Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-07-31
A RED HOT CAMPAIGN
Judge Pennypac'z;i Resigns Office
to Go on the Stump.
A GREAT BAND OF sPELLBINDERs
Pattison Is Dodging the Free Silver
Issue, and Refuses TO Meet w. J.
sryan-What State Newspapers Say
of the Rival Candidates.


Philadelphia, July 29.-Pennsylvania
is to witness the liveliest kind of a
campaign this Fall. Indeed from indi-
cations 1t will be the liveliest campaign
the Commonwealth has ever seen.
Judge Pennepacker has left the Bench
for the express purpose of participating
in the canvass. His resignation is in
the hands of the Governor and he Will
leave the Bench on August list. he
will take the stump about six weeks
before the election in November,
There will be associated with him the
greatest company of spell-binders that
ever travelled the state.
1t has not been settled definitely as
to who will compose the Pennypacker
party. but among the names mentioned
are those of Senator Penrose, Assistant
United States District Attorney Jas
M. Beck. Ex-Postmaster Charles Emory
Smith. Ex-Governors Hastings and
Beaver. Attorney General John p. Elk
ms. Adjutant General Thomas j. Stew
art, General Jas. Latta, Hampton l..
Carson. George S. Graham and possibly
United States Senator Chauncey M. De-
pew.
The Democrats are going to put
band of spell-binders on the road that
will represent the best speakers IN
their party. 1t naturally follows that
Ex-Governor Robert e. Pattison Will
head the combination. Other mem
bers of the party will be Ex-Attorney
General w. U. Hensel, Congressman
Henry F. Green, Congressman }. X. +.
Hall, George w. Guthrie, candidate Tor
lieuteant governor; Hon. w. F. Har'
rity, Hon. George A. jerks and State
Chairman VIM. T. Creasey.
PATTISON RUNS FROM BRYAN.
AS to the issues that will be dis
cussed it can positively be asserted that
the Democratic candidate for governor
will not discuss National issues nor
Republican prosperity. He is very
much afraid of those subjects at the
present time. Mr. Pattison is ashamed
of VIM. Jenning Bryan whose ardent
admirer he was four years ago. A very
funny incident attended the appearance
of VIM. j. Bryan in Philadelphia last
week Bryan was on his way to Allen
town to address a Democratic meeting.
When he reached Philadelphia there
was not a corporals guard of Demo
Gratis to meet him. Evel. prominent
Democrat in the city had run away.
Robert E. Pattison, Democratic can
didate for governor, was the most con-
spicuous among the missing. He
made it convenient to be in New York
when Bryan arrived in Philadelphia.
Democratic City Chairman Charles E.
Donnelly and Commissioners Thos. j.
RYAN were also among the absent ones.
Judge Gordon couldn't be expected to
meet Mr.. Bryan because he had op-
posed him. and so the up-shot was that
the late Democratic candidate for the
Presidency encountered ''freeze-out."
Naturally he was very indignant, and
when he spoke to the Lehigh County
Democrats that night he declined to
mention the name of Ex-Governor Pat
tison or even invite his hearers to vote
the Democratic ticket in Pennsylvania.
WHAT THE NEWSPAPERS SAY.
The Republican newspapers of the
state, both stalwart and Independent,
have been devoting considerable edi-
torial space to an outline of what can
didates Pennypacker and Pattison will
discuss. The York Daily Dispatch
heretofore a leading Independent Re
publican newspaper cleverly puts the
matter as follows:
Ex-Governor Pattison it is under
stood, will not discuss national affairs
on the stump in Pennsylvania but as
he is booked to open the campaign in
Illinois in September he will be per-
mitted to shout for tariff reform and
the unlimited and independent coinage
of silver at the dishonest ration of 16
to /. OF course he will take whack
at the way the Republicans have acted
in the PHILIPPINES, and denounce ex-
pansion-in Illinois, but he will be as
silent as clam in Pennsylvania on
such subjects.
''On the other hand Judge Penny
packer has boldly declared that he will
discuss local issues and national issues.
The Republican party is again united,
and the Republican nominee, after he
reaches the Governors chair, will man
fully carry out his ante-election prom
ises, and impress upon the Senate and
House that proper ballot law and 9TH
er reforms must be enacted"
PATTISON IN ILLINOIS.
The Franklin Repository" of Cham
bersburg, in pretty much the same
strain has this to say:
"Mr. Pattison is booked by the Dem
ocratic State Committe of Illinois to
open the campaign in that state early
in September, and as Pattison is pre-
cluded from discussing national poll
tics in Pennsylvania, this will afford
him an opportunity of telling the De-
mocracy of Illinois that when Cleve-
land and Hill, and Whitney and Cen
eral Palmer balked. he stood resolutely
no Citu LOT ap;ff