The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-10-12
A FLAG CAMPAIGN.
Quay Exploits the Tenth Regiment
For the Machine.
SOLDIERS MON0POLIzE STUMP.

tne Expenses or the Tenth Regiment Z
to the Dewey Celebration in New
York-Can the Flag Save the Tm-
periled Machinef
Especial Correspondence)
Philadelphia, Oct. 2.-As patriotism,
according to old Ben Jonson. IL the last
refuge Of scoundrel, so the waving of
the flag and an appeal to the martial
spirit OF the electors is the final re-
source OF the Quay machine driven to
bay and waiting for the fatal shot to
be fired into its gangrened carcass.
II is no secret that Boss Quay was
seriously thinking of an abandonment
OF his originally proposed rally round
the flag, boys" and God-bless McKin-
ley campaign, suppressing the leather
lung and brass throated stump scream
er-preferring to trust his luck to the
indifference OF the people and on the
principle illustrated by the follow ng
story:
Dad" said the youthful citizen Of
Dead Mans Gulch. "thar's big rat
tlesnake under the bed" "All right" 4"
replied the old man, composedly, list
let him stay thar-kase ef you poster
the varmit he'll spring his rattle and
wake yer nom, and then thar'll be the
devil to pay"
But howl of protest wentupagainst
Quaker meetin' campaign from
county chairmen and local candi-
dates. In great many counties
that contain the seeds of revolution
that were planted at previous upris-
ings against the Republican machine
the insurgents are either sullen or
openly threatening, making things look
as blue as indigo for the county tickets.
The party henchmen and the nervous
candidates. therefore, stretched out
their hands to the boss, appealing like
shipwrecked mariners for him tothrow
out the life line or Davy Jones locker
or Mr.. McGinty's mishap would be
their fate.
BRING FORTH THE STARRY FLAG.
Hence, 1t has been decided to at
tempt to arouse the dormant party
spirit and to impress the lukewarm
Republicans with the fearful import
ance OF paying visit to the polls and
voting early and often that the i'm
perialistic policy of Mckinley and
Hanna of making American citizens OF
the Ftlipinos with the aid of Krag-
Jorgensen bullets may be upheld in
cidentally and Quay permitted to re-
tain the keys of the state treasury
vaults.
Keeping the martial and fiuttering
nag campaign ever in view Chairman
Reeder has been directed to turn Colo.
mel Barnett loose and allow him to
swing around the circle" Two MILL
tary parties OF campaign orators have
been organized to sally forth from
Harrisburg, one headed by the youth
ful Barnett and including a number of
the members of the Tenth regiment
who Intend to vote for the colonel
for state treasurer and the other com
posed Of professional soldier political
swashbucklers like General Goblin and
Colonel Tom Stewart. This last band
or grim warriors wear the service
stripes OF long and patient Office hold
ing. Goblin as a political Poo Bah. like
OLD Sol Gili's watch. is "equaled by
Few and excelled by none" and can
be depended upon implicitly to put
his foot" In 1t by making some bad
break OF speech, as he did during the
senatorial deadlock last spring AMI
again at the Williams Grove Granger
picnic.
Colonel Tom Stewards greed for OF.
nee is not yet appeased, ana he has
a latest patent lightning rod up in
hope that the next governorship will
strike him. Colonel Stewart was a
warrior OF great prowess in the civil
war. story Is related of him. At
the first days fight at Gettysburg Tom
had piled the rebel dead in a great
heap under the withering fire of his
Springfield, when the attention of his
colonel was attracted to his fearful
execution. The colonel riding up TO
MIN and pointing to the pyramid of
his slain said: Tom, cease firing and
go home; you've killed enough"
WE'LL, WHY DIDN'T HE REMAIN,
This martial array of shoulder strap
ped and gold laced orators Is cunning
ly intended to divert the attention of
the ring ensiaved people from the
home issues that directly concern them
most. 1t ts the ingenious policy of
european rulers and statesmen when
their people become unrestful and
threaten to bring out the block and the
ak to divert their minds from their
domestic troubles with comic opera
lmbroglio with some obliging power.
This Is what Quay. crafty and foxy. is
doing, but the Democratic leaders and
candidates mean to keep him to his
mutton.
IT will be interesting to note Colonel
Barnett's clarion voice ringing out that
Il vote for Colonel Barnett Is q vote to
sustain the Hanna-McKinley subjuga-
tion of the Philippines in direct contra
Vention of the immortal aphorism of
the constitution of the United States
that all men are created free and
equal"
III II Is essential that Pennsylvania
shall vote to keep Quay's stock spec
ulatiye grip on the state treasury in
order to sustain the American position
in the Orient why was il that Colonel
Barnett deemed 1t wise and patriotic
to return to his native shores from the
Philippines, and thus weaken the
hands Of President Mckinley? Colonel
Barnett had the opportunity of re-en-
listing in Manila, but he preferred his
Blackstone to a sword: he preferred
running for Office in PoR15:-iv. MIA to
running after the Filipinos with a gun
In his hand. Then, too, the state
treasurer should be business man.
Colonel Barnett Is a gallant soldier,
who braYed Mauser bullets and disease