Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-09-19
Meeting of 1.-THE Union Party, y
Again Postponed.
1T is NOT NOW IN PUBLIC FAVOR
Championed BY Yellow journalism,
This Latest Agitation Against Re-
publcanism Has Been Most Sig.
nal Failure.
Especial Correspondence

Especial CorrespondenceO
Philadelphia, Sept. 1.-THE man
ayers of the Union party have decided
that this is not propitious time for
them to attempt an organization
against the patriotic citizens of Penn
sylvania who comprise the Republi-
can party, of this commonwealth.
They have concluded to postpone the
meeting of their so-called convention.
The assassin's bullets, which finally
meant the death of the President,
called off their convention when it
was first scheduled to meet, and now
the fatal termination of the attack
requires them to defer action again.
Both the state and city conventions
of this mushroom political growth,
known as the Union party, have been
postponed. They were to have met
on Thursday next and name candidates
for state and city Offices.
The Wanamaker-McClu Clure- Gordon
leadership of this alleged reform outfit
determined that it would not be we'll
for them to attempt to put an inde-
pendent ticket in the field at this time
and they called off their allies. The
date for their gathering has not yet
been fixed.
A. X. Mcclure, who seeks to have
his brother-in-law reelected to the
board Of revision of taxes in Philadel-
the committee of the Union party, on
the relations between city and state, "
decided to call off the state convention
of the Union party which was to nom
mate Judge Yerkes, Democrat, for su-
preme court justice, and f. A. Coray,
Independent Republican. for state
treasurer, until after the burial of the
late President Mckinley.
Recent developments, the universal
denunciation of yellow journalism, -
upon which the so-called Union party
fattened and grew for a while. have
put this ephemereal organization out
of the pale Of popular sympathy, and
made it a thing to be loathed and alb
horred
"Republicanism, patriotism and
Americanism" stand arrayed against
personal interest, Anarchy and vel.
low journalism" in Pennsylvania, as
they do throughout this broad nation.
In this home of loyalty to the princi-
pies of the Republican party, no sym
trines, nor any allies of her supporters,
can hone for popular favor or support.
THE CLUB LEAGUE CONVENTION.
President j. Hampton Moore, of the
State League of Republican Clubs, has
issued proclamation postponing un-
til date to be determined by the
executive committee of the organiza-
ton the convention which was to have
been held in Scranton on September
II and 18, President Moore, in his
notice to the members of the league,
says:
Our stricken President has passed
away. He was the admired ruler of our
nation and the accepted head of our
great party. He was the idol of Re-
publicans and the ideal Of Americans.
He had risen from the soil of his ma.
tive land to be known and beloved by
all mankind to the boundaries of civili-
cation. 1t was left for the red hand of
Anarchy alone to wrest from him his
precious life and to plunge happy
nation into deepest gloom.
Sharing in the national pride that
exalted him, we had prepared in the
regular course to raise our voice as
Pennsylvania Republicans in praise of
his public works. The frenzied hand
of the assassin has changed it all.
ut is for the law and the American
people to deal with this hideous
crime and the causes actuating it, for
us to drain our cup of sorrow with the
mourning millions of American breth-
rem; to frame our minds to holier and
nobler purposes in political and civic
life and to guard, in future, against the
shame and the peril of tolerance with
out reason.
THAT which we had planned in
support Of the great principles of our
President represented. must be stood
aside with humility and reverence
while we join respectfully in paying
the last rites to the dead. Our tribute
to the living must give away to the
grief of the nation and to the homage