The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-14
Wanamaker as a Boss.


Mr.. Wanamaker is giving evidence
daily of the wisdom of the last leGis-
lature when it refused to elect him
United States senator. Processing to
be an apostle of purer politics, he is
rapidly displaying in most offensive
forms the ways and means which he
so loudly condemns, and while reviifg
bossism is treating the country to a
spectacle of arrogant self-assumption
which would be hossism at its worst if
any considerable number of Pennsyl-
Vanians would consent to be bossed by
person so narrow and vindictive.
With regard to the arrest of Quay,
Haywood and others we need now call
attention only to the fact that it was
so timed as to prevent thorough sift-
ing in court until after the ensuing cleo
tion, although on the face of the
charges knowledge of the alleged evil
doing of Quay and colleagues must
have been in possession of the insti-
gators of the arrests as early as last
April 1t would take d pretty artful
boss TO beat this specimen of thimble-
rigging, which the people of the state
instinctively accrcdt to Wanamaker
We entertain no fears of the ability of
Senator Quay not only to dispose salts
factoriy of the present charges against
him hut also to uncover those who are
using this line of attack upon him; we
suspect, indeed. that when the courts
have concluded their probing it will
not be Quay who will emerge the worse
for the revelations thus invited or the
more astonished at the effect of those
revelations upon public opinion.
BE this as it may, note how Wana-
maker busters and bluffs when hit a
few gentle raps with his own favorite
weapon For upward Of six months ht
has been allowed to have his unchal-
lenged way in abusing Quay and
Quay's friends and in impugning THEN
honesty; yet when Senator Penrose
wearying a trine at the campaigns
one-sidedness, proceeded the othel
night TO turn the calcium ray very
briefly upon the character and ways OF
Wanamaker, uttering only few OF
the things he is doubtless well prepared
To prove, behold, John frOths like q
maniac and threatens with libel suit.
every newspaper which is fair enough
to give the Wanamaker side o
the case, So accustomed has he grown
1t would seem. to editing the papers o
Philadelphia, which, Penrose says, coulC
not print reports OF an official nvesti
cation rejecting on Wanamaker unit
Wanamaker's advertising agent frs
revised the copy, that he now assume,
TO dictate to the press of the entir,
state-another undertaking in whicl
this great man, we fear, will fail.
OF course, ali this theatrical parad
ing of the legerdemain OF Vindictiv
personal politics has absolutely m
bearing whatever upon the state o
national campaign. Stone Tor governo
and Connell for congress are Republi
cans to be supported, without regar,
TO Quay or Wanamaker, because the.
represent their party and stand 70
efficient government. Each stands b.
himself on his own record in publ
life. We allude to the Wanamaker tao
tics simply to note the feeling of re
action which they are inspiring and t,
express a hope that this vindictlv
Philadelphia would-be boss, in conse
quence Of this reactionary movemen
in public opinion, will soon he so thor
oughy discredited and extinguishe,
that he will trouble the politics q
Pennsylvania no more
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