Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-01
THE COMBINE SOUGHT
TO Be MADE
All the nti-Republican Forces
Trying to Make Dicker
With Each Other.

The Democratic Harmony Commit-
tee and Mr.. Wanamaker's Mug
wump Organi zation Meet on the
Same Day in Philadelphia-Mr.W Wan
amaker Gets Off the Same Old Sour
Grapes Speech and the Democrats
Have One of Their Same old Fights.
How the state Treats the Local
Taxpayer.
Philadelphia, Aug. 3O.-"1f Donnel-
ly says there ever was more than two
policemen at any polling place In my
ward he is liar" shouted ex-Magis-
trate Jeter j. Hughes, the leader of the
! Delehunty Democracy, at the harmony
meeting here last week.
Whcreupon Magistrate Donnelly, Of
the Ryan Democracy in a harmonious
spirit of repartee and a geographical
| ly limited sense of judicial dignity,
responded
IF l had you outside I would punch
| your face"
The meeting of which this was a
characteristic incident, and the meet
| ing on the same day of Mr. Wanama-
ker'S so-called Business Mems League,
which seems to be an invention for
pulling the business mans leg, together
with the announcement of an attempt
to make a truck-and-dicker deal be-
tween the two representative bodies
with DR.. Swallow between as the ton
que of the wagon, made the last week
a Democratic one, so far as news is
concerned. For whatever is anti-Re-
publican, by whatever name 1t is call
ed temporarily, is Democratic, since 1t
is the Democratic party which VIII
profit In the state and nation by every
vote cast against Republican candi-
dates.
Moreover, there Is no longer any con-
cealment of the terms of the bargain
that is sought to be made, nor of the
stake which each party to the COM
bine is expected to throw into the pot
The Democrats have already, at the
Altoona convention, turned their backs
on the national principles upon which
they fought the last campaign. True,
they did not do so without consulting
the national leaders of their party. for
/ happen to know that in response to
an inquiry from Colonel Guffey, as to
how far they could go without being
cast out of the fold, National Chair
man Jones gave him full liberty to
might seem to him good. adding plain
lively that he didn't see ''the chance
for Democratic success was very good
anywhere this fall fall anyhow" Nor
would they be, in the face of the mag
nificent Republican administration
which the people are to vote their opin-
ion of in November, but that the dis
cordant efforts of few disappointed
Republicans who think their member
ship in the millionaires' club ought to
make them the dictators of the party,
and of a serviceable lot of others who
are always willing to shout for any,
body who will pan out for the legiti-
mate expenses of the campaign" are
enough to give interest to the situation
and challenge every local Republican
to do his duty.
Doctor Swallow, for his share, has
already cast into the pot the distinctive
principles OF the Prohibition party. and
is too busy abusing and maligning
everything Republican with the same
reckless tongue which brought him to
trial in the Williamsport conference
of his church upon the charge of being
both common and a specific and par
ticular liar), to intimate to his hearers
that whisky ought not to flow free as
water.
The sacrifices which Republicans
who are asked to leave their party will
be expected to make were clearly out
lined in Mr.. Wanamaker's speech which
was received with enthusiasm almost
amounting to tumult among the Sc
lect gathering of % people to whom he
read it. They are expected to see the
Democrats and go them one further; to
CT BA1 IND nf mi
tional but their state principles: to
forget that there are such things as
Democrats and Republicans, and to en-
ter into secret alliance with any and
every force which in the past has
shown itself hostile to their party or
the principles it represents. to the sole
end of overthrowing the present lead
ership of their party. under which 1t
has won the grandest and greatest
victories in all it's victorious history.
That's all, and with the frankness of
a tail that has determined to wag the
dog, or wag itself off a-trying, they
brandish the declaration in advance
that the men they hope to elect to the
Legislature under the guise of R1publi-
cans will all be pledged in advance not
to go into the Republican caucus; in
other words. not to abide the judgment
of the party majority on any party
question.
Whom they will vote for for governor
and the other state positions, and for
ongressmen-at-large, and for con-
gressmen in the various districts, they
do not say. The presumption is that
their Democratic allies have made ST.
lence upon this point condition of
fellowship. leaving the matter open for
separate dickering in various districts,
according to circumstances. Well, it
may be possible to make people forget
all about the war and the tremendous
questions which it leaves yet to be
settled; forget that there is such a
thing as Democracy and Republican
ism, and turn & campaign whose issues
are as important as any in 30 years
upon the mere question of how many
pastors and folders the Legislature
should employ. and what it should pay
them per day. but the success of the
scheme is open to doubt as clearly as
| It's motives are open to suspicion.
1t is said that 'Hel hath no demon