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Haselbarth & Son, Salisbury, Penna. { dignity and honor. | and the signal of the {lying squadron | is calling us to war. STON QUITS THE FELD Mr. Wanamaker Shows How He Broke Written Pledges to His Constituents. THE BIG FIGHT IN THE STATE Hon.John Wanamaker Offers to Raise a Regiment and Go to the Front. His Generous Offer to His Employes. The Corruptions ot the Late l.egls- lature Under Flre—Stirring Speeches Dellvered In the State Catch the I’eople. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Harrisburg, April 19.—Reports from those parts of the state in which Hon. John Wanamaker has spoken tell of great meetings and excited interest. The climax of the week was reached on Friday when it was announced that Mr. Wanamaker had offered to raise a Pennsylvania regiment and go with it to the front if necessary. The audi- ence at the mass meeting at Ashbourne, near Philadelphia, cheered the an- nouncement to the echo. Mr. Wana- maker said about this interesting and | splendidly patriotic matter: “Thick shadows of the impending strife of arms have scttled down upon the land, notwithstanding the hope | against hope that the awful cost of war | in blood and treasure might be saved with justice to both countries, and with The roll of drums Each of us must consider our relations to the nation and adjust our affairs accordingly. 3 ‘I must not so speak to you and not act myself. 7 “Today at noon I sent the following telegram to the war department at ; Washington: “To the honorable, the secretary of | war: “Though opposed to war unless hon- ! erably unavoidable, in the event of its | coming I will, under your instructions, raise a regiment of Pennsylvanians for | military duty and go with them for ser- vice. JOHN WANAMAKER. “I then went to my desk and issued for our firm two notices, one for the manager’s office and the other for the timekeeper’s desk, as follows: I ing “April 14, 1898. ““Notice.—In order that our men may have easy minds in considering and ar- ranging their affairs in the event of be- called unon for military service this notice is posted to say: “First. That all the positions thus vacated will be reopened to return to . when the military service is over. “Second. That all salaries will con- tinue in full in such absence for actual service and be paid to the authorized representative of their respective fam- ilies. ‘““Third. An insurance to the amount of $1,000 will be paid by the firm in case of each death while any of our people | said: ; Aa . | SERIOUS CHARGES OF CORRUP- | Hand and Foot Power Tricycles for Cripples, Men, Ladies | Send for catalogue | are actually engaged in military ser- vice.” Then continuing Mr. TION. “This is the twelfth speech I have de- { livered since the beginning of this cam- | I have made charges so serious, based, | upon offici fi 3 - ‘ ) cial Agures and I for the candidate who was the choice paign for the liberation of Pennsylva- nia, and in any single one of them however, controvertible records, against the ex- isting political system, that I fail to see how any honest or self respecting voter who has read them carefully can again support a Quay ticket until those | charges are answered or proven false. I am asked why, if these abuses exist and this lawbreaking is so widespread and far reaching, does not some one begin a criminal prosecution. “I have shown that since Senator Quay has posseSsed control of the funds of the state treasury that the loss to | | the taxpayers from this { alone has been $2,500,000. one source I have also | shown that the millions of the state's i money that is withheld from the peo- ple and used for the benefit of Sena- tor Quay’s political machine and Sen- ator Quay’s political friends, is the heart of political corruption in Penn- sylvania. Why, then, you ask, if state officials receive pay for the use of state deposits, which they convert to their own personal use, are they not prose- cuted? “Two very good reasons can be given. First, laws have been enacted and so amended for those with the backing of the machine dare openly violate the law fear of harm. There seems -to have been a consistent effort to surround ! those who deal dishonestly with state | funds with protective laws. VICTION. as it is today, I doubt if any attempt to convict in our federal courts a self confessed treasury raider would be /suc- cessful. This belief is based upon past history, since it is known far and wide | that those who now control the party have been caught in speculating with vast sums of state's money, and all efforts to prosecute them have failed, and, upon the opinion of a most learn- ed lawyer of Philadelphia, who had be- fore him the confessions of high state officials, that they had conspired to meet and fully take from the state treasury a large sum of money—who sald ‘that with their own confession, publicly made, and with collateral proof in abundance, they were so thor- oughly entrenched behind potent of- ficial influences and political laws, that the c:se of justice would surely be blocked, and, while their guilt was ad- mitted, a conviction would be out of the question.” “To show how utterly impossible it Is to break through the line of ma- chine guards that are stationed at every approach to the state treasury, it is but necessary to review recent history. For months prior to the meet- ing of the last legislature the question of a thorough treasury investigation was agitated. So pronounced was the demand for an honest examination of the affairs of the auditor general's and state treasurer's office that it could not ignored. Ordinarily the majority in the legislature is strong enough to defeat any resolution not favored by the lead- ers, but at the beginning of the ses- slon of ’'97 the strength of the anti- Wanamaker ta: i the biil of a Quay politician, as I am | Senator the past 1b years that | Pittsburg politicians, without | i Wh McKinley's DOUBTS PROBABILITY OF CON- | goiam Se < machine forces was unknown; orders came t ot risk the chances of defeat- ing an investigation resolution, but to have one offered by a servant of the machine, and have a committee ap- pointed composed of men who know no law but the will of their political mas- ter, and in this way to hide the secrets and incriminating evidence that Is be- lieved to abound in plenty. A FAKE INVESTIGATION. The work of the treasury investiga- ting committee will long be remember- ed as a legislative fake and political job without parallel. The witnesses who testified before the committee were carefully selected by the Quay leaders. The same stereotyped questions, care- fully prepared in advance with a view of smothering every important fact, -were asked each witness, and only an- swers of the same cut and dried char- acter were permitted. Every effort was made to have the committee ask the state officials certain questions touch- ing the methods of apportioning these vast sums to the banks throughout the state, of the security demanded by the state freasurer, and the possibility of | getting this money if the state should ever demand it, if banks that have state deposits are assessed or com- manded to contribute for campaign purposes, and if it is not the nractice for state officials to receive interest from state bank deposits. “But no member of the committee would ask these and other pertinent questions. It was desired ‘by the anti- Quay people to summon the presidents and cashiers of banks holding state de- ! interrogate them. Several | members of the legislature offered to | furnish the names of banks that were | said to pay regularly for their deposits, | but the committee absolutely refused to posits and conduct that kind of an investigation, which might have led to damaging de- ! on | March 14, in the senate, offered a reso- | lution that was defeated, every Quay | The resolu- | velopments. Senator Kauffman, senator voting against it. tion was as follows: THE KAUFFMAN RESOLUTION. ‘“ ‘Resolved, That, cur, the sepecial to investigate the state treasurer .and auditor general be and is hereby in- structed to ask the president and cash- ier of every bank with which funds are deposited the questions: Have having state funds deposited therein? If so, did you make cash contribution? What per cent on said deposit was de- manded and what per cent was paid? ‘The committee held its few sittings in Harrisburg, and brought in a vol- uminous report bearing upon every- thing but the vital points. For the ser- vices of this committee the state was charged $3,234.81. It gave the auditor general and state treasurer certificates of character, and complimented their business. administration, declared that every cent of the state’s money was accounted for, and no traces of irreg- ularities were to be found in the state treasurer's office. Yet later develon- ments disclosed the fact that money had been advanced on padded payrolls, and in another instance $10,000 had been advanced, contrary to law, upon informed.” STONE'S BROKEN PLEDGES. Mr. Wanamaker at one of his meet- ings early in the campaign stated that William A. Stone was not a safe man to elect governor because he had vio- lated a solemn pledge to vote, as a del- egate to the last national convention, of the people. His constituents in Al- legheny City overwhelmingly instruct- ed him to vote for William McKinley. He ignored their desires, broke his pledge and voted for Quay for presi- dent. W. A. Stone at a subsequent meet- ing denied this, and Mr. Wanamaker convicted him of a false statement, as follows: “In a speech at Conshohocken last Saturday night, in an endeavor to ex- ! plain the statement that I made that I had been informed that he had violated | his written pledge to the people of his | home district when a delegate to the national convention among other things Mr. Stone said: 3 “ ‘Now let me give you the facts. The convention which nominated Mr. Mec- Afee and myself as delegates to the St. | Louis convention was composed of 150 delegates. After nominating us it unanimously instructed us to vote for Quay. That conventien had the full right to instruct us, and it did 80. After the convention the county committee, which is controlled “by adopted a new rule requiring me to sign a paper agreeing to vote in the convention as the Republican clectors of the county voted a¥ the primaries held fer county offices. Then a contest began between adherents and Senator Quay’s adherents as to which | should receive the popular vote of that “Second—With the machine control, | congressional district.” ” THE FACTS IN THE CASE. Continuing, Mr. Wanamaker said: “Entirely unsolicited the following faets have come to me: “When A. C. Robertson, chairman of | the Republican county executive com- mittee, was shown the above extract from Mr. Stone's speech he said: ‘That statement is untrue, Had any other candidate for governor made a statement so clearly at variance with the truth I would have been inclined to think that it was a slip of memory, but, coming as it does from such a pro- lific letter writer as William A. Stone, and a man who has violated two writ- ten p.edges to his constituents, I am rather inclined to believe that he knew exactly what he was saying, and made the statement several hundred miles from home, in the hope that no one would contradict it. Mr. Stone should have looked over his letter copybook before he made such a statement, for I have his pledge here in writing, signed by himself, apd there can be no mistake as to what he said. Here is the letter.” With this Mr. Robertson produced the following letter: “Pittsburg, Pa., March 27, 1896. “To the Chairman of the Allegheny County Republican Executive Com- mittee: “I hereby file with you, in accordance with the rules governing the Republi- can party of Allegheny county, my written pledge that I will honorably and fully represent and vote in Q= rordance with the will and preference for president of a plurality Qf the Re- | to vote for McKinley. if the house con- | committee appointed | | tion | laughable. state | following | you within the past | 12 months been asked to make a con- | tribution in consideration of your bank | | allowance. publican voters of the congressional | district within which I am a candidate for delegate, whenever expresse y a plurality of those voting a ference at a primary election h previous to the meeting of the national convention, in which I am a delegate, after due notice has been given by the chairman of the county committee that they will have an opportunity in said primaries to express such preference, in case I am elected a delegate. “I also enclose herewith my contribu- tion of $25, for advertising and other incidental expenses, as provided by said rules. “WILLIAM A. STONE.” STATEMENT PRONOUNCED FALSE Continuing Chairman Robertson said: “As you can readily see, Mr. Stone wrote that pledge March 27, 1896, just the day before the Republican primar- ies were held to elect delegates to the convention which met on the following | Tuesday and which elected Mr. Stone a delegate to the national convention, so that his statement that this rule was } adopted after he was elected a delegate | is a falsehood. “Now, the rule compelling candidates to pledge themselves to vote in the convention as the Republicans of their district desired was adopted a week | previous to the national delegate pri- | maries. It is rule 16 of the Republican | county executive. committee, and was adopted by a vote of 231 to 64. Mr. Stone | tried to have the rule defeated at the | committee meeting, but failed. “Shortly before the vote was taken | on presidential preference in Mr. | Stone’s district he sent out a number | of letters asking the people to vote in- structions for Quay, but the people | were for McKinley, and said so at the polls. “Beside the letter I have shown you Mr. Stone signed a pledge in conjunc- tion with Robert A. McAfee. Stone went to the national convention and voted for Quay, notwithstanding the fact that a plurality of the Republican voters in his district had instructed him VETO PROMISE IS RIDICULED. “I see that in this same speech he says he will veto any Lexow investiga- bills. This statement is really ‘Bill’ Andrews is his cam- paign manager, and Andrews was at the head of the Lewox committee. Mr. Stone’s written pledge did not seem to amount to much, and I guess his ver- bal one will be taken with a grain of Abraham Lincoln once said: ‘You can fool some of the people all the time and all of the people some of the time, but cannot fool all the | people all the time,” I would suggest | to Mr. Stone that Re commit that adage to memory. “I have nothing personally against Colonel Stone, but as a Republican I do not believe that he would be an available candidate. The party ought not to be called upon to defend its can- didate for the chief office of the com- | monwealth against such flagrant viola- tions of pledges made to the people. | The party suffered defeat eight years | ago, when Bill Andrews succeeded in | nominating Delamater by the same methods that he is using now to fur- ther Colonel Stone’s candidacy.” Last week Colonel Stone withdrew from the campaign. The Wanamaker shot seems to have been too hot. 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