FREELAND TRIBUNE. liUbliihod 1868. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY UY TIIK TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited. OrricE: MAIN STIIEET ABOVE CENTRE. j LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.51) j Six Months 75 Four Months 50 Two Mouths 25 The date which the subscription is paid to is on the address label of each paper, the change of which to a subsequent date becomes a j receipt for remittance. Keep the ligures in advance of the present date. Report prompt ly to this ofllee whenever paper is not received. Arrearages must be paid wheu subscription I is discontinued. Make all money orders, checks, etc., payable to ! the Tribune Printing Company, Limited. FREELAND, PA., OCTOBER 23. 1899. I Mr. Adams' Withdrawal. From the Philadelphia Record. Fortunately for the reputation for honor and integrity of the judiciary ol ! the commonwealth, the people of Penn sylvania are to bo spared the shame and reproach that would have attended the election to the superior court bench of a man who had been accused of illegal practices. The discredited machine candidate for judge of that court has been constrained to withdraw from the ! state ticket, on the ground that voters I would be influenced adversely to the j party's success if he should remain . thereon. It is a true and sufficient reason. Our judges, at least, must be j pure and unassailable. What the public are most deeply in- ! torested in, now that the candidacy of ; Mr. Adams has been brought to an end j —through fear, no doubt, of a popular j revolt in the state —is the revelation thus made of the utter unscrupulousness of the machino managers. All unfit for i a judgeship as he was. Mr. Adams made j no secret of his apprehensions that the outcome of his candidacy would be dis astrous. The Republican managers laughed his fear to scorn, and placed him on the ticket in pursuance of a factional deal in which the strongest and most active workers of the party were concerned. It is by such methods of selection, rath er than by the supreme test of fitness, that Republican nominations here in | Pennsylvania, where that party holds undisputed sway, are bestowed at this time. llow can the plain people trust ' such a rotten agency of political chi cane and public demoralization. The low ebb of official morality, the sordid selfishness of partisan power and the hopeless confusion of public service with private advantage which this dis graceful episode in state political his tory denotes should sink deeply into the popular conscience. There is no depth of depravity in public affairs which the machino managers of the Republican party in Pennsylvania would hesitate to sound. llow long shall they be per mitted to make a mockery of good gov ernment! Governor Stone in a recent interview with a Pittsburg Dispatch reporter, said: "In Pennsylvania the Democrats are talking about the money in the treasury. The truth is, there is not enough there to quarrel about. I do not know how much is on deposit now. but there would not he a cent, but a deficit of 03,000,000, if the state's debts were paid." Wheu Governor Pattison left the chair five years ago there was a balance of 80,000,000 in the treasury. Now, according to Stone, that is all gone with a deficiency of 83,000,000. Iso wonder that the machine doesn't want to hear anything of state issues. It Isn't strange that Republican moot ings all over the state are as frosty as a night in Iceland. liecder, who was kicked out of Hastings' cabinet for ras cality, is at the head of the organixa- j tion. Honest Republicans are disgust ed and they show it. The Philadelphia North American , a Republican paper, in speaking of Reeder, says: "He is a lawyer without practice, a citizen with out standing, a politician without a fol lowing, a characterless, penniless pen sioner upon the machine in reward for past services, which a person only of Reeder's sort could have brought him self to render." Charles J. Reilly, Esq., the Democrat ic candidate for the superior court, Is socially one of the most popular gentle men In central Pennsylvania. Profes sionally ho is an able, careful and upright attorney. It is safe to say that Mr. Rielly will poll a large proportion of tho Republican attorneys of the state. Tho attempt to get the soldiers out to boom Harnett has proved a fiat failure. A few of his men have been hired at 85 a day and expenses to hippodrome the state, but there is no disguising the fact that he is very unpopular with his men and he knows it. QUAY'S GOVERNOR STRIKES A BLOW AT THE SCHOOLS. 1 1 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, j Extract from a speech made at Smethport. McKean county, Oct. 19, 1898, at which were present the mem bers of the County Teachers' Institute. ! which was in session in the town: "The Republican party is one of education, and it has done more j to make the common schools of Pennsylvania a success than any other 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 I 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, j Thaddeus 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- I 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 1 delay in paying out the school funds, has embarrassed school districts all over the state, it being notorious that j the money was kept back and held on i deposit in the political banks that j Quay and his henchmen might pocket 1 the interest or use it in politics and stock speculations. School authorities have been com- I 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 Governor Stone has ! aimed at the schools vitally concerns every school teacher, school trustee and school director in the state. And ugain, if the governor can shave off one million dollars from the appropria tion in 1899, what is to prevent him from lopping off two millions in 1901? The excuse that the governor gave for his alleged veto of part of the school appropriation was merely a pre text. The real reason for this out rageous act on the part of the execu tive was not given and dare not be given or commented upon by the unpa- 1 triotic governor of Pennsylvania. It has long been a political secret that j Senator Quay intended to attack the ; school appropriation, as he never ap proved of the increases leading up to the five millions. To the people of the state his art means higher local taxes, a reduction of teachers' salaries, fewer schools and a lowering of the high standard which has made the schools of Pennsylvania famous. He has struck at the very principle to which the people of Penn sylvania owe their greatness as a* state. He has given the lie to the proud boast that the Republican party is the guardian of the "Little Red School House." While Governor Stone vetoed a mil lion dollars of the school appropria tion. he cheerfully signed the large ap propriation for military purposes, and indicated in advance that the already large sum should be increased. This shows that he believes more in train ing men to kill their fellows than he does in training our children that they may grow up without murder in their hearts. WHAT REPUBLICAN PAPERS SAY. IL is a common saying that a man is bound by his own witness. Let us see what some prominent Republican wit nesses have to say of the Quay ticket and the manner in which It was se lected. 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 the Philadelphia newspapers against i machine misrule. While the Demo- ! cratic newspapers are doing splendid service for the ticket, the following re markably severe comments upon the work of Quay's convention are extract ed from editorials in Republican and independent Republican newspapers of i the great city: ONLY ONE SATISFACTORY NAME, j "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 is hoped may distract attention from his I political record as an extreme faction- j ist and chronic opponent of regular Republican nominations. Precedent and propriety alike dictate that Mr. Dimner Beeber, now serving accepta bly on the superior bench by appoint ment. should be nominated as bis own successor. He is a man of rare judi cial qualities, and there was no reason why he should be superseded, except to give place to Mr. Adams." —Phi la. 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 regretted that the orators who placed his name before the Harrisburg con vention did not keep that fact in mind. In their speeches they made much of his soldierly achievements, which was ' right, but they abstained altogether j 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 (he omissions of the platform and of his speechmaking 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 derstand that it is of more importance ; to them that their treasurer should be ; capable and upright, than that he j should be either a Republican or a i 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 I harangue in favor of honest money. | "Farmer Creasy is a plain man with an unusual gift for plain speech. He j knows all about the history of the state treasury. He is a citizen of estab- I 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 ask election to the state treasurership, not as a soldier nor as a believer in protec tion and the gold standard, but as a man the equal in honesty and trust worthiness of Farmer Creasy. If he shall fail to do that and rely on the magic of his uniform and the pres tige of the Republican national admin istration to pull him through, he will be wanting in candor and in percep lion of the real need of the situation." —Phila. North American, Rep. QUAYS PERSONAL CHOOSING. "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 strings. The candidates were of his personal choosing; the platform was of his own making; the delegates were present not as representatives of the will and power of the people of the commonwealth, but as the representa tives of the political fortunes of the 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 the 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 the pro gram which had been mapped out for it by the little coterie of bosses long ago in their Sabbath 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 million 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 share 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." —Phila. North American. CHALLENGE TO ANTI-QUAY RE PUBLICANS. The Philadelphia Pross, 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 state an unprincipled close corporation known as the machine has taken con trol of it and uses it so far as it dare I and can 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 istration was, of course, to be expected from a convention constituted and con trolled as this one was, but very many I Republicans will not second that en dorsement. The expression of grati tude to Mr. Quay and the approval of the governor's action in appointing him to the senate is a direct challenge I to all the Republicans who are op- I posed to Mr. Quay and think that his j appointment under the circumstances | was indecent and improper. This plank in the platform will be remem | bered when the rest is forgotten, and will cost the ticket many votes. Per haps nothing less could be expected from a Quay convention, and the Re publican plurality, though a minority of the whole vote, is still very large and invites undue confidence." STORY OF MOCHA COFFEE 500 Years Ago Arabs and Indium Were Taught to Make the Drink. Mocha is not alone the name of a kind of coffee, but also a port (Ye men) on the lted Sen. The patron saint of both was Sehelle Schoedeli, whose memory Is venerated by the Mahometans almost as much as that of Mahomet himself. tine day, 500 years ago, a vessel from the Indies cast anchor in the port. Those on board had noticed a hut, and they disembarked to see what it was. The sheik (for it was his dwelling) received the strangers kindly and gave them some coffee to drink, for he was very fond of it and attributed great virtue to It. The travelers, who had never seen coffee before, thought that this ,liot drink would be n cure for the plague. Schoedeli assured them that through his prayers and the use of this drink thut not only would the plague ho stopped, but also that if they would unload their merchandise they could make a good profit h.v It. The owner of the ship was impressed by this strange man, especially as he found the coffee so palatable. On the same day a large number of Arabs came to listen to the hermit's preach ing and among them were some mer chants who purchased all the goods on the ship. The Indian visitor returned home, and telling his strange adventure and profitable trading, many of bis com patriots came to visit the saintly Schoedeli. A beautiful mosque was lmilt over the tomb of Schoedeli after his death, and his name will never be forgotten so long as Mocha coffee is drunk. All of the Moslem coffeehouse keepers ven erate him, mentioning his name in their morutug devotions. Travelers say that in the town of Mocha or Delia as the Arabs call it, men take their oath, not by God, but by the memory of Schoedeli. Karth and Its Axis Nino persons out of ten—yes, !)!)!) out of every 1,000 if asked liow long it takes the earth to turn once oil its axis would answer twenty-four hours, and to the question: "How many times ddee It turn on Its axis in the course of a year?" the answer would lie: 3(15'4 times. Both answers are wrong. It requires but twenty-three hours and fifty-six minutes for the enrth to make one complete turn, aild it makes 360% turns during the year. The error springs from a wrong idea of what is meant by a day. The day is not. as is commonly supposed, the time required by the earth to make one turn ou its axis, hut the Interval between two successive passages of the sun across the merldan—that is to say, the time which elapses after the sun Is seen exactly south of its diurnal course through the heavens before it it Is seen agaiu in that position. Now, in consequence of the earth's revolution In Its orbit, or path around the sun, the sun has the appearance of moving very slowly in the heavens In a direc tion from cast to west. At noon to morrow the sun will be a short dis tance to the east of the point in the heavens at which It is seen at noon to-day, so that when the earth has made one complete turn, il will still have to turn four minutes longer be fore the suu can again be seen exactly south. Moose and Caribou Cemeteries. Forest and Stream contains the fol lowing contribution from a Quebec cor respondent concerning the habit moose and caribou have of going to the same place, season after season, to shed their antlers. "The idea of the animals seeking a definite place for this purpose was quite new to me, but lately the effi cient Superintendent of Game and Fisheries at Quebec, L. Z. Joncas, Esq., has told me that the.v do frequent such places. and that this habit was quite well known to him. He knew of many and mentioned several places where horns could almost certainly be found at any time. And not only do they go to shed their horns, hut they go there to dte. 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