The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1901-10-17
PATTIS0N HELD Up.
Wanamakerized Newspapers Re-
sponsible For His Bolting
His Party.
HE is STILL VERY AMBITIOUS

Story Of How the Democrats Of the
Quaker City Refused to 30 Driven to
the Nomination Of An Insurecnt Re.
publiean-Named a Straight Ticket
Especial Correspondence.)
Philadelphia, Sept. 24.-Former Gov
ernor Pattisons complete surrender
to the Wanamakerized newspapers of
Philadelphia was the political sensa
tion of the last week.
When Pattison started out to reor.
ganize the Democracy OF Philadelphia
he made no secret OF his plans to get
the Democratic party in fighting trim
SO as to bring about the nomination of
a straight Democratic ticket, and he
planned to have the insurgent Repub.
licans turn in and elect the Democrats
IN order to get revenge upon the regu.
lar Republicans. Pattison preached the
doctrine Of straight Democracy, and 1t
was generally believed that he was
aiming to strengthen his party so that
he could be in line for the Democratic
nomination for governor next year. He
went to the Democratic state conven.
tion and resisted all the efforts of the
Wanamaker-G Gordon Mcclure sympathl-
zers to interfere with the leadership Of
MnccrQ lnnnal11y
friends were and still are in absolute
control Of the Democratic organization
of Philadelphia.
Pattison took the floor in the state
convention and opposed the scheme to
oust the Philadelphia delegates. He
went back to the Quaker City and
made tour Of the wards lasting for
several weeks. All went swimmingly
until the Wanamaker-Qordon Mcclure
sombination started to pull the wires
on Pattison. They had their hench-
men lead him up into the mountains
and tell him of the possibilities of the
future. They pointed out that the
newspapers carrying the Wanamaker
advertisements were all in favor of
Wanamaker's private counsel, p. F.
Rothermel, for district attorney of
Philadelphia, and that they would op-
pose any politicians or political inter.
ests that were inimical to Rothermel's
candidacy.
THE NEWSPAPER COMBINE.
Despite his previous advocacy of a
straight Democratic ticket, Pattison,
looking to his own interests and seek
ing the support Of the Wanamakerized
newspapers in his candidacy for gover-
nor. began to weaken in his ardor for
a Democratic nomination for district
attorney. Later on he was summoned
to an editorial council at the Cont.
mental Hotel, in Philadelphia, where
he met a number Of editors employed
on newspapers carrying the Wana-
maker advertisements, which mean a
matter of about hall a million annually
to the business offices of the several
newspapers. All of these editors were
gotten to talk up fusion to Pattison
and to lead him to believe that any
party leader who would oppose fusion
and the Endorsement by the Demo
cratic convention of Rothermel for dis
trict attorney would be denounced in
all these newspapers, and that the
popular sentiment which would thus
be created would damn the political
ambitions Of any man who antagon.
lied it.
Pattison was soon captive in the
Wanamaker- Gordon Mcclure camp.
He began irrimating the deslrability
of the Democratic party putting Roth
ermel on their ticket. Colonel Guffey,.
the Democratic national committeeman
from Pennsylvania, was also impressed
with the Importance of having the
Wanamaker newspapers back up his
leadership, which has been the subject
of adverse comment among Democrats