Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-06-14
Republicans Not Stool Pigeons.

/ Republicans MOI StOOi PlSe00S.
1t is a laudable ambition for any man
to aspire for seat in Congress. Mr..
Lewis Emery, Jr., has had an itching in
that direction for good many years.
Fourteen years ago he was given the
conferees from Mexican county to a
! district convention, when it was con-
nected with Cameron, Lycoming, Sui
livan, Tioga and Potter counties in a
Congressional district. Mexican coun-
! ty was not entitled to the nomination
Hon. w. w. Brown, citizen of Brad.
ford, had represented the district in a
very acceptable manner for two terms,
| the second closing on the following
fourth of March. Ii any man was en-
titled to the nomination from this coun-
ty Mr.. Brown should have succeeded
himself. After the organization of the
| convention three candidates were pre-
sented for nomination besides Mr.. EN-
cry. Lycoming county named H. Clay
Mccormick, Tioga Hon. s. F. Wilson
and Cameron j. w. Cochran, three ex-
ceptionally strong men. Then COM
menced q contest which lasted for
weeks, first in Williamsport, then in
Bradford, then in Emporium, then back
! to Williamsport, then to Wellsboro
where it came to an end by the nomi-
nation of Mr.. Mccormick, which was
altogether creditable one.
| That contest could have been ended
at any time had Mr.. Emery said the
word. But no, he would listen to no
nomination but his own. Had he not
made record in the two houses of the
Legislature for ten years preceding,
which entitled him to a seat III Con-
gress? That record was altogether on
the sensational order, but it was a record
all the same. For the six sessions that
he represented this county and district
in the Legislature much of his time was
devoted to berating the Standard Oil
company, or opposing some party meas
ure, or he was away from Harrisburg
looking after his private business.
There is no one man in the State who
was more active in electing a Demo-
cratic governor in 1892 and again in
1890 than Lewis Emery, Jr. And can
any man put his finger upon a time
when he was active in the support of a
Republican candidate other than him
self?
And this is the Republican whom the
Democrats are clamoring to send to
Congress from this district At their
seance in Warren recently their express
sions of admiration for Mr.. Emery were
fulsome. In him are concentrated all
the attributes of a profound statesman,
according to their declarations, and
through him they hope to be led to vic
tory in November. viii Republicans
consent to be used as stool pigeons to
carry out the scheme of disrupting their
party in an alliance of this character?
Their candidate was nominated by an
overwhelming majority, at a primary
election which was conducted as fairly
as any ever held in the county. He
did not come into the county, neither
did he ask single voter of the county
to support him, yet he overwhelmingly
defeated one of our ablest citizens, who
made personal appeal for support to
every voter he could reach. Will Re.
publicans now repudiate their candi-
date to crafty their opponents? We
think not.-McKean County Miner.
Titusville World: When a lot of
kickers out of two or more political
parties get their heads together to graf
ify personal spite and animosity and
go in to oppose a regular party nomi-
nee, they become pitiable objects in the
sight of all honest, fairminded men;
and he whom they prevail upon to
stand for their perverted and distorted
doctrines must stand in an unenviable
light. Hon. Lewis Emery, Jr., who is
being urged to become the candidate
of a ring of dissatisfied Republicans
and Democrats for Congress in the
twenty seventh district, should he con-
sent, would only be committing politi.
cal suicide, so far as his chances for
recognition at the hands of his party in
the future is concerned.