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JOB PRINTING, tenar'ment of the PRESS is complete, i <is tucilities for doing the best class ot PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO Law r willbe liiscontinucduntil arrearages vcejit at the option ofthe publisher, out not of the county must be paid for ■ advertisements will be accepted at less price for fifteen words. •li«ious notices free. IH.It AX STATE TICKET KN'OK—Edwin S. Stuart, Philadelphia. ['KNANT UOVERNOR—Robert 8. Mur ibria county. VOR GENERAL—Robert K. Young, mnty. : I'ARY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS— (oucIr, Lebanon county. COUNTY TICKET. For Congress. vRLES F.BARCLAY, Cameron. For State Senator, lIX K. WILSON, Clarion County. Por President Judge, N.I AM IN \V. GREEN, Cameron. l or Member of Assembly, 1.-IAH HOWARD, Emporium. For Associate Judge, ROE J. LABAR, Emporium. •lotary. Register, Recorder and ' lerk of Courts, : '.MAM J. LEAVITT, Shippen. For District Attorney, V-. P. Mi NARNEY, Emporium. For Coroner, D!t. W. S. RUSSELL, Gibson. For Jury Cummissioner, « iHN A. WYKOFF, Grove. rn a Pennsylvanian." ~ iv, >i no greater {jift that j ne to any man than the : of saving: "I am at IvanianV ivlared Robert S. Murphy, ite for Lieutenant Governor Republican ticket, in a !,•©-< dress. is the kind of talk we like ear- the Muck Raker /has it. via I'ei.ujyWa.ilia has been I through the gutters by its re. Emeries and the Blacks hat the Commonwealth has decent government for forty That means that the party oln. of McKinley of Roose i been a failure. >u believe it? irse you do not. ier does Emery nor Black, Democrats and their so .ineoln allies, the Assistant ats. have so got in the slinging mud at Pennsyl uit they are not at home their own mud piles. They 0 anything else. Mud is ly stock in trade when it 9 campaigns. But aren't >le getting a bit sick of it? they been lied to long Haven't the Muck Rak the slanderers had their ear the campaign was run eria and sensation. Mr. is one of the chief sensa- Only let him get his n the State Treasury, then 1 show us something! He lifr the lid" and lay bare >le secrets of plunder! e has lifted the lid and he '1 Pennsylvania heading e list of sister States in y, in comfort, in the bless :h follow in the wake of ent honestly administered, e cent missing from the And the State out of in all this broad land is ither Commonwealth with cord? ill look in vain, is is the State —the fair Pennsylvania of ours— Muck Raker would drag ilth of the gutter—has i - dragging—for the sole | •i helping along a miser- | ieal Game! in who defames the name { lvania. which stands for ulvanced system of reform j i ever adopted anywhere, i scorned and shunned I hat he is—a. vilifierand a - no greater gift that can j ii v one than the privilege j * "1 AM A PENNSYL- \ >r to Roberts. Murphy. ' it for Lieutenant Cover- | iever in Pennsylvania, • libber. —Philadelphia j HIKiHt Sensational Outcome of the Breach Between Weaver and Wan» maker Interests. "NEW MACHINE" THE WORV) Charges of Bribery and Other Damag ing Revelations Play Havoc In the Quaker City. I Spec ial Correspondence. 1 Philadelphia, Sept. 25. Mayo: - Weaver's break with the Wana , inaker-Van Valkenburg-Gordon politi j ral combination will have far-reaching influence upon both local and state j politics. It was the power of the city adminis tration of Philadelphia which save the j Wanamakers, Van Valkenburgs and the Gordons a political following in I the last campaign. With the Mack i combine of ward leaders working in I harmony, they had a political ma chine which drew thousands of votes | from the state and local ! tickets in November lasf. , Without this antagonistic influence ; there is no doubt that Mr. Plummer 1 would have been elected state treas urer, and the Republican ticket in j Philedalphia would have been success ful. Working with the Wanamaker news paper combination against the Repub lican ticket last fall were the politi ' clans who trained with the city ad- I ministration, the ward leaders seek | ing patronage, the contractors desir ! ing to "line up with the powers that be," and even the denizens of the ten ' derloin, always anxious to stand in I with the police, shouted loudly for "reform" throughout that campaign. The City Party was successful, and enough votes were thrown to Berry the Democratic-Lincolnite nominee foi ' *!ate treasurer, to elect him also. Then followed a series of plotting and scheming by the ambitious "re formers" eager to take advantage ol ! the situation for their own selfish in terests. There were nearly as many candidates for office as there were com- I iuit.teeinen in every ward of Philadel | phia. Throughout the state men who j were active in the counties in the Lin | coin Party aggregation began tc hunt ! for the loaves and fishes. The Wanamaker lieutenants in the insurgent movement against the late Senator Quay were among the most conspicuous of those who immediately dgma nded recognition. Promises made to Mayor Weaver and his friends were forgotten, and the old Wanamaker outfit proceeded to set up in business upon its own ae : count. Combine of Newspapers and Millions. It was figured out that with thi Wanamaker newspapers and the Em ery millions, the logical thing to do was to name Emery for governor. To do this the Wanamaker political man agers had to first bowl out Mayor Wea ver as a gubernatorial possibility. They proceeded to set up the Lincoln Party state convention for Emery, and succeeded in landing him upon the ticket for governor. They had a Wana maker supporter in the old senatorial fight for a place upon the proposed fu sion ticket, E. A. Coray, of Luzerne, but they were unable to carry out their program. While the Democratic leaders assent ed to the deal, the delegates to the Democratic state convention broke the slate and put John J. Green, a Bryan ita Democrat of this city, on the ticket for secretary of internal afTairs. This resulted in the fusion ticket having three Bryanlte Democrats running on it with Emery for governor. Mayor Weaver' friends branded the Van Valkenburg-Gordon combine as a band of political traitors, after the Emery game was pulled off. The breech between the mayor and the Wanamaker interests widened day by day, until D. Clarence Gibboney was trotted out by the Wanamakerites as a candidate for the City Party nomination for district attorney against Mayor Weaver's per sonal friend. Frederick J. Shoyer, who had resigned the SIO,OOO a year offlc? •of director of supplies under the Wea ver administration, to make a canvass ;for the district attorneyship. Soon the lines were sharply drawn between the Gibboney men and the Bhoyerites. What Weaver Discovered. All of the Wanamaker newspapers turned in for Gibboney, and their news columns and editorial pages were fill ed with eulogistic matter designed to promote the Gibboney candidacy. The same newspapers were employed to* attack or belittle the mayor an>l Shoyer. These were the same journals which a few months before had been exploiting Mayor Weaver's administra tion and praising the mayor and his work without stint. Tlifc mayor soon found that a nnm ] ber of the most influential men in his j cabinet were setting up their own po- I lltlcal fences regardless of his wishes jor his personal interests. Some ol | them were accused of using the patron age and power of his administration secretly to build up a Van Valkenburi; : political machine to promote the cause ' of Gibboney and destroy the chances j >of Shoyer getting the nomination for | district attorney. These officials of th* j [Weaver administration, like certain 1 leaders of the City Party, seem to have | concluded that the support of thu j Wanamaker newspapers, or at least ■ their friendship, was more desirable j for them to have than the good will of j the mayor. | There was a desperate battle between i the Gibboney men, backed by th<? ; Wanamaker newspapers, the Van Val i 1 /nburg Hsutenants in the City Party, Gordonites and what ic left of the CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1906. aid Mack combine ami the Shoyer cam paigners, many of them young; mem bars of the bar or churchmen with whom Mr. Shoyer has been associated for years in church work, and ths friends of Mayor Wcavjj, both in and out of his administration Upon the face of the returns of the City Party primaries, Shoyer had a ma jority of nearly 100 delegates. The Van Valkenburg men had the machinery of the City Party city committee. They named the chairman of the convention, and got control of the committee on contested delegates. So confident was lie of winning that Shoyer was present in the convention hall with his wife prepared to accept the congratulations of his friends when he would he nomianted. The Mayor Charges Bribery. The Gibbonoy men were sparring for time. They rushed through a resolution for the convention to take a recess, and when the convention reassembled, after much disorder, Mr. Oibboney was de clared the nominee by a majority of 21 votr>s in a total poll of 1072. A change of 15 votes upon this return would have made Shoyer the nominee. The Shoyer men at once insisted that they had been robbed of victory. Mayor Weaver was one of the most pronounced in denouncing the men re sponsible, and repudiating the tactics by which his friend Shoyer was de feated. In a public statement he said:, "The methods of that convention were worse than any convention of the old corrupt £ang. I think a ma chine which is protected by newspa pers is far more dangerous than the most corrupt organization with news papers against it. "I want to say most emphatically that. I am as much opposed to a cor rupt machine in its incipiency as I am to one that has grown gray with age. "It seems that notwithstanding the fight I made for IS months against a machine that a more powerful one had arisen. Phoenix-like, from its ashes. "I believe the recess of the City Party convention was forced and that (luring that recess the work of changing delegates was done by moans of bribery. Before that tint Mr. Shoyer had a majority oi' the dele gates. ami lie would have received that nomination without question had the convention been continued in ses sion. "Months ago i pointed out the dan ger that might follow when if one political machine were destroyed a new and more powerful one might grow up. "Whether this has come to pass I cannot say. I sometimes wonder whether there is more danger in being surrounded by corrupt advisers than by ambitious ones." When Mayor Weaver was challeng ed to prove his charges that bribery was employed to influence the nomi nation of the convention for Gib bony he promptly accepted the chal lenge and immediately submitted the affidavits of a number of delegates who admitted they had been ap proached and he personally appeared before an investigation committee to press his case. The scandal which followed was a great disappointment to sincere re formers who were not familiar with the character of some of the men who have taken hold of the City Party ma chinery in some of the wards of th« city. Emery Boomers Chagrined. Mayor Weaver followed up his in terview by demanding the resignations of members of his cabinet, with an announcement that hereafter he pro poses to have none but those who shall be directly Interested in the success of his administration In his cabinet. There Is no doubt that the upheaval has had a serious effect upon the plans of the managers of the Emery movement and the campaign against the local Republican ticket. The Lincolnite forces and the City Party leaders are demoralized. Without the active support of the city administration, the rank and fllo of their organizations will disinte grate. There are nearly 10,000 city em ployes, and the employes of city con tractors and others identified with the administration will foot up 10,000 more. With the mayor and his cabinet working in harmony with the Lincoln Party aggregation last fall fully 15,00 it of these men voted for the Lincoln Party ticket and they influenced many thousands more to vote the same way. Not only hns the break between the mayor and the Wananiaker newspa pers and allied political interests dis couraged the Lincoln Party and City Party leaders, but thousands of voters not identified with any political or ganlzation have discovered the hypoc risy and sham of the whole Emery movement in this city and will be found supporting the full Republican ticket in November. A Combine Without a Following. Not a few of the politicians in the interior of the state were induced to co-operate with the Lincoln party in the belief that the Van Valkenburg combination in Philadelphia WHS go tng to build up a political organiza tion with the patronage of the Weav er administration. With Weaver and the great army of Philadelphia officeholders cut loose from the Wananiaker-Van Valkenbtidg- Gordon interests, the latter have little left but the newspapers, with which they have for years been fighting Re publican candidates. 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