Republican News Item. Published Every Thursday. Volume 4. Business Cards. SONESTOWN FLAGGING Company, Chas. F. Billamboz, «nt_s, D. H. liorah, 'V' 1 " 3 SONESTOWN P-M Fikst national hank OK nrsHOHE, I'KNNA. CAPITAL - * $50,000. SUHPIjUB - - SIO,OOO. Does a General Hanking Business. HW. .1 KNNINUK, M ■ "• A 1!1 President. Cashier. I .APORTE LIVERY AND BOARDING SVABLES. j Connected with the Commercial Hotel. First-class Horses and j Carriages. Rates reasonable. T.E.KENNEDY Prop. HOTEL MAINE TllOa. W. BEAHEN, Prop. LAPORTE, IJA.l J A. This new hotel luis recently o|>eiied, newly fin iiit-lieil throughout and "ill he run Mtecinl accomodation "I On* traveling |> 1 Vile lt-l stocked hill iutheeollllty. Kates are low. I COMMERCIAL HOUSE. TIIOS. E. KKNNfiDV.l'rop. LAI'OKTK I'A. t'liis hirgi! unit well apfM.iitletl house is I Ilia moHl .popular hostelry in this suction | HOTEL PORTER. Canton Htreet, - C 3 *"*" SIIUNK, PA. W. E. PoitTMt, Prop'r. CARROLL HOUSE, l>. K fcS'KB'K, Proprietor. I'IITHIIOKK, I'A. One of the largest an.l best equipped ! hotels in this seel ion "I the stute. Table 111 Hie hest. Hales I OH dollar per ■ I:• y• |.arg« si.ihlefl. i'roftssioual Cards. J. & F. H. INGHAM, ATTOItNKVs at i.AW, Legal business uttemleil to in tiiis antl adjoining eounties _ A I'OHTH, . ,>A j j: .1. MULLEN, Attorney-at- Law. I.APOHTE, I'A. Otlice liver T. J. Keeler's store. | H. CRONIN, J. ATTOHNS.V-AT LAW, NUTAKY I'IIBI.IC. iIKKII'K ON MAIN STRUCT. fJUSHORB, I'A | P. SHOEMAKER, Attorney at Law. i Mice in ('onnly l'>nil<ling. LAI'OItTK, I'A. Colleelinns, conveyancing: the settle lit of t'r I ales Hint other legal business will reeeive |iroin|it attention. j\ J. BRADLEY, ATTOKNKV AT LAW, orriCß IN COUNT V 11II11.1) I N 0 NKAII COUKT HOUSK. LAVoIITK, I'A Mllory P. Ingham. Harvey K. Now ill. JNGHAM & NEWITT, ATTOIINKIfS-.A^LAW, OFFICES 714-17 FRANKLIN MULDINtf. l&t So. 12th Street Philadelphia, Having retired from the office of l T niti »l States Attorney ami Assistant railed States Attorney, will continue the general practice of law in the I nittxi States courts, ami all llie courts of the city ami County of Philadelphia, BLACKSMITH AND WAGON SHOP Just opened at the Laport'i Tannery. Custom work solicited. All work guaranteed. O. W. BENNETT, Prop. To Cure Coiistipution Fornver. Take ('a.scarets Cantlv Cathartic. 10c or!!T»c If i' t.'.C. tail toeure, tlruuKisls refuuil money Kdnrate Your Koweta Willi Citßruretn. Candy (Tathartic, cure constipation forever. 10c, '.'sc. If C. C. C. tall, druKKists retinal money. Kverfbody Bays So. Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the most won derful medical discovery of the age, pleas ant and refreshing to the taste, aet geutly oud positively on kidneys, liver and bowels, eleansiuK the entire system, dispel colds, cure heudaohe, lever, habitual constipation and biliousness. Please buy and try a box of C. C. O. to-day; 10, 2a, fit) cents. Sold and guaranteed to cure by all druggists. Educate four Bowels With Caacaretn. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever 10c, ii6c. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money! 3We have been ) House V For some time, but we are through at last. Wi\ 112 are all fixed up in apple pie order for the ( ftrabe 5 with the largest and best stock of goods we/ J have ever had. \ \ Somethingfor Everybody, ""'"J J We think we can pletise the IIIONI critical buyer in Sullivan j li('H|ieetfu!lv Yours, £ \ RETT EN BURY, ) C dushore, PA THK JEWELER. ) Coles.., m GENERAL Fjflf d C p D wA R E PAINTS, OILS, VARKSHES and GLASS. SPECIAL inducements given on CTOVESand RANGES and all kinds of HEATING STOVES for Wood or Coal, suitable for parlors, halls, churches, school houses, camps, etc. Attention lo a line of Cheap air-tight wood heaters from $.">.00 to SIO.OO, Also a line of coal healers from $2,50 up to $35.00, My Special Bargain Sale is open on a line of heaters slightly damaged l>y water. Good as new, hut thev must he 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 hest material and designed to he a handsome Range, Furnaces always the l»est oil the market. In fact we are ready to heat the universe cither in hot water, steam or air. Try us. we guarantee satisfaction. STOY REPAIRS AND REPAIRING. PLUMP.INU, STEAM FITTING AND SUPPLIES. MILL SUPPLIES. oolcs Hardware DUSHORE, PA. SUMMER NECESSITIES. '"'""Screen I > ors Rea«ly to hang 75c 1.00 1.25 Window Screens 15c, 25c, 35c. ICE CREAM FREEZERS Best Make 1.90 up to 6.75. HAMMOCKS 50c up to 3.75. FIQI4INP TAPKFI <i rent variety. Cloth Baskets, :,itc ami ilOnilivl I MLIXLL. up. Can'i he heat for the same money. Western Washers Clothes wringers White enameled, all iron beds up to 9,00. Bed springs, woven wire, 1.75 up to 3.00 to suit. Couches and lounges 4.7=; to is.oo. Baby carriages, up to 1 yoo. All goods delivered to your R.R. station. Jeremiah Kelly, HUGHESVTLLE. "ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY." mm, PENNA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 3 189!). RINN'S CHICKENS HOME TO ROOST. A Fake Reformer Now Gets a Dose of the Real Thing in Allegheny. SHIM OF INTI-QIIY FIGH! EXPOSED. Independent Citizens of Allegheny County Take Flinn at His Wora and Start to Reform the Local Political Machine. (Special Correspondence.) Harrisburg, Aug. I.—William Flinn, who lias been termed the Aguinaldo ot the Republican insurgent movement against the leaders of the regular Re publican organization In Pennsylvania, will be back from Europe within a few days. Since Flinn, through his big municipal contracts, like Martin in Philadelphia, became numbered among the millionaires, he has aspired to so cial prominence, and recognizing that "the polite thing to do" was to take a run to Paris in the early summer, he set sail In the latter part of June, Joining "society's" annual pilgrim age to fashion's capital on the con tinent. Flinn will find unexpected trouble on liis hands when he gets back. REVOLT AGAINST FLINN ISM. A revolt has been organized against his dictatorial and domineering leader ship of the Republican organization in Allegheny county, and the public abuses that have grown up there since he has been In control of the local machine. The people of Allegheny have actually taken seriously FHnn's declarations for reform in his insur gent campaign throughout the state that is, everywhere but in his home county. They have been looking into matters In Allegheny and find that Flinn's preachings away from homo are not in harmony with the prac tices that prevail right where he lives. FLINN'S TROUBLES HliGlN. But In Allegheny county Flinn will ffuil his most serious trouble. A body of citizens styling themselves "inde pendent Republicans" have just launch ed a complete ticket for county of ficers to be voted for at the coming election, and which will be pitted against the nominees that Flinn and his followers will select. The inde pendents have selected prominent men for the several positions from sheriff down to commissioner, and they de clare they are in for a fight to a finish. The Philadelphia Press, which has been the principal organ of the Fllnn- Martln insurgents in the campaign against the leaders of the regular Re publican organization in the state out side of Allegheny, in a dispatch from Pittsburg on Stinday last Innocently said: "A revolt of Independent Republi cans of Allegheny county, which has been talked of for some time, crystal izeil tonight, when the committee of twenty-live announced an independent county ticket, which will be placed in nomination for the fall election. In some respects the movement is unique, as it has no affiliation with the old Quavlte 'reform' organization In Alle gheny county. The nomination of the Independent ticket is directed generally against machine rule as exemplified in the county organization. The ticket was selected by a committee of twenty live. and will be placed before a town | meeting later in the campaign. "The ticket is composed of lifelong Republicans, who will stand on a plat j form denouncing the evils of the ma | chine without regard to faction. The j platform denounces the extravagant in i crease in public salaries, the multipli | cation of offices, the dictation of slates | by one man, permitting no contest at p the primaries; the control and manip j ulation of the county school system by j politicians; the building of county ] roads at double and treble the amount j for which they could be constructed j also conies in for severe censure. The ] enormous bond issues in the city of j Pittsburg and the system of rotation ' in office In vogue in this county are | also the subject of protest. The ratlfl | cation meeting Is to be held next Sep i tember." I When Flinn gets back he will prob ! ably demand the head of the editor ! who allowed the above statement of : fact to creep into print in one of his j personal organs. j The Insurgent boss will also realize I the truth of the old saying that j "Chickens will come home to roost." j While the insurgents are having I their troubles the victories of the stal ! wart Republicans continue to follow ftach other with unceasing regularity, la two counties Republican primary elections were held on Saturday last, and In both of them the regulars car ried everything before them. Dauphin i will send a full delegation to the stat# I TO PREVENT DEADLOCKS, j Pennsylvanians are naturally Inter- I ested in the announcement that Sen ator Stewart, of Nevada, In order to j obviate the apparent necessity of an ; amendment to the constitution to tn ; sure at all times a full representation . of states In the United States senate, at the next session of congress will offer relief by legislation which, the senator sayß, may prove satisfactory. He proposes that the following para graph be added to the end of section 15, title 2, chapter 1, of the Revised Htatimn- "If on the third Tuesday after the organization of the legislature no per son has received such majority, then on that day, or any succeeding day, the person receiving a plurality of the votes (fast, a majority of all the mem bers elected to both houses being pres ent and voting, shall be declared elect ed." This, he believes, will meet the ne cessities of the case and insure the elec tion of a United States senator in every state at the time specified bylaw. In commenting upon this proposi tion former Republican State Chair man Thomas V.-Cooper says: "The law regulating the election of United States senators, passed by con gress in iSGG, should be modified as to enable a plurality to elect, the same as members of the lower house and all other ofllcers are chosen. This should be done, and done so quickly after the meeting of congress in December that it will practically settle the four contested cases of Pennsylvania. Cali fornia, Utah and Delaware. If done. It will kill at least four factions in as many states, and it will check the growth of factions and of third par ties. Now, ender the law requiring a majority of all voting to eleit, a third party or faction can deadlock any leg islature, to the great cost of the people and the gieat injury of the general government. Who cannot readily con ceive the death of one of the great co ordinate branches of our government, by deadlocking the legislatures of one fourth to one-third of our states, thus making froi'i 15 to 20 vacancies in the senate —a greater number of vacancies than there is party majority. What is the result of this —a deadlock in the senate, with ability in the minority to wreck the government by a refusal to vote. "The present law is not republican in form, for it defeats the majority. It is dangerous in character, for it divides states and cripples their legislation, it is doubly dengerous, for it carries di vision and disruption to our highest legislative body, and thus threatens our general government. Judge Hoar was right when lie denounced it is in iquitous. and now that its results are seen in vacant seats and states without representation, the very first act of the next congress should be to re peal it." PKOSPKKITY FOLLOWS REPUBLICAN RULE. Pennsylvania Is Probably the Most Benefited Through Her Industries. BRYANISM HAS AN UPHILL FIGHT Wages Have Been Increased and the Out look For Even Better Times With Mc- Kinley'i Re-election Is Bright. (Special C'orrospontl^nre.) Philadelphia, Aug. 1. Additional ev idence comes daily of the increased prosperity that has followed the re turn of the Republican party to the control of the national government and the prospects for the future in all lines of industry and for the farmers, with new and profitable markets for his products, are most gratifying. Here in Pennsylvania, probably more than in any other state in the Union, have the beneficial effects of the success of the Republican party in the last national campaign been apparent. With Mc- Kinley's re-election certain, continued good times are assured. There is scarcely an industry that has not been developed lo a wonderful extent. Labor is employed at big ad vances in wages in many instances, and the outlook for a general advance all along the line is most encouraging. WHERE PENNSYLVANIA FIGURES. The Keystone state has figured to a profitable degree in the increase in ex ports of manufactures during the last fiscal year. The chief of the bureau of statictics at Washington, by his report just issued, shows that the total ex ports for this class of products for the year were \\alued at $338.ti67,79-l. The total is nearly $48,000,000, or t« per cent, in excess of that of the preceding year, and is over double the value of "the exports of manufactures in 1891. "In order to appreciate the increased share which manufactures are taking in the total volume of our exports,' ! suys Brndstreets", "it will be of ser j vice to recall the fact that while in 1881 j they formed only 12.48 per cent of the ' total, in the year 1896 they had risen S to 24.02 per cent, and in the fiscal year j 1899 the proportion was increased to ! 28.15 per cent." LOCOMOTIVES FOR ENGLAND, i The ability of manufacturers of the | United States to compete with success in the markets of the world rests no : longer upon conjecture. The fact that the Baldwin locomotive works of this j city are just completing an order of lo comotives for English railways, gotten in competitive bidding with Great | Britain's greatest plants, is but one | of the signs of the times. Everywhere throughout the state the furnaces are being lighted in iron and i steel plants that have been closed for several years. RAW MATERIAL SCARCE, i In many cases it is difficult to get 1 raw material to supply the demand. In | the Lebanon, tschuylkill and liehigh ! valleys there are some smaJl iron mills ; which are virtually living from hand j to mouth. That ia, they have no con- 1.25 Per. Year. Number Hi. tracts for a regular supply with the furnaces and the demand by teiegrapu and telephone upon the latter Is fre quent to "help them out," and often shipments of a few cars. 50 to 100 tons, are made to those plants. In this mat ter of keeping the small mills go in# the furnaces have nobly co-operated, and the managers sny that they be lieve that they can keep them going, provided the pressure for pig iron from other sources does not become too hard. These small mills have no "pig" on hand, and they are getting it wherever they can and consuming it at once. The large concerns are in a much better condition. For instance, the Reading Iron company employs 2,000 hands in its various mills, which turn out the finished product. The com pany operates furnaces by lease and ownership, and these turn out consid erable of the iron they consume. The same is true of half a dozen large cor porations in eastern Pennsylvania. The furnaces which are working on orders have demands for twenty times their product every dny, and they are doing their best to distribute it to the best advantage among the small mills, if their regular orders will allow. The acceptance by any of the furnaces of this district for an order of 1,000 to r.,000 tons is simply out of the ques tion. They will book it if desired, and promise to deliver any time eight to ten months from now. Better they cannot do. Pig iron in and about Heading has risen beyond the S2O mark now, but an offer of s."io a ton would not bring any more prompt delivery, as the mar ket is congested with orders for many months ahead. When the Iron busi ness begins to hunt about Sept. 1 the gravity of the situation will increase, and it is then that the small mills will be placed in an embarrassing position. THINGS ON THE BOOM. One of the latest contributions to the reports of prosperous conditions in dif ferent parts of the country is furnished in an interview with Assistant Secre tary of the Treasury Vanderlip, who, as the result of an extended trip to the Pacific coast, reports that with few ex ceptions general business in all sec tions is in very good shape. The only serious complaint he met with was that made by bankers about large bal ances anil low rates of interest. The crop situation, while not up to that of last year, is an excellent one, he says. The condition in the northwest is par ticularly gouil. Results from the Klon dike trade are particularly favorable at Seattle, and the general estimate is for gold receipts of $18,000,000 from this source. Mr. Vanderlip reports the entire Pacific coast is interested in the possibilities of trade with the far east; ships are loading with lumber at Puget sound ports for Manila, and some lum bermen have been examining into the question of developing the resources of the forests of the Philippines them selves. The waning of the silver senti ment in the west particularly struck Mr. Vanderlip, who reports a great in terest being taken in the question of possible trust legislation. PROFESSIONAL REFORMERS BUSY The little coterie of professional re formers in this city who figure exten sively in the newspapers, but make a small showing at the polls on elec tion day, are keeping up a racket over Governor Stone's veto of the resolu tions adopted by the last legislature to secure amendments to the constitution to provide for personal registration of voters and to make way for the use of the costly voting machines. The objectors to the governor's action were given a hearing at Harrisburg a few days ago. Secretary of the Common wealth Oriest had refused for what he regarded as good reasons to ignore the action of the governor and oblige the professional reformers and insert ex pensive advertisements in many news papers throughout the state. Former Attorney General Hensel. of the Pat tison administration, appeared as coun sel for the secretary of the common wealth and completely shattered the claims of the "reformers." Mr. Hensel took strong grounds on the question of the right of the gover nor to pass on these amendments un der the provisions of section 26, arti cle 111. of the constitution, which re quire every order, resolution or veto requiring the concurrence of both houses to be presented to the governor for his approval or disapproval. He also raised another very interesting question, and that is that the legisla ture had failed to make any appropria tion for the payment of the expenses incurred by the secretary of the com monwealth in making the publication. He cited these provisions of the con stitution which forbid that any money shall be paid out of the state treasury without previous authority of law and without a specific appropriation hav ing been made therefor. No appropri ation was made to pay these expenses and there is no fund, general or special, from which the secretary of the com monwealth can draw the funds with which to pay the expenses of the pro posed publication. The legal questions were gone into very fully, and the at torney general reserved his decision, promising to give an answer in a very few days. Mr. Hensel made several center allots and argued ably against the suggeation that the legislature would take care of the expenses hereafter. It was shown that the secretary of the com monwealth would have to expend at least fifty or sixty thousand dollars for the advertising without any author ity of law, and reference was made to the recent repudiation by the legisla ture of bills contracted in this way.
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