The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1900-01-03

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The people want an investigation OF
the management of the Office to be
made by a committee Of councils. and
they will not be satisfied until this shall
be done. The tax Office is filled with
political followers of Martin, through
whose manipulations Of politics he has
managed to keep his head above water
in the party organization, though he
has had a desperate struggle lately.
OF the men employed in the tax Office
who we're sent to the legislature to
fight Colonel Quay one of them, A. L.
Allen, was a deputy tax collector. He
was elected as a Republican, but, with
the other Martinites, he bolted the
Republican caucus until the end Of the
session of the legislature. Allen, al
though he had served as a superintend-
ent of a Sunday school. surprised every
one by the venom and vindictive spirit
which he displayed throughout the
contest over the United States senator
ship. He was exceedingly offensive in
his remarks addressed to members OF
the legislature while they were casting
their votes for Colonel Quay. While
the stalwarts conceded the right OF
every man to vote as he saw fit on the
senatOrship and did not molest him
in so doing, Allen was disgustingly
brutal in his attitude toward the Quay
men in his anti-Quay speeches. While
Senator Quay was in court facing his
accusers in the great conspiracy trial,
in which he was triumphantly vindi-
Gated. Allen shocked even some OF the
insurgents by his illusions to Colonel
Quay in connection with this case.
After Allen returned from Harris
burg many of his constituents did not
hesitate TO express contempt for his
conduct. No surprise was manifest
when II was announced that Allen had
been ANONYMOUSLY defeated for re-
election as superintendent OF his Sun
day school.
TThen the information became public
that Allen had left home. and that
warrant was out for his arrest in con-
nectiOn with the alleged defalcations
in the tax Office. there was little sym
pathv for him among those who were
familiar with his actions in the Quay
fight
But it was ever thus.
HYPOCRISY is RAMPANT.
Hypocrisy seems to be rampant
among the insurgents.
Anent the attempts OF the Wana-
maker newspaper organs to make cap
ital for the insurgent campaign out
Of the fact that election frauds have
been unearthed in this city, Editor
Theodore Hart, of the wide awake
Easton Gazette, has some timely COM
ment upon the clamoring of certain
Philadelphia newspapers in which the
Wanamaker bargain counter anvertis-
ment is always a conspicuous feature"
as he aptly designates the insurgent
organs
Editor Hart properly demands that
all proven guilty of election frauds
shall be punished. as men guilty Of
these crimes too frequently escape.
Election frauds in Philadelphia, how
ever, as in most large cities. are to be
expected, even with the most watchful
care" he adds. "and many such scoun-
drels have been caught there and pun
ished in past years. through the vigi-
lance of patriotic citizens Of the Qua
ker City. But the great hue and cry
lust now over these latest discoveries
sounds more like the gloating of fac
tion over the trapping of q rival gang.
So long as the machinery ground
grists for Martin, Wanamaker, Hast
ings & Co. its raseality was good poll
ties. But things are different now,
since these worthless have gotten to-
gether under a reform flag The big
majority rolled up in Philadelphia for
the president made Wanamaker post
master general as a reward for gather
Ing together an immense campaign
fund. as well as the unprecedented vote
cast in the same city for Hastings for
governor. under the management Of
Boss Martin. which made him Hast
ines' secretary of the commonwealth
and the results Of many other elections
from which the men now bowling
about machine manipulated majorities
in Philadelphia directly profited, If
they were not directors or silent part
ners in the business-all testify strong
ly to the hypocrisy and humbuggery
Of the anti-machine movement inuagu-
rated by Van ValKenburg and Martin
TO purify Philadelphia politics.
1T will be observed, too, that the
newspapers which are now talking
most about election frauds in Philadel-
phia have nothing to say about such
onenses elsewhere, especially where
beneiciaries OF fraud"
Attention is then directed by The
Gazette TO the startling revelations OF
Tammany Hall election frauds in New \
York, for which Governor Roosevelt
ordered that an extraordinary grand
jury be convened, and where convic-
tons have followed in % cases and in
several instances severe sentences have
been imposed.
HOG COMBINE RECALLED.
THAT Philadelphia is not alone in
It's 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 few alleged election crooks
nave been cornered, are overworking
the business. II will be suspected that
u 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. 1t
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
erenee 70 the effect upon the fortunes
OF this or that political faction. The
persistent efforts OF the Insurgents to
give the machine black eye. in order
10 further their anti-Quay crusade de-
ceiVe nobody. Senator Quay is not
even a resident of Philadelphia. and it
is well remembered that the machine
IN that city never had such tossup in
any political contest as II 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,
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