Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-08
ON BOTH SIDES
OF THE BUZZ-SAW.
State Chairman Elkin Dissects the
Wanamaker Speech.

FAULT FINDER and PARTY WRECkER
The Chairman Says the Republican
Impaired Havin. Endured the Sc
cession OF such Men as Horace Gree
ley and. Governor Curtin, and Lived
Through Eight Years of cleveland
and Eight Years of Pattison.
Philadelphia, Sept. 2.-The political
event of the week is the scorching re-
ply of State Chairman John p. Ellkin to
the TRADE delivered by Mr.. Wanamaker
at the select gathering of his business
men in politics" last week. The chair
man has just returned from Chicka-
mauga, where he has been looking after
the welfare of his brother, Lieutenant
w. f. Elkin. and other fever stricken
Pennsylvania soldiers. In discussing
the Wanamaker delverance he said
As chairman of the Republican or
ganization | have done everything in
my power to bring together, in a har-
monious campaign this fall the con-
tending forces in Pennsylvania politics.
In the making up of our executive and
campaign committees we have been
careful to give representation to all
former factions in the party. In pursu-
ance of this policy we have solicited the
cooperation and counsel of all the
leading and active party workers of the
state regardless of their past political
affiliations. The organization has re-
Trained, up To this time, from entering
into any discussion of the questions
that have divided our party in the
state. When the organization was reck-
lessly and sometimes Viciously attacked
we have made no reply for the reason
that we had hoped all differences would
be fought out within party lines, and
hence we We're willing to abide the de-
cision of the Republican voters at the
polls on the issues involved Since, how
ever, the Republicans in the conven-
ton assembled have decided their plat
form of principles, and have nominated
ticket in accordance with the estab-
lished rules and customs of the party.
and since the primaries held in the
various counties throughout the state
have in most instances nominated their
county ticket, and we still find an or
ganization declaring its purpose to be
the overthrow of Republican suprem-
acy, we feel it is time for the party
through its organization, to make re-
ply.
OUTSIDE OF THE RANKS
No one will deny to Mr.. Wanna
maker, or any one else claiming to be q
Republican, the right to make any
proper effort within the party lines to
advance the cause he represents but
when, at a public meeting, called
through the direction of himself and
friends, he places himself on record in
the following language: Thus far we
have carried banner of protest
against the state Republican party and
its leadership and manipulation and
then follows this UP by the further
statement, This is the plain duty today
of the voters and taxpayers of Pennsyl-
vania, Independent of old party lines or
no parties, to eXterminate the ma
chine which machine can only mean
the Republican organization, there can,
under these circumstances be no i'm
propriety in an organization thus as
sailed making answer in terms whose
meaning will not and cannot be mis-
understood. We can only interpret the
utterances of Mr.. Wanamaker to mean
that he has placed himself entirely out
side the Republican ranks, and is now
determined to make such effort as he
can to disrupt and destroy the party
with which he has been affiliated until
after the recent Republican state con-
vention. Since that time, according to
his own statements, he has been en-
gagged in an attempt to bring out new
ticket Certainly the following language
used by him at the Bourse meeting, can
mean nothing short of this:
In view of the grave consequences
impending, hurried conferences have
been held lately with DIR. Swallow and
others in accord with him, taking a
broad and disinterested view of the
present situation, stating the possibl-
ity of unifcation of all the forces op-
posed to the o"ay machine, whether of
the Harrisbul Altoona or other FORMS
and makinssaa thoroughly representa-
tive ticket, eliminating all present and
past candidates, or using them as
might seem most practicable to form a
winning ticket
FAULT FINDER AND PARTY
WRECKER.
This attitude of Mr.. Wanamaker is
not so strange in view of the fact that
upon the occasion of the visit of Presi-
dent Mckinley and his cabinet officers
TO Philadelphia, at the time of the un-
yelling of the Washington monument
he, through the public prints, criticised
the present administration in its con-
duct of the affairs of the country
which criticism called forth replies
from several of the cabinet officers at
the time and a mild rebuke from the
president himself The attitude of Mr.
Wanamaker during the past several
months clearly indicates that he no
longer pays allegiance to any party,
but has concluded to place himself in
the category of Il political fault finder
and a party wrecker.
1T is one of the undeniable privileges
of individuals to choose the party with
which they ally themselves and to
whose purposes they lend their support
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