Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-03-23
MARTINS CAREER
AS BOSS ENDED.
The Arch Caucus Bolter Reaches
the End Of His Rope.
ASHBRIDGE TURNS HIM DOWN
Quay's Friends VIII Control the Phil
adelphia Organization, and Penrose
Is Recognized by President Mo-
Especial Corresponderce.)

Especial Correspondence
Philadelphia, March PA new po-
litical power has risen in this city. The
reign Of David Martin as the undis-
puted boss will end with the exit from
Office Of Mayor Warwick on the first
Monday of next month. Martins re-
markable course at Harrisburg in boiling
the Republican senatorial caucus has had
as much as anything else to do with
his dowAfall. He is to be relegated to his
old position of ward leader, and il he
does not have care he may even be
supplanted in his own particular bali
wick.
That Samuel III. Ashbridge proposes to
be mayor Of Philadelphia in fact as we'll
ticians who have been in practically un-
disputed control of the Official patronage.
and have been otherwise specially ia
vored by the Warwick administration.
There will be q novelty about this con-
dition of affairs that must be delightfully."-
refreshing and satisfactory to the men
who make UP the rank and file of the
Republican organization-the men who
recognized the popular sentiment that
called for the nomination and election of
Ashbridge to the mayoralty, and who
promptly and heartily acquiesced in this
demand and gave their time and ener
gies to see that the result was accom-
plished without interference or friction
from those who were secretly planning
for continuance of the present regime.
David Martin has made several calls
upon the mayor-elect, but he gets little
consolation. That this conspicuous party
caucus bolter would like to name both
of the directors may be taken for grant
ed. That he will not have the privilege OF
doing so may also be accepted as fact.
Things have not been going Martins
way since he burned his party, l.idses
behind him and joined the insurgents
ranks. In all his trouble and tribulation it
is his wont to seek the counsel and advice
OF William j. Latta, who holds the Of
nee of general agent for the Pennsy-
vania railroad.
Possibly 1t has been his close relations.
business and otherwise, with Latta, who
Is a Democrat, that have wrought this
change over Martin made him indiffer-
ent to the time honored principles Of the
Republican party that the majority shall
rule, and led him to bolt the Republican
senatorial caucus and take up with the
Finn rule or ruin combine of party
wreckers. When Martin was first her
aided as the coming man to supplant
James McManes, the veteran leader, al
ways true to his friends, in control Of the
Republican organization, there was much
talk about "a new coon in town"
Now there is another ''new coon," and
before long Martin will realize that his
name is "Ashbridge."
The anti-combine element in the Re-
publican party, of which Israel w. Dur
ham is the acknowledged leader, will be
well taken care Of by the new mayor.
Durham and Lane will be the most po-
tential men in the Republican organi-
cation. They will control nearly all the
delegates to the Republican state con-
vention. and will stand by Colonel Quay
to the end.
PENROSE'S NEW POWER.
An understanding regarding the dis
position of federal postoffice patronage
in Pennsylvania has just been reached
which is of vital Importance to Republi-
cans residing in Democratic congression-
al districts. The last congress, 1t will be
recalled, contained only three Democrats
from the Keystone state, and one of
these, Mr.. McAleer, represented in part
the city of Philadelphia, and consequent
ly had no postoffices in his district The
other two democrats. Ermentrout, of
the Ninth, and Benner, of the Nine
teenth, represented together but five
counties, Berks and Lehigh, and Adams,
Cumberland and York. According to Gus
tom, President Mckinley permitted Sen
ators Quay and Penrose to select the
postmasters to be appointed in these five
counties. The most recent instance of
this rule established by the president was
the appointment of A. NJ. High, the
veteran Quay leader Of Berks county, to
be postmaster at Reading.
With the advent of a new postmaster
general, who has never been in political
sympathy with either Of the Pennsyl-
vRnia senators. and more latterly with
Quay's reelection to the senate hung up
by deadlock in the legislature. thus
making Penrose the only senator, it was
feared by the Republican organization
managers in the state that the admins
tration might depart from the usual
rule in selecting postmasters.
A conference has been held at the
White House between President Nc
Kinley, Postmaster General Smith and
Senator PenrOse, when the subject was
fully discussed. 1t was finally agreed
that in the event Of Senator Quay's
failure to be reelected, Senator Penrose
would be permitted to name all the post
masters In the districts represented in
the Fifty-sixth congress by Democrats.
An exception was made Of the Twenty
sixth, or the Erie Crawford district, in
which Congressman-at-large Davenport
- ~ q
Penrose, Mr.. Davenport was given con-