Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-03-08

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t.lis vshs,t ir regards .ts >,.llvysirt Lsapa.-
f lis.n-. with which $50 iu themaiu agrees.
,nd suggest -he troubles -ha1 arise m
our parrv ars nat Cor want ol defini1on
III what SgalwartS are 0ur freai the
rule ar ruin policy ol the Eagle. mrn-
tar NJ :. QUAY
/ N1noue other things the Eagle says.
a Stalwart Republican i- one who 1s-
heves ia The principles and policies 9t
L his PARTY. and who. exercising his poll
ncsl rights at the primaries i7 willing
To- abide by the win 81 the majority
This we endorse as good sound Re-
publican doctrine and Is the platf )rm
we stand on. and 50 DO the Republicans
Of our county. But the trouble Is the
| QUAY crowd whose mouth piece the
Eagle has been in our county for many
wears don abide by the decision Of the
primaries unless they have it all their
own way. We could give many lnstan-
ces had We the space. but a few VIII
suffice to show the correctness Of our
| statement. About five years ago the
present mayor. Ashbridge, Of Phlladel-
phia and :. J. Crow. Jr. We're rival can
didates for Sheriff of Philadelphia;
Grove being supported by the Quay
crowd The primaries took place and
the result was Ashbridge's nomination
bv "A handsome majority, and he was
regularly declared the nominee OF the
party. The Quay crowd led by Pen
rose. were dissatisfied, they did not have
their own way. Penrose, Israel Dur
ham and other Quay leaders then form
ed coalition with the Democrats on
the basis that if Grove was elected the
Democrats should have certain per
cent of the Deputy Sheriff appoint
ments. On this basis Grove was taken
up by the Quay crowd and the Demo
Gratis and they succeeded in electing
him to the Office of Sheriff and the Dem
ocrats got their share of the offices
Was this standing by the nominee OF
the Republican party as the Eagle talks
aboutl
Many other instances could be given
but we will cite only one more. About
four years ago at the primaries III Pitts
burg H P. Ford was nominated for
Mayor over the man put up by the op-
position The Quay crowd was not sat
isfied. Quay was making desperate eI-
forts to get control of the political af-
fairs of Allegheny county. The Quay
crowd. under the name of the Municl-
pal League, formed coalition with the
Democrats, and supported their candi-
date for Mayor, but with all their ef-
forts Mr. Ford was elected by about
twelve hundred votes, whereas the ma
jority is ordinarily about eight thous-
and. Still not satisfied the Quay crowd
began a contest in court which cost tie
CITY many thousands of dollars. and
tried in this manner to gain their ends
Ex-Judge Bredin, formerly Judge OF
our Courts, was appointed by the Court
to hear the contest, and after hearing
that lasted several months, the Judge
made his report to Court sustaining the
regularity of the election of Mayor
Ford He found some illegal ballots
for both candidates, but there were
many more illegal ballots put in for the
candidate of the Quay-DemOcraticc coah-
ton than for Mayor Ford, thereby IN
creasing the majority by which he was
elected
We could give other instances. but
this is enough to show what has been
many time said that Quay and his
crowd abide by majorities when they
can have their own way, and when they
don't get that, are then ready to kick
over the traces. The Eagle knows
these things to be true and all this talk
in its columns about majority rule, etc.
is the usual deception and humbug cam
paign its boss, Mr.. Quay, carries on,
and the surprising thing to us is that
our neighbor will allow its columns to
be used for man who pays so little at
tention to the will of the majority as
Quay does when it don't 90 his way.
We think the Eagle would do the peo-
pie much better service than it does If
if it would join with us in helping to
give Mr. Quay an indefinite leave Of alb
sence from public service, so he could
spend all his time at his favorite sport
of fishing in Florida waters