The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1901-10-24
EDITORS ARE LOYAL

Journalists In Touch With the Peo.
pie Support Republican Party.
THEY LEAD IN THE FIGHTING
Pennsylvania Newspaper In the ln'
tsrIer Of the state staiwart and AZ.
srssslvs In the Campaign About d
Close.
A significant and gratifying feature
Of the present political canvass In
Pennsylvania 10 the unanimity and the
cordiality with which editors Of Re.
publican newspapers throughout the
state are supporting the Republican
state ticket. The insurgent combiners
do not seem to have shaken the faith
Of the Republican journalists, whose
profession brings them in touch with
the people and enables them to get
the real sentiment Of the Republican
voters OF the state.
The editor OF the Gazette Of Pittston.
Of the Union party for state treasurer.
refuses to support him In this cam.
paign and gives his reasons:
"The Gazette" he says. rs . Re-
publican paper. It believes in the
Republican party. It thinks that the
Republican party, at its worst, is bet.
ter and safer than the Democratic
party at It's best. There are bad men
in 1t and good men in the Democratic
party, but on the whole, as It reads the
history Of the country and of the
state, better results have accrued
from Republican than from Demo
cratic administration. When reforms
are needed, 1t would sooner trust the
Republican party than any other party
to make them, and 1t believes that
they can more easily be made within
the Republican party than over its
PROSTATE form.
AS TO THE UNION PARTY.
1.-THE Union party is not . perma.
nent party" continues the editor OF
The Gazette. 1T represents only the
ambitions and prejudices Of few
men. 1t is playing for capture Of the
Republican party through the process
of defeating the Republican candi.
dates until It Is strong enough to COM
pei the Republican organization to
surrender to its dictation. The Dem
ocratic party-more properly, the
small group of trading politicians
who have control Of the Democratic
machinery, is in temporary deal
with 1t on a basis Of a division Of the
spoils In the event that there shall be
spoils to divide.
I'VE see no chance for real reform
in the triumph Of such q sordid ar
rangement. Mr. Coray may think that.
II elected state treasurer. he would be
personally strong enough to enforce
reforms. II so, he overrates his
strength. He could do nothing more
than keep the accounts straight. The
law provides how they shall be kept
and how the state money shall be
handled. Mr.. Coray could not change
that law. He could only enforce 1t.
We believe it is enforced now.
Republicans have great reason for
confidence in the sterling worth OF
Frank G. Harris, Republican candidate
for the Office of state treasurer, and
will elect him. along with the rest OF
the ticket, by rousing majority, at
the polls on the coming election day."
THE ENTIRE COUNTRY INVOLVED
Republicans owe 1t to their party
to give Jealous support this fall to the
on both the county and
state tickets" says editor James B.
Borland, of the Franklin (Pa.) Even
ing News. 1T is no time for Repub-
lican to present vote as compli-
ment. At the present time there Is
a condition unusual for an of year.
wherein the entire country is involved.
An Indifferent majority In the state OF
Pennsylvania would prove humiliating
to those who have always spoken and
upheld the Republican administration.
The voters should not allow themselves
to be misled by the argument that 1t
will make no difference this year which
way they vote. 1t does make a mate
rial difference. Let US show to Presi-
dent Roosevelt that he has the con-
fidence and backing Of Pennsylvania
by rolling up a good old-fashioned ma
jority in an off year. For a Repub-
lican to be Indifferent to the situation
will be a species of recklessness, OF the
kind that it will be hard to excuse.
Get out and vote yourself, and ask
other Republicans to do so.
DO NOT BE DECEIVED.
"'The man who has chronic craving
for Office and always fails in attaining
it naturally gravitates in the direction
of still another discontented people"
remarks the editor Of the Allentown
Chronicle and News. Having no spec
ial issue on which to base their defec-
ton from party, the cry Of reform
is at once the handiest and Oldest that
suggests itself. That is the reason
why we today see Republican malcon-