New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-14
AFFAIRS IN PHILADELPHIA
SENATOR QUAY AND GOVERNOR sTovr
AS STRIKE SETTLERS-JUDGE pm
NYPACKER'S SUCCESSES ON THE
BENCH-ASPHALT AND AL
KALI COMPANIES

| KALI COMPANIES.
| Philadelphia, Sept. ID GSpeciaD.-Outside O, n.
| incidents and results of the convention tn 49,
| nate a successor Judge Pennypacker IN o.
! Common Pleas Court, the interest in political ma.
| tiers in this State has been centred in the
| of Senator Quay and Governor Stone in copnac
| ton with the anthracite miners strike To NAV
| probably most, observers. the thought has CO..,
that these statesmen working in harmony IN -
effort to strengthen the Republican party ar ~.
same time that they shall allay much public NV
easiness over the long contest of endurance an.
serve people by bringing together powerful AZ
ments of society whose further conflict bodies MOTH
ing but ill.
Neither Governor Stone nor Senator Quay ba.
the slightest idea that Judge Pennypacker is lksr
1 to suffer because of the strike The opera,o-,
know this well they. and all pleas for ~.
salvation of the party enter open but reach
waverins mind. The strikers may be induced IA
believe that one or the other may be the one n, =
whom to ascribe victory If it comes. but the opera
tors certainly take the view that the movemen,
of the Senator and Governor in the matter indicate
with certainty the next political battle which is IN
be fought inside the Republican party lines Both
the Senator and the Governor profess to be stick
lers for regularity and it is known that while Gov
ernor Stone, Senator Finn, Attorney General Ekn
and their immediate political friends Will faithfully
support the Quay nominees for State offices this
fall the same antagonism intensified perhaps ex-
lists row during the campaign for the nominal
ton.
United States Senatorshfp is at stake. and ous
John P Elkn thinks it is within his reach. Out.
side of the organization his fight would hopeless
and no persons know it better than he and his Do
Htcal associates Governor Stone although it has
been less than a month since he formally an
nounced his permanent retirement from politics.
has come to the rescue OF his friend and protege
Elkin and is using the prestige and every power o.,
his official position win friends who will be
service when the great struggle begins. g
| Quay and Governor Stone We're not WORKING in
GaTm9ny partg Who Visited in Ds
announced effort to bring about strike settlement
classsd as a personal political friend Of Nr,
Quay under the new heRnoean p Si 1.speesa
ernor Stone is apparently stronger than Senator
cali special session of the legislature for the en-
actment of compulsory aTpJratIoa law or Ior the
Even Should this be unconstutional it would taxa
nre Court and the strikers would be BY so much
encouraged 10 hold out AS against this IS the fat
together that legislature is practically under the
control Of snaSo the e9f do9 could be passed.
In the sc te and senator oa Keeps up his
calls on President Baer-
7, the open field Of politics nothing has been
done this week except the nomination Of sue
cessor TO Judge Pennypacker- The leaders early
in the week announced their selection, Norris j.
Barratt a representative OF the Young Eepuo-
lican element who has never made any Distinguish
ing mark in his profession, but who is known as a
careful adviser and a fair-minded man. The
spectacular feature OF the convention. rather than
the nomination itself. commanded attention II
was only last week that there had been such
rumpus made at the State convention OF the union
party by the Philadelphia delegates. and u was
only Yesterday that the man for whose sole oeAe-
If the Union party In Philadelphia had been or
ganized presided at the Republican nacnlne con-
vention 10 nominate judge for the Court OF C onI
mon fIeds Is0- vsr more than thousand dele
gates most OF whom were his vituperant political
iV coiacident with the announcement that Mr.:
R0IheFm f4e1, hs Senator David Martin the formal
declaration Of his Repentance ana bsd r,sds
his peace with the men who were in control OF the
machinery has been o k9Tn fd 5e We9e going to
make him eat his crow publicly came win t sur II.
psntance lies in the fact that Senator Martin was
the practical manager OF the Cnlon p d[S
s5nt was made to Te-elect MI Rothermel 10 the
District Attorneys once ;sVsiInv tried to keep
himself in the background His punishment has
Ion for be had been for years the acknowledges
dictator OF Republican politics In Pn MAO 2anr
defeats. in turn the victor
Now that the committee of holders Of securities
~ the Asphalt Trust has secured the assent OF a
majority to it's reorganization plan. holders VINO
were supposed 10 be antagonistic are fairy tun-
bling over themselves to deposit their ceruhcat7'
with the committee before Monday. when the plan
becomes effective The underwriters Of the new
company have agreed to pay into the treasury
50 5lo 900 cash and a similar amount IN oonds e9a.
10 $4,000 in cash 1t is not believed TO pc pos55 $50
ments. II obtained and collected without taxing
into consideration the cost OF htgatlon'
The bankruptcy OF the American AIkaH Com
panv is the grave of fond hopes OF investors wEo
had succumbed to the charms of the tempter VIM
came in political guise. The proposed plan 10 Ie
organize the company has been declared lnope'a
tive and receivers have been appointed ms N4s
one of the numerous concerns which were pi'4A
by w ". Gibbs. who acquired politician p.0Ht.
nence through being selected treasurer OF th'
fund to be raised for the Mckinley campaign
through contributions from the n1anQiactTSTess.
fnaucers and corporations in PhiladelpnIIa, onths
ago when an effort made 70 assess tls 80 =;
In the bills Med in court Mr.. Gibbs was S De-
veIopment Company to foist the English company
patents upon the AmG hi A@ NJ Gib6ss sue
cessful attempt at promoting was pp pam and
80 600 shares of common stock in the AmerlSSts--
company The committee on reha oiIltaIoIl , that
working long the problem now announ rfc don
reha Utilization is impossible. owing 70 the rsJe an
by the English Commercial and DeveIopinsnes 5i1st-
pany of all proposals in reference 70 On a.
ment Of the company's claim on a S5eoe note
The issuing Of s42 100000 new Baltimore and ono
railroad stock of vital interest to Pnliade,p ~.
as this is virtually the Eastern terminus Oh ~
road II is of double Importance at this time. "hs
the Baltimore and Ohio has been credited WIKI -
curing the ownership of Reading This new 80
brings the total capital stock up TO SiSo'''v r
The Pennsylvania road owns directly ana ohio COM
pany's policy. and the creating OF mo-. Former
c cn me snnounceent that $0OO Of the
new stock will be devoted TO equIpHiteHta General
acquired TO be acquired. LEADS TO +5s ss-
on he a