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FREELAND, SEPTEMBER 22, 1902.
The Machine and the Strike.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The Republican managers may well
be anxious on account of the far-reach
ing effects of the strike In the anthra
cite coal fields. There would have been
no strike at this time If the corrupt
Machine In control of the last legisla
ture had not prevented the senate com
mittee on mines and mining from re
porting for consideration House bill No.
210, which was passed almost unani
mously by the house of representatives.
This bill provided that in every an
thracite mine where coal is mined by
weight or measure the miners should
have a right to employ a competent
check weighman or measurer, who
should see that the coal was fairly
weighed, and the miners given due
credit for their work.
This bill passed the house by orders of
the Machine, on a doal in return for
votes in behalf of the notorious bill for
the abolition of the board of revision of
taxes, but was never allowed to be re
ported out of the senate committee on
mines and mining, of which that distin
guished follower of Mr. Quay, Milton
Heldelbaugh, was chairman, and Messrs.
Scott, Vare, Sproul, Haines and Stiles
were among the members, three-fourths
of the committee being Quay men.
If this bill had become a law and the
rights of the miners in the districts in
which the miners are paid by weight or
measure had been recognized, it can be
asserted with confidence there would
have been no coal strike; for, as Is well
known, the vote in favor of the coal
strike was carried by representatives of
tho seventy-live thousand and more
minors in the Lackawanna and Upper
Luzerne coal fields.
It is easy to understand why the Pen
rose Club should give SSOO to tho strik
ing miners, and why GovernorStonoand
Senator Quay 9hould be anxious the
strike should end; but tho people, who
havo to pay the Increased prico for coal,
and the miners and their families should
understand that, those who deceivod and
cheated them and defeated tho just
legislation which would have prevented
this strike are Republican bosses; that
all their talk about sympathy for the
suffering minors, an extra session of the
legislature aud a compulsory arbitration
law is bosh.
All efforts to secure a band for tho
Eighth regiment, N. G. P., on duty at
Shenandoah, have so far failed. Tho
laiuaqua band which held tho position
for three years refused to ro-eniist when
its term expired two weeks ago, and al
though personally appealed to by Gen
oral Gohin five bands have rofused to
accept the job.
Becauso the girls of the Mt. Carmel
shirt factory struck for "live and let
live' 1 wages, tho plant was removed from
that town. Any plant that must pros
per at the expense of Its crushed em
ployes deserves a quick death.—Ashland
News.
B. Frank Moser, 50 years old, a Mah
oning valley farmer and a Republican
politician of Carbon county, was found
•lead in his barn, having committed
suicide by hanging. The motive of tho
act is not known
An effort Is being made to secure a
pardon for James M. Griner, of Wilkes
barre, ex-member of the legislature, who
is serving a long term in the penitentiary
for killing his step-daughter.
Read - the - Tribune.
CALLING UPON A FRIEND.
Tlie "Way In Which Two UiiKlUh Ac
tors Once I'dlil u Visit.
riere is an amusing story of Messrs.
Toole and Brough, the English comcdi
aiuf. Huving appeared conjointly in a
drama, "Dearer Than Life," in which
they wore very ragged, woebegone cos
tumes, they visited the well known
artists Fradelle und Marshall to be
photographed In their rugs. While
waiting "between the plates" Toole,
who was fond of a lark, suggested to
his brother comedian to sally out and
call upon a certain mutual acquaint
ance, who would be horribly shocked
at receiving visitors in such a garb.
Brough at once assented, and, popping
on their battered hats, out into the
street the pair slipped and made for
the house of their frieud. Of course
the neat housemaid and the neater
Buttons were horrified and declined
even without being asked to purchase
matches or the like.
"I axes your pardon," said Toole in
an assumed tone. "You're making a
slight mistake. We want to see your
master." And he mentioned the gen
tleman's Christian name and that of
his wife.
"We have important business with
him," chimed In Brough.
The girl's face wore a dazed aspect,
and she said: "Master never sees the
likes of you at his house, lie's most
pertickler, ain't he, Charles?" appeal
ing to the page. "You must be making
a mistake."
"Oh, no, we ain't!" responded Toole
with supreme gravity. "But I'm sor
ry William"—the Christian name of
tho gentleman—"ls out. I haven't got
a card about me," pretending to fum
ble among his rags, "but tell your mas
ter that his two cousins from the work
house called as they were passing
through London."—London Tit-lilts.
PENNY POSTAGE.
The Incident That Led to It* Rntah
lfMhiiicnt In KiiKhiud.
Many years ago, when Queen Vic
toria llrst began to reign, it cost nine
pence to send a letter from one Eng
lish city to another. In those days the
postage was not paid by tho sender
of the letter, as is now customary, but
by the receiver. So, of course, there
were many poor people who could not
afford to pay nincpence when their
mail arrived, and it often happened
that they were obliged to forfeit the
letters.
One day a man named Rowland Hill
was riding on the outskirts of a city,
and he saw a postman bring a letter to
a young girl and demand ninepeiice
for it. The girl took the letter, scru
tinized It carefully and then handed it
back to the man, saying she could not
afford to pay the postage. Thereupon
Rowlund Ilill, being a kind hearted
man, rode up and insisted upon paying
it himself. When the postman had
gone, the girl confessed to her bene
factor that, the letter was from her
lover, and to avoid paying nincpence
on every letter lie made certain marks
on the envelope which she alone could
decipher.
"But," said Rowland llill, "don't
you know you arc doing something
very dishonest in thus cheating the
government?"
The girl admitted she did, but there
was no other way to do.
Hill rode away aud meditated over
this little incident, and his farfamed
Idea of "penny postage" was the re
sult. At first he was laughed at by
every one, but he fought bravely and
finally was rewarded by seeing his
Idea In practice all over the land.—New
York Tribune.
A JapnneNe Iletrnctlon.
The art of retracting without taking
anything back—if the Dull may be ul
lowed—seems to be understood in Ja
pan. A young orator ut a political
meeting called a public official a thief.
A policeman on duty gravely rose and
uddressod u remark in a low tone to
the speaker, who thereupon said, "The
chief of police requests me to retract
the word which I have Just spoken.
Although the word of a sage should
never re-enter, let us make a conces
sion; let us take back the word and
keep the idea." Great applause and
cries of "Bravo!" greeted the orator's
escape from his dilemma.—Youth's
Companion.
Wliy Tennyson Wrote No Letters.
Tennyson once told Sir Henry Tay
lor that he thanked God Almighty
with his whole heart and soul that he
knew nothing and that the world knew
nothing of Shakespeare but his writ
ings and that lie knew nothing of June
Austen and that there were no letters
preserved either of Shakespeare or of
Jane Austen; that they, In fact, hud
notlbeen "ripped open, like pigs."
Time For Business.
Pu—Has that young man who has
been calling on you ruther frequently
of late any steady occupation?
Daughter—Oh, yes, pu. He's a trav
eling man.
Pa—lndeed! Well, please tell him
when he calls again I'd like to have
him attend strictly to business when
the clock strikes 10.—Richmond Dis
patch.
Poetry nt Home.
"Posterity will discover me," said
the poet.
"If it docs," replied his wife, who
was all tired out because they couldn't
afford to keep a girl, "it will probably
regret any time it wasted in doing so."
—Chicago Itecord-llerald.
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make misfortune more bitter. They
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mitigate the remembrance of death.—
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THE BLACK-JACK PARTY
Graphic Account of the Mobbing of
Union Men In Philadelphia—An
Object Lesson of Quayism.
The Quay machine literary bureau
Is trying to create a false impression
In the public mind concerning the re
cent outrageous attack on the Union
party convention in Philadelphia. For
cible expression of what he thinks of
the raid of the Quay mob is given by
Harry S. Paul, chairman of the Alle
gheny organization, and head of the
Western Pennsylvania delegations, in
a letter received by State Chairman
Thomas L. Hicks. Ho vividly de
scribes Incidents of the affair which
came to his notice.
Mr. Paul is a prominent business
man of Pittsburg. He declares that
the riotous attack was one of the
greatest criminal outrages in the his
tory of Pennsylvania politics, and will
cost the Republican machine ticket
many thousand votes. His letter iu
part follows:
As I looked upon the Union party as
semblage, just before the rioters broke
in, 1 saw an unusually fine body of re
spectable, law-abiding Republican bus
iness men, gathered from all parts of
the commonwealui, at least live-sixths
of whom had never before sat in a po
litical state convention, and who were
earnestly desirous of discharging the
duty committed to them by thefr fel
low citizens and constituents.
As If Jail Doors Had Opened.
After the mob appeared all was
changed. Then in the portions of the
hall occupied by its members could be
seen only brutal, criminal laces, bear
ing the marks of vice all over them,
and the thought occurred that Moya
mensing and the Eastern Penitentiary
had opened their doors and given a
day's holiday to several hundred of
their inmates for the sole purpose of
advancing the interests of Quayism,
Penroseism and Pennypackerism in
this commonwealth.
The impression was deepened by the
sight of revolvers bulging from the hip
pockets of some of the; mob, and of
billies and knives in the possession of
others, some of the latter having been
used in the attack upon the hall.
The sight of Quayism, Penroseism
and Pennypackerism thus nakedly un
masked was worth a thousand cam
paign speeches and 10,000 newspaper
articles, and its effect upon the de
cent citizens who beheld it and who
would not have believed that such
things were possimo otherwise was in
calculable.
The result, as I personally know, was
the instant conversion of twenty dele
gates holding legal certificates, who in
tended to oppose Pattison's nomina
tion, and some of whom proposed to
vote for Pennypacker, to the support
of Pattison and this number fell short
of all so converted.
Signed Statement By Clearfield Dele
gates.
Believing it their duty to enlighten
as many voters as possible as to the
attack of 200 armed Quay thugs on the
recent Union party convention in Phil
adelphia, Clearfield county's five dele
gates have united In a signed state
ment setting forth the facts.
These delegates are Frank W. Bar
ratt, real estate agent and lumber
dealer: Jacob Burge, lumberman; Cas
ner J. Stull, policeman; P. L. Showers,
dentist, and John E. Harder, merchant,
all reputable men. When they went
to the convention they were not for
Pattison, but their experience in the
riot quickly converted them.
After describing in detail how the
mob led by Sheehan broke up the con
vention, they go on to say:
We want to say that we have always
been Republicans, but of late years,
since the Quay machine has become a
public stench to the nostrils of the peo
ple of Pennsylvania, we have linen In
dependent Republicans. We believe in
the doctrines of Roosevelt and the Re
publican party.
We cannot vote for or support Judge
Pcnnypackrr. because he is being held
up as a shield in front of the dirty ma
chine, which has no more principle or
any better standing in the great com
monwealth than those criminals which
were hired by the machine to break
into the Union party convention on the
3d day of September, 1902.
1 We had heard of the disgraceful and
shameless method's employed by the
machine at their conventions, in the
late legislature, and at many of the
election districts in Philadelphia and
Pittsburg, but wo had never seen one
in full bloom until wo witnessed the
diegraceul riot In Musical Fund Hall.
We were not committed to any cantii
date when we left Clearfield for the
ronvention. We nad not been instruct
ed, neither had we signed any agree
ment to support any particular candi
date, but our minds were soon made
up when we saw a machine mob in con
trol of a convention, and saw the char
acter of the criminals employed by the
machine to carry out its designs, even
at the cost of murder, if necessary.
These are our observations, and we
believe it is our duty as business men
of this great state of Pennsylvania to
support, vote for and work to the best
of our ability for the election of Hon.
Robert E. Pattison for governor of
Pennsylvania, and to employ every
honorable means possible to elect good
men to supersede the disreputable and
disgraceful gang of machine boodlers
now in charge of the affairs of our
state.
Loot Equals One-Half the Taxes.
Here are a few paragraphs picked
from the Pattison speech at Carlisle:
in the last legislative session a Unit
ed States senatorsnip was nteiuiiy
auctioned off to the highest bidder. You
don't need to take my word for it. You
have the word of prominent and re
liable members ot the Republican
party.
The public franchises issued by the
machine to its members, tor which an
offer of $2,500,000 from John Wana
inaker was rejected, have been con
verted into the assets oi a 'syndicate,
whose stock, according to the ratings
of the Philadelphia Exchange, is val
ued at $6,000,000.
Do you know what $6,000,000 means?
It represents half the total expenses of
the state government for a year. If
that sum had been turned into the
state treasury, where it belongs, in-
Btead of into the pockets of the machine
favorites, the people of Pennsylvania
could have been relieved of one-half
of the taxation for state purposes this
year. Or, suppose it had been devoted
to good roads. It would have meant
$l3O for every square mile in the
state, or an average of nearly SIOO,OOO
to each of the 67 counties.
Guthrie's Sledge-Hammer Blows.
Candidate Guthrie was at his best at
Carlisle. Following are some of his
declarations which provoked great ap
plause:
Don't be deceived by men who, start
in:; out in the cause "i good govern
ment, have grown weary. In every
great movement there are those who go
out with the van. but soon fall to the
rear with the slaves.
The dominant machine lives by trick
ery, gains power by ballot fraud and
uses that power to make money for its
adherents.
No man ever stole an office for a
good purpose.
The worst charges against the ma
chine have never been denied. They
cannot be denied.
When a man occupying a private
trust uses the money of others in
stock speculations the law calls him an
embezzler and sends him to a felon's
cell. Yet we see today men holding
high public offices converting the prop
erty of the people into franchises for
themselves and their associates.
The machine has been promising bal
lot reform since 1895. If the boss in
Philadelphia were to issue the order,
every illegal name on the padded regis
try list would disappear.
If such an outrage as the assault on
the Union party state convention were
to be perpetrated in Russia, the man
hood of the civilized world would cry
out against it.
It is said that among the state militia
men doing service in the coal region 307
enlistments expired since they went on
duty and of these only twenty-two pri
vates fejoinod the National Guard.
Some of the companies have only a
skeleton organization and the officers
cannot induce men to enlist.
The kind that cured your Grandfather.
DR. DAVID CRCC
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May 18. 1902.
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