Republican News item.
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Volume 3.
Business Cards.
JONESTOWN FLAGGING
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Chas. P. Billambh*. AgpntS.
D. H. Lor ah. «
SONESTOWN PA
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF DCBHORK. PENS A.
CAPITAL - * ><50.000.
SUHPIiUB - - #IO.OOO.
Does a General lUnking Business.
B.W. JENNINGS, M " SWARTS
rresidonl Cashier.
LAPORTE HOTEL
AND RESTAURANT,
LAPOBTE. PA.
F. W. GAXILAQUKP.. Proi'
Warm inealu and lurches at all how
Oysters and pame in season
Mar supplied with choicest liquor*. win* 4 - ai»«ii
ciffar* G*** l fita ™ e n,om l >rovldi
T.APQRTE LIVERY AND
BOARDING STABLES.
Connected with THF* Commercial
Hotel. First-class Horses and
Carriages.
Rates reasonable.
CHAS. COLEMAN. Prop.
HOTEL MAINE
TUOS. \V. BEAIIEK, Pi'Oj'
LAPORTE, PA.
ThU new hotel has been recently opened. newly
lurnlshed throughout and will be ran lor tju.
.peclal accomodation of the iravo.in,;
The heat stocked bar tn the count*. Rates arejovc
COMMERCIAL HOUSE.
THOS. E. KENNEDY, Prop
LAPORTE PA
Thia larg* ami w .»> i apposult-l Uuu.-e i?
tlis popular hostelry iu this suction
HOTEL PORTER"
Canton Street.
" SHUNK. PA.
VV. E. PORTER. Prop'r.
CARROLL HOUSE,
D. KBEFE, Proprietor
DUSHORE, PA
On* of the largest and bet <i"u
hotel* iu this section of thf stile.
J'able oi the boft. Rfvtei 1 On dollM per day §t
§t hies-
Professional Cards.
J, J. & F. H. INGHAM.
ATTO RHETS-AT-LAW,
i«egal business attended t,
in this and adjoining eousl •*
LAPORTE, '' V
£ J, MULLEN,
Attorney-at-Law.
LAPORTE, PA
Office over T. J. Keeler's store.
J H. CRONIN,
ATT0B!»I R T«AT -LAW.
MOTAKT PUBLIC.
OFFICII 0* UKin STHBM.
DUSHORE, *' A
yyM P. SHOEMAKER.
Attorney at-Law.
Office iu County Building.
LAPORTE. L'A.
Collection*, conveyancing; the settlement of
estates and other legal business will receive
prompt atteution.
i J. BRADLEY^
* ATTOBBBT AT-UAW,
OWICB 1* OODWTT »nai>(N4i
HBAB COURT HOUSK
LAPORTE, rA
Monday ot each week at Forksville.
EUery P. Ingham. Harvey K. Newitt.
|NGHAM& NEWITT.
ATTORSBTS.AT-LAW.
OFFICES 71417 FRANKLIN BUiLDINO
133 So- 12th Street Philadelphia,
Ha vine retired from the oflice of United tftatt.
Attorney and Assistant United States Attorney,
will continue the general practice of law in the
United dtates courts, and all the courts of the
City and County of Philadelphia,
HENRY T. DOWNS,
ATTOBBET»AT-LAI».
orriCK is PUBLIC
CUBBT HOUSE B<JT ABE.
LAPORTE, M
BLACKSMITH
AND WAGON SHOP
Just opened at the Laport*-
Tannery.
Custom work solicited. All work
guaranteed.
O. W. BENNETT, Prop.
To Cure Constipation frurpver.
Take Cuscarets Candy Cathartit. ldc t r:7,a
It O. C. C. fail to curt*, drui:t;i.<ti« refund nn.nt'v
EdacsteTonr llowels With Cnticaret*.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
lOe.tsc. If c. C. C. fail. drußsrUtu refund money.
<* House
| For some time, but we are through at WeV
! J »re all fixed up in apple pie order for the * /
I
1 with the largest and best stock ol -ioods we Q
< have ever had.
/112 Somethingfor Everybody, before purchasing. J
thiuk \VP can please this RM>>T critical buyer in Sullivan
K KKTTKSBORY. (
DUSHORE, PA. TH K JEWELHK. /
Coles... *
~ , - GENERAL
IMMErdware
PAINTS. OILS, VARN SHES and GLASS
SPECIAL inducements given on
CTOVES and RANGES
and all kinds ol HEATING STOVES
for Wood or Coal, suitable for. parlors, hall-:, ehurchen, school houses,
camp-. etc. Attention to a Hue of Cheap air-tight wood heaters from
'53.00 to SIO.OO. Al-o a line of coal heater- from £2.50 up to £35.00.
My Special Bargain Sale is opeu on a line «■!' heaters nlight.lv
damaged by water. Good as new, but they must be sold t.'FTEA 1'
If in need of a cheap heater, call early.
My "Dockash" Ranges are without a question iht unei-t iu the
market, made up of the best material and designed ro Ixs a handsome
Range. Furnaces always the best on the market. In fact we are
readj" ti> heat the universe either in hot water, steam or air Pry us.
; we guarantee satisfaction.
STOY REPAIRS AND REPAIRING.
PLUMBING, STEAM FITTING AND SUPPLIES
: MILL SUPPLIES.
Hardware,
DUSHORE, PA
; -r r - - ■ s.
Season
is upon us again. We are better
prepared to serve you than ever.
! n gle Heaters Double Heaters
RED CROSS
Office Heaters Fully guaranteed.
The factories have greatly improved our Heaters
and Ranges. No Range can equal the RED
CROSS assortment. No COOK STOVE does
better work than RED CROSS Champion.
For Wood Room Stovea we can give you none better than
the MAPLE CLEMONT, keeps good fire all night; turns
green or dry wood
Jererriiah Kelly,
HUGHESVILLE.
"HTbKNAI. VIGILANCK IS I Hh PRICfc OF LIBERTY."
LAPORTE. I'ENNA, TIIIiRSDAV. JANUARY 28, 1899.
rilE INSURGENTS ARE DIVIDED.
] lioy Suffer Thrcn Defeat*) find Do-<ijlto
tho Most Revolutionary Tactics In
Conjunction With the Democrats
Tliey Fall to ilreak the Caucus Bound
Mnes.
(Special Correspondence.)
Hurrisburg, Jan. U4.—The United
States senatorial convention continue;)
deadlocked, with the lines of Colonel
M. S. Quay, the Republican caucus
nominee, unbroken. The loyalty of th'!
men who are standing by the candidate
tf the Republican party and also have
resisted the onslaughts of the com
bined forces of the Democracy and the
Republican Insurgents has command
ed expressions of admiration from
stalwart Republicans all over the com
monwealth. Senator Quay has the sup
port of 113 of the ICS Republican mem
bers of the general assembly, over two
thirds of his party's strength, and has
come within 11 votes of the requisite
number to nominate. The Democrats
are united on George A. Jenks, the
nominee of the Democratic caucus. He
has been receiving his full party
a:rength on every ballot. The 62 In
dependent Republicans who have re
fused to accept the candidate of their
party are divided. They have scat
tered their strength between Dalaell of
Allegheny, Stewart of Franklin. Tubbs
of Tioga, Downing of Erie. Grow of
Susquehanna, Stone of Warren and one
or two others who have been given
complimentary votes. The friends of
Senator Quay, confident of their po
sition. have no desire to force the
breaking of the deadlock at this time.
They are perfectly content to let mat
ters drift as they are, as the sentiment
among'the jxHiple Is in favor of the elec
tion of Senator Quay and against the
guerrilla warfare made upon him by
disappointed politicians like Flinn of
Allegheny and Martin of Philadelphia,
backed by tlie newspaper syndicate
controlled by Wanamaker.
This disgruntled outfit has met with
three crushing defeats since the sena
torial fight opened. Their first setr
back was in their attempt to prevent
tho holding of a Republican caucus.
Despite their opposition and threats
the caucus was called and Senator
Quay was made the Republican nomi
nee, receiving the unanimous vote of
the cuucus membership, 103 in all. Sinoe
then four additional Republicans have
put themselves on record in tho sena
torial convention as accepting this ac
tion as binding upon every Republican.
The next defeat was in the attempt
of Fllnn. the autocratic, arrogant and
bulldozing political boss of Pittsburg,
to organise a rump senatorial conven
tion to humiliate the Republican lieu
tenant governor, that brave soldier.
General J. P. 8. Gobln, whose election
to the office of commander-in-chief of
the Grand Army of the Republic shows
the confidence his fellow veterans have
in him. Objecting to a rule by Gen
eral Gobln, who presides over the sen
atorial convention. Flinn called the
kicking Republicans and the Demo
crats together and organized a meet
ing with Rliss of Delaware, a bolting
Republican, as chairman, and Dixon,
a Democrat, secretary. They then
made bitter speeches attacking General
Gobln, but after they had gotten to
their sober senses they came to the
conclusion that their revolutionary pro
ceedings would avail them nothing.
They could not elect a candidate for
United States senator In such a conven
tion. They would be without standing
before the United States senate. They
finally concluded to get back into the
regular body, and there they have been
ever since.
Their third defeat was in a com
bination between Democrats and the
Flinn-Martin senatorial ring, to pre
vent the confirmation of Governor
Stone's nomination of John P. Elkin,
chairman of the Republican state com
mittee, for attorney general. More than
two-thirds of the senators, however,
refused to take orders froifi this com
bine and Chairman Elkin was con
firmed.
These defeats have all served to
weaken the forces against Benatot
Quay. The friends of the senior sena
tor are also elated over the fact that
they knocked out the Wanamaket
scheme for fusion with the Democrats
to elect a bolting Republican to the
speakership of the house. John R.
Farr, of Lackawanna, the Republican
caucus nominee, who ha 3 been made
speaker of the house, has been fair to
all elements of the party in the dis
tribution of his committee appoint
ments, and he at the same time proudly
votes on every ballot for Matthew
Stanley Quay for United States sena
tor. President Pro Tern, of the Senate
William r. Snyder Is also on record
on every ballot for Senator Quay's re
election.
Governor Htone Is at ill heartily in
l'avor of the re-election of Senator
Quay. When asked by your corre
spondent for an expression of views
on the situation the governor gave this
signed statement:
"I believe that Senator Quay will be
le-elected, and I believe he ought to be.
He has served the nation and the state
with honor and fidelity. His friends
in the senate and house are standing
by him manfully and have no second
choice. His enemies are against him,
but are not united upon an;- one else.
.Ml that his friends have to do Is to
■tand fast and he will win. His ene
mies cannot unite upon any other can
didate.
"Attorney Watson, by his argument,
clearly demonstrated that there was
nothing in the Indictments against him.
He proved that the indictments were
procured merely to influence votes
against him. Even those against him
do not now name those eases as a
reason for withholding their support,
and the commonwealth dare not try
them, and will not until the contest
for the senatorshlp is over.
"As a soldier, as a national chairman,
as a United States senator, he deserves
better treatment than he is receiving,
and a reaction of public sentiment has
taken place in his favor, I quarrel
with no man who opposes him. It is
his right to do so, but I cannot join In
this hue and cry, because I believe,
from close observation during the pas:
eight years in congress, that he Is
honest and able, and entitled by his
long service to re-election, and I be
lieve a majority of the legislature will
tome ere long to that conclusion.
(Signed) WILLIAM A. STONE."
This from the Republican governor
of this Republican commonwealth
ought to bo puflloif.it nnstrer to the
assaults of the disappointed Wana
maker and the revengeful Martin and
Fllnn, who are leading this guerrilla-
Democrat! •, fig!-.; againft an horored
and distinguished Republican leader.
Emphatic protests are iv ing made
by leading Democrat!- members of the
legislature against the tactics resorted
to by the managers or" th Wanamaker
press bureau to Intimidnt ■ Democrats
who may not liav manifesto.! a much
interebt in th ■ pinns of th ■ Wanamaker
R-. publican kickers as the latter would
like. Theto has been a systematic as
sault made upon some of the most rep
resentative Homo, nits with a view to
driving them into iin v. Ith th" Wana
maker-Gortlon syndicate.
Willie nothing Is sai l about nightly
conferences between David Martin and
William Flinn and others of thr; bolt
ing Republican eontinj;. nl and certain
Democrats, if a Democrat is seen talk
ing with a Republican 'rlertd of Sen
ator Quay reports ai ■ a one? carried
to the Van Valiu-nbii anil
that Democrat i« to 1 placed on
the list as a marked man. Stories in
tended to Influence r-ms'ltnont? are
set afloat, especially if V.' has not given
lila confidences to one th--' Van Val
kenbnrg agents.
Several Democrats vh . for one rea
son or unother were k- pt away from
a session of the convention, ha\. been
placed under suspicion, one of them
having been called to the bedside of a
dangerously si el; wife and another be
ing confined to his ruom with severe
illness.
Captain George W. Skinner, of Ful
ton, one of the most respected Demo
crats in the house, has bi ee. on-, of the
most conspi. ut-us victims of tie;'- at
tacks. In his case an att< nipt at a re
traction was made at this eiut ' i the
line, but the newspapers wh u news
columns, as well as editorials, s"om to
be controlled by the Wanamaker ad
vertising patronage, suppressed the
facts. Then he determined to seek re
dress in another direction, so th <-th- r
day, rising to a question of personal
privilege in the house, he made a
speech which made a sensation among
the Wanamakerites.
Representative Charles K. rii at*, of
Berks county, commenting upon the
speech made by Representative Skin
ner In the house, issued a statement,
which he prepared after consultation
with a number of his Democratic col
leagues. In the statement he said;
"I thoroughly sympathize with Rep
resentative Skinner, of Fulton, and the
other Democratic members of the sen
ate and house who have been the sub
ject of misrepresentation and abuse by
the Van Valkenburg nightly statements
issued for publication in the newspa
pers of the state. As long as a Demo
crat follows the leadership of David
Martin, of Philadelphia, and William
Flinn, of Allegheny, Republican lueses
of each end of tho state, he can be as
sured of freedom from comment or
criticism from this source. Th» Dem
ocratic members of the legislature have
stood manfully by the nomine" of the
Democratic caucus, the Hon. George
A. Jenks, and as long as he remains in
the field I believe he is entitled to our
support. This certainly represents the
views of every Democratic member of
the legislature with whom I have
spoken.
"Despite the fact that there has not
been one Democrat to nolt the caucus
nominee, tho Van Valkenburgs have
wantonly and maiiciously placed a
number of my Democratic colleagues
In a false position with their constitu
ents. They have circulated reports In
tended to intimidate Democrats, and
compel them, through fear of being
suspected of being influenced by im
proper considerations, to blindly follow
the program that Martin, Flinn et al.
may determine upon. I have been in
my seat every day and voted on every
ballot for George A. J'-iks for United
States senator, in more than one case,
however, has a Democrat, who through
sickness or other good cause, was un
able to be present, been branded by
these reports with being a traitor to hi*
oarty. This Is unfair, unmanlv and un-
1.25 P er Year.
Naeilw
Just, and continued will *ead to em
phatic condemnation in an official dec
laration that may lead to /•••suits which
those responsible for thesij reports least
desire."
BUSINESSMEN
AREAROUSED.
Manufacturers and Merchants Con
demn the Fight Against
„ Senator, Quay.
FEAR ELECTION OF JENKS.
I.eiidlnir Men Identified Wltli PCBU-
Kylvniiln Industrial Interests JO|B
With Stalwart Republicans In Da
nounclnc the lloltttrs Who Are Ald
iuur the Democracy.
(Special Correspondence.)
Philadelphia, Jan. 24.—A marked re
action in favor ol* Senator Quay ha«
been noticed among men identified
with business and manufacturing in
terests of Pennsylvania since the Uni
ted States senatorshlp has been dead
locked at Ilarrlpburg. Many of the
leading: manufacturers and merchants
of this city, whose interest extend to
different counties in the state, have
publicly expressed their condemnation
of the action of the bolting R- publicans
who have refused so far to accept the
nominee of the Republican caucus for
United States senator. It Is not un
likely that within a few days this
sentiment will i>e expressed In a for
mal and emphatic manner calculated
to leave no doub- in the minds of the
people as to the great concern the busi
ness ine-11 have In this election of a
United States senator. They recall the
conspicuous part Senator Quay tnok
in the passage ..f :h<> McKlnley Dili
and of his other valuable service;" In
the senate in protecting their Interests.
His diplomatic worlc in seeurJr;; appro
priations for the Improvement of the
harbor of Philadelphia and his labor*
in bchaTf of his constituent.-* in western
Pennsylvania art a'to r--:!?r.d in thw
commcado tor; rV '.i-.v. thai are
now heui'.i.
T'"-* greal ii?*•».. 1:1 men wh<»
haVe so much at .--take I? 'hat «. free
silver Penioeral.. like i~}<-or/rrr A. .lenks,
nr.ny lie elected from Pennsylvania to
the senate. They noint to the fact
that on Saturday last .lenks was but H
votes behind Quay in the twtiiotir.fr, due
to the fact that man' U?«»:b!leans had
paired with each olhe- and had gone
home over Sunday.
The po-called Republicans vh« have
been opposing the < r-vleotion of Sena
tor Quay have declared till ;.iang that
they would not vote for a Democrat.
Some of them are hone*' In this decla
ration. Put thi-re are Republicans In
the legislature - ho are perfectly will
ing io take anybody, even a Democrat,
to b»nt Quay. Such men are David
Martin, of Philadelphia, and William
Plinn, of Pittsburg. To all intents and
purposes they are assistant Democrats.
They have left their party, they have
repudiated all precedents and customs,
they have denied the great principle o*
majority rule, and in order to carry
out their peculiar and dangerous
ideas they are willing to deal with the
Demecrats. Of course, they must have
some excuse for breaking away, and
thry are willing to fltid 'ha' excuse- lu
any f.imsy pretext that comes to hand.
The round up of th" anti-Quay r>rce*
in conjunction with the Democrats
against tii - ruling of T.ieutcnant Gov
ernor Gobin seems :o hive been a well
developed plot to seek a pretext. Gobln
simply ruled that under the law noth
ing was in order iri joint convention but
the taking of a ballot for senator. He
was right, but the assistant Democrats
who are searching the highways and
byways for excuses io join hands with
the regular Democrats adroitly led tIM
anti-Quayltcs into n trap by disputing
the justice of this decision. There were
ciatoricai liit-worns and there was u
tremendous lot ul ;a:K about gas rule
and injustice and all ihat, but ch*
whole thing was extremely silly. Thare
can be no election of United Statan
senator without a vote of the majority,
and nothing can interfere with an hott
est vote. The Kllnn flare up was only
a scheme to foment trouble in the Re
publican ranks and to create the im
pression that unfair methods were be
ing applied to influence the senator-
Ship.
Republicans who are opposing the
action of the Republican caucus and
follow Martin and Flinn are helping the
Democratic party. There are many
caucus bolters who would shudder at
the very thought of voting for a Dem
ocrat. and yet the two assistant
Democrats, Martin and Filnn, are try
ing to lead them into a fusion that can
have for its only object the election of
a Democrat to represent the Republi
can state of Pennsylvania.
Quay has been before the people and
has won. He has been mad* a candi
date by a two-thirds majority. Thai
great majority should carry every {.»n
ulno Republican with ft. The personal
enmity of Martin and Flinn should not
l» : permitted to prevail, and certainly
no real Republican should follow Mar
tin and Flinn into a fusion with
Democrats.