The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-10-31
SHAM REFORMERS
ARR UNMASEED.
Men AOtuated by Selfish Ambitions
Try to Wreck the Repub-
hCan Organization,
PRIDE IN PENNSYLVANIA.

Especial Correspondence.)


ance of John Wanamaker on the stumI
in support of the insurgent-Democrati'
cause has evoked severe criticism OF
his political intrigues and his method:
in attempting TO disrupt the Republic
can organization.
The fact is recalled that he has an.
tagonized every Republican candidate
for state office for some years and
that his actions have been purely
guided by his personal ambitions. His
defeats for United States senator and
for the Republican nomination for gov
ernor were not accomplished until az
ter he had spent many thousands of
dollars, enough to make many a man
independently rich for life.
There are few counties in the state
in which Wanamaker money has not
been spent at some time or another.
His appearance at this time as an advo-
cate Of fusion is not apt to bring about
any more serious consequences to the
Republican party than did his support
of Greasy. the Democratic candidate
against Col Barnett for state treasurer,
or of jerks. the Democratic candidate
against Governor Stone.
COLONEL QUAY ON FUSION
Apropos of the latest moves OF the
fusionists Col. Quay made a speech at
Phoenixville. in which, among other
things, he said:
"The fusion alliance being without
common principle is hard put to for
a platform. In one community where
there have been minor election frauds
it shouts for ballot reform. In an
other. where dairymen are interested
in the price of butter, it complains that
the state authorities have but five or
six hundred prosecutions instituted for
violation Of the oleomaTgarine act
where they might have more. At
other points they quarrel with the veto
of one million dollars of the school ap-
propriations. and everywhere they Join
IN the cry of the Democratic Bowery
parrot OF 1885, Quay is bad man
In Pottstown the other night the slo-
gan was Good government Penn
sylvania was declared a misgoverned
state and a debauched and plundered
state,
Good government is to take taxes
from the shoulders Of the ill-paid
agricultural interests and place 1t upon
corporations and owners of stocks and
moneys at interest. Good government
is to increase the annual school appro-
priatiOns within ten years from one
million 10 five millions, and to stud
our commonwealth with institutions Of
learning Good government is TO pay
n InlE - vaf11snr,gr Of ant1aNu In,
thirty years without expressing our
people and at the same time TO spend
millions in the care of our criminal
and insane populations and universi-
ties and general public charities. Good
government Is to erect citizen SOL
diery which can be thrown to any
point in the commonwealth TO sustain
outraged law at twenty-fOur hours
notice and which can furnish fifteen
thousand bayonets for the United
States service on call, and OF all this
Pennsylvania has Pennsylvania is
not debauched and cannot be debauch-
ed. Weak men may be bought in iso-
lated instances, but recent experience
has shown that a United States SEN
atorship cannot be bought The state
has never been plundered nor are its
public officers plunderers.
A REMARKABLE RECORD.
Pennsylvania in a whole century
has not lost a single dollar by de-
falcation of one of her public officials.
Tre united fortunes OF all of the heads
OF departments at Harrisburg, from the
governor down, added TO the fortune
of our United States senator and my
own will not in total equal one years
income Of the merchant prince or the
traction magnate who are the main
springs of the fusion movement. the
great teachers and treasurers of re-
form. The treasury of PENNSYLVANIA is
not the great fiscal institution reform
ers would have you believe. Under
our financial system the annual re-
ceipts Of our treasury are not one
fourth Of the annual receipts of the
city of Philadelphia. They do not more
than equal the annual receipts of the
city Of Pittsburg or the county of Al
legheny. The money is not held in the
vaults at Harrisburg, but deposited
according TO law IN the banks through
Out the state, where the people have
the use of It, unless the needs of the
commonwealth require its withdrawal
Pennsylvania is honest. Her peo-
pie are honest. Her officials are hon.
est. and of all this Union of states
Pennsylvania is the fairest and the
happiest and the most intelligent and
the best governed No state OF all the
Union has so thriven and grown in
population and wealth as has she un.
der TIE government Of the last venty-
five years. Railroads, mines. furnaces
iron works, steel works aud factories
in countless numbers have been added
to our producers OF wealth. Within
four years. since 1896, four hundred
and fifty thousand men have beer
added to the roll Of paid labor in
Pennsylvania.
If this Union Of states were dis.
solved Pennsylvania could stand alone
and be a nation unto herself out o
her own bowels she could spin the wei
Of her prosperity. She-could place IL
the field and ciothe, equip and subsist
an army OF one quarter of q million
of men. She could build at her owr
shipy ards her own navy, plate heI
ships from her own armor plants. arm
them with guns from her own gun fac.
tories, and send them out on the At.
lantic and the great lakes. In her in.
dustries she could levy tribute on al
her sister states and almost all for.
eign countries. I am proud there 1.
During ihe civil war as well as our lat,
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most troublesome diseases the army haC