The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-09-25
QUAY RING RULE
IN PENNSYLVANIA
How the State Has Been Dis.
hOnOred.
AN ERA OF CORRUPTION
Facts Stated BY the Leading Republi.
can Papcr. When Il ToId
THE DUTY OF HONEST MEN
Quayism As Seen BY the Philadelphia
Press Before Pennypacker-
ism Blinded 1t.
LET ALL FREE VOTERS READ

LET ALL FREE VOTERS READ
There have been many queer things
in Pennsylvania politics, but the back
sliding of the Philadelphia Press, un-
der the singular influence of Penny
! packerism, furnishes a chapter of
journalistic weakness and inconsist-
/ ency that has no counterpart. Our
! misguided contemporary can never
wipe out the commendable record of
many years vigorous hostility to
! Quayism and all that it stands for. 1t
| told the truth in those days, as it is
now trying to hide it. 1t stood with
the people against their enemies 1t
had no fellowship with an organized
band OF political highwaymen. 1t
fought bravely for civic righteousness
and good government. 1t turned on
the light fearlessly. What it said then
is even more apt and forcible now.
! We give herewith some extracts from
the editorial columns of the Press
during the senatorial campaign OF
| lJuOs Nutl WI. NSueiy was lhbhlAtp ohNh
desperate fight for reelection and
the establishment of his power for
the rebuilding and strengthening of
his broken political machine. Here
is what the Press said, pass it along
for your selfrespecting Republican
neighbors to read
Repudiate Fraudulent Nominations.
July 49,
"The people have shown more than
1 once that they want fair play and de-
cent politics. They are tired of the
dictation and corruption of the ma
chine"
July 27)
'The time has come in Pennsylvania
| when every species of machine election
crime must end. Nominations made
by fraud at the primaries are not enti-
tied to respect or support, and Will
have neither from the honest Republi-
cans of the state. The party has been
dishonored too much by such Methods
A Combination Corrupt and Criminal.
Referring to the turning down of
faithful Republican members of the
legislature by orders of the Quay ma
chine, the Press, July 29, said:
What do the decent citizens of Phil
adelphia say to this? Are they to per-
I
feed on that account? Do they propose
that a combination of all that is cor
rupt and criminal in our politics, of
the black-mailers and ballot thieves.
shall control the party nominations and
own the representatives OF free city
in the legislature? This is the issue
that is forced upon them"
The People Or the Bosses.
august 81
UTba machine ic dncpnrntp II will
go to any lengths to retrieve itself for
the losses it has sustained. Voters
should not be led astray by any side
issues or grand-stand plays. The real
issues to be settled are Quay or anti
Quay, machine domination or indiyid-
ual independence, the people or the
BOSSES"
No Better Than Highwaymen.
august 81
Political thievery is just as con-
temptible and debasing, and just as
amenable to law, as the ordinary
scoundrelism that relieves a man of his
pocket book, or holds up the way
farer on the highway under cover of
the night"
"0uays Doom Sealed"
(August7)
1T will be a happy day for Pennsyl-
vania when it takes its place along
with Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan,
Iowa and other Republican states
which are free from bossism and where
merit and not subserviency to a boss
determines who shall represent the
people"
There Must Be Clean Sweep.
"The outlook is most cheering to
Pennsylvania reformers, but Quay has
around him a gang that is worse than
he. There must be clean sweep. Not
only Quay, but Quayism must be beat
en-, the machine, broken up and its
power destroyed"
Yet Pennypacker Is Quay's Own.
august 49,
after four years of Stone the peo-
pie of Pennsylvania will surely not be
willing to endure another Quay ma
chine governor"
The Duty of True Republicans.
august 30)
Fusion is the last resort of lifelong
Republicans who refuse to be defraud-
ed and disfranchised by a corrupt fac
tion. The Quay machine has been en-
deavoring Systematically to disfran-
Use and read out of the party those
Republicans who have refused to ac-
cept as the voice of their political con-
science the mandates of a few petty,
discredited bosses, who are posing as
the Republican organization of Penn
sylVania. But all the beating of tom
toms and cries of irregularity that ma
chine organs and machine bosses can
encourage cannot drive this class of
true Republicans from their allegiance,
or from their attempts to overthrow
the corrupt and constituencies handful
of bosses who have grown rich on the
spols of Office, and who seek still fur
ther to fasten themselves upon the
party for personal gain
Nominations Made BY Crime"
(September 49,
mo candidate for the legislature
, nominated by means of fraud and ter
rorism practiced by police and other
office-holders, ander the direction of
the machine, "a entitled to the respect
and support of Republican voters as o
candidate of the Republican party.
Every nomination so made is an out
: rage and disgrace which all who care
!, | for the good name of the party must
unite to repudiate. Quayism has de-
bauched the politics of the state and