Republican News Item. oHAS. L. WING, Editor and Manager. THURSDAY JAN. 20, 1898. "FIRST OF ALL— THE NEWS." The News Item Fights Fair. IT 13 A PATRIOTIC HOME NEWSPAPER. Published Every Friday Morning. Bj The Sullivan Publishing Co. ▲t the County Seat of Sullivan County. LAPOETE, PA. Entered at tlie Post Office at Laporte, an second-class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION—SI.6O per annum. If paid in advanoe $ I 00- Sample copies free. All communications should be ad- ubljcajj NEW S ITEM, Laporte Pa., If the populace ever does arise In wrath, Indignation or d sgust and re form the Judiciary by eliminating law yers from society and the face of the earth historians will have no difflcvlty In locating the cause. They will find it In the learned gentlemen of the bar. No scoundred of either sex can get so deep In infamy that some lawyer is not glad togo deeper st.ll and to attempt not only to thwart justice, but to jus tify the infamy of his infamous client, and to smirch or ruin the reputation of all the witnesses for the people. Re cently there was on trial In New York a man who was known by several alias. He lived unlawfully with the undi vorced wife of another man, sharing her affections with another rival of her husband. This man and the wo man murdered the other villain; cut his body up as a butcher would cut up the carcass of a hog and scattered the pieces in the river and elsewhere. Both admitted their participation in the horror. The lawyer who defended one of the parties arranged to submit evidence that the victim was alive and across the Atlantic. That being ren dered a useless effort by confession of one of the murdcrero, he brought in witnesses to establish a previous good character for his client. The witness es identified the prisoner by many dif ferent names while telling what a com mendable member of society he was, yet he himself admitted that he had many aliases; that he lived In unlawful Int'.macy with the woman and that he helped in the butchery. When the client came into the court room his lawyer greeted him warmly and ef fusively as "friend Martin." "Yerbury endeavored to explain something to the court but was per emptorily ordered to set down and let his counsel speak for him." The extract is from a report of a clTil trial in a court in Newark, N. J It Is not often that a litigant desire to address the court when he has at: attorney who is engaged for that pur pose; but It is not without a course of mental debate that the average mai off the bench and not cloaked with i law diploma satisfies himself that h< is of such mean clay or so ignorant or so offensive that he !s not fit to and may not, If he wish, assert his man hood and Intelligence and speak to himself when his property rights are Imperiled. Of course it would some times be a nuisance, but is it not thr duty of a judge to endure that sort of nuisance in the interests of justice? After all, is there not more hope of at taining to the truth in any trial when the litigants are loquacious, verbose, prolix and minute In detail than when they sit mute and never answer a ques tion until their attorney has expre33 ly said: "Answer." It does some times seem as though the courts are it little too careful In small things. Why. we once saw a judge fine a defendant In a civil case for getting out of th<- wltness chair and knocking the plain tiff's lawyer into a cuspidor for insult Ing him In cross-examination! An then be was fined some more for asl. Ing the judge why in the name of tli place of burning sulphur he didn't fin< the lawyer for falling on the cuspldo, when there was so much room for hir. to fall beside It. To one who pays attention to the matter there Is great Interest in the amazing growth of fraternal insurance. The popularity of the system was not neglected by the fraternity of fraud. That guild neglects nothing that prom ises profit. A late Issue of the Work man treating the subject in great de tail gives the growth of all the leading associations, some of which are really phenomenal. The benefits paid aggre gate an enormous sum. There are over 6,000,000 people now carrying fraternal policies. The A. O. U. W., which is 30 years old, has 370,000 policies In force; the Foresters, than 25 years old, has about 112,000 policies out, with a reserve fund of $2,600,000. The Woodmen, seven years old, has 120,000 members, and has paid death benefits to heirs amounting to $1,500,000; the Maccabees, 16 years old, with 275,000 members, has paid to beneficiaries, $700,000. The average age of initiates Is close to 30 years. There are some Important features yet undetermined by the experience of these organiza tions; the question of grading assess ments according to age and the ques tion of reserve funds, with others that are less vital. The ieu>»d of th; r; rumber ol notes struck Ly 3 .r.- !v. !2 hour? is said to have bne- my Tvderev 'l:l. who struck 1.6" ; r STATE_FOLITICS. Eighty-eight Delegates Elected to the State Couvoiition. PHILADELPHIA PRIMARIES. A Majority of the Winners Are Friends of Quay. BENTIMEHT FOE COLONEL STOBE. rile Feeling! Anionir the People of Philadelphia Is Decidedly In Favor of the Candidate From Allegheny—A Handsome Endorsement From a Labor Organization lnteresting Fact* CoucernliiK the New Capitol at Harrisbtircr. (Epeclal Correspondence.) Philadelphia, Jan. IT.—The fact that S8 additional delegates have just been elected to the Republican state con vention from this city is a reminder of the fact that that interesting gathering will take place sooner than lias been expected. While the primary elections in Philadelphia on last Tuesday mainly had refenrence to the local contest for the office of receiver of taxes, the Re publican voters of the city also went to the polls for the purpose of electing delegates to the state convention. Ex in one or two districts factional lines were not drawn very tightly i:i the se lection of state delegates. It is confi dently predicted by those who are In a position to know that a majority of the 88 delegates from the Quaker City will be friendly to Senator Quay. None of the men who are candidates for delegates announced their prefer ence for any particular candidate, and for that reason It is difficult at this stage of the game to make any attempt to count any particular number of delegates for the various gubernatorial aspirants. It is no secret, however, that a large number of the delegates are heartily in favor of the nomination of Colonel William A. Stone. Unless there is some attempt to block the wishes of the delegates by the leaders their votes wi.l certainly he cast in favor of the man from Allegheny. The sentiment In this city has been very strongly in favor of Colonel Stone from the start. He is a frequent vis itor here, and has made a favorable impression upon all those with whom he has come into coi.tact. He was a speaker at one of the annual dinners of the Young Republicans a few years ago, and the forceful speech that he made upon that occasion caused him to loom up as a formidable candidate for the gubernatorial chair. Out: i Je of the personal impression made by Col onel Stone, he is conceded to have great political and popular strength by rea son of his excellent record in the lower branch of congress. His sturdy defense of the rights of labor, his positive views upon the tariff and currency questions, and last, but by no means least, his firm and unwavering at titude upon the question of Immigra tion makes him one of the strongest candidates that could be nominated for governor this year. Colonel Stone has hr.d a remarkable endorsement forwarded to him. While it is out of the ordinary for lodges of the Ai. --Igamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers to bespeak their preference for a candidate for any public office, the action of Good Will lodge, No. 59, of New Cas le, is volun tary and Is undoubtedly due to the high appreciation in which labor interests hold Colonel Stcne. These testimonials coming so early in the campaign arc very remarkable proofs of the popu larity of the candidacy of Coionel Stone. The endorsement referred to Is con tained in the foliov .ng letter received by Colonel Stone: Good Will Lodge. No. 09, Pennsylvania, Amalgamated Association of Iron, Tin and Steel Workers of the U. New Castle, Pa., Nov. 27, ISO 7. At the last regular meeting of 'he Good Will lodt. . No. 59. A. A. of I. »nd S. W„ held at I led Men's Hall, the fol lowing resolutions were adopted: "Resolved, That we endorse the can didacy of William A. Stone for gover nor of Pennsylvania, knowing him to be a friend of the laboring classes in all his dealings, and in the public po sitions which he has already held; therefore, be it "Resolved. That we earnestly request all sister lodges to endorse a friend of labor and a man fully equipped for the position." Signed and sealed by the following officers: Thomas Jennings, president; A. G. Robinson, vice president: Sam uel Grlgg. recording secretary, and Harry Sergent, financial secretary. (Seal.) Good Will lodge Is one of the strong est lodges of the Amalgamated Asso ciation In New Castle. It embraces the employes of the Atlantic iron works of that city, and has a membership of 250 men. They are nearly all boilers and finishers. This is the second en dorsement of the kind given Colonel Stone within a month by such an or ganization. the first having come from the employes of Jones & Laughlin's south side mills. It Is said that there will be a remarkeable series of such expressions from organized labor through the state during the next few months, attesting strongly to the friendly regard In which Colonel Stone is held by reason of his great labors for the cause of American labor. • • » Fvery citizen of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania is natura ly Interested In the details concerning the erection of the new state capitol building, and at the risk of repeating some things that might have been known before, I propose to give some of the latest news concerning the proposed new edifice. To begin with, the architect has flight d all of the plans, and Is now waiting for the award of the contract, which will be made In a very short time. Architect Cobb is very prou* of this achievement. He has designed many buildings, public and private, but he Is •o confident that the Pennsylvania cap- I.'ol will be his greatest work that he IJ willing to risk his reputation cm It. "Pcnnuylvania ts going to have the hanctaoment state building in the coun try," he declared to The Inquirer cor* respondent today. "The design is my masterpiece, and I am proud of It. My plans will cost the state 50 per cent less in running expenses and 25 per cent less in cost of construction than those of any of the other architects who origi nally competed with me. The building will have plenty of light, and I feel cer tain that the people of Pennsylvania will be delighted with It when it is tin lahed." Some radical departures have been made In the plans from the stereotyped ideas concerning state capitols, but Mr. Cobb declares that they are all in the nature of Improvements. At the last Moment a change In the arrangements of the rooms was made, and the in coming legislature will see the senate chamber and the house of representa tives In the same relative positions they have occupied for nearly a century. The commission agreed to this remodeling of the original plans because it was found that the sentiment was against any chanse of position of the two chambers. The capltol will face the west. The senate chamber will be located on the north side of the rotunda, and the house of representatives on the south side. Adjoining the senate and house wtngs will be two large buildings devoted to department work. The entrance to the capitol will be through the center build ing. The west front will be Hve stories high, with the senate and house each two stories high. Back of the rotunda will be situated the committee rooms), arranged in a building seven rtoriea in height. The wings on the extreme north and south, in which the depart ment work will be done, will each be five stories high. The main floor of the centra! portion of the building will be the second. Vis i.rrs will enter from the basement floor, and public elevators will convey them to any of the Hoots on the west fror.t. In the rear of the rotunda, on this llocr, private elevators will be built for the exclusive use of members and employes of the legislature. Exits to these ele vators are to be constructed so that a member can TO from ei.her chamber to his committee room without being seen by any visitor if he so desires. In the center of the building will be a large rotunda. On the second floor from the rotunda one will enter on the western side the rooms of the lieuten ant governor and a ladies' reception room. Card rooms separate the two legislative chambers from the rotunda. In the rear is an entrance to the com mittee rooms building. A memorial stairway will lead from the rotunda up to the fifth floor of the front and to a 40 foot gallery extending a:i around the interior. From this will be the entrance to the press rooms *and to the public galleries of the two chambers. In each of those public galleries there are 400 feet of bench room. The senate librnry will also be entered from this gallery, and on the house side a large caucus room has been arranged, Into which the house library can at any time be thrown. While the legislative wings are only two stories, the second storv Is very high. The most radical departure has been made in placing all the windows of these two chambers on the outside. In no other state house in the country is this plan followed. Its advantages are light arid ventilation. Everythinf has been planned to make this a mode, building. Local politics are In a cyclonic condi tion in the city of Philadelphia. A thoujrh David Martin has succeeaed In forcing his brother-in-law upon the Re publican ticket for receiver of taxes the prosrects for Mr. Roney's election are far from promising. It is true that he has received the nomination, but in this respect he is no better off than his op ponent. Mr. Newitt has also bsen nom inated, and he received his nomination in a conve. .ion in which It Is asserted that 511 of the 891 regularly °lected del egates handed in their credentials. Mr. Newitt proposes to remain in the field on the ground that he was really ».ie choice of the voters at the primaries, and that the Roney nomination is ta nt ed. and that it was brought about by il legal and unpiincipled methods. In addition to this there is a very strong popular feeling against the lead ership of Mr. Martin in Philadelphia. No one attempts to disguise the fact that the party organization here has been used for the personal advancement and selfish Interests of a little clique of politicians who are wiring to wreck the party If necessary in order to accom p ish tlielr own personal ends. The fact that the so-ca led Business Men's League has united with Mr. Martin In order to force Mr. Roney upon the peo ple once niorf- is likely to prove disas trous to Mr. Martin's candidate. Tht people know and thoroughly understand th all g d business m o n's organization and it is a simple statement of fact to say that the favor of this organization will seriously cripple, if it does not en tirely ruin, aiiy candidate for public office who is unfortunate enough to receive It. T. M. A. 'iHusband'!! WH.V. She (at the desk)— Dear, please tell ine how to spell costumo. "I'm writing o mother about my lovely new gown.' lie —Well are you ready? She —Y C 3. He —C-o-s-t, cost- She—Yes. He—T-u—to— She—Well? He —M-e, me—sGs, as vet unpaid. She —You're a wretch. Th© Statesman, He sits wlisie the throng may behold him. And pensive.iy gazes on high, .d they say, as gloom seems to en fold him, Inspiration Is certainly n.gh." aen swiftly a paper he seizes And traces it ever with ink, .d they echo, like whispering breezes, "Now watch him; he's going to think!" \nd the shades of the great seem to hover As he struggles to drain wisdom's fount; d they'll probably never discover lie's at work on his mileage ac« count. Bronciiis but extremely good for the sufferer from that harassing disease is Dr. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. No medi cine can compare with this great remady in the prompt and perma nent aid it gives in all bronchial affections. It stops the cough, soothe 3 the irritated throat, and in duces refreshing sleep. " I had a bronchial trouble of such a per sistent and stubborn character that the doc tor pronounced it incurable with ordinary remedies, but recommended me to try Ayer'» Cherrv Pectoral. One bottle cured me." J. C. WOODSON, P. M., Forest Hill, W. Va. "A short time ago I was taken with a severe attack of bronchitis, and neither phy sicians nor ordinary remedies gavo me relief. In despair of finding anything to cure me, I bought a bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. Less than one bottle entirely cured me." GEO. B. HUNTER, Altoona, Pa. (J&errg peeio?ai now put up in half-size bottles at half price—GO cents. Fall x Winter Goods You are invited to conn here and inspect our new stock of Fall and Wintei Goods which is by far the choicest collection consid ering style and quality for the price, ever this store asked people to look at. .Vinter Weight Jnderware for Men, Women and Children. In conjunction with the inviting varities, all prices will be found more than ordinarily small. jrocery Department A new and fresh sup ply of Groceries have have just arrived. Vernon Hull, Hillsgrove. \a. I am now putting up EAVE TROUGHS that v\ in not iust. Send ine your order or write lor prices. CUNNINGHAM'S HARDWARE STORf DUSHORE. 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January Clearance Selling If you are looking for the bargains of the year go at once to any of the above named stores where former values and prices are practically lost sight of in our determined tffjrts to dispose of the largest and best line of DRY GOODS and NOTIONS ever brought to this County. extraordinary line of CORSETS The lady who wishes the I itest styles combined with high grade and half the old price should call and select from the complete line of Unprecedented values given at these stores this 1 ontli. |ENN INCS BROS. We keep in stock at our n.ills a complete line ot dressed lumber in hemlock and hardwood. MANUFACTURERS OF Gang Sawed and TrimmecPLumber. LOPEZ. PA. SPECIALTIES Hemlock Novelty or German Siding, Hemlock Ceiling 7-8 or $-8 stick, Hemlock Flooring any width desired, Hemlock Lath both 3 and 4 feet long, Hardwood Flooring both Beech, Birch or Maple, The same woods in 3-8 ceiling. COR RESPONDF.N C Y SOLICITED. Buy Good Goods! 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