Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-19


sslvania is disintegrating rapidly, and
that there will soon be nothing left of
this guerrilla combination but the per-
sonal machine of John Wanamaker
and the newspapers whose political pol
icy is controlled by the advertising
patronage and other considerations
which come from Wanamakerism and
always seem to bring practical results.
Throughout the last two sessions OF
the legislature of Pennsylvania, when
the Wanamaker adherents and other
insurgents were lined up against the
Republican members Of the senate and
house, the David Martin followers of
Philadelphia and the supporters of
William Finn. Of Allegheny. con-
sttuted large majority of
those elected as Republicans who
refused to abide by the action OF
the Republican caucus as voicing the
will of the majority Of the Republican
members of the general assembly.
These Philadelphia andAlleghenym men,
bers. with the scattering insurgents
from several interior counties and the
Democrats, formed combine which
for an entire session prevented the
election of United States senator.
In the last session the regulars were
enabled to organize both branches of
the legislature, to elect United States
senator and pass legislation restoring
the $1,000,00 taken from the public
schools, giving the farmers the neces
sary legislation to prevent the sale of
oleomargarine colored as butter, and to
enact other laws demanded by the
farmers, the laboring men and the
business interests.
The master mind of the combination
arrayed against the Republican party,
the most general generous contributor
to the "cause Of REFORM" and never
relenting foe of the stalwart leaders
of the Republican organization, John
Wanamaker, has from the time he en-
gagged in state politics, always counted
upon the support of Martin and Finn.
Now Martin has practically been
bowled out of politics in Philadelphia
by reason Of his continued warfare
against the Republican organization. It
is conceded that Martin will not be
able to succeed himself in the state
senate. In the recent campaign, when
he espoused the cause of the Union
party, the Republican candidates car
ried his district by nearly 1000 major
ity. Districts which Martin controlled
in the last legislature will unques-
tionably be carried by the Republican
stalwarts at the next election for mem
bers Of the legislature. The Philadel-
phia delegation will practically be
unanimous for the reelection of Boies
Penrose to the United States senate.
With Philadelphia lost to Wana-
amakerism in the coming contest, and
Allegheny also no longer affiliated with
his insurgent political interests, Wana-
maker will have hard time getting
together a corporal's guard to follow
his insurgent standard. Without en-
toring into the controversy between the
leaders of the several elements in Allie
gheny county, there can be no ques-
tioning the fact that there is no fac
ton that will cooperate with Wana-
maker in any crusade he may inaugu-
rate against the Republican organiza-
ton.
Within the last few days the Wana-
maker newspaper of Philadelphia has
had a series of articles rejecting upon
practically all Of the newspapers of
Pittsburg, as none of them has any
consideration for the Wanamaker
brand of politics. The Pittsburg Times,
which for years was owned by the late
Senator C. l.. Magee, and which has
since his death been supporter of the
Allegheny county organization, of
which Senator William Finn is the
leader, paid its respects to Wanamaker
and his journalistic mouthpiece in a
manner to indicate the loss to Wana-
lnakerism of the Finn element in
western Pennsylvania.
Said the Pittsburg Times, under the
caption "a Deliberate LIAR" The
Philadelphia North American, having
failed SO brilliantly to reform the city
of Philadelphia, has now taken up the
task Of giving to Pittsburg some faint
air of respectability. In the course of
a column or 30 of tommy-rot printed in
it's issue of yesterday this great engine
of truth permits one of its hired hands
to discuss the reasons for Pittsburg's
so-called lack Of public conscience-as
if the North American had either a
public or private conscience. 1t ap-
pears that the depths OF woe in which
this journal finds Pittsburg are largely
chargeable to the newspapers Of this
city. AS to what it SAWS of other pa
pers in Pittsburg the Times has no
concern. But the following is a de-
lberate lie, and the man who wrote it,
as we'll as the man who inspired 1t,
knew it to be lie.
The Times then quotes from the
North American charging 1t with be-
ing controlled by official advertising,
and replies that such advertising was
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