Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-10-18
CASTLE KEEPS At It
Nightly Demands Answers to
Charges Emery Keeps .Dodging.
MINISTER'S GO TO HIS MEETINGS
CIereymen Want to Know More Abou'
Character of Man Who Links the
Church With the Brewery.

Character OF Man Who Links the
Church With the Brewery.
Like ferocious bull dog on the trail
of fleeing burglar, Homer L. Castle
"keeps everlastingly at it, in his pur
sGit of Lewis Emery, Jr., his Demo
cratic rival for the governorship.
There is no such thing as quitting"
has kept Emery on the run from the
very outset of the campaign.
Castle has been drawing immense
crowds at many of his meetings.
He must be given credit for the
fearlessness and persistence with
which he is conducting his campaign.
He is quite as severe upon the Repub
licans as he is upon the Democrats
and the Iincolnites in his general crit
icisms, but while he has attacked the
Republican party management. he has
not found an excuse to say single
word of condemnation of Edwin S.
Stuart, the Republican nominee for
governor.
With Emery it has been different.
AZ diIuoSt CNSiy iuScIiHS hS HoS
something new to present, some new
reason. some new argument why EN-
cry should not be elected to the gov
ernorship. Wherever he goes he
charges that Emery is not fit man to
be the chief executive of Pennsyl
vania.
He attacks him personally, as well
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ness record.
A significant feature of the Castle
campaign is the keen interest that is
being manifested in his canvass by
clergymen of every denomination.
Ministers Listen to Castle.
MANY ministers attend his meetings
This in measure may be accounted
for by the fact that Mr.. Castle and
DR.. Swallow were responsible for the
criticisms of Emery which brought
forth from Emery his now famous let
ter in which he placed the brewery
upon the same plane with the church,
the hospital and the school.
In speaking at one Of his recent
gatherings on the subject of the at
.ondance of clergymen at his meet
tngs Mr.. Castle said:
"As soon as it began to be noted
IN the papers that ministers were not
Dnly attending our meeting, but were
taking active part and interest and
were appearing upon the platform
with us, then the Emery people under
took to discount it by having their
newspapers chronicle the fact that the
ministers were attending their meet
ings
THE newspapers stayed at least
near enough to the truth so that they
did not say that the ministers were
taking any part or were approving of
the Emery campaign, but simply that
they were in attendance.
There is perhaps no good reason
why preacher might not go to a
barrOom, dance hall or an Emery
meeting. simply to see what is going
on and be able in each case to point
out to his people the disastrous re-
suits of visiting or consorting with
any one of the three. But the whole
trend of the church in it's declarations
of hostility to the liquor traffic and to
ali affiliations with the brewery busi
ness are so clear and unmistakable
that it can hardly be a thinkable prop
osition that the ministry of this state
should become in any sense partisan
of Lewis Emery or those who attach
themselves to him"
What Castle Wants to Know.
At every meeting Mr.. Castle repeats
his queries addressed to Mr.. Emery
all of which that gentleman has up to
late failed to answer.
He wants TO know from Mr. Emery
If it is not true that his immense for
tune was made largely from selling
out" to the Standard Oil company and
then re-establishing himself as a COM
petitor in the oil business, only to
again make a compact to start new
golden stream into his personal treas
ury.
He wants to know if it is not true
that at this very time Mr. Emery has
got veritable gold mine" in the
Pure Oil company, which is ostensbly
competitor of the Standard. but
which, in fact, has very satisfactory
and harmonious business arrangement
by which both the Standard and the
Pure Oil companies fix prices which
make the oil consumers "easy marks"
for both of them.
He wants to know If it is not true
that there are at least two representa-
tives of the Standard Oil interests on
the board of directors of Emery's Pure
Oil company.
He wants to know what Israel w.
Durham, James p. McNichol and John
Nj. Mack, the Philadelphia politicians,
paid for their stock in the Pure Oil
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