The Detroit times., 1910-08-16
||EHs HIsEUP
||BI|nsT RULE
Of BOSSES
Iirst Time in Is Years Pennsyl-
: sonia Has Good Chance To Break
Shackles Of Political
Machine.
lid Party Looms Up To Fight for
: Rsform Principles and Nominates
Candidates.
BY n. r. WILSON.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. lo.-fenn'
lvania, for the first time In 20 years,
kno = lighting chance to wrest the
1afe government from the corrupt
rfple alliance of crime, graft and the
6orporations, and restore II TO the
roop1e.
The new third party CIT has been
Hamed the Keystone party seems TO
lave better than q lighting chance to
p1n. The people of the state are thor
ghly enraged at the shameful way
~ were tricked In their Republican
IA Democratic state conventions by
R6oubIican Boss Boies Penrose, UNI
"a Htafes senator, and by Democratic
100 James M. Guffey, of Pittsburg.
These two worthless. with an inso-
1ont disregard of public opinion that
would be amazing elsewhere than In
|ponnDylvania, deliberately collaborated
HES ekhrow" the election-to deliver the
11oto to the Republican machine, and
- al that Is worst In the states so
lety.
10 Corporation Man.
* Behind Penrose are the Pennsylva
Iln1n railroad and the other railroads In
>ho state, and the steeel trust. Pen
1000 represents these corporate
||1lShts IN the United States senate
u d their man. Behind Guffey Is the
& Dtandard Oil Co., and the steel trust
EAo two men get their power from
i5&he local city bosses Behind the 10.
f&nI bosses are the dregs OF society
II Mo protected while slavers, the pro-
EDeietors of protected speakeasies. the
<Drotocted gamblers, the owners OF
&DGotected dives. the thugs and strong
y nFm men on the city police force
No elements from which Boss James
IN McNichoIl of Philadelphia has
+ built his political machine.
c Secure IN the support of the bfg
) uorporaticns and the little thieves
Renrose and Guffey set about 1t de-
1borately TO throw the election the
way they wanted II to go, regardless
<0f the public. There was a perfect
Understanding Penrose had to pay
- political debt to the liquor inter
Gots. They had elected him senator.
Cuffey was willing to help pay it. 1t
MAS all understood
The two bosses planned program
and followed 1t, as two wrestlers
might "lix" a match. Pennsylvania Is
HepubIican, therefore a Republican
E8Use is indebted to them, politically
must be elected. Again, therefore, the
{ Uemocrats must nominate 'desira-
BE" man, desirable from the stand
Do{nt of not being able to defeat at the
polls the desirable Republican NOM
1nee
Up to the very hour the Republican
cOnvention convened there was no
n A.
had the support of Penrose.
TWO Democrats, however, had made
strong ante-convention campaigns for
{he nomination. William III. Berry. of
{Delaware county. the former state
treasurer who exposed the great CAPT
u graft, was one. Cyrus Larue Nun
son, rich and ambitious lawyer of
Willfamsport, was the other. This
shouting and hallabaloo was not ac-
wording to the Penrose-Guffey pro-
ram. Not so strong a hand az PEN
roses was that of Guffey on the Penn
1ylvania Democratic party. However,
n politics as in cat killing, there 10
more than one way OF doing
Both Berry and Munson were good
mem, strong candidates. Many of the
h 4olegates came instructed for one or
inc other. Munson seemed to have
ne call. His followers were jubilant.
Nobody heard any thing of Guffey.
And then
Delegates BewiIdered.
bolt from the blue? At IL o'clock
<naf night Munson, who appeared the
x1ctor, sent a letter to his followers
announcing his, withdrawal from the
TIE Munson delegates were utterly
9eWhdered and drifted about rudder.
- me Berry people rejoiced, until
40 webster Grimm, state senator
om Bucks county. an inoffenusive
91uey1vnnia Dutchman, who had
1oen running pewee campaign on his
@~n account, suddenly developed
omog1ng strength. IL was announced
0r1mm had the backing of Guffey.
The Munson votes stampeded to
4r1m, and he was nominated. The
4qlegntes went home In a daze.
q week later the Republicans met.
Were given their orders by Penrose.
I'D quietly nominated John X. Tener.
<9< Charleroi, ex-ball player, elected
"a the present congress ON q straight
JiQuor platform.
BY this time the dazed Democrats
ned gathered their senses, and they
|x44ed.
And to think that either Munson
81 Berry could have beaten Tenerl"
s they said.
Al attempt was made to reconyene
ma nominate another man. But
& 0ximm firmly refused to step down.
mDon 10 very ambitious, and IL was
A<pted that Penrose, the Republi.
1ous had offered him, a Democrat. a
xeotral judgship to get out of the
<oco- At any rate he left for Europe
~ asQid criticism He's still there.
The rage against the. Penrose- Guf.
40 methods spread into the Repub-
Pan ranks, and the third party
Qvement almost automatically came
E. into being.
Develop Great strength.
John o. Sheets. the Republican
rtote treasurer. called the convention
M tDo Keystone party Republicans,
9D0crats and labor party responded.
ne majority was Republican, but the
<cnvention nominated for governor
orry, the Democrat. who had been
Matted in the Guffey convention.
- choice for lieutenant governor
No y. Clarence Gibboney, the fight.
~ (0e o. graft In Philadelphia.
Q<k Berry and Gibboney have be.
- making speeches. They have de.
0D01 great sfrenRfh. Already Pen.