Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1900-09-28
OUR REPRESENT
ALIVE CANDIDATE.

The Republicans Of Pike in select
ing candidate for representative
had in Hiind several important rea-
sons. AFR. Angle is temperate man,
ne is an honest man, leading mem
ber Of the M. e. church here, and
would be incorruptible when matters
which affected our prosperity were
under consideration. He is a labor
ing man who has lived by the sweat
of his brow and has never held Office
beyond local ones, as Justice of the
Peace and school director, in which
there is no profit. He has no ak to
grind politically and would not be
hampered by extraneous influences
and entanglements which would con-
troll his actions.
He belongs to the majority party
and would have more weight in Sc
curing advantageous legislation than
a member in the minority. He is ac-
customed to public speaking and
would not be a "silent orator" of
which kind our Democratic friends
seem very fond.
His opponent IS a man who has
fattened on Office in this county hav-
ing been county treasurer twice and
in both terms had two land sale
years. He is in affluent circumstan-
ces, and has been largely supported
and enabled to rise i'm wealth through
the generous support of his party
friends.
In what manner has he ever bene-
fitted the community to entitle him
to extraordinary opportunities and
distinction? What weight would he
have with the Legislature, and would
he consider his own interests or those
of his constituents paramount? The
line of precedents has been unbroken
by our Democratic representatives,
that whenever matter in the legis-
lature became question between
their own gain and public benefit
they have invariably preferred the
former. Will our Democratic friends
point to one instance in the history of
the past when their representative
has stood for them and not for him
self? Take the Erie railroad acts,
the bridge they agreed to maintain,
the consent to land the Barret bridge
on our shore without the imposition
of any conditions as to tolls, our eff
forts to compel the rebuilding of the
bridge, the act appropriating the ten
thousand dollars year to any COM
pany which would build a road down
to Milford, and the manner in which
it was spent for champagne and other
necessaries to the comfort of the
Democratic representive, the forestry
act, which deprives us of taxes on
large bodies of land, passed without a
protest by our representative who
should have been on guard for the
interests of his constituents; all these
L prove that whenever Pike county,
welfare has been at stake, it has beer
surrendered and set aside by Demo
cratic representatives. Are the peo
pie so blind to their rights, so indifl
e 'ent to their prosperity and comfor
as to continue to refuse the remedy
They know what has been, and al
ways toatheir detTiment, will the.
|. not now after they have been depict
, ed, sold out, traded off, anything 70
personal gain, make an effort to re
trieve, in part at least, what has heel
so wrongfully taken from them
Their condition could not be mad
worse and there is every reason to as
sumo that it might be made far bet
ter by the election Of one who serve
the people and does not make tn
people serve him, our candidate
William Angle.