RS RN ~ = | Bellefonte, Pa., June 21, 1918. comm— SAM HUDSON RECALLS FAMOUS FIGHTS FOR DEMOCRATIC POWER. By Sam Hudson. The shock surprise defeat of the McCormick-Palmer-Wilson adminis- tration Democratic organization by Judge Bonniwell serves as an inspira- tion for a sketch of famous historical struggles for leadership and power in the Democratic party of Pennsylva- nia. Within the checkered and factional history of the State Democracy since the post-civil war period, and which has made of Pennsylvania “a dark and bloody ground” there have been not a few abrupt and climatic shifts of per- sonal and dynastic leaderships and control. None, however, has car- ried the sensational surprise, clean- ness and sweep of victory as that which through the recent primary election bowled out the dual manage- ment of McCormick and Palmer, strewing the ocean’s shingle with the wrecks of State and local leaders and endowing Judge Bonniwell with the heritage of the poy organization and the knighthood of leadership. And it is a singular fact that can- not be ignored that Presidential nom- inations and nominations for Gover- nor have figured conspicuously, con- tributing to the end of old and the en- trance of new party direction. As the film is thrown upon the screen this will become as clear as the “sermon on the mount.” HAD ‘UNDEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. In passing it might be proper to say there were two painted posts in the «pill of particulars” carrying party grievance in the late revolution. One was that. J. F. Guffey, the candidate for Governor, was picked by “a hand- ful of leaders,” and the other that he was seated upon an undemocratic platform. Strung together they crys- talized both the open and the secret antagonism to the McCormick-Pal- mer regime and its wretched dining room service, and the inflam aable spirit of “personal liberty,” which all Democrats have been educated to be- lieve is the concrete base upon which the party superstructure has been erected. The State was combed for an incen- diary candidate for Governor, and in this wide search several distinguish- ed Democratic county judges were leading the pack. It is no secret that two overtures came to Judge Bonniwell before he was induced to finally heed the “call to the wild,” since “the world and its neighbor” now know that an opposi- tion to the State ‘machine was every- where catalogued as a forlorn hope. When his name was finally added by the sign painters the war chest of the organization was so filled with over- flowing that Bonniwell was conceded, almost to the front door of the elec- tion, less than half a dozen counties. old politicians stood aghast at the amazing magnitude of the work of organizing and the reach-out to the individual voters that Bonniwell erowded into his month’s campaign, and so effective was this detail and technique and so instantaneous was the ignition of the spark of revolt that it is interesting to walk along the strand and mark the bodies of the dead. The most distinguished one that has floated ashore is that of McCor- mick’s chief of staff, A. Mitchell Pal- mer, who not only lost his ward in his home town of Stroudsburg, but his county of Monroe and his Congres- sional district, although it is cram- med with war industrial activities, and the Wilson administration is strong therein. McCormick did man- age to save his bacon and did far bet- ter for Guffey in Dauphin than he did for himself in 1914, when, as a candi- date for Governor he lost his own polling precinct. . In Philadelphia the slaughter of or- ganization leaders resembled a bat- tlefield in Picardy. Charles P. Don- nelly’s twenty-second ward went awash, and his chairman of the city committee, Lank, became a cadaver for the political morgue. Postmaster Thornton awoke the next morn to find himself a distinguished member of the party of the extreme left, and Collec tor Lederer, Appraiser Moise, Chief Clerk Meridith, of the mint, and every one of the real estate assessors wore mourning badges, that is, those who stuck to the old ship, an exception being Mortimor Carroll, who saved the 1'wenty-sixth ward. Upstate the killings were “frequent and free.” United States Marshal Frank Noonan was smothered in Schuylkill, and Naval Officer Croll not only was asphyxiated for the Con- gress nomination, but his county of Berks came along with a terriffic Bon- niwell majority. Charles McAvoy, the leader of Montgomery, was dis- tanced, and the Grims, of Bucks, fath- er and son, and ex-Senator Grim’s son-in-law, the postmaster of Doyles- town, went. down in the crash. : Another conspicuous party nag and field agent of the organization, James I. Blakeslie, was humiliated by the Guffey returns in his county of Car- bon, while out Lake Erie way E. Low- ry Humes, United States District At- torney for the western district, view- ed with deep contrition a Bonniwell victory in his comuty of Crawford. And thus the names of the dead and missing could be stretched a marine league. WALLACE-BUCKALEW STRIFE. The after-the-civil-war period found Charles R. Buckalew, of Columbia, the controlling factor in State Democra- cy leadership. He was fortified by his election to the Senate of the United States, but the State was politically close and the woods were full of gun- ners, and there arose among them a picturesque and magnetic disputer of his sway, William A. Wallace, after- ward known as the sage of Clearfield. Mr. Buckalew’s loss of his seat inthe Senate, which personal calamity oc- eurred in 1869, he being succeeded by John Scott, a Republican, left him more vulnerable to the forays of the younger and rising huntsman. When he was defeated for Governor in 1872 by General Hartranft by 37,000. Wallace and Buckalew battled fac- tionally until 1874, when the election of a Legislature carried with it a Democratic for the fray were Wallace and Buck- | alew. The proceedings attending upon disgraceful that ever had occurred in | a Pennsylvania Legislature, as the line-up was so close that it looked al- most too murky even for a guess. The Buckalew people, however, were | weaker than it was suspected, and re- | sorted to roughhouse tactics, import- | ing ’Squire McMullin and a gang of Philadelphia thugs, who took posses- | sion of the joint meeting and under- | took to run things. They were finally | elected, and after a scene of unparal- | lelled excitement up to that time, Mr. | Wallace won the election, and was in- | stalled with the party leadership, | Buckalew disappearing into the polit- ical shades. The Wallace leadership was for some years sharply contested by Sam- wel J. Randall. They fought one another for the control of State con- ventions, but it became a happy and a conspicuous sight to witness the ri- vals after a factional struggle appear- ing upon the same platform, shaking hands and supporting the same ticket whoever had had the making of it. Under the first Cleveland administra- tion the star of Speaker Randall was in the ascendency, since he ha the advantage of being the officia dis- penser of the State’s federal patron- age under a secret deal made before the Chicago convention, which had chosen the New York Governor, and wherein lies a crackerjack story, which we later may relate. The Clearfield sage had Mr. Ran- dall at a decided disadvantage In Phil- adelphia, where he was most fortu- nate in possessing a string of lieuten- ants who were master political me- chanics, such men as Lewis C. Cassi- dy, Thomas A. Barger, William VY. McGrath and William S. Singerly. Wallace’s power was considerably broken by the unexpectd defeat of Andrew H. Dill for Governor in 1878 by Hoyt by some 22,000, and which was brought sensationally about by a defection in the Irish vote, the late John C. Delaney having made the dis- covery in a file of an old Know Noth- ing paper printed in Baltimore which connected Dill with membership in that secret order. Mr. Wallace was unquestionably the most beloved and popular Demo- cratic State leader who has ever ap- peared, as by temperament and prom- ise keeping, he had a way of tying spporters loyally to him through lean- ness or plenary. He made his last ap- pearance in the hotly contested race for Governor in 1890, and his defeat by Robert E. Pattison at the sensa- tional Scranton convention paved the way for a new State regime, that of William L. Scott, of Erie, and Wil- liam F. Harrity, of Philadelphia. WALLACE LEADERSHIP PASSES. This Governorship contest waged with great bitterness was the intro- duction of Grover Cleveland as the candidate of Wall street for a renom- ination for President, and the real fight hinged upon the control of the State delegation to the National con- vention, Wallace tying himself with he ill-starred candidacy of David B. ill. The leadership of Wallace received its deathblow at the Harrisburg con- vention of 1884, when he was dispos- sessed of his tenancy by Lewis C. Cassidy, who in one of the most sen- sation] and closest conventions ever held in the State nominated Robert E. Pattison, the young controller of Phil- adelphia, over James H. Hopkins, of Pittsburgh, by the narrow thread of one-half a vote. For the subsequent four years Mr. Cassidy through the meaium of the Governor largely dom- inated the party, although the old Wallace faction harassed its flanks, particularly in the Legislature, and more particularly in the famous Sen- ate in which Senator James Gay Gor- don was the administration spokes- man and, singularly enough, the un- horsed leader, William A. Wallace, was a factional antagonist. William L. Scott and William F: Harrity were now in full tide posses- sions of State party control and the dishers-out of President Cleveland’s federal viands. Mr. Harrity had been tendered a cabinet place, but prefer- red the far-better paying one of Sec- retary of the Commonwealth and pre- mier of the Pattison administration. The death of Mr. Scott left Mr. Har- rity the sole boss. in the meantime there was “a new coon” waiting to come to town in the person. of Colonel James M. Guffey, a petrolium and coal millionaire of Pittsburgh. He was drawn into a po- litical partnership or alliance with James Kerr, of Clearfield; Congress- man Howard Mutchler, of Northam- ton, and David Orr, of Franklin, the quartet being later known as “High, Low, Jack and the Game.” They gradually by persistency and still- United States Senator, by Guffey as the national committee- and the two gladiators who stripped man. CONTROL GOES TO GUFFEY. It is a curious figment of histo this election were possibly the most | that the new-born control, as original ly formed and which had intrigued and rope-pulled for some years, should have smashed itself the first year of its bulb flower, leaving Colonel Guf- fey in sole possession. James Gay Gordon was directly re- sponsible for the break-up of this family arrangement, he appearing as a candidate for the nomination for Governor without a prior understand- ing with Colonel Guffey’s new man- agement. The latter sought to elect its delegates unpledged, while Sena- tor Gordon, like a “Bold McIntyre” or a “Dashing Sheridan” elected del- egates personally pledged to him by the people. It can be said that the “invisible government,” the great cor- poration power of the State, threw its weight against him and was particu- larly desirous of electing Quay’s pick, Congressman William A. Stone. The convention met at Altoona and was sensational and breezy. After the delegates were on the ground the sewer reports that the venerable George A. Jenks was the organiza- tion’s candidate were confirmed, and to the general surprise Colonel Guf- fey threw his three pals overboard and appeared as the sole proprietor. He forced the nomination of Jenks, the choice of whom fell like a wet blan- ket upon the party, which really had desired the nomination of Judge Gor- don. At the general election Jenks was buried under a majority of 143, 000, which was the first fruit of the Guffey control. During the Guffey regime he elected the Democratic members of the new Superior court and it may be said to his credit he gave to the Supreme court one of its ablest jurists in the person of the late Justice Mestrezat. Colonel Guffey, associated with the late Senator James P.. Hall, of Elk, maintained his strangle hold upon the party until 1912, in the meantime hav- ing been beaten by August Belmont through James Kerr, his old partner, for the control of the national delega- tion to the St. Louis convention of 1904, the latter backing Judge Par- ker, of New York. The passing of Colonel Guffey was accomplished at the reorganization meeting of the State committee at Harrisburg in 1912 by the so-called reorganizers being generaled by Vance McCormick and A. Mitchell Palmer. It is declared that if Sena- tor Hall had kept a level head over night, that this coup, which was to register another change in the Demo- cratic dynasty of the State, would not have occurred. But throughout this tragical and dramatic procession of changing leaderships and party con- trol it will be marked that none came as the flash of lightning, and none more surprising, than the going of the reorganizers backed as they were by a national administration with the nation supporting it in the greatest war of history, and the coming of Judge Bonniwell. — In 1914 Japan exported 9,000, 000 lead pencils; in 1916 the number was increased to 168,000,000. What the showing will be for 1917 remains to be seen. Just at present however, considering certain threatened altera- is particularly interested in Japan's capacity for turning out erasers. Notes and Comments. One does not always get material things just as one would like them. For instance, Great Britain could not well have Australian wheat because of the long haulage, so it took wheat from the United States and Canada. Then the United States ran short of the commodity for its own people, and perforce preached the value of sub- stitutes. In the meantime shipping EER SBR tions in the map of Russia, the world | on the Pacific was reconstituted, and HET, ized effort on the high seas, she knows that the Allies must be invincible.— Monitor. Australia suddenly found that the United States, having shipped its stor- ! age grain, could now receive Austra- | | lian grain for home consumption. But, | ' while the new arrangement solved a big problem, Canada found that the vessels which were to convey rubber, wool, and other supplies to her were no longer i Terrible Punishment. “Where are my tennins things?” demanded the wife of the profession- al humorist. “Look in the nursery. You will generally find a racket and bawl there,” replied the professional hu- morist, making a note on his cuff.— Town Topics. coming her way. The im- portation of crude rubber into Cana- aod op Aq umop 3nd ‘9I0jaIaY} ‘st ep cent. 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They made but little in- dention upon his organization, how- ever, until “Sixteen to One” and Bry- an arose upon the political horizon. of Gold” convention of 1896 at Chica- £0, in the saddle and split the Democrat- ic party, accorded Colonel Guffey and his co-partners the opening in the Harrity-Hindenburg line, which had long been awaited, although Colonel his new financial gospel. The gold Democratic movement having left the wreck of the party in the cold storage warehouse of Bryan, it had become thoroughly Byronized, and Colonel Guffey apparently got the infection. Then came the State convention of 1897, held at Reading, with Mr. Har- rity still the national committeman and director general of the State or- ganization. The “High, Low, Jack and the Game” combination, headed by Colonel Guffey, had cleared the decks for action with “all for Bryan” as the slogan, and what was termed the “Reading Hog Killing” was des- tined to mark another epochal change in leadership, the passing of William F. Harrity. It was a gleeful and buzzful convention which was disgrac- ed by a physical fight, and a former State Senator of Philadelphia fell from the stage into a bass drum in the orchestra pen. The Guffey “new coon in town’ controlling the convention and nomi- nating the State ticket, finishing up the job by displacing Leader Harrity The “Crown of Thorns and the Cross || which put the Nebraskan orator [ Guffey was not in love with Bryan or quartet succeeded in|, © 11-$TROUSE & BROS; WIC BALTIMORE, MD. Less Cost---More TRY the double trick of saving your per- fectly good Spring suit while you wear a less expensive, equally serviceable hot weath- er suit. 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