Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-10-18
SW ALLOW SCORESAGAIN
Demands That Emery and Black
Shall Meet Charges.
scATHlNe REVIEW OF RECORDS
Prohibition Leader'e Hot Shot Directe5
at Democratic Nominees For GOV.
ernor and Lieutenant Governor.

DR.. S. C. Swallow does not propose
that Lewis Emery, Jr, the Democratic
candidate for Governor, shall be per.
mitted to longer ignore Phe charges
that have been made from time to time
upon the stump by himself and Homer
l.. Castle, the Prohibition nominee for
Governor
He has reiterated these charges in
another demand that Emery meet each
and every one Of them, and he says
that he will persist in that direction
until Emery shall be heard from spe-
cifically upon each of these allega-
tions.
In formal statement to the public,
DR.. Swallow among other things, says:
Facts Established.
In these two months fight the fol-
owing facts have been pretty thor
oughly established:
That our party ran a narrow chance
of becoming forever disgraced and its
existence endangered by accepting
Lewis Emery as its candidate; but for
tunately discovered his true character
in time to reject him.
That this has been and is destined
to continue the dirtiest campaign in
the history of the state, owing to the
character of the man who is seeking
promotion under the false pretense of
being reformer.
That he admits being interested in
breweries; that he contributes to them
as to churches, schools and hospitals;
that he furnishes intoxicants to his
family and his guests; that he drinks
and treats at public bars; that his son
is secretary and treasury of brewery,
and that the Elk county halls, who are
largely interested in breweries, were
the strongest factors in securing his
nomination. Nor has he yet denied
the allegation of several newspaper
men that he was incoherently drunk
in Philadelphia on the night of the
Lincoln convention that nominated
him, and was put to bed by his friends
to prevent futrehr disgrace and scan
dal. A fact admitted to at least two
witnesses at two different times by
the Hon. Charles Emory Smith, editor
of the Philadelphia Press, both editor
and paper now fervently supporting
Mr.. Emery for Governor.
Emery's Oil Company.
1t has been further established
that Emery's oil company made, used
and forged oil-barrel stamps. thus
ah he okaxa 1H r.,
sands of dollars and endsngering the
lives of oil consumers by palming of
on them oil at ITO and 40 fire test
that should have registered 150.
That at time when It could have
been prevented, there was admitted tc
partnership in Mr.. Emery's oil busi-
ness representatives of the Standard
Oil Company, and that he thus became
Cheek by jowl" with the Durhams,
Macks, Murphys and McNichols, whom
he affects to politically despise and to
be fighting; just as he boasts of fight
Ing Quay for 20 years, but also boasted
In his Harrisburg speech that I'VE
were good friends all that time" II
was q sham battle for revenue only,
as is his fight with the Standard Oil
Company. He admits selling his oil in
Germany at six cents or eight cents a
gallon at profit. and compels Pennsyl.
vanians to pay 10 cents a gallon, thus
following Standard OIL prices instead
of competing with them. He said In
a speech night or two ago that Rock.
efeller would make subscription te
church and advance the price of oil
a penny gallon with which to pay
the subscription.
Now, while no one pretends to de.
fend John d. and his methods, yet doe.
not Mr.. Emery make subscriptions I'd
breweries and advance the price of oil
with which to pay his subscription
He boasted at York of being rich. Did
he not secure it largely by building
oil refineries in pretense of competing
with the Standard, only to voluntarily
and repeatedly sell to them at enor
nous profits. leaving small individual
operators who had tied to him wholly
at the mercy of the merciless STANDARD
octopus?
Secret Understanding.
And now there is accumulating evi
dence that there is a secret under
standing with certain of the Standard
Oil company representatives in tho
Emery Oil company that Mr.. Emery
should use the Standard as a "bogy'
with which to frighten voters into
electing him, while the Standard rep
resentatives in Emery's company ara
pledged that when once elected, theiI
Governor shall cooperate with tha;
great public robber in further humil
iating the people.
1t has been proven from the legis
lative record that Mr.. Emery Is no
friend of labor, as is shown by his
vote both in the house and the senate
against an eight-hour law and ag1insi
the establishment of hospitals for min
ers and laborers.
1t has become apparent from cir
nularc copt ont nv tho Anti