Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-27

| torted and mangled with amendments thai
it was really of no effect.
| In 1887 the hand OF the great corporation
and OF the minions they controlled again
became apparent. The Billingsley bill wa:
de Gated by as corrupt and foul deal as
ever blurred the legislative annals. The
| revenue bill, alter its passage by both
/ Houses was stolen, actually losing to the
people S1,000,O00 year, that would have
| justly been paid into the Treasury by the
corporations of the State.
A Promise to the Farmers Broken.
In 1889 the equalization tax bill, intended
to relieve the farmers, was defeated in the
Senate after passing the House. Mr.. Della
mater had promised to support this bill, but
voted against taking it out of the hands Of
the committee, which sealed its fate. !
speak of these things to show that Mr.. Della
mater was always in close touch with every
measure that was desired by the great cor
porations and out of sympathy with every
measure that would be OF benefit to the bust
ness man, farmer, artisan or laborer.
There was one mechanic with whom be
was always in sympathy, and that one was
| the practical corporation lobbyist.
Now, before entering into the real subject
| of nv remarks tonight, l want to explain
why l went to any trouble TO search into Mr.
Delamater's doings. Up to within As hours
of the de eat of the Billingsey bill, its
friends had sufficient votes pledged to pass
1t, think, with majority OF four. Mr..
Delamater insisted on remaining passive
and nor -,ommital on the measure
Very suddenly it was announced in legis-
lative circles that DeIamater would not only
oppose the bill with his vote, but that he
would make the leading argument against
1t. Thence on, he used every tactic and SUBJ
terfuge to obstruct Its passage. 1 wondered
what could have been the incentive for so
sudden and vigorous ''fop," and I'll say
to you, l was not long in discovering it. It
was little matter of $4,000, of which 1
will speak later.
His Warning to the Party.
When it became apparent that Mr.. Della
mater would be strongly pushed for the Re
publican Gubernatorial nomination, and
that all the machinery OF the party, State
and national, was being specially oiled for
the occasion, determined 10 warn the party,
long in advance, that to nominate a man
whose character was black witli'corruption
in his own county, and not less so with re-
Spect to the affairs of State, would invite
disaster, despite the great natural Repub-
On the evening of April 4, last, made
certain charges against Mr.. Delamater
After the lapse o four months and ten days
he saw fit to have himself interrogated bv
one Thomas l.. White, OF Chambersburg,
and made a general denial of all 1 had
charged, or of anything that might be after
ward charged.
MIR. Delamater said: "On April 4th last,
during my candidacy for the nomination,
ex-senator Lewis Emery, Jr., made certain
charges respecting my honor as citizen
ana Senator. Until now, l have refrained
from making public reply. Prior to nv
nomination l claimed the right to make NV
own contest In my own way and was content
to rely tor my vindication upon nv life
long character and reputation built up in
every active professional and business career
IN Northwestern Pennsylvania. The epthu-
slastIc and unanimous endorsement of nv
own county, the cordial support of the
majority elected from the other counties. the
exceptionally strong Endorsement by citi-
zens and business men of Philadelphia, and
finally, my nomination by the Harrisburg
convention. all in the face of these undenied
charges, had seemed 10 me sufficient answer.
The question now addressed to ME implies that
Continued silence on MY Part
NAV be misinterpreted by certain good citi-
zens whose affiliations are with the Repub-
lican party. AS the candidate Of that party
cannot allow its interests to be prejudiced
in the estimation of any citizen by a re-
fusal to answer any inquiry touching nv
personal and official integrity and take
this occasion to enter my most positive, en-
phatie and unequivocal denial of each and
every charge preferred by Senator Emery
G., I |. ELL
the real questions of the hour may not be
obscured by personalities growing out of
these attacks and that future reference to
this subject may be avoided, enter this
denial to all charges, by whomsoever pre-
ferred, which sssail my honor as man or
my virtue as a citizen"
The machine organs of the State i'm
medlately set up hue and cry that nv
charges had been completely and sufi-
GENTLY" answered. Marked copies of the
papers bearing ear marks of the party ma
chlnery fairly flooded into my Office. calling
attention that it was now my time to speak.
Well, am here to speak, not in four months
and ten DAYS, not SO shortly before the elec.
tion that Mr.. Delamater may not have ample
time and opportunities to purge himsel: of
the odium that attaches to him; ample time
to make me answer before the courts. When
[ made these charges I stood on tenable
ground. 1t is as tenable to-day as it was
then. If any man had made such charges
against me before or after my nomination for
any Office, 1 would have taken him to the
courts at once, where challenged Mr.. Della
mater to take me at that time, and where [
will only be too glad il he will take me now.
Emery Makes His Specific Charges,
He preferred for obvious reasons to make
sweeping, general denial, not only Of
what had said. but of anything might
might yet say. In view of this now re-
make those charges:
l charge that he procured his election to
the Senate OF this State in 1886 by improper
means; that he procured by improper means
citizens OF Crawford county to vote for him
at the general election, and that when me-