Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-01-10
Bribers, Boilers and Anarchists.
philadelphia Inquirer

named Walte-Governor of the State.
He too, was i'm for revolution. If he
didn't get free silver he was going to
swim his horse up to the bride through
gore, and he was promptly nicknamed
"Bloody Brides Waite" and was hoot-
ed at
Now, we have gat an Insurgent organ
right here in Philadelphia that is yell
ing for murder. Just because a half
dozen Democratic members of the
Pennsylvania Legislature, having no
Democratic candidate of their own for
Speaker, refused to be led around by
the nose by lot of Insurgents and pre-
ferred to pick Republican of their
own choice for Speaker, we are told
that hanging matches might be good
thing in Harrisburg and that French
revolutions and all kinds of anarchistic
entertainments are due at no distant
day.
Now as a matter of fact the great vic
tory that Senator Quay has won over
the most stupenduous display of cor
ruption that this State has ever seen
or any other State for thas matter-is
very generally received by the people
with satisfaction and qualification.
For five years Pennsylvania politi-
cally has been in turmoil. Martin, a
man who has thrived on politics, began
his career of treachery and treason in
1895. Since then he has been repudi-
ated and thrashed and driven into his
own little Senatorial district.
But he has fought on with the aid of
Finn, of Pittsburg, contractor who
has made his money from the public.
These men, setting themselves up as
leaders, have done their utmost to dis
rupt the Republican party. They have
formed machine of the most obnox-
ious character, and agents of this ma
chine have undertaken to debauch the
State.
In the Penrose fight of four years
ago, in the Quay fight of two years ago,
hundreds of thousands of dollars were
spent and attempts at bribery were
very common things. In the present
contest, now about over, it has been
corruption alone that the stalwart Re-
publicans have been forced to meet.
And yet because the fearful corrup-
ton and the tens of thousands of dol
lars that Insurgent agents have been
offering in bribe money have been sue
cessfully vanquished, we are told by
the sordid chief organ of the boodlers
that revolution is in the air and that
few hanging matches might be good
thing.
Bribers, boilers and anarchists nat
urally go together. The Insurgent
movement in this State has been found
ed on falsehood, vituperation, personal
spite, villification, libel and-Boodle.
And now that hypocracy, the theft of
pledged members and bribery have
been met and overcome, we are to be
treated to anarchy.
Well, why not? The Insurgents be-
lieve in the rule of the minority, and
that is practically anarchy. What they
cannot buy they propose to get by vio-
lence. That is in the direct line of the
logic of their argument. What you
cannot secure by bribery, secure it by
theft, plumber, the overthrow of the
majority.
And so we are to have hanging bees
and the torch. That is the doctrine
now preached. And for what? Be-
cause the Insurgents have been whipped
and Matthew Stanley Quay, who won
the election before the people in No
vember, has triumphed, because the
principle of majority rule has tri-
umphed.
Our Insurgent friends who control
newspaper organs are printing what
they call roll of dishonor They in
clude in that roll theseveral Democrats
who refused to bow down before the
Insurgent leaders. So far as these
Democrats are concerned, they simply
made choice between two Republican
candidates for Speaker, and they had
perfect right to do so. But those who
voted for Koontz are hailed as patriots
and those who believed that their dis
tricts would be better off under stall
wart Republican rule than under the
sway of such political highwaymen as
Finn and Martin are termed traitors.
But while these men were dishonored
the Republicans who were pledged be-
fore the people at the late election to
support Quay and who have broken
their pledges are placed on roll of
honor. 1t is out of the question to ac-
count for some of these desertions ex-
cept upon the ground of briberv-brib-
cry at the hands of Insurgent agents.
And yet these bribed persons are hon.
ored! And because the bribery could
be carried no further, because it is now
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