Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1910-10-21
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| Jr., who Is member of the Commit
tee of Seventy. and has been active in
q number of reform movements in the
| Quaker City. General Thayer was
among the first to declare that Mr.
Teners connection with the company
was entirely honorable He predicts
the ultimate success of the enterprise
Throughout the several publications
care has been exercised to avoid d.
rectly charging Mr.. Tener with any
specific act Of wrongdoing. but by in.
uendo and by linking him with pro-
! moters who were identified with the
unsuccessful companies taken over by
the Public Utilities Corporation. an ef.
! fort is made to dlscredit Mr.. Tener.
In commenting upon the attack on
Mr.. Tener the editor of the Pittsburg
Gazette Times, among other things.
says:
"Mr. Tener says his relations with
the company were straightforward
and honorable In every way AS far
as his friends are concerned his repu.
diation of the SANDER was scarcely
necessary; they know he is an honest
man. and they do not question his In.
tegrity. But 1t Is just as we'll that he
should denOusce the attempt to be
smirch his character, as he has done
for the information of the people OF
the state, before whom he Is appear.
ing as the Republican nominee for
governor.
"As for this bit of sensationalism
which has been introduced into the
campaign. 1t is a disgrace to journal
ism. 1t is essentially low-grade po
litical trick, partly intended to attain
the meanest of partisan ends and
partly to achieve q feat of CONNER
clallsm OF the most desplcable char
acter."
In commenting upon the fact that
the newspaper which printed the sen.
sational story solicited orders tor the
sale of the paper two days IN advance
of it's publication from politicians to
have it distributed as a campaign doc.
ument, the GaZette-Times says: I'm.
stead of publishing its alleged revela
tions in the usual course of business
as a purveyor of news and thus con
veying to the public such information
as 1t deemed proper without regard to
politics, 1t served a sort of Black
Hand blackmailers' notice upon Sena.
tor Penrose that unless he withdraw
Mr.. Tener within AS hours 1t would
publish certain exposures to prove the
latter's unfitness for the governorship.
Aside from the fact that Senator Pen
rose has neither the power nor the
authority to withdraw Mr.. Tener and
that the miserable creatures making
this threat knew Mr.. Penrose would do
nothing Of the sort, the effect of this
preliminary publication was to sub
ject Mr.. Tenor to grave suspicious.
without redress or the opportunity to
during a critical stage of the state
canvass. Here was the real infamy
of this wretched sensationalism,
though the story as it finally appeared
Is hardly less shameful in construc-
tion
THE whole affair, however. turns
out to be flash in the pan" There
Is nothing to show either culpability
or wrongdoing, untitness or dishonesty
on Mr.. Tener's part"
Upon every hand citizens are de-
nouncing the authors of the attack
and the fact has been demonstrated
that the unwarranted criticisms have
helped rather than hurt Mr.. Tener in
his canvass for the governorship.
Bitterly resenting the work of the
journalistic mud-slingers. Republicans
everywhere are evincing keen inter
est in the campaign and are deter
mined to emphasize their contempt for
the slanderers by rolling up great
vote for Mr.. Tener and the full Repub-
lican ticket on election day
From the methods now being re-
sorted to by the keystone Party man.
ayers almost anything may be antici
pated in the way of despicable cam.
patgning in the closing days of the
canvass The masked man with still
letto is abroad and Mr.. Tener has been
picked as the victim Every conceiv
able form of malice and venom will be
employed in the desperate game to
elect Berry governor
lDROPOSEp AMENDMENTS TO THE
CONSTITUTION SUBMITTED TO
THE CITIZENS OF THIS COMMON
WEALTH FOR THEIR APPROVAL OR
REJECTION, BY THE GENERAL AS
lSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH
lOF PENNSYLVANIA, AND PUBLISH
ED BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY
lOF THE COMMONWEALTH, IN PUR-
ISUANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF THE
CONSTITUTION.
| Number One.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to section twen-
| tysix of article five of the Constitution
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Resolved df the Senate concur), That
the following amendment to section twen-
Itysix Of article five of the Constitution
of Pennsylvania be, and the same is here
by. proposed, In accordance with the
eighteenth article thereof
That section 26 of Article ", which
reads as follows: "Section &c. All laws re-
llating to courts shall he ceneral and OF