Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-27
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE D1sPATcH.l

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcHL
BRADFORD, September 26.-On Friday,
April i, Just 25 weeks ago tonight, ex-Sen-
ator Lewis Emery, Jr., charged George
Wallace Delamater, then candidate for
the nomination for Governor, which he has
since secured, with bribery in securing his
election as State Senator, thus involving
perjury in taking the oath of office, and with
corrupt acts during his legislative career.
On August Il Mr.. Delamater entered a
positive denial of these accusations. At the
Bradford Opera House, tonight, Mr.. En-
cry produced the evidence on which he
made the charges, in the following speech:
1t was my privilege after attaining my ma
jority, to cast my first vote for Abraham
Lincoln for President of the United States.
From that time up to the present | have al
WAYS supported the nominee ofthe Republic
an party, and in no single instance have 1
broken my record. 1 have always held that
the conduct of political affairs should be as
GdAN4uAiAs AOLSSbAN ilHAh'l NOANN~bSN
as the affairs of private business. L always
regarded that the spirit of the Declaration
Of Independence and of the Constitution of
the United States contemplated this as the
only guarantee OF wise and economic govern
lnent.
No Apology for His Record.
With this sense of duty solidly implanted
in nv mind, and the determination to hold
the popular will Of the people to be above and
beyond personal advancement, 1 entered the
public service as the legislative representa-
tive from this district. While serving this
constituency for the ten years that followed
I never lost sight of these-to me-lunda-
mental elements of honest, frank and right
eous conduct of the peoples business.
Whatever 1 have done was done with a con-
scientious belief that was acting in the best
Interests of the people and for their greatest
good.
For the open and Independent course 1
deemed it my duty to pursue, and for which
have no apology to make, 1 have been vii
lifted in disgraceful terms and bounded
alike in nv business and social associations,
the most annoying obstacles have been
thrown in my way; cutting and humiliating
slander mas not even spared the seclusion of
nv private library. l have been charged
with venting personal spite and wreakirg
business vengeance inspired by groundless
jealousies. To all of this L only reply, that
while / NAV have erred, as who may not,
but in whatever way 1 may have erred, the
fault was with my judgment and not with
my desire.
Wrong Wearing the Mask of Right
During NV legislative experience L saw
SO much that was irregular; so much wrong
that wore the mask of right; SO much done
in the name ofthe people that in reality was
done at the bidding of the great corpora
tons, without any regard ior the right or
the welfare of the people; so many men of
questionable title to honor elevated to the
high places in the State and Nation, that 1
could but reflect and ask myself, To what
end must this bring the country?
Others saw that these wrongs and irregu
larities would eventually precipitate dis
aster upon the party. They felt that so long
rs they could quietly suffer, and the very
vitals of the Government were not endan-
gered, they had better do so, until in 1882 it
was seen that nothing but open revolt would
check the tyranny of bossism and the usur-
patton of autocratic corporations.
After that memorable campaign it was
plain to the humblest citizen that there
we're too many reading, thinking and inde-
pendent followers of the principles of Lin
coin, Giddings, Sumner and Garfield to
permit the continuance of such open irreg-
ularities and wrongs as had characterized
the conduct of the bosses and boodlers from
the adoption of the constitution OF 1873 The
so-called ''Stalwarts" and "only true Re-
publicans" showed disposition to mend
their practices. They made concessions in
regard to the management of party prima-
ries and conventions that had the appear
ance OF genuine repentance and absolutIon.
Revolt That Bore Fruit.
Those who revolted in 1882 took them at
their word. While the results of that re-
volt were not so great as they should have
been, yet it was not without good fruit. In
the Legislature Of 1888 the House was
Democratic and the Senate was narrowly
Republican, yet, with the aid of the hand
full of Independent Republican Senators.
the Democrats succeeded in passing the anti
discrimination bill, the free pipe bill, the
anti-telegrsph line consolidation bill and
the amendment to the railway incorporation
laws, so as to make the construction OF the
South Pennsylvania Railroad possibility.
Some of these bills had been on the cal
eudars for years. In this session the anti
discrimination bill was, however, 80 dis