Republican News Item.
THURSDAY, AUG. 4, 189S.
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County Seat Indices.
AND GLANCF-S AT THE TIMES.
—Miles Ims run out of Hags.
-Porto Rico tumbles like a ripe
peach.
—Atty. F. H. Ingham is on the
sick list.
—Griffith Phillips of Sonestown,
was in town Monday.
—Mrs. M. P. Gavitt is convalesc
ing after the past week illness.
—These daily irrigations makes
the corn crop look promising.
—Mrs. Jno. P. Kennedy is visit
ing Dushore friends this week.
—Mrs. W. J. Higley is recover
ing from a short spell of sickness.
—Miss Jennie Thomas of Tamaqua
is the guest of Mrs. Cora Stormont.
—M. J . Phillips of Muncy Valley
was a business man in town Saturday.
—Prof. M. P. Gavitt visited with
his parents in Laporte twp. on Sun
day.
—J. Harry Spencer of William
sport is visiting friends in town this
week.
—John S. Hunter of Nordmont,
was transacting business in town on
Saturday.
—John Krause of Lycoming Co.,
was among the visitors in town on
Monday.
—Hon. John S. Line was on
official business at the temple of
justice Saturday.
—Mrs. E. P. Ingham has gone to
Eagles Mere to spend the remainder
of the summer season.
—Several of the Normal School
students were out of town Saturday,
visiting at their homes.
—Whoever has had any experience
with a hornet's nest appreciates the
problem of the Philippines.
—Mrs. M. A. Cheney and Mrs. C.
F. Cheney of Eagles Mere were call
ing on friends in town Tuesday.
—Philip Peterman of Nordmont
was transacting business with his
lawyer, A. J. Bradley, on Monday.
—An orchestra from Dushore will
furnish music for the dance to be
givenin Kennedys Hall Thursday
evening.
—A social hop was given in the
Mokoma Pavilion Tuesday evening
which was enjoyed by a large num
ber of young people.
—C. M. Yeager was suddenly call
ed to Lock Haven Monday by the
serious illness of his mother. E. ('.
Zinn, of Harrisburg, is taking his
place during his absence.
—The Bernice base ball club was
pleasantly entertained by the La
porte team on the latter's diamond
last Saturday. Score, Bto 1"> in
favor of Bernice.
—H. A. Karns, District President
of the P. O. S. of A., is placing the
officers in their stations in the sev
eral Camps of the county.
—Prof. Chas. Lewis, accompanied
by his cousin Mrs. John Shaw, were
the guests of Hon. and Mrs. Russel
Karns on Saturday and Sunday.
—Mr. John P. Kennedy has made
final arrangements for opening a
steam laundry business in Hughes
ville. With best wishes from his
many friends he left Tuesday morn
ing for his new home.
—Able Gritman, D. D. S., of Buf
falo, accompanied by his father,D.S.
Gritman, of Nordmont, was shaking
hands with old friends and school
chums in town Monday.
THE PARTY OF
TIMER.
How the Republican Organization
Has Stood by the Boys in Blue
From the Beginning.
INTERESTING TALK WITH
COLONEL A. K. M'OLURE,
The Sage of Political Journalism Re
calls How the Act Was Passed Giv
ing the Soldier lu the Field the Right
to Vote, and Tells How Oi«» of Pres
ident J.lncoln's Parole* Was Stretch
ed From Twenty-four Hours to
Twenty Years.
(Special Correspondence.)
Philadelphia, Aug. 2.
"That resolution adopted so enthusi
astically by the Republican state com
mittee brings to my mind the early
sixties as though the years since then
had been weeks."
It was in the course of a chat with
Colonel A. K. McClure. most brilliant
of free lance editors, that he said this,
and we happened to be discussing the
resolution by which the Republican
party, now, as in the sixties, and in all
the intervening years, has been dis
tinctly the party of the soldier, whether
in maintaining him in his full right of
suffrage or in standing guard over the
legislation out of which have come
pensions, soldiers' homes and soldiers
orphan schools.
"That resolution reaffirming as sound
Republican doctrine the declaration
that 'the right of suffrage keeps step
with the American soldier wherever he
follows the flag of his country/" contin
ued the colonel, "affirms a fact in law,
so far as Pennsylvania is concerned,
and one which the Republican party,
after a determined struggle, put into
the very constitution of the common
wealth. The sub-committee to be ap
pointed by State Chairman Elkin 'to
take such steps as may be necessary
to see that this right Is insured to every
Pennsylvania soldier who is now in
the service of his country, wherever he
may be, without regard to zone or hem
isphere,' will have no heavier duties
than merely to remind the governor, if
any reminder had been necessary, as 1
don't suppose it was In the present
case, of his prerogatives under the act
of 1864, passed in pursuance of the
amendment to the constitution adopted
in the same year. That is still the law
of the state, and while 1 do not fancy
that the result of the election in Penn
sylvania tills fall will be so close that
we will have to wait in uncertainty
until the official returns from the Ma
nila bay precinct are received and
counted, there is no question in my
mind as to the right of the Pennsylva
nia soldiers to vote, whether they are
in the Philippines, in Cuba or in Porto
Rico. For this purpose the American
flag makes everything in sight of it
American territory on election day.
"What a rousing majority there is
likely to be in Cavite township for
Aleck Hawkins for state senator from
the Washington-Beaver district, by the
way, for he is the Republican candi
date, and has his Tenth regiment there ,
with him. And there is Willis Hulings,
who is somewhere in Porto Rico with
the Sixteenth, and may be Heaven
knows where on election day. If they
don't make peace too fast at Washing
ton the returns from Barcelona or
Cadiz, or even the Madrid districts,
may have an interesting bearing on the
next representation at Harrisburg from
one of our oil country districts.
"The question of the right of the sol
dier in the field to vote was raised in
the congressional election of 1862," con
tinued Colonel McClure, "in a case
where some soldier votes were the
balance of power in one of the Phila
delphia districts. On a contest the
question got to the supreme court of
the state, and the soldier votes were
thrown out in pursuance of an opinion
written by Woodward. The Republi
can party immediately accepted the
issue. The necessary resolution for
submitting a constitutional amendment
to a vote of the people was pressed
through two successive legislatures, as
required: it went to a vote of the peo
ple In the early summer of '64. was
carried, and the legislature convened
in special session to pass the act re
quired to carry it into effect.
"I had some influence in Republican
councils at the time." he added, mod
estly (he was chairman of tile Repub
lican state committee in 1860, had a
latchkey to the White House so long
as President Lincoln occupied It.and
was the power behind the throne In
both the Curtin administrations). "I
did the best I could, and so did Gov
ernor Curtin, to make the bill fair and
Just. It was war times then, as now.
The Republicans, of course, had the
people overwhelmingly with them in
Pennsylvania, and while they had not
the relative numerical strength they
have now, the war swept all other ques
tions out of the pnblic mind. It is as
Shakespeare put it in what might be
the saying of a Bhrewd and observing
politician of today—'uncommon things
make common things forgotten.' The
Republicans could have passed any
eort of an election law they pleased, if
they had seen fit to take unfair ad
vantage of their strength.
"After the law was passed I suggest
ed to Curtin tha.t he appoint some rep
resentative Democrats among the elec
tion commissioners provided for, and
among others he appointed Jerry Mc-
Klbben, of this city. McKibben hesi
tated about accepting, and said to me:
" 'lf Stanton catches me In Washing
ton he'll put me Into the capital prison,
sure,' but on my assurance that he
would be properly supported and pro
tected, he went. There was an old
feud between the secretary of war and
the McKibbens, and Stanton was not
only a zealous official, but one of the
best haters of a time when animosi
ties were especially hot. Well, I got a
telegram a few days later, saying:
"'I am in capital prison. Come and
get me out'—and signed McKibben.
"I telegraphed the president, saying
I must see him that night, and went
uver. I found that one of the printers,
In setting up the blank tally sheets
furnished to the commtaaioiMra, h«4
Inadvertently dropped off the name ot
one of the Republican candidate* for
elector. McKlbben knew nothing of It,
and It could have had no effect on the
result, but Stanton, with that mlcro
ecopfc eye of his, detected It, and had
promptly stuck Jerry in Jail on the
charge of putting forth fraudulent elec
tion papers. All that President Lin
coln could do that night was to order
his release temporarily on parole. I was
to see Stanton next morning and get a
full discharge. I saw him, but after
considering the matter three days the
secretary wrote me saying he had con
cluded that In the public Interest he
ought not to do so.
"And," concluded the sage of political
journalism, with one of those rich but
quiet laughs of his which seem to come
from the heart, "by George, he never
did do It, and Jerry McKlbben died 20
years after, still at liberty under Lin
coln's temporary parole, which was In
tended to last only over night."
GEORGE H. WELSHONS.
AN EDITORIAL OUTING.
The Editor Attends the Plessant An
nual Excursion of the Northeastern
Pennsylvania Press Association to Ge
neva, N. Y. Notes of What He Saw and
Enjoyed.
At the outset it is refreshing to note
the deliberate preparation which a thor
ough newspaper man makes at the out
start of his journey to permit nothing
whatsoever to interfere with It is pleawure.
lie simply puts his business aside and
forgets everything else except two facts,
that getting out his sheet is the most im
portant thing in local happenings, and
that he is out lor a good time, neverthe
less. This is his objective point and he
"gets there, - ' as the sporting editors say,
"with both feet."
The fact was amply illustrated last
Friday by the newspaper men of Bradford,
Wyoming and Sullivan counties on their
trip to and from Geneva. N. Y., where the
Northeastern Pennsylvania Press Assoc
ciation held their annual outing. It was
a happv gathering of big toads in a small
pool, a big talk, a big eat, and a big time
generally. No people know better how
to have a good time than quill pushers.
They prepare lor it elaborately and they
carry it out on the wholesale plan. lTu
like some other organizations the N. P.
Press Association does not object to the
presence of ladies on their junket. Each
member starts out with the intention of
enjoying himself to the fullest extent, but
he does not calculate that anything will
happen which could in any sense be
offensive to a lady, and therefore nothing
of the kind occurs. The fun is unlimited
but it is of that character which the wives
and daughters ol the members may par
ticipate in if they desire, which they all
did with but two exceptions. Our reasons
being the most critical, while Editor Mc-
Kee of the Towanda Daily Review, who,
consistent with a due regard to the laws
of economy is not the person to bide his
light under a bushel, took advantage of
this great occasion where the whole
function is expressly designed to creat a
maximum amount of sensation with a
minimum regard for the alw ighty dollar,
lelt his wife at home and prepared him
self for any emergence and headed the
delegation. Mr. McKee is one ol the
solid men of the metropolis of Bradford.
He is not only a shrewed newspaper man
of long and high standing but prominent
in other local business affairs. It was he
who had the burden of the management
of the excursion on his broad shoulders,
and he carried out his undertaking with
out a flaw. and in such a systematic and
business like way and so thoroughly
without ostentation that he was not only
enabled to enjoy the trip himself but
kept from the others any suggestion ol the
worry and trouble which they would
otherwise have undergone. At Sayre a
number of his flock boarded a wrong
train but he discovered the mistake in time
to save several "forms of body type" from
being "pied" along the track a few miles
above.
We arri\ed in Sayre 5:15 a. m.and in
company with Brother McKee enjoyed a
pleasant hour's walk through this towu
of beautiful homes. lu the meantime
parlies of the association with their better
halves assembled at the station, where
we spent another hour in greeting old
friends and forming new acquaintances
among men who are wielding the editorial
pen and conducting newspapers, end the
attractive ladies that walk by their side.
Ob those gloriour, never-let-go-hand
shakes when every Editor who has been
pummeliug the other fellows across the
way for a whole year, says how glad he
is to see him, and shake hands with him,
and eat with him, and, well, literally hug
him. Talk about lawyers badgering each
other in court, and then swapping yarns
over a friendly lunch together—why law
yers are mere novices at this sort of thing—
it takes full-fledged, lighting, lire-eating
Editors to give points on "harmony" and
"re-construction,'' and olive branch bou
quets, after a rough-and toumble for the
county printing, and the Sheriff's notices,
etc.; ever ready tor a scrap over the loaves
and fishes dealt out by polititions, and
never object to a bit of set-to iu politics
at any time, when "their man" is looking
for a change of base. But all this must
now be forgotten for we are
OFF FOR A LOVE FEAST.
At 7 o'clock the party boarded a fast
express train on the Lehigh Valley at
Sayre and started for Odessa. Here the
j party was met and conveyed to Montour
Canon by the Hathaway stage line.
A tier a delightful lide through (arming
aountry we arrive at the mouth of the
famous Havana Uleti, later known as
Montour Caiion. As we leli the train at
Odessa a polite gentleman approaches
and otters each of the party a duplicut
key to the Canon, assuring them that so
long as the Editors remained in his excel
lent care thev shall own the beautiful
glen. This affiable gentleman was Mr.
C. VV. Hathaway who is ably managing
the affairs of this grand canyon.
And now we are here, with three hours I
before us with one of the world's greatest
scenes as our tarrying place with Mana
ger Hathaway prepared to add special
courtesies to the marvelous pleasure of
such a visit, and there is little for us to do
but to place our ship in the care of this
good pilot and sail joyously over the
peaceful sea oif mirth and recreation while
the soul revels in nature's subliinest gran
dure, making one grow exhilerant by the
journey. Neither pen nor tongue can de
scribe this scenery, nor can it be compre
hended in one, nor two, nor a dozen views;
for every time one looks he sees new
beauties to charm the vision and enchant
the mind. They are indescribable and
incomprehensible to those who have not
visited the place, so without further de
scription we will journey on.
After leaving the Canon with reluctant
steps, the party is taken onto Watkins
by stage, a distance of three miles. The
drive is enjoyed immensely, being by the
way of the old town of Havana. It was
learned that the town was well tortitied
but the citizens realizing the pen mightier
than the sword, surrendered with open
arms. The brave boys under the leader
ship of Mr. Hathaway, who is known
throughout the country as the prince of
excursion entertainers, captured and sunk
several schooners. A short distance fur
ther and the pretty homes ot Walking
dawn upon our vision, and soon we see
business houses and dwellings gaily dec
orated with flags and bunting, a band of
music preceeding us as we pass through
town and porches and balconies are seat
ed with occupants who waves a welcome
to Pennsylvania Kditors. Presently we
come to the Glen City Hotel. Here we
landed and iuvaded the hotel, receiving a
courteous welcome from the landlord, C.
J. Lohdell. The place is elegant in all
its appointments. While the ladies were
above-stairs the men reconnoitered one ol
the back rooms which is provided with a
large mirror and cut glassware, and they
seemed well satisfied with what they found
there. No further time was lost in plac
ing our shins under Lobdell's table,where
we enjoyed viands of endless variety most
tastily prepared. With this gumptious
meal over the gentlemen were escorted to
the Democratic office, the leading news
paper of Watkins. It is a model of con
venience, equipped with splendid machin
ery and all the accessories to a first-class
printing establishment, bearing indisput
able evidence of business thrift and pros
perity.
It is now nearing 2 o'clock the hour
for the departure of the steamer for Ge
neva. We accordingly embarked upon
the commodious boat ami soon steamed
away at a lively speed. This sail was a
truly delightful one, and gave us a chance
to view a most prosperous farming section
as the boat made stops at various points
touching on either shore. We can not
describe the beauties ot this magnificent
body ot water over forty miles long and
four miles wide in many places. Alter
a two hour's sail by looking on the hill
side upon our right, we discern the im
posing and architecturally attractive
WILLARD AS3YLUM
with is spacious, well kept grounds that
border aloug the lake, presenting a most
pleasing background. So inviting are
the premises that they almost tempt one
to wish themself an inmate, to enjoy the
peace and comfort it seems to suggest.
An interesting and profitable business
meeting of the A<"""Mation is called to
order by President !»«/ 111 the cozy cabin
of the boat, where matters were discussed
for some time. Evening is now upon us
and the glorious sail has revived the
appetite we lost at Watkins. The boat
arrives ou due time in Ueueva at 7 o'clock.
We at once direct our steps toward
THE KENDEZVOUS.
By pre-arraugemeti The Nester Hotel
had been secured as the place to terminate
the journey and take refreshments. A
short walk from the wharf and here we
ar«*,in one of the grandest hotels outside the
City of New York. After the evening
meal short walks about the city were en
joyed until S:3O when the party joined
the throngs that were taking The Nester
elevator carrying them to the root garden
on top where artists with string instru
ments discourses music of the rarest and
sweetest kind for the delictation of those
who group around the many small tables
enjoying liquid refreshments. This pleas
ant place was enjoyed until 9:30 when an
electric car was boarded bringing us up at
the Lehigh Valley station and soon a
night express train is whizzing us home
ward. Say re and Towanda were reached
in the early morning hours, where the
party began bidding each other a farewell,
hoping to meet again on these memorable
1 editorial outings.
—No sootier do tlu« gold buy in
surgents surrender to Guffey than the
OordoniteH become riotous.
Williramsport & North Branch Railroad
TIME TABLE.
IN EFFECT TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1898.
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SIII NK. PENNA
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