Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-23
tion of the real need OF the situation"
--Phila North American Rep.
OITAY'S personal, CHOOSINc

convention IL was perceived now QeIIly
the stage, the center of which was oc-
cupied by Manager Quay, had been set,
The actors were his puppets, and
| moved only when and as he pulled the
strings. The candidates were of his
personal choosing; the platform was of
! his own making; the delegates were
present not as representatives of the
will and power of the people of the
commonwealth, but as the representa-
tives of the political fortunes of the
ex-senator. The convention was his
convention; it was controlled by him
without contention or protest; it made
no DEGREES, no nominations of it's own
initiative, and it originated no declara-
tions of principes-it affirmed those of
Mr., Quay. The convention merely exc
cuted his DEGREES, ratified his nomina-
tions and proclaimed his policies. -
Philadelphia Ledger Ind. Rep.
TRADEMARK OF THE MACHINE.
"The Republican state convention at
Harrisburg has plainly demonstrated
the mastery of Matthew S. Quay over
the party organization in Pennsylva-
mia. The proceedings, the platform
aud the ticket all bear the trademark
of the machine. Mr.. Quay and his fol-
lowers were easily in command of the
situation at every point, and the con-
Vention, for the most part, was little
more than a ratification of the pro-
gram which had been mapped out for
1t by the little coterie of bosses long
ago in their Sabbath musings by the
sad sea waves. ."-Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin, Rep.
OTfAY RIDES P0JICH-SHOn
"The convention went the whole fig
ure, so to speak, commencing the gov
ernor's action in looping million dol
lars off the school appropriation, and
likewise his action in appointing to
the existing vacancy the senior sena-
tor. Some ingenious persons may
have thought that Mr.. Quay would not
press his advantage so far, that he was
in conciliatory mood, and would
make some tangible concessions" to
the insurgent element of the party, in
the hope of keeping the independent
voters in line for the ticket at the No
vember elections. Whenever he has
had the power to work his will he has
exercised it to the fullest extent in a
dull, brutal way, regardless of ultimate
consequences. Experience has taught
hilll lndL there Is llIlle udHPeT III InlS
course, and that so far it has not
brought him to material grief So he
has gone on, from year to year, shak-
ing the plum tree and trafficking in the
spoils of office, giving no thought to
and displaying no fear of a possible
collapse of the political structure which
he has reared The old man had de-
creed that he and his henchmen in
the aYppItiun ppnncinn chnrld
dorsed, and endorsed they WERE and
that was the end of it. as far as the
convention was concerned. AS time
passes during the next ten weeks, 1t
will be seen whether or not it was the
end of it as far as the voters are con-
cerned. ."-Philadelphia Evening TeIe-
graph.
THE MACHINE AND THE TRUSTS.
"The fact that the Harrisburg con-
vention's platform contains no anti
trust plank is bringing from sundry
quarters condemnation upon it's franz
ers. But really they do not deserve
blame. Men do not willingly subject
themselves to ridicule, nor do they
practice hypocrisy for mere love of
false pretense.
Had the Republican machine of
Pennsylvania declared against the
trusts it, would have found nobody to
believe in its sincerity, and provoked
scornful laughter To ask the machine
to denounce trusts is equivalent to in
viting children to pass resolutions
against their parents.
Were it not for the trusts, for cor
porations which spend money freely to
retain thieving privileges and to es-
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taxes, the machine would not exist
"If the Republican organization that
held the convention at Harrisburg had
condemned the Standard Oil company,
for instance, and pronounced against
the criminal conspiracy which is main
tanned by that and other monopolies,
it would have drawn the sword against
the authors of its being and been guilty
of at least appearing to wish to COM
nit the unnatural crimes of parricide
and matricide.
"The silence of the machines con-
vention on the subject of trusts was a
decent manifestation of respect for the
intelligence of the people of Pennsyl-
.vania. ."-Phila North American.
CHALLENGE TO ANTI-QUAY RE-
PUBLICANS.
The Philadelphia Press, which prob
ably speaks with a more authentic
voice for the Mckinley administration
than any other journal in the country,
says of the Quay convention:
The prominence given to national
issues to the exclusion of state ques-
tions in the formal speeches and the
platform of yesterdays Harrisburg
convention would greatly puzzle for
eigner studying for the first time
American political institutions. He
would understand it better when he
learned that in the national field the
record of the Republican party is a
great and glorious one, in which all
it's members, and. indeed, all citizens,
can take just pride, while in this
state all unprincipled close corporation
known as the machine has taken con-
troll of it and uses it so far as it dare
and can for its own selfish purposes.
Senator Penrose was on safe ground
in eulogizing at tedious length the good
work of the national Republican party.
Most of tho platfnrr, ridaQ at anchor