The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-09-25
Forty.one DELEGATES Taken.
THE BLACKJACK PARTY
Graphic Account of the Mobbing Of
Union Men In Philadelphia-An
object Lessen of Quayism.

ne tSudy ludtIlue ilLCTdTy bureau
Is trying TO create false impression
In the public mind concerning the re-
cent outrageous attack on the Union
party convention in Philadelphia. For
chile expression of what he thinks of
the raid of the Quay mob is given by
Harry s. Paul, chairman of the Ale
gheny organization, and head of the
Western Pennsylvania delegations, in
a letter received by State Chairman
Thomas l.. Hicks. He vividly de-
scribes incidents of the affair which
came to his notice.
Mr.. Paul is n prominent business
man of Pittsburg. He declares that
the riotous attack was one of the
greatest criminal outrages in the his
tory of Pennsylvania politics, and will
cost the Republican machine ticket
many thousand votes. His letter in
part follows
AS | looked upon the Union party as
semblage, just before the rioters broke
in, | saw an unusually fine body of re-
spectacle, law-abiding Republican bus
mess men, gathered from all parts of
the commonwealth, at least tive-siXths
of whom had never before sat in po-
litical state convention, and who were
earnestly desirous of discharging the
duty committed to them by their fell
low citizens and constituents.
AS If Jail Doors Had Opened.
After the mob appeared all was
changed. Then in the portions of the
seen only brutal, criminal faces, bear
ing the marks of vice all over them,
and the thought occurred that Moya-
mensng and the Eastern Pententiary
/ had opened their doors and given a
days holiday to several hundred of
their inmates for the sole. purpose of
advancing the interests of Quayism,
| Penroseism and Pennypackerism in
this commonwealth.
The impression was deepened by the
sight of reYolvers bulging from the hip
| pockets of some of the mob, and of
billies and knives in the possession of
Others some of the latter having been
used in the attack upon the hall.
The sight of Quayism, Penroseism
and Pennypackerism thus nakedly un-
masked was worth n thousand cam
| paign speeches and 10000 newspaper
articles, and it's effect upon the de-
/ cent citizens who beheld il and who
would not have believed that such
! things were posslDIe otherwise was in
calculabe.
| The result as personally know, was
the instant conversion of twenty dele
| gates holding legal certificates, who in
I tended to oppose Pattison's nomina-
vote for Pennypacker, to the support
! of PattisOn and this number fell short
| of all SO converted.
Signed Statement BY Cleariisld Dele
gates.
Believing it their duty to enlighten
as many voters as possible as to the
attack OF 200 armed Quay thugs on the
recent Union party convention in Phil
adelphia. Clearfield county's five dele
gates have united in a signed state
ment setting forth the facts.
These delegates are Frank w. Bar
raft, real estate agent and lumber
dealer; Jacob Burge, lumberman; Cas-
ner J. Stull, policeman; p l.. Showers,
dentist, and John Il. Harder, merchant,
all reputable men. When they went
to the convention they were not for
Pattison, but their experience in the
riot quickly converted them.
After describing in detail how the
mob led by Sheehan broke up the con-
vention, they so on to say:
We want to say that we have always
been Republicans, but of late years,
since the Quay machine has become a
public stencil to the nostrils of the peo-
pie of Pennsylvania, we have been In
dependent Republicans. We believe In
the doctrines of Roosevelt and the Re
publican party.
We cannot vote for or support Judge
Pennypacker, because he is being held
up as a shield in front of the dirty ma
chine, which has no more principle or
any better standing in the great COM
monwealth than those criminals Whlch
were hired by the machine to break
into the Union party convention on the
Sd day of September, 1902.
We had heard of the disgraceful and
shameless methods employed by the
machine at their conventions, in the
late legislature, and at many. or the
Pittsburg, but we had never seen one
in full bloom until we witnessed the
diseraceul riot in Musical Fund Hall.
we were not committed to any canai'
date when we left Clearfield for the
convention. We nad not been instruct
ed neither had we signed any agree
ment to support any particular candl'
date, but our minds were soon made
up when we saw a machine mob in con-
troll of a convention, and saw the char
acter of the criminals employed by the
machine to carry out it's designs, ever
al the cost of murder, If necessary:
These are our observations, and We
believe it is our duty as business mer
of this great state of Pennsylvania tC
support. vote for and work to the bes
of our ability for the election OF Hon
Robert E. Pattison for governor O
Pennsylvania, and to employ every
honorable means possible to elect goot
men TO supersede the disreputable ant
disgracefu gang of machine boodler'
! now in charge of the affairs OF oul
state,
Elkin's friends are not shedding an!
} ears over the exposure of Pennypacke
as an AFFECT tool Of the boss. The,
believe in open, manly fighting, an'
have no use for sneaks and pharasees
Thousands of them will be missdng OF
election day.