Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-11-29
ELECTION IS OVER.

ELECIlON Is OVER.
Now is the time to commence Wig.
orous campaign for pure elections,
machine politics means corruption
whether it be in democratic Crokerism
or Republican Quayism. We need
political leaders, but they should be
our servants, not bosses.
JNo DAY.
Emporium, Pa, Nov. 26, 1900.
Mr.. EDITOR
A week before election, that is, on
October 30th, 1900, wishing to assist in
the election of Mr.. Sibley and Mr..
Moore, | had printed for distribution
to the voters, hand bill stating that
Mr.. Sibley had voted for the "Gold
Standard" bill in Congress.
told one of Mr.. Emery's supporters
what / intended to do and he asked if
| was sure about it. I said no, but I
would not issue the hand bills until [
found out.
Not being able to reach Mr.. Sibley
who was travelling around the district
| wired his campaign manager and
three days later received answer that
Mr.. Sibley had voted against the meas
ureas originally presented in the House
of Representative but when the bill as
amended by the Senate and agreed up
on by the House was presented for final
passage he voted 'present."
AS free coinage of silver at 16 to 1
was one of the questions on which Mr..
Sibley had changed his mind, and sup
ported by the above telegram | issued
the hand bills.
Two of the pages in the Congressional
Record referred to by Mr.. G. w. Stone
do not show any vote on the bill or any
mention of Mr.. Sibley. This undoubt-
edly was clerical error.
[ wrote Mr.. Stone for a copy of the
Congressional Record and he referred
me to Washington. | have received
copies of the pages he referred to, also
copy of page 1876. The telegram l re-
ceived is correct as shown by pages 325
and 5000; pages 1926 to 329 give Mr.. Sib-
ley's speech in Congress, which you
can read at the public library; he offer
ed an amendment to the original bill
and spoke in favor of sound money, re-
pudiating silver at Is to l, also favoring
the establishment of National Banks in
country towns, with a capital of $685.
10000, as finally adopted in the bill as
passed.
L nave applied for bound volume of
the full records of the last session of
Congress something that every county
seat should have) and as soon as it is
received it will be placed in the Public
Library. Page 3009 shows the final
vote on the financial bills as follows:
Yeas-166; ;nays-120; answered present
10; not voting-54 Mr.. Sibley's
name is in the list of 10 voting present
and they apparently are "paired'with
other members who are absent, though
as yet do not know on which side Mr..
Sibley was paired or whether he was
paired at all.
made mistake in issuing a state
ment when did not have the proof at
hand, but [ will never do it again.
will hurry the delivery of the full copy
of the records as much as can. While
felt sure was right at the time, and
Mr.. Sibley did repudiate free silver in
his speech as recorded in congressional
record, page 1926, wish to make this
public acknowledgement and apology
for not having the records here when
the statement was issued | also wish
to state that | firmly believe Mr.. Sibley
will vote for all measures that he con-
siders are for the good of his constit-
uents including pension bills same as
he has in the past
Respectfully,
JOSIAH HOWARD.