Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1907-09-26
Emery,s Oil Trust.

clarjng that the Pure Oil company.
with which he had baen identified, Is
as much OF trust In its way as is the
standard Oil company
Upon this point, among other things,
he said:
II have said. furthermore, that Mr..
Emery is not sincere in his opposition
20 the present Republican reign. 1t Is
known that Mr. Emery has as his part
ners in the Pure Oil Company such men
hs McNichol, Durham and Mack. Mr..
Emery has been repeatedly asked to
show the people of this state the books
where these men paid tf they ever did
pay) for the stock which they hold. He
has been asked to tell what relations
this stock has to the New Jersey legis-
iative manipulations and the Pennsyl-
vania legislature; heretofore, so far as
know, he has never Civ , any reply
to this. II he does not tell that miser-
able story, will tell ii in due time.
1T is of very recent date that he has
opposed Senator Penrose. / am reliably
informed that about the time that
Judge Stewart declined to be the Re-
publican candidate, Mr. Emery, In COM
pany with Mr.. Woodbury. OF Schuyi-
kill county, and some others, visited
Senator Penrose in Washington and
undertook to make deal with him.
Mr.. Emery has been seeking to
make political capital out of his at
tacks upon the Standard Oil company.
He has as yet failed to answer Mr..
Castles direct charge that Mr.. EN-
ery's oil interests have been benefi-
ciaries of rebates, quite as much as
has the Standard Oil company In their
limited way.
Upon this subject Mr.. Castle. at
Cory, last week said:
is this canvass of Lewis Emery,
Jr., a fair, c<udid, honest canvass,
based upon actual conditions of the
men themselves, or Is 1t pure sham
and a fake and a fraud? AS bearing
upon that | am reminded Of the fact
that Lewis Emery appeared before
the Industrial commission and gave
testimony. in 1899, and by turning to
page G69. volume l. of the printed re-
ports of that commission, we find this
interesting bit of information:
Emery's Old Testimony.
"These questions were directed to
Mr.. Emery when on the witness stand.
and the answers are his:
"'Have you frequently in your bust
ness enjoyed rebates?' was asked Mr..
Emery, and his reply follows:
No sir: never. Now let me mod
ify that. In my business previous to
1872. in the refinery in Tjtusville, Pa,
rebates We're a common thing, but we
were young and new in the CONNER
cial business, and fellows In Cleveland
and Pittsburg were little more ex
perienced. We didn't seem to make
very much money They were run
ming full tilt with their wells, barrel
shops ana erything, and we began
to look about to see what was the
matter We went TO Pittsburg, and
learned to our astoaishment that Ger
tain concerns were getting 25 cents
barrel We were large shippers,
and we demanded to be granted the
same. That was away back in 1870.
We were given 25 cents: and then We
got on to the fact that some rsaners
were receiving Is cents back and
some other refiners were receiving 50
cents The rate at that time was in
the neighborhood Of $3.50. and oil
could be carried at a profit today at
hot lima 20
! am not guilty
1T is. perhaps. interesting also to
note that there is flee with the inter
state commerce commission in Wash
in~'cn paper showing that as late
~ to Emery Manufacturing
company ci Bradford, was shipping
to the Emery Manufacturing com
pany, at Buffalo. N. Y, by the Buffalo.
Rochester & Pittsburg railroad,
large number OF cars that were billed
as acid, when in fact they contained
oil. The rate on acid was cents per
100 pounds, and the rate on oil was
S1a cents. And in that way they were
getting rebates on their oil by falsely
billing the oils which they were ship.
ping to Buffalo, and which were being
paid for by w. Fl. Foots & CO..
Castles Def to Emery.
Mr.. Castle challenged Mr.. Emery to
prove the charge that the Castle
company was being financed by the
Standard Oil company. II the charge
were proven, Mr.. Castle said, he
would retire from the contest. IF
fail to prove any Of the charges
have made against Mr.. Emery, | will
also quit the field" Mr.. Castle said.
'and if Mr.. Emery does not explain
away those charges then he should
quit the contest.
I'm respect to receiving Standard
Oil money, we are better than Mr..
Emery is. He at one time, about 1885.