The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-11-22
MARTIN Loses AGAIN.
Philadelphia Insurgent Leader Gets
a Bad Setback.
I. W. DURHAM WINS OUT.
wanamakerism in Its Latest Form, Though
Recent Defeats Have Been Very Disap-
pointing and Demoralizing.
Especial Correspondence

Especial Correspondence.)
Philadelphia. Nov. 21.-Another evil
dence of the fact that the old Martin
combine, whicn was for years in con-
troll of public affairs and the Republic
can organization in this city, is no
! longer potential was given this week
when a large majority Of the Republi-
can members of common council united
in signing a pledge to vote for the
election of George McCurdy for pres
ident of that body. Mr.. McCurdy is a
progressive Philadelphian who follows
| the leadership of Israel w. Durham,
| and who has no time for the Martin
outfit. He is a stalwart Republican,
has no sympathy with the insurgents,
and was one of the most active of the
young Republicans who brought about
the election of Samuel H. Ashbridge
as mayor. The position of president
of common council is a very influential
one, and it has long been an asset 10
the political combination of which Mar
tin was the acknowledged leader. Since
Martin has joined hands politically
with the Wanamaker-Flinn-H Hastings
combine in state politics he has been
steadily losing ground in this city. The
signing of the pledge for McCurdy
means his success in the Republican
caucus, and nothing can prevent his
election
Having lost the mayor and now los
ing the president of councils, Martin
is practically put out of business.
Martin, who became immensely
wealthy through his leadership Of the
Republican organization in this city,
is now posing as a statesman. With
Finn, of Allegheny, and Hastings, of
Centre, both of whom have also made
big fortunes since they entered poll
tics, Martin has tied his political Iu
ture to the Wanamaker personal ad'
vancement movement, of which the
people of Pennsylvania have had some
experience during the last few years.
Wanamakerism has not had a popu-
lar boom in the Keystone state. But
with determination characteristic of
the rich man with political ambitions
to satisfy, the warfare upon the Repub-
lican organization is to be kept up.
BOLTERS' LATEST MOVE.
The Wanamaker-Martin n-Flinn insur-
gents have drawn up memorial to the
United States senate, protesting against
the seating Of Colonel Quay upon Gov
ernor Stones certificate of appoint
ment. They were unable to carry out
their project in the legislature to elect
an insurgent or even Democrat to the
| United States senate-that is, any,
body but Colonel Quay. They were
overwhelmingly beaten afterward in
the canvass for delegates to the Re-
publican state convention, the vote be-
ing nearly five to one against them.
When the friends of Colonel Quay in
the convention nominated Colonel Bar
nett, and they opened the insurgent
and Democratic batteries of personal
abuse upon this gallant soldier, they
were ANONYMOUSLY routed by the peo-
pie at the polls.
BARNETT'S BIG MAJORITY.
General Reeder, who as chairman Of
the Republican committee managed
the late contest, was in town this week
when the official returns were received
| from Harrisburg. He was naturally
| pleased with the figures Barnett's Of
fetal plurality was 1104SS.
For the first time in three cam
| paigns was the Republican target OF
the insurgent and Democratic guns
| given a clear majority of all the
votes cast at the election. Mr.. Beacon,
the candidate for state treasurer in
1897; Colonel Stone, the nominee for
governor last year, and Colonel Bar
nett, the Republican candidate this
fall, were each subjected to scandalous
assaults from this insurgent cabal AL
though they were all elected, in 1897
Beacon. of all the votes cast at that
election, was in the minority by 10,169.
Though Colonel Stone won in his
fight for the governorship he lacked
19,303 of having a majority of the
votes polled at that election. But then,
after the insurgents exhibition of
party treachery in boiling the Repub-
lican caucus on the United States sem
atorship in the legislature, and their
continued disloyalty in opposing the
Republican candidate for state treas
urer, and espousing the cause of Greasy,
a Bryanite, the Republicans of Penn
sylvania elected Colonel Barnett state
treasurer and gave him a majority Of
1922 over the combined votes of the
| Democratic Prohibtioniut and Pop
ulist and Union Reform party candi-
dates. with the insurgent vote for
Greasy Democrat, thrown in.
After this emphatic rebuke from the
Republican voters the insurgents, or
a. least their selfish leaders, who knew
only personal politics, set out again
| to have an organized fight against the
| Republican organization and with n
| purpose to unite with any party or
| faction to elect their candidates for the
legislature where they are defeated
in Republican conventions.
THE FOX AND THE EDITOR.
these insurgents make a great ado
in Wanamaker newspapers but when
it comes to getting the votes of the peo-
pie they cut small figure.
Apropos of these full page advertise,
ments in certain Philadelphia news
papers and the similarity of the po-
litical reports in their news columns
this story of the Fox and the Editor
made interesting reading in the Even.
ing Call:
An editor sat at his desk with
compressed lips, flashing eyes, all
the while dipping his pen in gall.
A fox perching himself on the
window sill thus began:
you are working yourself into