Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-04

9 III achl--e manlpu- ated Ia JorltieS
in Philadelphia directly profited, II
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
offenses elsewhere, especially where
Democrats are the guilty parties and
beneficiaries 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-
tions have followed in % cases and in
several instances severe sentences have
been imposed.
HOG COMBINE RECALLED.
"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
kcr City to the scorn of the country
because few alleged election crooks
have been cornered, are overworking
the business. 1t will be suspected that
II 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
erence to 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
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 tossup in
any political contest as it received at
the hands of Senator Quay's friends in
his state craftsmanship fight in 1926,
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 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 ballet thieves of Phil
adelphia."
"'Set a rogue to catch rogue says
the old adage. 1t 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, it is not likely to give the rogue
hunters a very high place in public
opinion, knowing full we'll, as the peo-
pie do, that the hunters of today would
more than likely have been the hunted
tion been made when Martin was boss
and they were in the push
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 casual observer.
Those with whom Mr.. Quay served for
IL years do not have to be told what
manner of man he is. Whether or
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 to
believe that Quay and what may be
denominated his henchmen were the
sole beneficiaries. Since the Republi-
can party first gained power there
never was presidential election that
the leaders of that party did not seek
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 to
help himself and his friends does not
hurt him in the senate. On the other
hand it creates a fellow feeling for
him. Politics is politics the world
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 end
Of the politics of the state has nothing
to do with the Quay case, as it presents
itself to the senate. The young and
able senator from Indiana, Senator
Beveridge, states the whole thing in q
nutshell in letter recently published,
as follows:
"'The talk about Quay not having
votes enough to. seat him is nonsense,
and so are the claims that he has
enough votes to seat him. Nobody
knows just what the situation is. No
body knows, for example. how l shall
hot f,f1n