Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-11-01
EMPORIUM PA. TIL TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1900.
Political Pebbles.

Democratic gathering, and yet he is
going to stump the district for Emery.
Very consistent, to say the least
Franklin News.
Ex-Congressman Stones flop to EN-
cry is clear case of sour grapes.
When citizen changes his politics
from conviction he has our admiration,
but when he deserts the flag when it
ceases to wave over his rewards, he be-
comes an object of pity -Pittsburg
Com. Gazette.
Ex-Congressman Charles w. Stone
has taken the stump in Warren county
in behalflof Mr.. Emery. This we pre-
sumo is Mr.. Stones way of repaying
the Republican party for the twenty
seven years that it permitted him to
hold fat offices under its auspices.
Stone is ungrateful, but there is some
satisfaction in the thought that it is
political suicide he is committing The
Warren Mail says the only effect of
Mr.. Stones treachery will be to cause
Republicans to work all the harder for
their candidate. -Titusville Herald.
1t is exceedingly painful to the many
friends of Hon. G. w. Stone in this
Congressional district, to see him take
the stump in support of Lewis Emery,
Jr., for Congress. The Republicans all
over the district, with very few excep-
tions, who gave him their earnest sup
port two years ago, are now supporting
Mr.. Sibley. No man knows better than
Mr.. Stone that Mr.. Emery is not a fit
man to send to Congress. He knows
that Emery could not be depended up
on to support Republican measures and
his election would be heralded all over
the United States as Democratic gain
How can Mr.. Stone, who has received
so many honors from the Republican
party for the past thirty years, take so
fatal step at this time?-Kane Repub-
lican.
Hon. @. w. Stones revolt shows how
grateful he is to the Republican party
for having kept him in office for about
81 years. Because he is not candidate
now, or because a brother of his was
not nominated by the Republicans, he
will join hands with the Democrats in
an effort to bring defeat upon the party
that has served his ambitious personal
purposes. CIV Stone sets himself up
as an authority on the subject and de-
clares that Sibley's nomination was
irregular. For wise statesman, such
as Stone was formerly reputed to be,
he is making queer spectacle of him
self.-Bradford Era.
G. w. Stone has already delivered
himself of a set speech devoted in the
main to petty criticism of Mr.. Sibley's
course in the present Congress. 1t is
filled full of suggestions of "sour
grapes" and reveals the Warren man
as snarler, growler and kicker of the
first order. Mr.. Stone is generally re-
gardad as a man of culture, refinement
and respectability, and such mean and
contemplate fault-fnding with Mr.
Sibley's course was hardly to have
been expected from him. 1t shows too
that the people of this district who
were inclined to consider him a first
class statesman had totally mistaken
his calibre.-Oil City Derrick.
The plea of ex- congressman Stone in
his Corydon address in apologizing for
his opposition to Mr. Sibley is like the
London shoemaker's plan to make the
foot fit the boot. Stones plea is plain
ly manufactured one to fit the case.
1t lamentably fails, however, to fit the
facts. What is the supreme test of a
candidates party standing? Samuel
j. Tilden once said: "The regular
certificate of Democratic nominating
convention makes a nominee a Demo-
crat, no matter what individual voters
may think about it," Party men of
all shades of opinion have accepted the
Tilden declaration as political law.
Mr.. Sibley is just as much the Republi-
can party nominee to-day as G. w.
Stone was two years ago. Nobody can
we'll gainsay this, and yet in the face of
this fact Mr.. Stone, to atone for his
party treason, has the hardihood to put
his individual opinion above the ac-
cepted law of party politics and the
certificate of regular nominating
convention. Mr.. Stones arraignment
of Mr.. Sibley's politics in the past is
met by the fact that Mr.. Sibley has op-
emily joined the Republican party and
given his reasons therefor. Mr.. Stone
on the other hand, while pretending to
be Republican, is supporting Dem
ocratic combination, which, if success
full, would overthrow the Republican
organization. Mr.. Stone knows this
perfectly we'll, and in short time the
voters of the district will know it, and
when known Mr.. Stones chances of