Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-10-13
The "B0lter."

! Editor Of the Press -
In war time the only communication
allowable with the enemy is through
powder and lead, or perhaps, an oc-
casional formal demand for surrender:
and any person caught giving aid and
comfort to the enemy is promptly shot
A man, even a leader, Uide Benedict
Arnold, may desert and go over to
the enemy, body and breeches. A
soldier may become discouraged and
homesick and be carried to a hospital,
but surely neither the sick man nor
the traitor can have any voice in the
conduct of the battle. The same or
similar conditions confront us in politi-
cal battles. We have our sick men
occasionally and we should kindly
nurse them back to health, but what
shall we say of the traitors; men like
John Wanamaker, who try to ruin the
party which has given them all the
prestige they ever had?
And why is this Philadelphia dealer
in general merchandise trying to ruin
the party that made him what he is
politically?
Is it because the party is not good
enough for him? Is it because he is
too pure and honest to longer associate
with Republicans? No! We might,
perhaps, believe some of the lies of
Honest John and his tool Swallow, if
we did not know that this precious
pair are working for nothing else under
Gods Heavens but to sneak into office
i'll some way. Little matters it to
them how many lies they tell, what
cess-pools they wallow in, how many
sewers they crowd through, SO that
they slide into office in the end.
Wanamaker goes through the State
bowling that he is a good Republican
Swallow is a Prohibitionist if he is
anything. Now even fool knows
that even a Prohibitionist can have
nothing in common with the Demo-
cratic party. Yet these two men stand
hand in hand, traitors and hypocrites
both, working might and main to de-
feat the regular Republican ticket in
Pennsylvania this year.
That they are trying to defeat the
Hon. G. w. Stone in this district, is
plain from the sneaking lies told early
in this campaign.
The Hon. G. w. Stone is one of the
ablest representatives in Washington;
and is so considered by the best men
Of both parties, not alone in this State,
but throughout the whole Union. No
district in the State ever had man
who represented his constituents with
more honesty, ability, and fairness to
all, than Congressman Charles w.
Stone, of Warren. And who are we
offered in his place?
Joe Sibley, a man who wins his way
by the corrupt use of money; by the
open, brazen debauchery Of the citizen
and the ballot box. A man who is a
rank free trader and free silverite.
Emerson said: Glitch your wagon
to star" This advice was probably
intended for a poet, for no political
tparty has yet advanced far enough to
tie to anything quite SO high, but surely
there is no reason why we should
tasten to corpse, and Free Silver is
dead-dead az a last years mackerel.
Every patriotic citizen is in favor of
supporting the administration OF VIM.
Mckinley and endorsing his sound,
aggressive, popular foreign policy,
but if for mere spite, for mere personal
| and petty reasons we lose a Congress
man here and there, and here and
there an Assemblyman, we are likely
to present to foreign countries in 1899
the disgracefully hGmiliating spectacle
Of great and powerful nation binding
hand and foot the executive, who has
just brought that country successfully
through Il glorious and honorable war,
and holding him helpless aloft, pitiful
| example of the short-sightedness of
the Republican bolter, who has ac-
complished more than he really in
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Seed Wheat.