The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-31
Tho Campaign in Pennsylvania.

The Prohibitionists in Pennsylvania
have at last elected to stand up and be
counted in November, and it is an
nounced that in a few days the execu-
tive committee will name a candidate
for Governor in place Of State Treasurer
WILLIAM H. BERRY, who was nominated
by the Prohibition convention in June,
but withdrew from the ticket after LEWIS
EMERY, Jr., received the Fusion nomina-
ton for Governor.
As q Democrat MI. BERRY had in vain
urged his Prohibition friends to indorse
EMEkY. Their formal objection to him
was his want Of sympathy with the Pro-
hibition cause, but as HOMER L. CASTLE,
who 10 to be nominated for Governor by
the cold water machine, was a receptive
candidate for Leutenant-G Governor on
the Fusion ticket, it is conceivable that
resentment has in1amed the resolution
OF the Prohibition leaders to have moth
ing to. do with a candidate who drinks
beer and whose son holds stock in the
Bradford brewery. Confirmation OF this
view may be found in the manifesto
on the political situation which Mr..
CASTLE has issued. For some unex-
planned reason says the rejected
ono, 'both the Lincoln and the DEM
ocratio parties chose to ignore the
Prohibitionists'; and passing the Fusion
candidates In review, with oontumelious
comment on each Of them, he laments
that when the clean Christian citizen
ship Of this State asked for bread they
were given q stone; when. they asked.
for q fish they were given a serpent
Reformer EMERY, who seems to an
swer the description Of the serpent, does
not refer In his letter Of acceptance, an
aggressive and adroit political doou-
ment, to the woes Of the Prohibitionists;
the truth is he ignores them and con-
fronts the oligarchy with his sling full Of
singing pebbles. To "the righteous
crusade to destroy 1t he pledges all his
powers; sounds the slogan, places OF
trust for honest men, prison stripes for
grafters'; refers to himself as the stout
hearted champion who has been fitting
at the dragon Standard Oil for thirty
four years; claims the sympathy OF
President ROOSEVELT in the fight Of
Fusion against the entrenched bosses,
and thus predicts q mighty triumph:
by pennsyvanians tho saAokles win. next fall.
- stricken nom the state, and tho message carried
10 President RooszvzlT that We have struck .
mighty blow 70 aid him In his warfare for pure
politics, for The rights Of the public and for the
cause Of good government
The Prohibitionists helped to elect
WILLIAM H. BERRY State Treasurer last
November, but as his plurality was 49,
202, and the average Prohibition vote
IL under 10000, Mr.. BERRY plainly owed
his election to the Independent Repub-
licans who have now fused with tho
Democrats on EMERY for Governor.
Nevertheless, the Prohibition vote in
the relentless campaign which is to be
fought out between the organized Re-
publicans with all the they can
command in imported men and domestic
money, and the league Of Democrats
and rebels is not a factor to be despised.
For the Pennsylvania Prohibitionists it
is to be said that they care as much for
good government as for the abolition
Of the rum traffic; and II paladin EMERY
can convince them that his professions
are not sounding brass, and that he will
give the chiefs Of the oligarchy no quar-
ter and disinfeot the capitol at Harris
burg, they will turn out and vote for him
in spite Of the epistles Of DR.. SWALLOW
and the spellbinding Of Exposer CASTLE.
But It all depends upon how EMERY
wears. Meanwhile, the oligarchy is say
ing nothing and saving wood.