The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-12-14
THE FIGHT AGAINST QUAY.
Independent Republicans Issue Strong
Address.

An address has been issued by the
anti Quay Republicans, to the Repub
lican party in Pennsylvania:
The signers are the committee Sc
lected by the conterees at their first
meeting to formulate the plan upon
which the Anti Machine Republicans
of the State propose to begin opera
tons at the primary elections. Ballot
reform to prevent repetition Of the re-
cent startling election frauds is the
keynote of the declaration.
Senator Magee, although not among
the slgners, heartily endorses the gen
eral tenor of the address, and leaves
no room to doubt the attitude Of HIM
self or these legislators who, in the
last days of the General Assembly's |
session, followed him in the abandon
ment of Quay as Senatorial candi-
date.
The address to the Republicans of
Pennsylvania is as follows
"The undersigned Republicans re-
affirming their devotion to the prlnci-
pies and traditions of the party OF
Lincoln, Grant and Mckinley, jealous
of its record and anxious for its future
success and the continuation of its
usefulness in State and nation, do
hereby declare that condition OF at
fairs now exists in our Commonwealth
which is repugnant to RepuDllcan
principles and destructive Of Repubh-
can government.
"UnIess these conditions meet with
prompt. effective and disihterested &C
ton, our party will cease to command
the confidence and support Of the
people.
MUST PROTECT THE CONSTITUTION.
"The Constitution, our fundamen-
tai law, made by the people them
selves, must be protected against the
attacks Of mercenary politicians. Our
laws must be faithfully and sturdily
enforced. State and municipal gov
ernment must be free from corruption,
= inequality and taint. Elections, pri-
= mary and general, must be pure and
untrammeled. Free schools and pub
l lie education must be divorced from
partisan politics. The will of SOW
ereign people, not that of factlonal
leader, must control. Appointment
Il to public Office must insure competent
: and faithful performance of official
: duty.
S "The people of Pennsylvania have
i recently witnessed the deliberate vlo
t latlon of the fundamental law, notably
t in the executive veto of the joint reso
n luton submitting to the people cons
titutional amendment for the protec
ton OF the suffrage, and the unwar
ranted veto of part of the item ap
e proprlating money to the public schools
4 by the latter of which public education
l. was sacrificed to unworthy and selfsl
.r ends the notification of the Consti
K, tuition and the violation OF all prece
rs dent, in the appointment to seat II
It the United States Senate of an aspir
s. ant rejected by the representatives O
at the people in legislative council tn
r Infamous work of bribers, seeking t.
ly debauch the Legislature to satisfy
lie against the peoples will, indivldua
IN lust for office the adopting of Stat
ID platforms promising reforms which tn
r. party and the people have been de
it mandlng for years, only to be broke
h when the necessities of their framer
at demanded, and the perverslon of put
to lie moneys to private use.
We THE BALLOT BOX DEBAUCHED.
at "They have beheld the Office {
United States Senator prostituted t
to the work of filling Federal position
ne of honor and trust by the appoln
ad ment of those who, in turn, have IT
p paid their benefactors by organizin
n gangs of repeaters and ballot-box stu
lis fers to suffocate and destroy the so'
OF ereign will of the qualified electors {
OF the State. The proof of this has bee
od plainly manifested by the recent d.
velopments in the Thirteenth dlvisio
of the Seventh ward of Philadelphia
where at the last election, Federal Q
fceholders from Washington, at Il
=. head of professional ballot-box stut
A' ers, took possession of the polls, ar
in that single precinct cast hundre'
he of false and fraudulent votes.
sa believing that the wise policy
,n- President Mckinley and his nation
m administration should receive the 10
nd al support OF all true Republicans, al
ks that the principles of the Republics
nd party should be maintained in DO
the State and nation, but fearing that t
is corrupt and destructive practices hel
er- ln-above rected may cripple the po
D.. er of the Commonwealth as fact
oc. to that end and stay her hand wh
est. most needed, we call upon all who
ers lieve in these principles to unite W