Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-04
Entered at the Post Office at Laporte, as
second-class mail matter.

Timely Comment Upon Attempts to
Make fractional Capital Out of
Election Cases In the Quaker
City.
Philadelphia, Jan. 2-The old adage
about people living in glass houses
comes to mind in the latest scandal
that is attached to what is known as
the insurgent outfit in Pennsylvania
politics.
Now the Martin camp in this city
Is invaded and there is popular clam
or for an investigation of the tax Office,
which has been for years political
stronghold of David Martin, who is
now chairman of the executive COM
mittee of the insurgents organization,
which is fighting the leaders of the
regular Republican organization. While
Martin, Finn of Allegheny and Others
of the same stripe have been malign-
ing Colonel Quay, Governor Stone and
other stalwart Republicans who have
blocked their way in their effort to get
control of the Republican organization,
and deal out fat jobs to themselves
and their retainers, things have not
been running exactly right in the tax
office in this city, where David Martins
brother-in-lawM Mr.. Roney, is in charge.
The lax methods employed in the de-
linquent tax department of this Office
have led to a startling sensation upon
the discovery that tax money handed
over to deputies employed under Mr..
Roney has never reached the city treas
ury.
The people want an investigation of
the management of the office to be
made by 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 desperate struggle lately.
OF the men employed in the tax Office
who were sent to the legislature to
fight Colonel Quay one of them, A. IL
Allen, was deputy tax collector. He
was elected as 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 superintend-
ent of 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 it was announced that Allen had
been ANONYMOUSLY defeated for re-
election as superintendent of his Sun
day school.
When 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
pathy 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 advertis-
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, land 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
just now over these latest discoveries
sounds more like the gloating of a fac
tion over the trapping of a rival gang.
So long as the machinery ground
grists for Martin, Wanamaker, Hast
ings & Co. its rascality was good poll
tics. But things are different now,
since these worthless have gotten to-
gether under reform flag. The big
majority rolled up in Philadelphia for
the president made Wanamaker post
master general as reward for gather
ing together an immense campaign
fund, as we'll as the unprecedented vote
cast in the same city for Hastings for
governor, under the management of
Boss Martin, which made him Hast
ings' secretary of the commonwealth.