Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-09-14
Philadelphia Item.l

fake reform, free trade rallies, has
reached beyond the limits of the
city and is rapidly spreading to
every section of the State, thereby
putting severe kink in any boom
which Weaver may seek to launch
for the Governorship.
The upstate citizens are some
what akin to the residents of Mis-
siouri. They require to be shown,
and they declare that this Mayor
Weaver has failed to do. AS farias
they, viewing the battle from afar,
have been able to discern, his cam
paign for alleged reform has con-
sisted principally of hot air and
reckless and unsupported charges.
The general disgust felt through
out the State is we'll voiced by Col
onel P. G. Boyle, editor of the Oil
City Derrick, who, in an editorial
utterance under the caption "a
Frienzied Reformer," says:
RINGING DENUNCIATIoN.
Mayor Weaver, of Philadelphia,
is to be Investigated and his whole
sale removals of city officials and
sweeping charges of graft and cor
ruption will be probed to the bot
tom. There are two sides to every
story and a suspension of popular
Judgment is in order until the
court of inquiry appointed by the
Councils completes its work. 1T
SEEMS TO BE QUITE THE
POPULAR THING TO MAKE
CHARGES AGAINST REPUT-
ABLE CITIZENS AND TRUST
ED OFFICIALS, BUT THEY
CANNOT BE DENIED THE OP-
PORTUNITY TO DEFEND
THEMSELVES. With the Wana-
maker press all on his side, it was
quite easy for the Mayor to stir up
popular prejudices and attempt
measures of reform without stop
ping to see if they were justified or
not. HE STARTED IN WITH
THE IDEA THAT HIS WILL
WAS THE LAW AND THAT HE
HELD THE POWER TO CON
VICT PUBLIC OFFICIALS UP
ON PRESUMPTION AND TURN
THEM OUT OF OFFICE WITH
OUT THE FORMALITIES OF A
PUBLIC TRIAL.
With few exceptions, the great
papers Of Philadelphia are intlu-
enced by Wanamakerism, and it
was their hue and cry that urged
the Mayor on in his attempts to
overthrow the Republican political
organization of the Quaker City.
In his mad onslaught upon the
city government, he hesitated at
nothing, and his astounding ac-
tions are without precedent in
the history of municipal govern
ment. He slashcd right and left,
cutting off heads indiscriminately.
When he wanted legal advice he
went out of the city and State to
obtain just the kind he needed to
sustain his acts.
Judge Gordon is his confidential
adviser, and the Wanamaker press
of Philadelphia is everready to pat
Weaver on the back and commend
him for his "frenZied" reforms.
LOCAL ATTORNEYS IGNORED.
Ignoring the best attorneys in
Philadelphia, the Mayor rushed off
to New York to consult Elihu
Root, ex-Secretary of War, AND
THUS DRAG THE ROOSEVELT
ADMINISTRATIONS INTO HIS
POLITICAL SCHEMES. Mr..
Root was induced to express him
self very strongly in regard to a
purely hypothetical case on charges
that had been made without any
proof. He promptly abused the
Republican Organization of Penn
sylvania and duly received his fee.
That Mr.. Root should have been
consulted at all in a matter affect
ing Pennsylvania politics was a
most unfortunate proceeding, but
it shows the desperate expedients
to which Mr.. Weaver resorted in
order to sustain his position and
secure the quasi support of outside
politicians in his onslaughts upon
the Republican Organization of
this State.
And that Mr.. Root expressed
himself as he did was in exceeding
bad taste. His presumption in
meddling in Pennsylvania politics
was merely the act of a hired at
torney and not the deliberate pro-
ceedings of an experienced and
astute politician. He fell very
easily into the trap laid for him by
A FOREIGN-BORN MAYOR,
SCARCE TEN YEARS A CITI-
ZEN OF THIS COUNTRY. Mr..
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