The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-29
WANAMAKERISM EXPLAINED.
Penn" in Philadelphia Bulletin.

Penn" in Philadelphia Bulletin.
The canvass which the Independents
made for Grow in 1881 does not compare
in thorOughness and resources with the
canvass which has been made this year
in the interior for Wanamaker. No point
has been left uncovered, no man who
could possibly be pulled away from his
allegiance to Quay's leadership has been
neglected, and no lary'r amount of money
has ever been expended in senatorial
contest in the memory of this generation.
The men who are most active in support
ing the Philadelphia merchant are either
rich OF old stagers in politics. and not In
frequently both. Thomas Dolan, with his
large knowledge of the springs of action
in Pennsylvania politics, his sagacious
diplomacy and his persuasive power as
an organizer and provider, has been a
potent force in organizing business men.
while young Frank Willing Leach, who
knows something of every wheel and cog
In the state organization from stem TO
stern. has ever since last summer given
up his days and nights to the Wanamaker
cause. These two men alone, with can
didate like Wanamaker, would make a
pretty formida BILE team to buck against
and to them are to be added not only
an array of milliOnaires and mercantile
magnates, but an assortment of veterans
in politics like Magee, Martin and Losch.
Some of these managers, or their agents,
spent money literally early last spring in
the campaigns for nominating members
of the Legislature, and it is now charged,
although with much eXaggeratiOn, that
fully $4,000 has been expended In the M
terest of the Philadelphia.
The Wanamaker canvass which vir-
tually began nearly a year ago, was much
ridiculed at the start; but 1t has developed
into movement which Quay men conf
dentially admit will tax all their resources
to crush. Minus Governor Hastings. it
embOdies all the elements of the combine
in city and state in its first fight on Quay;
men who have since become disgruntled
over Quay; the mercantile forces Of Phila-
delphia, some Old-time anti-Quay reform
ers; strong mOneyed interests; and not
a few enthusiastic persons who regard
Wanamaker as a being who falls hardly
short of divine inspiration. The cOmbina-
tion, IL motley one, Is stronger than the
combine of 1898 I'm Its direct fight against
Quay, and has been conducted with en-
trOrdinary skill and energy as regards
the circulation of money, literature and
scandal But the effects of its work are
not so visible here as they are in the in
terror. The majority of the Philadelphia
utltSdtlOH Will ne uSdlHSl
only one of the dozen daily papers here
Notwithstanding the fact that they derive
a quarter of a million dollars in advertis-
ing revenue from him, is openly and un-
reservedly supporting him, and that one
is owned by his son-in-law: and even some
of the regulation anti-Quay forces Cf
former years are now passive or luke
warm. Outside of the city there is con-
siderable popular sentiment for the Phila-
delphian on the part of honest. homely
folk; there are plenty of editorials in the
country press which ring with tributes
and hOsannas, while in New York the
raking fire which he was expected to
receive from the guerillas and sharp
shooters of papers like the World. Sun
and Post has been indefinitely postponed
since his advent into New York as one
Of the most desirable of their advertisers
in his magnificent revival of the a. 4.
Stewart business.