Republican News Item. CHAS. LOREN WING, Editor. THURSDAY AUG. L'.>, 1898. "FIRST OF ALL —THE NEWS." The News Item Fights Fair. IT IS A PATRIOTIC HOME NEWSPAPER. Published Every Friday Morning. By The Sullivau Publishing Co. At the County Seat of Sullivan County. LAPOIITE, PA. Kntered at tin* Post OHiee at Laportc, as secoml-class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION—SI.2S per annum. II paid in advance SI.(HI. Sample copies free. All communications should lie ad dressed to REPUBLICAN NEWS IT KM. Laporte I'a., Philadelphia. Aug. 23. Candidate George A. Jenks' speech at Bedford, accepting the Democratic nomination for governor, has decidedly fallen in distinctly flat. As a keynote of an aggressive cam paign, it is a note that lias already gone to protest. Of course everybody knows that Republican defeat iii Penn sylvania cannot be accomplished by Democratic votes. None but Republi cans can defeat Republican candidates in this state, and a Democratic candi date, at the beginning of a hopeful can didacy, must somehow appeal to a cer tain element of the dominant party. This Pattison was cunning enough to do in IS&2 and in 18' JO, and this Mr. Jenks, with all his skill and experience in pleading before a jury, has con spicuously failed to do in IS9S. The dissatisfied element among Re publicans here, so far as it exists, which represents the disappointed am bitions of men to whom the very name of any successful Republican leader is as a red rag to a bull, hailed the speech with Instant resentment, because it was simply a reiteration in general terms of old charges which had been threshed over and forgotten, and said nothing specific, and nothing personal ly offensive, against Senator Uuay. While they were sore and disappointed, straight backed Republicans were pleased that even so skillful an advo cate could make no better case against them. A prominent public man from the northwestern part of the -state put the feeling very pointedly in the fol lowing words: "I have read Mr. Jenks' speech of ac ceptance with much interest naturally. Even if it had no relation to the cam paign, I should have been interested, because his reputation as an adroit and skillful lawyer, cunning before a jury in making tKe best possible plea in the face of adverse evidence, is celebrated wherever he is known. His Bedford speech is worthy of his reputation. It skillfully avoids specific statements. The word 'Democratic' does not ap pear in It at all, and the word 'Repub lican' only once, and to one who reads it without thinking the impression might be conveyed that both these par ties hud in some miraculous manner been swept beyond the borders of the state. "The fatal weakness of his speech is nut in the pleader, but in the case, lie probably put it as shrewdly as any body could. But when even the most cunning master of language is forced to appear as the hopeless spokesman of a party which has no record in pub lic affairs to point to, and a record in national affairs which it is compelled to point away from, he is at a great disadvantage. "The gist of Mr. Jenks' speech is the special plea that it is quite consistent for anybody to vote for him and his as sociate Democratic candidates upon the state ticket and at the same time to vote for Republicans for congress. If this were so it would include, of course, in the list of candidates eligible for Democratic votes the two Republican candidates for congressmen at large and the Republican state senators and members of the legislature, who will elect a United States senator. "It would be absurd to vote one way for members of the one branch of con gress and vote the opposite way for members of the other, especially when the United States senate is as cl se as it is now. "This theory, that the record and purposes of the Republican and Demo cratic parties can be conveniently hung up behind the door, the mean ing of the vote this year forgotten, and the campaign narrowed down to a promiscuous guerrilla conflict, will not, 1 think, commend Itself to the Demo cratic party any more than to the Re publicans. It would mean disaster to any organization. One cannot follow one flag on one wing of the battle and carry a hostile banner on the other, any more than he can serve in the American army and the Spanish navy at the same time. The line must be kept consistent and intact. The man who attempts to ride two horses go ing In opposite directions will go no where but to fall, and he who tries to belong to two churches of different creeds will probably lose his stand ing in both. It is before all things the party creeds which are at issue In this campaign. Aside from their personal friends, the greater part of the people of Pennsylvania do not much care which of them, Mr. Jenks or Colonel Stone, Is elected governor, so far as either of them is individually concern ed. Hut the people of Pennsylvania are deeply interested and determined, if we can judge the present by the past, to see to it that the principles and pur poses of the Republican party shall not be repudiated and set aside to give place to those which Mr. Jenks' can didacy undeniably represents before the state and the country, however cun ningly he may seek to disguise the fact. Like a good lawyer, he has made the best of a bad case, but the jury in this trial has time to think before the verdict, and I have no notion that it will be misled." There are few men in Pennsylvania better known than Jerome B. Niles, ot Tioga, e*-{iuditor general of the state. He Is recognized as one of the strong est men in the northern tier, and his long and distinguished connection with public affairs makes his utterances al ways timely and valuable. While not | referring directly to the speech of the | Democratic candidate, what he said ! yesterday was evidently inspired by It. | Mr. Niles said: "Our Democratic friends cannot shirk the national issues in which our pres. ;nt and future welfare are so vitally concerned. The voters of this most in ielllgent state will not. by them, be de ceived. In 189 C they went before the [ country contending for the free and unlimited coinage of silver and plead ing for a tariff for revenue only. They are. In this state, seemingly anxious to abandon their position taken in the last campaign. They do not like to have anything said about free silver or about free trade. The marvelous and mys terious connection which they had dis covered between wheat and silver dis appeared Immediately after the elec tion of Mr. McKinley. In thousands of speeches they cried out that we would ruin the American farmer by insisting upon a currency founded upon a gold basis. They insisted that when silver went down in the scale of values that, wheat went with it. That upon the fi nancial question they were a sort of Siamese twins. And yet, In this, as in all things else, they have been mis taken. As soon as it was ascertained that our currency was to be continued on a solid basis, wheat began togo up and silver kept ongoing down. The mysterious connection was broken. There have been times since IS9fi when it would have taken enough silver bul lion to make three silver dollars to buy one bushel of wheat. "The Republican party lias been in this state on the right side of all the great public questions of the last four decades. Where are the public meas ures that our Democratic friends have originated? They canot be found. In this state, at least, the Democratic party has even been like the hind wheels of a wagon, crawling along In the rear, keeping just so far behind; always using as a camping ground the place occupied by the Republicans in the years that are gone, always keep ing just far enough from the front to be of no service in the settlement of public questions. "We judge men, and we should judge political parties, by what they have done and not by what they promise to do. You form your opinion as to the future conduct of your neighbor by an examination of his past life. Political parties are composed of individuals, and what is true of the Individual per son is true of all political parties, be they either great or small. There is no allegation against either of the can didates personally that bead the re spective state tickets. They are both worthy citizens. Each represents the traditions and the principles of his par ty. And the success of the individual candidate will be the triumph of the party whose representative for the present he is. "Colonel William A. Stone repr-sents the Republican party, with its glorious and illuminated history of the past third of a century. He represents a par ty that stands pledged to a financial policy that will for all time give us a currency which shall be as unchange able as the hills and which shall be good as gold in any land upon which the sun in heaven shines in makinfi his daily round. Colonel Stone represents a party that stands pledged to the main tenance of our present protective sys tem, which affords fair and ample re lief to America industry; which raises a sufficient revenue to meet all the de mands of the people; which is at all times able to protect the gold reserve in the national treasury and which ('OPS not compel the government to sell Its bonds by the hundred millions to pay our running expenses in times of pro found peace and general prosperity. "Mr. Jenks and his ticket, so far as this state is concerned, do not represent anything. His party has not originated a single measure for the benefit of the people. It has contented itself in oppos ing Republican measures, and generally without success. Prom a national standpoint Mr. Jenks represents ft tar iff for revenue only and the free -nd unlimited coinage of 43-cent dollars. No Democratic orator, during the pend ing canvass, will deliver a speech ad vocating either. They dare not here and now urge the principles of the Chi cago platform. If they would meet these issues fairly and squarely on the stump and advocate the same doc trines that they put forth at Chicago in lS'.tC, the majority for Colonel Stone would be 300,000. "In political parties all cannot, at all times, have that to which they feel they are entitled. There always has been; there always will be heart burnings and bitter personal disappointments. Republicans should stand by our most excellent state ticket from the top to the bottom. There has been, there will be no allegation against the personal fitness of a single one from the head to the foot of the list. They are all good men and 'trup.. We know of their ante cedents. It is vastly important that we should have a delegation in congress as nearly our way as possible. A dele gation that will at all times stand by the financial and revenue measures to which our party has been so long com mitted. "We all understand, if such a thing were possible, what the election of thr Democratic ticket in November would stand for. It would be said from the busy Atlantic coast to the golden shores of the Pacific; from our north ern lakes to the land of the orange and the magnolia, that the strongest pro tective state in the republic had re pudiated its own idea, and that in mat ters of finance its people preferred the theories of William J. Ilrvan to the facts, logic and sound principles of William McKinley, who today is the most respected, the most honored and beloved citizen of the republic." GEORGE H. WELSHONS. \ \>w IClccfi-ic I'M 11 ill. RyclinowsUi, the electrician of berg, claims in have discovered an electric fluid, which he calls "elec troid." The discovery has caused a great sensation on the Continent, lie obtains it by electrolysis, but it is not identical with electricity. Its effects are said to be startling, producing light and causing Geissler tubes to emit fluorescent rays. It works photochemicadly, rotates objects in mid-air, produces whirlpools in water end kills bacteria. By it metal andtglass can be charged with electricity, and the magnetic needle changes direction under its in fluence. Political Card. 1 hereby announce myself as an inde pendent candidate for representative tor Sullivan county, l'a.. to make my botany bill, my jury relorm I>*ll and inv free speech bill laws for the welfare of the peo ple of the State. Fellow citizens, write my name on your tickets in the right column or place and you will thereby elect me when you vote. I solicit your votes ami ask for your sullrages. I»ii .lons Couu, Herbalist. Dushore, l'a.. July IS. IStIS. CONIIKNSKI) K KI'OItT nf tin l condition of the I'IUST NATIONAL HANK nf Onshore, l'a., Al elnseof business, July 11, ls'.lts. ItKSOI'IM'Ks: Loans am! Miscounts ? I'Js.sOl till I". s. Honds tn Secure Circulation 1 mi l'rcuiium 011 railed States Bond?. 1,00000 Stock Securities I.VIOO 00 Furniture I.'JOOOO hue from Hanks Approved reserve Am :fc;,:!Si; 07 Redemption Fund I , s. Treasurer.. . "ii'rj.'to S|ieele and Tender Notes 1 S Jo.'i,KX. Swarts, Cashier nf the aljovc named bank, do solemnly swear that the almve state ment i>- true to the liest nf III} knowledge and lie lief. M. 11. SWAKTS, Cashier. Suliserilied and sworn lo liefnre lnelliii. 'J'lth duv nf .Inly l.S'.is. JOHN 11. CKONIN, Notary Public. Correct Attest: ALl'llONSt'S WAI.SII, 1 .INO. 11, KKKSKR. Directors V. 11. I'OMKKOV. J Administrator's Notice. K.*tate of M<(/•// McCdi /i/, !ate of Falk land township, deceased. Letters of Administralion having oeen granted to the undersigned, Administra tor in the estate of Mary McCarty late of KI k lam I township deceased, notice is hereby given that all persons indebted lo said estate arc requested lo make immed iate payment, and all persons having claims against it must present them duly authenticated for settlement. DOWNS. Alt\. JOSEPH PAKDOK I , ~ TIIOS. Mei AKTV 1 Special Notice! $2700.00 worth of Clothing, Shoes, Pants, Ladies' Skirts, Capes, Corsets, and Shirt waists and everything in Men's Furnishing Goods. Will close out the entire stock al near ly r>oejon the|dollar. This will he the greatest sale Laporte ever heard of. Kvery body should take advantage ol tiie bar gains I will otter. We will surely give you prices that you will surely be astonish ed. It will pay you lo buy not only for present but for future use. I will be glad to give the Lowest Price to every body. It will be a special favor that every body should come and examine my stock even if you don't expect lo buy. Highest price paid lor (iinseng. JOE COOPER, LaPorte, Pa. Below I. O. O. F. Hall. Riluettto Your Kuweit With (?ÜBraretb. Candy Cathartic, euro constipation forever. 10c, 35c. XI C. C. C. fail, druggists ref uuU tuouey. Form lor Hale 'l'llo undersigned —■ "ii account ol (ail ing health will .sell his valuacle (arm situated on Mnnrv Creek alioul nine miles north o( llnghesville, I'a. part of the purchase money can remain in prop erty. •TACOK HI'CKS, Strnwbridge, Lycoming Co. Notice of Dissolution. '1 he |»artuer*hip heretofore existing between M. K.Heeder anil K. l-\ Ives, doing business under tile linn name of Heeiler .V Ives, has been dissolv eil this 11th ilay of July, hy mutual consent. Al| ilehts of sail 1 tirni lo IK 1 presented to M. K. Keeder for payment, ami till parties owing sairl lirnt to make payment to same. M. E. I!KKIiKi:. K. 1' . I V KS. lUVKNKI.I, IMYEUSITY, .Unix IIOWAHII 11 A icitis. President. College, leading lo degrees in Ail, Philosophy and Science. Academy, a preparatory school for youngjinen and hoys. Institute, a re fined hoarding school lor young ladies. School ol Music, with graduating courses. For catalogue, address the Register, \V. C. GRKT/.IMIEK. Lewishurg, Pa. l-'OH SAliil. 1 oiler the following properties: TO acres, hemlock timber, near liingdale; 3".'! acres, virgin timber, Elk Hun, North Mountain, close lo railroad: M2t> acres, coal lands, at Heruice, adjoining present workings; S lots (one entire section) at Eagles Mere, each lot "•"« leet Iront on Pennsylvania Ave., with "liradford" privileges and title; 1 lot "•"> It. Iront on LaPorte Ave.; several choice lots in La- Porte lioro.; also several warrants ol stripped lands in LaPorte, Collev and I'ox townships suitable lor tanning or grazing purposes. ll.'l'. HOWNS, Atty-at-Law. LaPorte, Pa. l'.vervniMly Kays So. Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the most wou derful medical discovery of the age, pleas ant and refreshing to the taste, act. gently and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels, cleansing the entire system, dispel eolds, cure headaohe, fever, liabltual constipation and biliousness. Please buy and try a box of V. V. C. to-day; 10, 35, 50 cents. Hold and guaranteed to cure by all druggists. sores. "Running sores appeared on my leg and spread over the entire lower portion of the limb. 1 got no help from medicine till I tried yours. 1 was cured by one bottle of c Ayer's darsapariiia." ISAAC At'KKR, Cowans, Va. A Horrible Railroad Accident is a daily chronicle in our papers; also the death of some dear friend, who had died with OonHimi|>tion, whereas, if he or she had taken Otto's Cure liir Throat and Lung diseases in lime, lil'e would have been rendered happier and perhaps saved. Heed the warning! Il'voit have a cough or any allection of the Throat and Lungs Call on T. .1. Keeler,Laporte; \V. L. Ilotlnian, llillsgrove; I'. S -Lancaster, Forksville; ('. H .lennings, Agt. Kstella; .Ino. \V. Muck, Sonestown, and get a trialjpackage free. Large size 50c and 25c. G. A. Rogers KORKSVILLE, I'A. (Successor to B.W. Fawcetl.) Watches, Jewelery, Silverware, Etc. Bicycle repairing. Bicycle sundries. Fishing tackle, at lowest possible Price. Ginghams, calicoes ami dress goods, cash prices at J. \V. Buck's. Ho-To-Bac' for Ki.-. y Cent*. Guaranteed tobacco bablt euro, makes weak men strong, bluoil pure. fide. sl. All druggists. Excellent wheat Hour from #l.lO to SI.-J. r » at A. T. Annstoiitf, Sones town, I'a. Fish and ham, prices right, at .). \V. Buck's, Sonestown. 'l'.i I tire »ur coats and capes are made lo order, and in the latest styles with prices to suit everybody. IN DRESS GOODS WE WERE NEVER BETTER PREPARED TO PLEASE YOU THAN AT THE PRESEN T, AS WE HAVE THE LARGEST AS SORTMENT IN THAT LINE EVER DISPLAY ED IN THE COUNTY. Ladies and Misses, Boys and Men, you need not go halt frozen this winter for we have plenty of underwear for you all, both in cotton or wool, red orgravand the pr ces are very low, so low that when you see the goods you will ha as ton ••died that we are able to give you such bargains. One word in regard to foot wear: Uur shoe department was never more complete and if you will flavor us.with your attention for a few minutes when in town we will convince you that we have the most carefully selected line ot line and heavy boots and shoes ever brought before the public. On crockery we have just received some very pretty designs in liecorated Dinner Sels to which we invite your attention. The buying o( country produce has always been a special feature of OH Business, and we slill continue in paying the highest each prices lor Buttur •igg" and Wool. E. G. Sylvara dushore, ipa. Wright & Haight, SUCCESSORS TO M. R. BLACK, Forksville, Pa. 112 k f nJertqftinq. MANUFACTURERS OF Doors, Sash, Moulding, Flooring, Ceiling etc. DRESSED LUMBER Full and complete seasoned stock always on hand. A fine line of furniture etc. The most complete line of Coffins and Casket to select from in Sullivan County. The finest hearse in the county, with equipments to match. Embalming a specialty., Funerals directed with safety and dispatch. PRICES REASONABLE.