Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1905-10-05
Flows at Two Ends OF the State.
Especial C0rrespondence.l

ticket at next months election has
proved complete fiZZle
Outside of the few men at the head
of the organization. all of whom are
disappointed Office seekers, and many
of them long ago repudiatsd by the
Republican party there is absolutely
no backing to the agitation, aside
from the Wanamaker newspaper com
bination.
Here and there. there will be found
little groups of followers OF these lead
ers who make speeches and adopt res
olutions for publication in the insur-
gent newspapers, SO as to make il ap-
pear that there is popular sentiment
for their cause.
But the people are not being fooled
The Same Old Game.
The Lincoln Party is virtually a re-
vival of the old insurgent movement
which was financed by Wanamaker
interests, when Wanamaker was q can
dicate for Usitea States senator.
The same old faces are seen at their
meetings and the same old anti-Re-
publican speeches are heard at all Of
their gatherings.
Former Senator Emery, of Mexican
county, who has been heard frequently
on the stump for Democratic can
didates for Office, is now at the front
of the Lincoln Party movement, which
is backing Berry, the Free-silver Bry-
ante Democrat and .Prohibitionist, for
State Treasurer against ]. Lee Plum
mer one of the most loyal and sincere
Republicans that this state ever knew
and a man whose integrity and honesty
of purpose have never been questioned.
With Emery in Mexican county, there
is Niles in York, who has twice been
turned down for superior court justice
in Republican conventions and who
has probably come to the conclusion
that he must wreck the Republican
party before he can satisfy his craving
for fat Office.
Niles is chairman of the state COM
mittee of the Lincoln Party, and asso-
ciated with him as secretary is George
e. Mapes, an editor on the Democratic
Philadelphia Record, which is domi-
mated by the Wanamaker interests.
Where the Wires Are Pulled.
The Lincoln party leaders up the
state have frequent conferences with
e. A. Manufacturing, the Wanamaker
political manager in Philadelphia.
In fact, the whole movement is vir-
tually directed from the Wanamaker
headquarters. Realizing the interests
which have been promoting this
scheme, the great body of voters in
Pennsylvania have refused to have
anything to do with it.
Many are of the opinion that the
whole agitation is leading up to
movement to make former Judge James
Gay Gordon, a Democrat. an indepen-
dent candidate for governor, with the
ultimate aim of electing Wanamaker
United States senator to succeed Pen
rose.
The more this idea gets abroad the
less popular will be the Lincoln party
in the eyes of Republicans of Pennsyl-
vania
Reports from every county in the
state received by Colonel Wesley R.
Andrews, chairman of the Republican
state committee, indicate that there
will be large Republican vote polled
at the coming election and that the
Republican candidates will be elected
by majorities which will exceed any
given to Republican nominees in an
off year" at any time in the history
Of Pennsylvania.
Berry Gets Two Hard Blowo.
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severe blows from unexpected quarters
in beth Allegheny county and Phla-
delphia.
They were counting in the west upon
the support Of the Citizens Party in
Allegheny county. They had all their
plans made upon the basis of getting
Berry's name upon the Citizens Party
ticket and thus secure for him the
large vote which the independent or
ganizatioH will poll fer Its local can
didates.
But the Republicans who are affil-
lated with the Citizens Party did not
propose to have their organization
made a tail to the Wanamaker kite.
They said:
No. We will place the name of
]. Lee Plummer. the Republican nom
inee for state treasurer, at the head of
Dur ticket. along with those of the
other Republican state candidates"
And that is just what they did
Then howl went up from the Lin
colnites. The Wanamakerites through
out the state fairly shrieked with an
ger Their Democratic allies were
swearing mad.
The whole Berry campaign depended
upon a deal with the Citizens Party
to give them the shadow of a chance
Of figuring in the election returns as q