Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-12
FUSION KILLED BY
SIXTEEN TO ONE
Republicans Of Pennsylvania Can
Have Nothing in Common With
Guffey and Free Silver.
CONGRESS MUST BE WON.
Chairman BabcOcls, of the Republic
can Congressional c o mini tt ee Looks
This Fall.
Especial Correspondence.)

to This State For Substantial Gains
This Fall.
Especial Correspondence)
Philadelphia, July 10.-Free silver at
sixteen to one in the Democratic plank
destroys all hope of the Democrats of
Pennsylvania making even fair show
Ing in the coming campaign in the
congressional and legislative districts
of this state
1t 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
Guffey's leadership, after the Bryanites
had won out in the committee on res
olutions of the Democratic national
convention by 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
convention. The Pennsylvania delega-
ton. under the operations of the unit
rule. vert to the front with solid vote
of Ga delegates committed against the
filing OF 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 many 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 Guffey and the PENNSYLVANIA
delegation to the Kansas City conven-
tion fought to the end against free 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 Guffey's fusion
campaign with the Finn insurgent
combine in this state. Not only will
Guffey be unable to deliver but a 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-Lackawann district on
Saturday last, where Senator Scott. an
insurgent, was defeated for renomina-
tion by William Drury, friend of Col
Quay, who had l. 200 majority on a pop
ular vote by Republicans. Scott train
ed with the Flinn-Martin insurgents.
Gen. Palmer, staunch supporter
or 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