Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-13
FREELAND, Pa, AUGUST 13, 1902
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PUBLIC OPINION
Opinions From Various Sources On Po.
IticaI Questions of the Day.


lIticaI Questiors of the Day.
Every time Mr.. Sibley forgets his
Republicanism he manages to say a
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 1t is true, Notwithstanding ap-
parently interested efforts to create
different impression. - Philadelphia
Times.
The Pennsylvania state building at
the Charleston Exposition, which cost
S11,325 to build, has been sold at auc-
ton for $685. 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-
ton 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
of every kind. AS lieutenant governor
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
basis of hope for all citizens of the
commonwealth who desire honest elec-
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 it would not
otherwise possess - Scranton Truth
(Ind. Rep).
The nomination Of Quay's candidate
for governor means, if it means any
thing, that ballot-box stuffing is to be
perpetrated in Philadelphia. The prac-
tees 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
yoked 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
ballot-box stuffing by making it as diff
ficult 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 a 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 profiigate tribute of blind in
fatuation to a kinsman who had been
kind. 1t marked him fool, for be-
Al I,
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 a sign of apprecia-
tion. Such an infatuation is equally
satisfied with kiss or kick-Harris-
burg Star-Independent