakershp question,
and has been very large factor"
QUAY METHODS SCORED.
The Post, which by the way is an in
dependent paper, but thick-and-thin
supporter of ex-senator Quay, scores the
methods of the latter boss in the follow
ing comment on the above quotation:
Funny as that looks and sounds, il
was not intended as Joke. However
provocative it may be of laughter-and
we think it will send a snicker cleal
across the continent-it was written into
solemn leader on pennsylvania and
the Speakership,' the object of which
was to prove that the result of the
Bingham movement has been that the
delegation has been rounded up for
Henderson, and because of this attitude
New York has dropped her own candi-
date and the thing is settled. And
therefore and here is the pith of the
Pennsylvania will be powerful
in the important committees, and with a
friendly speaker in the chair should be
able to carry through those great pro-
iects which are so necessary for her
commercial prosperity. We must have
deep-water channel in the river, and
we must make League Island the great
naval center
nv L Uoo "iii hOo envy wins Nv dIid
any good thing that she may get. How
ever aflluently she may be endowed
with committee charmanships, how
ever deep may be her water, and what
ever of prominence League Island may
attain, the Post will rejoice in all that
makes for the welfare of a great-heart-
ed, generous, patriotic commonwealth.
PENNsYLvANIA's GREATNESS
"Grcat as is the keystone state in
many respects, vast as is her influence
in the business world, she is but small
factor in national affairs on all the days
in the year except those on which cleo
tions are held or volunteer soldiers
called for.
''She has great men in manufactures,
in finance, in railroad management, in
mining, and in the professions. She
shows up grandly in the census, and
her part in the worlds phlanthropic
work is well performed. But the com
paratively small and poor state of Maine
has been greater national power in
the sense of having greater men and
holding higher places than Pennsyl-
vania, ever since Hannibal Hamlin and
Lot M. Morril left the Democratic fold
to take part in and build up a new
party.
almost half century ago Simon
Cameron transferred the Democratic
political machine under his control to
the Republican party. Since that time
Pennsylvania vote has been cast for
every Republican presidential candidate.
But the list of really great men whom
she has contributed to the public SER
vice in any or all the departments of
the national government would occupy
small space. Why this is we shall not
attempt to explain, but it is a notorious
fact. And that is the main reason why
that great state has little influence in
politics aside from her vote. And the
fact that her vote may be depended on
really reduces her influence"