Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-07-31

convention that nominated Bryan for
President; could see nothing in Bryan
as a presidential possibility, with his
radical free silver ideas, and declined TO
have anything to do with the canvass.
Mr.. Harrity said he was out of politics.
He had burned his candle at both ends.
helping friends into office, and now he
proposed to ''cut it OUT ana build u a
fortune. En- PEASANT, he has J. lit up
that fortune.
1t was at this juncture that Guffey
saw old Opportunity coming down the
pike. hunting his front door; and he ran
to meet him with glad acclaim and gen
erous welcome. Forming a coalition with
Mr. Kerr, the Pittsburg colonel and his
friends took possession of the Demo
cratic state convention at Reading, and,
then and there. incontinently dispos-
sessed Mr.. Harrity of his position as a
member of the Democratic national
from Harrity his three-eyed peacock
feather to bestow it upon Col. Guffey.
That was Guffey's re-entry into politics.
Pattison's Last Campaign.
In 1902 Guffey yielded to the wishes of
his friends and supported eX-GOv. Pat
tison for the gubernatorial nomination,
finally succeeding in naming him. Patti
son twice before had been elected gov
ernor of Pennsylvania by the younger
element of the party, and it was thought
that his was name to conJure with Tor
Il third time. He was a good clean man,
his public administrations had been
reputable, and Guffey thought that he
surely was going to elect him. He threw
into the Pattison campaign all of his
personal influence and made large con
tributions to the campaign fund but it
was of no use.
Quay had nominated that queer bundle
of eccentricites, his cousin, Samuel W.
Pennypacker, taking him from the com
mon pleas court bench in Philadelphia
a staid, respectable candidate. against
whom nothing could be said except that
he was Quay's candidate. Pattison was
defeated, much to Guffey's disgust, and
died soon afterward.
Fights Republican.
In the gubernatorial contest of 1906,
Guffey was literally forced to take up
as the Democratic candidate Lewis
Emery, Jr., who had been nominated by
the Lincoln Republican party at meet
ing in Philadelphia. Guffey kicked
against the pricks; he warned his lieu
tenants that the party would never
publican all his life. and that they were
inviting sure defeat The current against
a straight-out Democrat, however, was
too strong. Among those who insisted
on the endorsement of Emery was Cor
don and Kerr, not in accord with Guffey,
James X. L. Hall, state chairman, and
the state committee treasurer, b. b.
Meyers of Harrisburg, who had all along
fought under the Guffey banner, and
who thought the time was ripe for re-
form, inaSmuch as there had come, dur
ing the Pennypacker administration, eX-
posture by a Democratic state treasurer,
William H. Berry, of the notorious steal
h. l>Y,;1l Nf
the new capitol. 1t was with many mis-
givings that Guffey finally yielded Emery
was placed on the ticket only to go down
to defeat before the present governor,
Edwin S. Stuart, who had promised in
the campaign to see that the capitol
grafters We're punished and had a per-
sonality that made him many votes.
Fatal Bryan Split
Berry's revelations of how the state
had been looted in the matter of build
ing and furnishing the state capitol
caused the greatest sensation the state
had ever seen. They made the entire
country gasp over a colossal theft. Ber-
~ was in line for the Democratic NOM
nation for governor in 1910, almost as
certain to get it as anything is certain
in politics
But in an evil hour Berry declared for
Bryan. He had previously been slated as
one OF the delegateS-at-lafge TO the Den-
yer convention, but his declaration was
not acceptable to Col. Guffey, who was
now opposed to the Nebraskan, even
though he had heartily supported him
twice before. To Guffey a third NOM
nation for one man was a bit too much,
especially as that man had been twice
defeated. He wanted new candidate,
and he didn't want Bryan. He let his
friends, including Berry, know it. Ber-
~, however, was insistent, and, when
the convention elected delegates at-large
for Denver, Berry's name was not on
the ticket. He had gone down to de
feat.
Guffey had his way in this, as in
every other thing, and went to Denver,
believing that he could not fail. But
it seems that Bryan is more potent than
Guffey, especially when he has the
kindly chorus'' of a big convention
back of him. So Guffey is down" But
let no one profess to believe that he is
''out." He may be defeated for the
moment, but those who know him best
know, too, that his sword will be put
out in the next fight, well sharpened at
that. Again he will be on the qui vive
for Old Mr.. Opportunities coming down
the pike,