Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-01-18

How the Farmcrs and Merchants
Are Interested I'm the Exposures.
Eight More Alleged Ballot Thieves
Are Indictcd-Snltcr and His Gang
Have Fled To Mexico, Ii Is Said.
Quay Declares Himself Again in
che Field.
Trom our Own Correspondent
Harrisburg, Jan. 16.-On Thursday
last eight more OF the Quay machine
ballot box suffers in Philadelphia
were indicted by the grand jury of that
county. The men in question are
charged with illegal voting and stuff
ing ballow boxes in the Twelfth dIvis-
ion Of the Fifth ward. in Philadelphia.
. ward that is nOtoriously a Quay
stronghold in that city. Those who
are held for trial are openly charged
with being eX-convicts, keepers of dis
orderly houses and men with no repu-
tations to speak Of
The flight of Hon" Sam Salter. ex-
Representative from the Seventh waN
OF Philadelphia, and deputy coroner of
Philadelphia, together with Lieutenant
Rodgers, Of the Capitol police of
Washington, D. c.. and three other
government employees last week is still
fresh in the memory of the people Of
the state. These men have fed to
Mexico. The Quay machine, it is hint
ed, has paid their bondsmen the
amount of bail forfeited, and it is not
likely that the criminals will be heard
from again. The work Of uncovering
the gigantic ballot frauds, by which
$1,000 fraudulent names are put on the
voting lists of Philadelphia, is pro-
ceeding rapidly. On the assessors list
in the Second division of the Seventh
ward 142 bogus names out of a total
Of S73 was found by those who made a
diligent canvass. In other words, the
Quay machine had padded the list in
this one division more than 90 per
cent.
HITS TIE FARMERS.
If the country people of Pennsylva-
MIA, the farmers, the merchants and
the small storekeepers and property
owners only knew how this system OF
padding" by The Quay machine in
Philadelphia costs them money they
would defeat the machine every time
it showed its hand The plain people
are being robbed by the ballot thieves,
the crooks and the ex-convicts in poll
tics in the great cities Robbed in dol
lars and cents; money taken out of
their pockets. This is how it is done.
Under the law the distribution of the
school funds of the state is made on
the basis of the number of school
scholars enrolled, and the number of
taSables-names of voters-that ap-
pear on the assessors lists. Philadel-
phia cannot falsify in the number of
teachers employed in her public
schools, or the number of pupils en-
rolled in those schools, but the Quay
politicians do cheat when they pad the
assessors lists with $4,000 fraudulent
names. This gives Philadelphia tens
of thousands of dollars more than she
Is entitled to and cuts down just that
much of the amount of money that
should go to the other counties of the
state.
CASH FROM FARMERS
1t will thus be seen that every time
the Quay machine in Philadelphia adds
100 names to the bogus list of voters 1t
is robbing some country community
Of school money. The farmers of
Pennsylvania are therefore vitally in
terested in the stupendous ballot box
frauds in Philadelphia It means cash
to them. They are paying out money
for school tax when they should not
do so. simply because the Quay ma
chine in Philadelphia pads the list of
voters and Philadelphia schools get
more than their share of the state
cash.
The case of NJ. S. Quay still hangs
fire in the United States senate. He
cannot be reelected. Latterly he has
grown defiant, and last week declared
to a reporter in Washington, and it
was republished in the Philadelphia
North Anglican, that he, Quay, pro-
posed to be a candidate for reelection
again; that he would enter the fight
In defiance of the expressed wish of the
people. Mr.. Quay has been turned
down by the people of Pennsylvania,
and to anybody but member of the
machine this would be sufficient. But
Quay does not propose to accept the
verdict. He is going into the state
and with his machine will once more
endeavor to thwart the will of the peo-
pie and secure his reelection to the
senate.
AN OLD GAME.
The plan by which he and his
friends expect to fool the people is an
old one. They are going to put up
Quay men for the legislature in every
county. If any one should ask these
candidates if they are Quay men they
will deny that they are anything but
regular" Republicans, who propose to
abide by the caucus decision if elected.
That is all Mr.. Quay wants. If he can
get men to go into caucus he Will re-
elect himself again.
1t will be well for the plain people of
Pennsylvania to distrust the candidate
for the legislature who says that he is
neither Quay nor anti-Quay, but will
abide by the caucus decision. There
is no intermediate ground. A candi-
date must be either for Quay or against
him, and 50 declare himself There
are no hybriGa in this years. fight.