Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-09-13

Men Who Wanted Berry Elected to
"Lift the Lid" Now Under Cover.
JAIL GATES AJAR FOR SOME
Emery Gubernatoral Movement Loses
Some Heavy Contributors" and Hot
Campaign Orators.
Especial Correspondence.l
PHILADELPHIA September l.

HllduCipuld, OSpAtIiDSl A.
A severe blow was given to the
men engaged in the campaign of false
pretense which has been waged
against the Republican party In Penn.
sylyania for the last few years by the
revelations growing out of the disas-
trous failure of the Real Estate Trust
company of this city.
1t has developed that some Of the
heaviest contributors to the campaign
funds that have been used to defeat
Republican nominees and to promote
the so-called cause of "civic righteous
ness have been criminally responsi-
BILE for the failure of this trust com.
pany. some of them have actually loot
ed the institution, and there Is reason
to believe that part of the funds be-
longing to the depositors which were
thus stolen were turned over as sub
scriptions to the Lincoln and the City
Party treasurers.
During the recent political revolu.
tion In this city. members of the board
of directors Of this trust company
were the most blatant orators among
the "reformers'
They misrepresented the condition
of the state treasury and would have
every one believe that the common
wealth of Pennsylvania and the city
of Philadelphia were being robbed
right and left. that the taxpayers
money was being squandered. and that
0fhn Iidb ba oil ut T., tah,
SO that all the rascality which they al
legged existed in the management Of
the state treasury could be exposed
forthwith.
And Berry Lifted the Lid"
They demanded the election of Will.
treasury. just as prior to the closing
of the trust company, they were in
sisting upon the election OF Lewis
Emery. Jr.. to the governorship. along
with his three Bryanite Democratic
colleagues, who make up the state
ticket
These reform" leaders believed
that they could continue to fool the
people despite the fact that Berry was
elected state treasurer and Berry had
lifted the lid" at Harrisburg.
In the lifting OF the lid" Berry
showed that the so-called reformers
lied when they said the state treasury
had been mismanaged and that the
funds OF the people had not been safe.
guarded under Republican rule.
Berry has been in office since the
first Monday in May last, and his Of
regarding the finances of the state are
the best testimonials that can be pre-.
sented regarding the Republican ad.
ministration of the affairs of the state
treasury.
When Mr. Berry took the oath OF
Office he receipted for the money In the
treasury and he made public the fact
that he found on hand $14,000,0O0
Every penny of the peoples money
was found and daccountedlfor in the state
treasury, and Berry and his co-cam-
paigners in the recent political battles
in this state have been silenced upon
that issue
At no time within the history OF the
commonwealth have the finances of the
state been in such good shape. At the
end of the fiscal year, November 80,
1905, there was balance in the sink
ing fund of $3.60O.575 90. and in the
general fund sS.927, ,950.79, making to-
tai of $12.52S,5263 The total out
standing Indebtedness on that date was
$4.131. .867.02. Deducting from this the
assets of the sinking fund the net state
debt is found to be s122 ,95s.O9, consid-
erably less than two cents per capita.
No other state in the union can make
such splendid showing.
But the Real Estate Trust company's
directors. who 80 loudly demanded the
election of Berry as state treasurer and
who, until the crash came. were Just
as insistent upon the election of Emery
to the governorship, have been removed
from the political arena.
One Of them, the president OF the
: company. pronounced Lincoln party
man. blew out his brains when he
found that discovery of his hypocrisy
and iniquity was inevitable.
Others Of his board of directors have
been summoned to reveal the details OF
a damnable conspiracy through which
the trust company was looted OF over
tT.000.000
Some OF them may yet nnd them
selves before the criminal courts to an
swer to an enraged people.
John Fl. Converse, upon whose name
80 many depositors banked 30 largely.
owing TO his connections with religious
and reform organizations. has dis.
claimed any knowledge of the criminal
conduct OF oficials of the trust COM
pany. He has not. however. succeeded
in satisfying the people who lost theIl
money that he was loyal to their in
terests. Instead of protecting their
deposits. he was engaged in promoting
so-cailed reform campaigns espousins
the cause of men like Berry and Emery,
serving on the advisory board" Oa