Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-12-12
POLITICAL.

1.-The Pittsburg developments will do
public good. Those who championed
the ripper can see now that such revo-
lutionary legisla ton is dangerous. The
advocates of reform must fight for it
before the people and win at the polls,
not expect to get it from professional
politicians by coup de grace. Rep.
Acheson.
/. On Friday last Major A. M. Brown
made public statement of his political
connections with Gov. VIM. A. Stone
from the time his name was first sug-
gested for City Recorder until his re-
moyal from that office by the Governor.
The statement includes history of all
conferences held and the correspondence
with the Governor on the question of
removing City Solicitor Clarence Bur
leigh, Director J. o. Brown, Director
John M Anderson, Delinquent Tax Col
lector Robert Ostermaier and others
and the appointment of others in their
places Major Browns conclusion from
all the facts in his possession is that
Governor Stone and the Flinn-Brown-
Burleigh combination had entered into
an agreement that he should be remov-
ed from the Recordership.
A dispatch from Washington. dated
Sunday, said that Senator Quay left
this morning for his winter home at ST.
Lucie, Fla where his friends say he will
remain until he has completely recover
ed from the cough which has given him
so much trouble for the past two months.
He was accompanied by Mrs. Quay, Miss
Cora Quay. Capt A. G. G. Quay and
Attorney General John P. Elkin.
1t was not generally known until this
morning that Mr. Elkin was to be of the
Senator's party, and their going togeth-
er causes some comment among Penn
sylvanians in Washington. OF course,
it is believed that the Gubernatorial
nomination next year, ,and the available
ity of Mr.. Elkin as candidate, will be
fully discussed during the latters stay
in Florida.
1t is now positively asserted by peo-
pie and papers antagonistic to Senator
NJ s. Quay that he was directly respons-
ible for and party to the last reyolu-
. tion in the city government of Pitts
burg. The Philadelphia North Ameri-
can claims to have positive information
that ut the celebrated conference at
Beaver before the fall election among
Senator Quay. J. 0. Brown, Clarence
Burleigh and Roger O'Mara the Sen
ator assured J. o. Brown that lie would
be made City Recorder of Pittsburg
after the election in the event of the
Reorganization" giving good majority
for Potter and Harris in Allegheny
county. This is now declared to be the
reward offered for the fight made for
the State ticket here.
1t has SO frequently been asserted
that Senator Quay was angry at the
\ action of Governor Stone in removing
Mai. A. NJ. Brown from, the Recorder
ship that most people believed this
statement true 1t is now pointed out
that Senator Quay's alleged indigna-
ton on the subject has not found ex-
preston in any statement from him to
which Governor Stone could object.
In fact, those who have in past years
learned to consider Senator Quay as a
trickster now believe that the whole
Pittsburg embroglio. beginning with the
promise of the ripper's passage, has
been in the ''Old Mans" hands and that
Governor Stone has simply made his
moves on the political chess board under
the direction of the past master in the
game Dispatch.
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