Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-06-09
WANAMAkER'S VIEWS.

lne convention al an immense n4tAS7
meeting held At oxford. Chester county,
where a thousand people gathered TO
hear him speak:
It was as a Republican / cast my
first vote in 1862. l never voted any
other ticket since. l vas 4 Republican
when accepted the call of 400 Repub-
licans at the Bourse conference of Feb.
2 / was not d volunteer in their SER
vice because 1 never wanted to be gov
ernor but as a drafted man ] loyalty
took up the flag.
went to the convention yesterday
as straightout Republican. and l
came home from the convention bet
ter and more hopeful Republican be-
cause of the l64 representatives of the
people who stood w in convention and
were counted against the machine,
There are two developments of Repuh-
licanism IN existence today. the small,
but strong body Of Republicanism q
the Lincoln, Grant, Blaine and Harri-
son stripe. and the other the latter day
| saints of RepubliCanism that has grown
| Up in Pennsylvania under the Cam
eron- -Quay-A ndrews dynasties: IL is
| body composed maily of oficeholding
politicians and their secret and open
| beneficiaries.
II l. rot OF the people and for the
people, or with the people, but dead
against the people. It is an oathbound,
banded and belted machine, pledged to
the machine. wholly for the machine
and sturdily against every idea and
every man not with the machine.
NOT WITH THE MACHINE.
IN the presence Of these 200 witnesses,
| in this midday meeting Of the cultured,
| intelligent and important people of
Chester county. l record myself anew
| as not Ia or for or with the Republican
machine limited. limited TO Quay, An
drews and ofIiceholders and oficeseek-
ers only.
That such a political machine should
exist today. chartered by the blindness
and Indifference Of the people, is IN
| special evidence this morning through
out the state. from the full accounts
! given by the newspapers and living
! witnesses Of yesterdays perfunctory
| proceedings of the convention at Har-
risburg 1t is a slick and sly machine,
coyly in hiding behind state commit
| tees bought candidates to trick coun-
| ties to nominate favored sons for timely
| transfer la Connel, Reeder and Coop
] er to machine newspaper manufac-
| tured scarecrows. farcial primary eiec=
| tiona, legislative steering committees,
piled up promissory political notes, like
| those In state banks, and printed dyna-
| mite planted with iendish. Turkish and
| Spanish malice by adroit political en-
| gineers out of sight, like the treacher-
| Gus mines in Cuban waters, to destroy
| human life.
| It is an ingenious machine: II dis
courses music in the aiI, postofiice
tunes, collectcrship solos, state ticket
| auartettes, county ticket choruses; 1t
| plays on states, on Sundays by the sea,
| gubernatorial anthems, and eliminates
| in the grand spectacular performances
| Of red fire and brass bands at Har-
| risburg, with the brass bands or poll
| tics sufficient. perhaps, to hold fast the
| gouty footbound people, but cannot
| make the rank and fle of the younger
| and coming party dance either obedi-
ence or votes 10 its old worn out airs.
| 1t is an automatic machine; you get
II for a stone: it plays the stone you
| set it for, and there is certainly great
| difference in stones.
| Ii Is also at times a nickel-in- -the-slot
! machine, receiving assessments or fees
| and holding them until the day of ac-
! counting without registering your
| weight or will, and refusing to return
/ the paid in charges. You put in your
| substances. your service, or your vote,
| and the machine receives IT, but is
! deaf, dumb and blind, especially after
| the service is done or the vote given
| One OF the nickei-in-the-slot machines
| recently opened in one of the cities was
| found to contain nickels, wire, tacks
| hair pins. buttons, buckles, bones, nails
sticks. postage stamps. strings. poker
| checks, railroad tickets and stones.
| When the June % Republican nickel
| ln-the-slot nominating convention ma
| chine is opened in November next II
| may be found to contain a stone that
has been a millstone for us.
Is NOT DISAPPOINTED.
| 1 suppose that there will be some
| people ready to say Wanamaker is talk
ing like a disappointed candidate; kind
| ly save your free criticism and unnee-
essary sympathy, most willing but un-
| thinking gossiper. I wish you could
! have slept the dreamless, luxurious
sleep 7 tumbled into last night with
that convention behind me. One wants
to knit up the tangled sleeves OF care
with refreshing sleep to be strong fol
the next duty.
| l would Ike to have the whole Of
this gorgeous June day to roll in tbs
grass and revel with the daisies and
| buttercups. Where is the man that car
say ! ever asked him in or out of con
vention to vote for me for governor
There are two men ! was hard agains
for governor; one was w. A. Stone
and tho other was John Wanamaker
one Of them wanted it too much, tbs
other didn't want II al all.
In the fray preceding the convention
I simply did what / wanted to do
represent honest Republicans diametri
| cally opposed to the machine. At tht
convention l did exactly what l always
| wanted to do, and had agreed to do
which was withdraw whenever the In
| terest of the Republican party could b'
furthered thereby l came into the ac
tlvities of the campaign by request o.
the Bourse meeting; I retired of my
own option and upon my own Judg
| ment after conference with conferrees
1t was double quick movement
| when the enemy were in battle line
| and intended to spike their guns. YoI
| are entitled to know that 1t was as
serted on the streets and in the con
| yention at Harrisburg that Wanamakel
| could not be persuaded to unite on any
| candidate, but was holding out for him
| self The fact was that no one evel
| asked me to unite upon either Of tbs
old OF any of the new candidates: they
could have asked me or any one, for tht
orders had gone out. better be defea sst
utterly than surrender the one anC
only candidate-W. A. Stone.
THE LETTER OF WITHDRAWAL.
| BY the letter hastily written while tn,
! convention was listening to the "Stal
Spangled Banner" the land Of the free
voter, and the hoI-e of the brave Re-
| publicans, l wrote my hasty letter, un-
| finished when the speech nominating
me was going on. and hurriedly dis
| patched to throw down a challenge &c
| unite in the nomination Of Charles w
| Stone. who UP to almost the assembling
Of the convention had in the conven
| ton more than enough votes TO nOmi-
nate him.
| Why thew did not nominate Charles
| w. Stone, and why his votes are said
to have been bought away from the
| plucky hero OF Warren, is no mystery
| let me also say that even at the con-
| VeniioH + 1.T Charles W. stone could
| have been nominated If lie had bought
| back his then missing votes and | add
| further that all through the two days
| preceding the convention I held in my
| pocket a signed letter offering to deliver
| to me for cash certain humber OF
votes to give me majority in the con-
| Veution for any candidate / wanted