Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-09-21
QUAY HAS TROUBLES
The Campaign "a Com
edy of Errors"
HIS OWN STATE CHAIRMAN.
Hard and Cruel Fate Continues to Pursue
the Boss in His Efforts to Hold the
Nose of the Party Up Stream.
Especial Correspondence.)


cratic state committee is now more
royalty housed in Philadelphia than 1t
has been in years. Large, airy rooms
have been fitted up with Democratic
simplicity" at 140S-10 South Penn
| square, within the shadow of the city
hail. the costliest pile of marble, brick
and cement In the world, colossal
monument of Republican extravaganza
and knavery. Here during the cam
paign State Chairman Killing of Erie,
| Secretary Meyer of Schuylkill and
Representative Palm of Crawford, in
charge of the publicity department,
will be daily found on the firing
| line" together with staff of assist
| ants. A large and hospitable latch
string hangs on the doors outside.
Democrats and others interested In
the war upon the Quay machine and
In favor Of honest and economical
state government are invited to drop
in, and it goes without saying, they
will be welcome.
Since our last epistle the political
temperature in the state has arisen
somewhat, but has hardly touched
summer heat from the fact that the
Republican campaign has Slipped a
cog" The loudly heralded intention
of the Quay managers to open the
campaign with blare of trumpets, a
battery of spellbinders and with Colo
mel Barnett raising the blazing cross"
aloft with one hand and the flag in the
other, has been run on side track.
THE TROUBLE WITH BARNETT.
Colonel Barnett has got psoriasis, or,
in plain English, the itch. This means
that between the itch and the pepper
ing in store for him and his aiders and
abettors that he and they will be kept
scratching from now until the 4th of
October.
Colonel Barnett is now in a sani-
tarium, and the opening of the cam
paign has been deferred until Oct. 4,
when the Republican State League Of
Clubs will hold fandango at Harris
burg, when the shootin' of niggers in
the Philippines will be glorified and
pertinent state issues ignored again
as completely as was the case with
Quay's state convention. Meanwhile
the Quay machine is beset with
troubles, and like the i'll luck man who
begins to slide down hill, every fell
| low citizen stands ready to give him a
| kick to expedite his descent.
COMEDY OF ERRORS.
Quay's appearance before the last
| Legislature in the role of IAN old panta-
LOOM" clamoring to be permitted to
| retain his seat in the senate, was "a
comedy of errors" and the Republi-
can campaign this fall promises to ex-
| ceed it not only as a comedy, but as
| farce-comedy as well.
The choice of General Reeder, who
was kicked out of the Hastings cabi-
| net for cause. for chairman, has been
found to be an error In the first
place he is discredited and smirched
with the Independent voters. Then
his selection is the foolish Haunting of
a red rag before the maddened insur-
gents. The famous resolutions he
wrote for adoption by his Northamp-
ton convention, in which he termed
those Republicans who had voted for
anti-Quay members of the legislature
and the anti-Quay legislators who
voted against Quay as towards and
traitors" and declared that such
masqueraders should be debarred from
taking part In the deliberations of the
party" Is regarded as the serving of
a formal and insulting writ upon them
and their ilk that their votes are
neither wanted or required for the Re-
publican state ticket this fall
Then, the machines place holders
are demurring at Chairman Reeder's
20 M Ia a..
| ground that while he was In the lux
urious enjoyment of the 500 900 job of
| secretary of the commonwealth he re-
fused to chip in a single penny to the
state committees treasury. Then, lib
eral contributors are declining to remit
| for the reason that they have no con-
| f1dence in the committees manage
| ment, which is a most serious thing.
since there Is debt of $50, 900 which
will have to be liquidated, as the
creditors are tired and urgent. But
| the troubles do not cease here. Gen
eral Goblin, who Is permitted to roam
| about without check rein or a muZ-
| zle, and whom no politician will in
sure against committing blunders in
a speechlet to the Changers at WILL
iams Grove, threw another handful of
| odit anu pepper on tne raw neSh OF the
insurgents by coarsely reminding them
of their sins and that threre are no
seats checked for them in the Quay
band wagon.
Then in the Quay privy council the
| jealousies, the trace kicking and cow
punching of the tin lieutenants, which
have been SO notorious, have broken
out afresh, compelling the "old man"
in sheer self defense, to send the
'printice boys to bed and take the di-
rection of matters in his own hands.
BULL" ANDREWS MISTAKE.
The old Crawford rooster, Bill An
drews, who was deprived of his tail
feathers while the 'printice boys we're
amusing mankind with their comedy
of errors" during the legislature, has
again been restored by the boss to
power and favor on the basis of Cap-
tain Cutie and old Soil Gills--that IL
anybody kin. he kin"
The bluff that the senate will seat
Quay on Governor Stones ready made
and unconstitutional credentials hav-
ing failed because Mckinley and Han
ma are agin it, the machine's creaturae