Republican News Item I CHAS.ILOREN WING, Editor. THURSDAY, AUG. 9, 1900. ' "FIRST OF NEWS." The News Item Fights Fair. IT IS AIPATRIOTIC HOME NEWSPAPER Published Every Friday.Mornin«. By The Sullivan Publishing Co. At the County Beat of Sullivan County. I>AFOBTB, PA. SUBSCRIPTION —$1.25 per annum. If paid in advance SI.OO. Sample copies free. All communications should be ad» dressed to REPUBLICAN NEWS ITEM, Laporte Fa., Entered at the Post Office at Laporte, as second-class mail matter. (Special Correspondence.) Harrlsburg, Aug. 7. —Col. James M. Guffey, the Bryanite leader of the Pennsylvania Democracy, as a full fledged candidate for United States sen ator is the latest revelation in the po litical situation in the Keystone state. While It has all along been suspected that Millionaire Guffey was not wasting his time and money for nothing, it was hardly supposed that he seriously ex pected to be able to prevent the Repub lican party from fllling the present vacancy in the United States senate from this state. Guffey has been play ing a waiting game. He has been de voting almost his entire energies to disrupting the Republican organization and then spreading the doctrine of fu sion in the legislative districts. He has been preaching reform, so as to detract attention from his main pur pose, the election of Democrats to the legislature who will vote on the United States senatorship. He has, of course, started out with the idea of first electing Democrats, but where he finds that conditions make that impossible he seeks to do the next best thing for the Democracy— make a fusion deal by which one Demo crat and one independent Republican are nominated and together they are to wage a campaign against the regu lar Republican nominees. In that way Guffey counts upon cutting down his Republican opposition and at the same time stirring up a feeling of bitterness between the factions in the Republican organization that will ultimately be to his advantage. GUFFEY'S REAL POSITION. But the Republican voters of Penn sylvania, through an Indiscreet utter ance from Col. Guffey, due possibly to his surroundings, have been given an insight into his plans, and they now have Guffey explaining. Guffey was in New York attending the Initial conference of the leaders of the Democratic national committee, and with Richard Croker spent a whole day at Elberon with Chairman J. K. Jones, of the Democratic national com mittee, mapping out plans for the Bryan campaign. While on his way home Col. Guffey was interviewed by a reporter of the New York Journal, and in that recog nized organ of the Democratic national committee on July 30 last appeared a statement from Col. GufTey regarding the. Democratic outlook in Pennsylva nia. In this interview he made no sec ret of the real purpose of his plans for fusion with the disgruntled Repub licans. The Journal quoted him as fol lows: "IT IS THE PLAN OF THE DEMOCRATIC MANAGERS THERE TO MAKE THE MOST AGGRESSIVE FIGHT POSSIBLE FOR THE ELECTION OF MEM BERS OF CONGRESS AND MEM BERS OF THE LEGISLATURE SO WE CAN SUPPLANT MAT THEW S. QUAY WITH A DEMO CRATIC SENATOR." When Gultey reached Pittsburg he discovered that he had made a very bad break In so freely and frankly stating while in New York his hopes of Democratic triumphs in the Keystone state. He was taken to task by his Republican Insurgent allies, who said that if this Democratic boast got wide circulation in Pennsylvania It would drive the independent Republicans back into their old party lines and the fusion scheme would goto smash. Guffey quickly realized the force of this argument and he set to work to counteract what he had done in New York. He prepared another statement in tended for the eyes of Pennsylvania Republicans. In this declaration he disclaimed any thought of Democratic victories at the coming election in this state. Accordingly this statement was sent broadcast through the common wealth, and was given due prominence by those papers that are backing the fusion movement on the legislative nominations. The statement, which was printed verbatim in all such newspapers, ap peared In the Philadelphia Times, one of the insurgent organs, on Aug. 1, as follows: "IN SO FAR AS THE ELECTION OF A DEMOCRATIC UNITED STATES SENATORIS CONCERN ED, THAT IS NOT BEING CON SIDERED FOR A MOMENT, UN LESS WE SUCCEED IN ELECT ING A DEMOCRATIC LEGISLA TURE. AND THAT IS NOT WITH IN TIIE RANGE OF POSSIBILI TIES IN THIS FALL'S CAM PAIGN." In QufTey's first statement the Demo crats were to make a most aggressive flght to supplant Matthew Stanley Quay with a Democratic United States senator, and in the second statement Guffey declares "the election of a Democratic United States senator is not considered for a moment." Republicans have awakened to the insincerity of the Guffey campaign, and they are not going to be caught in his fusion trap in this most important year in American politics. They know that Guffey is one of the most intimate and trusted lieutenants of Bryan, and that his election to the Democratic national committee over William F. Harrity was only accom plished through the personal interven tion of Bryan himself. GUFFEY'S BRYANITE RECORD. Experience in Kansas City at the Democratic national convention dem onstrated the character of the rela tions that exist between Col. Gutter and Bryan and all the other Bryan ilea of the present wild-eyed leadership of the rattle-trapped national Democracy. Guffey. while professing to be with Pavid B. Hill in favor of a conservative platform and the elimination of the 16 to 1 plank, upon which Bryan had set his heart, permitted the Pennsylvania delegation, which was absolutely un der his control, to vote down Governor Hill's proposition to have a minority re port against the 16 to 1 plank intro duced. This was to have been fought out on the floor of the convention, where the undoubted sentiment of a large majority of the delegates was against the 16 to 1 proposition. The vote in the Pennsylvania dele gation under the unit rule made the Keystone state Democracy put their 64 votes on record with those of the most rampant of the the Alt gelds and the Joneses in opposition to a minority report against 16 to 1. With Guffey In this game was Richard Cro ker, who closed Hill's mouth by spring ing the unit rule upon him and cast ing the entire New York delegation of 72 votes against the minority report, advocated by Hill. The action of Guf fey and Croker decided the fate of the 16 to 1 plank. It went into the plat form without attempted objection on the floor of the convention. It was quite natural that Col. Guf fey and Richard Croker should be summoned to the first conference ar ranged by Chairman J. K. Jones, of the Democratic national committee. Guf fey and Croker were the only promi nent party leaders Invited. GOLD DEMOCRATS SHY. Guffey is going to have his own trou bles in pushing his canvass for United States senator. The Republicans are now familiar with his game, and are going to watch him closely, but there is a conservative element in his own party that will not permit him to use them for his per sonal advantage. Guffey stands for Bryanism and free silver, and the sound money men will have none of either. No other consistent course is open to the gold Democrats. Practically the only reason that they opposed Bryan four years ago was his advocacy of free silver. The action of the Kansas City convention in specifically adopting a free silver plank at Bryan's demand brings the silver question again before the public. Gold Democrats cannot support Bryan or Guffey in the pres ent campaign without virtually repu diating the principles they professed in 1896. Their leaders evidently perceive that the only way to crush out the free sil ver delusion is to concentrate the sound money vote of the country on McKin ley. The course of Bryan in forcing free silver again on the Democratic party shows that it is futile to expect him to abandon this craze as long as he thinks there is a political profit in it for him, and the only manner by which he can be cured of this error is by an other overwhelming defeat. For this purpose no occasion could be more propitious than the present. The coun try is prosperous, and farmers, work ing men and other toilers, contrary to Bryan's predictions, have seen prices and wages rise under the gold stand ard. Many men can understand the truth now, as they could not In 1896, when the nation was Just emerging from a disastrous panic. GufTey stands for Bryanism and the gold Democrats of Pennsylvania will vote against them both. FUSION WILL HELP BRYAN. The gold Democrats are primarily opposed to Guffey, because his success means Bryan's success. Those who at tended the meeting of the Chester county Democratic committee held last week or read reports of the pro ceedings were impressed with a state ment made by W. S. Hastings, who was a delegate to the Democratic con vention at Kansas City. He is an ar dent advocate of fusion on the legisla tive ticket, and in a speech before the county committee said he favored fu sion because it would help Bryan, and he wanted to do everything to poll a big vote for Bryan. Of course he is for Guffey for United States senator. THE "PARAMOUNT ISSUE." "Paramount isues are sometimes ex pressed, but they are never made by platform declarations. The people think and form impressions of parties as organized entities, with virtues and vices like individuals, and the party, considering its history, character and professions, that has the best claims upon the public confidence usually wins. Many voters have pronounced party predilections without being able to define them, but they have an Intel ligent basis Just the same. "Imperialism will receive its share of attention on the stump and in party organs during the campaign, but the people are disposed to look upon the question as a political stalking horse, trotted out for this campaign only. If Democrats were sincere in their denun ciation of imperialism the country would regard It as a case of political 'Jim-Jams.' "I have no doubt that the people of this country would oppose Imperialism If It were seriously proposed, but they cannot be led to confound that specter with a patriotic effort to establish or der on American soil. The people ex pect us to govern the newly acquired possessions according to republican principles, and to treat the inhabitants thereof as Americans and not as for eigners, but they know full well that we cannot govern them at all until in surrection is subdued and order estab lished. In other days we were compell ed to use force to subdue insurrection and put down rebellion on territory held by the same kind of title that we have for the Philippine Islands, but no one regarded It as Imperialism then. M'KINLEY WILL WIN. "McKinley will win next November because the people are satisfied with his administration of the affairs of the country, both at home and abroad. All the material pledges of the St. Louis platform have been faithfully perform ed, and some notable things have been done that were not on the program at all. The exceptionally prosperous business conditions all over the land, the enormous foreign trade during the last three years, with its balance in our favor of over a billion dollars, the great stride this nation has made to ward the position of leadership among the world powers, combine In an ir resistible appeal to the common sense, the conscience and the patriotism of the. whole people. 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