' Republican News Item CHAS.ILOREN WING, Editor. THURSDAY, SEP. 20, 1900. 4 'FIRST OF ALL—THE NEWS." The News Item Fights Pair IT is A:PATRIOTICHOME NEWSPAPER Published Every Friday Morning. By The Sullivan Publishing Co. At the County Best of Sullivan County. LAFOHTB, FA. SUBSCRIPTION—SI.2S per annum. If paid in advance SI.OO. Sample copies free. All communications should be ad» dressed to REPUBLICAN NEWS ITEM, Laporte Pa., Entered at the Post Office at Laporte, as second-class mail matter. AWANAMAKER WATERLOO. The most notable contest was that waged in the Fifth senatorial district, where William H. Berkelbach, an ac tive young Republican, was the candi date of the stalwart element, and pitted against him and backed by the Martln- Wanamaker influence was former Speaker Harry F. Walton. It was a bitter struggle. Each Bide formed a perfect organization, and every pre cinct was canvassed thoroughly and the voters kept posted with th» ■liter ature of both sides. The insurgent newspapers kept up a hot flght for Walton, but the people soon got to suspect what inspired much of the newspaper syndicate matter and took It for what it was worth. In every one of the contested dis tricts the Insurgents made their fight against the election of Col. Quay to the United States senate their trump card. In each of these districts the regulars made their flght upon stalwart Repub lican lines. They agreed to support the successful candidates, no matter which side won at the primaries. Each one of the candidates of the regulars answered in the affirmative the queries put to all the candidates by the officers of the Republican city committee, who were directed to inter rogate all aspirants for the legislature and to inquire whether in the event of their election they would attend regu lar caucuses of Republican members of the legislature and abide by the action of the majority. None of the insurgent candidates, Walton included, answered these in terrogatories from the Republican Oity committee. The Republican voters knew this and they acted accordingly. Not a single insurgent candidate in any of the districts in which there was a contest was successful. They all went down in an overwhelming defeat of Martlnlsm-Wanamakerlsm and In surgentism of every manner and kind that would fuse with the Democrats to defeat regular Republicans. Stalwart Republicans were triumph ant everywhere On the night of the primaries a mes sage was sent to the regular Republi cans of the commonwealth that those who stand by the party organisation have the full sympathy and support of a large majority of the Republicans of Philadelphia. GREAT VOTE POLLED. There was an immense vote polled In every district in which there was a tight. In some precincts each side had as many as 20 canvassers at the polls wearing badges of their respective can didates and hurrying voters to the front, so that in the two hours allotted for the voting they could get-as many votes in as possible. There were as many as 250 voters in a solid line wait ing to get In their ballots at some pre cincts at 7 o'clock. At no general elec tion ever held in this city was there ever anything like this seen. In many precincts the vote polled ex ceeded that at the last gubernatorial election. Republicans who frequently neglect to vote at a general election were gotten to the primaries because of the intense rivalry between the fol lowers of Martin and the regulars. In the Fifth senatorial district Ber kelbach, the candidate of the regulars, won 139 delegates to 49 for Walton. Many of the delegates were elected by a narrow margin of votes. The total vote In the district was 21427 votes for Berkelbach to 13,174 votes for Walton, a popular majority of 7,953 for Berkel bach. Since this humiliating defeat of the M&rtlnltes the insurgent newspapers have been attempting to make it ap pear that a victory for Berfcelbach was won by unfair means, and they point to the fact that the vote in some cases exceeds the vote for Governor Stone. In their effort to explain their defeat these newspapers overlook the fact that the vote In the precincts carried for Walton was correspondingly as large as was the Berkelbach vote in precincts carried by the regulars. In a number of divisions where Walton delegates were elected the total vote exceeded the vote cast for Governor Stone. The Insurgent newspapers do not refer to his fact, but keep up their cry of "repeaters" and "false returns" In order to break the force of their crushing defeat. With the nomination of Berkelbach the regulars named all of the senatorial candidates nominated in this city. The Insurgents, while they did not name a senator, on the other hand lost one, because in the district formerly represented by the late Senator Holx worth, a follower of David Martin, | the regulars nominated Representative , Gransback, a staunch Quay man.for ' state senator. STALWART REPRESENTATIVES j The six disputed assembly districts I were all carried by the regulars In the Twenty-sixth district on the day ' before the primaries Representative j McClellau Hersh, who during the last < tesslon bolted the Republican caucus and followed Martin Into the insur gent camp, decided that he could not i In- renominated and he announced Ills withdrawal. B. Frank Bonham, a stalwart Republican, wax uninitiated In 1 Ills place In the Twenty-first legislative dis trict Representative John Y. Keator and another Insurgent made a great ef fort to secure a renominatlon . Against him was pitted former Representative I Harrlsnu as a stalwart candidate. Most 1 of the leaders ot the so-called Busi ness Men's League live In this dis trict. It was looked upon as a Wan amaker stronghold. When the votes were counted Harrison had 30 dele gates and Keator but 9. On the pop ular vote Harrison had 5,168 votes and Keator 3,273. There was a hot contest in the Twenty-fourth legislative district, where the Martinites tried to prevent the renominatlon of Representatives Adams and Noblit, both of whom bad voted for Col. Quay for United States senator. Postmaster Hicks lives in this district. He has been disgruntled be cause in addition to getting a post office he was not permitted to boss the politics of this district. So he Joined the Martinites. Messrs. Adams and Noblit were both renominated by a popular vote of 6,884 to 3,273 (or the candidates backed by thq insurgent combine. Another desperate battle was fought in the Twenty-seventh legis lative district, which at the last ses sion was represented by two insurgents who bolted the caucus. One ot these members has since fled from the city with charges against him. The other, Representative Laubach, who is an employe in Wanamaker's establish ment, sought renominatlon. He was beaten to a standstill. The vote in this district was over five to one in favor of the successful stalwart can didates, Messrs. Walter Willard and John Hamilton. In the Twenty-eighth district the regulars had a very hard battle to hold the district. The two members of the legislature from this district at the last session voted for Col. Quay, but since that time the leader of the district fell out with the stalwart lead ers and Joined the Martinites. He had all the party machinery of the ward at his back at the outset, and the reg ulars had to form an entirely new or ganization. They went to work with the people at their backs and they won a marvelous victory. Charles F. Kin dred was the leader of this district. He recently secured control of the Phila delphia Times, and is at the head of the corporation which now runs that newspaper. He used his newspaper through the flght, and he had the sup port of the other insurgent newspap ers. But when the votes were polled at the primaries the candidates of the regular Republicans carried almost everything before them. Out of the I 47 election precincts Kindred carried but ten. The popular vote was for the regular Republican. 5,752, and for the Kindred Insurgents. 2,966, a majority of 2.786. The two candidates named in this district, Messrs. Walter D. Stone and Thomas F. Conuell, will co operate with the regulars at Harris burg. These figures are sufficient to show the popular sentiment among the Re publicans of Philadelphia on this issue between stalwartism and insurgentism. The regulars nominated the entire five candidates for the senate, and of the 39 candidates for the house of representatives the regulars nominated 32. The insurgents have four and there are three placed in tho doubtful list. The prospects are that these three will vote with the regulars when the time comes. Without the three doubtful members the regulars thus show a gain of ten votes In the house and one in the senate, or eleven In all certain from Philadelphia, with a chance of hav ing fourteen. The effect of this defeat of the in surgents will no doubt be felt all over the state. It has given the regulars encouragement to hope for a complete victory at the organization of the leg islature. DEMOCRATS ARE ACTIVE. Democrats by their action in Phila delphia have shown that they are eager to carry into efTect the fusion deals, be cause they are all likely to help the Democratic candidates for state or na tional offices. Congressmen J. K. P. Hall, of Elk, and Rufus K. Polk, of Montour, were conspicuous In the conferences at Phil adelphia last week, and, together with Chairman Rilling, of the Democratic state committee, they mapped out plans for the success of their candi dates for state offices and for con gress. The conferences between the Demo crats and the insurgent Republican leaders in the state are all held at hotels in Philadelphia. These alleged Republicans are afraid togo to the regular headquarters of the Demo cratic party. They sneak into the hotels where the Democratic state chairman or National Committeeman Guffey are stopping. Without any one knowing that they are there, they con coct scemes to defeat the regular Re publican candidates for the legislature who might vote against the choice for United States senator. GUFFEY IS ANXIOUS. Guffey and Rilling are anxious to protect their Republican allies, so they make us much mystery as possible about their conferences. Congressman Hall is interested In the effort to defeat the Republican candidates for the legislature in Cen tre- and Clearfleld counties, as he recognizes the fact that the greater the Republican dissensions in these counties the greater will be the op portunity to get Republican votes for the Democratic candidate for congress, j In Congressman Polk's district the ! Democrats are getting the insurgent ' Republicans to help defeat li. K. Focht for the state senate. They want to divide the Republican forces so as to help (iuffey to get a Democrat in the 1 state senate from this district. Outfey believes that he can elect former Con gressman Wolverton. and In so doing he can help his candidacy for the Uni ted states senate. Since the Republican primaries in Philadelphia the Insurgents have uot been so enthusiastic. Tht y do not know where they are at. At present writing they feci very much like giv ing up the flght. 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