Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-10-05
CRIMINALS HOPE
. TO RULE. STATE
eoas Mansion Gang Think Clouds Will
Roll Ry,and Findyrhem Restored to
Complete Control In Harrisburg.

The boss, Penrose, and his col
leagues, Contractor. McNichol and
others, whose political future and the
continuing of the, graft schemes OF
their machine depend upon the fate OF
the Stuart state ticket, which they
slated from top to bottom, are the
same men who governed the last reg
ular session of the state legislature
from their throne room in the Boas
mansion, on the Susquehanna. These
are the men who held up the country
legislators hospital bills and other
worthy measures until after it could be
seen how the "countrymen" voted on
the Philadelphia ripper, the gangs
bills for the protection of vice dens
and the suppression of the Law and
Order Society and the other infamous
schemes of the Penrose- McNichol.
Durham machine
II those bosses can pull through
their Stuart ticket in the coming cleo
tion they will stand a good chance of
electing a majority of machine legis-
lators also. Surely the voters of
Pennsylvania will not expect grapes
from thorns nor figs from thistles.
They do not believe that those bosses
are striving to hold on In politics for
the purpose of making amends for the
incalculable evils that they have done
to the commonwealth. Proof is already
seen in Philadelphia in the machine
complaints against the workings of
the personal registration law; that
whenever they think that the clouds
have rolled by they will undertake to
club the legislature, if they can elect
It, into repeating or emasculating the
few partial reforms which they have
been forced to grant to the people.
The rollpadders' audacious disre-
gard of constitution, law and legisla-
tive rules in their criminal falsifica-
tion of counts, by which at least one
bill-the Ehrhardt vice protector
was known to have been fraudulently
passed by the house. was further illGs-
trated by O fresh specific case III
point.
|o"As Representative John r. Murphy,
ex-reeorder of Allegheny City, was re-
corded as voting for the Ehrhardt bill,
when he was at Mount Clemens, Mich,
the probers of the roll-padding, with
his name specially in mind, inspected
all the vote reports in the Legislative
Record since the last time he was in
Harrisburg, two weeks and four days
previously.
The Legislative Record reports Mr.
Murphy as having voted aye on II bills
in two days Of the last week when he
was in Michigan On Wednesday,
March IS, eight days after his last ap-
pearance in Harrisburg, he was repre-
sented rs having voted on ten bills,
ard the record for the next following
day reports him as a voter on seven
bills.
Dir. Murphy, having been confined to
bed at home with rheumatism, strove
to resume his duties on Monday March
G, when he returned to Harrisburg
and on the evening of that day intro.
duced the revised Greater, Pittsbura
bill. He then complained to friends
that his physical trouble compelled
him to give up work again. He wa:
very lame and sick. On the next day
Tuesday, March 7, he returned tc
Pittsburg to prepare for bis Michigan
| sojourn.
Not to speak Of the constitution OF
the law, the following legislative rule
was brazenly violated by recording alb.
sentees as voters;
mo member shall be permitted tc
vote on any question unless he be
within the bar, and when the yeas and
nays are called he be present to answer
to his name" -.
AS an excuse for recording Appro.
priations Chairman Plummer as vot.
ing for the Ehrhardt bill, when he was
absent on committee business, Speaker
Walton, was quoted by Representative
Scofield and others as contending that
Mr.. Plummer, under the circum.
stances, had right to be recorded il
he wished.
But there Is the rule fatty contra.
dieting that claim. The rule was not
suspended in the case of Mr.. Plummer
Mr.. Murphy or any of the>other mem.
bers whose names were fraudulently
.aised in the roll-padding nor had any
one of them asked for its suspension
The criminals involved in those
outrages are still the trusted servants
/ and agents Of the leaders" who slated
| the Stuart state ticket and most of the
present Republican" nominees for the
legislature and who will be in full con.
troll at Harrisburg if those candidates