Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-10-26

we complain of will disappear.
He had once seen the gates ajar
for the national Senate and he
didn't get in, but it was not that
which troubles him. 1t is his
want for better government that
has induced him to travel up and
down the country making speeches.
He tickled the democrats under
the chin and bid for their support,
for his fellow political pilgrim
Robert Patterson, for Legislature,
when he said how much better it
would have been for the country
if the late Samuel j Randall had
been elected President than Mr..
Cleveland, for Randall was a pro-
tectionist and good government
man. He had stood by the bed
side of Mr.. Randall in his last
hour, and felt the last pressure of
his hand when he died. All the
offices that Randall had ever filled
had not enriched him, he died
poor. His long talk on the awful
ly corrupt methods of the banl in
doing business, was but "a glimpse
of the past work under democratic
administrations, and the forced
effort to have it appear that all
the bad work was done by what
he called the Quay machine proves
that he is not so sanity fair i'm the
treatment of questions as he wants
people to believe. He knows how
to kick dust in peoples eyes as
well as an expert dust kicker. If
he had gotten off a few paragraphs
on dust kicking ii would have fit
ed into his speech nicely but he
avoided doing that, he wasn't
kicking any one but the Quay ma
chine. He was giving taffy to all
but the machine. He utterly fail
ed to mention his own transaction
i'll connection with the Keystone
Bank and the Reading Railroad
stocks when that concern was
wrecked, after ii had pulled the
wool over the eyes of the pIblic
EN- years by paying dividends
with borrowed money. 1t isn't
hard for business concern to dust
the eyes of the sharpest visioned
and keenest of men when it pays
its interest obligations with bor-
rowed money, it may be financially
rotten all the way through and
keep up appearances in that way.
But Mr.. WanamaSer did no,
launch out upon such things and
facts. How fairly he could have
treated the bans debauchery bust
ness, if he had told his audience
that for more than generation
before the Quay machine became a
nightmare to some people, that the
banking business was the foulest
business blotch, on the business of
the country, and that the bankers
were not more honest than the com
horse traders. There were
thousands of broken banks and
thousands of mourning de positors
before "Quay and the machine"
was dreamed of. In connection |
with the bank question he gave
round for his piece of
work of organizing Il brewery on a
capital of one thousand dollars, and
hen raising or watering the stOcs
% the extent of one hundred thou
sand dollars, and passing that
paper off on certain people
md certain banks. But when he
Vas thus ventilating the Andrews
w;itered beer bonds and stocks, heI
NIGHT have told that people in
his little county of Juniata had
been as greatly fieeced by traction
'toc- and bonds; heeced to the ex-
cnt Of almost Il hundred thousand
lollars, ard that thece were men
n his audience pntfed up on the
profits Of such transaction, while
here were others there who will
nave hard work 10 keep out of the
clutches of the Sheriff because ofl
he way they were fieeced.
WanamakeI said Stone is An
lrew'S candidate. In his talk of
he Andrews beer brewery water
I'd stock transaction he mentioned
he name of r. F. LOper, of Phila-
lelphia, as one who had been in
crested in handling the beer pa ger.
IN Monday Mr.. LOper notified Mr..
Nanama' er that his statement is
lOt true as far as he, Loper. is
and that the charge has
o be corrected. In his talk of
,ank wrecks, if Mr.. Wanamaker is
lOt guilty of commission, he is
,uilty of omission, foe he entire
Y failed to tell of the hundreds of
'ank wrecks that the "Quay Ma
hine' as he called every one not
with him, had not any
hing to do with. He did not tell
h., tn - f..