The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-10-12

vSte this Office from the lot OF a mera
clerk into dignifed state Official,
who viii own himself and will carry
out his campaign pledges to the people
and open the books"
HIPPODROM1NG TIE TENTH.
Senator Quay could never be induced
to persuade President Mckinley to
make the late Colonel Hawkins, the
heroic commander OF the Tenth regl-
ment, and who died with his boots
on" brigadier general But Quay has
no qualms about hippodroming Colo
mel Hawkins Iegiment and exhibiting
II as Barnum's show to save his own
hide and taliow.
There should have been enough pa
triotism among the money kings OF
Pittsburg and it's wealthy vicinity to
have paid the bills for sending the
Fighting Tenth" to New Yorks iubi-
lation over Admiral Dewey It is no.
torious, however, that the Republican
state committee la Jones. paid the
freight" not so much to exhibit the
nnburned heroes in the streets of New
York as to to display them as Philip
pine curios and as an advertisement
through the state of Pennsylvania and
state ticket and Colonel Barnett for
state treasurer.
However, let this political trick pass
for whatever 1t may be worth. The
"sojer" boys were cheered and feasted
and champagned and kissed by good
looking young girls hugged by older
ones and divided the honors OF the
New York Jubilee with the hero OF
,calf l..l TT 4.
was in Philadelphia Individual men,
bers were interviewed as to the reports
that had been in private circulation
that Colonel Barnett is unpopular
In the regiment. 1t was established
that the gallant colonel is the unfortu-
nate victim Of cephalc elephantiases.
or Napoleonic head. and is a bit of q
martinez, which frequently accompa-
nies this malady.
His men resented his treatment OF
them, and his indifference to their
comfort and well being They recall
that while they were fighting Colonel
Barnett was recruiting in the United
States. 1t was also proven by these
interviews what Congressman Acheson
maintained in protesting to Quay
against Colonel Barnett's selection for
state treasurer, that the bulk CT the
Tenth regiment would oppose him and
vote against him. So unpopular is the
colonel in western Pennsylvania,
where he has the reputation of having
for years kicked against the regular
Republican orga nization. that the state
committee will keep him campaigning
on the eastern side Of the Alleghenies,
leaving "the warriors bold"-Gobin
and Stewart-to drape themselves in
the folds Of the American flag on the
other side Of the mountains and shout
for lead and sword as the true gospel
OF American civilization and citizen.
ship for the niggers Of the Philippines
MARTIN GIVES A CRUMB OF CON-
FORT.
State Senator David Martin, the in
surgent chieftain of Philadelphia has
created more than a futter in the Quay
dovecote by an interview, in which he
makes the prediction that a light vote
Will be polled at the November elec-
ton, and says the hippodroming OF the
Tenth regiment is mistake and will
react. This is significant, coming from
politician of Martins Importance and
girth, since it means that the anti
Quay insurgents have an understand
ing that they will go fshin' on cleo
tion day. This wise man Of the east"
also ventures the assertion that the
vote that will go into the Philadelphia
boxes will be honest, and that, better
still, il will ne honestly counted by the
professional lightning calculators.
AND STONE SAYS TRUSTS ARE
BLESSINGS.
rTharo oro tuo oon.,;o,a. t.-l
marks on the Delaware river front that
command the eye Of the traveler-one
being in Philadelphia and the other in
Camden. Massive, towering buildings,
they are, and yet with no sign Of life
or activity about them. They are idle
sugar refneries. The Philadelphia one
is the old Havemeyer plant that in other
days gave employment to a thousand
men and kept fleet of vessels busy
bringing from the West Indies raw
suger to its wharf. The Camden con-
cern was never in operation a single
day. These are silent telltales OF the
greed of the sugar trust that acquired
them only to shut them up that the
production of refined sugar could be
curtailed and the market manipulated.
Giving these fine propesties over to
willing men Of employment, has raised
the price OF sugar to the consumer and
cheated the communities in which they
stand Of millions of dollars worth of
business. And yet Quay's governor has
the audacity to declare over his own
signature that trusts are blessings and
are not political issue
A BOSS MAKES POLITICS PAY.
Practical politics as a pursuit must
be profitable. after all, when exception
able advantages can be commanded
Here is Colonel Quay for instance
who has been receiving salary of
but $4,000 per year as a senator of the
United States, and who maintains
homes in Washington, in Beaver, in
Lancaster and in Florida, and rents
cottages at the seashore. He has Just
directed the secretary of the treasury
to transfer to his son, Major Quay,
late Of the regular army and who was
educated at West Point at the public
expense, 100000 worth of United
States per cent bonds, while he has
added an adjoining farm to his Ian
caster plantation, paying s1S7 per acre.
Surely Colonel Quay has other sources
of revenue than the salary of United