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mot a Presidential Year"

remarks Mr.. Emery. "It will be
time enough to discuss national is
sues two years hence"
1t is true that the vote will not
be taken for two years, but with
that single exception this is very
much of Presidential year.
In the first place, no State can
get away from National issues when
the President himself sets the pace
and members of his Cabinet go up
on the platform and deliver adj
dresses. The majority in the House
of Representatives is at stake. We
are to determinein November next
whether the policies of Theodore
Roosevelt are to be supported or
are to be frustrated by turning Con-
gress over to the Democrats.
Pennsylvania must take most
important hand. Republican dis
affection here, resulting sin the
loss of several districts, as would
inevitably be the case, might alone
block the good work of the Presi-
dent.
Again, how can Mr.. Emery ig-
more the fact that this is the year
when the Democratic Party is ac-
tually picking out its candidate for
President?
Not a Presidential year, indeed!
What! with Pennsylvania Demo-
Gratis hailing Bryan as the leader,
with State after State declaring for
Bryan through Democratic conven-
tions, we should not discuss nation
al questions now? Absurd
Mr.. Emery nor no other man can
separate State and National issues,
neither in Pennsylvania nor in any
other Commonwealth, this year.
The issues are inextricably inter-
woven.
Unfortunately for Mr.. Emery. he
is on the wrong side of the fence.
HE is THE CANDIDATE OF
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
of the opponents of President Roose-
velt-NOT OF THE PRESI-
DENTS FRIENDS.
He may express regard for the
President. Yes, but he looks to
the support of the Bryanites and
cannot succeed without them, and
the Bryanites are using his name
to defeat the Roosevelt policies.
What are these State issues that
he wishes to discuss? Corruption
in politics? But the Republican
Party has already made corruption
almost impossible by the passage of
the most drastic legislation that
any State possesses, and Edwin S.
Stuart stands squarely upon these
splendid reforms. Mr.. Emery rep
resents nothing whatever in the
way OF honest politics that Mr..
Stuart does not represent.
Corporation greed? The control
of corporations by the people? Does
he wish to discuss that subject?
Very well, but what does he pro-
pose to do that Mr.. Stuart is not
pledged to? His own conventions
the Lincoln Party's, which he
owned, and the Democratic Party's,
which he ntrolled-have made a
few promises, but, as Secretary
Taft advises all voters to do, "com-
pare Democratic promises with Re
publican performances" In
the light of the Republican per-
formances in the special
session OF the Legislature, the
pledges of the Republican conven-
tion to extend the policies Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt into Pennsylvania,
to force corporations to do the peo-
pie exact justice, cannot be lightly
cast aside by Mr.. Emery.
Besides, this whole corporation
subject is one that concerns the
National administration as well as
the policy of a State. Pennsylva-
MIA, through her Republican con-
vention, is placed squarely upon
the platform with President Roose-
welt and urges for the State just
what he urges for the Nation.
In manner both Mr.. Emery
and Mr.. Stuart are after the same
results, but Mr.. Stuart is endorsed
by the great Republican strength of
Pennsylvania, the strength which
is ready to stand with Roosevelt
upon every question, while, on the
other hand, Mr.. Emery is allied
with the organization which belit-
ties the President and is at work
for Bryan.
The election of Stuart and the
consequent Endorsement of Roose-
velt mean safety in the Nation.
The success of Emery and the