Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-10-12
POLITICAL.

County Chairman Quigley and the
county candidates started out, Monday,
to tour the connty. each candidate, this
year. at the suggestion Of ex-Prothono-
tary Mccullough, going in his own
buggy.
A late dispatch from Harrisburg says
that the Republican State Committee
has literally abandoned the State cam
paign, and is devoting all its attention
and cash to desperate effort to save
the remnant of the Philadelphia ma
chine.
The political fate of United States
Senator Boies Penrose is at stake.
Should the City party ticket win in
Philadelphia and the Independents cap
ture the important offices of the Sheriff
and the County Commissioners. it will
be all up with the Gang" Durham
came into power in 1896 by capturing
the Sheriff's Office only.
With the Organization" down and
out in Philadelphia, Penrose will be done
for in the State. A United States Sen
ator is in position to demand some
measure of political recognition through
sheer force of position, but Senator
who lacks the support of his own city
for reelection is not likely to be per-
mitted to make ''slates" for the party
conventions and dictate the course of
legislation.
The political life of Senator Penrose,
therefore, may be said to be hanging in
the balance at the coming November
election in Philadelphia. And the poll
tical life Of Senator Penrose is of vastly
| more importance to State Chairman
Andrews than the State Treasury and
all the other offices on Capitol Hill.
| The lack of an expensive ''spellbind-
| ing" tour for Candidate Plummer and
| the failure of numerous county leaders
TO "get rise" out of the State commit
tee in the matter of cash aid for local
campaign is explained
| Every available dollar is being dump
| ed into Philadelphia. The leaders are
| insisting that Plummer is entirely safe,
but they are dreadfully anxious about
the outcome in the city of Penrose
And their fear is justified by conditions
With election day only month off
of the situation and dpe consideration
OF. the public and private statements Of
both sides, is convinced to a man that
the Organization" is beaten in Phila-
delphia'
There are 339, 900 voters in Phila-
delphia and after the sale of $1,000 tax
receipts last Saturday, it was estimated
that ninety per cent. of them had quail
fed to vote at the coming election.
Senator Foraker of Ohio. who had
agreed to speak in Philadelphia, on
national issues, next week. has sent the
following note to Chairman Andrews:
Il am satisfied from reports / am re
ceiving from Philadelphia. that if | go
there to speak at this time it will be in
terpreted as having direct reference tc
your local troubles and differences, with
which l cannot with propriety have
anything to do, instead of national
policies, about which and in behalf OF
your State ticket alone ] was invited to
speak While l think this is unreason.
able and while l dislike exceedingly to
recall an appointment that has been an
nounced, yet / am unwilling to be put
in such attitude and therefore cancel
my engagement for the 18th"
| Senator Foraker Of Ohio is recognized
as the leader of the opposition to the
Presidents railroad policy. He Ii
stumping Ohio at present, and Secre-
tary Taft intends setting down upon
him.
Sayl Can you make heads or tails out
Of Pittsburg politics? There's the
Citizens party, the Lincoln. the Or.
phans. the Republicans and the Demo
Gratis; the Flinn-Leslie crowd, the Paul
Davis combination, the Stevenson q Co
association, etc ETC., and a diagram IL
needed for outsiders.
President Roosevelt is understood tc
have made it clear that he does not de.
sire any Of his cabinet to speak in.Penn
sylvania in this campaign Penrose
and Durham have been making special
efforts to get Republicans OF National
reputation from other States to speak in
Philadelphia, but have met with failure
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw was ap-
Iproached, but after hearing from Secre
tary of State Root as to the situation in
Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, de.
clined to come to the aid of the gang
Following on this the President is said
i TO have taken a decided stand against
the giving of any assistance to the band
of 'corruptionists who have been mas
querading as Republicans. 1t is re
lported that he was partially moved to
assume this attitude by the statement
that Senator Foraker had agreed to
speak in Philadelphia. The Ohio SEN
ator has assumed the role of Leader OF
the forces opposed to Roosevelts policy
Of railroad rate regulation. Naturally
he would find congenial company with
the machine leaders Of Pennsylvania
who caused the reconsideration and
tabling of the resolution indorsing that
policy which had passed the House of
Il Representatives. But even Senator
FORAKER is said to have stipulated that
his speech should be confined to Nation
al questions only and he has since de-
clined to speak there at all.