Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-11-05
PENNSYLVANIA.
Republicans Garry the keystone State
and Pbiladelpliia--An Endorsement OF

Bardsleyism.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 3.-Pennsylvania
has reversed her 1900 majority for a
Democratic governor of year ago for
Robert Il. Pattison, and has gone Republi-
can by what looks at this writing like
figures rising 10000
Philadelphia, Notwithstanding all Of the
Keystone Bank Bardsley crimes is also
swept by the same party with majority
of 10000 for the head of the state ticket
and 15,000 for the head of the city ticket
General David Mem. Gregg Of Berks
county, will be the next audtor-general
Captain John W. Morrison Of Allegheny
state treasurer; George d. McGreary, city
treasurer, and William H. Shield, register
of wills. Those defeated in the above
order are Robert Il. Wright and A. T..
ridden, w. Redwood Wright and Theodore
II. Jenkins.
III this city McCreary is elected city
treasurer by about 10000 to Is, 900 majority
and Shields, register of wills, by probably
5000.
The contest in the city has been one Of
great energy, and the Republican machine
has spent more money than ever before in
an off year. Debalichery ran riot in many
of the lower wards of the city, and thou
sands of trading Democrats voted direct
for the Republican candidates, while the
thousands of .'speak-easies,n gambling
ucllSs ullu HbusoS u pTpslllutlDU were
rallied to the support of the ticket by
promises Of police protection. The police
force was never more shamelessly used to
subyert the will of respectable citizens at
the polls. The result is that Quayism and
Bardsleyism have been granted a new
lease of power.
AT u. m. returns of the city of Phila-
delphia. with one ward still to hear from,
gives Gregg, r., for auditor-general, $3.50
nl1rnlItU EnrtV-tWn pnIfntine mt nf
in the state, exclusive of Philadelphia,
give Gregg 24,693 plurality. Morrison, r.,
for state treasurer. runs about even with
Gregg. Gregg now has, according to Re-
publican claims, 52,S73 plurality.
McCreary, for city treasurer, with the
missing ward to hear from, has 20, 900 ma
jority.
In this city there was an immense
amount of scratching on both sides. The
liarrity people had all along counted upon
lukeWarmncss on the part Of the Republi-
can wards, but III this they were deceived
The Federal departments. with ex-Sena-
tor Copper in the collectors office of the
custom house; the mint, under Colonel
Bosbyshell: the post-otliee, where Post
master-general Wanamaker's friend, John
Field, reigns-all We're levied upon in the
way Of assessments. Besides this the Phil
adelphla local departments were dawn
upon heavily, in some instances double
assessment being imposed. In this way
the Republicans were well provided, and
the Democrats charge that the money was
used where it would do the most good
Then, again, all of the old political
friends of the late Samuel ]. Randall, his
most trusted lieutenants like squire
McAIullen of the Fourth ward
We're determined to put the knife into
Iarrity because, as they term it. for his
ingratitude to the ex-Speaker i'll DESERVING
the latter, when he became estranged from
Cleveland.
The old admirers of the dead Lewis G.
Cassidy, the brilliant attorney general of
Pattison's first gubernatoriai administra-
ton, We're likewise disgruntled, and for
the same reasons.
It was no surprise. therefore, to find the
Third, Fourth, SIXTH Eleventh. Twelfth
and Seventeenth wards, all in the district
which William McAleer will represent in
the next Congress as the successor Of
Randall, cutting and slashing everything
that savored Of Harrityism. This is the
story Of the battle that has ended so dis
astrously to the Democratic party in this
city and state