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Volume 3.
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SONESTOWN FLAGGING
Company,
ixh. Ei>?»h! amboz ' Agents.
SONESTOWX I'A.
FIKBT NATIONAL BANK
OK DDSHORK, I'ENNA.
CAPITAL - " $50,000.
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Does a General Banking Business.
B.W JKNNINUS, M !>• SNVARTS.
President. Cashier.
LAPORTE HOTEL
AND REST AURA N 1,
LAPORTE, PA.
F. W. GALLAGHER, Prop.
Warm inesl* and lunches at all hours,
Oysters and game in season.
Bar supplied with choicest liquors, wine and
cijant Hood stable room provided.
LAPORTE LIVERY AND
BOARDING STABLES.
Connected with the Commercial
Hotel. First-class Horses and
Carriages.
Rates reasonable.
T.E.KENNEDY Prop.
HOTEL MAINE
THOS iW. BEAHEN, Prop.
LAPORTE, PA.
This new hotel has been recently opened, newly
furnished throughout and will be run for the
THOS. E. KENNEDY, Prop.
LAPORTE PA.
This large and well appointed house is
the most popular hostelry in this section
HOTEL PORTER.
Canton* Street,
"X SHUNK. PA.
W. E. Porter, Prop'r.
CARROLL HOUSE,
D. KBEFE, Proprietor.
DUSHORE, l'A.
On* of the largest and best equipped
hotels in this section of the state.
Table of the best. Rttes 1.00 dollar per .lay.
targe (tablet.
Professional Cards.
J. & F. H. INGHAM,
ATTORN SYS-AT-1. AW,
Legal business attended to
in this and adjoining counties
LAPORTE, PA
£ J.-MULLEN,
Attorney-at-Law.
LAPORTE, PA.
Office over T. J. Keeler's store.
J # H. CRONIN,
ATTORNET*AT -LAW,
NOTARY PUBLIC.
OPrICS OR MAIN STRICT.
DUSHORE, I>A
yyM P. SHOEMAKER,
Attorney-at Law.
Office in County Building.
LAPORTE, PA.
Collections, conveyancing; the settlement of
estates and other legal business will receive
prompt attention.
J J. BRADLEY,
ATTORNIY-AT-LAW,
orrica IK COUNTY BUILDING
NEAR COURT HOUSE.
LAPORTE, l'A
Ellery P. Ingham. Harvey K. Nowitt.
|NGHAM & NEWITT,
ATTORNEYS-AT-L AW,
OFFICES 714-17 FRANKLIN BUILDING.
133 80. 12th Street Philadelphia,
Having retired from the ofllee of United States
Attorney und 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,
HENRY T. DOWNS,
ATTORIfET«AT-LAW:
orriCß IN COURT HOUSE
LAPORTE, PA.
BLACKSMITH
AND WAGON SHOP
Just opened at the Laporte
Tannery.
Custom work solicited. All work
guaranteed.
O. W. BENNETT, Prop.
To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or Sic
If C. C. C. full to cure, druggists refund money
ltd urate Tour Bowel* With Cascareta.
Candy Cathartic, oure constipation forever.
We, Me. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money.
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For some time, but we are through at last. WeV
V are all fixed up in apple pie order for the /
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with the largest and best stock of goods
c have ever had. V
> Something for Everybody,
We think we can please tlie most critical buyer in Sullivan V
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Q D SHORE, PA. THE JEWELER. /
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PAINTS, OILS, VARN SHES and GLASS.
SPECIAL inducements given on
CTOVES and RANGES
and all kinds of HEATING STOVES
for Wood or Coal, suitable for parlors, halls, churches, school houses,
I camps, etc. Attention to a line of Cheap air-tight wood heaters from
$:?.00 to S 10.00, Also a line of coal heaters from $2.50 up to 435.00.
My Special Bargain Siile is open on a line of heaters slightly
damaged by water. Good as new, but they must be sold CHEAP
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 be a handsome
Range. Furnaces always the best on the market. In fact we are
i ready to heat the universe either in hot water, steam or air. Try us,
we guarantee satisfaction.
STOV REPAIRS AND REPAIRING,
I PLUMBING, STEAM FITTING AND SUPPLIES.
! MILL SUPPLIES.
Goles Hardware,
DUSHORE, PA.
Wall Papering
and CARPETING
NOW IS IN KEEPING and
no where will you be better
served.
Over 5000 Rolls in Stock
to select from, patters of CARPET to select from
1000 Window Shades, 1000 yards of Oil Cloth.
Barbed Wire, Wire Nails here by the Car Load.
Landeth's Garden Seeds are the most
Reliable.
Earliest Seed Potatoes*
Jeremiah Kelly,
HUGHESVILLE.
"ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY."
LAPORTE, PENNA., THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1891
MARTIN'S MAYOR
QUITS THE THRONE
Close of an Administration Which
Gave the Political Bolter
His Power.
ASHBRIDGE TAKES THE OATH
The Sew Mayor of Philadelphia Al
ready In I.luo Willi the ltepublican
stalwarts of the State, aud Indicates
Hla Position by Ills Appointments.
(Special Correspondence.)
Philadelphia, April 4.—Naturally tlio
principal subject of political interest this
week wait the swearing in of Samuel 11.
Ashbridge yesterday as mayor of Phila
delphia and the retirement of Charles F.
Warwick from that position. The im
mediate effects of the change will be
far reaching and important. They will
extend not only to every ward and dis
trict of this city, but will have a marked
and positive bearing upon political con
ditions in the state.
This is to be a stalwart ltepublican
administration. Ashbridge is a stalwart
of the most pronounced type. He be
lieves in the maintenance of party or
ganization, in party discipline and in the
recognition of those who labor for the
welfare of the party. The caucus bolter
or the party kicker need not call at the
mayor's office for favors or considera
tion of any kind politically while Ash
bridge occupies the mayor's chair. The
retirement of Warwick will be a severe
loss to David Martin. As far as the poli
tics of the mayor's office during the last
four yearn, Martin has virtually liecit
mayor. There was no appointment, big
or iittle, iu which he was interested that
was not made as soon as he asked for it
or, at least, until the mayor had an op
portunity to create a vacancy. The lease
of that immense prolit making institu
tion, the gas works, was made to po
litical friends of Martin during the
Warwick administration, and Martin's
wealth was added to thereby to a con
siderable amount.
"THINGS ARE DIFFERENT."
Things will l>e different under Ash
bridge. as was made apparent by his
first appointments, his next directors be
ing Messrs. W, C. Haddock and A. L.
English.
Mayor-elect Ashbrldge's appointments
will i»< accepted very generally as ex
cellent ones, and he will have in his
cabinet as directors men with whom he
has had close connection during his of
ficial career. Mr. Haddock, while in
politics he has been identified with the
Martin faction, has not been appointed
to the department of public works for
that reason, but for the reusoii that his
capabilities as an executive officer are
well known to the mayor-elect. The
mayor himself will be the real head. The
grcut office from a political point of
view is that of director of public safety,
and this office goes to Mr. English with
the full indorsement of Senator Quay's
Philadelphia leader. * -uel W. Durham,
and his friends. The political prestige of
cabinet selections is. therefore, all with
Durham, for Martin, without the police
and firemen to fall back upon and with
out the full backing of the director of
public safety, is shorn of his power and
left stranded high and dry. a political
wreck.
Mr. Ashhridge lias given fair and
square notice that this to IK- an Ash
bridge administration and not a Martin
administration. It is certuin tliat the
public will soon discover that David
Martin as a boss is done for. that as a
loader he will he confined to the boun
daries of his own ward, and that the
old combine will soon become but a dis
agreeable and obnoxious memory.
LANE'S STALWART WORDS.
Quaker City Republicans were natur
ally interested in the visit paid last week
to Harrisbnrg by David 11. I.ane. who
has been the most intimate friend, po
litically. of Mr. Ashbridge for many
years. Mr. Lane was a guest of Gov
ernor Stone at the executive mansion.
I'pon his return from the capital, Mr.
1.11 lie i i the course of a brief chat, said:
"I have not changed my views in the
slightest degree as to the senatorial situ
ation. In my opinion there is nothing else
for the stalwart Republican members of
the legislature to do but to adhere to
ihoir policy of giving loyal and undivided
support to their caucus nominee. This is
the logical and proper course to pursue.
The integrity of Republican organiza
tion must be maintained, if the party is
to be successful at the polls."
Mr. Lane is one of the ablest Repnbli
can leaders in the state. He believes it
is useless for the "insurgents" to com
fort each other and to try to lessen the
enormity -of their offense by spreading
I heir stories of the readiness of Quay to
retire. He cannot rettire. declared Mr.
fiane. In the first place, it is not his way
to surrender to an attack of guerrillas. In
the second place, lie has no right to re
tire. for It is not the personality of Quay
that is at stake, but the great principle
which he represents—the principle of the
right of the majority to rule. No man
run become a bolter without aiming a
blow at this principle. No Republican
can vote against Quay without accepting
the vicious, dangerous and revolutionary
doctrine of minority rule. No one who
values his future can follow the two
guerrilla bosses. Mr. Lane holds that
there is but one thing to do, and that is
for every genuine Republican to stand
by his party and defy the bolters to do
their wofat.
PENROSE'S NEW POWER.
Senator Penrose is the recipient of
hundreds of letters each week from dlf
l'erent counties in tin- state ror appli
cants for appointment to positions under
the new census bureau. There will be
many desirable places iu this branch of
the federal service, and the neaut.v of
them is that they will not be restricted
by the civil service regulations which
make col'ege graduates favorites in the
competitive tests required before many
federal appointments can be made. It is
announced from Washington that these
appointments will be made in accord
ance with the scheme outlined by Presi
dent McKinley for the selection of fourth
class postmasters. Where there is a Re
publican congressman in a district the
recommendations of this representative
will be recognized, but In Democratic
congressional districts, the United States
•enutors' Indorsement must appear upon
tli>- application blank. Thus, should the
deadlock at Ilarrlsburg not be broken.
•Senator Penrose will have the naming
of these census appointments in every
Democratic district in the state. He will,
of course, li#!p to strengthen the regular
ltepublican organization wherever pos
sible by these appointments.
STALWART COLORS
PROUDLY CARRIED
Republican Regulars Withstand
All Assaults From the
Insurgents.
SENATORIAL FIGHT NEARLY OVER.
Colonel Quay Returns From Florida
und Finds Ills Forces In Splendid
Trim For the Clonluk Days of the
struKtcle For Supremacy of Party
Oi'gunl/.ntloii.
(Special Correspondence.)
Harrisburg. April 4.—Another Repub
lican county has swung iuto line for
stalwurt Republicanism and against the
caucus bolters and party wreckers in
the legislature. Delaware, by an over
whelming vote, lias elected four dele
gates to the Republican state conven
tion who will be in line and iu harmony
with the present state organization, and
will co-operate with the delegates al
ready elected iu La wren.—i>.J : ana,
I'lair, Union, Warren. Lancaster, Mon
tour, Butler und the other counties
which have named their state delegates.
There has uot been 11 single delegate
elected up to date who is allied with the
Flinn-Martin leadership.
This emphatic action coming direct
from the ltepublican voters of the state
has hud a wonderful effect upon the
Republican members of the legislature
who* have been voting foj the caucus
nominee. Colonel M. S. Quuy. for United
States senator. Despite the most des
perate tactics of a crowd of bold poli
ticians of the Flinn-Martin type, the
temptations offered to desert the party's
standard bearer und the assaults and
misrepresentations of the subbsidized
newspapers, the regulars present au un
broken column to every attack of the
insurgents. Colonel Quay's return from
Florida iu improved health has been an
inspiration to his supporters and they de
clare they will stand true to their cau
cus action to the end. There are all sorts
of rumors and reports put afloat by the
Flinn-Martin news bureau intended to
create dissensions and distrust iu the
rank* of the stalwarts, but they have
not made the slightest impression.
The bolters are spreading the stories
that Quay is weakening; that he is
tired of the deadlock: that his friends
are about to break away and elect some
bolter —John Dalzell, for instance; or
thut he will make Senator Magee his
successor. It is very well known that
Senator Quay, could he have consulted
his own wishes, would not have been a
candidate for re-election. Had he been
let alone he would have retired, but
Quay is not the man to retire under fire.
When Wauamakerism began its career
of political falsehood, spite and malice,
and assailed Quay from every political
stump, there was nothing for Quay to do
but fo meet his enemies and give battle
to them. He did meet them at the No
vember polls and thrashed them thor
oughly. That a minority is able to hold
up the legislature and prevent an elec
tion is due not fo the votes of I lie people,
but to the deliberate treachery of David
Martin ami to the personal hatred of
William Flinn. Treachery and hatred
are alone the factors responsible for the
disgraceful state of affairs.
The rounding tip of the bolters to
Dalzell is pointed to by the guerrilla
newspaper organs as an example of
"superb discipline." For once they are
right. It is au example of discipline—of
that discipline enforced by a couple of
political bosses which drives men like a
pack of slaves to do the bidding of the
masters. Contractor Flinn nods to his
henchmen and they obey. Ross Martin
crooks his fingers and his following ;
hastens to fall into line. First the bosses
supported Dalzell. This week they will
take up some one else, it matters not
whom —for an order is an order and the
personal interests of a pair of bosses, the
career of one of whom, nt least, is about
run. are of more importance than party
principles and political honor.
The people, however, realize that the
campaign being waged against Senator
Quay is hacked by personal malice and
revenge, and they will not tolerate a
surrender or a compromise to a hand of
guerrillas. The Quay flag has been nailed
to the mast of stalwart Republicanism
and cannot be hauled down in this fight. ■
PENROSE TALKS OUT.
United States Senator Penrose, acting '
a* spokesman tor the stalwart Reoubli-
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rails, cleai-l.v sefs form the policy ol "v.u
surrender to the insurgents."
"Senator Quay," remarked Senator
Penrose, "is naturally much pleased with
the expressions that have come from the
Republicans of various counties at the
Republican primary elections, sustain
ing the action of those members of ♦he
legislature who have stood by the Re
publican caucus nominee on the senator
ship.
"The present senatorial contest in
volves greater principles than are pre
| seated by any individual candidacy.
AVflile Senator Quay is the unanimous
choice of a legally held caucus of Re
publican members of the present legis
lature, participated in by over two-thirds
of the Republican membership of the
general assembly, and while his candi
dacy will be supported !>y his friends vig
orously to the end. yet ro every stalwart
Republican the issue involved is broader
than his personal canvass, and is over
shadowed by the question of mainten
ance of party regularity and party or
ganization.
THE PRINCIPLE AT STAKE.
"The principle that the will of the ma
jority legally ami freely expressed must
be sustained cannot be questioned. There
can be no intercourse or negotiations
looking to settlement or compromise with
a bolting, factious minority. Such a mi
nority would doubtless lie glad or an op
portunity to set-lire such recognition
from the regulars as would restore tUem
to standing in tin- regular organization
of the party, which they have forfeited.
"Tb»re is only one path open to their
return, and that is acquiescence in the
determination of the majority, otherwise
the political career of each bolter will
soon be finished.
"Already the sweeping victories of the
regular stalwart Republicans el' Penn
sylvania who place party success above
the gratification of personal revenge or
misguided ambition afford unrnsitukable
evidence that the course of the regular
Republicans in this legislature who sus
tain Senator Quay as the nominee o.' the
caucus will be overwhelmingly vindicated
at the next state convention. The regu
lar Republican element will lie in abso
lute control of that convention, and the
result will be the elimination from the
Republican organization of those who
have been treacherous and unfaithful
to it."
MEMBERS ON RECOUP.
The leadiug licpublican members of
the legislature do not hesitate to express
themselves as to the sentiment they find
existing among their constituents, and as
to their own feelings in the matter.
Representative \V. C. Kreps. of Frank
lin, is one of the lenders on tile floor of the
bouse, to whom his colleagues frequently
go for council and advice.
"Nothing further is needed to prove
the individual integrity nnd political loy
alty of the men in the Quay column,"
says Mr. Kreps. "than is shown by the
fact that in the past l'_' weeks no un
expected desertions have occurred. This
is a monumental tribute to the sterling
Republicanism oT the regulars, when one
considers the immense pressure that has
been brought to bear on some men, und
the guerrilla warfare waged by the des
perate leuders of the insurgents on oth
ers. These tilings confirm the belief that
the Quay ranks will stand firm —not
bound together by 'iron clad pledges,' as
are the bolters —but on the broad, fun
damental principle of our government,
'that the majority shall rule.' Kacli man
feels that he is upholding the banner of
the regular Republican organization,
that party unity and party existence are
at stake, ami L believe that each one
will continue loyal and steadfast uutil
the nominee of the regular organization
is elected.
"While there is harmony of feeling, of
purpose and of action among the regular
Republicans, this cannot la- truthfully
said of the bolters—discontent and dis
satisfaction are known to exist in their
ranks among the younger and more am
bitious men. They are beginning to
realize the greatness of the blunder they
have made in being lured bv false lights
into the ranks of the party wreckers,
and they now discover they are over
shadowed and obscured by the present
prominence of these leaders individual
ly, as their every action is attributed to
the obedience of bossism."
"This fight against Senator Quay," de
clares I>r. R. A. Todd, member of the
house from Lawrence county, "is a most
malicious one. It is waged on wholly
personal and spiteful grounds. It is not
founded on wise policy nor conducted in
a manly way. I have heard hundreds
of expressions of opinion 011 the part of
indifferent persons who have been watch
ing this peculiar crusade against Mr.
Quay. Invariably they are 1o the effect
that it is guerrilla warfare, unmanly,
unfair, unjust, wanton and revengeful.
Such methods receive the censure and
strong condemnation of just jieople. not
their approval. At any rate Mr. Quay
is as good, if not an ace better, than
John Wanamaker. who has instituted
this whole fight: hi- is just as good, nnd
the (H-ople of Pennsylvania will tell Mr.
Klinu so. if Mr. Flint) will consent to
run for state chairman, in emphatic
votes cast at regularly held primaries, as
(lie Pittsburg state senator is. The gen
tleman must Irv another tack if he wish
es to down Quay. He is now an aspirant
for state chairman. Flow would regular
Republicans like to be led by Mr. Flinn.
a kicker, a rampant, vicious, would-b*
party wrecker?
"Senator Quay will be the ne*t sena
tor. Mark what I fell you. He will never
be defeated in Pennsylvania by the base .
processes practiced today to
his political annihilation. Exit the kicker
from party councils."
112 lbany, April I.— Charles H. Daul,
who was recently api>ointel Superin
tendent of Repairs for Section 3. Erie
Canal, has lmnde4 In bis resignation.
Col. Partridge announced the appoint
men of lllram Schuyler of Minavllle.
Montgomery county, to fill toe vacan
cy. - .