G THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURO. PA. QUAY'S GOVERNOR STRIKES A BLOW AT THE SCHOOLS. i The Public Schools Crippled to Spare the Corpora tions From Additional Tax. Governor Stone, the Brawling Friend of the "Little Red School House" Before Election, Their Enemy After Election. Governor Stone Before Election, i what 80me prominent Republican wit- .,. t. j nesses have to say of the Quay ticket JSl01, 8 SpeeC "J?d.e iQ and the manner In which It was se- Smothport, MrKean county, Oct. 19, i.p1.j ill wnirii were yresi'in me mem- bars of the County Teachers' Institute, which was in session In the town: "The Republican party Is one of education, and it has done more to make the common schools of Pennsylvania a success than any ther political organization in the United States. A product of the common schools myself, if elected governor I shall do my part to maintain and protect them." Governor Stone After Election. "I withhold my approval from $500,000 annually, making $1,000, 000 for the TWO SCHOOL YEARS beginning June 1, 1899." Stone's $1,000,000 veto message. The Common Schools of Pennsylvania. The common schools are the glory of Pennsylvania, and have served as a model for the systems of other states. Th&ddeus Stevens, the great common er, was their main founder, and it re mained for William A. Stone, the first governor that Boss Quay ever had the distinction of owning outright, to strike them a blow. He set the state aflame with indignation by his act. It rang from Lake Erie to the Delaware from the northern tier to the southern border with protests; and no gover nor was ever before guilty of so un patriotic, un-American and needless an executive deed. Governor Stone was master of the situation, and could have compelled the Republican state senate, under pain of vetoing the pet measures of the ma ' chine senatorial ring, to provide addi tional revenue, if necessary, to meet all demands on the treasury. For years the Quay machine, by Its delay in paying out the school funds, has embarrassed school districts all over the state, it being notorious that the money was kept back and held on deposit in the political banks that Quay and hla henchmen might pocket the interest or use it In politics and stock speculations. School authorities have been com pelled to borrow money to meet obli gations, while in many of the cities of the state there exists a lack of school accommodations. The schools are over crowded, while children, barred from them, are neglected. The teachers are underpaid and justly complain that they have been compelled to wait a long time for their pittance. This blow that Oovernor Stone has timed at the schools vitally concerns every school teacher, school trustee tnd school director in the state. And again, if the governor can shave off me million dollars from the appropria tion in 1899, what is to prevent hlin "rem lopping off two millions in 1901? The excuse that the governor gave or his alleged veto of a part of the ichool appropriation was merely a pre 'eit The real reason for this out- .-ageous act on the part of the execu i, nn p.VM, unli nrn tint ha SLreTmSS uTon gV?n ' riotlc governor of Pennsylvania. It ; las long been a political secret that Senator Quay Intended to attack the tchool appropriation, as be never ap iroved of the Increases leading up to he Ave millions. To the people of the state his act Deans higher local taxes, a reduction it teachers' salaries, fower schools and v lowering of the high standard which ias made the schools of Pennsylvania 'amous. He has struck at the very irlnclple to which the people of Penn sylvania owe their greatness as a tate. He has given the lie- to the iroud boast that the Republican party s the guardian of the "Little Red School House." While Governor Stone vetoed a mll lon dollars of the school approprla !on, he chefully signed the large np iroprlatlon for military purposes, and indicated In advance that the already arge sum should be Increased. This ihows that he believes more in traili ng men to kill tholr fellows than he loes in training our children that they nay grow up without murder in thoir tearts. WHAT REPUBLICAN PAPERS SAY. It is a common spying that a man in bound by his own witness. . Let us see If any Democrats outside of Phila delphia are apprehensive that the me tropolis may give a Republican plural ity to overcome the sweep of the rest of the state by Farmer Creasy and his colleagues on the Democratic ticket, let them take courage from the most I extraordinary revolt ever witnessed In j the Philadelphia newspapers against machine misrule. While the Demo- i cratlc i newspapers are doing splendid service for the ticket, the following re- Vki a fir a V.1 r a oifaoa i-vrr m nn(a unnn K a ' work of Quay's convention are extract ed from editorials In Republican and Independent Republican newspapers of the great city: ONLY ONE SATISFACTORY NAME. "We regret that the work of strength ening the ticket by nominating men who would poll the the full party vote should have stopped with the nomina tion of Mr. Brown. Mr. Barnett brings with him a certain nebulous military halo from the Philippines, which, it la hoped may distract attention from his political record as an extreme factlon ist and chronic opponent of regular Republican nominations. Precedent and propriety alike dictate that Mr. Dlmner Beeber, now serving accepta bly on the superior bench by appoint ment, Bhould be nominated as his own successor. He Is a man of rare judi cial qualities, and there was no reason why he Bhould be superseded, except to give place to Mr. Adams." Phlla. Press, Rep. SHARP COMMENT ON CANDIDATES. DATES. "It is not as a candidate for a mili tary commission that Colonel Barnett is now before the people. It is to be I regretted that the orators who placed i his name before the Harrisburg con- I vention did not keep that fact in mind. ' Tn thplt RnAAphdB thov mnrla mtirh rt I his soldierly achievements, which was right, but they abstained altogether from touching upon his qualifications for the office of state treasurer, which was an equally strange and unfortu nate oversight. And the platform on which he stands is likewise without a ! word of apology for the laches and crimes of past treasurers, or promise of more faithful performance of duty In the future. The platform pledges Colonel Barnett to nothing, if elected. "Eminent soldiers have often been failures in office. The qualities need ed to win distinction in war are not Identical with those required of the civil servant. "Colonel Barnett must hasten to re pair the omissions of the platform and of his speechmaklng sponsors at the convention. His Democratic opponent, William T. Creasy, is making a can vass which appeals to the good sense of the community. That is to say, he recognizes that as a candidate for state treasurer he should devote himself to convincing the public that he Is famil iar with the functions of the office, and that he Is fitted In capacity and character to discharge them. He takes it for granted that the people of Penn sylvania are intelligent enough to un """" iuwiiiboui euuugu lu uu- rsnnWn nnH llnr,hf .A" uir wl capable and upright than that he should be either a Republican or a Democrat that the holder of this state office has no Influence whatever in de termining the nation's policy as to the tariff, the basis of the currency, or ex pansion of the republic's boundaries. He assumes that the question of the treasurer's personal honesty is of im measurably greater practical moment than his ability to deliver a glowing harangue in favor of honest money. "Farmer Creasy is a plain man with an unusual gift for plain speech. Ho knows all about the history of the state treasury. He is a citizen of estab lished reputation, about whose integ rity and courage to do what is right no body has any doubt. Colonel Barnett, if he is wise, will realize that he must meet Farmer Creasy on his own ground that he must go before the people and nsk election to tho state treasurerBhlp, not as a soldier nor as a believer In protec tion and tho gold standard, but as a man the equal in honenty and trust worthiness of Farmer Creasy. If ho shall fail to do that and rely on tho magic of his uniform and the pres tige of the Republican national admin- lstintlon to pull him through, he will be wanting In candor and In percep tion of t!i real nood of the situation." Phlla. North American, Rep. QUAY'S PERSONAL CHOOSINO. "When the curtain was raised on the convention It was perceived how deftly the stage, the center of which was oc cupied by Manager Quay, had been set, The actors were his puppets, and moved only when and as he pulled the htrlngs. The candidates were of his persoual choosing; the' platform was of his own making; the delegates were present not as representatives of tho will and power of the people of the commonwealth, but as the representa tives of the political fortunes of tho ex-senator. The convention was his convention; it was controlled by him without contention or protest; It made no decrees, no nominations of Its own Initiative, and it originated no declara tions of principles It affirmed those of Mr. Quay. The convention merely exe cuted his decrees, ratified his nomina tions and proclaimed his policies." Philadelphia Ledger, Ind. Rep. TRADEMARK OF THE MACHINE. "The Republican state convention at Harrisburg has plainly demonstrated he mastery of Matthew S. Quay over the party organization in Pennsylva nia. The proceedings, the platform and the ticket all bear the trademark of the machine. Mr. Quay and his fol lowers were easily In command of the situation at every point, and the con vention, for the most part, was little more than a ratification of fie pro gram which had been mapped out for it by the little coterie of bosses long ago in their Sabbatn musings by the sad sea waves." Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, Rep. QUAY RIDES ROUGH-SHOD. "The convention went the whole fig ure, so to speak, commending the gov ernor's action in lopping a mlll'on dol lars off the school appropriation, and likewise his action in appointing to the existing vacancy the senior sena tor. Some ingenuous persons may have thought that Mr. Quay would not press his advantage so far, that he was In a conciliatory mood, and would make some tangible "concessions" to the Insurgent element of the party, in the hope of keeping the independent voters in line for the ticket at the No vember elections. Whenever he has had the power to work his will he has exercised it to the fullest extent In a dull, brutal way, regardless of ultimate consequences. Experience has taught him that there Is little danger in this course, and that so far it has not brought him to material grief. So he has gone on, from year to year, shak ing the plum tree and trafficking in the spoils of office, giving no thought to and displaying no fear of a possible collapse of the political structure which he has reared. The old man had de creed that he and his henchmen In the executive mansion should be en dorsed, and endorsed they were, and that was the end of it, as far as the convention was concerned. As time passes during the next ten weeks, it will be seen whether or not it was the end of it as far as the voters are con cerned." Philadelphia Evening Tele graph. THE MACHINE AND THE TRUSTS. "The fact that the Harrisburg con vention's platform contains no anti trust plank is bringing from sundry quarters condemnation upon its fram ers. But really they do not deserve blame. Men do not willingly subject themselves to ridicule, nor do they practice hypocrisy for mere love of false pretense "Had the Republican machine of Pennsylvania declared against the trusts It would have found nobody to believe in its sincerity, and provoked scornful laughter. To ask the machine to denounce trusts is equivalent to In viting children to pass resolutions against their parents. "Were It not for the trusts, for cor porations which spend money freely to retain thieving privileges and to es cape the payment of their fair Bhare of taxes, the machine would not exist. "If the Republican organization that held the convention at Harrisburg had condemned the Standard Oil company, for instance, and pronounced against the criminal conspiracy which Is main tained by that and other monopolies. it would have drawn the sword against the authors of Its being and been guilty of at least appearing to wish to com mit the unnatural crimes of parricide and matricide. "The silence of the machine's con vention on the subject of trusts was a decent manifestation of respect for the intelligence of the people of Pennsyl vania." Phlla. North American. CHALLENGE TO ANTI-QUAY RE PUBLICANS. The Philadelphia Press, which prob ably speaks with a more authentic voice for the McKinley administration than any other journal in the country, says of the Quay convention: 'The prominence given to national issues to the exclusion of state ques tions In the formal speeches and the platform of yesterday's Harrisburg convention would greatly puzzle a for eigner studying for the first time American political institutions. He would understand it better when he learned that in the national field the record of the Republican party Is a great and glorious one, in which all its members, and. Indeed, all citizens, can take a just pride, while in this fitate au unprincipled cIob corporation known as the machine has taken con trol of it and uses it so far as It dare and ca.i for its own selfish purposes. "Senator Penrose was on safe ground in eulogizing at tedious length the good work of the national Republican party. Most of the platform rides at anchor in the same haven of refuge. The en dorsement of Governor Stone's admin istratlon was, of course, to be expected from a convention constituted and con trolled as this one was, but very many Republicans will not second that en dorsement.. The expression of gratl tude to Mr. Quay and the approval of the governor s action in appointing him to the senate is a direct challenge to all the Republicans who are op posed to Mr, Quay and think that his appointment under tho circumstances was Indecent and improper. This planlc in the platform will be rernom bered when the rest is forgotten, aud will coat the ticket many votes. Per haps nothing less could be expected from a Quay convention, and the Re publican plurality, though a minority of tho whole vote, Is still very large ana invites unaue connaence." Crowds Greet McKinley In Iowa and Wisconsin. A LONG J)AY OF SPEECH3IAR1XC. Sinn ( Mj-lo Mllitnnkpp, Wllh Vnnr flu AIomb flie V-Three Tlinnanntl ItniiilalinUm In an llonr. MJLWAt'KKK, Oct. 17,-Tlie special train bearing President McKinley and pnrty arrived In this city from the trip through tows and part of Wisconsin over tin- CliieaRo nnd North western rail way nt 8 o'clock last evening. It was tlm first vlnlt to Milwaukee of n chief ex ecutive of the nation In a deende, and the greeting here from ninny thousand people wn most enthusiastic nnd appro priate to tho occnslon. As the train en tered the depot Battery A, First nitll- lery, T . N. (., fired the president s sa lute of 21 guns from Junenu park, which faces the lake nnd is within n few yards of the depot. With the battery's salute as a cue every steamlmnt whistle nnd every thing else thnt could make a noise joined the greeting. The president and pnrty were Immediately escorted to enrringes by the reception committee nnd driven to the Hotel Foster, preceded by a military escort. After an hour's rest the presidential pnrty re-entered cnrrluges and were driven to the Dentseher club, where a public reception lasting one hour was held. The grounds of the Deutscber club were beautifully Illuminated and throng ed with ninny thousand persons. During the limited time. It is estimated, the pres ident shook bunds with 3,0H1 people. Following the public reception the party returned to the Hotel Plister to partici pate in a banquet. The most nrduons and one of the long est days of the president's northwestern tour began yesterday morning. The schedule of his trip through Iowa, from Sioux City to Milwaukee, ns originally planned, provided for stops at Cherokee, Fort Dodge, Webster City, Cedar Falls, Waterloo, Manchester, Dubuque nnd Ga lena. Senator Allison used his strongest efforts of persuasion, nnd the result was that the president consented to mnke a few more stops nnd n few more speeches. At every point along the route great enthusiasm was manifested. In Wiscon sin stops were made nt. Ipswich, Dodge ville, Mount Horeb, Madison nnd Wau kesha, and at each of these places the president mnde a speech. At Madison nearly 10,000 persons were massed In front of the state capitol to hear Presi dent McKinley speak. He was cheered enthusiastically from the start. The president's special train arrived at 4 o'clock. All the members of the pnrty were driven to the state cupltol, a mile from the depot. A detachment of militia acted as an escort. Five thousand people gathered around the Northwestern railway station at Waukesha to see the president. The train arrived at 6:20 o'clock. The presi dent and members of his cabinet were escorted to a stand near the president's car. It was perhaps the noisiest crowd yet faced by the president In the north west. At the conclusion of the speech Miss Edith Wilbur, daughter of the mil lionaire lumberman of this city, stepped to the platform nnd presented the presi dent with a silver loving cup nnd n bottle of the mineral wutvr thnt madu Wauke sha famous. President nt Three Oaka. THREE OAKS, Mich., Och 18.-Ev-ery person within a radius of ten miles of this little town apparently turned out to greet President McKinley nt 0 o'clock last evening. The cannon contributed to the Maine monument fund by Admiral Dewey was given to Three Ouka, nnd its enthusiasm was In full piny when the president nud cabinet were escorted through files of school children waving small lings to a stnnd nenr the car. The president spoke briefly and introduced the cnbinet. All were cheered heartily. Llentenant nine Married. MORRISTOWN, X. J., Oct. 18. Lieu tenant Victor Blue of the United States battleship Massachusetts nnd Ellen Footc Stuart were married last evening at 5 o'clock at St. Peter's Protestant Episco pal church. The marriage ceremouy was performed by Rev. Dr. Hibbard, rector of the church. Lieutenant Blue whs second in commnnd of the United Stntes gun boat Suwnuee in June, 1898, when he was selected to go ashore and ascertain for a certainty if Cervera, with the Spanish squadron, had entered Santiago harbor. The lieutenant tramped 70 miles, examined all the fortifications and saw all of Admiral Cervera's ships. He made a report nt once to Admiral Sampson and handed Sampson a copy of a Santia go newspaper that coutnined information. He was advanced to the command of the Suwanee. He is a native of North Caro lina and is the son of Colonel John Gil christ Blue of the (Confederate army. Spaniard fame to C'obn. HAVANA, Oct. 18. During the past Ofl days there have arrived here over 2,000 Spaniards, who sny that it is im possible to obtain work in Spain and that the government is assisting them to emi grate to Cuba. It is belived thnt over I'UO.IIOO will come to Cuba within the next few months, rendering the situation of the island more complex. One of these Spaniards who recently arrived says thnt womtm are not assisted to emigrate, the Spanish government aiding only men over 18 years of age to leave tho country. A large number of these. Immigrants de sire to work in the mines, but the mer chants here are giving employment to all for whom they can possibly thai posi tions. Dewey I.envea Boston. BOSTON, Oct. 10. Amid the cheers of 10,000 people Admiral Dewey depart ed from Boston at 7 o clock last evening on the Federal express for Washington. His departure brought to a close two days of enthiulaam on the part of the hero worshiping population, visibly ex' pressed iu receptions and parades. The admiral spent n very quint day in the city, necessitated by futlgue which had followed his arduous duties of the pust four days. LIioll Air Munufuotare, CLEVELAND, Oct. 17. 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