i REPUBLICAN NEWS ITEM. CHABLES L. WING, Editor. Published EveryiThursday Afternoon By The Sullivan Publishing Co. At the County Beat of Sullivan County. IiAPOBTE. PA. Entered atthe Post Office at Laj>orte, at) second-class mail matter. STATE TICKET. For (iovernor, S. W.;P KN NV I * A«'K Kit,of Philadelphia. Lieutenant < iovernor, WM. K. BROWN, of Lawrence. Secretary of Internal Affairs, ISAAC B. BROWX, of Erie. COUNTY TICKET. Congress, (full term.) Kl! HI) A. (IOIx'MAKLKS of Milton, (unexpired term.) W. K. LORD, of Mt. Carmel. Member of Assembly, A. 1,. DYER, ol Lopez. County Treasurer. I'LYSSKS BIRD, ol Estella. Countv Commissioner, W. L. HOFFMAN, of Hillsjrrove. li.W. Bid ■ ERS, of Muncy Valley. County Auditors, A. I'. S'I'ARR,of Muncv Vallev. W. <'. FA NXI X< i, of Sliunk". It Stares us in the face that the outstanding obligation of Sullivan County on the Ist of January 1902, amounted to $63,433,48, as follows: Bonds 838,000.00 I uterest bearing 0rder5,20,052.00 Judgements, 5,380.49 Total $63,433.48 The Sullivan Gazette says"The record of E. (I. Rogers is clean, and the people of Sullivan County can depend upon him not to support any of the obnoxious measures which are constantly put forth by the Quay Machine. In Pattison's speech accepting the Democratic nomination for (iovern or he said, in speaking of the last Legislature, that "The Session clos ed with a franchise theft that shock ed the moral sense of the whole country." E. (J. HOOK its VOTED kok THIS mi.i.. Is that a clean record? Does the Democratic candidate tell the truth? If so then Rogers voted for a fran chise theft that shocked the moral sense of the whole country. The Sullivan Gazette says "E. G. Rogers, the Democratic candidate for Representative is not owned by the Quay Trust, Leather Trust or any other trust." If that is true neighbor Streby, | t.ill us why Rogers voted against the bill to preserve our streams from pollution by tannery companies and other corporations. Take a ride on the plank road from Laporte to Forksville, and observe the filthy water and foul stench. Consider the dangerous diseases which may have flowed with that water, and then if Rogers is not owned by the Leather Trust, tell us why he did not vote to protect the people of Sullivan County against this noisome danger. K. (i. Rogers is a farmer and will support the interests of the taxpay ers of Sullivan county, if elected, as he did in the last Legislature." So says Mr. Streby in his newspaper of the 17th. Perhaps Mr. Rogers, if elected, would support the interests of the taxpayers in Sullivan County in the next Legislature an he did in the last, but that is not saying much for him. We have before us a list of titles of many bills on which he did not vote at all. Many of the bills were im portant to our county. If they were good, Rogers should have been there to vote for them, if had to vote against them. He was not away on leave of absence. Where was he? It is a very poor watch dog that is not in his place when thieves are prowling around, lie was there to vote for what Pattison calls the "Franchise Theft." lie was there to vote for the bill, "Addition al officers in the General Assembly." Of this hill Mr. Dixon in his speech, said, "We have not any more Sena tors or Members of the House than heretofore, why have we any more need for positions of this kind? Look *t what those fellows get in a session. Eight dollars a day for eat h regular session, and five dollars a day for the first ten days of a sue- seeding session. The janiter gets six dollars a day. Now you will see these are fabulous sums. Where do men get these large amounts ex cept aroutid the old Capitol Hill?" What could have moved Rogers to vote for such a steal as this? The News Item has the journal of the House and Legislative Record. We talk from the book, and as our space permits, we shall show that the "clean" record, of which the Gazette boasts, if very smutty. The county commissioners who are elected to serve for the ensuing three years will have graver duties to perform than any Board of Com missioners who have preceded them. They must have level heads and back bones like a crow bar if they escape personal liability for debts in curred. What the people of Sullivan coun ty want, irrespective of party lines, is a representative in the Legislature who will serve them faithfully and take no bribes. Albert L. Dyer can be depended upon- Scouten squirms over Roger's vote in favor of the Rapid Transit Bill, but Seouten does not tell us what the people would like to know. Will h ■ stop wriggling long enough to tell the people frankly who it was that Rogers saw when he left the House between the votes on the 2nd and ;}rd amendments? Will he tell us why Rogers changed his mind and voted against all other amendments and for the bill on final passage? Will he tell us what inducements or reasonings were used to make Rog ers change his mind? It is well enough for Seouten to froth at the mouth about (Juayistn, but what the voters want to know is what induc ed Rogers to change his mind. Scout en says the bill was"the most vil lianous ever passed in this country," that it was in the interest of a corpo ration, and the Democratic papers say it was a "boodle bill," that mon ey was used to buy votes for it. Now Rogers was a Democrat, lie was against the bill, he voted for amend inents to kill it, he left the House, he saw somebody, he came back and voted against all the amendments offered by Creasy, and for the bill. Who did he see? What caused him to change his mind? Was there any grease and from whose pocket was it scraped? Seouten must take the people of Sullivan county for fools, if he thinks they will be satisfied with all froth and no lager. Rogers was supposed to be their Representative and now they want to know why he changed his mind on a "boodle bill." No farmer or business man, Democrat, Republican or Prohibitionist wants to be represented at Harrisburg by a man who cannot explain his change of vote on a bill which the papers speak of as a "boodle bill." I lad he supported it in the begin ning or if he could justify his change of vote it might be different. As it is will Seouten tell us why Rogers changed his vote?. The voters of Sullivan county may as well know that Albert L. Dyer is not going to spend a large sum of money to secure his election and then expect to recoup himself by voting for corporations when they get in a tight place. He is an hon est man, an intelligent man and a man who will attend to his duties if elected. He will represent the peo ple of Sullivan county and vote in their Interest. W. K. Lord, candidate for Con gress. is growing more and more popular as election day draws near. It is highly important to the wel fare of our country that the next session of Congress has a Republi can majority to support President Roosevelt. Give him your support by all means. During Mr. Rogers term at Har risburg he was absent from the House only one day by leave. That looks well. He was then in Harrisburg; hut it does not follow that he was in the House attending to his duty as a Legislator. There are other places in Harrisburg besides the House of Representatives. Now a friend has gone over the important bills that were voted upon in Mr. Rogers ab sence. Can you guess how many there were passed while he was not present? We know. Try a guess and get a prize if you win. Ed. Rogers is In the dumps. His shining record is in the hands of the people, and they are giving him the cold shoulder on every side. His companions on the ticket are drop ping him and looking out for them | selves. He is finding out the truth 'of the scripture which says"The way of the transgressor is hard." John D. Reeser's Big Store Bank Block, Dushore, Pa* John D. Reeser's Big Store Bank Block, Dushore, Pa ! 1 Look Before You Buy! Our Fall line of Ready-to-wear Felt Hats for ladies' misses, and children's deserve your very earliest in spection. When you see it you'll- feel no need to look further, as we carry the finest line of them in Sullivan County. Fancy Veiling in all colors. Plain Black, Black and White, Dry Goods, the very latest in suitings Zeblines, Serges, White with GreeD dotts and all shades you will want for Ohevoits, Albrotrosses, Cashmeres, Melrose, a fine line of your hats them. Velvets are in great favor to be used in GOWNS, COATS, HATS and TRIMMINGS. Never were there such a demand for VELVETS, VELVETEENS,CORDUROYS Flannettes, Outings, plain and figured, very pretty for dresses and dressing sacques, just what will suit the eye Blankets, Quilts, have a very fine line of them; as it is coming cold wether it will pay you to look at our stock be fore buying elsewhere. Lace curtains, a full line of them, at different pjices. Crockery, a complete line just re ceived, and wine and water sets the prettiest yet shown. Come in and look at our large department store, for we carry a full line in Dry Goods, Millinery, Boots and Shoes, Carpets, Rugs, Oilcloth, Crockery, etc. at t John D. Reeser's Big THREE STORES IN ONE. T)TTSTTnT?,Tn . SENATOR PENROSE'S SPEECH What the Great Republican Party Has Done For the Farmer. United Slates Senator Penrose was one of the speakers at the opening of the campaign at Centre Hall, Centre county. Judge Pennypacker and Hon. Charles Emory Smith were the others. Senator Penrose spoke as follows: "When William McKinley was first elected president of the United States the Republican party promised to re store to the country that prosperity which had existed under the Harrison administration, and which had been so rudely and disastrously interrupted under President Cleveland, but no one could have imagined at the time that this pledge would have been carried out. upon a scale incredibly larger than the wildest promise. "The prosperity of the American peo ple under the Republican administra tion of the last six years, in the ra pidity and unparalleled greatness of our industrial, commercial and agri cultural development, has surpassed the imagination of anyone and is un equaled in the history of the world; and not only does this prosperity exist, but it is rapidly increasing. We have every assurance and reason to hope that if the political and governmental policies of the country are not dis turbed our country will in a few years have attained an extraordinary growth in wealth, population and power. Only one thing can check this splen did progress, and that is a change in these governmental policies under which we can point to these splendid achievements. No party of our com munity has benefitted more than have the agricultural classes. The farmer has in the last five years received a greater share of prosperity than any other representative of any other oc cupation. The value of the wheat, corn and oat crops in 1901 was nearly dou ble that of 1896. the last year of the Cleveland administration. This is a startling statement, but it is based up on official figures, which cannot be dis puted. The farmer in 1901 received nearly double the amount of money for these three crops that he did in 1896, the last year of the Cleveland administration. "This increase of farm values under Republican administration is not acci dental. It is a matter of history that rural prosperity and Republican rule are coincident. It is equally a matter of history that agricultural depression and mortgage foreclosures and low prices for farm products accompany Democratic administration of national affairs. THE FARMER A PIONEER. "The American farmer has been the pioneer in establishing our Republic, which, notwithstanding all its defects, is the best government the world has ever known. Wherever, courage, skill, enterprise and labor have been re quired the farmer has been foremost in the fray. While other classes have been persistently demanding legisla tion to promote their own interests, the farmer has been foremost in directing legislation, not only in the interests of agriculture, but for the promotion of the well-being of all our people. "For example, in the creation of the Department of Agriculture, which has become one of the most important di visions of our national government, provision has been made not only for searching every country of the world for a market for the farmer's products, but provision has also been made for Increasing the productiveness of American soil by systematic experi ment and by applying the principles of. science to agriculture, and so the wealth, prosperity and happiness of all our people have been enhanced, for whatever benefits the agriculture of any country must prove a benefit to all her people. "The farmers and the Grange in Pennsylvania have been foremost in se ' curing legislation for the promotion and protection of tin; agricultural in terests of our state, and, by the ere- UtUMUUKATIC HARD TIMES. "When tne Democratic party came into power It overthrew the Republi can policies which had given national security, confidence and progress, and paralyzed business like the blight of an autumn frost. For four years the country suffered a stagnation and de pression which caused wide spread dis tress. Hundreds of mills were stopped r\v tvin nn half timo TVI ron millions of workingmen were out of employ ment. You could not altogether stop production in this great country but it was so checked as to cause a period of hard times. If you have forgotten those conditions which existed only six years ago you may make the mistake of voting to return to them. But no man who remembers them in contrast with the magnificent prosperity of the last six years can vote to run any risk of changing back to the situation from 1893 to 1897 without displaying a reck lessness which is incomprehensible." PROSPERITY AND REPUBLI CANISM. "In 1896 the people voted to get out of the slough of despondency by elect ing Wm. McKinley president. As the j election of 1892 had been the turning point from prosperity to disaster, so ; the election of 1896 was the turning [ point from gloom and depression to a new era of prosperity and advancement j beyond anything the world has ever j seen. "Never before has this country stood on such heights of prosperity and j greatness and every step in this mag- I nificent progress has been taken wiin the opposition or the criticism of the Democratic party. In the light of this experience shall Pennsylvania falter in her Republicanism or pronounce a verdict which would weaken the na tional administration in carrying for ward the great work to which it is de voted?" "Undeterred by this boomerang, (he same financial power this year again undertook to control the real as well as make-believe reform sentiment em ! braced in the Union organization, j Hence there is a Union split that promises to make business for the courts and the lawyers. The first round ends in a knock down, figura tively and literally, of the Democratic ; barrel faction. It is probably at the same time the beginning of the end ) ol' the Union Party. "Whatever may happen to the Union factions in their contest in the courts, j the differences revealed furnish proof | that the tide of public sentiment runs i strongly in the direction of a largely Increased Republican majority as compared with last year." Quay, Penrose and the Ticket. Senators Quay and Penrose have an earnest sympathy for the men of the anthracite region. It was this fact, coupled with the receipt of nearly two thousand letter by the United States senators, that led them to visit Presi dent Baer, of the Reading Railroad, in the hope of bringing the trouble to a speedy termination. Thus far all ef forts have failed. Governor Stone took up the matter, but he, too, has failed to bring about any change in existing conditions. Miners and operators seem determined to grant no conces sions and the settlement of the strike now seems a long way off. WELL WORTH KNOWING. Facts Not Fiction. Weak Ner ves. All Run Down. Constant Head Aches. Sleep Not Rest ful. A Victim Gives the Road to Health. Mrs. Fied Koru of No. 175 Wells St., Wilkes Barre, Pa., says:—"l have been very nervous lor a long time, suffering so much troni persistent headaches and could not sleep well at night. 1 was so had last spring that I had to have the doctor ami again last fall. 1 was very poorly and seeing Dr. A. W. Chases's Nerve Pills recommended I got a box and used them I have had no headaches since and sleep well. They are an awfully good medieine. 1 also gave some to my little boy lor nervousness and they did him so much good. 1 reci-mmend them highly. Dr. A. W. Chase's Nerve Pills are sold at 50c a box at dealers or Dr. A W.Chase Medicine Co., Buflalo, N. Y. See that portrait and signature of A. W. Chase, M - D. are on every package. * 3000 bushels of lime at Rmler's Lime House, one and one half mile below Laporte. Foley's Honey * nd Tar teals lungs and stops the cough. A RE YOU GOING TO BUILD n A NEW HOUS OR LAY NEW FLOORS IN THE OLD ONE" If so, it will pay you to get some of our XUCloob Kiln dried, matched sides and ends, hollow backeu and bored, MAPLE and BEECH. It will out-wear two ordinary floors and is very much smoother, nicer and easier to put down than soft wood flooring. All kinds kept in stock by Jennings Brothers, Lopez, Penn'a. ALSO ALL SIZES IN HEMLOCK WE HAVE IN STOCK NO, 1 AND 2 LUMBER, SIDING, PINE SHINGLES. CEILING, LATH, ETC. AT LOWESST PRICES. BEAUTIFULLY DECORATED Hand Painted Chinaware. Absolutely Free. We will give with each purchase, coupons which entitles the holder to a set of High Grade China Dishes, irrespec tive of the extremely low prices prevailing here. \ •" Oh! No Trouble at all to Show Goods. ■ The Quality, price and style of our spring and sum mer SHOES which are marked down for closing out are the main attractions. Cali and see them. Our Complete Line of Groceries. • Our new Grocery Department is growing popular. You save yourself if you let us save your money. When you think of true economy this is the place to come. J. S. HARRINGTON, OPERA HOUSE BLOCK DUSHORE, PA. Williamsport & North Branch Railroad TIME TABLE. In efl'ect Monday. Sept. 1(», 1902. Read down Read up I Flag stations where time is marked "I" I I'. M. A>lA. M. I' XI 1' MA M A. M. A M STATIONS. AMAMAMA. M. I' SI PMl' MAM 10 22 5204 20 i 1022 740 Halls... COO 7159451155 4004 45 110 25 1521! 14 2;i flO 25 1745 Penmsdale ... 615 7 26 y4O il HO 356 14 41 jo 34 r> 32 I;V ! 10 34 755 . Hughesville... 020 7 30(9 31 11 20 340 4 : 'J 71' 10 42 540 440 I 10 42 KO3 l'h'ture Roelcs.. |9 23 1110 3HU 424 7 5 flol6 15 44 f4 44 I 806 ...Lyons Mills... f9 20 fll 04 420 t. 8 11048 546 146 flO 48 808 ....Chamouni ... !»18 1101 333 4 17 I 2 10 54 553 453 i 10 54 814 ...Gleil Mawr... 912 10 54 3:8 411 I. 6 11 02 16 01 f5Ol i 822 ..Strawbridge.... fyos 10 47 402 6!J fll 07 ...BeechGleu 18 59 flo 43 3 58 11 10 610 510 11 10 830 ..Mum yValley. 856 1040 316 355 11 16 616 516 11 16 835 ... honestown ... 850 10 32 310 349 U3l 53] Nordmont... 10 12 3 32 J1 4K f548 Mokoma 112 9 54 812 I , 1150 !!!!.! 550 Laporte 952 309 1 ' 12 07 16 03 Kingdale 19 41 264 i ) jo ft; 11 ..Berniee Koad.. 1 9 30 2 45 j" >o o 11 ...Satterfleld.... 9 25 2 40 A. M. F. M. FM I*. M. A. M. I'M AM I! I I STAGE LISEB Philadelphia & Reading, Lehigh Vullev ... . „ and New York Central mileaue will lie Stage leaves Htighesvill oost <>" ice oi acce . )te ,j on )y | or through passengers irav- Laiiilsville, Mengwe and Fhili|>sdaledaily ' : ~ . Wilson, Beaver Lake and Fribley on el.ng from llalls to Satterfleld or Satter- Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 11.30 held to Halls. Stage leaves(ilei. Mawr tor liillsgrove , he general otllces of the company are and Forksvil'o a. 11 02 a. m. loc « tetl at Hu * h ® e ""* Stage leaves Muncy Vallev for Unity- iiuglm-uie. Pa. ville, North Mountain and Lungerville s.D. TOWNSEND, Gen. Mgr., Hughesville,l'a. daild at 11 19 a. m. Deafness Cannot be Cnrcd „ Bvwbo4T B<fc Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the most won. »r local applications, as they cannot reach thi derf UL medical discoverv of the AGE, pleas ■eased portion of the ear. "There is onlyons allt ALL( J REFRESHING to the taste, act pontH' ia CII.E/ braniS." » ND Positively on kidneys, liver and bowels, flamed condition of the mucous lining of the t:leaii®inp the entire system dispel colds. Eustachian Tube. When this tubegeUtfn flamed cure headache, fever, habitual constipation yon hare a rumbling sound or imperfect hear- and biliousness. Please buy and try a box Ing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is of C. C. C. to-day; 10, 25, 50 cents. Hold ancJ the result, and unless the inflammation can be guaranteed to cure by all druggists. !£ndlUon Ihearinff'wlU bedestroyed"forever? vistJWnjp IIV t» :>O9 'OJtid pootn -aaojis uam nineoaM*often are ciusedV catarrh! « al t ßra ' Bjna ODOm^ • P«»U«J«.O which is nothing but an inflamed condition ol -SIUAA .>BH-OX-»M Ilia mucous surfaces. To Cure Constipation Forever. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any Ttilie Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c. ease of Deafnessi(caused by catarrh) that can- [f o. C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund nmuev Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for How Ar „ Your 112 •* ea ' F. J. CHBNBY A 00.. Toledo. O. Dr Uobbs' Bl>aragu» Hill, cure all kiduer 111. Sam bv T>nw*ists. 76e. »l»f»s«. Add.BterUus Homed? Co., CHICAGOO»N.F. Hall's Family Hills are the best.
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