Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-12-01
INAUGURATION PLANS
Thousands of Republicans Will
Witness the installation of
GOvernOr-EIeCt Stone.
MORE WANAMAkERISn
How the Van Valkenberg- Blanken-
bnrg Combine Helped the
Democracy


Especial Harrisburg Correspondence to the Plila-
delphia Inquirer
! HARRISBURG, Nov. 21.--Plans are
already under way for the Inaugural
ton of Colonel William A. Stone, as
! Governor of Pennsylvania, and for the
organization of the Legislature, which
will in January next undoubtedly re-
elect Colonel Matthew Stanley Quay
/ to the United States Senate. Colonel
| Stone, who since the election has been
/ taking a well earned rest, is expected
/ here shortly, when the local Republi-
cans hope to have an opportunity to
confer with him regarding the pro-
| posed plans for his Inauguration. The
feeling of resentment at the guerilla
campaign Waged by the Wanamaker
combine against Colonel Stone was
fittingly expressed by the Republicans
of the Keystone State in the magnif-
cent plurality, over 100, 900, given their
candidate at the polls This feeling
will be accentuated at the Inaugural
tion of Colonel Stone by popular
demonstration which will put the seal
of condemnation on the whole Wana-
maker r-Blankenburg-Va Valkenburg
outfit.
Commenting on the latest move of
these selfish manipulators member
of Congress who has just been re-
elected, while stopping off here on his
tp III IoI tn
A DEMOCRAT A DEMOCRAT.
''In its latest pronounciamento, eX-
planning, how it was done the Blank
enburg-Van Valkenberg Business
League had a good deal to say about
the number of anti-Quay men it had
elected to the Legislature, For in
stance, in the proclamation referred
to it was stated that in II out of Is
counties visited by John Wanamaker
and other speakers under the auspices
of the League during the last three
weeks of the campaign all elected
anti-Quay members ofthe legislature
upon the same principles that
spade should be called spade, Dem
ocrat should be called a Democrat
wherever he is found The truth is,
in the twelve counties referred to
Democrats were elected-out-and-o out,
-in-the-wool yard-wide Democrats,
disciples of William Jennings Bryan
and advocates of free silver. That is
the kind of 'anti-Quay members elected
tp ha | lot nj Of
John Wanamaker and Blankenburg-
VanValkenberg Business League. And
that was precisely what this cOterie of
ambitious statesmen planned and
strove hard to accomplish for six
months prior to November g, to wit,
the election of Democrats to the Legis-
lature.
"What are the facts? Last spring
the Blankenburg-Van Valkenberg
Business League made fight at the
Republican primaries in a score or
more of counties in behalf of certain
candidates for the Legislature, but
were overwhelmingly defeated In
only one county of the State, where
there was contest, were the friends
of Senator Quay unsuccessful, and the
result was due solely to a fight for the
Congressional nomination. When,
therefore the primaries were over and
all the nominations had been made the
Blankenburg-Van Valkenbarg Busi-
ness League discovered that of the 229
Republican nominees for the Senate
and House not more than ten of them
were under their control or in SYM
pathy with their reactionary program.
COMBINATION WITH DEMOCRATS.
''Their next step lay in the direction
of attempted combinations with the
Democrats, with a view to putting
coalition Legislative tickets in the
field. Owing, however, to disposi-
tion upon the para of the Democrats to
have all or nothing the Wanamaker
coterie succeeded in effecting combin-
ations in only four counties of the
State-Chester, Blair, Huntingdon and
Delaware-and in these only five
former Republicans were named, the
remaining nominees in the four coun-
ties mentioned being Democrats. The
Blankenburg-Van Valkenberg Business
League supported, therefore, in the
entire State only the original ten Re-
publicans nominated by them at the
primaries, together with the five So
called Repu blicans who were running
independently and in the Democratic
column. The ten regular nominees
were elected, being supported by the
friends of Mr.. Quay, though known to
be opposed to him, and in addition
three of the five former Republicans
two in Chester and one in Blair-were
elected. This was the absolute limit
nF inf of