Republican News Item. Published Every Thursday. Volume 3. Business Cards. SONESTOWN FLAGGING Company, Chaa. T. Billamboa. Agprjts D.H.Lorah, rvgcuia. SONESTOWN l'A. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF DUBHORK, PEN'NA. niPTTAL - - #50.000. SURPLUS - • SIO,OOO. Doea a General Banking Business. B.W. JENNINGS. M. D.9WARTS. President. Caahier. LAPORTE HOTEL AND RESTAURANT. LAPORTE, PA. F. W. GALLAGHER. Prop. Warm meal* and lunches at all hours. Oysters and game in season. Bar supplied with choicest liauors, wine and cigars- Good stable room provided. LAPORTE LIVERY AND BOARDING STABLES. Connected with the Commercial Hotel. First-class Horses ami Carriages. Kates reasonable. T.E.KENNEDY Prop. HOTEL MAINE THOS.W.BEAHEN, Prop. LAPORTE, PA. Thia new hotel has been recently opened, newly furnished throughout and will be run for the special accomodation of the traveling public. The best stocked bar in the county. Kates are low. COMMERCIAL HOUSE. THOS. E. KENNEDY, Prop. LAPORTE PA. This large and well appointed is th« moat popular hostelry in this section HOTEL PORTER. Canton' Street. "„SHUNK. PA. W. E. PORTER, Prop'r. CARROLL HOUSE, D. KEEFE, Proprietor. DUSHORE, PA. On* of the largest and best equipped hotels in this section of the state. Table of the best. Rates 1.00 dollar per day. Large itnbles. Professional Cards. J.J. & FTH.TNGHAM, ATTORN BTH- AT- LAW, Legal business attended to in this and adjoining counties LAPORTE, VA £ J. MULLEN, Attorney-at-Law. LAPORTE, PA. Oliice over T. J. Keeler's store. H. CRONIN, ATTORNET'AT -LAW, NOTARY PDBLIC. orrlC'B OH MAI* BTRBKT. DUSHORE, YYM P. SHOEMAKER, Attorrieyat-Law. Office in County Building. LAPORTE, PA. Collection), conveyancing; the settlement of *atates and other legal business will receive prompt attention. J J. BRADLEY, ATTORRBY-AT-LA W, orrici m COUMTT BUILDING MBAR COURT HOUSE. LAPORTE, PA Monday of each week at Forkeville. fillerj P. Ingham. Harvey K. Newitt. |NGHAM & NEWITT, ATT 0 RN BTS* AT-L A W, OFFICES 714-17 FRANKLIN BUILDING. 133 So. 12th Strefet Philadelphia, Having retired from the office of United States Attorney and Assistant United States Attorney, will continue the general practice of law in the United States courts, and all the courts of the City and County of Philadelphia, (JENRY T. DOWNS, ATTOBNRT*AT*LAW: orriCK IN PUBLIC BUILDING COURT IOUSB BQUARK. LAPORTE, PA BLACKSMITH AND WAGON SHOP Just opened at the Laporte Tannery. Custom work solicited. All work guaranteed. o. W. BENNETT, Prop. To Core Constipation roraicr. Take Caacareta CanU.v Cathartic. 10c. or'JSc If C. C. C. fall to cure, drugKixta refund motley Unatt Toar Bowel* With Caiearet*. Candy Cathartic, cure conatipatlon forever. tOa.Kc. if c.C.C. (ail, druggiata refund money. Swe have been J £O ean ' n g Houses, For some tiitie, but we are through at last. We\^ P are all fixed up in apple pie order for the / tora&e $ j r P with the largest and best stock of goods ? have ever had. V > Something for Everybody, KK.I&S, We think we can please the most critical buyer in Sullivan W lies|>ect(ully Yours, r y RETTEN BURY, P DUSHORE, PA. TH R JEWELER. / Coles.. Z ~ * F 3 ™ GENERAL hardware— DWAPE PAINTS, OILS, VARN SHES and GLASS. SPECIAL inducements given on CTOVESand RANGES and all kinds of HEATING STOVES for Wooil or Coal, suitable for parlors, halls, churches, school hous camps, etc. Attention to a line of Cheap air-tight wood heaters 112» s.'{.oo to 810.00. Also a line of coal heaters from §2.50 up to $35 My Special Bargain Sale is open on a line of heaters slig damaged by water. Good as uew, but they must be sold CHKnr If in need of a cheap heater, call early. My "Dockash" Ranges are without a question the finest in the market, made up of the best material and designed to l>e a handsome Range. Furnaces always the best on the market. In fact we are ready to heat the universe either in hot water, steam or air. Try us, we guarantee satisfaction. STOY REPAIRS AND REPAIRING. PLUMBING, STEAM FITTING ANI) SUPPLIES. MILL SUPPLIES. Hardware, DUSHORE, PA. Stove . 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 Stoves we can give you none better than the M APLE CLEMONT, keeps good tire all night; burns green or dry wood, Jeremiali Kelly, HUGHESVILLE. "ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY." LAPORTE. PENNA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1899. QUAY'S FRIENDS ARE CONFIDENT The Senior Senator's Supporters Satisfied They Will Break the Deadlock. WANAMAKERISM RAMPANT. His News Bureau Controls the He ports Tliat Goto Many Newspapers From the Soat of the Senatorial Con test. (Special Correspondence.) Harrlsburg, Jan. 31.—The develop ments of the last week have not ma terially altered conditions in the con test for the United States sena*' ip. The fact that despite the 1 r ex penditure of money on the . of the opposition and the resorting- to the most disgraceful tactics by the Wan amakerltes Senator Quay's forces have remained Intact is most gratifying to his friends. The senior senator has not been here to give personal attention to the direction of his canvass. He has been down In Washington looking after the interests of his constituents. There arc a number of matters before the appropriation committee demanding his attention. He is not the least con cerned about the outcome of the light. He is satisfied that he will be re-elected at the proper time. The deadlock is continued by the bolting Republicans refusing to accept the nominee of the caucus of the Republican party, Sen ator Quay. They will not goto the Democrats, and the Democrats will not take up any of the candidates who have been voted for by the bolters. The sit uation shows 113 stalwart Republicans for Senator Quay, S6 Democrats for George A. Jenks, the Democratic cau cus nominee, and 52 boitin ' Republi cans scattering their votes among seven or eight candidates. The bolters can never name the winner. Senator Quay's friends have control of the sit uation, so that it must be either Colo nel Quay or some Republican his friends may agree upon, should I* not be able to get the necessary > nm>'£r of votes. Rut it is reasonably certain that Senator Quay will be his own suc cessor. The tactics of the VVanamaker agents are arousing a feeling of disgust among all fair minded citizens in the state. The newspapers that are con trolled by the "VVanamaker advertise ments are made the mediums by which the most shocking misstatements af fecting Senator Quay and his friends are printed dally. Some of these pa pers have leased their entire last pages under two years' contracts to Wana maker at prices ranging from $40,000 to J75.000 a year. Their political news columns are now absolutely controlled by the Wanamaker political news bu reau. Commenting on this phase of the canvass. Senator Mitchell today said: "A more despicable and hypocritical campaign than that being waged against Senator Quay 1.: not known to history. It is made up of falsehoods and malicious charges, the outgrowth of personal spite and disappointed am bition. The headquarters of this com bination of deceit, treachery and over whelming self importance is in one of the Harrlsburg hotels, the same head quarters from which issued the only scandal of the Penrose campaign, when one of the chief promotors of Wana makerism was hauled into court on a charge of bribery. It is needless to say that the same notorious individual is connected with the present man agement. "The anti-Quay movement has been halted and is powerless. It has done the very worst that It can do. It has gathered In the rag tag and bobtail of Wanamakerism and malice and has collected, In addition, a few respectable Republicans, who, for some reason in capable of lucid explanation, have cut themselves loose —temporarily, let us hope—from the Republican party and have become bolters. This array of bolters has reached its limit of strength and can defeat Quay only by voting di rectly for a Democrat. To account for their failure the managers have In augurated a bureau of political false hoods, and night after night the most barefaced lies are sent out through the Wanamaker newspapers. It must be a hot Iron In the flesh of newspapers that want to be honest to have these falsehoods thrown at them, and yet they dare not reject them. The yoke of Wanamakerism Is iron bound, and even the reckless Inventions of the past few days had to be gulped down by the shameless organs which sell their independence for the few paltry dollars that a Wanamaker advertise ment brings them." I The wild ravings of political malice on Friday took the form of the dls ?overy of a plot to elect Quay, the main point of which was that pairs were to be Ignored and Quay was to be rushed through In the absence of his enemies. It was absolutely absurd on its face, for the Quay leaders had all left town, but absurdity, is without effect upon men who deliberately sit down to in vent falsehoods and sensations, and yet the organs had to print the yarn and father It and again cringe in faith ful servility before their practical own er, On a par with such dastardly tactics are the sensational offers of reward*. Even the ho-called Business Men's League Is made a part of the hypocrit ical campaign, and various sums are to be paid for information concerning the Influencing of votes upon bills.before the legislature. SOME POPULAR LEGISLATION. There are many indications that this session of the legislature is going to be a memorable one in the charactei of the legislation pressed for passage. The Democrats are most conspicuous in offering bills which are calculated to give certain corporate interests con cern befoie the session is over. The anti-trust bill, introduced by Repre sentative Hoy, of Clarion, provides that all combinations between persons or corporations with a view to lessen ing full c.nd free comuetltlon In tba WHERE B0I TC RS ARE NOIJN FAVOR Philadelphia Republicans Denounce Those Who Do Not Support the Caucus Nominee. QUAY'S WORK IS COMMENDED Uepresen tat Ives of Business and Mgn nfuoturliur Interests Praise the Se nior Senator For Ills I.ubors In Be half of Commerce. (Special Correspondence.) Philadelphia, Jan. 31.—The political situation in this city is one of unusual tranquility. The mayoralty campaign is in full progress, yet there is scarcely a meeting being held by either the Re publicans or the Democrats. The fact that Samuel H. Ashbrldge, the Repub lican nominee, has practically a walk over rather discourages the Democrats from doing much. They have a good candidate in Dr. Hoskins, an estimable gentleman, who is willing for his par ty's sake to stand a first class licking. He is going to get it good and hard on election day. Coroner Ashbrldge, in his letter of acceptance, which has just been made public, has made a platform for himself which is in accord with the people, and as he is probably better known to the masses than any other man in the city, they have confidence In him, and he will jH.'.f a great vote. Reformers and stalwarts alike are advocating his election. His manly stand taken in his letter of acceptance against all schemes of the jobbers who have made councils a reproach to the taxpayers has won him many ardent supporters among members of the various reform organizations. There will lie lit tie speechmaklng In the campaign on the Republican side. A meeting of the Republican city com mittee was held today to take up mat ters of party organization. It has been determined by the party managers that Mr. Asbrldgo made such a thorough canvass in seeking the nomination for mayor, addressing meetings nightly in different parts of the city, that there is no necessity for much work in the di rection of introducing Mr. Ashbrldge to the voters. It has been deemed ad visable, however, that both Mr. Ash bridge and the nominee for city so licitor, Mr. Klnsey, shall visit the dif ferent Republican ward executive com mittees at their respective headquart ers and say a few words to the mem bers of the rank and file of the party organization, to encourage them to labor for the success of the ticket on election day. Political interest naturally centers In the senatorial tfght at Harrlsburg. The sympathy of the great number of Republicans of this section of the state Is undoubtedly in favor of the re-elect tion of Senator Quay. The business men and manufacturers have been writing to their representatives in the legislature, urging them to vote for the return of Senator Quay. The interest taken by Senator Quay in the project for the improvement of the Delaware harbor and his success in getting con gress to order a survey of the river and bay for the purpose of getting a 30 foot channel to the sea was again brought to public notice at a meeting of councils committee on harbor Im provements this week. Several of the active members of the board of port wardens, who were present, made ref erences in their speeches to the worlc done by Senator Quay, and highly com mended his efforts not only in the com mittee rooms, but in the hall of con gress. This work, which has been one of the most important public services rendered by Senator Quay, will be a far reaching advantage to the indus trial and commercial interests of not only this city, but of the entire state. It means Increased exports from the port of Philadelphia, which, of course, helps all of the taxpayers and wage earners and financial interests of the commonwealth. "I have reason to believe," said Sena tor Quay, in a letter addressed to a member of one of the commercial bodies the other day, "that we shall secure the necessary appropriation for the improvement of the Philadelphia harbor, though It will require the best efforts of all concerned to get the ap propriation through. I shall do my best." Senator Quay Is also at work looking after appropriations which have been asked for the development of the water ways In western Pennsylvania. Republican clubs and ward commit tees continue to adopt resolutions com mending representatives In the legis lature who are votlns for Senator 1.25 Per. Year. Camber 38. Quay's re-election" A number of "or ganization* have passed resolutions strongly denouncing the boating Re publicans who have so far refused to vote for the nominee of the Republi can caucus for United States senator. Theater goers are interested in the ' bills Introduced in the Pennsylvania legislature by Representatlv« Scott, of this city. One of these provides that no proprietor of any place of amuse ment licensed under the laws of this state shall have the right to Increase any of the prices of admission as ad vertised unless at least one week's no tice of the same shall be given by ad vertisement in the newspapers carry ing the advertisement of the play. This bill Is to protect Imposition on theater goers, especially strangers In the city. Home of the managers have been In the habit of raising rates 100 per cent without notice to the public. Another bill Introduced by the aams member provides that it shall b« un lawful for the proprietor of any li censed place of amusement to sell tick ets of admission without furnishing a seat with each ticket. Some of the theaters continue to sell tickets after every seat lias been occupied, and they then crowd the aisles, making It dan gerous In case of tire. The project for the leasing of the water works of this city has gotten a black eye by the declarations made by the Republican candidate for mayor. Mr. Ashbrldge, in his letter of accept ance. He shows that he will not father any scheme that will deprive the city of any of Its franchises. tale and manufactuu of article*, or which tend to advance. > educe or con trol the price or the cost to the con sumer are declared to be against public policy arid to hp illegal and void. Any corporation violating the provisions of this act shall forfeit its charter. Se vere penalties are provided for those who violate the provisions of the act. Some of the largest business Interests of the state which have been com bining to reduce the number of em ployes and to control prices will be affected by this bill. The railroad companies come In for a full share of the new legislation pro posed. They will find this a more dif ficult house to handle than many of previous legislatures. Wanamaker made a severe attack on corporations In some of his speeches In the last cam paign, and thoush his sincerity was doubted by many, yet he planted the seed which bears fruit In the present agitation. The steam roads have fought the proposition that the trolley railroads shall be glVen power to carry freight, express packages and mall. A bill giving the trolleys this right has been Introduced In the house. It Is to be pushed by those interested In these roads, as well as residents along the lines who would like the conveniences that would be thus afforded. Another bill gives the trolley roads the right of emlne-.t domain, the same as the steam idit. This, too. is to be fought by the jteam roads. Under the pres ent laws a property owner In a town ship can block a trolley road that may be projected through his property, and there la no redress. The proposed laws will provide for a Jury to aßsess the amount of damage to be paid to ths property owner and wllUprovlde for the road togo ahead without Interference. Another Interesting measure before this legislature provides for the fencing in of all railroad tracks by the cor porations running the roads. While In several counties of the state there are special laws providing for this It Is by no means general. A number of states In the Union require the rail roads to fence in all their tracks. The farmers are particularly Interested In this bill for the protection It .would af ford their live stock. This measure is framed to give the state a uniform law providing for the fencing in of all railroad tracks. The subject of a revision of the tax laws of the commonwealth has been reopened. The Grangers have been contending that the corporations have not been paying their proper share of the expenses of the state government. This sentiment is expressed in a reso lution offered by Representative Brown, which provides for the appointment of a commission to make careful Inquiry into the matter and have a report pre pared for submission to the legislature not later than March 1 next, so that the members may have data upon which they may frame a new law If found de sirable. The raising of the tax rate on corporations may be necessary to pro cure the money necessary to finish the new capitol building. Members of the district school boarda will be interested In a bill which pro vides for the appointment of a com mission of which the state superin tendent of public instruction shall be a member, to prepare a series of teat book to be used in the public schools and the soldiers' orphans' schools. They are to advertise for bids for the printing of these books, giving the con tract to the lowest bidders, and the commissioners are to let the district school boards have these books at cost price. It will be unlawful to uae any other than these books In the public schools if this bill becomes a law. (ilnaa Replacing GnsMt. Glass bricks are gradually omnia* into use, and it is said that glaas will soon be used for making statues tor public squares, aa It reaiats the corrod ing effect of the weather much hatter than marble or grantta. A LlmM«4 Hortense — Poor Arabella! Arabella McGlnnia—'Wot'a 4a maUet wid me? Hortense— Why. for ao thin dat 4ere won't be room tor aayt'ins hut aetick o' candy In yer atockU'.
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