Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-29
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strued or misrepresented.
! !. The central figure and financial
4 promoter of the opposition to the Re-
publican party at this time is Mr. Wan
7 amaker, who was a candidate for cleo
tion. to the office of United States sem
ator to succeed Mr.. Cameron. The Re-
4 publicans of the state defeated him in
his aspiration for that office. He then
announced and prosecuted a campaign
! for the Republican nomination for gov
ernor of the commonwealth. After an
! aggressive contest waged by himself
! and friends throughout the state he
/ was defeated for the nomination.
! With these disappointments fresh In
| his mind he attempts to defeat the
| party in which he so recently sought
! but did not receive political preferment
! and now denounces the very same
| party leadership which he was anxious
and willing to serve so long as it aided
/ him in securing desirable offices. He
and his friends have made charges
! of all sorts against the Republican or
/ ganiZation.
Many of these charges were answer
ed by me in a statement given to the
! public several days ago, and / shall
now ask your indulgence while reply
is made to his more recent utterances
One of the charges which has been in
dustriously circulated in every part Of
the state is that the regular organiza-
ton of the party, in some mysterious
way not apparent, has been able to get
a candidate in opposition to the re-
election of Hon. Charles w. Stone. |
take this opportunity to say that this
charge is absolutely, unqualifiediy and
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shadow of foundation in fact. 1t is
a fabrication worked out of the in
ventive imagination of designing per-
sons who do not even believe it them
selves. The regular organization of the
party is anxious to elect Republican
congressman in every congressional
district in the state. and will spare no
efforts to accomplish this result. The
candidate for governor who sits with
me on this stage will soon appear on
the same platform with the Hon. c.
w. Stone in his district advocating
the election of the whole Republican
ticket 1t is our confident expectation
that the hands of President Mckinley
will be upheld in the next congress by
as many Republican congressman from
Pennsylvania as now occupy seats IN
the national house of representatives.
HOW Kaufman WAS SDEFEATED
. 1t is further charged that Senator
Quay or his friends in the Republican
organization secured the defeat of Sen
ator Kaufman at the primaries in his
senatorial district. My answer is that
he did not. If such orders had been
given, as chairman of the Republican
organization | would have been ap-
prised of the fact, and / desire to state
in the most positive and unequiVocal
language that Senator Quay never said
to me. nor to anyone else. so far as L
know or am informed that he even
desired the defeat of Senator Kauff-
man. 1t is a well known fact that the
| leaders of the Republican party in Lam
caster county who made the fight
against Senator Kaufman complained
because Senator Quay would not take
part in that contest. There is another
significant fact in connection with that
controversy that may have escaped his
notice. and that is that ex-senator
Cameron favored the denomination of
Kaufman, and influential friends of
the latter gentleman living in his dis
trict succeeded in getting Cameron to
espouse the cause of Kaufman with
Senator Quay. That contest was
local one from start to finish. and the
only interference from the outside was
that made by Mr.. Wanamaker himself,
who went into the district, and in sew
eral speeches openly and aggressively
supported his friend Kaufman. He may
or may not know that the primaries
in that district are held under the pop
ular vote system, and the people decide
by direct vote whom they prefer as
their candidates for public Offices 1t
looks to me. although in this my judg-
ment NAV be at fault, that the Re
publican voters. or large majority OF
them, in that district resented the at
tempted interference of Mr.. Wanna
maker. AS a rule voters in the coEn-
try districts do not take kindly to city
chaps who volunteer to tell them how
| TO vote. and | have no doubt that the
Lancaster county Republicans felt
themselves entirely capable of choosing
their own senator without the aid OF
the merchant politician. At any rate
a candidate was chosen by large ma
jority of the Republicans who took
part in the primaries, and since we
live under form of government where
| the majority rules it is our duty to
accept their decision as final and con-
! elusive.
s. Another charge made by these po-
litical dstulbers is that Senator Quay
and Colonel Stone defeated the renomi-
nation of Congressman Stahl in the
I Nineteenth district TO this charge
! reply that it IS untrue. ! answer in this
! positive manner because there is in
my possession the convincing evidence
! that the denomination of Congressman
| Stahl was defeated by a barter and
! sale deal made by the friends of Mr..
| Wanamaker and in his interest. So
| that all may know why such deal
! was made. it will be helpful to state the
/ political situation in that district
/ which is composed of the counties of
/ York. Adams and Cumberland. York
I is Democratic county, Adams is
! close. while Cumberland often elects
| Republican members to the house. 1t
/ was we'll known to the Wanamaker
/ managers that York county could not
give him any Republican votes in the