THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG. PA. PARTY LINE iv ci . i 3.1 EepUDllCan bupport ASSUreQ tO Creasy and Keillj. EIVOLUTION AGAINST QTJATISM. Itomocrntlc Victory Ilrouitht Wlfhlu RRch by the Torrltlo Indictment t'pon Which the Hudlnr" Men's Hp publlcnn I.rnirne Opprmes )uny'n Candldnten. No longer can the Democratic state committee or Its campaign speakers he accused of Idle boasting In their esti mate of the anti-Quay Republican vote that will be cast for Creasy and Rellly. The Quay ranks are dismayed by the tinging appeal of the Philadelphia branch of the Business Men's Hepubli- : an League of Pennsylvania to the ' nembers of their party throughout the J tate to work and vote for the defeat 1 of the Quay candidates. part of the deposit of ffiOO.Ono until R. The league's terrific indictment of , R. Quay had paid or arranged satis Ouaylsm Is answerable only by suit ' factorlly to you the $100,000 you were for libel or tacit confession of enllt. 1 It is the most severely condemnatory synopsis yet made of the crimes barged against the ring now trying to drown state Issue discussion with shouts for the tariff and McKlnley'a war policy. The league gives the Quay men every chance for redress, tor the criminal accusations are signed fey two of Philadelphia's most responsi ble business men, the president. Will' lam Sellers, head of the great machine ; works bearing his name, and the chair man of the executive committee, Will iam T. Tllden, wholesale wool mer chant. Formally adopted by a body com posed of representatives, all Republi cans, of the commercial, manufactur ing, professional and mechanical in terests of Philadelphia, this declara tion lauds Farmer Creasy as "an hon est man beyond the reach of the influ ences which must necessarily surround any machine chosen candidate." The Business Men's Republican League, organized in 1896 for the pur pose of aiding In the election of Mr. McKInley as president, haa never until now overstepped party lines. Its aim las been to imnrove the character of 1 the state government by opposing with- la party lines the selection of Improper j candidates by the Republican party for . state offices. It has restricted Itself to suggesting types of men. always Re- publicans, nt to be the standard bear ers of their party. The league's pres ent appeal to the voters of Pennsylva nia is confessedly revolutionary, and may well be regarded as no less omi nous than was the wall warning to Balshazzar. Its Indictment and decla ration of independence follow: "t 0 FIGHT OUTSIDE THE PARTY. The IeBcue hns Invariably, actively or by Its silence, aided th election of Re publican nominees, firmly believing that the rising sentiment against the abuses In the ninnng-ement of state affairs by the corrupt Quny machine would become strong enough within the party to over power the machine In spite of Its high handed methods and the frauds through which It hns maintained control. Notwithstanding this machine's great power, the trend toward better govern ment hns given such promise of speedy triumph that In a Inst desperate effort to avert Its overthrow it has taken away from the Republican voters the only re maining menns by which It was possible t remedy existing evils, by action with in the party. It has destroyed the power of the citizen's ballot at the primary elections by the adoption of rule No. 7, which practically disfranchises nntl-ma-chlne Republicans In congressional, sena torial and Judicial districts. In the past this league has suffered un fit candidates to go unopposed for the sake of party ri'KUlarlty. But the time for such compliance Is gone. QTJATISM INDICTED IN DETAIL. A corrupt candidate for United StateB senator, after being repudiated by the chosen representatives of the people, is appointed by a servile governor In viola tion of the constitution, and the party sanventlon is packed to Indorse this unconstitutional act. Candidates of conspicuous unfitness are thrust upon the ticket. Members of the legislature are offered bribes to vote for the notorious McCarrell iury bill In the Interest of a criminally indicted senator. Members of the legislature are offered bribes to vote for the machine candidate for senator. The head of the machine is forced to the degrading necessity of pleading the statute of limitations to save himself from the penitentiary. TAX ESCAPING FAVORITES. In the Interest of the tax escaping cor porations and the brewers the appropria tions for the public schools are cut down by unconstitutional acts. In the Interest of tho tax escaping cor porations and brewers the state's Insane wards and hospital patients are cruelly deprived of the money needed for their care. In the Interest of the tax escaping cor porations and the brewers the tax bur lens of all unfavored citlsens have been made heavier. In the Interest of the spoils hunting ma chine the cause of civil service reform, .0 which the Republican party Is com nitted, is abandoned In the machine made -tate platform of Pennsylvania. BACKEKS OF ELECTION FRAUDS. For the maintenance of a system of repeating at the polls, by which In the ilty of Philadelphia alone more than 60, 100 fraudulent votes can be counted, con stitutional amendments In the Interest of in honest ballot are vetoed In defiance ( the constitution. A state chairman Is appointed who was dismissed from office for aiding In in attempted treasury loot, and who Is lotortous fur complicity in the wrecking it a state financial Institution a man fho has declared through resolutions pre pared by himself and adopted by a county (invention under his control, that those who oppose the machine and his shameful .icts are "cowards and traitors." For these and other crimes against the Republican party und the state this eague refutes to accept tho ticket of the juay machine as a ticket representing .he Republican party. Next comes the league's renewed avowal of Rpublicun principles, with a hearty and unequivocal indorsement of .'resident McKlnley's policy and of his candidacy for re-election. This re liuke to Quayitc hypocrisy In trying to hide behind McKInley so as to retain the grip on thn state treusury, Is fol lowed by a good word for the only Re publican nominee whom the business men will support J. Hay Drowu for supreme ju&tlce. THE HAYWOOD LETTER. WrlUnirThnt Svimk For ttnolf, Irro pppctlrvofltonnltfl In Iho Court. The following letter, dated July 31, is96. addressed to the president of the People's bank, was mailed In an en velope to John S. Hopkins, cashier of the bank: "Dear Sir: On Monday we will mall you a check for one hundred thousand dollars for the credit of the common wealth of Pennsylvania, general fund, which will make a credit to our account of six hundred thousand dollars. The understanding Is that I am not to draw against any part of this six hundred thousand dollars deposited until the Hon. II. R. Quay has paid or arranged satisfactorily to you the loan of one hundred thousand dollars, which you are to make him next week. "Very truly yours, "B. J. HAYWOOD, "State Treasurer." A telosram referring to the letter was dated at Musroeo, Ontario, and addressed to John S. Hopkins, cashier, as follows: "I wrote your president last Friday night, saying we would not draw any to loan him this week. "B. J. HAYWOOD, "State Treasurer." The loan of $100,000 was made at that time, and carried down to the In solvency of the bank, but was paid Immediately afterward. A letter of Jan. 15. 1897, from M. S. Quay, read: "Dear John: Give George Huhn $25,- 000 for me. It Is for a margin In some stock. Send me a note for $25,000 and 1 Blgn and return.1 Following is a letter of Sept. 4, 1897, from M. S. Quay: "Dear John: I have yours of the 1st and enclosures, and return note signed, as per request; much obliged. It will be queer if the stock does not go down $10 a share. My purchases always do, though they come out right In the end. IT. G. I. and Sugar are saddening, but Dolan don't like us well enough to let us In on the first, and the second is a dangerous gamble." The next letter from Quay, dated Sept. 21, 1897, reads: "Dear John: I have at Huhn's 900 shares of Met. I wish you to take out for me. It stands $110,812.50 Aug. 81, and with your $61,625 will make $172, 437 Kn I will nm vnnr hank. I have $100,000 New Jersey bonds, 1,500 shares of New Jersey stock, which I will change into Met. as soon as the top notch in Jersey Is reached that Is to say, I will sell the Jersey securities' and pay off the indebtedness to you. The -Jersey bonds ought to go to par within 60 days. When they are par the stock will be at least fifty. It will pay a small dividend next year. Please write me a receipt of this." A letter from Quay, dated Dec. 10, 1897, follows! "Dear John: I have 1,000 shares of Sugar that Huhn bought at 142 which I wish you to pay for and take over to the People's. I have bought It for keep, but don't wish the stock to be placed In my name just yet, as I will sell if I find I can get it any lower. Get rid of the Met script and Consoli dated Jersey stock as rapidly, as you can at the figures fixed." A receipt signed by George A. Huhn & Son, dated Dec. 14, 1897, follows: "Received by the People's bank $129,651.65 for 1,000 shares of Sugar Trust Certificate company, to be trans ferred to the name of John S. Hopkins, Esq." Numerous other letters and tele grams from Quay were In nature sim ilar to the foregoing. They included a telegram saying to Hopkins: "I hope you will discount Senator Brown's note for $3,000;" also the fol lowing telegram of Feb. 11, 1898: "St. Lucie, Fla.. John S. Hopkins: If you buy and carry a thousand Met for me, I will shake the plum tree." Newlntorost Law an Inadequate Rem edy For Treasury Abuses Re cently Aired la Courts. Here follows testimony, from a high Republican source, against Quay ma chine assertions that under the act of 1897 regulating in some degree state deposits of money and interest there on, the state treasurer cannot con tinue abuses like those recently aired in the courts. Governor Hastings, on Oct. 15, 1898, at a Republican mass meeting in the Academy of Music, at Philadelphia, which State Chairman Elkln had called, declared: "It cannot be questioned that the public funds have been used for po litical purposes by depositing them in favorite banks, where such deposits were expected to yield returns in the shape of political Influence. This sys tem cannot be defended. While the new interest law Is an Improvement, it does not. In my judgment, meet the difficulty and correct the evil. It should not be in the power of the state treas urer, or of any man or men controlling him, to say what banks shall handle the millions of dollars that are an nually paid Into the state treasury. It would be far better for the state to receive no interest upon the deposits than to suffer a system to continue which can be used for partisan po litical purposes,- and, In my judgment, the evil will never be corrected until the state keeps in her own vaults, as do the United States and many of the states, the moneys that she owns." A striking illustration of state treas ury abuses referred to by Governor Hastings was presented on Aug. 24, 1898, to Auditor Holding, appointed by the court to take testimony concerning the defunct Chester County Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit company. It had been a depository for slate funds, and the late ex-Congressman Darling ton, president of the concern, when asked what was meant by "current expenses," charged in the books, tes titled that they were political con tributions "of from 2 to 3 per cent an nually to the Republican Btate and county committees, paid pursuant to a sort of Implied understanding with the parties who were Influential In controlling the state depoKils." The inert who controlled the state treasury in the periods of time re ferrud to by Governor Hastings, by the Darlington testimony, and by tho (IIh clomues resulting from the People's bank failure, are the men who die tatoil the Keuullkan nomination. thl; year. 1 TrpBsurf-r Tome unit Co, Rut tlio Trintir.v Kvy loen Not f.'hnnirn Ifniuln. Let the r.tate treasury's history for the last 20 years answer the question whether Improvement can be expected from tho success of the Quay ticket next November. William Llvsey, who hns exiled him self from the state since 1891, was ap pointed caahler of the state treasury in 1880 by Treasurer Samuel Butler. Silas M. Bailey was elected treasurer In 1881, and continued Llvaey as cash ier. I-tvsey was elected state treasurer in 1883, and was succeeded in that, of fice by Mr. Quay, who was elected in 1885. By appointment from Quay Llvsey returned to the cn.shler's desk, and held It until Quay, In the second year of his term, resigned, and Llvsey was appointed to serve as treasurer for the remaining eight months. Upon Will iam B. Hart's election as treasurer in 1887 he made Livsey his cashier. Hart died before his term closed, and again Llvsey was appointed to a vacant treas urershlp. Henry K. Boyer, elected treasurer In 1889, gave the cashicrshlp to Llvsey, who retained It until he became a fu gitive at the start of the treasury prob ing In 1891. Thus, for 11 years, as a representative of the machine, Llvsey had held the key. B. J. Haywood, failing to be nominat ed in 1893 to succeed Treasurer Mor rison, was made caahler under Treas urer Samuel Jackson. Haywood was elected treasurer in 1895, and upon the election of the present treasurer, James S. Beacom, Haywood was restored to the cashtershlp, which he retained un til his death. TWO SIMILAR CASES. Haywood's troubles had notable pre cedent In Llvsey's case. In 1891 Llv sey and his chief had permitted the treasurer of Philadelphia, as agent for the state, to collect $367,604 of license money and to retain it for six months after Its payment was due to the state treasury. This money, with other funds of the state and city, was in a rotten bank. Of the $367,604, bonds men, pursued by a Democratic attorney general and governor, made good $120, 000, and about $30,000 additional was recovered through the exertions of the same officials, but there remained a net loss to the' state of $100,000. TREASURER MORE THAN A CLERK The treasury act of 1897 makes no practical change except in requiring the treasurer to collect two per cent per annum interest from all the state fund depositories except five "active banks," which pay one and a half per cent per annum on the dally balances. The treasurer Is empowered to select all the depositories, "subject to the ap proval of the board of revenue com missioners." one of whom la himself, and the others the auditor general and the secretary of the commonwealth. As the present three commlsioners owe their offices to the Quay machine, which they continue faithfully to serve, it Is plain that no stronger check upon the selection of depositories exists now than before the new Interest law took effect. "What's the Constitution Between. Frlendsf" For every eleven dollars which the public schools formerly received from the state they get but ten dollars out of the appropriation unconstitution ally reduced by Governor Stone. Noth ing could be plainer than the consti tutional language that while the gov ernor may veto an Item, he has no right to divide an item. Yet he cut a million dollars out of the item through which the legislature had voted in a lump sum, $11,000,000 to the public schools. The treasury deficiency which gave him the excuse for doing this had been caused primarily by former ma chine legislators in unnecessarily in creasing public officials and petty clerkships in the several departments, and in unjustifiably Increasing salar ies. The efforts of the anti-machine majority in the late house to remedy this deficiency through the Creasy revenue bill and other measures were defeated by the Quay controlled sen ate. The governor's disregard for the constitution is shown again in his ob struction of the movement for reform in the registration of voters. The late legislature adopted a resolution for submission to a- popular vote a pro posed constitutional amendment which would facilitate, among other reforms, personal registration, and would au thorlze enactment of laws for special legislation on this subject for the large cities in which election crime is ram pant. After the adoption of this reso lution by the next legislature the peo pie could vote on the question. The governor, without right or justifica tion, vetoed the resolution, and his cabinet officers, taking the cue, refuse to carry out the provision for adver tising the proposed amendment. Thus is attempted a deprivation of the peo ple's constitutional right to pass upon a question of amending their funda mental law. Hope to Be Saved by Shouting For McKInley. Quay attempts to cloud the Issues now as he tried to do at the opening of the last gubernatorial campaign, when Candidate William A. Stone predicted that McKlnley's conduct of the war with Spain would so absorb patriotic attention as to make opposition to the Republican ticket impotent. Quay and his henchmen now court the national administration's favor by advocating McKlnley's renominatton, and play the old game of arguing that their loss of the state treasury would be a slap in McKlnley's face from Pennsylvania Republicans. Suppose thotr candidate for state treasurer mf.kes good promises. All their candidates for state treasurer have done that. Their candidate for governor last year was given no chance by the anti-machine coalition in the last bouse to act upon pinch or grab bills which he had promised on the stump to veto. But chances which he failed to Improve Included those of placing no unconstitutional obstruc tion In the way of reformed registra tion of voters; of respecting the con stitutional prohibition against dividing an Hum of the general appropriation bill, as he did in depriving the public schools of a million dollars, and of re fraining from contemptuous dUresuri Df the legislative majority in hla un sonstltutional appointment of Quay, FILIPINOSPUNISIIED. Driven Prom Trenches About Calamba With Heavy Loss. AMERICAXS TRAPPED BY TRICE FLAG Itr-pnrorrcttipntN t'nilcr Mnjor Heefc Sent Hollo-Otis Will Tint Trent Willi "llononilil.- I'rrsldent" ARiilnaJdo's ICiiilsnnrlrs, MANILA, Oct. Ul.-The Filipinos around Cahimbii and Angeles hnvc lmlli cred the Americans lately with their re peated attacks, like the must of these at tacks, (insisting of shunting a lot of am munition Into their opponents' camp from long range. Major Cheatham's bat talion of the Thirty-seventh infantry, three companies of the Twenty-lirst in fantry, a battery of the Fifth artillery and a (iiitling gun sallied out yesterday morning from ( 'u In mini, drove the I' ill -pinos from their trenches and pursued them for three miles, indicting heavy loss on them. One American was killed, and three were wounded of the Twenty-lirst In flint ry. Lleutenntit Fergus, with 20 scouts of the Thirty-sixth regiment, rccotinoiter Ing near l.nlmo, encountered n party of mounted Filipinos. He killed six of them and captured eight, with ten lilies. Four men from the gunboat Mnrivcles were lured ashore IS miles from Hollo by a ling of truce, and the enemy killed one of them, wounded one and enptured a third. The gunlmnt was unable to tire for fenr of wounding the Americans. The second battalion of the Nineteenth regiment. Mnjor Reefo coinninnding. bus embarked for Iloilo to re-enforce the troops there. A Filipino newspaper makes the state ment that independence will be given to the lslnnds In December, when Brynn will lie elected president of the I lilted Stntes. Tho newspaper also makes the statement tlint the American casualties hnve been KM I since lust February nnd that the policy now is a retreating fight. YOUNG WINS VICTORY. Filipinos I'ndcr (irnrrnl I'llnr Lose lU-nvil,. MANILA, Oct. 21. News hns just been received here of an engagement be tween the forces of General Young and General I'io del Tilar nt San Isidro. The GENERAL S. B. M. YOUNG. Filipinos were defeated with heavy loss es. The Americans lost three men wounded. Butsou's Maccabebcs met two compa nies of the insurgents strongly intrench ed four miles north of Arnyat. The Mnecabebes Hanked tliem nnd drove them out of the trenches, killing six nnd wounding many. One lieutenant and eight soldiers arm ed with rilles were enptured. The Mne cabebes drove them three miles to Santa Rito, only one Mnccabebe being mortally wounded. Their hrst severe engagement the Mnecabebes carried off brilliantly. Mnjor Howard Killed. OMAHA, Oct. 23. A cable, dispatch has been received here announcing the denth in the Philippines on Saturday of Major Guy Howard, son of General O. O. Howard. The cablegram, dated Sat urday, wns received by Judge J. M, Wool worth, futher-in-law of Major Howard, nnd rend as follows: "Guy Howard killed in action today." Major Howard was well known in Omaha, be lug on bis father's staff when the lat ter was stationed here. He was mar ried in this city 15 years ago to Miss Woolworth, and the nuptials were a notable society function. Mrs. Howard resides here with her three children. Latest Peace OTfrlorn, WARHIVIITOV. Oct. 4. General Otis' account of the last Filipino pence overture Is as follows: "."Message received nt Ant.Alea nrwlet fin? (if truce enriMMcd desire of Hon. l'resident Aguinuldo to send commission to Manila to arraugc difficulties connected with delivery of Spanish prisoners and to discuss mutter of particular character. Reply returned that commission accredited by any one ,(1i,ii thnn f2nncrjil A rn I n (I l.l.i. triiiirnl in chief of insurgent forces, could not be recognized or received. io later citrre spondence." Nebraska's Great Corn Crop, OMAHA. Oct. 25 The minimi crop review of The Ree, compiled from re ports of special correspondents in every county In Nebraska, shows that the corn eron of IS!)!! exceeds the record of tin best nrevlous year by 1 i.217.2-40 bushels. The crop of 1S!I!I reaches the enormous fiirure of 244.125.0!):! bushels. Tho aver sire vleld ner acre 18 34.50 bushels, nnd the quality of the crop is excellent. The wheat yield Is below that of the last two years. . Shamrock Will Leave Next Week. NEW YORK, Oct. 24. 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