Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1910-09-09
Democratic Editors For Grim.

The veteran editor, P. Gray Meek,
of the Democratic Rellefonte Watch
man, has made a canvass and figures
out that in the entire state there are
about dozen newspapers giving
Berry any support, and of these only
seven can claim any Democratic con-
stituency. and the others are Of a
mongrel class that would naturally
take up a cause such as the Berry can
didacy represents.
Meek insists that Berry should with.
draw.
With the name of Grim nailed to his
editorial masthead, Editor Joseph G.
Lesher, of the Huntingdon Monitor,
has this gentle knock at the Keystone
candidate;
"Over his own signature William
II. Berry gave out to the press ridi-
culous TRADE against Senator Grim, in
which he said: He sat in the senate
when they burned one capitol down
over his head and stole seven millions
of dollars in building another AS
Senator Grim was not elected to the
legislature until six years after the
burning of the capitol in 1897, Mr..
Berrys statement is important only
as proof of the recklessness and un-
truthfuness of the assertions he is
making about Senator Grim
Editor Meyers. of the Democratic
Star-Independent of Harrisburg, takes
the Grim end of the controversy, and
among other things said in recent
issue:
''It is pity that Mr. Berry, the
keystone Party's candidate for the of.
Ace of governor of Pennsvlvani1. can
not see himself as others see him and
cannot understand how ridiculous his
attacks on the Democratic party sound
in the ears Of any sensible man in his
audience.
In almost every sentence of his
speeches he tells those who will listen
to him that he is the candidate of the
Keystone Party only because he could
not be the candidate of the Demo
cratic party. He has given 20 other
reason for his posing as reformer
for there is none; he cannot muster
surance to pretend that there is any
other reason. He poses as a bitter
enemy of the liquor interests but he
would have swallowed his convenient
enmity and remained blind to what he
calls the alliance between Penrose and
the Democratic leaders if only the AL.
lentown convention had given him
that nomination.
His story of the nomination is alb
surd from beginning to end.
Because the party that honored
him for five years has chosen another
man for the head of it's ticket, he is
slandering and villifying 1t and trying
to defeat it while still pretending to
be Democrat"
The Philadelphia Record, which was
one of Berrys principal supporters
when he ran for state trsa surer, is now
for Grim. In review of the situation
in its issue of Monday last the Phila.
delphia Record said:
THE delay in the appointment of
the state finance cCr Mittee of the
Keystone Party is sait to be owing to
uih'uitJ III ScI.EhS d Suhh'ith'y VI the
right kind of men to VI derwrite the
conduct of the campaigh In this city
the discussions in the independent
ranks have evidently alienated from
their camp very large element Of
old-line refermers who include the per
sons that were the mainstay of the
campaign funds in former battles here
against the political contractors or
ganization. The effect of this state of
affairs upon the country is said to
be anything but conducive to such
financial assistance as the Berry tick
ct managers hoped to receive for their
cause"