The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-02
LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE.
Mr.. Emery Declares Acceptance for NOm'
inatiOn for Governor Commits no
One TO Any National Policy.

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Hon. VIVIAN FRAEN GABLE. Chair
man, Lincoln %oate Convention.
Hon. JOIN T. LlNMuNN, Chairman
Democratic Stut Convention
DEAR SIR:
Your letters of July Il, 1906,
were received | accept the nom
ination for the high Office Of Gov
ern0r. from the Lincoln and Dem
ocrajir parties Of PennsS lyania.
Aside from its 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 de-
hasing thraldom that has hamper
ed aud disgraced the Common
wealth.
The gravity Of the obligations
to De assumed, and the conscious
ness of my own limitations, would
forbid my voluntarily becoming Il
candidate, but the crisis that has
produced the fusion of your par
ties, and the extraordinary sub
mersion of party feeling, raise the
proposition above personal consi--
erations.
1t s at this time the duty eff ev-
cry faithful citizen to respond to
all calls for service.
The tender or acceptance of the
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 defed, public property
and Office have been used as per
sona and party spoil, and thu
government has been administered
as an incident to the schemes o
corrupt politicians in conspirac,
with the manipulators of predator,
wealth.
This has been possible becaus,
the voters, the overwhelming ma
iority of whom are honest and pa
triotic, have, in the past, been de
luded by party cries Of no signiti
cance in regard to State or loca
matters.
The Lincoln and Democratic
party conventions have carefully
excluded from their platforms, as
| understand them, all possible in
ference that our JOINT action this
fall can be construed as an en-
dorsement of or pledge to any o.
the leaders or theories which may
come before us in the nationa
arena.
The united efforts for purer pol
itical purposes and practices, fol
civil and commercial equality anC
for impartial enforcing of law, re
gardless of the numbers, wealth ol
intrigue of the vlolators, is in ac
cord with the teachings of the ma
: tion's most illustrious leaders, anC
5 is of the same patriotic sentlmen
that has led the best men to dis
regard party lines In support o
i righteous measures in federal ad
! ministration.
The same bosses who dictated
4 the nominations opposed to yours
4 exercised absolute control of th
+ Legislature of 1905, and compelled
their servile tools to insult tn
President of the United States b,
resembling the resolution approx
g inc his efforts toward bringing tn
1 defiant corporations within tn
I limits of just laws. We will no
= be deceived by hypoclitical pro
t fessions contradicted by words an
x acts when they were arrogant i
e their supposed inyincible power.
o The same self-perpetuating oil
e garchy that, as the result of las
S years defeat and in fear of thi
J. years further punishment, above
J. TO be placed on the statute book
J Just laws long demanded by tn
people, but by the machine bosst
heretofore, contemptuously r.
:, fused, now scheme to regain con
f troll by denunciation in an insincel
= platform of their own foul recol
and prOmlsino future imnossib