The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-18


The high moral plane on which pubic
affairs are conducted = the state of
Pennsylvania, and. more particularly in
the city of Philadelphia, under imperial
list auspices. is receiving beautiful illus
tratiou from day to day. At the recent
convention of he Pennsylvania State
League Of Republican Clubs it was. fit
t:ngly enough, the Philadelphia delega-
ton which offered the resolutions adopt
ed unanimously by the convention, de-
nouncing the civil service system as I'M
American and unconstitutional, and
which earnestly requested the national
and state representatives of the party to
use all honorable means to have the
civil service regulations seriously modi-
fed. If not entirely annulled.
1t Is in Philadelphia, too, fittingly
enough, that a municipal league has
been formed the mission of whose mem
bers it is to see that all votes lawfully
cast at the coming fall election shall be
counted, and that illegal voting be
properly punished The scandals which
have arisen in Philadelphia through the
peryersion of the voting machinery by
the Republican, ring in that city have
for ten years or over been a matter of
almost universal knowledge throughout
the country. What little hope there is
of relief coming from the action Of the
party politicians is made very plain by
the action both of the State League of
Republicaa Clubs and of the Municipal
League Of Philadelphia.
OF course the great end and purpose
of Republican politics in Pennsylvania
in the coming campaign is to secure an
Endorsement Of the imperialist policy OF
the Hannah Mckinley administration To
this end the civil service regulations
must be battered down so that the faith
full shall have unrestricted access to the
Offices Ballot box stuffing and electoral
frauds must rule il the great centers
of Pennsylvania population if the cause
Of patriotism and the ascendancy of the
flag in the Philippines and elsewhere is
to control. In a word, 1t has become
national requirement that the ascend
ancy OF Matthew Stanley Quay, the in
carnation of imperlalist patriotism and
public morality, must be placed beyond
all question, and the machinery and
methods which have been identified with
that statesman throughout his public
career must triumph.
That truly good man, the Hon. John
Wanamaker. representing almost as ex-
allied a type of Sunday-school statesman
ship as the president himself, at one time
tried his prentice hand at reform, both
I'm city and state, as the opponent Of
Senator Quay. The fate of Mr. Wanna
maker as a reformer affords no doubt but
little inspiration to the other gocd men
OF the Philadelphia Municipal league
The difficulty, it seems to us, is much
more far-reaching than the Pennsylvania
reforHers are disposed to see Senator
Quay has extended his highest considera-
ton to the national administration. His
exalted approval has been lavished upon
It, just as has that of his brother Platt
In New York. Favors of this character
are not dispensed in politics on pure sen-
timental considerations The quid pro OH,
Is forthcoming in every instance, and the
resources of the national administration
are accordingly dispensed in the interest
of Senator Quay and his mission in P<nn.
sylvania, just as they are expended in
the interest of Mr.. Plat and his mission
in New York, and Mr.. Hanna and his
mission in Ohio.
The cause of all these statesmen in
their respective spheres is id .ntical. What
Quayism is to Pennsylvania, what PIatt-
Ism is to New York, Hannaism and Nc.
Kinleyism are to the United States of
America. Credulous fools who seek the
overthrow of Quay in Pennsylvania. or
Plat in New York, while toierating
Hanna as political dictator general of
the United States. deserve no better