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FREELAND, PA., OCTOBER 22, 1902.
QUAY ON BAYONET RULE
How the Republican Boss Would Set
tle Labor Troubles.
While Doss Quay has been so
loudly pretending a desire to settle
the great coal strike peaceably and
posing as the "friend" of the miners,
it is well to recall what he said in a
speech at Phoenixville, Chester coun
ty, on the night of October 27, 1900.
Here it is:
"Good government is to erect a
citizen soldiery which can he thrown
to any point in the commonwealth to
sustain outraged law at 24 hours no
tice, and which can furnish FIFTEEN
THOUSAND BAYONETS for thj
"United States service on call."
The Quay shouters were too previ
ous, declaring their boss had settled
the coal strike. Nothing wa3 done
until this arch political trickster quit
meddling. The operators and miners
knew he had but one purpose, and that
was to use the situation to make polit
ical capital. In this he failed utterly.
Had it not been for the betrayal of the
miners' cause at Harrisburg there
Would have been no strike.
Certain mischevious and selfish po
litical elements worked hard to use
John Mitchell as a political club, but
they mistook their man. The miner's
chieftan carries a level head on his
shoulders. He sticks to his text and
his great work, and has made a record
as a friend of humanity of which any
man might be proud.
Independent Republicans care noth
ing for the decision of the Dauphin
County court concerning the Union
party ticket. They propose to vote
straight for Pattison and Guthrie, a
hundred thousand strong.
The coal miners know who their
friends are. Their tremendous vote
last year showed that they understood
the situation. They will hit the tricky
Quay machine harder still on Nov. 4.
Pennypacker and his warming pan
have had hard times through the north
ern tier. The voters everywhere seem
to have sized up the short-sighted
Quay apologist.
With active workers in every school
district, Chairman Creasy hopes to
get out every Democratic vote. Lend
a hand, in the interest of clean poli
tics and honest government.
The publication of Pattison's re
markable labor record, his official
words and acts, was a knock-out blow
from which the machine literary bu
reau has not recovered.
In his swing around the circle
Brother Pennypacker has not been dis
turbed to any great extent by the
shouting in the Elkin amen corner
when Brother Elkin was not there.
An anti-machine majority in the leg
islature is one of the best things con
fidently looked for. Work for it
everywhere.
Workers In Every School District.
State Chairman Creasy has named a
committee of workers for every school
district in the whole state, and the at
taches of state Democratic headquar
ters are busy sending out several
thousand letters of notification to the
men selected in the counties of the
commonwealth. The chairman has ar
ranged for one of the liveliest guberna
torial campaigns ever undertaken in
the state, and will have "the fences
fixed" in every county. The men
named on these sub-committees have
been recommended by the county
chairmen of the districts, and will car
ry trie work of getting out the votes
for Pattison into every precinct in the
smallest political division in the state.
The arrangements have been in pro
gress for several weeks and the com
mitteemen will ie urged to make every
effort for the ticket. Cordial support
is being given to the state chairman
in all counties.
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE COAL
TRUBT.
An artlcl* In the last number ot the
Lehlghton (Pa.) Press entitled "Coal
trust organized under Paulson," sent
out by the Republican 6tate committee,
contains some statements which en
title Its author to the first prize for
both mendacity and stupidity. No one
could have written the article without
malicious purpose of misrepresenting
the facts, for It contains statements
that must have been the Invention of
the writer. No one could have writ
ten the article who was possessed of
ordinary intelligence and foresight, for
the most cursory examination of the
history of the case, and Its official
records, will disclose the falsehood and
Impale the falsifier.
After reciting the well-known fact
that In 1892 the Reading, Lehigh Val
ley and Jersey Central, coal carrying
roads, undertook to form a combina
tion, it goes on to allege that Governor
Pattison received a complaint against
this combination, and "refused to in
terfere;" it characterizes this neglect
on his part as "a black and damnable
record."
Let us now see and prove how
quickly this lie can be nailed. Twenty
four hours after the first notice of this
combination was brought to the at
tention of Governor Pattison ho re
ferred it to Hon. W. U. Hensel, then
attorney general of the state. That
official Immediately summoned the
companies complained of before hiin;
he gave them a fair and Impartial bear
ing, and, at the conclusion of it, held
that the spirit, if not the letter, of the
constitution, had been violated; he
Immediately went into the courts of
Dauphin county and filed a bill in
equity against all the companies com
plained of; he required them to an
swer, and the various steps of this liti
gation are thus pointed out on page 15
of his official report to the general as
sembly of the state at the session of
1893:
After such hearing and argument on
behalf of the railroad corporations, to
the point that no occasion for inter
ference by the state existed, 1 deter
mined that the interests of the com
monwealth and the rights of the pub
lic demanded that the questions in
volved in the attempted combination
and consolidation of the coal trans
porting and coal producing interests
and ot parallel and competing rail
roads, should be Judiciously determin
ed; and accordingly, on March 15, 1892,
in the Dauphin County Court of Com
mon Pleas, I filed a bill in equity
against the Philadelphia and Reading
Raiiroad Company, the Philadelphia
and Reading Coal and Iron Company,
the Port Reading Railroad Company,
the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company,
of New jersey, the Lehigh Coal and
Navigation Company, and the Lehigh
and wilkesbarre Coal Company, averr
ing the facts, as I had gathered them,
of the combination of the railroads,
asking for a discovery of the leases,
contracts and agreements, and for a de
cree that they be declared null and
void, and that the property of the
leased lines and companies bo surren
dered to their former owners and the
companies operating them.
In due time the companies defendant
filed answers and demurrers to the
bills. The court appointed J. C. Mac-
Alarney and Charles 11. ex
aminers, and from time to time they
have held many meetings in Harris
burg and In Philadelphia, taking testi
mony In the cases. The facts have
been secured by personal inquiry and
examinations, and the commonwealth
succeeded in obtaining admissions
from the defendants from time to time
of the accuracy of the statements,
maps and other evidence, which have
been prepared to sustain the averments
of its bill. The testimony in the case
on behalf of the commonwealth is
about, concluded, and but for an un
avoidable interruption In its progress
the matter could have been submitted
for argument in the Dauphin County
Court of Common Pleas before the
close of the year.
In November, 1893, all the companies
defendant annulled these leases and
agreements, and filed an aswer in the
courts, in which they set forth that
the leases complained of had been for
feited, annulled, vacated and termi
nated, and that each company defend
ant had re-entered into possession,
control and operation of their respec
tive properties, and upon this showing,
and after they had paid all the costs
of the proceedings, the courts of Dau
phin county allowed the bills to be
dismissed.
Everything that was complained of
was promptly made the subject of ju
dicial proceeding; everything that was
demanded by the situation was pushed
promptly to a judicial conclusion; and
not a single complaint of this, or any
other kind, against any combination,
trust or corporation was ever made to
Governor Pattison that was not prompt
ly taken cognizance of and pushed to
a termination in the courts.
Philadelphia last week gave Pat
tison and Guthrie the biggest kind of
a welcome, after their great tour of
the state. The local organization, we
are assured, is doing fine work this
time, and a great vote to turn the ras
cals out at Harrisburg is now certain.
,Ie machine's bluff about 100,000 ma
jority for Pennypacker is laughed at,
even by the lightning calculators
themselves. They know they will do
well if they can get the third of it.
THE MINERS'RELIEF SYSTEM
Condenacd Description of Dlstrftbat-
Inn: the Strike Fund.
Two alternative principles were put
forth at the Inception of the relief dis
tribution. According to the first prin
ciple, euch striker was to be treated
with absolute equality, a "flat" or uni
form payment being made to each
union striker, while the second princi
ple provided that each should receive
according to his needs. It was felt
that the first principle was ideally the
more perfect, but would have required
vastly more funds than wore at the
disposal of the union. The money re
ceived was therefore distributed ac
cording to the needs of the applicants.
The funds received by the national or
ganization were divided among the
three districts of the anthracite re
gions in proportion to the number of
mine workers in each, but each of
these districts redistributed its quota
according to the requirements of the
various locaJs composing it. Even here
a rough approximation seems to have
been made to the number of mine
workers in the various locals, although
some of the locals demanded less than
their share, while others, it is claimed,
have hitherto refused ull aid whatso
ever. In the distribution of relief no
discrimination has been mudc against
nonunion miners, who receive the same
amount of aid as the union miners.
The system of accounting appears to
be both simple and effective. The dis
trict officers have printed order books
in the shape of checkbooks, with de
tachable orders and stubs. These or
ders, which the miner receives, are not
convertible into cash, but are accepted
by the local grocer in payment for
flour, potatoes, meat, canned goods, etc.
The amount granted appears to be in
approximate proportion to the food re
quirements of the striking population,
u certain amount being allowed each
single man, an additional sum for a
wife and a still further increment for
each child or other dependent, vary
ing, however, with the age and re
quirements of such children or depend
ents. In the majority of cases rent
does not seem to be paid, neither the
companies nor private owners appear
ing desirous of evicting tenants. No
payment seems to be made for fuel,
since the mine workers and their fam
ilies pick coal from the dump or culm
heap and even sell the excess to the
local consumers.
Relief umong the mine workers has
thus assumed its simplest proportions,
with the result that the powers of re
sistance of the striker have been vastly
increased. In the northern district, at
least, there seems to be no great
amount of visible suffering, such as
would find expression in street begging
and the pawnshop or selling of house
hold goods. The problem of relief is,
of course, simplified by the fact that it
is a normally working body of men
and not a hopeless, dependent popula
tion that is being supported, and by
the further fact that a feeling of soli
darity and class adherence exists
which tends to render frauds infre
quent and unsuccessful.—Walter E.
Weyl in New York Charities.
Jerome nnd llie Labor Leader*.
District Attorney Jerome replied to
the New York C. F. U.'s challenge to
"name even one labor leader who had
sold out or betrayed his trust from
worklngnien," with a letter in which he
named two delegates of the Bricklayers'
union, who are under indictment for ex
tortion, but as these men have not yet
been tried by a Jury of their peers and
convicted it was declared to be a pret
ty slim substantiation of the district
attorney's sweeping charge against la
l>or leaders generally.
"This reply from Jerome," said Dele
gate* Harris at a meeting of the C. F. U.
"shows that he has prejudged the case
against the unconvicted men nnd that
he is unfit to act as their prosecutor.
The evident animus of the district at
torney justifies a demand on the part
of the accused for a change of venue
where such prejudice against organized
labor does not exist."
Secretary Bohm was Instructed to
write again to Mr. Jerome, directing
his attention to the unfairness of his
attack on these two men before they
have been tried.—New York Journal.
The Monroe Doctrine.
According to press dispatches, the
convention of the United Brotherhood
of Carpenters and Joiners adopted a
resolution asserting that "if the Mon
roe doctrine is good in American poli
tics it is equally good in American
trades unionism; hence we deny the
moral right of a foreign organization
to in any manner attempt to occupy
our sphere of influence." The resolu
tion owes its origin to reports present
ed to the convention stating that cer
tain English trades unions have en
deavored to break into the Jurisdiction
of American unions. It is the intention
of the carpenters to bring this subject
before the next convention of the
American Federation of Labor.—Typo
graphical Journal.
Child Worker*.
There were 10,840 permits issued to
children of the age of fourteen or over
to work in the establishments of New
York during the past year. Of this
number 9,004 were boys and 7,230 were
girls. It looks pretty hard to rob these
infants of a few years' schooling in or
der to gain the $2 per week that their
labor will bring into the family.—Will
S. Waudby.
The Dltc Federation.
The American Federation of Labor
has affiliated with it 93 international
and national unions, 27 state labor
bodies, 410 city central bodies and
about 14,000 local trades unions. These
have a membership of over 2,000,000.
The parent body has 900 voluntary or
ganizers, 80 general organizers and 30
salaried organizers, who travel all over
the North American continent.
PEOPLE OF THE DAY
The VlNltliiK Prince.
Crown Prince Chowfa Malm Yajira
vudh of Slam, who comes to make a
tour of this country, is a rather hand
some and Intelligent young fellow and
seems to take a keen interest in the
affairs of this republic and the strange
contrasts they present to those of the
oriental monarch}' over which he will
CHOWFA MAHA VAJIRAVUDH.
fjme day rule. The prince Is twenty
two years of age and was proclaimed
heir to the throne of Sin in on his fif
teenth birthday in accordance with a
custom of that country whereby a
reigning monarch names his successor,
who mjed not necessarily lie ids eldest
son. In this case the crown prince is
the oldest child of the king's second
wife, all Ids children by his first wife
having been daughters. Prince Chow
fa lias passed much time in England,
where his education has been mainly
acquired. He studied there under pri
vate tutors, graduated from the Sand
hurst Military academy and attended
Oxford university, of which he is an
undergraduate. He represented the
king of £j}iam at the coronation of King
Edward and is now making a tour of
the world a finishing touch to his
education. His father. King Chula
longkorn 1., is regarded as the most
enlightened and progressive potentate
of the orient.
Artlnt Whlwfler'a Acknowledgment.
James A. MacNeill Whistler, the artist,
in the witty letter in which lie recently
acknowledged the courtesy shown him
by friends In his recent illness, wrote:
"It is my marvelous privilege, then, to
come back, as one would say, while the
air Is still warm with appreciation, af
fection and regret and to learn in lww
little I had offended. The continuing
to wear my own hair and eyebrows
after distinguished confreres and emi
nent persons had long ceased this habit
has, I gather, clearly given pain. This,
I see, Is much remarked on. It is even
found inconsiderate and unseemly in
me as hinting at affectation." Whistler
promises in coming years to lose these
"outer signs of vexing presumption."
Mr*. Rooaevell'N Social Secretary.
Miss Isabel Ilagner, who has for
some months occupied the unique posi
tion of social secretary to the "first
lady of the land," has lately fallen
heir, through the death of an aunt, to
$10(),0i)() and a handsome Washington
residence, and it is intimated that she
is shortly to become the wife of Lieu
tenant Thomas 11. Hicks, a paymaster
in tlie United States navy. Miss Ilag
ner is one of the most beautiful and
accomplished young women of Wash
ington and is an example of the pluck
and energy of the American girl.
Seven years ago she made her debut
in Washington society. Her father was
one of the leading physicians in the
national capital. From her mother she
had Inherited a fortune of nearly SIOO,-
MISB IHAIIEL HAGNER.
000. Through unfortunate speculations
her money was lost. Her father be
came a confirmed invalid. From be
ing a belle she was placed under the
necessity of providing not only for her
self, but for her father and small
brothers. She bravely set to work
and in a short time was appointed to
a clerical position in the war depart
ment. Her friends had been accus
tomed to consult her in regard to so
cial forms, and she finally resigned her
position and devoted her talents ex
clusively to this line of work, finally
becoming Mrs. Roosevelt's secretary.
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RAILROAD TIMETABLES
LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD.
May 18. 1902.
ARRANGEMENT OF PASSENGER TRAINS.
LEAVE PREBLAND.
6 12 a m for Weatherlj*, Mauch Chunk
Allcntown, Bethlehem, Kuston, Philu
delpliiii and Now York.
7 29 a in for Sandy ltun. White Haven,
Wilkes-Barre, Pittston and Seraotou.
8 15 a in for Hazleton, Weatherly, Mauch
Chunk. Allentnwn, Bethlehem. Easton.
Philadel|)hia, Now York, Delano and
Pottsville.
9 58 a in lor Hazleton, Delano, Muhunoy
City, Shenandoah and Mt. < armol.
1 1 45 a in for Weatherly, Mauch Chunk, Al
lcntown, Bethlehem, Kuston, Phila
delphia, Now York, Hazleton, Delano,
Mahanoy City, Shenundoah and Mt.
Carruel.
1141a m for White Haven, Wilkes-Harre,
Soranton and the West.
4 44 P m for Weatherly, Mauch Chunk. Al
lcntown, Bethlehem. Easton, Philadel
phia, Now York, Hazleton, Delano
Mahanoy City, Shenandoah. Mt. Cariuo.
and Pottsville.
6 35 P in for Sandy ltun. White Haven,
Wi ikes-Burro, Soranton and ail points
West.
7 29 p m for Hazleton.
ARRIVE AT FREELAND.
7 29 am from Pottsville, Delano and Haz
leton.
9 12 am from New York, Philadelphia, Eas
ton, Bethlehem, Allcntown, Mauch
Chunk. Weatherly, Hazleton, Mahanoy
City, Shenandoah and Mt. Curmel
9 58 a m from Soranton, Wilkes-Barre and
White Haven.
1141 am from Pottsville, Mt. Carruel, Shen
andoah, Mahanoy City, Delano and
Hazleton.
12 35 P m from New York, Philadelphia,
Easton, Bethlehem, Allcntown, Mauch
Chunk and Weatherly.
4 44 J> m from Soranton, Wilkos-Barro and
white Haven.
6 35 P m from Now York, Philadelphia,
Easton, Bethlehem Allcntown, Mauch
Chunk, Weatherly, Mt. Carmel, Shenan
doah, Mahanoy City, Delano and Hazle
ton.
7 29 P m from Scrauton, Wilkes-Barre and
white Haven.
For further Information inquire of Ticket
A fronts.
KOLLIN n. WlLßUß.General Superintendent,
2t> Cortlandt street. New York City,
CHAS. 8. LEE, General Passemrer Ayent.
20 Cortlandt Street. New York City.
G. J. GILDROY, Division Superintendent,
Hazleton, Pa.
THE DELAWARE, SUBQUKIIANNA AND
SCHUYLKILL RAILROAD.
Time table in effect May IH, IPG].
Trains leave Drifton for Jeddo, Eckley, Ha/ie
Brook, Stockton, Beaver Meadow Road, Roan
and Hazleton Junction at 600 a m, daily
except Sunday: and 7 07 a m, 2 38 p m, Sunday.
Trains loave Drifton for Oneida 'function,
Garwood Road, Humboldt Road, Oneida and
Shoppton at 600 a m, daily except Sun
day; and 7 07 a m, 2 38 p m. Sunday.
Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Oneida
Junction, Harwood Road, Humboldt Road,
Oneida and Shcppton at 6 32,1110 a m, 4 41 pin
daily except Sunday; and 737 am, ail pm'
Sunday. *
Trains leave Deringcr for Tomhicken, Cran
berry. Hai wood, Hazleton Junction and Roan
at 600 n ir, dsDy except Sunday; and 037
a m, 5 07 p m, Sunday.
Train, leave anep|>ton for Braver Meadow
Hoed, Stockton. Huzle Brook, Kokloy Jeddo
and Drifton nt 5 2B p m. dally, except Sunday:
and 311a m, 3 44 p m, Sunday,
Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Beaver
Meadow Hoad, Stockton. Hazle Brook, Bckley,
Jeddo and Drifton at 6 41) p m, doily,
except Sunday; and 10 10 a m, 5 40 p m, Sunday.
All trains connect at Hazleton Junction with
electric ears for Hazleton, J canes vi lie, Auden
ried and other points on the Traction Com
pany's linr^
Promptly Don# at the Trlbuue Offloe,