The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-07-11
Republicans of Pennsylvania Can
Have Nothing in Common With
Guffey and Free Silver.
CONGRESS MUST BE WON.
Chairman BabcocE, of the Republi-
cnn Congregational Committee c Looks
to This state For Substantial Gains
This Fall.
(snecial Corresnondence.O


ing in the coming campaign in the
congressional and legislative districts
of this state.
II was with his home interests In
view that Col Guffey, the leader of the
Bryanite wing of the Pennsylvania De-
mocracy, sought at Kansas City last
week to side track the Bryan plank for
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
at the ratio of sixteen to one. But Mr..
Guffey, when he found that Bryan
would not accept the nomination for
the presidency without a specific decla-
ration of sixteen TO one in the party
platform, withdrew his opposition and
turned in with the rampant silverites
of Nevada, Colorado, Wyoming and
other western states and territories
against the manufacturing, the busi-
ness and the farming interests OF Penn
sylvania.
The Pennsylvania delegation, under
Guffeys leadership, after the Bryanites
had won out in the committee on res
olutions of the Democratic national
convention by a majority of but two
votes, Joined with Boss Croker, of New
York, and blocked the plans of David
b. Hill and other opponents of the sill
yer crazed Bryanites.
GUFFEY FOR SIXTEEN TO ONE.
Guffey's loyalty to Bryan and the
wild notioned leaders of the Tillman-
Altgeld type prevented a continuance
of the fight against the sixteen to one
plank on the floor of the Kansas City
copvaDtiOp Tho DappcvIvopio 1alaua-
tion, under the operations of the unit
rule, went to the front with solid vote
of Ga delegates committed against the
filing of a minority report in the ma
tional convention against sixteen to
one. This plank which Bryan wrote
himself, will be the cause of the de-
sertion of many hundreds of thousands
of sound money Democrats from the
Bryan and Stevenson ticket this year.
In Pennsylvania alone there are al
ready manv Democrats who say they
will vote the entire Republican ticket
this fall. BY this they do not mean
that they have gone over entirely to the
Republican party. They argue that
the sooner Bryan Is driven from the
leadership of the National Democracy
the sooner that party will get back to
its old moorings and teachings. The
way to kill off Organism and free sill
yer, they say, is to vote the entire Re-
publican ticket.
Had Guftey and the Pennsylvania
delegation to the Kansas City conven-
tion fought to the end against freq sill
yer they would have come home de-
serving of the thanks and the respect
of the conservative Democrats of their
state. Their half hearted support of
the conservative plank in the early
stage of the struggle counts for moth
ing, since before the fight was half over
they turned in with the Tillmans, the
Altgelds. the Townes and the other
single idea Democrats of the present
freakish Democratic organization
NO FUSION POSSIBLE.
It will be interesting to note the eff
feet of Guffey's support of the sixteen
to one silver plank upon Guffeys fusion
campaign with the Finn insurgent
combine in this state Not only will
Guffey be unable to deliver but small
portion of the Democratic vote to his
fusion candidates for the legislature
but with Guffey on record as voting for
the sixteen to one plank he cannot ex-
pect Republicans who have business in
terests in this state to give encourage
ment to his scheme to defeat regular
Republican nominees for the state SEN
ate and the house Of representatives,
VINO will have a vote on the important
issue of the election of United States
senator.
Sixteen to one kills fusion in Penn
sylvania on the legislative ticket and
means the election of Republicans in
every doubtful congressional district in
this state.
The first primary election to be held
in Pennsylvania since the sixteen to
one declaration in Kansas City was in
the Luzerne-Lackawanna district on
Saturday last, where Senator Scott. an
lnsurgent, was defeated for renomina-
ton by William Drury, friend of Col.
Quay, who had 200 majority on a pop-
ular vote by Republicans. Scott train
ed with the Flinn-Martin insurgents.
Gen. Palmer, staunch supporter
OF Col. Quay, was nominated for con-
gress in this district at the same pri-
maries.
REEDER MEETS BABCOCK.
General Frank Reeder. chair
man of the Republican state COM
mittee of Pennsylvania, has been in
consultation with Chairman Babcock.
of the Republican congressional COM
mittee, upon the subject of the con-
gressional campaign in the Keystone
state. Chairman Babcock has Impress
ed Gen. Reeder with the fact that
pennsylvania shall make gains in the
Republican representation in the house.
so that this stalwart Republican state
shall do her share towards preventing
the Democracy from gaining control
OF this branch of congress.
One of the most serious difficulties
OF the Impending campaign, so far as
the Republicans are concerned, is the
almost universal belief that the money
question cannot be reopened, except as
subject of academic debate. for the
next four years at least. Chairman
Babcock, who is about TO open his
fourth campaign in that capacitv
Keenly realizes, as well as do all the
Othor more sagacious leaders, that a
Bryan victory this year would almost
inevitably give the silver men control
OF both branches OF congress on Mar=S
=, 1903, at the latest, and might possi-
bly, produce that result on March 4.
1901.
Those who know the details of the
congress campaign Of 1898 remember
now difficult 1t was to arouse Republi-