Sunday morning globe., 1901-11-10
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! Tuesday was a grotesque farce Ma
chine rule reached its limit Of Grimm
al violence and intimidation. Not since
! Philadelphia has been a city has brib-
cry been so bold, coeruivn so unre-
strained, violence 80 brutal The police
assisted the lawbreakers in their atroc-
ious attempt to destroy the freedom Of
the ballot One after another the Union
party watchers were set upon and hurl-
ed from the polling ploces to be caught
by the police and dragged to the sta
| ton house Billy, blackjack and po-
| icemans club were the arguments
used by the machine advocates. And
they proved more persuasive than rea-
son and intelligence.
Strange as it may seem there was no
political economic principle involved
lin the campaign The question to be
determined was whether the candidates
that represented a combination that
stoou for political sandbagging, official
blackmail, jobbery in public contracts
stolen franchises, protection Of vice in
the most hideous form and everything
calculated to disgrace and degrade the
city be indorsed by the people at the
pous or they be hurried from power
and branded as public enemies.
The Union party comprised the pur-
est and best men of the -IepubliCan and
Democratic parties, but it is now amply
demonstrated that the vicious far out
numbered them in the Quaker City
1t was the sincere hope Of every hon
est, patriotic citizen that Philadelphia,
that city dear to every lover of hui
man liberty, where the Declaration of
independence was adopted, would
cleanse herself Of the accumulated
CRIME and filth Of her years of wallow-
| ing in the swamp Of official corrup-
tion. But they have been disappoint.
! e.. She clings tenaCiously to her rags
Of political infamy. Her civic squa'or
| is not offensive to her 1t is her own
/ creation and she seems proud Of it.
| Her registering I'm the nOisOme slums
| of political RIGHTEOUSNESS has not
| wounded her sense Of shame nor
| brought a blush to her cheek She
/ stands before the world defiant and un-
/ aDashed, a disgrace to her sister cities.
When the Declaration Of lndepend-
| ence was adopted and baptized with
/ the blood of the Revolutionary patri-
OTIS, could a Jefferson or a Franklin
! have foreseen in a vision of the future
! the savage atrocities perpetrated on
! tuesday i'm the city where the new
political truths were first announced,
and that they are endowed by their
! Creator with certain inalienable
rights" and among these are life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness
what would they, what could they have
thought?
Could a Washington or a Baron
Steuben, during that dreadful winter
! in Valley Forge when the half-clad,
| halffed soldiers left their blood in
! their tracks as they marched in the
snow have seen in a vision Of the fut-
ure the fruits Of 125 years of political
..Jerty would they have urged the sac
ifce?
Hardly. They little thought that
they were shedding their blood and
suffering from cold and hunger and
| thirst that in some future time Ash
| bridge would plunder the city and
/ Quayism plunder the state.
"The defeat of Tammany is very
gratifying to me- say Pension Com
missioner Evans. and should be to ev-
cry hberty-loving citizen in the United
States.
Just think Of the brazen effrontery
of this shameless violator Of public
law, this arrogant destroyer Of the
merit system, this base prostitute of Off
cial authority classifying himself with
'hberty-loving citizens"
When liberty was menaced by the
red hand Of rebellion this valiant lover
devoted one hundred days to her glori-
GUS cause as a clerk i'm the quarter
masters department. If liberty had to
depend on such lovers as H. Clay
! Evans. her cause would be trampled
in the mire.
Inc defeat Of Tammany is crafty
ing to him. but is Tammany methods
anything as brutal and atrocious as
lAshbridgeism In Philadelphia, or Quya-
ism in Pennsylvania, and yet every
|, clerk I'm his Bureau supported Ash
ur.uge and Quayism last Tuesday
He has promoted every one Of these
enemies Of decent government, honest
legislation and justice in the admin
istration Of public affairs, and yet he
uas the audacity to prate about his love
J of liberty If possessed Of one scintilla
, of true American manhood he would
resign or administer the affairs Of the
office i'm strict accordance with the
! principles Of justice He would remedy
the wrongs he has produced and com
, mence at once to rehabilitate the merit
] system that he has so ruthlessly
I trampled on.
Love, liberty; can man love liberty
: that tramples on the rights Of human
] lity and prostitutes public powers to
p punish weak and helpless people. For
S Instance. there Is old Mr.. Gill whose
y health has been impaired by the ILL
T. usage he has received by the Evans
. Davenport dynasty He furnished a
physicians certificate TO show that he
- was unable to perform clerical duties
. during his absence, but Evans refused
D to grant him sick leave, and the time
] lost was deducted from his small sal
B, ary.
e How any American citizen can be
4 so small and contemplate as to crafty
b a petty srudge against a sick old man
- by depriyIug him Of a portion Of his
j. salary rs inconceivable. Gil gave the
d best four years Of has life for the cause
. OF liberty and the quartermasters
] clerk persecutes tne old veteran