Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-11-03
VOL. 80.
For Assembly: Mr.. Josiah Howard.

ard will on Tuesday next receive a
good big majority ofthe votes Of Cam
eron county for the Office of Assembly
man. The Independent has been tell
ing US that it knows 10 reason why
Mr. Howard should be elected. There
are none SO blind as those vino will not
see. There are several reasons,
and very good ones too, why Mr.. How
ard should be elected. OF course we
do not expect the organ of the Demo.
cratic party to see, or at least to ac
knowledge that it sees, the force of
these reasons, but our appeal is not to
the independent, but to the intelligent
and fair. minded voters Of Cameron
county,
In point of personal fitness and
equipment Mr.. Howard is admirably
qualified for this and for even more inn
portant offices. He has had advantages,
it is true, as the Independent has been
at pains to point out, but he has improv-
ed his advantages as a great many
similarly situated would not have
done. No one who knows him will
venture to say that he is lacking in
those elements of independence and
force and aspiration which we are ac-
customed to associate with the type of
character known as self-made. He is
no mere creature Of circumstances, as
the Independent would seem to have
US infer, but shaper of circumstances.
1t is true that he received start from
his father, and no one is more en-.
thusiastic in bearing witness to that
obligation than is Mr. Josiah Howard
HIMSELF nevertheless the firm of G. y.
Howard Company, since the death of
its founder, has carried TO successful
termination many an undertaking that
would haye taxed to their utmost the
powers orc. B. Howard, and the credit
of this honorable record of the past
twelve years must not be withheld
from the present head of the firm
and iscapable business associates.
Not only has Mr.. Josiah Howard
given abundant proof of the possession
of business judgment and ability of
high order, but he has also shown
himself to be man of most marked
and genuine public spirit. The Inde-
pendent has insinuated that he is in
in the county only for what he can get
out of it, and that he will move else.
where as soon as the lumber is all cut.
So, after sixteen or seventeen years,
residenc in the county, during all of
which time he has identified himself
heart and soul with the county, with
its business interests, with its civic in
terests, with its educational, religious,
moral and social interests, he is now
to be branded as a sort of industrial
tramp, lodger for the night, as it
were, and is declared undeserving of
the only public honor that he has ever
asked of the people of Cameron county!
Mr.. Howard has been generous with
his means in many ways that no one
but himself knows, but his liberality
with his money is after all little thing
compared with the fact that during all
these years he has been giving himself
to the things that make for the ad-
vancement and welfare Of the
county. Money, apart from personal
ity, is nothing. Mr.. Howard enjoys
the good will and respect and hearty
support Of the people because of
what he is and because of the spirit
which he puts into his work and SER
vice. and not because he is possessed
of a modest fortune. Yet the Indepen-
dent has insinuated that those who
recognize Mr.. Howard's personal
worth and service are mere cringers to
wealth! Mr.. Howard is public spirit
ed-man If ever there was one in Cam
erOn county, and the votes which he
will receive next Tuesday will each
one be a sincere recognition of his per.
sonal worth and civic value.
We have repeatedly called attention
to Mr.. Howard's political principles
and to his full and forceful expression
of them in his speech of acceptance, in
his ''Star'' and in his open letter. In
giving full expression TO his political
views, he has only shown himself
mindful Of the first duty which candi-
date owes to the public, for it is theduty
and the right of the public to know
what a candidates principles and
opinions are. The mere fact that he
has given these expressions of his views
to the public has been annoying to his
political opponents. The Independent
has not been accustomed to waging a
campaign of discussion, and it has been
amusing to watch it's futile efforts to
Offset the effect of Mr.. Howard's speech
and star and letter. The most that it
is able to say is that Mr.. Blumle stands