The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-08-10
COUNTY.
Representative,
H. c. JACKSON.
ANYTHING TO TOP A TICKET!


Like WILLIAM ]. BRYAN, who,
it is freely conceded, had something
to do with making the top of the
Keystone ticket at Philadelphia, !
WILLIAM H. BERRY'S motto seems
to be, IF at first you don't get
votes, run, run again" 1t is mani
fest enough that the Chester brick
maker was determined to make the
gubernatorial race on some ticket
in this 1910 campaign.
BERRY was more than a recep-
tive candidate for the nomination
the Allentown convention had to be-
stow. He was an active candidate.
When WEBSTER GRIM carried off
the plum, the Chester man, inwardly
though not at once outwardly, got
sore. He went through the dry,
perfunctory motions of saying the
will of the party should be his law;
that the Democrats of the state, in
convention at Allentown assembled,
had seen fit to give the place to
GRIM and that GRIM should have
the most cordial and constant sup
port of which Mr.. BERRY and Mr..
BERRY'S friends were capable. 1t
was EUGENE BONNIWELL, the
captain and custodian of the BERRY
boom, that moved to make the GRIM
nomination unanimous, and Mr..
BERRY then and there pledged his
best efforts to the Allentown ticket.
But the moral strength of the
Chester brickmaker was not what
Mr.. BERRY and Mr.. BERRY'S fol-
lowers believed it to be. He de-
cided, in less than fortnight's time,
to break his convention promise and
run independently if he could get
any convention to name him. Such
a convention it was not difficult to
congregate from the soreheads on
both sides of the party fence, and
today WILLIAM H. BERRY, the
man who declared in the hour of
the GRIM triumph that he was a
regular" Democrat and should
work for the regular ticket, is chew
ing his words at Allentown and
striving to make as small as posi-
BILE the vote of the man that over
threw him in the state convention.
For BERRY is not running against
TENER, the Republican nominee;
he is running against GRIM, the
Democratic nominee. BERRY
was nominated by boiling Demo-
Gratis and it is really another Demo-
cratic ticket that is in the field
the BRYAN Democratic wings nom
inee, with local option on the side.
The most logical summing up of
the situation, particularly as it
touches the bitter BRYAN opposi-
tion to the naming of GIBBONEY,
is that given by the Philadelphia
Star, which editorially says:
There was a determined effort
made to prevent the nomination of
ID. CLARENCE GIBBONEY. The
bosses, who selected the delegates
admitted to this Embossed convention,
took good care to see that GLIB
BONEY delegates were thrown out.
GIBBONEY was given no chance to
win the nomination. Yet the con-
Vention admitted the need of his
name and influence, since ii nomi-
mated him against his will for the
second place on the mOngrel nom
descript ticket.
II is astonishing to find that these
people have the effrontery to decry
bosses and bossism in the face of the
facts. By the most unheard-of use
of bossism they prevented GLIB
BONEY delegates from being seated,
STAYED off the nomination of GLIB
BONEY, which, had the convention
been untrammelled, would have been
inevitable, gave the nomination to
a Democrat who tried his best to get
the nomination of his own party
only to be defeated, and then threw
a sop to GIBBONEY by naming him
for second place.
Whatever else may be said of
GIBBONEY, 1t cannot be denied
that he has a certain following and
that he stands for Republican prin-
ciples. Can the people OF Pennsyl-
vania be expected to vote a Demo-
crat into the office of governor, and