Republican News Item.
CHAS. LOREN WING, Editor.
THURSDAY OCT. 20, 189*.
"FIRST OF ALL—THE NEWS.'
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REPUBLICAN NEWS ITEM,
Laporte Pa.,
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS FOR 1898.
St inc.
Uovernor—WlLLlAM \. S'l'nN K. of
Allegheny.
Lieutenant tiovernor I.JI'. S. li'ißlN,
■ ■i' Lebanon.
Secretary of Internal Affairs —.IAMES
W. L \TTA,of Philadelphia.
.1 ndges ol' the Supreme < 'oiiri—W M . W.
PORTKH. of Philadelphia: WILLIAM
I). PORTER, of Alleghany.
Congressmen-at Large— '! ALCSII A A.
tlliOW. OF Susi|iiehann.'l: SAMCKL A.
DAVENPT >RT. of Kric.
Congrcssiouu'.
Congressman. 17th District WM. 11.
WOODIN. of Berwick.
State Senate.
Nil t'l'LYKl!. of Lycoming.
County.
Representative—Dß..l.L.CU RISTI AN
• •i' Lopez.
I'rothonotanr—WlLLlAM .1. LAW
RENCE, of Laporte.
Sheriff—ll. W. tiSLKR. of I.incolFalls. ;
Coroner—Dß. C. !■'. WACKENTIUTH. j
of Laporte.
President McKinley has been
making - some magnificen in the
\Vesl. lie is a. patriot, of patriots.
Jle fought for the Union during
the dark days of the Rebellion.
Knowing what war it. lie did his;
Lest to bring Spain to terms with
out a resort to arms, but when
Spain chose warfare he sent the;
army and navy against her and i
won a stupendous victory.
(Jlory to the American soldier 1
and sailor !
What we have won we must keep! J
Wherever the American Mag has
been planted it must remain. That
is the sentiment of the Republican
party of Pennsylvania, the senti
ment of the Republican party of the
Union.
And yet in this magnificent State
of ours, the great keystone of the
arch, there are men who call them
selves Republicans who, because
of their hatred of a single man. are
willing to hand the State over to
the foes of McKinley and thus nul
lify all t hat has been accomplished.
We call Pennsylvania Republi
cans to stand by their President.
The war may or may not be over,
but if it is over, vast problems still
remain to be worked out. Govern
ments are to be established in the
captured islands of the seas. Com
merce is to be extended. Merchant
vessels are to lie constructed.
Trade is to be enlarged. Can these
great questions be treated intelli
gently unless President McKinley
has the full backing of Pennsylva
nia and the other great Republican
States? The leader of the Demo
cratic party in Congress, Mr.Bailey
would hand every island back to
Spain. Elect him speaker of the
House, elect a Democrat to the
United States Senate from Penn
sylvania and turn the now evenly
balanced Senate over to the oppo
sition, and down would come the
American flag and back would go
the islands!
All these great questions are
ahead of us. "They will not be
solved in a day,"says President
McKinley. "Patients will be re
quired: patients combined with
sincerity of purpose and unshaken
resolution to do right, seeking only
the highest good of the Nation and
recognizing no other obligation,
pursuing no other path but that of
duty."
How is that path to be pursued—
how are we to maintain our rights
—lf we give a hostile Congress to
McKiidey, if Pennsylvania and
New York go Democratic? AVe
quote from President McKinley",
speech the following paragraphs
weighted down with significance :
WHO WILL DARKEN THE
COUNSELS OF THE REPUBLIC
IN THIS HOUR REQUIRING
THE UNITED WISDOM OF
ALL?
Who will darken the counsels ?
Mr. Jenks will. Elect him as
Governor, elect Democratic Con
gressmen, elect a Democratic IT.l T . S.
Senator, and you join with Jenks,
the foe of Republicanism, in dark
ening the counsels of the Republic.
Ex
DEPEW'S TIMELY
WORDS OFWARNING
"Our Chauncey" Speaks to Repub
licans of Pennsylvania.
STAND BY THE PRESIDENT.
The Dlstlugulslicd Orator aud Typical
Amorlcau Poluts Out the VHul Im
portance or Republicans Supporting
Tlielr Party Xomlnees For the £>OK
lslaturo to Insure the Klectlon of 11
Volted States Senator Who Will Co
operate with the President.
Chauncey M. Depew gave some sound
advice to Pennsylvania Ilepublicana
in a talk upon the importance of their
standing by their party in the pres
ent campaign, says a special dispatch
from a New York correspondent. This
distinguished orator of the Empire
state, whose latest effort was the plac
ing in nomination in the Republican
state convention of Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt for governor, struck the
keynote of.the canvass for every elec
tion involving the naming of a legis
lature which will fill a vacancy in the
United States senate, and in every
congressional district, when he de
clared that national issues and national
issues alone should influence the vote of
every Republican this fail.
"Pennsylvania," he said, "has many
interests in common with her sister
state. New York, and I have a feeling
of admiration for the sturdy loyalty
of the great majority of her citizens to
the principles of the Republican party.
President McKiiiley looks to every
patriotic citizen, and especially to the
members of his own party, to statu!
by him in the present crisis. He must
have a congress which in both its
branches will give him encouragement
and support in meeting the issues that
are so vital to the country's immediate
welfare and future prosperity.
"We arc engaged in a campaign of
unusual importance to the American
people. The issues of sound money,
CUAIINCKT M. DEPEW.
the currency and protection are as im
portant now as they were in the presi
dential canvass, and new and startling
ones are upon us. We must have in
question as the result of the coming
election that the country is not thor
oughly in sympathy with this Republi
can administration. In states like New
York and Pennsylvania, and the others
which have United States senators to
elect, Republicans should not permit
petty disappointments of individuals
or false cries of state or local issues
to swerve them from the candidates of
the Republican party for the legisla
ture. They should remember that it
has been only by side issues of this
character that Democrats have gotten
into the I'nited States senate from
ordinarily safe Republican states.
M'KINLiEY MUST NOT STAND
ALONE.
"Is William McKinley to stand alone
at one end of the avenue with a hos
tile house and hostile senate at the
other, or are we to stay up the arms
of that brave, gallant, wise, patriotic
president, and give him at the other
end of the avenue not only a house of
representatives, but a senate that will
help to solve these problems? Clinging
as hopefully as ever to the fallacies
they advocated in the last presidential
campaign, but remembering how they
were repudiated and realizing the fal
lacy of sailing under their real colors,
the Democrats hope to secure a ma
jority in congress by making it appear
that only state issues are considera
tions in this campaign. One might infer
from their beating of the torn toms on
this point that no congressmen are to
be elected in this campaign and that
the legislature to be elected will elect
no United States senators.
FOR THTC HONOII OF THK COUN
TRY.
"In every state whey they are nursing
any aspiration to win anything this
fall," continued the distinguished
speaker, "they are making the same
hypocritical appeal to voters to consider
that only state issues are involved.
Local, factional, personal, any issues
hut national ones, they want the voters
to think about, and in every state
where they are making a fight they
are seeking to hide behind this mask
their national issues and the candidates
through whose election they seek to
promote them. They ipight as well
throw off the cloak of hyprocrlsy and
face the music. I can give no stronger
injunction to the Republicans of Penn
sylvania than to urge them for the
sake-of their Republican president and
for the honor of their country to stand
by their party nominees."
TWO IMPORTANT CONTESTS.
Political IMMJIOS Alike in the Empire
and Keystone Stntos.
The same Issues are involve! in the
great political contests in Pennsylvania
and New York, where the important
matter at. stake in each case is the
election of a United States senator. The
fact is that the combined anti-Republi
can and anti-McKinley forces are
making desperate efforts to get con
trol of the United States senate. The
free sliver Democrats are particularly
active In this direction.
TCverv effort is beinir made to break
down Republicanism in the interests i
of the opposition to the Rreat policies
of ih-' rsi-pulilican administration
Her iu I*> nnsylvaniii Democrats, Pro
hlliltlon «.rutin's anil men once Re
i publicans have unileil iu u campaiKti j
| of vituperation, scandal and prepos
terous exaggeration. Tin v have eliar*?-
ei? against tite Iteimliliciin party ai- j
most every crime In the category, and
| from every stump tliey are continually
bearing: false witness. All the foes of
Republicanism are uniting in fusion
movements to send Guffey, the Demo
; cratic leader, or some other foe of Re-
I publicanism to the ITnlted States sen
ate, thus destroying ltepublican con
trol of that lioily. They are trying to ,
defeat Stone for the governorship and j
to cut Pennsylvania loose from its sup
port of McKinley.
In the face of the great issues that
j confront us it is farcical to declare that j
j this campaign is not of rational im- |
portance and that the conduct of a
] dead and burled legislature or some 1o
; cal issue of the past must alone be de- ,
bated. The Republican party has plac
ed honorable, honest and manly candi
dates in the field. These men have not
been attacked, and no one dares at
tack them. Then why, merely to please
a Jenks, or a Swallow, or a league en
gaged in venting its personal spite,
should the ltepublican voters lie turned
away from their ticket'.'
No Republican should allow himself
to be induced to give a complimentary
vote to any candidate for the legisla
ture. The Republican candidates should |
be loyally supported.
THE uiiirii
JUT STAKE.
j Pennsylvania Editors in the United
States Senatorial Campaign.
I THEY ARE FIGHTING FUSION
i ltepiibllcans I'l-ujod to Stand by lte«ii- |
j lor Candidates For the l.cglslaturo
and For Congress, and Are Told
Why They Should I)<> so.
"A patriotic president at Washington
is battling for Increased prosperity for
the country, and he calls upon Penn
sylvania and New York and the other
states to support him," says the editor
of the Philadelphia Inquirer. "Shall he
| not have this support from Pennsylva
| nia? He cannot have it if we are to j
i turn the state over to his foes or to
men who are willing to risk the glory
and honor of the country to gratify
their own personal spite.
"We have arrived at a most import -
j ant point in the history of this coun
■ try. We are lace to face with the
I greatest problems tile nation has had
I to deal with for move than a quarter j
to( a century. Cuba and Porto Rico an! 1
the Philippines must occupy our atten
; tlon. Wise leadership is absolutely es- I
! sential. for the affairs of these islands \
; must be settled, and there loom up j
! ahead new markets for our manufac- |
tured goods and the building of ships
of commerce which will carry immense
cargoes under the Hag of the Union
all over the world. Can these questions
be settled with a Democratic party
nagging and tr--ing to nullify the good
work of the president'.'
"No. Pennsylvania will stand by Mc-
Kinley and will elect a Republican leg
islature whicli will send a Republican
to the United States senate, and she
will elect almost a solid Republican
delegation to the lower house of con
gress."
FIVE MORE FUSION FIGHTERS.
"Patriotic reasons demand," adds the
Lancaster Examiner, "that the results
of the coming state and congressional
elections should be in the nature of a
full and heaAy indorsement of the
president, perfectly free from any
thing that could be construed as op
position or dissatisfaction with his war
policy and the subsequent peace nego
tiations TiwL-i . ;s,s <=—
"All the foes of Republicanism," re
mains the Chambersburg Repository,
"are uniting in fusion movements to
Fend Guffey, the Democratic leader, or
some other foe of Republicanism to the
United States senate, thus destroying
Republican control in that body. They
are trying to defeat Stone for the gov
ernorship and to cut Pennsylvania
loose from its support of McKinley. In
the face of the great issues that con
front us it is farcial to declare that
this campaign '.s not of national im
portance."
"Apathy or indifference should not bo
allowed to interfere with getting out
the full party vote in order to strength
en the hands of the national adminis
tration and insure that the fruits of the
late war shall be gathered," writes the
editor of the Norristown Herald. "A
Democratic majority in the new con
gress would be regarded, at home and
abroad, as a vote of censure on Presi
dent McKinley, to whose wise and
prompt action was due largely the
speedy settlement of the quarrel with
Spain."
"The Republicans of Pennsylvania
know that this Is a Republican year,"
declares the Allentown Chronicle, "and
they are going to hold up the hands of
the president by electing the Repub
lican candidates for congress. It would
be a great note if the next congress
should contain a majority of men op
posed to the president's wise and pa
triotic policy. And that is just what
will happen if the Republicans do no!
get a majority."
"The election of a Democratic leg
islature this fall means the election of
a Democrat to the United State senate
In January," says the Tltusville Her
ald. "It makes no difference how ex
cellent a Democrat may be, his voice
will be raised and his influence and
vote will be cast in favor of free silver.
' free trade and the rejection of the
great fruits of the war with Spain. The
vote in the senate is very close, and th<-
loss of a senator from Pennsylvania
mlgnt very seriously embarrass the ad
ministration in the execution of th«-
wise, sound policies which It has in
view."
And these are the opinions of but a
few of the leading editors of Penn
sylvania who are battling bravely
against the Democratic scheme of fu
sion on the legislative nominations.
Political Card.
I hereby announce myself as an inde
pendent candidate t'nr representative tor
Siillivtin county. Pa., to make my botany
(•ill. my jury ielorm l>ill and my free;
n peecl i bill iau> for the welfare of the peo
pie of the State. Fellow citizens, write
inv name on your tickets in the right
column or place iitul you will thereby,
elect me when you vote. I solicit your \
votes anil ask for your sutlragcs.
I>it ,'loiix <'ottn, Iferhnlist.
iHlshore, Pa'., July 18. IS'.IS.
Tlio State Normal School <4 Kast !
Strom lslmr}>', l'a., furnishes its stu
dents' rooms complete. The only
school to carpet its students' rooms
with tine lirussels carpet. The tlrst
and only school to introduce plain I
and fancy sewing, without additional |
cost to pupils. See advertisement in'
another colume.
•I. \V Unck has a nice line ot horse
lilankct.-.
To f'tirt* torrver,
T il.e C.'Hi'iiretN {'unity i'litliartic. 11l- or 'Sto.
If « i<\ fall in fore. liruyjjiMs ri'fiintl nionev- !
I'or wall paper, window shades and j
ctrpit pa|H*r. »o to John W. Buck's.
tiiin't 'ttiluii-rti !»|iit nit. l 5i11. ,1.1' V»n,r I iIV tnny.
'l'u iiuit t iiii.'l'll . ly :■ ti.l forever, lie inair ;
in lir. lulli.l ill.-, n.-rve :iihl \i-.or, l»U« Nii To-
Hue, in. w.irutei' w.n i.t r, lii;u iiinut's weal; men
strons. Ait ilriiutfisiH, .".iiir or ft. Cure guaran-;
teed. l'tooUlet ami Biitn)>lo free. Address j
Slerlinj* liemeity Co.. or New York.
Ritni'ilte Your Itoiveln '.Villi Curteni'fltb*
Candy i .ill.ann'. i-.ini- cidhi Ipiuion forever. '
10c, Joe. It C. C. C. tuit, druggists refund money. ,
nvcritwiily Says ,o.
Casearets tan iv ('utlmri ic. the most won
{let-fill ini'iiU:ul <tisco\er\ of I lie ;i.e. plens- I
ant. ami refivKhms;: to tin- taste, act pently
unit positively on kidneys. iiver mid linu'f-ls,
cleunsimr Ihe entire svsi. m. dispel colds,
euro heaitaolie. lever, lial'ilual constipation
and hi'iousneKs. Please liny anil try a box
oft'.i'.C to-dav; HI, 'itl i-enis. Soldaud ,
guaranteed to cure by all druupists.
G. A. Rogers
roRKSVII.I.K. I"A
(Successor lo I*.NN'. Faweett.)
Watches, Jewelery,
Silverware, Etc.
- Itic\i ll- r»*| -j>irii» <r. Hicvele suiulries.
tackle. Ml lowest possilile |
Price.
PLACES
New Grocery
LAPORTE, PA.
Our Friendly
Latch String Always
Hangs Out.
|
Shoes
;in endless variety of J
high grade toot-wear is>
now on sale and for the |
next
60 Days
there will positively be j
| No War Tax
put upon my prices.
E. L. PLACE'S
NEW GROCERY.
FALL
and Winter
Kvery corner of the store is
l>right. with the newest things j
for Women's wear and Men's
wear ami Children's wear.
! We are glad to have yon come in
and sec the new life of the old
store and look at its excellent
line of goods.
Underware
for Men, Women and
Children.
In conjunction with
the inviting varities, all
prices will be found more
than ordinarily small.
| Grocery Department
A new and fresh sup
ply of Groceries have
have just arrived.
Vernon Hull,
HilI strove. Pa.
W.L.Hoffman's
HILLSGROVE
Three Big Stores-- MUNCY VALLEY,
PROCTOR, PA.
An Explosion of Values.
PRICES BLOWN TO ATOMS.
Two or three reasons for this —liberal supply, bet
ter qualities, less in price than found elsewhere.
Ladies' Dress Wares.
They aie the kind women want, and our prices will
cause lively selling.
CORSETS Selling at Corset Prices.
No other line in these stores has such decided
growth as that of Corsets. Augmented sales each
month demonstrates the superiority of brands.
General Merchandise.
I here is to be found a general line of seasonable
goods constantly on hand.
Remember the Place.
JENNINGS BROS.
c#
We keep in stock at our mills a
complete line of dressed lumber
in hemlock and hardwood.
MANUFACTURERS OF
Gang Sawed and Trimmed Lumber.
LOPHZ. PA.
SPECIALTIES
Hemlock Novelty or German Siding,
Hemlock Ceiling 7-8 or 3-8 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 $-8 ceiling.
CORRESPONDENCY SOLICITEI).
|Buy Good Goods!
And you will be surprised
| how cheap they are in the end.
j We have just unpacked such a stock ol coats ami capes to which we are pleased
j to call vonr special attention. We do not pretend to handle the cheapest
coats in the market, but we do say we have the BEST and neatest fitting
garments made. Our coats and capes are made to order, and in the latest
I *(vles with prices to suit evcrybodv.
IN DRESS GOODS WE WERE NEVER BETTER
PREPARED TO PLEASE YOU THAN AT THE
PRESENT, AS WE HAVE THE LARGEST AS
SORTMENT IN THAT LTNE EVER DISPLAY
ED IN THE COUNTY.
' Ladies and Misses, Hoys 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 or pray and
! the prces are very low, so low that when you see the goods you will ha anion
i ; shed that we are able to give you such bargains.
One word in regard to foot wear:
Our shoe department was never more complete and if you will flavor lis with
i vour attention for a few minutes when in town we will convince you tliat we
have the most carefully selected line of tine and heavy boots and shoes rver
j brought before the public. On crockery we have, just received some very
1 pretty designs in l>ecorated Dinner Sets to which we invite your attention.
The buying of country produce has always been a special feature of on
Business, and we still continue in paying the highest each prices for Butter
Hgg° and Wool.
E. G. Sylvara dushore,ipa.
Wright & Haight,
SUCCESSORS TO
M. R. BLACK, Forksville, Pa.
furniture Lf „ dertafei „ a .
MANUFACTUBEHB 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.