Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-10-08
THE GREAT UPRISING OF 1902.

History is repeating itself in Penn
Bylvania most inspiringly. The revolt
of the people twenty years ago and
again twelve years ago, followed the
lines Of the great uprising this year,
and that the end is to be the same Is
now firmly believed by intelligent and
fairminded observers, regardless OF
partisanship. The Quay machine, in
deed, is in worse plight today than 1t
was the first week in October $780, and
its prospect is much darker than that
which confronted the supporters of
Gen. Beaver and his associates at the
same period in 1882. Gen. Beaver was
man with patriotic record which
appealed strongly to the best citizen
ship of this state. His colleagues were
clean men of ability and discretion.
Not one of these candidates committed
such monumental offenses against
common sense, good taste, the cause of
truth and justice, political decency and
good government, as have marked the
extraordinary conduct of Ex-Judge
Pennypacker. When set up as the
creature of an imperious and arrogant
boss, this candidate was repudiated by
scores of thousands of lf-respecting
Republicans regardless of his supposed
character, ability and worth. When
the light was partly turned on and the
evidence of another confidence game
was made apparent, many more voters
halted in their support of the Harris
burg nominee. A plea in arrest OF
Judgment was entered by sympathizing
friends, themselves in painful doubt.
But the day Judge Pennypacker left
the bench, with amazing political eff
frontery, he threw aside the mask and
showed himself as the boss very own.
Still it was claimed that he would
prove himself a wise and just public
leader. He has made half-score pub
lie appearances and upon each occasion
has dumbfounded his managers, shock
ed his former friends, disgusted SEN
sible citizens, more than anxious to
treat him fairly, and driven thous-
ands more into open support of his
opponent, as the self evident and i'm
perative pathway of patriotic public
duty. Could the voters of Pennsylva-
mia be stood up and counted today, In
strict compliance with law, Judge
Pennypacker would be overwhelmingly
beaten, crushed beneath the indignant
reproof of the people, whose intelli-
gence he has so brazenly insulted,
whose patriotic instincts he has derid-
ed, whose just demands he has so
hagrantly secuted. The rising tide of
sentiment against Pennypackerism as
the clearly self-revealed counterpart of
Quayism is to be noted in all parts of
the state.
The Democratic candidates have ap-
peared in nearly half of the counties
of the commonwealth, addressing over
half hundred meetings, representing
all classes of people, all kinds of work.
ers in the great fields of industry, and
IL is the universal testimony of friend
and foe that the indications of success
at the polls are beyond all precedent
In every instance Republican voters,
oftentimes of wide influence, have
come forward with expressions of SYM
pathy and support. Thousands of far
mers have driven long distances over
the rugged hills and through the deep
valleys of Central Pennsylvania to tes-
tify their loyalty to the cause of politi-
cal regeneration and good government.
Likewise, multitudes of strong armed
workingmen, after their days toll was
ended, have come forward from the
mill the shop, the forge, the forest
and the mine, to uphold the principles
in the maintenance of which they are
Vitally Interested; to declare their
mighty purpose to use effectively the
freeman's greatest weapon for righting
humanity's wrongs-an honest ballot.
The chorus for reform has been swollen
from the office, the counting room, the
country store, the mercantile estab-
lishment educational and public insti-
tutions which have felt the burden and
injustice of misrule
The Democratic and Independent
press never showed such solid and
invincible front to the enemy. In this
great contest the patriotic men who
conduct the rural newspapers of Penn