THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG. PA.
P"S RATIFICATION.
Iecret3 of tho Late Republican
Ratification Mooting,
WHY J. HAY BROWN WAS SLATED
ARacy TlPHcrlptlou of I'olltlrnl Kvrntu
ConnoctiMl With tlio hnte Itcpiitillcan
State onvi iitloii at llnrrlnlmrif.
Flliin'n Vlaorouw Kick.
(Special Correspondence.)
Philadelphia, Sept. 13. There Is more
r&l downright Interest taken In an
ordinary hog klllln" In the country
than was displayed by the Republicans
in Boss Quay's lato ratification meet
in', as Hill Connell, the Lackawanna
king, who has Htrlltrs In his coal mines,
angrily termed the state convention
ta.t met at the stale capital.
The city and county machines, In
obedience to Quay's orders, had ground
unt as grist tho full quota of putty fig
ures' that go by the name of delegates.
The startling falling off In the alleged
vote returned for Colonel Stone for
governor In 1S98, and upon which the
delegate representation was based, cut
the ratification mcetln' In point of
delegates down to low water mark. It
was the leanest in the history of the
boss ridden party. Yet this was not
unpleasing to Pasha Quay, since It
was easier to manipulate and less cost
ly to get together. The Insurgents in
only a county here and there, like
Qenerul Koontz in Somerset and Gen
eral Hastings In Centre, had seriously
disputed with the machine for the dele
sntes. In Philadelphia the insurgents hav
tug lost the mayor, which is the key
to the control of that great centre of
population and election rascality, and
which bad wounded their leader, Dave.
Martin, in the wing, he was powerless
t put up a fight.
Ashbridge, the new Quay mayor, was
Instructed by his proprietor, Dave Lane,
to make kindling wood of every Martin
Ban bold enough to stand for delegate
outside of the few Martin Olbraltars
wherein the delegates were conceded to
the man upon whose forehead Quay
had tattooed the dollar mark. In the
districts where contests were thus
made there was the devil to pay. The
hospitals were crowded with cracked
heads and victims of murderous as
saults, decent Republicans were afraid
to approach the primary polls, which
were in possession of thugs and man
eaters, legal election officers were toss
ed out of the precinct houses, gangs of
repeaters were organized to roam from
Quay into Martin wards, and vote buy
ing and free liquor giving were shame
lessly carried on. Each side went the
limit to cheat and gouge. The party
of Cod and morality thus beat any
thing that Tammany Hall in the hey
day of Tweed ever conceived or at
tempted. In Allegheny county Magee was ill.
His partner, Insurgent Chief Flinn,
was rambling in Europe. Neither lost
an hour's good sleep over the delegates.
John Wanamaker, the real leader of tho
anti-Quay mutiny, was traveling In the
"land of the midnight sun," and had
decreed that the fight against Quay
should not be made this year, but next
year. Pasha Quay thus had the white
light signal for a clear and unobstruct
ed road and a boss' freedom to paint
the name of any candidate that Buited
his interest best upon the ticket.
Still the slate was not made without
family friction. A number of political
iudges had the audacity to come for
ward with claims to soil the ermine ot
the supreme court and were encourag
ed In their ambitions by certain of
Quay's 'prentice boys, who, like the
Kentucky mule that, went crazy and
imagined himself a race horBe, thought
they were powerful enough to dictate
to the "old man."
But the old man had another fish for
the pan. There lived in Lancaster
a lawyer of some eminence on the legal
staff of the Standard Oil company, as
of other corporations, who had long
enjoyed the confidence not only of
Quay, but of the house of Cameron.
Ilia name was J. Hay Brown.
In 1836, after McKinley had been
nominated at St. Louis, his political
promoter, Mark Hanna, beating the
state boss' combination, which includ
ed Quay and Piatt, he was dickering
at Canton with these defeated bosses
tor their aid in his election, Quay madu
a journey to the home of the presi
dential candidate.
McKinley wanted Quay's experience
In carrying New York with boodle,
while Quay wanted his share of the
pork If McKinley should be elected.
When one politician deals with another
ia a matter of business there is always
a certain amount of distrust on either
side.
Therefore, it came to pass that Quay
took along with him to Canton a wit
less. J. Hay Brown was this witness,
and he was present when the bargain
was discussed between the candidate
and the boss and the terms agreed to.
Quay wa; to take a department at
'he national committee's headquarters
and try and repeat his success in buy
ing votes in New York, as he had done
!or Harrison, the pious, and was to
live the McKinley administration a
.oyal support In the senate.
McKinley on his part obligated hlm
lf to pitchfork the federal patronage
it Pennsylvania over to Quay. Had not
I. Hay Brown been long underwritten
or elevation to the supreme bench he
ould have appeared as one of th )
minent counsel for Quay's defense
vhen his enemies were trying in the
hiladelphla court to send him to the
.enltentiary for stock gambling with
he money of the state treasury. It
.vas feared that if lie had so appeared
hat people would have said that Quay
vas paying him his fee by putting him
uin the supreme court.
The 'prentice boys were told to go
chase themselves, and the political
judges ordered to replace their am
iitlons in cold storage. J. Hay Brown's
:ame was written on the sluto for su
preme Judge, while the corporations
.xclalmed, as with one voice, "Amen."
Quay had the makln; of another
udge whose nomination was not
qutvalent to an election, like that of
frown's.
Now, he It Itnown of all mon that
tri" new mayor of Philadelphia la anx
ious to get Into the rar.m. Ho holds
o royal flush, In that ha controls
through the city employes and public
contractors th Republican machine or
ganization cf Quakerdom. "lie has both
a llfrhtnlng rod up and n hen en. He
in alllicted with the gubernatorial mi
crobe. This mayor is necessary to
Quay in hia business. He needs him
every hour. Thereupon he allowed
himself to bo "held up." The Quaker
mayor had a lawyer friend who had
delivered the oily speech to tho dele
gates who had nominated him for
mayor. It mattered not that this man
was nccused of gutting estates, that
unfortunate depositors and stockhold
ers protested against tho court giving
their affairs into his hands, or that
he had nursed fat receiverships for
years, whllo the undertakers were
planting the disgusted and defrauded
creditors.
Mayor Ashbridge demanded this
lawyer's nomination as the price of the
Philadelphia delegation to the stRto
convention for the delivery of other
delegates in the future and the throw
inn of the town wide open on election
day.
In order to oblige this mayor and
carry out the agreement Judge Beeber,
who had been appointed by Governor
Hastings to please the president of a
powerful corporation, and who has
since died, had to be elbowed oft tho
bench.
Heeber brought Immense pressure
to bear on Quay in order to save his
hide and tallow, but what did this
weigh in the scales with the mayor of
Philadelphia and his ability to deliver
and produce to the Quay machine?
Therefore the name of Beeber was
sponged from the slate for superior
court Judge and that of Adams sub
stituted. The slate was then complete,
save for one more name the candi
date for state treasurer.
Quay had recognized that the indig
nant people were only waiting for tho
polls to open to smash him and his
machine as a punishment for the
iniquities of the last legislature and
the high handed conduct of Governor
Stone. But he had an inspiration. He
would imitate Tom Piatt's Roosevelt
game In New York and gull the peo
ple with a Spanish-Filipino war hero,
and this would enable him to ignore
state issues, and by shoving McKln
ley's colonial expansion and Imperial
policy to the firing line in the cam- I
palgn he would pull the leg of the !
national administration. Thus Mat
thew would be able to kill two birds,
as it were, with one stone.
But he required a real hero. Noth
ing in the sawdust or hay foot, straw
foot line for him. He wanted Colonel
Hawkins. It appeared that the Poo
Bulling Elkln, who was disposed to
hang out a political shingle of his own.
had a choice In Lieutenant Colonel
Uarnett, who had ran barefoot with
him when a lad among the hills of
Indiana county. The 'prentice boys
sided with Elkln and a row was im
minent In the jealous family when the
distressing intelligence was received
that Colonel Hawkins, the hero, had
died on shipboard en route from the
jungles of Luzon.
And so Quay was forced to take
what was left and to Ignore Congress
man Acheson and the Washington
county organization, who complained
that Harnett was a constitutional and
nickel plated kicker and had been try
ing for years to make ticket ripping
and caucus bolting popular in the
politics of his county.
And thus was the slate made. In
the entire Quay menagerie but the
growl of a single animal was heard.
Boss Connell, of Lackawanna, was
swishing his tail in anger, pawing tho
earth and throwing the dirt in clouds
on his back because of the sidetracking
of the political Judge Archbald, whom
he was chaperoning for the supremo
court. Connell, who is impulsive,
threatened to enter the arena of the
convention and raise the roof off the
state by exposing the corporation In
fluences that was dictating the nomi
nation of Brown. Connell was molli
fied, however, by being taken behind
the door and promised the next nomi
nation for governor fresh from the
gold brick factory. Thus the Quay ma
chine, as the outgrowth of the state
convention of '99, has already hung
the promise of the next governorship
in two stockings that of Mayor Ash
bridge and that of Magnate Connell.
The state convention ratified the pro
gram of Pasha Quay, who overseered
the job in person In every particular.
The only kick that marred the harmo
ny that prevailed came from Insurgent
Chief Flinn, who was brave enough to
beard the lion In his den, and who
protested against the fearful and won
derful platform that Included the uni
verse In its scope, except the issues In
which the people of Pennsylvania are
vitally Interested In.
This fearful and wonderful platform,
which is strung out to such length that
a man would have to take a day off if
ho had the curiosity to read it, fell
upon the state like a pebble in a pond,
producing hardly a ripple.
The people saw In it a cowardly eva
sion of the home Issues that have been
raised by the Democrats. They re
sent the self assertion that the Quay
Res are the only patriots In Pennsyl
vania, and they laugh at the theatrical
spectacle of draping the machine's
candidates with the American flag and
decorating them with the streamers
on which Is printed "Mark Hanna and
McKinley must be saved."
The Insurgents, following the gan
falon of Chief Flinn, objected strenu
ously to the platform as a whole, be
cause It wilfully antagonized the anti
Quay element by veneering Quay with
a coat of soft soap and patting Gover
nor Stone for a good boy In vlolntlna;
tho constitution by appointing Quay to
a seat in the senate after he had failed
to get there by the regularly chartered
route. Indeed, the policy of tho ma
chine was to stir up the bile of the in
surgents, and to provide them with
Additional grievances to keep in the
mlddla of the road and continue the
process of crushing Quay. Flinn and
Martin wore able to muster fewer than
f0 hostile votes on tho roll call for the
adoption of tills "fearful and wonder
ful" platlorm, which treats of almost
everything in politics nnd history save
tho good honest management of the
stp.to treasury nnd reform In the legis
lature. It is a part of the secret his
tory cf the convention that Pasha
uay, who fled from h!s seat in the
rjnrentlcn rnt?r thm trrrn'n rnrt "J I
Senator Flinn fi.oot the platform full
of hols;, (Mil not dMiro the taffy or
words of commendation of himnclf In
corporated in the platform, but hW
prentice boys compelled him to swnl
low it. Hut he r.ilcht have been In tho
frame of tho tralnp who after senilis?
the pledge remarked to tho good breth
ren: "If anything should happen and
I shout require whisky, make me
take it-j-inake me take It."
A DEMOCRAT.
POLITICAL NOTES. "
Joslah Adams, whom Quay, In order
to truckle to Mayor Asbridge, of Phila
delphia, has nominated for tho supe
rior court can well afford the luxury
of an ocean going yacht and to substi
tute champagne for water for drink
ing purposes when he has been accused
In the courts of robbing estates and as
the receiver for the gutted Penn Trust
nnd Safe Deposit company he has
nursed the Job for eight years and In
that time collected $80,000, out of
which he has paid in fees and expenses
(24,000 to himself and colleagues. Is
this the stripe of man the people of
Pennsylvania want to elevate to the
second highest court of the state?
Since the notorious People's bnnk, of
Philadelphia, which was founded by
Bill Kemble. of "addition, division and
silence" fame, and who was convicted
of bribing Harrlsburg statesmen to
vote for the Pittsburg riot bill, was
wrecked by Its cashier, who blew out
his brains, and which dragged down
Into the vortex with It the Guaran
tee Trust, another rotten financial and
political concern that was managed by
the Quay gang, the Quaker City bank,
of the state metropolis, has become
Quay's pet bank. It Is kept stuffed
with state treasury money, while the
school authorities In the various coun
ties are clamoring for the funds due
them with which to pay the salaries of
poor teachers. Whenever Quay honors
Philadelphia with a visit he hastens
to the Quaker City bank as straight as
the crow flies to fix up his financial af
fairs with its president, who made a
fortune out of politics before he be
came a banker. Qnay and his lieuten
ants and 'prentice boys are loaded
down with the stock of the National
Electric company, which was organ
ized to blackmail the Electric Trust of
Philadelphia, nnd which scheme is a
great public scandal. Of course the
state's money Is put up as "margin" to
carry this stock, individual notes be
ing given, as waa proven in the Quay
trial. The state treasury being with
out money the poor school teacher
must wait for his meager salary.
If "Farmer" Creasy is elected state
treasurer this gambling with the state's
money and this gorging of favorite
banks with state deposits will cease.
Every school teacher In the state who
has a vote should cast that vote for
Farmer" Creasy, since he would be
casting it for tho protection of his own
pocket.
Governor Stone, who is a man of all
work for Boss Quay, stands as a break
water between the people who demand,
but are denied, honest elections and
the thugs, repeaters, ballot box stuff
ers, padders of the voting lists, pro
fessional vouchers of boglo voters, the
midnight alterer of election returns,
the plug ugly, the pimp, the coloniza
tion dive keeper, the policy nnd gam
bling shark who thrive through police
protection in return for his crooked
work at tho polls, tho unnaturalized
scamp who has the freedom of the
franchise, the speak easy proprietor
who exchanges his vote for his immu
nity, and the grand chorus of unhung
and unjalled rascals that dobnuch tho
ballot and make voting a farce in
Philadelphia, Pittsburg nnd the other
big cities of the state. Is It any won
der that Governor Stone said to him
self, "To hell with the constitution."
and then vetoed the legislative resolu
tions favoring the personal registra
tion of voters in cities and the intro
duction of voting machines? Stone
knows well what a valuable and indis-
pensible ally the repeater, the false
counter and the ballot thief generally
Is to the Republican party, as he him
self received not less than 60,000 fraud
ulent and illegal votes for governor.
Neither he nor the Quay gang want
any honest elections in theirs.
"I am prepared to meet every lesuo
my friend Creasy raised here yester
day by facts and figures," shouted the
triple expansion office grabber, Gen
eral Gobln, to the farmers at William's
Grove, and then he discovered that ho
was not really prepared, since he
sheered off from Creasy's facts and fig
ures and began to shoot holes in tho
Insurgents. Quay, Elkln, Reeder, Gobin,
uarnett and in fact Quay's entire stock
company are afraid of CreaBy's facts
and figures. They ran away from
them at Quay's state convention faster
than the Spanish from the Rough
Riders at El Caney, and they will run
away from them on the stump and In
their machine press during the cam
paign. But yelling for McKinley,
shootln' niggers in the Philippines
and calling it expansion and cracking
the thorax over the flag won't save
their hide and tallow this "load of
poles."
Colonel Barnett returned home with
his soul on fire to mount the husttnci
and set the state aflame with his elo
quence as to national Issues. He want
ed to immediately open a lurid cam
paign, the American flag for a ganfa
lon, and to load a regiment of orators
In a charge against the Democrats
and insurgents. But Colonel Barnett
was quickly called down by the boss,
who probably sent him a message
similar to the one he transmitted to
a distinguished but voluble candidate
a few years ago, and which read: "Dear
Beaver. Don't talk." Colonel Bar
nett has suddenly discovered that his
liver is disordered, that he is filled
with malaria cerms, and that he re
quires a course of treatment at a san
itarium. Tho opening of the lurid
campaign has been indefinitely post
poned. Colonel Barnett will not ac
cept "Farmer" Creasy's' challenge to
Jointly debate state issues. Tho army
of spellbinders w ho were to arouse and
to enthuse the state have been direct
ed "to lay ou their oars." The cam
paign, so far as the Republican state
committee is concerned, is to be a tame
ind commonplace affair, after all.
John M'Govern Dead-
Tho Well Known Public Works Contractor
Expires at Lancaster.
John McGovctn, a retired railroad
contractor, died last Friday at Lan
caster, aped seventy six years. The
firm of which he was a member built
the North Penn railroad and Jeddo
tunnel, the Chestnut street, Philadel
phia, bridge, a large portion of the
Pennsylvania railroad between Lan
caster and Philadelphia, and the
bridge over the Delaware river at
P.aston for the Lehigh Valley railroad.
He retired from business thirty
years ago, and lived at Towanda until
ten years ago, when he removed to
Lancaster. He was a brother of the
late Bishop Thomas McGovern, of
the Harrisburg diocese. Bernard Mc
Govern of Easton, a retired contractor,
is a brother.
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