Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-09-15
A Pair of Democrats.


Bolting Democrat Berry, candidate
for Governor, is daily giving evidence
of his unfitness for the high office. Up
to date he has no excuse for infiicting
his presence upon the political plat
form other than that he has an itch for
Office and was so indignant because
the Democrats in attendance at the
regular Democratic convention ignor-
ed his ambitions that he concluded to
run anyhow. Personal spleen and in
ordinant longing for political position
furnish no valid arguments for the
people to consider, says the Philadel-
phia Inquirer.
There is another Democrat who also
is candidate for Governor-one Grim.
Mr.. Grim has the excuse that he is the
regular candidate of regular party,
but in arguments why should he be
elected he is almost as poorly off as his
antagonist, the Boiling Democrat. Of
course, he has the stock Democratic
cry of down with the tariff" which
he used when speaking to the farmers
at Chestnut Hill Park, on Wednesday,
but upon local issues he was lacking.
He told his auditors that he ought to
be elected because Republican Cover
nor Stuart vetoed the educational code,
reduced the appropriations for dirt
roads, and because DR.. Dixon's De-
partment of Health is altogether too
active in trying to keep the people
we'll. That was the best-or the
worst-that Grim could do.
Governor Stuart did not veto the ed
ucational CODE He vetoed a miser-
able makeshift which had been patch
ed up out of the odds and ends that the
Legislature had left of the original
measure. And having vetoed this
poor apology he appointed commits
sion to take up the whole subject, and
that commission has gone carefully
over the whole ground and its report
in the shape of a new bill will be pre-
sented when the Legislature meets in
January.
The Governor was obliged to reduce
the roads appropriation but he did this
with reluctance. He had plan of his
own for a splendid highway stretching
right across the State, but he gave it
up when he was confronted with gen.
eral appropriations amounting to sew
eral million dollars more than the
Treasury possessed When members
of the Legislature shall make up their
minds that the time has come to stop
handing around millions to private
charities and private hospitals and
shall devote the States money to pub
lie institutions, there will be money
for all such things as good roads as
we'll as for penitentiaries, insane as
sylums and the like, now disgrace to
the State.
But Mr.. Grim shows a singular lack
of appreciation OF excellent work when
he eritleises the Department of Health
over which Commissioner Dixon pre-.
sides. In a few years this Department
has taken high rank. Indeed, it is
leader in the United States in sanitary
matters. Its fight against tuberculosis
has been magnitlcently conducted
the very fact that Mr.. Grim makes
light of the Department shows either
lack of knowledge or an inability to
understand the worth of It. In either
event, Mr.. Grim does not size up 10
GaberHatorial material.
Regular Democrat Grim and BIOL ing
Democrat Berry cordially detest cach
other. Aud yet there is one thing that
they share In common unftne-s TO
occupy the Executive Mansion Of Har-
risburg.