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THURSDAY, JAN. 4, 1900.
"FIRST OF ALL—THE NEWS."
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At the County Seat of Sullivan County.
IiAPOBTE. PA.
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Timely Comment I'pon Attempt* to
Make Fnot ionn I Capital Out of
Election Canea In the Quaker
City.
Philadelphia, Jan. 2. —The old adage
about people living in glass houses
comes to mind in the latest scandal
that is attached to what is known as
the insurgent outfit in Pennsylvania
politics.
Now the Martin camp in this city
is invaded and there is a popular clam
or for an investigation of the tax office,
which has been for years a political
stronghold of David Martin, who is
now chairman of the executive com
mittee of the insurgents' organization,
which is fighting the leaders of the
regular Republican organization.While
Martin, Flinn of Allegheny and others
of the same stripe have been malign
ing Colonel Quay, Governor Stone and
other stalwart Republicans who have
blocked their way in their effort to get
control of the Republican organization,
and deal out fat jobs to themselves
and their retainers, things have not
been running exactly right in the tax
office in this city, where David Martin's
brother-in-law, Mr. Roney, is in charge.
The lax methods employed in the de
linquent tax department of this office
have led to a startling sensation upon
the discovery that tax money handed
ever to deputies employed under Mr.
Roney has never reached the city treas
ury.
The people want an investigation of
the management of the office to be
made by a committee of councils, and
they will not be satisfied until this shall
be done. The tax office is filled with
political followers of Martin, through
whose manipulations of politics he has
managed to keep his head above water
in the party organization, though he
has had a desperate struggle lately.
Of the men employed in the tax office
who were sent to the legislature to
fight Colonel Quay one of them, A. V.
Allen, was a deputy tax collector. He
was elected as a Republican, but, with
the other Martinites, he bolted the
Republican caucus until the end of the
session of the legislature. Allen, al
though he had served as a superintend
ent of a Sunday school, surprised every
one by the venom and vindictive spirit
which he displayed throughout the
contest over the United States senator
ship. He was exceedingly offensive in
his remarks addressed to members of
the legislature while they were casting
their votes for Colonel Quay. While
the stalwarts conceded the right of
every man to vote as he saw fit on the
senatorship and did not molest him
in so doing, Allen was disgustingly
brutal in his attitude toward the Quay
men in his anti-Quay speeches. While
Senator Quay was in court facing his
accusers in the great conspiracy trial,
in which he was triumphantly vindi
cated, Allen shocked even some of the
insurgents by his allusions to Colonel
Quay in connection with this case.
After Allen returned from Harris
burg many of his consituents did not
hesitate to express contempt for his
conduct. No surprise was manifest
when it was announced that Allen had
been ignominiously defeated for re
election as superintendent of his Sun
day school.
When the information became public
that Allen had left home, and that a
warrant was out for his arrest in con
nection with the alleged defalcations
in the tax office, there was little sym
pathy for him among those who were
familiar with his actions in the Quay
fight.
But it was ever thus.
HYPOCRISY IS RAMPANT.
Hypocrisy seems to be rampant
among the insurgents.
Anent the attempts of the Wana
maker newspaper organs to make cap
ital for the insurgent campaign out
of the fact that election frauds have
been unearthed in this city, Editor
Theodore Hart, of the wide awake
Easton Gazette, has some timely com
ment upon the clamoring of "certain
Philadelphia newspapers in which the
Wanamaker bargain counter advertis
ment is always a conspicuous feature,"
as he aptly designates the insurgent
organs.
Editor Hart properly demands that
all proven guilty of election frauds
shall be punished, as men guilty of
these crimes too frequently escape.
"Election frauds in Philadelphia, how
ever, as in most large cities, are to be
expected, even with the most watchful
care," he adds, "and many such scoun
drels have been caught there and pun
ished in past years, through the vigi
lance of patriotic citizens of the Qua
ker City. But the great hue and cry
just now over these latest discoveries
sounds more like the gloating of a fac
tion over the trapping of a rival gang.
So long as the 'machinery' ground
grists for Martin, Wanamaker, Hast
ings & Co. its rascality was good poli
tics. But things are different now.
since these worthies have gotten to
gether under a 'reform' flag. The big
majority rolled up in Philadelphia for
the president made Wanamaker post
master general as a reward for gather
ing together an immense campaign
fund, as well as the unprecedented vote
cast in the same city for Hastings for
governor, under the management of
Boss Martin, which made him Hast
ings' secretary of the commonwealth.
ami tiie results of many other elections
f.oui which the ma.: now howling
a :t r a(hi..a manipulated k... Joritles
in Philadelphia directly profited, if
they were not directors or silent part
ners in the business —all testify strong
ly to the hypocrisy and humbuggery
of the anti-machine movement inuagu
rated by Van Valkenburg and Martin
to purify Philadelphia politics.
"It will be observed, too, that the
newspapers which are now talking
most about election frauds in Philadel
phia have nothing to say about such
offenses elsewhere, especially where
Democrats are the guilty parties and
beneficiaries of fraud."
Attention is then directed by The
Gazette to the startling revelations of
Tammany Hall election frauds in New
York, for which Governor Roosevelt
ordered that an extraordinary grand
Jury be convened, and where convic
tions have followed in 22 cases and in
several Instances severe sentences have
been Imposed.
HOG COMBINE RECALLED.
"That Philadelphia is not alone in
Its ballot frauds, or the worst of the
great cities in this respect, is quite cer
tain," remarkes The Gazette. "There
are others, and the nominal Republi
can newspapers that are holding up the
present Republican leaders of the Qua
ker City to the scorn of the country
because a few alleged election crooks
have been cornered, are overworking
the business. It will be suspected that
if these fellows had been opposing the
Republican party, as their trappers
were, the public would never have
heard of their alleged offenses.
"All good citizens must rejoice when
the law is vindicated and violators of
election laws brought to justice. It
is Philadelphia's great shame that so
few of her people are sufficiently inter
ested in these matters as to be willing
to give of their time and means to se
cure honest elections without ref
erence to the effect upon the fortunes
of this or that political faction. The
persistent efforts of the 'insurgents' to
give the machine a black eye, in order
to further their anti-Quay crusade de
ceive nobody. Senator Quay is not
even a resident of Philadelphia, and it
is well remembered that the machine
in that city never had such a tossup in
any political contest as it received ut
the hands of Senator Quay's friends in
his state chairmanship fight in 1895,
when Boss Martin and his tool ex-
Mayor Warwick joined the notorious
hog combine to depose the Beaver
statesman from party leadership. By
the most high handed methods ever
employed by a party organization a
large majority of the Philadelphia del
egation to the Republican state con
vention was named by Boss Martin and
controlled by him as so many puppets,
but thanks to the stalwarts throughout
the state, who despise would-lie party
wreckers masquerading as 'reformers.'
the anti-Quay campaign of calumny,
greed and spite proved a failure, al
though backed by an unlimited cor
ruption fund and all the resources of
the most expert ballet thieves of Phil
adelphia."
" 'Set a rogue to catch a rogue,' says
the old adage. It is to be hoped that
good may come from the efforts to
ferret out fraud in Philadelphia elec
tions, but whatever the outcome may
be, it is not likely to give the rogue
hunters a very high place in public
opinion, knowing full well, as the peo
ple do, that the hunters of today would
more than likely have been the hunted
of yesterday had an honest investiga
tion been made when Martin was boss
and they were 'in the push.' "
THE ABUSE OF QUAY.
Congressman James Rankin Young,
in discussing the latest phases of the
contest over the seating of Colonel
Quay, said:
"Abusing Quay to the senators per
sonally helps the former senator. This
is plain to even a casual observer.
Those with whom Mr. Quay served for
12 years do not have to be told what
manner of man he is. Whether or
not he is the product of a bad system
of politics in Pennsylvania does not
concern them. So far as they can see,
it is the same system that has made
the state Republican ever since it was
wrested from the Democracy. If the
system is corrupt they are not ready to
believe that Quay and what may be
denominated his henchmen were the
sole beneficiaries. Since the Republi
can party first gained power there
never was a presidential election that
the leaders of that party did not seek
to carry Pennsylvania, and they, were
not asking any questions as to under
what system it was to be carried.
"Abusing Quay for what he has done
to elect Republican presidents and to
help himself and his friends does not
hurt him in the senate. On the other
hand it creates a fellow feeling for
him. Politics is politics the world
over. This means that abusing the
other fellow all the time while holding
yourself up as the model to emulate
does not always win out. Quay per
sonally and the way the Pennsylvania
Republican organization run their end
of the politics of the state has nothing
to do with the Quay case, as it presents
Itself to the senate. The young and
able senator from Indiana, Senator
Beveridge, states the whole thing in a
nutshell in a letter recently published,
as follows:
"'The talk about' Quay not having
votes enough to.seat him is nonsense,
and so are the claims that he has
enough votes to seat him. Nobody
knows Just what the situation is. No
body knows, for example, how I shall
vote. I know that a great many other
senators are in exactly the same situa
tion. The whole matter is a pure
question of constitutional construction.'
All this talk about corrupt elections,
etc., has nothing to do with the case.
Quay is not claiming through an elec
tion. He is claiming through an ap
pointment by the governor. The ques
tion is whether r not the governor
had a constitutional right to appoint
him.
" 'I have not had time yet to give
that question the special study which
its immense importance deserve?.
When I have done so I shall know how
I shall vote. For that consideration
and that consideration alone will de
termine the matter. This also is the
case with a great number of other sen
ators.'
"That is the case in its entirety,"
added Congressman Young, "and that
is the way in which it will be treated
in the senate, the opinions of the
newspaper editors who are proclaiming
so earnestly against Quay to the con
trary notwithstanding."
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EXECL'TOIt'S NOTICE.
Letters testamentary having
been granted to the undersigned up
on the estate of John It. Rogers,
deed., late of Hillsgrove township,
Sullivan county, Pa. All persons
having claims against said estate are
requested to present them at once;
and all persons indebted to said es
tate are requested to make immedi
ate payment to
ED. F. IVES, Executor.
Muney, Pa., Dec. 9, 1899.
Charter Notice.
Notice is hereby given that an
application will he made to Hon. E.
M. Dunham, President Judge of the
Court of Common Pleas of Sullivan
county, on the 20th day of January,
1899, for the charter of a corporation
to be called "Tne Citizens Cornet
Band" of Lopez, Sullivan county,
Pennsylvania, the character and
object of which is for the purpose
of promoting a knowlddge of the art
and science of music, to furnishjjmu
sicand entertainment for the pub
lic of Lopez, Pennsylvania, and of
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known us "The Citizens Cornet
Band," of Lopez, Sullivan Co. Pa.
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Laporte, Pa., Dec. 19, 1899.
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TIME TABLE.
_ln Effeot_Tueaday Sept. 12, 1898.
Northward. Southward,
pm. p. to. a.m. a, m p.m. p. in
4 If. 12 55 io :ib Halls 945 12 00 *4 00
4 181 fl 00 io 23 Pennsdale 941 11 57;f3 55
4 27. 1 10 10 32 Hughesville 932 11 48 345
435 lISIO 38 Picture Rocks 92511 42 Sl7
f4 39 fl 21 10 41 Lyons Mills f922 :f3 34
f4 41 fl 24 10 43 Chamouui 920 11 37 f3 31
f4 48 18210 48 Glen Mawr 91411 32 323
112. r >s« 112 141 10 54 Straw bridge 'f9o6 11 29 814
501 112 145' Beech Glen f9Ol .. 3 10
505 14911 00 Muncy Valley 85811 20 306
511 15511 05 Bones town 85211 15 300
526| | Nordmont 837
5 43 : Mokoma 8 21
5 45 ; LaPorte j 819
f602 Ringdale 'fß 05
615j _] •Satterfleld i7 55
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11.36 p.m; leave New York,via Phila.7 30
a.m. 9.00 p.m.; leave New York via Ta
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