Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-06-16
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
Some After Reflections

Some After Reflections.
The selection of Philander G.
Knox as United States Senator has
been hailed not only throughout
the state but throughout the
country with every expression of
satisfaction. The universal ap-
proval is entirely just. 1t is a
choice which fills the full measure
of independent thought, party or
ganization, Senatorial stature, State
pride and national interest.
We do not imagine that the
millennium has come. Politics
will still be politics, and human
kind will still be human kind.
But it is not too much to say that
the emergence of Mr.. Knox as the
solution of the Senatorial problem
marks the dawn of a better day in
Pennsylvania. 1t is itself proof
that the hand that lay so heavily
on the state has been lifted. 1t
indicates at least healthy breath
of new atmosphere in which intel
lect and independence will not be
altogether stiaed.
1t is true that powerful forces re-
mainAit might almost be said dom
inant forces. Some of them have
long been potent and some of them
have had the potentiality
of controlling influence. Their
hand was plainly visible in
the decentralization plainly
visible. 1t would be mock
cry to affect not to see it.
Had they been more adroit and
careful they would have been just
as effective without so ineptly ex-
posing the action to criticism. But
the gratifying and hopeful thing is
that these forces, little dexterous
as they were in actual handling,
stood in this case for brains, char
acter, independence and individ-
uality. When they favored Mr..
Knox they reflected credit on them
selves. Mr.. Knox never was and
never will be any mans man. 1t
isn't in his strong, sound, sterling
fibre
We dismiss all serious considera-
ton Of the pretence that these
forces in Pennsylvania or any al
lied elements outside joined to-
gether to make Mr.. Knox Senator
in order to get rid of him as At
torney Generel. There isn't any
thing in it. In the first place, no
elements joined which were not in
and of Pennsylvania. All that
participated were Pennsylvanians.
They acted FROM Pennsylvania pride
and interests. In the second place,
they know and the New York
Trusts know that the movement of
the Administration for the legiti-
mate regulation of corporotions and
for the restraint of injurious and un-
lawful combinations will not be af-
fected by the change of Mr.. Knox
from the Cabinet to the Senate.
The successor of Mr.. Knox will be
a man who like himself, will carry
out the Presidents policy. In the
Senate as in the Cabinet, and per-
haps quite as effectively. Mr..
Knox will stand for the perfection
of that sound and wholesome legis-
lation which, without making war
against legitimate industrial and
commercial organization, aims to
check its abuse against the interests
of the people. And all who sup
port him know it, understand it
and approve it.
With these preliminary and in
cidental considerations cleared out
OF the way we come to the intrinsic
character and sure influence of the
selection. Mr.. Knox will take his
seat in the Senate as the peer of
the foremost His position will
be strengthened with time, as that
of every strong Senator is. But he
has not a place to make. 1t is al
ready made. The master mind in