Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-07-20
POLITICAL.

Unless he renounces his no-license
nlatform and declines the Prohibition
nomination, Robert +. Glenn msy be
asked by the venango county Demo
cratic committee to withdraw as the
nominee of that party for the president
iudgeship.
In his remarkable speech to the State
Bar Association at Bedford Springs,
lately. Mr.. Niles condemned, what ne
called s.the scramble for State money in
the name Of Christian beneyolence." or
all the evils he appears to regard that
as the greatest. "A 100000 State ap-
propriation,' he declared, will in
most cases dry up the springs Of private
benevolence," and ultimately the
whole legislative process becomes a
huge grab game, with the natural re-
sultv of bending the will of the most
honest representative to the corrupt
purposes OF the worst political manipu-
lators. The representative. he con-
tinues, will surrender his manhood
without consideration; the bribe will be
paid from the State treasury and the
pious and thoughtless substantial citi-
zens will receive the price OF their
agents honor with prayer and praise.
Several gentlemen Of prominence in
the Republican State organization are
greatly disturbed over the fact that
United States Senator Philander O.
Knox should have been summoned to
Sycamore Hill this week for long
and important conference with Presi-
dent Roosevelt. Much as they should
ike TO do 80, these gentlemen cannot
bring themselves to believe that the
carefully guarded conversation between
the President and the junior Senator
from Pennsylvania was confined to one
or all Of the variously suggested sub
jects OF strictly national consequence.
There Is quiev impression here that
one Of the things fol which the Presi-
dent sent for Senator Knox was to ask
him: What about Pennsylvania p
Harrisburg dispatch.
AT meeting Of the states political
bosses at Atlantic City this week. the
.6dvfsability Of pulling Plummer off the
ticket was considered, and (the dispatch
says) the names considered by the gang
leaders for PIummer's place are those
Of men whom Penrose, Durham and
McNichol would not have thought of
two months ago. but are now eagerly
sfezed upon for the same reason that
prompted the gang to promise all sorts
o. reforms in Phil'a and to nominate
John Stewart One Of the proposed
candidates Is Representative Thomas
Hays, Of Butler, who, as member OF
the Appropriation committee, raised a
storm in the recent session by accusing
Plumfaer Of "crookedness' in the hand
ling Of the 30, 900 appropriated for the
expenses OF the members in travelling
through the state to inspect charitable
and other institutions.
Hays and other members Of the COM
mittee pictured Plummer in such des-
picable light as an alleged "grafter'
that his subsequent nomination for
Skate Treasurer was regarded by those
critics, without considering his general
" bad record, as an extremely daring
act on the part Of the gang Later on
the gang chiefs themselves evidently
sgreed that they had not been mis-
judged by the anti-Plummer Republi-
can members OF. the Legislature.
Representatives George T. Weingart-
ner, Of Lawrence; II. r. Scofeld. of
Clearfield; A. B. Hitchcock and A. B.
Dunsmore, of Tioga; M. Z. Hermann,
Of Sullivan, and P. A. Philbin, of
Laclawanna. and State Senator e. A.
Irwin. Of Clearfield, are said to be
among the men considered by the
panic-stricken looter chieftains in the
lookout for prospective State Treas
urer candidate who might keep the
votes Of Republicans within the ballot
EcoIumn Of their own party. All Of the
iegislators thus mentioned took more
or less positive stand against the gang,
and several Of them, from first to last,
were conspicuous for active opposition
to the Philadelphia bandits"