The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-01-03
nenenciaries OF fraud.

THAT Philadelphia is not alone IN
its ballot frauds, or the worst of the
great cities in this respect. is quite GER
tain" remarkes The Gazette. There
are others, and the nominal Republi-
can newspapers that are holding up the
! present Republican leaders of the qua
ker City to the scorn of the country
because a few alleged election CROOKS
have been cornered, are overworking
the business. IL will be suspected that
IL these fellows had been opposing the
| Republican party, as their trappers
were. the public would never have
heard of their alleged offenses.
"All good citizens must rejoice when
the law is vindicated and violators OF
election laws brought to justice. IL
| is Philadelphia's great shame that so
| few of her people are sufficiently inter-
ested in these matters as to be willing
to give of their time and means to Sc
/ cure honest elections without ref
erence to the effect upon the fortunes
of this or that political faction. The
persistent efforts of the insurgents 10
| give the machine a black eye, in order
to further their anti-Quay crusade de-
ceive nobody. Senator Quay is not
even resident of Philadelphia, and it
is we'll remembered that the machine
in that city never had such a tossup in
any political contest as it received at
the hands of Senator Quay's friends in
his state craftsmanship fight in 1895,
when Boss Martin and his tool ex-
Mayor Warwick Joined the notorious
hog combine to depose the Beaver
statesman from party leadership. By
the most high handed methods ever
employed by a party organization a
large majority of the Philadelphia del
egation to the Republican state con-
vention was named by Boss Martin and
controlled by him as so many puppets,
but thanks to the stalwarts throughout
the state, who despise would-be party
wreckers masquerading as 'reformers,
the anti-Quay campaign of calumny
greed and spite proved a failure, al
though backed by an unlimited cor
ruption fund and all the resources of
the most expert ballot thieves of Phil
adelphia."
"'Set rogue to catch a rogue says
the old adage. II is to be hoped that
| good may come from the efforts to
ferret out fraud in Philadelphia cleo
| tions, but whatever the outcome may
be, ii is not likely to give the rogue
hunters very high place in public
opinion, knowing full well, as the peo-
| pie do, that the hunters of today would
more than likely have been the hunted
of yesterday bad an honest investiga-
tion been made when Martin was boss
| nd hax- Sin hn
THE ABUSE OF QUAY.
Congressman James Rankin Young
in discussing the latest phases of the
contest over the seating of Colonel
Quay said:
Abusing Quay to the senators per-
sonally helps the former senator. This
is plain to even a casual observer
Those with whom Mr. Quay served fol
II years do not have to be told what
manner of man he is. Whether oi
not he is the product of bad system
of politics in Pennsylvania does not
concern them. So far as they can see
it is the same system that has made
the state Republican ever since it was
wrested from the Democracy. If the
system is corrupt they are not ready tc
believe that Quay and what may be
denominated his henchmen were the
sole beneficiartes. Since the Republi'
can party first gained power there
never was a presidential election that
thesleaders of that party did not seeR
to carry Pennsylvania, and they were
not asking any questions as to under
what system it was to be carried.
abusing Quay for what he has done
to elect Republican presidents and tc
help himself and his friends does moi
hurt him in the senate. On the Other
hand it creates a fellow feeling fol
him. Politics is politics the worlt
over This means that abusing the
other fellow all the time while holding
yourself up as the model to emulate
does not always win out. Quay per
sonally and the way the Pennsylvania
Republican organization run their enc
of the politics of the state has nothing
to do with the Quay case, as it presents
itself to the senate. The young ant
able senator from Indiana, Senator
Beveridge, states the whole thing in
nutshell in a letter recently published
as follows
"'The talk about quay not havini
votes enough to seat him is nonsense
and so are the claims that he hai
enough votes to seat him. Nobod!
knows Just what the situation is. No
body knows, for example, how | shall
vote. | know that a great many othe
senators are in exactly the same situa
ton. The whole matter is a puT
, question of constitutional construction
All this talk about corrupt elections
etc, has nothing to do with the case
Quay is not claiming through an elec
ton. He is claiming through an ap
pointment by the governor. The ques
ton is whether or not the governo
had a constitutional right TO appoin
him.
|; "T have not had time yet to Civ
that question the special study whicI
its immense importance deserves
When | have done so shall know hoy
. I shall vote. For that consideration
and that consideration alone will de
: termine the matter. This also is tn
case with a great number of other sen
atols.'
THAT is the case in its entirety,
u added Congressman Young, "and tha
. is the way in which it will be treate
! in the senate, the opinions of tn
u newspaper litors who are proclaimin
so earnestly against Quay 20 the COZ
> trary Notwithstanding"
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