The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-02-16
b. J. BOWMAN.
JEREMIAH RHoADs.
a "FAKE" THAT WAS TOO TOUGH FOR
TIE FAKE" ORGAN.
General" KOontz Veteran of the Late
War.-Nit!

AOOulL q veteran OF the Late
War.-Nit.
year or more ago when Mr.. Wana-
maker and his Business Mems League
decided that he, Mr.. Wanamaker, should
contest with Boies Penrose for a seat in
the United States Senate, one of the first
moves they made was 70 organize a .Iit-
erary bureau" among whose duties was
preparing weekly letter filled with mat
ter laudatory of Mr.. Wanamaker and his
friends and managers, and abusive of Sen
ator Quay and his political associates.
Notwithstanding the best efforts of his
Literary bureau Mr.. Wanamaker was
able TO command only pitiful number of
votes for United States Senator, but his
mor:ifying defeat seemed only to sharpen
his desire for public Office, aud the output
of weekly letters was kept up in the hope
OF thereby creating a sentiment through
out the State that would make him for
midable candidate for Governor this year.
These weekly letters, with Harrisburg
date line, and purporting to come from
'our Own Correspondent" are redue d
TO plate matter and are sent to such coun-
try papers. express prepaid, as can be in-
dueed, for a small cash cons liberation, to
fake their readers with them Among
the enterprising country papers enlisted
in this little business mems" transaction
is the fake" organ published in this
town, which for some eighteen months
past has been publishing these fake
letters from ''Our (Its) Own Correspond
ent."
The fake" letter came to hand as usual
last week, and it purported to givea truth
ful account of the recent meeting held in
Philadelphia to boost Mr.. Wanamaker for
Governor, but some of its statements were
so glaringly false that even the fake
Somerset organ was afraid to attempt to
fake" its readers with them. and care
fully sawed ouC' those several para
graphs that were not intended to meet the
eye Of Somerset county readers. In other
respects the letter appeared word for word
in the fake" organ, the same as it did ina
number Of our other exchanges.
The second paragraph in the letter
reads:
But perhaps the most striking feat
nre of the memorable conference was
the predOminaHce of the soldier ele-
m snt. The Grand Army of the Repub-
lie and the Veteran Legion was really
The most conspicuous factor of the day
The presiding officer. General Koontz, Is a
VETERAN OF THE CIVIL WAR. while the
most prominent speakers were men who had
come through s:re hail Of bullets and listened
to the Shrek Of shTapneI in the campaigns on
the Potomac and in the valley Of the cumber-
land"
By comparing this with the letter in the
fake organ it will be observed that the
sentence commencing with "The pre-
siding officer" has been sawed OUT, and
does not appear.
Paragraph five in this remarkably ae-
eIrate letter as Published in a number of
our exchanges but omitted by the ''fake'
organ reads:
There is General w. ii. KOonfz. chairman
OF the conference. A VETERAN OF THE LATE
WAR, leader of the Somerset county bar.
one of the finest campaign speakers in the
State, warehouse of the Republican party
and a gentleman vino through the long period
OF political career has never asked and never
received favor at the hands Of the bosses."
Oar purpose in referring to this matter
IS merely 10 point out to our Republican
| friends the methods adopted by these
sham ''reformers," or color business
men, and taxpayers uniorists'' to de-
ceive the public and make .nemselv yes ap-
pear what they $40 not. We take it for
granted that when they elected General
Koontz president of the Taxpayers
Union" they did not think that he was "a
veteran Of the late war" but that he was
as near the real article as they could Sc
cure for the purpose. 1t could not be pos
sible that the General - while in Phila-
delphia, was masquerading in his reg
| imentals as "warhorsari Perish the
thought.
The Generals dearest friends and
admirers usually want to get somewhere
| in the dark when his ''war record is
mentioned; and even those enthusiastic
friends of his who want to run him as a
candidate for the Legislature would
scarcely attempt TO run him on his ''wsr
record" or as a ''war horse" They might
run him as an old horse that has kicked
over the party traces in almost every cam
paign in the last twenty years, but surely
not as war horse" Even those who
seem to love to be faxed" would revolt
4 nj that