Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-12-13
evening paper unfriendly to Senator

evening paper unfriendly to Senator
Quay one day last week.
In this alleged list, after grotesquely
arranging Quay members in the anti
Quay list and vice versa, and CHASING
in the doubtful list men who have
never wavered in their allegiance to
Senator Quay, and who have repeatedly
showed their loyalty to him in the
most trying times, they finally recapit-
ulated them SO as to give the senator
% votes in the house, making a total
of 118 votes, or nine short of the reQui-
site number for election.
1t is noticeable that the particular
anti-Quay paper did not have the ef-
frontery to claim that this was an esti-
mate furnished by the friends of the
distinguished senator.
The list is adrotly drawn with two
or three we'll known anti-Quay men
in the Quay column, and with this nu-
cleus the insurgents afterward tear it
in shreds. In other words, they use
this particular paper to set up ridic-
ulous straw man." no doubt manu-
factured to order by the political liars
of their own original insurgent news
bureau.
Having themselves brought forth
this prodigy, watch how the bold and
valiant papers carrying that wonder
fully production" full page "ad." swoop
down on their own creation like an
eagle on its prey.
FIGHTING A STRAW MAN.
They have charged these windmills
Of the Quixotic fancy so often and so
disastrously in solid squadron that this
time they change their tactics and give
the place of honor (D to the morning
organ that for many years has been
willing to publish anything, however
false or untrue, that its hatred conceiv-
ed would injure the one man In Penn
sylvania 1t has hoped to crush and
ruin. So 1t, on the following day, takes
a grand fall" out Of the STRAW man, -
and when it VIGOROUSLY leaves the
field it would seem that 1t was so
thoroughly battered that 1t could not
stand another shock from Its own pa
rents, especially
But after they have all gone up
against it, the -"yellowest of the yell
low" waits for day, and then, I'VE
GODS" how 1t does batter the wreck
that is left of the child of its bosom.
"Infanticide is defined by law to be
the murder of newly born child" +"
and II the insurgent press of this city
are not guilty then such a crime was
never committeeman only guilty in
the general sense, but guilty Of bring
Ing 1t into the world with the express,
premeditated and willful purpose of
staying 1t in cold blood 1t, of course,
deliberately lies when it says that the
list published was Col Quay's list.
They know and every one knows that
neither the senator nor any of his
friends has ever published any list.
They knew 1T was their very own.
They also summarize or recapitulate
their own falsehoods in this way:
"Quay's victory blazoned In his or
gans the morning after election, Nov.
7. the $50. or 22 more than a majority;
Dec. 6, 1l3. or 10 less than a majority.
Decrease of Quay vote in one month,
by Quay's own showing, 81"
And this Is specim en- Of the lying
mendacity Of organs subsidized by one
advertisement. 1t Is pitifully cheap
lying. because when analyzed it is so
transparent It's hypocrisy, its cant.
its building of an argument on pre-
misses wholly and willfully false, only
leads their conclusion back into the
same mire and filth of the rankest un-
truthfulness from which they derived
their false premises,