Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1906-02-15
POLITICAL.

kin to be candidate Tor congress tnls
Sprlng. when viewed correctly. simply
means that if any other Butler county
Republican wants the instructions of
Butler county for Congress this year,
be, McJunkin, will not make contest
with him for them. He reserves the
right, however, to be candidate in
1908 and 1910, at which times the But
Ter county nominee will be given the
district nomination. His letter written
Feb. Z. 1905, to local paper was in re-
sponse to the publication in the same
paper Of an article stating that he and
another man were to be contestants.
The letter explains itself and is. as we
are informed, the only information
above his signature on the subject.
We publish this in justice to Mr.. Nc
Junkin ~ other newspapers. the Pitts
burg Gazette, for instance. gives out
very different view Of the position tax
en- bv Mr.. McJunkin. Mr.. McJunkin
assures rs that his declination is not in
favor Of, or in the interest Of. any other
candidate.
Developments in national and state
leeislative bodies during the past fort.
night give peculiar and special emphasis
the views expressed by Representa-
tive william T. Greasy as to the issues
Of the approaching gubernatorial cam
paien. That sturdy legislator holds
that the raising Of the Issue OF railroad
control Of the coal product Of the state
and Of nonenforcement Of the constitu-
ton Il one that il bound to receive care
full attention 1t the hands OF the voters,
and properly 90. "-Ex.
Gov. Pennypacker. Lieut.. Gov. Brown
and party are going down to Washing-
ton in couple Of weeks to invite the
President to attend the exercises OF the
laying Of the cornerstone OF the new
state house. Conditions not being what
they were before the November election
Teddy may accept without fear that
hen have to borrow money and clothes
10 get back to Washington. -McKees-
port News.
Representative Snyder, of Pottsville,
spsaking for personal registration, says
that he would also compel every citizen
to vote and provide o penalty for failure
to exercise the rights Of citizenship
without valid excuse Talk as yon
will,' says Mr.. Snyder, 'criticise all
you can. and proclaim loud and long
against wrongdoing in public Office. the
fact remains that no permanent reform
can b. accomplished without there IL .
compulsory exercise Of franchise fe
quired Of citizens. The experience has
always been in the past that reform
waves arc merely spasnodic and not
permauept. History shows that reform
movements have never been lasting, and
that all the good accomplished was
merely temporary, with subsequent
relaxation into old conditions. becsuse
the better class of voters did not per-
manently continue in politics. but al
lowed the dominancy Of public affairs
gradually to 90 back into the control
again Of the professional politician after
a few years intervening. wherein the
people had the experience Of going mp
the hill to view the promised land and
then going down again into the slough
OF bad government and misrule."
Since J. G. Sibley Of franklin has an
nounced his intention Of retiring from
Congress, in which he represented his
district as Greenbacker, Prohibition
ist, Democrat and last as Republican.
three candidates for his place. II. Il.
Cummings and o. G. Allen Of Warren
and John A. Wiley of franklin have
announced them selves as aspirants for
his place. The district now includes
Mercer. venango, Forest. Warren and
ELI counties, extending from the Ohio
line to the Allegheny mountains. and as
there IL no pass-it-around agreement
between them as there is between But
ler and Westmoreland counties an in
teresting contest is looked for
land that government Of the people,