Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-04-09
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POLITICAL.

The fight in Lawrence county over
the succession to the Honorable VIII
liam Wallace is already on. Both
factions will try to capture the County
Committee at Saturdays primaries.
At the local elections in Ohio, Mon
day the Republican tickets in Cincin-
natl and Columbus won, but the Demo
Gratis carried Cleveland
The spring elections in that state are
of unusual import, this year, on account
of new law requiring the election of
all officers in all cities and towns.
State Senator Focht says that U. 5.
Senator NJ, S. Quay, will resign his
Office, in the near future, and that Gov
Pennypacker will appoint Quay's son
Dick, to fill his unexpired term.
Focht goes on to say Gov. Penny
packer, l am told, sympathizes with
Quay in this matter. His own exper-
ience clearly demonstrated the fact that
Quay is possessed of an incompatible
Judgment when it comes to passing
upon conditions for high offices. Hence
the governor will do anything in his
power to prevent a mistake being made
in regard to Quay's succession.
'.TLe present legislature is singularly
blind. Quay and the governor both
realize this fact They know that if
the senior senator should resign prior to
April 16 that the general assembly
might elect any one of half dozen
men to fill the vacancy, also that Dick
Quay would not be on the list of eligi-
bles.
s.And this is why Col. Quay does not
intend to trouble the legislature with
the matter. He will wait till the legis
lature has adjourned, April IS, and
then he will fulfill his time-honored
promise to retire from active politics
Gov. Pennypacker is not one who would
permit the great state of Pennsylvania
to be without proper representation in
the upper house Of Congress. He will re-
gret Col. Quay's retirement. OF that |
have not the least doubt. But he will
appoint Dick to fill the vacancy. It's
a family matter, anyway, and the
governor is one who has high regard
for political reciprocity. He owes his
nomination and election to Quay, and
the appointment Of Dick would even
matters
by this arrangement Dick would be
able to serve two years in the United
States senate. long enough to sprout a
constituency, which might re-elect him
at the next session. And this is his
fathers program. Nothing can inter
fere with il except the governor, and he
will not. The Old Man has often told
me that Dick has the most important
qualification for seat i'll the United
States Senate-plenty Of money. BY get
ting there via the appointment route, he
will not impair this most essential pre-
requisite, and it will be available when
needed two years from now.
WHEN it was announced few DAYS
ago that the British Government had
decided to recommend grant of $780,
600 for the purpose of helping to make
creditable display at the st. Louis Ex-
position there was much surprise and
not little disappointment at the COM
parative smallness of the amount.
More than twice as much had been ap-
propriated for like object by the
German Reichstag, and, all things con-
sidered. it was felt, not without good
reason, that the British should be ex-
pected to do more and to go further in
this connection than the Germans.
This Legislature has passed two acts
which are of the first Importance in con-
nection with public education. Eleven
millions of dollars have been appropri-
ated for the next two years and law
has been passed making the minimum
salary of teachers thirty five dollars per
month. The last act is excellent so far
as it goes, but every person connected
with school management knows that it
is not sufficient for the needs of certain
communities The total sum paid by
State and local taxes for schools per
capita of attendance is about $23 year.
sum that is probably the largest in
any community in the world-certainly
involving the largest aid afforded by
any State. Ii properly expended this
sum ought to accomplish a great deal.
FRATERNAL organizations that issue
beneficial life assurance are far from
being favorably impressed with the
doctrines of the Christian Scientists.
One of these, the Lodge Of Foresters
has refused to pay the claim of the
widow of a disciple of this faith. who
died a few weeks ago of jaundice al
Lansing, Michigan. The proofs sent to
the Superior Court of Foresters on the
widows claim under his 1000 policy
showed that, although he was seriously
Ill for two weeks, a physician did not
attend him until the day before his
death. The Forestors have rejected
the claim under the section of their con-
stitution, which withdrawns the benefit
of insurance from any who neglect to
procure or refuse to receive medical aid.
THE Worlds Fair at st. Louis will
not be ready for visitors until 1904. but
the dedication ceremonies will take
place in the Palace of Liberal Arts on
the Both of this month. This is the
hundreth anniversary of the signing of
the Louisiana treaty. President Roose-
welt will dedicate the exposition, and
the principal address will be delivered
by exPresident Cleveland. A chorus of
three thousand voices will furnish the
music. Not cnly will President Roose-
velt attend, but the members of his
Cabinet; the foreign ambassadors and
ministers and the entire diplomatic
corps; the Chief Justice and Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court; the mem
bers of both branches of Congress; a
number of the highest officers in the
army and navy; the Governors Of near
ly all the States and Territories, with
their staffs; and many other persons of
Distinction