Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1898-10-07

mixed up in public corruption? That
statement Is too malicious to need re-
futation.
What will the youth and young men
Of this state think when they read that
the colleges in which they are receiv-
ing their education are charged with
being mixed up with public corruption.
IL is a reflection on every college presl-
dent and college professor and college
student in the state. He also charges
that the churches have become mixed
up in public corruption. I defy him to
name a church from the New Jersey
boundary to the Ohio line that has be-
come mixed up in a corrupted public
life. He cannot and dare not name a
single instance that will be a justifca-
tion OF this charge. He also makes the
same charge against the clergymen of
the state. VIII he name a single clergy
man who has become so mixed up? OF
course he cannot name a single in
stance Of this character. He makes the
same charge against the teachers, the
doctors and the railroad presidents Of
Pennsylvania. 1 ask him to name a
teacher, a doctor or a railroad president
that has become implicated in any pub
lie corruption. Unless he names one his
assertion should arouse the indigna-
tion of every citizen Of the common
wealth.
MR.. WANAMAKER'S VOTE.
What was Mr. wanamalSer doing
during the past two generations when
he alleges this corruption was growing
up in our public life? A generation of
man is said to be about 32 years. and
two generations would almost measure
the life of Mr.. Wanamaker. Where was
his vote during all this time? If this
public corruption has been growing for
so great a length of time, is 1t not re-
markable that Mr.. Wanamaker only
discovered 1t after he was defeated in
his aspirations to be elected United
States senator? Is il not a peculiar fact
that the light only began to dawn in
his mind after he had suffered two de-
feats at the hands of the Republican
party? The man who would quietly sit
In his Office surrounded by the goods,
wares and merchandise of a great store,
building up a princely fortune, knowing
that such practices were obtaining and
failing to raise his voice against the
iniquity, is as guilty of outraglng pub
lie confidence as the man who is en-
gagged in such practices.
Mr.. Elkin took up the act of assem-
bly, providing for the payment of inter-
est by banks having state money on
deposit, and proved by the dates and
pages Of the official records that, while
he himself had drawn the bill, and the
Wanamaker faction deserved no credit
for its passage other than that ma
jority Of every party and faction of
party voted for it, not a single vote,
Democratic or Republican, was cast
against it.
He also paid attention to the dis
puted question of who was responsible
for the defeat of Colonel Stable for con-
gress in the York, Adams and Cumber-
land district, and scored probably the
most dramatic point of the evening by
producing the affidavit of one of the
candidates for the Legislature in Cum
berland county that Stable was taken
out of the fight in pursuance of a dl-
rect and explicit dicker, whereby the
two candidates from Cumberland coun-
ty were required to pledge themselves
in writing to vote for Wanamaker for
United States senator He brought down
the house by producing the maker of
the affidavit on the stage to substan-
tiate his statement personally. Contin-
uing he said:
A NEWSPAPER CONTROVERSY.
Mr. Wanamaker has been preaching
the doctrine of purity in politics
throughout the state during the past
year. He desires to impress on the
minds of our people that he is max
ing an attempt to lift politics onto a
higher plane. l have no doubt that he
has been able to fool some very con-
scientious and deserving people with
his suggestions, but those of us who
are familiar with the methods of his
campaign managers are fully convinced
that his entrance into the political
arena has done more to commercialize
| the politics of Pennsylvania than all
the other influences combined. AS an
instance of the higher plane to which
Mr. Wanamaker is going to elevate
the politics of our state, 1t will be in
teresting to note the controversy be-
| tween the Galeton Dispatch and the
Potter Enterprise, two papers which
bowed to the peculiar influence with
which its managers conduct a cam
| paign, and is a pretty good evidence OF
the high plane to which Mr.. Wana-
maker is going to elevate the politics
of this great commonwealth. Here is
the story as told by the papers above
| referred to:
The Galeton Dispatch calls up a "po-
litical acrobat" Let's see, Hayden, It Is
not so very long ago that you took, in
our office and in our presence, a nice roll
of anti-Quay money and promised upon
| your word and honor to be faithful TO the
cause agaist boss rule and corruption
| You took the money, you young Sunday
school hypocrite, and how much you
value your word of honor the columns
of your paper show. You sweet scented
bird, to talk about "acrobats" Until
Sullivan lifted you out you wined like a
sick cat for money-money from any
source, for which you were willing tc
promise anything Enterprise.
The editor of The Enterprise, who seems
familiar with the above case, forgot tC
| state all the facts OF the contract which
he claims is broken, making the editor Of
The Dispatch an ignoble liar First ant
foremost. we supported Wanamaker ant
a few of his followers who were candi
/ dates for nominations, several issues be
fore we were approached by Wana
makers lieutenants in this county, who
proffered us financial assistance, with tn,
| understanding that we were to SUPPORT
| Wanamaker and his candidates until tn,
nominations, which we did to the bes
of our ability. This was consistent wifi
our own views of the political situation
at that time AT the primaries the Who'll,
| Wanamaker force was honorably defeat
ed. The candidates nominated are met
of unimpeachable characters, capable an,
loyal workers in the party-three poten
factors in their receiving the nominations
How well the coterie of Wanamaker fol
lowers performed their part of the con
tract In the case they well know. w
fully performed our contract, which 4
more than the defeated faction can say
The roll of anti-Quay money that Tn
Enterprise claims that we received in hi
office was a widows mite as compares