The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1896-12-19
HERE IL RICHNESS.
How the Great aud Good Wanamaker's
Campaign is Conducted.
Pittsburg Post

One Of the last moves in the Wanna
maker campaign is TO have petitions
signed by the employees Of great man
ufaeturing establishments In different
parts OF the state addressed to the
legislature, asking for the election of
Mr.. Wanamaker TO the senate on the
ground that ''no man In Pennsylvania
stand higher in the estimation of the
laboring classes than does Mr.. Wanna
maker" At how much hundred
names? This is supposed to be part
of the business campaign organized on
behalf of Mr.. Nanamaker.
Revelations of the way the s'busi-
ness campaign on behalf Of the Phil
delphia merchant was conducted in
Fayette county grow more interesting.
Mr.. Clark r. Baldwin, representa-
tive-elect, who on the face Of things
sold his vote to Mr.. Wanamaker's
agents, makes affidavit he was playing
the decoy game, precisely as it was
practiced in the case of Senator Finn
and the Indiana county delegates to
the state convention. Mr.. Baldwin
swears he met Mr.. Wanamaker at
Connellsyille, was introduced b. him
to ''Mr Won Nolkensburg, who APP
pears to have been Mr.. Wanamaker's
man of political business. TIL -ough
other Intermediates Mr.. Baldwin got
$500 'for campaign expenses condi-
toned that he would vote for Mr..
Wanamaker for the senate. The vir-
tuous Baldwin, however, proposed for
himself lines 0. retreat, which he now
finds Of peculiar advantage, and which
he describes in his ailidayt as fol-
lows:
The $500 | received on the night of
October 20 placed in the hands Of a
gentleman at Uniontown within three
hours after having received it, and
after receiving the other $500 | placed
| il in the hands of the same gentleman
and on each occasion made Il full
statement Of what took place and said
the matter should be at once exposed,
but after further consideration | con-
cluded to let the matter drop and at
the proper time return the money.
Overtures were made to me by other
persons, having reference to my sup
port of Mr.. Wanamaker, long before
| was approached by the persons named
in this statement, and it was only
after numerous invitations that ! con-
cluded to see what their purpose was.
The $500 is still in the hands of the
gentleman with whom it was deposit
ed at the time.
There is something very fresh about
this innocent statement. Mr.. Baldwin,
it would appear to most people dallied
too long with his exposure and held
on to the $500 too long. The question
arises, would he ever have made a
clean breast of it il his hand had not
been forced by exposure. He got the
money on the Goth of October, going
on two months ago. and took an un-
considerably long time to reach the
pitch OF virtue implied by what can
not be regarded as anything else than
compulsory exposure.
The incident will hardly help Mr..
Wanamaker in his aspirations for the
senate any more than it will Baldwin
as a rising Fayette statesman. Nor
will it add to the prestige of the ''bus-
iness-men's campaign" on Wanamak-
ers behalf. And it is another warn
ing that when these fresh politicians
attempt to get around Mathew Stan
ley Quay by little games of which he
has virtuous knowledge, incident to
his present exalted position as great
''reformer," they must rise with the
lark, be as wise as serpents and secre-
tive as Mr.. Quay himself. See Mr..
Finn on this point.