Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-08-03

Hon. Vivian Frank Gable. Chairman.
Lincoln State Convention.
Hon. John T. Lenahan, Chairman,
Democratic State Convention.
Dear Sirs:-
Your letters of July II, 1906. were
received. accept the nomination for
the high Office of governor, from the
Lincoln and Democratic parties of
Pennsylvania
Aside from it's opportunities to serve
the public, the position in itself has
for me no attractions.
The prospect is bright that the
united effort of patriotic men may now
shake off permanently the debasing
thraldom that has hampered and dis
graced the commonwealth.
The gravity of the obligations to be
assumed and the consciousness of my
own limitations, would forbid my vol
unfairly becoming a candidate, but the
crisis that has produced the fusion of
your parties, and the extraordinary
submersion of party feeling, raise the
proposition above personal considera-
tions.
1t is at this time the duty of every
faithful citizen to respond to all calls
for service.
nr
nomination for governor commits no
one to any national policy.
There ought to be no difference Of
opinion among good citizens as to the
vital issues involved in this years
contest in Pennsylvania.
Our model constitution has been
treated with contempt; our laws have
been defied, public property and office
have been used as personal and party
spoil, and the government has been ad.
ministered as an Incident to the
schemes Of corrupt politicians in con-
spiracy with the manIpuIators Of pre-.
datory wealth.
This has been possible because the
voters, the overwhelming majority of
whom are honest and patriotic, have
in the past been deluded by party
cries Of no significance in regard to
state or local matters
The Lincoln and Democratic party
conventions have carefully excluded
from their platforms, as | understand
them, all possible inference that our
joint action this fall can be construed
as an endorsement of or pledge to any
of the leaders or theories which may
come before us In the national arena.
The united efforts for purer politi-
cal purposes and practices, for civil
and commercial equality and for i'm
partial enforcing of law, regardless OF
the numbers, wealth or intrigue of the
violators. is in accord with the teach
ings of the nations most illustrious
leaders, and is of the same patriotic
sentiment that has led the best men
to disregard party lines in support of
tration.
The same bosses who dictated the
nominations opposed to yours, exer-
cised absolute control of the lesisla-
ture of 1906, and compelled their SER
vile tools to insult the president of
the United States by resembling the
resolution approving his efforts toward
bringing the defiant corporations with
In the limits of just laws. We will not
be deceived by hypocritical professions
contradicted by words and acts when
they were arrogant in their supposed
invincible power.
The same self-perpetuating oligarchy
that, as the result of last years defeat
and in fear of this years further pun
ishment, allowed to be placed on the
statute books just laws long demanded
by the people, but by the machine
bosses heretofore contemptuously re-
fused, now scheme to regain control
by denunciation in an insincers plat
form of their own foul record and
promising future impossibly good be.