The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-01-17

prevented an election OF senator.
This. however, was time when the
newspapers of Philadelphia, which
carry a daily full page advertisement
of Wanamaker's shops on their back
pages, failed to influence the Republic
cans of the Quaker City. For the last
month the columns of these journals
have fairly teemed with fulsome praise
OF Magistrate Jermon and the influ-
ences back Of Jermon were manifest in
the booming of this aspirant for re-
nomination. Wanamaker's daily news
paper and that owned by son-in-law
of the ambitious merchant were most
persistent champions OF the magis-
trate who held Senator Quay for court.
Every one of the five morning papers
and two of the afternoon journals
which have been assailing Colonel
Quay made Jermon particular favor
ite of all the candidates seeking re-
nomination.
JERMON SHOWED UNDER,
The Republican convention placed
its estimate of the influence Of this
newspaper booming on ballot taken
by the delegates elected by the Re-
publican voters. Adam c. Ackerman,
who Is a member of the legislature,
who went into the Republican caucus
and voted for Colonel Quay for the
United States senate, and who in the
long drawn out contest voted for Quay
on every ballot until the adjournment
of the session, was placed upon the
ticket for magistrate, with 902 votes
to his credit, while Jermon, with the
prestige of being now on the bench,
had but S5 votes in the convention.
This crushing defeat Of Jermon is
generally regarded as a direct shot at
the Wanamaker faction,
Former President Pro TEN. of the
Senate Hon. John c. Grady, who was
chairman of the joint Republican
caucus on the United States senator
ship at the recent session of the leg
islature and who, on adjourning that
caucus, said, IL herewith declare Hon.
Matthew Stanley Quay to be the unani
nous nominee of the Republican party
for United States senator from Penn
sylvania," in reviewing the action Of
the Philadelphia conventions said;
"The friends and supporters of Colonel
Quay have certainly good reason to be
gratified at the result of the voting at
the Republican primary elections last
Tuesday, and the expression given to
the will of the party by the conven-
tions. II is a vindication and an in
dorsement of the most emphatic kind
of the action of those Republicans who,
as members of the legislature of Penn
sylvania, stood to the last by the unani-
nous nominee of their party's caucus
for United States senator.
QUAY'S STRENGTH IN PENNSYL-
VANIA.
with very few exceptions the dele
gates elected to the Republican state
convention to the Republican state
convention are in accord with the pres
ent leadership of the Republican party
in Pennsylvania, and in entire SYM
pathy with the action of the last Re-
publican state convention, which, by
an overwhelming vote, indorsed the
action of Governor Stone in appoint
ing Matthew Stanley Quay to the va
cancy in the United States senate, oc-
casioned by the failure of the legis-
lature to elect. A great majority Of
the Republicans are in entire harmony
with their party organization, and de-
spite the efforts of the so-called insur-
gents they elected Colonel William A.
Stone to the governorship. Colonel
James f. Barnett, the brave COM
mander of the fighting Tenth Penn
sylvania regiment who, last fall,
with the laurels still fresh upon his
brow from glorious work in fighting
the insurgents in the Philippines, was
called upon to confront horde of po-
| litical guerrillas in his native state,
whose sole reasons for opposing his
election as state treasurer were that
he was a friend of Colonel Quay and
the fear that his election might
strengthen Quay and thwart the po-
litical ambitions of his Republican op-
ponents. Well, the Republicans of
Pennsylvania passed upon that issue,
End when the election returns came
In Colonel Barnett, an avowed Quay
supporter, was found to have received
a plurality of 109, 1881. He was the first
| Republican candidate in several years
to receive a majority of all the votes
cast in this state, receiving S5,512 more
votes than the Democratic, Prohibition
and scattering votes combined.
"The people of Pennsylvania have
more than once shown, as Philadel-
phia did today, their contempt for the
methods employed in these anti-Quay
campaigns. When the Republican ma
tional convention meets in this city
in June next Colonel Quay will be
found at the head of the Pennsylva-
MIA delegation to that convention, and
by more than three-fourths vote he
will be chosen to again represent this
state on the Republican national COM
mittee. The opposition to Quay as il
was to Governor Stone and Colonel
Barnett, is largely to be found in cer-
tain newspapers
A Privileged Dog.
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