Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-06-03
OIL MEN HAVE
A STRONG ALLY.
In Senator Penrose, who is Taking
Greatest Interest in Their Item
in the Tariff Bill.

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Mr.. L. w. Strayer, the Pittsburg
Gazette-Times' Washington cores
pondent, writes his paper:
Hon. Lewis Emery, Jr., of Bradford,
Pa, came to Washington several
weeks ago to boost the propaganda for
a protective duty on petroleum and he
has been here on the job ever since.
with few intermissions for business
trips home. Not only has he spread
the gospel of duty OIL oil during his
visit, but he has also established an en-
tente cordiate with his old time political
enemy, Senator Boies Penrose. No
protocol or peace contract has been
signed; just the establishment of har-
monious relations How far it will go
or how long it will last is purely a
guess.
During these weeks that the inde-
pendent oil men have put in button
holing senators and pulling all wires
that have senatorial connections in
their worthy endeavor to secure pro-
lection for the American oil industry,
they have learned something about
Penrose they never knew before. They
had the idea that lot of other people
had about him, that because he did not
fill the pages of the Congressional Rec
ord with speeches he was indolent and
did nothing to speak Of
LEARN PENRosE Is A WORKER.
But they have had their eyes opened
recently. They have observed Pen
rose in action, have learned of the
months of hard, grinding work he has
put in on the tariff bill, that he has not
missed meeting of the committee,
that he has scarcely taken time for his
meals in order that he might keep en-
gagements to discuss schedules in
which his constituents were interested.
The earliest riser among them found
Penrose ahead of him at the breakfast
room and the last to bed left him in
conference with anxious business men.
When the oil men came to him, Pen
rose took up their case at once and
pushed their claims before the commit
tee. He told them to get busy and how
to go about it. He talked with them
and for them and helped them in every
way possible.
1t was under this melting influence
that the pugnacious spirit of Lewis
Emery, Jr., was subdued. Penrose in
action was a revelation to him and as
result Mr.. Emery has told every
Pennsylvania he met about the in
dustry and efficient work of Boies Pen.
rose.
EMERY PRAISED PENRoSE.
1t was rather a novelty to hear EN-
cry praising Penrose, but he did it
with an enthusiasm that was conta-
gious. Two years ago last fall Emery
was out on the stump as the fusion
candidate for governor, hammering
Penrose and his organization twice a
day all over the state. And before
that-but why rake up the past? Suf-
flee it to say that peace has been re-
stored.
ut is reported that you and Senator
Penrose have buried the hatchet and
with it the past, and that now you are
good friends again." was suggested to
Mr.. Emery.
"Who told you that?" he inquired.
s1ps reported about evervwhere
among Pennsylvanians."
"Oh, Penrose and I were never per-
sonal enemies," said Mr.. Emery. "We
have had political differences in the
past and we might have them in the
future. We served together six years
in the state senate and we have al
ways been friends. OF course, as I
said, we have had political differences,
but what of that? When the organi-
zation puts up good candidates l am
for them, and when it doesn't, I op-
pose them.
HOPE TO CONVINCE SENATE.
"But I believe, in giving credit
where credit is due, and 1 have said
and say again that Penrose is a hard
worker and has been doing splendid
| service for his state in this tariff leeis-
lation. He's wonder, tireless work
er and nobody will give him more
credit for it than | do"
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