Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-01-23
John p. Ell<in for Governor.

PhilG ielphia Inquirer.
The RepublicanCommit ofIndiana
county has formally presented Attor-
ney General John p. Elkin as candi-
date for Governor of Pennsylvania.
This county is the home of the distin,
guished candidate. Those persons who
know him best-the men among whom
he has worked his way to prominence
place him before the voters of the State.
What they say of him comes from the
heart.
The Inquirer has been awaiting some
such opportunity as this before declar-
ing itself. Mr.. Elkin has never made
his ambitions known to the public.
But it may be taken for granted that
the Indiana County Committee has his
consent to present his name, and The
Inquirer joins with that committee this
morning in the hope that John P.
Elkin may be the Republican candi-
date
1t even goes further than that. IT
MAKES MR.. ELKIN ITS OWN CAN
DIDATE, for the simple reason that it
believes that there is no man better
fitted to conduct the important affairs
the State than the present Attorney
General.
Mr.. Elkin is essentially man of the
people.
His career is one that the young men
of Pennsylvania might study with
profit to themselves.
He is self-made in every sense of the
word.
He was born in a log house in India
ma county. AS child he battled his
way through the SHOWS and across the
fields for a mile and half-a three
mile trip each winter day to and from
the primary school He worked on
the farm. Later he helped his father
in country store, meanwhile pursu-
ing his studies. When the family re-
moved to Wellsville, Ohio, where a
company for the manufacture of tin
plate had been organized, he was
obliged to work in the mills at day
labor, because the capital which his
father had invested had been exhaust
ed. At fourteen he gained admittance
to the high school, and left it at the
head of his class. He returned to his
old home in Indiana county, taught
school and fought his way through the
Indiana Normal School From there
ne went to the University of Michigan,
paying his way by his own hard work,
and when he was graduated from the
law school he was selected as the ora
tor of his class.
That is the manner in which John p.
Elkin has made his way through life
until he has reached the responsible
position of Attorney General of Penn
sylvania.
1t is a story which, when told in de-
tail, must appeal to every person who
loves to see a man force his way
through the world unaided and alone.
Indiana county prides itself upon
the fact that it has never lost a fight to
the Democrats. This is a splendid
record undoubtedly. But Indiana
county must have something more
thanparty fealty at its back when it
presents a candidate for Governor.
Fortunately it has that something. 1t
has man, a son of the soil, of the
without blemish, WHO CAN FACE
HIS POLITICALFOES WITH CLEAN
HANDS, who can defy them all, who
is not called upon to offer one word of
excuse for any act of his own..
SUCH A CANDIDATE is MATCH
LESS.
And because John P. Elkin is a
matchless candidate The Inquirer sup
ports him.
His enemies say that legislative dis
tricts will be lost. That is nonsense.
They wonld say the same thing no
matter whose shoulders the mantle of
nomination might fall.
They say that Congressional districts
will be sacrificed That is childish. If
man of the people cannot be elected
Governor and command respect then
no Republican can be chosen.
The interest of the Inquirer has al
ways been that of the Republican
party. 1t believes in Republican prin-
ciples. The Republican party has
made the United States the greatest
nation on earth. 1t would do nothing
that would in its opinion bring re.
proach upon that party or would him
der it in its great work Of progress.
When, therefore, it casts ALL it's in
fuence with Indiana county's candi-
date for Governor, it does so with its
eyes wide open and in the absolute be-
lief that no man is safer, that no man
can better lead the Republican Party
to victory than John p Elkin.
Pennsylvania loves self-made man.
And so does the Inquirer. Indiana
county's candidate-and the Inquirer's
candidate-is just such a man.
There is no doubt whatever that Mr..
Elkin will have the support of the
Philadelphia delegates. But he is pre-
eminentlly the candidate of the coun-
try, and the Philadelphia delegation
will but add its great weight to the ma
Jorlty to make his nomination practi-
cally unanimous. The country Itself
outside of Philadelphia will alone fur
nish enough delegates to nominate
triumphantly man who has not got
to go upon the defensive. Those who
try to put him in such position will,
we think, quickly discover to theil