The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-02-03

Tears Passion Into Tattors In q Fran
tic and Abusive Editorial Condemn
ing President Mckinley For Not Ap-
pointing Federal Onicinls Chosen by
This Preposterous Concern.
Especial Corresponlence.)
Philadelphia, Jan. 2i.-That curious
fungus on the body polite, the Busi-
ness Mems League. Is busily engaged
In arranging to defeat the nominations
Of the Republican party at the next
state election without regard to the
personnel OF that ticket.
The gentlemen connected with the
Wanamaker-Dolan organization being
all wealthy men and as rule men who
have made their fortunes because of
measures which originated and were
carried through by the Republican
party-notably the tariff laws - are
shining examples OF the truth OF the
statement that satan still finds mis-
chief for idle hands to do" They are
filling such newspapers as they can
command with lamentations and SLAM
ders. They are declaring in wholesale
terms that the Republican leaders In
Pennsylvania and the Republican or
ganization have neither character nor
intelligence. that they are wholly ig-
norant Of the desires Of the people Of
Pennsylvania and are animated solely
with the desire to injure and betray
them. Such practical political results
as they have been able to carry out to
the extent Of submission to the people
have invariably been annihilated at the
ballot box. The press agents and sal
aried mud singers Of this organization
continue to be Mr.. Frank Willing Leach,
the Van Valkenburg brothers, and some
of the minor agents Of the old hog
combine. In order to earn the liberal
salaries paid to these gentlemen under
the contracts made a year ago they are
running the Business Mems League
scandal bureau on double time. In this
they are assisted by one OF the Phila,
delphia morning papers. which seems
to exist wholly to carry out the wishes
Of these amateur political assassins.
The league Is Just now loud in the
declaration that another Delamater
campaign Is about to be undertaken by
the Republican party. All OF these gem
tlemen neglect to state that they de-
manded the nomination OF Delamater
in public calls and letters. and threat
ened to bolt II he was not placed at the
head Of the Republican ticket. They
avow that their purpose Is to overthrow
bossism. and yet they meet in secret
and seek TO make nominations for
United States senator's. governor and
other state officials, with n boldness
and impudence that no so called boss"
would dream Of.
These men and their associates have
for years been connected with every
plot to plunder the people Of Philadel-
phia. They have been engaged in gas
grabs, street paving grabs, traction rail-
way grabs, electric light grabs. and
every other scheme by which the ci,i-
citizens could be pundered.
Their purses have grown fat with the
results OF these raids upon the rights
of the citizens, and yet they are not
content. They are plotting alliance with
the Democrats; they are preparing for
independent tickets; they are slander-
ing every man whose record warrants
him in seeking a nomination at the
hands Of the Republican party for
prominent state onices-all for their
own selfish purposes. They will not
agree to lend their aid to the selection
or election of men who have unimpeach-
able public records, and who carry
county after county by popular vote at
the primaries. They take the position
that unless the men whom they select
and whom they expect to control in
office are placed In nomination they will
take their little tin dishes and go home
and make things very disagreeable for
everybody within range of their voices
If there be any discomfort in the ranks
OF the Republican party in the state
at this time 1t has been created and has
been fomented solely by this league of
business men, which has been repudi-
ated by every respectable and respon-
sible element of the party from the
president and his cabinet down to the
representatives of the Republican or
ganizations in the wards and districts
in which these men reside.
If the Republicans desire to create
and perpetuate Wanamaker-Dolan-
Leach-Van Valkenburg dynasty they
issue was an open and direct one at the
polls, and we believe that when
their eyes are opened and they see the
real purpose of these stuffed phophets
of Pennsylvania politics they will treat
them with the contempt they have al
ways shown them before. 1t is but fair
to infer that these gentlemen, having
grown rich on the plunder of Phiadel-
phia city, are now turning covetous
eyes upon the whole state of Pennsyl-
Vania, and desire the fatness thereof.
This annex to the Martin machine
in Philadelphia Is just now consumed
with rage over its failure to control
any of the federal appointments in the
city or state. The truth of the matter
Is that President Mckinley Is fully
aware of the selfish motives that con-
troll these men who pose as critics and
reformers. He has repeatedly snub-
bed them, and 1t looks as IL this fact