Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-06-11

Great corporations and consolida-
ed monopolies are fast seizing the ave-
nues of power that lead to control of
the government. 1t is an open secret
that they rule states through procured
legislatures and corrupt courts; that
they are strong in congress, and that
they are unscrupulous in the use of
means to conquer prejudice and acquire
influence. This condition of things is
truly alarming, for unless it be chang
ed quickly and thoroughly, free insti-
tutions are doomed to be subverted by
an oligarchy resting on a basis of
money and corporate power"
David Davis.
The wicked old hands in the game of
politics, the men who conceive iniQuity
which they prevail upon their miser-
able dupes to execute, are now dealing
with the question of the governorship.
They tell Mr.. Elkin he is a fine young
fellow-none finer; that he would
make an ideal governor; that as far as
their preference goes he is their
choice; but that he is so thoroughly
identified with late machine rascalities
that, dear as he is to their hearts, they
must pull him off the track till the
scent shall get colder. The hypo-
critics! The hypocrites - Franklin
Leader
Let us teach that the brute force and
crooked policy which annex conquest
are infinitely inferior to the wisdom
justice and beneficence which makes a
country happy. Let us teach that the
honor OF a nation consists, not in the
forced and reluctant submission of 9TH
er peoples, but in equal laws and free
institutions. Let us never be weary in
reprobating that Internal spirit of con-
quest, by which a nation becomes the
terror and adherence of the world,
and invariably prepares tomb, at best
splendid tomb, for its own liberties
and prosperity. Nothing has been
more copmon than for nations to i'm
agine themselves great and glorious on
the ground of foreign conquest when at
home they have been loaded with
chains.-Rev. William e. Charming.
Whichever explanation is the true
one-whether Quay is in earnest about
forcing Ellkin to withdraw, or whether
Quay and Elkin are playing a game
with the purpose of leading the people
to believe that Elkin is making he
foic, Embossed fight for the nomination
and that if he wins the nomination will
come to him on his merits, it is equally
plain that the will of the people cuts
no figure in the calculations of the
machine leaders.
Either Qnay is carrying bossism to
an extraordinary length by deciding
long in advance of the state convention
who shall or shall not be nominated
for governor, or he is the prime mover
in game Of bluff which is even more
obnoxious than unconcealed dictator
ship. The people of Pennsylvania are
becoming very weary of being bossed
and much more weary of being play
ed with and befooled.-Pittsburg Lead
er.
Attorney General Elkin has been
let down hard and in a cold-blooded
way that should invite sympathy I'M
der ordinary circumstances. He joins
Governor Stone in the list of the
might-haye-be beens. If he had served
the party and Republicans principles
instead of the bosses and the franchise
grabbers, the people would not have
permitted him to be sacrificed in this
ruthless fashion after it's many years
of service to the organization and
much sacrifice to secure the nomina-
tion for governor. 1t is another pathet-
ic illustration of how the powers that
be use man till he has fortified popu-
lar respect and then fling him aside
as ineligible.
The political rubbish heap is full of
these aspirants for public honors who
have thought the machine, and not the
people, confer political preferment
Some OF them are to be pitied, but
none deserves less commiseration than
John P. Elkin, who occupied quasi
judicial position, but never was known
to use his great influence to halt the
legislative jobbery which has plunged
the party in Pennsylvania into dis
grace and infamy.-Bedford Hawkeye.
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