Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-10-18

off hand. This question of illegality
will be passed upon by the Attorney
General, and until it has been the reit-
Grafton of this charge by Mr.. Berry
must be considered as unfair in the ex-
treme and as the mere resort of the
tricky partisan politician.
The other charge is extravaganza.
Mind you, even Mr.. Berry does not
dare assail the Governor and the men,
bers of the board with benefitting to
the extent of one penny. But he says
there has been extravaganza and some
one has got graft If Mr.. Berry fur
nishes bathroom in his own house,
places in it a new tub, tiles his floor and
makes extensive alterations he can go
out in the street and bring in twenty
men who did not get the contract who
will say that he was robbed. That is
common experience. 1t is easy to go
around the State and deliver impas
stoned speeches from the platforms and
claim all sorts of things, but what Mr..
Berry must show is precisely this: Has
there been collusion, actual fraud?
Last year we had charges of tremen-
dous thievery from the lips of Mr..
Berry He failed in every respect to
prove himself to be anything but an
irresponsible haranguer of the multi
tudes. Now we submit to the people
that the proper thing for him to do is
to go directly to the Attorney General,
who asks for his proofs, and give them;
or, if he has evidence, to proceed in
court
The political hustings is not the
proper place to try charges.
He has referred the matter to the
Attorney General for an opinion and
the Attorney General asks him to pro
duce his facts. This he must do
1t is plain why Mr.. Berry has taken
to the stump instead Of to the
courts. He found that sensation was a
paying political investment last year.
He is but acting on his experience of
last year He saw that the cause of
Emery was done for unless something
could be brought to the front to divert
the attention of the people from the
real issues of the campaign. Emery's
reform pretensions had been shown to
be nothing but shams. The eight Dem
ocratic congressman promised Bryan
were not showing up. The Democratic
cause was languishing. SO he takes the
sensational way of appealing to pas
sion, hoping that before there can be
an investigation he will be able, through
his charges, to turn Pennsylvania over
to Emery and Bryan.
Ifthere has been any underhand work
in any direction the facts will all be
produced in perfect order and officially.
Edwin 8. Stuart, whose word has never
been doubted-except by muck rakers-
is pledged in this languages:
eff elected Governor l promise you,
fully realizing the responsibilities rest
ing upon me, that / will see that a
thorough investigation shall be made
of the entire question, and If such in
vestigation discloses that any man or
set of men have been guilty of wrong
doing in the abuse of their trust, or
guilty of fraud or illegal profit in the
furnishing of supplies, they shall meet
with the punishment they surely, under
such circumstances, would justly de-
serve"
This whole Capitol matter, under
Governor Stuart, will be handled abso-
lutely in the interests of the people.
The people are entirely safe in the
hands of Stuart. There is no reason,
then, why Pennsylvania should be
handed over to the Democracy, eager
to elect Bryan President, in order that
all the facts shall be made known. The
Capitol is not the issue. The principles
of Roosevelt, the policy of the National
dministration-that ia the issue as op-
posed to the policies of Bryan.