Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-11-16
The rlugwump Outlook.

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of those engaged in the anti-Re-
poblican movement. The meeting
must have taken on a funeral
aspect. We do not discover that
any new men of prominence have
joined the movement. Among
those present were Ex-Governor
Hastings, whose county, Centre,
has been given to the Democrats;
the Acknowledgement of his adj
ministration, Mr.. Mccormick,
whose county of Lycoming has also
gone Democratic; David Martin, of
Philadelphia, whose ward, the
Nineteenth, cut the Republican
majority in half. No mention is
made of his friend Hackett, who
holds city Office, and who is also
boss of a ward, but as his ward cut
the Republican ticket heavily it is
presumed that he is still in sym
pathy with Martin, Hastings and
Mccormick. John Dalzell was
present-John Dalzell who could
not be nominated for Congress in
Allegany county upon his own
strength. Calvin Wells, of the
same county, who runs a news
paper in Philadelphia, was there,
and so was ex-senator Kaufman,
who has been repudiated by the
voters of Lancaster county. OF
course such a gathering would not
be complete without f. A. Van
Valkenberg, he of unsavory mem
Ory.
We are told that these gentle
men discussed the situation, and
the fact that they decided to con-
tinue the insurgent movement and
to go to work at once is proof that
they consider early work necessary
if they are to make any progress
whatever. The election figures
are not to their liking. Their one
great bug-a-boo is Quay. These
men fused with the Democrats
wherever that was possible in 1898
and carried few legislative dis
covered that their fusion counties
in the election of last Tuesday have
gone back on them. They have
lost Blair and Chester; they have
lost, in fact, in every section where
they considered themselves strong.
They have run up against the peO-
pie and the people have simply
slaughtered them.
They propose now to defeat Quay
for reelection. They thought
they were going to have an easy
time. They picked out Barnett as
the representative Of Quay. They
made their campaign on Quay.
They refused to discuss national
issues. They said that Barnett
was Quay's man and that if Barnett
could only be defeated now Quay
would be defeated hands down
next year. Barnet was elected by
Il majority Of 100000. There was
no objection on the part of the
Mugwumps to J. Hay Brown for
the Supreme Court. They all
voted for Brown and they cut
Barnett. The result was that
Barnett ran behind Brown by
about $4,000 votes in the whole
State, including Philadelphia,
where Barnett was cut 10000.
These figures do not mean that
1000 Republicans voted for Brown
and refused to vote for Barnett,
for -, 800 votes changed from the
Republican column to the Demo
cratic would mean a difference of
%, 900 in the total.
These figures are not altogether
reliable for the reason that some
Democrats who could not stand the
disreputable attack made upon
Barnett's bravery cut Greasy and
voted for Barnett, but, on the
other hand, there were numerous
Democrats allied with the Gordon
wing of the Democratic party
Democrats who are willing to fuse
with Mugwumps anywhere-who
voted for Brown while also voting
for Greasy in order to make the
difference between Browns mai
ority and Barnett's as great
as possible. So the differ
ance between Brown and Barnett
is not the true measure Of the
Mugwump vote in Pennsylvania.
1t is too large.
The revolt against Barnett is too
small to bother with for an instant.
The great majority for Barnett
shows that the Republicans as a
whole have taken little stock in
the Democratic and insurgent
onslaught and that they are sick
and tired of the attack upon the
State Treasury. If the Mugwumps,
who have made their campaign