Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-10-26
carried all over the State with him

on his now famous stumping tour.
Both of these Wanamaker agents
report regularly every day to Ed
ward A. Van Nalkenburg, the
Wanamaler political manager, who
directs both the ''North American"
and the "Record" with the con-
stant and able assistance of James
Jay Gordon, who has been snap
ping at the basis of the Republi-
can party since memory runneth
not. The late Matthew Stanley
Quay was an especial and constant
victim of attacks by John Wana-
maker. In the notorious Peoples
bank case he was hailed before
Magistrate Jermon, held for court,
indicted and tried. The case
against him was so defective and
utterly preposterous that the Com
monwealth was forced to abandon
it in mid-trial, and Mr.. Quay lived
to see himself reelected to the
United States Senate and called in
to councils held by the greatest
men in the land.
LINCOLN PARTY LEADER.
In the forefront of the Lincoln
party movement and up to his eyes
in the City party campaign in the
Thirty-second ward is George +.
Mapes. This man has for years
past been an editorial writer on
Democratic newspapers, and was
taken up by the 'North Ameri-
can" because of his intimate know
ledge of men and things "up the
State" When he had quite out
lived his usefulness on the "North
American" he was transferred to
the" e"Record, "where he was sent to
jolly folks from cup the State" on
the editorial page in newly Great
ed department called "Our State
Neighbors." The trick is so trans
parent that it inspires mirth. The
poisoned darts directed against the
vitals of the Republican party in
the State first appear upon the edi-
torial page of the "Record" where,
the genius thinks the farmers will
look for their own names.
Until he resigned some hours
ago, Frank Brewer, the superin-
tendent in charge of the great
Wanamaker store, was chairman
of the City party city committee.
He resigned merely to halt the cry
of ''Too much Wanamaker." In
the Committee of Nine, in the Com
mittee of Seventy, and in the new
ly organized City club, one Albert
+. Turner is most active as an adj
wiser and sort of fiscal agent repre-
senting John Wanamaker. This
lad was the first press agent en-
ployed by the Committee of Sew
enty. He imagined that he was
running for councils in the Thirty
fourth ward last February, and he
now is impressed with the idea that
his advice is essential to the life
and well-being OF the Committee
of Nine, the Committee of Seventy,
the City party and the City club.
He is regularly employed as the
financial editor of the "North Am
erican," and no more need be said.
There is a three-handed reel in
the present situation. John Weaver
is private counsel for John Wana-
maker. James Jay Gordon is pri-
vate counsel for the "North Am
lean" and special counsel for Mayor
Weaver. John Wanamaker is the
financial backer of the Lincoln
party in the State, and it is now
proposed in some quarters to sur
render every vestige of the City
party to Mayor Weaver and to per-
NIT him to nominate the county
ticket, which will strengthen his
organization in the State.
This must not be read or con-
sidered as an attack upon John
Wanamaker, who is trying to do