The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-03-30

his flake" organ with the story that an
independent ticket is not thought Of.
Well, let us see. The Press, the Phila-
delphia organ Of the Wanainaker-com-
bine organization ought TO be pretty
good authority on a question Of this
kind. The Press Of March 18th says
sit is quite true that If the Harris
burg convention should select NOM
inee for Governor who is entirely salts
factory to the business mems interests
Mr.. Wanamaker would also be salts
fed. But should the contrary he the
case, and should the convention refuse
to recognize the claims Of legally and
properly elected anti-Quay delegates,
we are convinced that Mr.. Wanamaker
would not feel himself bound 10 abide
by results attained by high-hsnded and
unscrupuIous methods. 1t will be
found, on careful perusai, that his
speech does not indicate that he would
tamely or willingly submit TO such tao
ties. If the circumstances justify II,
Mr.. Wanamaker may be an independ-
ent candidate for Governor before the
people" !"
The same paper, In its issue Of March
18th says editorially: The italics are
ours.)
ssOn such an issue pledged to the re-
demption of the State from this mis-
rule, Mr.. Wanamaker will command
great following and will organize and
vitalize a sentiment which the Repuo-
lican organization cannot safely dlsre-
gard. He may or may not carry the
Convention. He has entered upon the
fght i0iM title expectation Of actually
Ginning the saOBli9dti0n."
SIT has been assumed in some quar-
ters that Mr.. Wanamaker's speech at
Lancaster is to be interpreted as slgni-
fying that he will not under any cir
cumstances be an independent candi-
date. The object he aims
at is SO distinctly avowed that no man
can mistake it. 1t is Republican
nomination which shall be responsive
TO just Republican sentiment If such
a nomination shall be made the con-
test, we take it, will end al the Con-
vention. If not, no man can yet tell
what will follow. The situation may
then be beyond the control of any in
dividual. Whether Mr.. Wanamaker
shall be an independent candidate de-
pends, we may safely conclude, upon
others quite as much as on himself.
There is one sure way to prevent 1t, and
that is to make a nomination which
will remove any grounds for il"
In view of the above, together with
Mr. Wanamaker's letter, and the past
political record of the owner of the
''fake" organ, he being the chairman
o. Mr.. Wanamaker's campaign COM
mittee, wasn't and isn't the HERALD
justified in stating that Mr.. Wanama-
ker, if he fails of nomination or, Of
debating a nomination at the hands Of
the State Convention, will be an indie
pendent candidate? And when the
i'fake" organ charges the HERALD
with falsifying for so stating, is it not
guilty of the basest and most contempt
ible form of falsehoOd? Was it not
and is it not not now trying to flake"
its readers in an attempt TO make them
believe that its owner is sincere Re
publican, for the purpose of securing
for him at the hands of the Republican
voters of the county a nomination for
member of assembly; and is he not
preparing to repeat what he did in 1882
and again in 1s90-assist in electing a
Democratic Governor if the Republi-
can State Convention refuses to be die
tated to by Mr.. Wanamaker and men
of like kidney? The Republican voters
OF the county are, we take it, in no
humor TO be "faked" again this spring
by either the General or his ''fake"
organ, and we suggest TO both that
they throw off the mask and let the
fight be fair and in the open.