Republican News Item. Published Every Thursday. Volume 1 Business Cards. SONESTOWN FLAGGING Company, Cha«. P. BiU»nibo»i, /\<r,.nts. D. H. liorali, 'VA" 1 SONESTOWN RA FIKST NATION AI. lIANK oh' nrSHOUK. I'KNNA. CAPITAL - - WO.OOO. SURPLUS - - SIO,OOO. Iloes a Cient-ru.l I"itnlv itijj lluniiiefw. h W..IENNTNOS, M l>. SWARTS. President. cashier. LAPORTE HOTEL AN n 11EST A I' It AN 1, LAPORTE, PA. V. W. GALLAdHKR. I'ri>l>. Warm meals ftiid luudios at till hours, Oysters and game in season. Bar supplied with choicest liiiunrs, wine and I'igare. (iooil stable mum provided. LAPORTE LIVERY AND BOARDING STABLES. Connected with the Commercial Hotel. First-class Horses and < 'airiages. Hates reasonable. T.E.KENNEDY Prop. HOTEL MAINE THOS IW. BEAIIKN. Prop. LAPORTE, PA. This new hotel has lieen « 4 4 1 . 1 ' 1 I >' I "'.V''Hl!- 1 Vt'.O furnished throughout and wil * 112 » tpecial accomodation oi the timeling I" 11 The best stocked bar in the county. Hates art low. COMMERCIAL HOUSE. THOH. K. KRNNF.DY. Prop. LAPORTE PA. This large ami well appointed house is the most popular hostelry in this section HOTEL PORTER. Can ton' Street, "ISHUNK, PA. W. E. PORTER, Prop' R. CARROLL HOUSE, 1). KBEPB, Proprietor. MJKIIORK, I*A. One of the largest and best, equipped hotels in this seetion otthe state. Table of the best, lutes l Oil dollar per day. Large Shi Ides. Professional Cards. J # J. & F. H. INGHAM, ATTOHNKVS-AT-I.AW, Legal business attended t» in this and adjoining counties LAPORTE, ,>A £ J. MULLEN, Attorney-at-Law. LAPORTK, PA. Office over 'l'. •!. Kecler'R store. J H. CRONIN, A TTOHN K.Y W AT I. AW, NOTAttY HUBMC. OFFICII ON MAIN HTItKKT. UIISIIOKK, ,A P. SHOEMAKER, Attorney at Law. ( lllice in County Building. LAPOHTK, PA. Collections, conveyancing: the settlement of estates and other legal business will receive prompt attention. | J. BRADLEY, ATTORN B Y-AT-I.AW, orPICB IN COUNTY ttllll.DlNO NKAK COI)UT lIOUMK. LAPOHTK, PA tillery P. Ingham. Harvey K. Newitt. |NGHAM & NEWITT, ATTORN LAW, OKKIOKS 7I4-17 FRANKLIN lUIILDINii. IXI So. 12th Street Philadelphia, Having retired from the office of United Stall's Attorney ami Assistant United States Attorney, will continue the general practice ot law in the I'nited States courts, anil all the courts of tin- City and County of Philadelphia, HENRY T. DOWNS, ATTORN KV-AT-I.AW: UKKICK IN OollHT IIOIIS K LAPOHTK, PA. BLACKSMITH AND WAGON SHOP Just opened at the Import" Tannery, Custom work Molii'iteil. All work guaranteed. O. W. BENNETT, Prop. To Cure (Tonlit I put ton Forever. Take Casearets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 4 J"»c If <\ C. C. fail to cure, refund iiioui*v •educate Tour Howell With Canrareta. Candy Cathartic, cure cuiiMiipation forever. 10c, 86w. it CC. C. fall, druggistarefuud money. ;We have been ✓ House £ For some time, but we are through at last. WeN 112 are all fixed up in apple pie order for the r Spring s —C with the largest and best stock of goods \ Somethingfor Everybody, before purchasing. J ) \\'(. think we can please the most critical buyer in Sullivan^ \ RJSTTENBURY, S C DUSHORE, PA. THK JEWELER. ✓ Coles.. Z. * GENERAL fiardwarc— WAßE PAINTS, OILS, VARNSHES and GLASS. SPECIAL inducements given on CTOVES and RANGES and all kinds of HEATING STOVES I'm- Wood or Coal, suitable for parlors, halls, churches, school houses, camps, etc. Attcnti' >to a line of Cheap air-tight wood heaters from $.'».00 to SIO.OO. Also a line of coal heaters from S'-.00 up to S-^o.OO. My Special Bargain Sale is open on a line of heaters slightly damaged by water. (Hood as new. but they must be sold CHEAP If in need of a. cheap beater, call early. My "Dockash" Ranges are without a question the Quest in the market, made tip of the hest. material and designed to he a handsome Itauge. Furnaces always the l>est <>n the market. In fact we are ready t<> lieat the universe either in hot water, steam or air. Try us, we guarantee sat isfaction. STOY KEPAIKrt AND RKPAIIiING. I'Ll'M IMNG, STEAM KITTING AND SI I'l'Ll KS. MILL SI'PI'IjI 128. Goles Hardware DUSHORE, PA. gUMMER NECESSITIES. Screen Doors Ready to hang 75c 1.00 1.25 Window Screens 15c. 25c, 35c. ICE CREAM FREEZEftS Best Make 1.90 up t<> 6.75. HAMMOCKS 50c; up to 3.75. riQUIMP < irc.il variety. »'loth Musket*, ">Uc and r lonllNlJ I nul\LL. ii|>. ('un't lie heat for the sunu> money. Western Washers Clothes wringers up, White enameled, all iron beds up to «;,<«>. Bed springs, woven wire, 1.7$ up to 5.00 to suit. Couches and lounges to iyi*i. Baby carriages, up to All goods delivered to your R.R. station. Jeremiah Kelly, HUGHESVILLE. "ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY." LAPORTE, I'ENNA., THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 189!). THE BRYAN MEN RULED THE ROOST Pennsylvania Democrats Put a Free Silver Ticket on a Free Silver Platform. 60LD MEN BOLT IKE CONVENTION. Proposed C'ampalgu Wltli the Repub lican Inaumeuts ou State Issue* Uoea to Smavb lu a Bryan l.uudsllde. (Special Correspondence.) Ilarrlsburg, June 20. —All the plans of the Republican Insurgents and the Guffey Democrats to run the Demo cratic campaign this fall on atate is sues went to smash In the Democratic state convention which met here last week. The stalwart workers of the minority party refused to allow their state organisation to be made a tail to the Wanamaker kite. They asserted their independence in bold und true bourbon Democratic style. They de manded that Bryau be recognized as the Democratic national leader, and despite the pleadings of the insurgent allies, they placed in the first plan's of the platform upon which they will run the campaign unqualified and emphatic indorsement of William Jen nings Bryan, whom they then unl there designated as "our matchless leader." There can be no question of tlie fact that the silver knight of Ne braska still has the hearts of the working force of the organization of Pennsylvania's Democracy. Not only does he figure conspicuously in the platform, but there wan scarcely a speaker who addressed the conven tion who did not use his name to con jure with in seeking applause or votes for a candidate for honors from the convention. One year ago Guffey want ed to elect Jenks governor, and count ed upon Republican insurgent helo lie even kept out Bryan's name. This week he was obliged to yield to the party workers, and once more Bryan appears as the favorite of the Demo crats of the Keystone state. SILVER TICKET ON A SILVER PLATFORM. Not only did the convention adopt a Bryan platform, but it put a full Bryau ticket in the field to run upon it. No one who was suspected of dis loyalty to the silver ticket of the last presidential campalgu had the ghost of a show to get a nomination from this convention. There was a straight out tight made upon the money issue. Were it not for this fact Judge Yerkes, of Bucks, would have received the nomination for the supreme beach, (luffev wanted him on the ticket to keep the gold Democrats in line for his nominee tor state treasurer, lie had to yield to the Bryanites on the plat form, but he hoped to be able to play the Palmer and Buckner people with a gold bug running for the supreme bench. But the boys would not have it. They proposed to rule the roos:, and they ruled it their way. Again (Juffev had to come down off his perch and the Bryan shouters have what they wanted. Judge Alestrezat, of Kayatte, who aspired to the supreme bench, made his canvass for the nomination upon the broad principle that "I am u Democrat," very much after the David B. mil. ntyle of canjpalgntM- His literature alttrlfcuted to the dele gate* deieaifted mm as "a Democrat pasateseiftg the Jeffersanlan requisite* of ability, keneety and fa(thWlpQps lo the constitution" and as "comingdreni a long Ifnfe of Democratic ancestors, aud is In hiß,polltlcal faith to the.man or born." 1-ie was also described as tin ardent supporter of Democratic candi dates. local, state and natiqnal, at all times. This is what suited the silver men, and with a great hurrah they nominated Judge Mestrezat for the supreme court on the twensty-eflghth ballot. ANOTHER BRYANITE HONORED. h'ollowlng up this victory,/the silver men nominated Charles J. 'Reilly, of Wllliamsport, for the superior court, tie is one of the best known Bryan supporters in Pennsylvania. He was permanent chairman of the» conven tion.and in opening the proceedings he made a regulation stalwijart speech of the Jacksonian brand. He spoke of"the great party that gave us a Jefferson, a Jackson, u. (Hancock, n Tilden and a Schlejj." 'iJhere was u mild display of enthi'shu?n over the mention of the last uane. tout when in the next breath he added. "It gave to us the moral, the inte&ectual, the great, the superb and matxjhlesa.leader. William Jeuuings Bryan*" there was a tremendous demonstration. The cheering lasted fully one minute and was repeated twice, the col onel throwing the hero of Santiago completely in the shade. So much for the judicial nomina tions. Of course, WUliam T. Creasy, of Co lumbia, Quftey'a slated candidate, was nominated for state trenaurdr. Creasv stood by the Bryanites in ,the presi dential campaign, and they'could not well object to his nonofnatlbu. He is uot oouular. however. *with»the stal watt Democrats. 111 view of" his course" in the last legislature iu opposing leg islation for which the Democratic party fought for many years. On account of his associations with the Van Val kenburg outfit, Creas.v's Democracy has frequently been questioned. He will be bitterly opposed for election by or ganized labor throughout the state. SOUND MONEY MEN BOLT. There hare been many protests from the sound money Democrats against the UufTey leadership in permitting th« I state convention to be dominated try the silverites. Many of then deblare they will not vote the ticket thig fall. They say that for this Bryan ticket to receive a large vote in November would be notice to the werld that Pennsylvania stands for the Chicago platform and demands that Bryan shall once more be the nominee of the Democracy for president. A* incident in the state committer illustrates the feeling of the gonad money men on this question. When Charles P. Donnelly, who was madu chairman of the committee on plat form, mounted the stage to present his report, the popular Philadelphia leader wan received with applause. He ha<l but few sentences to read before he reached Bryan's name, and then the convention fairly weut off its feet i»i wildly cheering, shouting and yelling for the Nebraska colonel. The chair man of the cop-entiou promptly put the question. when a motion was made to adopt the platform as presented, and it was carried with shouts of approval. lit an instant John Cadwalader. Jr., of Philadelphia, commanded the eve of the presiding officer. "Mr. Chair man." said he, calmly, "iu view of the fact that Mr. Bryan's name appears in the platform I shall withdraw from this convention." Then came a scene of wild disorder. Nobody knew to what exteut the bolt would reach. "Put him out, put him out," came indignant shouts from the galleries, and us Mr. Cadwalader left the hall a storm of hisses followed him to the door. Many other gold men would have withdrawn also wore they not interested in candidates for supreme judge. The Itryan hurrah started with the speech of the temporary chairman, William M. Brinton, of Lancaster, who was only permitted to get off a long winded address by giving the patriots frequent occasion to cheer for their favorite national leader. They have since renounced the and the platform. REPUBLICANS PLEASED. It is almost unnecessary to state that the Republican leaders are net a bit sorry that the Democratic party named free silverites ou its ticket, amd that it openly endorsed Bryan. They watched the convention with conald erable interest. They wanted to kmow just how easy the Democrats intended making the campaign. That the Re publicans are convinced that they will have an easy time of it in the fall can vass goes witUbut saying. "We will have a cinch." said one of the Republican leaders. "If we had planned the convent ion at Harriaburg ourselves we could not have done more efficient work in the interest of the Re publican party. Pennsylvania does not believe in free silver men, nor does it believe in Bryan, and it means that the Republicans will have an old fash ioned majority in the fall tight." The Democrats are now in a position where they cannot expect aid from so called independent sources. In the gu bernatorial campaign of last year the Democratic platform abstained from mentioning the name of Bryan, and in this way the party got support that otherwise would have gone elsewhere. But now with Bryan endorsed, aud the presidential campaign but a year dis tant, it is not to be expected that the Democrats will have even a united party. The gold Democracy see plainly that they are not appreciated in the Dem ocratic party in Pennsylvania, and fur thermore that they are being constant ly punished because they voted the Palmer and Ruckner presidential ticket. They point to Judge Yorkes' case, for instance, and they say that it is outrageous that the fact that he was against Bryan should knve been used against him in his candidacy for the supreme court."l suppose that they can do without our money and our votes." said a well known gold Democrat the other day."After turning down Yerkes on the Bryan issue it looks as though that in the future they will get neither. We are sick and tired of such treatment, and we propose to resent it to the bitter end." IDIMS FOR 1 SUPERIOR COURT. Philadelphia. Juue lit).—Republicans of Pennsylvania are now preparing to put a good ticket in the held against the Bryan outfit named by the D«mo • rats. Republican State Chairman John P. Elkin is getting the vi»ws of the members of the Republican state ■ oininlttee as to the most degirable dale upon which to hold the state con vention. which will without doubt be held at Harrisburg. Under the ruleg I governing lite Republican organisation j of Pennsylvania the convention cannot be held this year before the last week iu August. The opinion prevails that | Thursday, Aug. 31, will be the day I finally determined upon. As to the candidates likely to be chosen, with possibly one exception. , there is still great uncertainty. Be j sides the candidate for state treasurer there will be oue nominee for the su- 1.25 p cr. Year. Number 11. pram* oencu ana one ior toe" superior court. No one is in a position to pick the winner in the contest for the treas urerahip. The party leaders hare reached no agreement upon ujr candi date for thii office, and the mUtir may iiot be settled before the rounding up of the situation, when the delegate* reach the convention city. The retire ment of Manufacturer Joseph Bosler, of Montgomery, as an aspirant for this honor leaves General . Schall. of the same county, the only candidate in the cast who has thus far entered the race. There is a trio of available men in the west who have been discussed for this office, any one of wliom would make a strong candidate. They are Colonel Hawkins and Lieutenant Colonel Bar net, both Of Washington county, who will be home shortly with their regi ment, "the fighting Teuth," from Ma nila. and General of Venango. If "the fighting Tenih" gou backbefftre the convent ion meets and either Haw kins or Burnet shall desire togo on The ticket, it would require but an intima tion of the fact to bring a prompt ac quiescence from the party organiza tion. It is not known whether either of them would care to run. however, so there the matter rests. ASPIRANTS FOR THE JUDGESHIPS. The prophets are as much at sea on the supreme court nomination. The two most talked about for the honor are Common Pleas Judge Arebbald. ot l.arkawnna. and Supreme Court Jus tice Porter, of Allegheny. It is impos sible to figure out a sure, thing for either. The nomination of Judge Mes tresat. of Fayette, by the. Democrats, with his election to the supreme court assured, may be to the disadvantage of Judge Porter, whose friends have been using as '.'.lelr strongest argument in favor of his nomination the fact that the western section of the state was without its proper representation on the supreme bench. Admirers oi Judge Arebbald have already come to the front with the claim that the great northeastern belt of counties should have a member of the supreme court. There are intimations that a dark horse may capture This nomination. Lyman D. Gilbert and Judge< Wuiss. of Dauphin, and J. Hay Brown, of Lan caster. have all bssu proposed, and anv one of them, should he permit th« use of his name in this connectiou. could command a strong following. Judge W. 1). Wallace, of Lawrence, has also pow erful backing. The superior court nomination, it is conceded, will goto a Philadelphia!! and there Is little doubt that the can diilacy of Josiah H. Adams will meet with success. He will have the bulk of the Philadelphia vote, even though a fight be made against him. But it is not at all improbable that the entire Philadelphia delegation will be at his back, and that Justice Dlmner Bee be r will not be a candidate for re-election by the time the convention meats. Counsellor Adams has a wide acquaint ance throughout the state, and his friends have received very gratifying assurances of support of his candidacy from delegates from a number of coun ties. While Plains. ,\. Y„ June I!'.- -peter nil.l John Met limy. s ami l«i years old. respectively, sons of Peter Mctliuty. were drowned while bathing with sev eral companions in t'io:.er's Pond which is about eight miles east of this place. It is a deep sheet of water on the l'arui formerly owned l>.v lilchard Croker. The McGinty lio.vs were play insr on a raft and fell off. for Mct'oy and Kit/.. Chicago. June IK. The Colorado Ath letic Association lias offered a S'JO.INNI purse for a t weniy-tivo-rnuiid contest between Bob Fiusinimons and Kid" Mct'oy. The proposed tight is to be for the middleweight championship of the world. McCoy lias wired his ac ceptance. saying that lie would tight at 1 ">N iMiunds or at catch weights ou any fair terms. I it ion Student Drowned. Schenectady. X. Y.. June Hi.—Harold SUidmoi'e. nineteen .veals old. of South old. Long island, a member of the class of *D2. T'nlon College, was drowned in the Mohawk River. He went in bathing, but could not swim. He went beyond bis depth, and despite the strenuous efforts of his companion was drowned In six feet of water. Sherman Has a IteU.pse. Manslield. 0.. June lit.—Ex-Secretary John Sherman is suffering from a re currence of the lung trouble with which he was afflicted while on a trip to the West Indies. On Juw Bhe con tracted cold, which has developed Into a mild but annoying affection of the lungs. Ills condition is not regarded as serious. Funeral of Hear Admiral Crosby. Washington. June lft.—The funeral services over the body of Kear-Admiral Pierce Crosby were held in St. John's Episcopal Church, in this city, aud the burial was in the National Cemetery at Arlington. The escort esuslated of bluejackets from the N'ary Vard. The services were brief. steady Work at Collieries. sbamoklu. Pa.. June 111.—Thirty tiye hundred employes of the* Philadelphia and Heading < oal and imu. Company in the Shamokln reglo*>.4KW>aMace(l work ihK morning. The*«W*tee Will be operated six days a tfeeh for an In definite period. They b:tve»ben work ins; uncertain hours for some time. Reciprocity With IteriiiuriH. Washington. June l».-—Despatches received by the British Embassy say that a reciprocity comtuisai«a has sailed Iron, lleriimda. and .will arrive here about the middle nf Rest week.
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