Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-10
O'NeH Links Up With Scott
Philadelphia Inauirer.]

MI ~ ANSIl NdhNLudbC lOh bhS
Republican nomination for gov
ernor has been campaigning in
some of the churches of Philadel-
phia. But Mr.. O'Neil has been very
careful to leave John r. X. Scott
outside the church doors. In the
state, however, away from the city
where Mr.. Scott Is known as a
statesman from the heart of the
tenderloin and as the representative
of the most sinister political machine
that ever disgraced and preyed upon
community, the Contractor
and Frog Hollow organization, Mr..
O'Neil makes common cause with
Mr.. Scott Their campaigns are
linked together. They appear on
the same platform.
keeper will vote for John r. K.
Scott. Every divekeeper will vote
for him. Every bootlegger will
vote for him. Every denizen of the
red light districts will rally around
him. Every thug policeman who
battered his way through the Fifth
ward in the last primary struggle
will cast his ballot for him. Every
friend of the strong-arm men i'm
ported from New York to crack
heads in the interests of John r. X.
Scott's political associates will stand
by him to a man. Murder was done
in that ward on election day, and
every follower of the gang that
brought the murderer and his black
jackers to this city will not fail to
attend the primaries on May 81 and
vote for Scott, whose law office was
active in the defense of the arrested
men. Indeed, Mr.. Scott was himself
charged by District Attorney Rotan
with attempting to obstTuct justice.
This tenderloin statesman, this di-'
tractor-boss machine, is a candidate
| for Lieutenant Governor. His can
| didacy has been proclaimed by
righteous citizens of Philadelphia
as an insult. And so it is. The
voters of the interior may not know
of Scott and many of them may ac-
| cept him as worthy because he is
campaigning under the protective
wing of Highway Commissioner
O'Neil. But here in Philadelphia
tens of thousands of citizens who
failed to register for last falls cleo
tion have registered for the May
primaries with the full intention of
|
Scott at the polls.
When Mr.. O'Neil joins hands with
this man-this Scott-he must do
so in the hope that Scott will be
able to throw him the vote of the
saloonkeepers. the divekeepers, the
proprietors of red light dens, the
bootleggers and the friends of the
| thugs who made the Contractor boss
machine Infamous in the eyes of the
whole country.
1t is an unholy alliance 1t stamps
Mr.. O'Neil as unfit to occupy the
chair of Governor. 1t makes him
part and parcel of the Scott fol-
| lowing. Scott as Lieutenant Gov
ernor would have vote in favor of
pardoning the very criminals whom
| his law office could not save from
prison and Governor under the
domination of Scott would have the
| final pardoning power.
The only campaign cry that Scott
has is Penrose. But Penrose is
most distinctly not an issue. He is
not running for office. He is at
tending to his important duties In
Washington. 1t is Scott that is the
issue-Scott and his bold and def
ant effort to save the Contractor
boss organization from political an
nihilation. And since O'Neil has
| IHdue the cause OIL the Wretched and
degraded partisan machine of Phil
adelphia his own cause, every intel
ligent voter of Pennsylvania should
think twice before supporting him
at the polls.
Fortunately, every citizen can con-
slider the situation free from the
question of prohibition, for Mr..
Sproul, the candidate of all the bus
inessmen of Philadelphia, the can
didate of the best elements of this
city, is pledged to the support of the
prohibition amendment, and because
he is thus pledged he has the en-
nifty of all the saloon following of
his own city of Chester. Liquor.
therefore, is not an issue In the Sc
lection of a candidate for Governor.
The choice must be made accord
ing to the respective abilities OF
Sproul and O'Neil. Sproul is a
thorough businessman possessed of
those important essentials necessary
to handle the grave problems that
Pennsylvania will face after peace
has come. O'Neil lacks those essen
tials. Add to this fact the spec
tacle that O'Neil makes parading
the state arm-in-arm with the can
didate of the red lights districts for
Lieutenant Governor, and it would
seem as If every intelligent voter
should have no difficulty in deciding
in favor of Sproul and against the
combination of O'Neil and Scott.