Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-09-06
Castle and Swallow Turn Batteries
On Fusion Nominee,
DAMAGING CHARGES ARE MADE
Sensational Allegations That Call For
Emphatic Refutation From tho
Aspirant For Governor.

Harrisburg, September A.
At the very outset of his campaign
Lewis Emery, Jr., the Democratic-Lin
colnite candidate for governor, has been
put upon the defensive
He has been subjected to fierce fire
from the batteries of the Prohibition
lists. who twice turned him down when
he sought the nomination of their
party for governor.
Homer L. Castle, who was ultimately
named for governor by the Prohibition
lists, and DR.. Silas c. Swallow, the Pro-
hibition state leader, have each made
damaging and serious charges against
Emery, to which he must make reply.
In his speech of acceptance in Pitts
burg, Mr.. Castle, in referring to Emery,
among other things said:
1T was utterly impossible for us to
support Senator Emery for at least the
following reasons:
''He is merely the representative of
one discredited Republican machine
which is seeking to dethrone another
Republican machine, and so far as |
can see the one machine is as bad as
The other, either way you take it.
I'm the courts of Philadelphia coun-
ty, confirmed by the supreme court,
Lewis Emery, Jr., trading as the Lewis
Emery Oil company, has been found
guilty of practicing such frauds in the
stamping of oils, both on state officers
and the public, as would shatter any
mans faith in his business integrity.
He has never in all his life, until
now, exhibited any antagonism to
trusts and combines, except as busi-
ness rival, and upon the contrary, by
his own admission. he is member of
the Brewery trust, which is worse than
the Beef or Oil trust, and he is the
head of an oil trust which, if possible,
is worse in character. which lacks only
opportunity to be as bad in practice as
the Standard Oil company.
HE is affiliated in a business way
with Durham -McNichol & Mack, whom
he assumes to fight, and we have never
yet been shown where these men paid
one dollar for their stock or been told
what was the consideration which
passed then, in 1901, these political
manipulators. then in the height OF
power, became interested in the Pure
Oil company. And we want to be told
what relation this stock had to the New
Jersey pipe line bill and the with.
drawal of Standard Oil opposition
"He has insulted the church He has
shown that he has no higher regard for
her than he has for a brewery"
Called a Fake Reformer.
In addressing the Changers at theil
Williams Grove picnic last week, DR.
Swallow gave a review of the proceed
ings before the common pleas and su.
preme courts in the case against the
Emery Oil company, and made these
declarations:
"The contention of the Prohibition.
lists in this campaign is that having
fought the Republican Machine foI
many years. and being still in the fight
against it we are unwilling that there
should be foisted onto the people OF
Pennsylvania as governor a fake re-
former; counterfeit; one whose re-
form is only to the furtherance of his
own business interests one who en-
ploys in his oil business the very meth
DDS he is condemning in the Standard
Oil company; one who, if the testimony
of nearly dozen responsible men and
the decision of two courts is accepted
as evidence, is president of company
bearing his name, which has been gull
ty of forgery, fraud and perjury.
"The election of such reformeI
would be a step backward and would
retard for decade the movements in
augurated by the Prohibition party
and by it partially carried to success
full consummation. We are unwilling
as party to have our work for re-
form thus sidetracked and despoiled
by a pretender and hence our protest.