Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-08-31
HOW GUFFEY RULES HIS
RTY.
HE COULD NOMINATE A YELLOW
DOG FOR GOVERNOR IF HE
CHOOSE.
Pittsburg Dispatch.

Pittsburg Dispatch.
A week before the convention Colonel
Guffey, in room over his own Office in
! this city, said to prominent Democrat
that he couldn't nominate Gordon.
HE Is brainy fellow" said Guffey,
ambitious, vain and autOcratic. He
would run away with the whole busi-
ness II he was elected. couldn't do
anything with him. l sent for George
Jenks. / said to jerks, you want to
be governor. You don't know any
thing about politics, and I'dOn't want
you to know anything about it. You
/ can give the people the kind Of an ad-
,, ministratiOn they want, and I'll look
after the political end Of it. You don't
want to bother about the Offices jerks
said to me, You can run the whole
shooting match I will make
Gordon attorney general" Gufiey con-
tinued, "where he would be governor
In fact-really run the administration,
| while jerks would be nOminally gov
| ernOr." A few days afterward Tin New
York; Gufiey said that he wouldn't
and couldn't consent to Judge Gordon,
and he was asked
George jerks aud be defeated than take
whelming majOrity?" and Guffey re-
piled promptly, eyes. Certainly, yes. !"
This to one of the men with whom
Gufey had arranged to hold the west
ern delegates by his own avOwed candi-
dacy till the time came for him to turn
them over to Judge GOrdOn-an ar.
rangement that was not only thorough
ly understood by Guffey, but was
one Of his own suggestions. On Tues
day, the 18th of June, GufIey got the
delegates from the counties west of the
Alleghenies together and announced
that he could not be candidate, as his
physician had forbidden him to under
take the strain of a campaign. One of
the delegates who were present, after
ward one of the most conspicuous at
the state convention, pointed out that
the delegates would be divided between
jerks and Gordon, the latter having a
little the best of it in strength. Guffey
thereupon arose and made speech
that lined the delegates up for jerks.
As Colonel Guffey remarked after
the convention, at was my convention.
L could have put a yellow dog on the
ticket if had wanted to-
Gufiey showed plainly that he had
no personal antagOnism to Gordon i'm
this connection, 81 will make him
national committeeman i'm my place."
he said to one of GOrdOn's friends be-
fore the convention, but after he had
turned Gordon down. 81 will do ANY,
thing in the world for him, but | can
not nominate him for governor"
"Why?' he was asked.
because he won't say he voted for
Bryan
That's all rot" was the blunt reply
this ELECTED from the man to whom 1t
was said, and who proceeded to remind
Guffey of the efforts it took to get him
into line with the Bryan Democracy at
the last national election.
This reason or reXplanatiOn,fOrG Gufiy's
rejection of Gordon is particularly anus
ing out here, where his own anti-Bryan-
ism is well remembered. OF course
Guffey not only knew of Gordon's atti-
tude, but approved of it before he turn
ed in with GordOn's friends, and he es-
peciallly approved Of the Judges deci-
sion to remain silent or reticent on the
subject of national politics, expressing
the opinion that this course would
make him stronger i'm the state 1t is
not alone what is remembered of Cuff
fey's own attitude, but in an interview
in the Leader, of this city, Guffey said
that for the silver party to win would
be national calamity" and other
tough things about the "silver crowd"
and volunteered the advice that the
Democrats should Ike gin sound money
educational campaign.