Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-12-22
ALL LOYAL TO
REI'UBLICANISM
Stalwart Sentiments Expressed by
Members Of the Leg
iSlature.
TRUE TO THEIR PARTY.

Wanamakcr Agents in the Interest OF
Alliances with the Democracy Fail
to Break Through the Lines of the
Grand Old Party.
Especial Correspondence
Philadelphia, Dec. 20.-With the as
rembling of the legislature but few
| days off, the Republican members OF
both the senate and the house realize
that they will shortly be called upon to
show their party colors and assert their
Republicanism in assuming control OF
| both branches of the general assembly.
in the name of their party. That this
viii be done and that both senate and
house will be organized on straigh:
/ Republican lines. and that the
Republican caucus will name the
next United States senator from
Pennsylvania is apparent to all
who have come in touch with Re-
publican senators and representatives
within the last week. The spectacle Of
Democratic dissensions presented at
Harrisburg the other day. when the
, Gordontes and the Guffeyites were at
each others throats, and when John
II. Fow's fusion conference was given
u chilling frost by the action of Cuff
fey and his lieutenantS in keeping
Democrats away from the meeting, has
impressed Republicans everywhere. The
latter realize that this is a year when
1t is important that there shall be Re
publican harmony. No better evidence
Of this fact could be given than the dis
NAL failure the Wanamaker agents
have made in their attempts to get
Republicans to declare, that they Will
not go into the Republican caucus, and
that they will not support Senator
Quay for reelection. OF course, the
few anti-Quay men who were elected
lVoWedly against the senior senator are
not expected to vote for him. With but
few exceptions, scarcely half a dozen,
however, they will go into the Republic
can caucus. Up to date the Wanama-
ker agents have not gotten Il single
Republican senator or representative to
declare against Senator Quay who had
not been classed as opposed TO him.
With the purpose of creating the inn
preston that there is great sentiment
against Senator Quay, the Wanamaker
literary bureau is flooding the state
with articles containing interviews with
men like Jefferes of Chester, Sexton Of
Montgomery and Stable of Blair not
one of whom was on the Republican
ticket, but all of them were elected by
combinations of the swallow and DEM
ocratic vote. To these they have added
one Republican state senator. Henry, OF
Philadelphia, and only four straighout
Republican members Of the house
Coray of LuZerne, Mackey of Lacka-
wanna, Allen and Laubach OF Philade!-
phia, the latter being an employe In the
shoe department of Wanamakers store.
These were all elected as anti-Quay
men and are not included in the esti-
mates which give Senator Quay a big
majority in the Republican caucus. DR..
Mackey has announced that he will
vote for John II. Farr. of Lackawanna,
the harmony candidate for speaker. as
will others who are outSpoken anti
Quay men. Followers of both Martin
and Magee have been importuned by
the Wanamaker emissaries to declare
against Quay, or, at least, decline to
go into the Republican caucus, but they
have steadfasuy refused to do any
thing of the kind.
number of leading Republican
members of both the senate and the
house have been in this city during the
last few days. and they have all eX-
pressed themselves in the most emphat-
&c terms as to the sentiment in the Re-
publican party on this question. Sena-
tor James G.. Mitchell, of jefferson
county, than whom there is probably
no closer friend of Governor-elect Stone
in the state senate, spoke freely when
asked his views on this matter
A POLITICAL CONSPIRACY.
The motives that prompt the perse-
cution of Senator Quay by those behind
this so-called conspiracy case" said he,
ARE understood by the people in my
section of the state. They realize that
this is but part and parcel of the polit-
ical campaign which has been waged
by the retainers of Wanamakerism dur
ing the last three years. Republicans
everywhere recognize that Senator
Quay is charged with responsibility
for blocking the political ambitions Of
coterie of politicians, whose disap-
pointments and resentments are given
vent to in these proceedings. 1t is RI
diculous to assume that any consider
able number of men can be influenced
by the actions of these disgruntled in
dividuals, and it is quite absurd to
imagine that members of the legisla-
tuTt Will ioi a. iloiHSiil tIiuh OA QcpdIbs
ing from the time honored practices
and customs of the Republican party
in the organization of the general as
sembly. The party spirit in my district
is so strong that If any man elected
upon the Republican ticket should go
to Harrisburg and fail to participate in
and abide by the action of the regular
Republican party caucus he would re-
turn home to his constituents at his
peril"
Another influential member of the
senate and a formidable candidate for
president pro tenn. of that body, Sem
ator William =. Snyder, of Chester
county, was quite as emphatic in dis
cussing the same subject.
II do not see he declared, "how any
member OF either branch of the legisla.
ture who was elected upon the Repub-
ican ticket can consistently or honor
ably abstain from participating in
caucus of Republicans. either upon the
organization of the house or senate.
the selection of n Republican candi-
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