Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1910-09-30
BERRY IS J0LTED
BY MANY BOLTERS
Hot Over OaseTt|On by Former
Treasurer Sheatz.
He HELPED FORM PARTY

Control OF Movement by Bryan Demo
Gratis Too Much For Independent
Republicans.
A series of assertions from the Key
stone Party last week greatly embar
rassed the Berry campaigners.
The trouble was due to the fact that
the coterie of Bryan Democrats who
have captured the independent organi
cation persist in indorsing Democrats
for congress and the Legislature. This
Is resented by independent Republi
cans, few of whom have any heart In
the movement since Democrat
Berry, was put at the head of theii
ticket.
The most sensational break from
the Berry forces was the resignation
of former State Treasurer John o
Sheath, who was one of the organic
ers of the Keystone Party and was
chairman of it's first committee on or
ganization.
publican named for governor by the
Keystone Party. He took an active
part In the convention. but he and his
associates were defeated by the Demo
cratic combination headed by Eugene
c. Bonniwell, who landed Berry at
the head of the ticket. Then they put
up Casey and Scully for sesretary OF
internal affairs and state treasurer re
spectively, leaving but one independ
ent Republican, Gibboney, on the
ticket. He is supposed to be running
for lieutenant governor.
Too Much Democracy.
Following up their victory in the
convention, the Berryites have indors
ed a big batch OF Democrats for con.
gress.
In resigning from the Keystone
county committee OF Montgomery,
Charles Heber Clark, who was a.
prominent delegate in the Keystone
Party's state convention, wrote al
scathing letter in denunciation of the
Endorsement of Ditfenderter, Democrat,
for congress on the Keystone ticket
In which, among other things, he says:
Il will never permit myself to be
used for the undermining OF the ma
tlonal house Of representatives OF thar
protective tariff system which, in my
judgment, Is OF vital importance tC
the welfare, not only or wage earners.
but of all the people OF the land II
am confident that the election of a
majority of Democrats. OF even ma
jority or fanatical tariff revisionists
to the next congress will produce
widespread depression OF business
and infiict hurt upon multltudes of in
nocent people. My hands shall be
free from the guilt or helping to pro
duce that great calamity"
On the following day. former State
Treasurer Sheath sent letter to State
Chairman Thomas L. Hicks, request.
ing that his name be taken from the
list of the committee.
Mr. Sheath in commenting upon his
action said he resigned because he is
Republican. He found that his
business associates in Philadelphia,
members of the Manufacturers club
the Union League and other organiza
tions, are virtually all going to vote
for John X. Tener for governor and
the full Republican ticket. Many inde
pendents who started out with the
Keystone Party when Mr.. Sheath was
temporary chairman OF the state com.
mittee of the keystone Party and for.
mally opened the state convention,
have since come out for Tener for gov.
ernor.
Former Congressman II. B. Parker,
of Tioga, who was named on the Key
stone Party state committee, was
among the first to decline the appoint
ment He Is Republican who cannot
stand for the Berry-Bonniwell Demo
cratic outfit.
The Berry movement is practically
without organization. In many coun
ties they have been unable to organize
meetings, and in others Berry has
gone to find no preparations made to
receive him OF to notify the people
that he was coming.