Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-02
DUAY'S FRIENDS
ARE CONFIDENT
The Senior Senator's Supporters
Satisfied They Will Break
the Deadlock.
W WANAMAKERISM RAMPANT.
His News Bureau Controls the Re-
ports That Go to Many Newspapers

Especial Correspondence.)

Especial Correspondence
Harrisburg. Jan. 31.-The develop
ments of the last week have not ma
terially altered conditions in the con-
test for the United States senato ip.
The fact that despite the II ex-
penditure of money on the !. of the
opposition and the resorting to the
most disgraceful tactics by the Wan
amakerites Senator Quay's forces have
remained intact is most gratifying to
his friends The senior senator has
not been here to give personal attention
to the direction Of his canvass. He has
been down in Washington looking after
the interests Of his constituents. There
are a number of matters before the
appropriation committee demanding
his attention. He is not the least con-
cerned about the outcome of the fight.
He is satisfied that he will be reelected
at the proper time. The deadlock Is
continued by the boiling Republicans
refusing to accept the nominee of the
caucus Of the Republican party, Sem
ator Quay. They will not go to the
Democrats, and the Democrats will not
take up any of the candidates who have
been voted for by the boilers The sit
uation shows 113 stalwart Republicans
for Senator Quay, Sc Democrats for
George A. jerks, the Democratic eau
Gus nominee, and 50 boltin Republi-
cans scattering their votes among.
seven or eight candidates. The boilers
can never name the winner. Senator
Quay's friends have control of the sit
uation, so that it must be either Colo
mel Quay or some Republican his
friends may agree upon, should ; not
be able to get the necessary Lmhsr OF
votes. But it is reasonably certain
that Senator Quay will be his own sue
cessor.
The tactics of the Wanamaker agents
are arousing feeling of disgust
among all fair minded citizens in the
state. The newspapers that are con-
trolled by the Wanamaker advertise
ments are made the mediums by which
the most shocking misstatements at
fecting Senator Quay and his friends
are printed daily. Some of these pa
pers have leased their entire last pages
maker at prices ranging from $4,000
to $4,000 a year. Their political news
columns are now absolutely controlled
by the Wanamaker political news bu-
reau. Commenting on this phase Of
the canvass. Senator Mitchell today
said:
"A more despicable and hypocritical
campaign than that being waged
against Senator Quay f. not known to
history. 1t is made up of falsehoods
and malicious charges, the outgrowth
Of personal spite and disappointed am
bition. The headquarters of this COM
bination OF deceit, treachery and over
whelming self Importance is in one of
the Harrisburg hotels, the same head
quarters from which issued the only
scandal of the Penrose campaign when
one Of the chief promoters of Wana-
makerism was hauled into court on
charge Of bribery. 1t is needless to
say that the same notorious Individual
is connected with the present man.
agement.
"The anti-Quay movement has been
halted and Is powerless. 1t has done
the very worst that it can do. 1t has
gathered in the rag tag and bobtail Of
Wanamakerism and malice and has
collected, in addition, few respectable
Republicans. who, for some reason in
capable of lucid explanation. have cut
themselves loose-temporarily, let us
hope-from the Republican party and
have become boilers. This array Of
boilers has reached it's limit of strength
and can defeat Quay only by voting di-
rectly for a Democrat. To account for
their failure the managers have in
augurated a bureau of political false
hoods, and night after night the most
barefaced lies are sent out through the
Wanamaker newspapers. 1t must be
hot iron in the flesh of newspapers
that want to be honest to have these
falsehoods thrown at them, and yet
they dare not reject them. The yoke
of Wanamakerism is iron bound. and
even the reckless inventions Of the
past few days had to be gulped down
by the shameless organs which sell
their independence for the few paltry
dollars that a Wanamaker advertise
ment brings them"
The wild rawlings of political malice
on Friday took the form Of the dis
:overy of a plot to elect Quay, the main
point of which was that pairs were to
be ignored and Quay was to be rushed
through in the absence of his enemies.
1t was absolutely absurd on it's face,
for the Quay leaders had all left town.
but absurdity. is without effect upon
men who deliberately sit down to in
vent falsehoods and sensations, and
yet the organs had to print the yarn
and father 1t and again cringe in faith
full servility before their practical own
er.
On a par with such dastardly tactics
are the sensational offers of rewards.