The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-08-14
PUBLIC OPINION
Opinions From Various Sources On Po.
lIticaI Questions Of the Day.

IIticaI Questions Of the Day.
Every time Mr. Sibley forgets his
Republicanism he manages to say
lot OF patriotic things - The Com.
moner.
There is no reason to question
Chairman Donnelly's declaration that
"Ex-Governor Pattison and the Demo-
cratic city committee are working in
perfect harmony and in mutual trust
and sincerity" Certainly this ought to
be true, and we have right to assume
that it is true, notwithstanding ap-
parently interested efforts to create
different impression. - Philadelphia
| Times.
The Pennsylvania state building at
the Charleston Exposition, which cost
$11 ,325 to build, has been sold at auc-
tion for S135. 1t was a characteristic
machine job when built, and its sale
was of the same character. 1t is impos
sible to secure honest dealing as con-
Germs the state in anything the people
at Harrisburg of the Stone administra-
tion put their hands. The track of dis
! honesty and theft trails after them
from the cradle TO the grave.-Pitts-
burg Post.
: Mr.. Guthrie has done more than any
man in the state to promote ballot re-
! form. He has labored with equal as
siduity and success for municipal re-
form and governmental improvements
fNf Ia A- ont r.
he will be a part. and an important
part of the legislative branch of the
government, and his presence there
will be an inspiration to effort and a
basis of hope for all citizens of the
commonwealth who desire honest cleo
tions and just returns. - Harrisburg
Star-lndependent.
The record of the present admins
tration at Harrisburg has convinced
thinking men that partisan success
does not always insure the best re-
suits in office, and that a proper re.
gard for the operation of the organic
law of the state and the rights of the
people are more desirable in an execu-
tive than his devotion to any particu-
lar brand of machine politics. The
nomination of Mr.. Pattison as the
! Democratic candidate for governor
will invest the state campaign with
a degree of interest that 1t would not
otherwise possess - Scranton Truth
Qnd. Rep).
The nomination of Quay's candidate
for governor means, if 1t means any
thing, that ballot-box stuffing is to be
{ perpetrated in Philadelphia. The prac-
/ tices of Salter are to be continued and
| perfected. 1t has been made possible
in the past by an acquiescent bench,
and the judicial courtesy will be in
voked this year to help Pennypacker.
| If the judges had been faithful to their
obligations and just to the community
| the practice would have been broken
up long ago. But they have encouraged
| ballotbox stufiing by making it as diff
ficut as possible to convict the per-
! petrators of the crime. - Bellefonte
| Watchman.
When Judge Pennypacker, away
back in November, wrote his panegyric
of Senator Quay in which he estimated
! that gentleman as greater statesman
than Daniel Webster and the posses.
sor of gifts equal to those of Shake.
speare, he thought he was simply pay
ing the profligate tribute of blind in
fatuation to a kinsman who had been
kind. 1t marked him a fool, for be-
| sides showing an intellectual infirmity
1t revealed an indifference to political
immortality which was disgraceful to
the bench. But it may be assumed
that he neither expected nor desired
other reward than sign Of apprecia-
| ton. Such an infatuation is equally
satisfied with kiss or kick.-Harris-
burg Star-Independent.
Judging from it's severity, those out
side Of Pennsylvania would say of the
Democratic PLATFORM: Here is partisan
recklessness." 1t is nothing of the
kind. 1t is the plain, unvarnished
truth, stated without exaggeration.
| There is not an assertion in it but is
sustained by Republican authority. The
Democrats did not exaggerate, sim
ply because the facts in the case defy
|
exaggreation. The politics of Pennsyl-
vania is the plague spot Of the nation,
and it has debauched the state govern
ment to a degree that 1t is impossible
to overstate. This is all confessed by
Republicans of the highest possible
character, and who have occupied the
highest place in Republican councils
Boston Herald Qnd).
The denunciation Of the majority of
the state supreme court for its decision
in the ripper" cases by Alexander
Simpson, Jr., the retiring president of
the State Bar Association, at the meet
ing of that body at Cambridge Springs
yesterday, will probably impress the
minds of thinking people more than
all the stump oratory on the subject
that con ha narnatratad during tho