Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-07-14
OIL CONGREssMEN.

From the Petroleum World, July II, 1880.
The people of the Oil Region seem
particularly fortunate in the candidates
thus far. selected for congressional hon
org.
Hon. Lewis i, Watson nominated at
Cory on Saturday last, from the Erie
District, while member of Congress
in 1377-78, assumed the paternity OF
the Interstate Commerce act and to
his untirIng efforts, toward the educa-
ton of his fellow members, as TO its
merits and the wrongs it sought to
right, is due in o great measure to the
large majority obtained upon the pas
sage by the House of Representatives
of the Reagan Bill" an act framed in
the Committee on Commerce from the
Watson Bill" though its force and
usefulness were much weakened in the
substitution by the Committee of their
bill for that OF Mr.. Watson.
Col Bayne in the Allegheny District,
was foremost among the advocates OF
the passage by Congress of such an en-
pctment, and was recently re-nomin-
.ated
Hon. j. y. McJunkin, nominated
last week at Mercer for the Butler Dis
trict, was for several terms Represen-
tative of Venango county In the Legis.
lature, and notable for his efforts then
on all matters affecting the Oil Region.
In 1872 he was selected by the Gen
eral Committee" TO lead the forces %
the opponents of that Infamous South
Improvement Co. Hoy well he re-
sponded to the call will be readily re-
called by old oil men and the success
of his efforts is recorded in the Legisla-
tive abolishment Of that ne'arions or.
ganization and the cotemporaneous pas
sage of the Free Pipe Law, for and ex-
tending over the eight oil counties.
From tie Pctrolia Record, July 10.
j. d. M'Junkin, the oil mans candi-
date, made the nomination at the meet
ing of the conferees Of Mercer, Batler
and Crawford counties, at Mercer. Oil
men to the front.
From the PradJord Era, July 10.
EDITOR ERA The Congressional
embroglio Of the Twenty-siXth district
is one, we fear, which may result in
Democratic selection in the fall for that
important position. % any event we
are inclined TO side with McJlnkip, ap-
preciating the honorable course that
gentleman has pursued. Briefly, he
occupies this position
Mr.. Miller went TO Butler to see Mr.
McJunkn and while there ignored Mr.
Robinson utterly. They agreed upon
Mercer az a suitable place to hold their
conference and stated a time and place
at which they should meet They fur
ther agreed to notify both Dick and
Roberts Of their conclusions, but not
recognizing or endorsing either claim
ant from that county.
They did so instruct those parties,
and in pursuance Of such instructions
Dick and Roberts both appeared, there
by sanctioning the right Of McJunkin.
When be found that both parties from
Crawford were there and both deter
mined to enter the conference, he pro-
posed TO Mr.. Miller that they, with
their respective conferccs, meet and
examine into the cases Of the Crawford
claimants, and whichever in their judg-
ment, after hearing both sides, was en-
titled to representation should be adj
mitted. To this very fair proposition
Miller asscnted but for some inexpll-
cable reason failed to respond at the
time and place designated. Later when
met by one Of McJunkin's conferees, he
declined to recogize Roberts in any
manner or give any reason for such
strangely Inconsistent conduct, he hav-
ing notified both parties Of the intended
conference.
At the time specified in the notiiica-
tions and agreement Mr. McJunkin's
conferees were in the room designated
and were soon joined by the Roberts
party. After waiting reasonable time
for the others and they failing to APP
pear, they did then and there nominate
J. ID. McJunkin for Congress in u reg
ular and legal manner, and by virtue Of
that act be is to-day and will remain,
the peoples candidate for that high and
honorable position. If we are defeated
in November by the introduction of an
other candidate, the responsibility will
rest heavily upon the shoulders Of Sam.
Miller, whose very equiyocal action has