Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-03
How Are You Going to Vote?

How Are You Going to Vote?
One week from tomorrow the citi-
zens of Pennsylvania will be called up
on to vote. Let every Republican look
the situation squarely in the face, says
the Philadelphia Inquirer.
1t does not require very much politi-
cal knoWledged to understand that the
canvass has dwindled down to a square
fight between the Republican party and
that ofthe Democrats. The Democratic
leaders have made superhuman efforts
to get their votes together, and they
have succeeded very well in calling in
many of the gold Democrats who got
away from Bryan. The facts that this
is so leaves the Democratic leaders full
of enthusiasm, and with the knowledge
that DR.. Swallow is no longer Guber-
Material possibility they have concen-
trated every force to batter against the
walls of Republicanism. DR.. Swallow
has made long and arduous campaign,
but he is out of the race. William A.
Stone or George A. jerks will be elect
| ed Governor of Pennsylvania on Tues
day of next week.
Do the Republicans of Pennsylvania
realize what enormous power and pres
tige they would be giving to the foes of
Mckinley should they permit Penn
sylvania to go Democratic? They have
| only to look at other States to know
that this campaign is of National impor-
tance. In New York the Democrats
are doing their utmost to win the State
on what they call State issues. They
want to put Van Wyck in the Executive
Mansion, and they are counting upon
Republican divisions to give them con-
troll of several Congressional districts
and the Legislature, which in turn
elects a United States Senator. In New
Jersey there is a desperate fight for con-
troll. Here in Pennsylvania the party
is unfortunate in having internecine
strife. Men who have been Republi-
cans are exerting themselves to over
throw the Republican ticket, hoping
that in the midst of the confusion that
would ensue their personal ambitions
for revenge may be satisfied. 1t is i'm
possible for contest like this to go on
without endangering various Congress
ional districts and the Legislature.
Suppose New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania go Democratic. Is there
a Republican in Pennsylvania who can
not understand the dire results of such
victory? These States cannot be lost
without giving the House of Represen-
tatives and possibly the Senate of the
hostile majority in Congress, turn
Pennsylvania, New York and New
Jersey over to the Democrats, and we
cannot possibly escape fighting all over
again in 1900 the battles which Repub-
licans won in 1896. Such Democratic
victories would give courage to every
Democrat in the country. 1t would
bring Bryan to the front again. We
should have free silver and free trade
debates. We should open up all the
distrust, unrest and anxiety under
which the country has labored so long
and from under the cloud of which it
has passed with the advent of McKin-
ley.
State issues can take care of them
selves, or at least the Republican party
can take care ofthem much better than
can the Democrats. There is not dis
honest man on the Republican State
ticket, and Col. Stone himself time and
time again in his speeches has declared
his hostility to the very legislation of
which the Republican party wreckers
have been complaining. Reforms in
the management of the State funds
have been brought about by law. There
is no State issue that needs reforming
that cannot be and will not be attended
to under Stone. The whole future
policy of the President is concerned in
these State elections. 1t is simply i'm
possible to escape these National issues,
and if Pennsylvania Republicans turn
their magnificent State over to jerks
and Bryan they will reap the whirl-
wind
There is but one way to stamp out
Bryanism, and that is not to permit it
to regain its foot-hold. The one way
not to permit it to regain its foothold
is to keep Pennsylvania in the Republi
can column.
RuclSleniS Arnjca SaIve.