Published Every Thursday. Volume 4. Business Cards. SONESTOWN FLAGGING -'v Company, Chns. I'. Billambois, \ (f ink D. 11. Lorah, I SONESTOWN PA F1 KS'IV NATIONAL HANK OK W'HHORE, L'KN'NA. CAPITA!. - " 850.000. SUItPLUS - - SIO,OOO. 1 iocs a General banking Business. U.W. .11'.NXINCS, M. 0. SWARTS. President. Cashier. LAPORTE LIVERY AND BOARDING STABLES. Connected with the ('onnneveial Hotel. First-class Horses and ('arriages. llates reasonable. T.E.KENNEDY Prop. HOTEL MAINE THOS. W. BEAHEN, Prop. LAPORTE, PA. This hew hotel lmslieen recently opened.ncwl\ furnished throughout ami will he run tor the special accomodation of the traveling ]»ni>he. The l»e<l stocked bar in the eouiitv. KatcMUv low. COMMERCIAL HOUSE. THOB. TJ. KIJN N I'J I) V, Prop I, U'OKTE I\. !'his I:»r«*-* mid we'l appointed house i* tho iinst popular hostelry in this puetio •. HOTEL PORTER. Canton Street. SHUNK, PA. W. 10. POUT Kit, Prop'r. CARROLL HOUSE, 1). KEEPE, Proprietor. iiUStiORK, i'A. One "I the largest unit best n«|iilpp*-d hotel.- in this sei-tiori ot tile st.C' . Tsil.le of the best. R ,tes 1 .Oil dollar per ■ •>'. Liirjri' stables. Professional Cards. J .!. <!* F. H. INGHAM, ATTORNEYS AT-I.AW, Legal hu>in< s attended to in this and adjoining enmities ..A I'ORTIC, T> A. [7 .1. MULLEN, Atto rney-at- La w. LA PORT K, I'A I til ire river T. . Koeler's store. J H. CRONIN, ATTORNKY-AT -LAW, NOTAUY PUBLIC. OKKK'K ON MAIR STIfKKT. PUSUOItK, PA yy.W P. SHOEMAKER, Attorney at Law. < Mlic.e in ( V)unly l»uilditi^. LAI'OUTi:. I'A. < oilcctioli , conveyancing; the settlement of chtatc* and other legal business will receive prompt attention. /\ J. BRADLEY, ATTORNEY-AT - I.A W, OKPICIfi IX COUNTY UUILDINO NK A R COIJUT nous P.. LAPOttTE, J'A Ellory I*. Ingham. Harvey K. Nowitt. |NGHAM & NEW ITT, ATTORN KYS , «A T >«I< AW, OFFICES 711-17 FUANKLIN lU' 1 LDI N<, IBS So. 12th Street Philadelphia, Having retired from the office of United State? Attorney and Assistant l.'nited States Attorney, will continue the general practice of law in tile United Slates courts, and all the courts of the city and County of Philadelphia, BLACKSMITH AND WAGON SHOP .1 list, opened at; the Laport" Tannery. Custom work solicited. All work guaranteed. O. W. BENNETT, Prop. To ('lire Courtti|mt ton I orever. Tahe liasruretv Camn Cathartie lite <■:■ lr C. I'. (\ fail to lure, drunKisis re Tumi inonev Faluoatc Vour lloweU With CasoHrets. Camly Cathartic, cure constipation forever. 10c,LW. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money. Everybody Says So. Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the most won derful medical discovery of the ape, pleas ant, and refreshing to the taite, act gently and positively on kidneys, liver and bov.el:',, cleansing the entire system, dispel co:\.f, cure headache, fever, habitual constipation and biliousness. Please buy and trv a box of C. C. C. to-dav; 10, !i">, aUi ents. Soldittc.' l.uiirunteed to cure by till druggists. Chlorate Tour Boweln With t'iisrnrcts. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation rorever 10c, 30c. If C. C. C. fall, druggists refund money! Republican News Item. | )We have been ) (r leaning House c •*> J) V For some time, but we are through at last. We v r are all fixed up in apple pie order for the 112 J Spring Zvnbc < r"~ with the largest and best stock of goods wer P have ever had. - V i Somethingfor Everybody, 3™"!™ """ j JWe think we c:tn please the niosl critical buyer in Sullivan C county. J 3 Respectfully Yours, \ RETT EN JBU II , P C DUSHORE, PA. THE JEWELER. / eneral ARDWA R E PAINTS, OILS, VARNSHES and GLASS. SPECiAL inducements given on STOVES and RANGES and all kinds of HEATING STOVES lor Wood or Coal, suitable fyr parlors, halls, churches, school houses, camps, etc. Attention to a line of Cheap air-tight, wood heaters from So.oo to SIO.OO. Also a line of coal heaters from S2.. r >() up to $.'35.00. My Special Bargain Sale is open on a line of heaters slightly damaged by water, Good as new, but they ninst be sold CIIKAP If in need of a. cheap heater, call early. My ''Dockasll" Ranges are without a question the lincst in the market, made lip of the best material and designed b> be a. handsome llange. Furnaces always the best on the market. In fact we arc ready to heat the universe either in hot water, steam or air. Trv us. \vc guarantee satisfaction. S'l'OV I!FP.'v lUS ANI) KFPAIKINC. PUMPING, STKAM FtTTI NG ANDSI PPLIKS. mii;l si'pplikk. Hardware^ DUSHORE, PA. THE FAIR ! SEPT. 19, 20, 21 and 22, will be better than any previous one. Great improvements are being made <>n the grounds t<> accomodate a large crowd. You should not miss it. MAKE OUR STORE YOUR HEADQUARTERS. You are welcome. You will be interested in our great variety of new goods and the prices. STOVES of greatest variety at the old prices. FURNITURE cheap as ever. Iron Beds ars a luxury. AH cotton mattreses, line pillows, excellent springs. Think of it. So much time in bed, why not have the best at the lowest price. Jeremiah Kelly, hughesvTlle. "ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY." LAPORTE, I'ENNA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 111 189!l. I GOVERNOR STONE IS SUSTAINED. Complete Vindication by the Courts of His Vetoes of Con stitutional Amendments. UN IMMENSE 1110 lit STATE. An Heroic Executive Upheld Despite a Campaign of Personal Abuse Backed by Tammany Promoter's of an Expensive Voting Machine. (Special Correspondence.) Harrisburg, Aug. B.—Governor Stone ! lias been sustained by the Dauphin I county court in liis vetoes of the pro- I posed amendments to the constitution passed by the last legislature. This gratifying outcome of a long and bil ter controversy should be hailed with expressions of delight by the taxpayers of Pennsylvania. The heroic action of the governor has saved the com monwealth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The resolutions providing for the submission of two amendments !10 the constitution were rushed j through both branches of the legisla j lure with scarcely and discussion. Pub- I lie attention was not attracted to them Ito any extent. The people had little j opportunity to fully appreciate their I far reaching effects. When Governor I Stone, in his careful review of the | work of the late turbulent session of i tlie legislature, culmly considered the | purport and sweeping character of j these resolutions he promptly vetoed I them. One provided for personal reg j istration of voters, and the other was j disguised to allow the introduction of j voting machines in place of the pres j ent system of balloting. There was ; no popular demand for either of these j innovations. The first resolution ema , nated from a few of the professional ! reform agitators in Philadelphia who J are constantly taking up some new I fad so that they may appear in tlio : newspapers as leaders of adv '.reed ] ideaa in stale and municipal govern- I ment. They are mostly lawyers with I limited practice and merchants who, | by figuring in these movements, obtain cheap notoriety, which counts as so I much free advertising. A MACHINE SNAKE. The proposition for the introduction of the voting machines came from a syndicate of Tammany politicians who control the patents for the machines, which they had introduced in New ork. They got the resolution for the proposed amendment to our constitu tion passed simply as a business ven ture. They had a professional lobby , ist here during the session of the leg ' islature, who engineered ihe scheme jto put the resolution through. This Tammany politician was indignant j when he learned of the action of Gov- I ernor Stone in blocking his game. He j swore he would win out, despite the I action of the executive. He at once i inaugurated a movement to discredit | the governor and to manufacture senti ment in favor of Ihe proposed amend , ment. The scheme was cleverly work ed up. The voting machine project was kept in the background. Soon, however, the professional reformers of Philadelphia got to work, with the aid i of the insurgent and Democratic news papers. which are always ready to as : sail Pennsylvania's stalwart ftepubli : can governor. They made ii appear that a great wrong had been done; l that the cause of reform had been made to suffer. They seemed to be i interested only in the matter of per i sonal registration of voters. But the real "nigger in the woodpile." the vot ing machine, which was to be benefit ted by any success that might come through their agitation, was never mentioned in these newspapers. Sec retary of tlie Commonwealth driest de ; clined their request to advertise the i proposed amendments regardless of the vetoes of the governor. ELK IN WAS MAGNANIMOUS. Next they appealed to Attorney Gen eral Elkin to allow the use of the name of the commonwealth in mandamus proceedings in the Dauphin county court to compel the secretary of the commonwealth to advertise as the> de -1 manded. The organs of the insur gents. that had been misrepresenting Governor Stone and his cabinet front the outset, at once began to predict that Attorney General Elkin would de ny this request. They were greatly disappointed, however, when Mr, Kl- I kin, in a lengthy and able opinion, ac ceded to their wishes, but at the same lime, in a careful and masterly re view of the ease and the precedents, pointed out that Governor Stone was I entirely justified in his action, that resolutions of a similar character hud for years been submitted to both the Republican and Democratic governors, ! and that the right of the executive to pass upon such measures had been generally recognized. The profes sional reform agitators were hardly prepared for this magnanimous action upon the part of the chief law officer of { the Stone administration, who frankly said that he was entirely satisfied that the name of the commonwealth should ! be used in hearing a judicial determi nation of the point at issue. The at torney general evidently had no doubt ; of the propriety and regularity of the ! governor's action, and did not hesitate | to say so. SUSTAINED liV THE COURT. In duo time the matter came before Judge Weiss in the Dauphin county county court. The alleged reformers were represented hv counsel and.of course, there was distinguished and expensive legal talent on hand to look alter the voting machine interests. If one veto was not sustained of course the same decision would cover ihe other. Congressman Olmstead, of this district, and former Attorney General Hensel, of Lancaster, appeared on be half of Secretary of the Commonwealth Griest. There was a spirited legal bat tle. The lawyers seeking the manda mus on the secretary of the common wealth, requiring him It) advertise the proposed constitutional amendments, argued that these resolutions did not require executive approval. This was their only contention. They were com pletely overshadowed by the character and the force of the arguments on tho other side. Messrs. Olmstead and Hensel filed the following objections to the petition, on the rule for a mandamus: 1. The governor having disproved the resolutions proposing said amend ments to the constitution, as set forth in relator's petition, the same are without validity and are of no binding effect. 2. Neither house of Ihe general sembly having passed and adopted said resolutions, the governor's veto not withstanding, they are invalid and of no binding effect on respondent. 3. The governor of the common wealth has a right, according to the constitution thereof, to pass upon, to approve or disapprove all joint resolu tions adopted by the legislature, ex cept such as provide for its adjourn ment. t. The legislature having appropriat ed no money to pay the costs of the publication of said resolutions, the re spondent tuning, by careful inquiry, ascertained, nor states a.* his belief that the proper publication of said res olutions in tlie newspapers of the slate as contemplated by lav: would <ost not less than $40,000, and as he is without any funds to pay the same, or any part of the same, he lias no right to contract such indebtedness without previous warrant of law, and no officer of the state Is authorized to pay said expenses, nor to draw any warrant for Ihe payment of the same 5. Even if there were any warrant of law for incurring the expenses ol said publications, there is at present no funds nor money in the treasury of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, not otherwise appropriated, out of which said expenses could be paid." HALF A MILLION SAVED. Mr. Olmstead defended the gover nor's right to veto Ihe amendments. "If, as to ordinary legislation, the ftamers of the constitution deemed it so important to safeguard it by re quiring executive approval or disap proval," he said, "how much more rea son would there he to guard against hasty or ill advised legislation. There should be no exceptions to theemphatic i tile thus laid down that every vote re quiring the concurrence both houses shall lie presented to the governor for his approval or disapproval." "The second constitutional amend ment, which it is complained the sec retary of the commonwealth has not published," lie continued, "proposes to change this provision so that vot ing bv ballot will no longer be re quired. but the voting shall be done by a complicated system of machinery, Ihe voter pushing the button and the machine doing the rest. As a member of the congressional committee on privileges and elections I acquired some familiarity with this system of machine voting in the contested case of Ryan vs. Brewster, from the Rochester district of New York. 1 learn ed enough in that contested ease, how ever. as to the expense of these nu chines to know that it would cost the taxpayers of Pennsylvania at least $500,000 Mo instal that system through out this commonwealth. Furthermore, the act of congress with relation to the election of members of congress ex pressly provides that the voting for them shall he by written o: printed ballot. No amendment to the >.,nsti tution of Pennsylvania could change that provision in the act of congress. Voting by ballot must, therefore, still continue in the election of congress men. If the machine system should p evail as to other offices two systems t voting would he in force every two years at the seme general election. I hardly think the voters of this com monwealth are ready to entail upon themselves this duplicate and expen sive system of voting. It is perhaps as well that the voters of this common wealth are spared the expense of pub lishing the proposed constitutional amendment saddling upon them- so cumbersome and expensive a sy em of machine voting, which amen ' fint would, when properly understood, most assuredly be voted down." Mr. Hensel supplemented these re marks with a forcible address. JUDGE WLMSS' DECISION. Judge Weiss, after reviewing the arguments of both sides, handed down a carefully prepared opinion, in which lie refused to grant the requested mandamuses and fully sustained the action of Governor Stone in his vetoes of the two resolutions, lie held that "a proposed amendment to the con stitution must be presented !o the gov ernor for his approval or disapproval." He quoted extensively from provisions of the constitution to sustain this po sition. "No satisfactory reason has been presented why this view should not obtain." remarked Judge Weiss. "Nothing can be predicated upon the fact that the mode of urocedure to 1 1.25 P er - Year. Number I/. i ;imond that instrument is in ;i separate i article. The method to bring an 1 amendment, into being is by a result! | lion, to be . y;reed to by a majority of ; the members elected to each house, j and the same method is prescribed in j section 26. article to repass an order. | resolution o*' vote disapproved by the i executive. In both instance.; and cases I the vote must be taken by yeas and nays and entered on the journals oi the respective houses. This construc tion tends to preserve the unity and continuity of the constitution, and pro vides, in requiring executive action upon every resolution, that which is certainly a praiseworthy feature an additional safeguard against hasty and possibly ill considered legislation and amendment The court also hold that the secrc | tary of the commonwealth ought not to be required to contract for advertis ing of proposed amendments, when no appropriation was made by the legis lature for this purpose. Judge Weiss, in support of this view, enumerated several cases, both under ihe national and state governments where oiliciul:; have been sustained in refusing t • make contracts involving the expendi turc of money for which no appropria tion had been made. Thus was an heroic governor vin dicated, a few notoriety seeking re formers suppressed, and a bitter and revengeful insurgent newspaper syn dicate repudiated. And the Tammany financial backers of the expensive >:iting machine ure wiser, if poorer men. Republican Conversion Will Honor This Brave Officer of She "Fighting Tenth." There Is a Free F* ■ All Cent- ■ t For ;''u pretne ana Adams, of Philadel phia, For the Sup,. tar Court, has a Waikover. (Specli! f.iviv ;.oii(lcncp.> Philadelphia. ,\u,. The Republi can state convention, which meets at Harrisburg on the „Mlli in; .. will ho:, or the surviving superior officer of the I' igliting 'i'enth" I' uns> ivania \ »lti - teers, Uetitertai,i Colonel .iaines (Olde: Harnett, of Washington county. le nominating him '<- ;■ slat' 1 treasurer, unless lie absolutely declines to run. i here is no doubt that were he aliv; Colonel Alexander L. Hawkins, 'who commanded the ro:,in!: nt. and whos. death occurred on the transport ■ turning trom the i'it'li sine worn ' receive this liomi:;:;!' ,v T; party leaders, from Colonel Quay down, were pr°pared to saapori hin: for tlii ■ position. Since the death of Colon"! Hawkins, which is i;en ,aliy deplored a movement ha ■ : if.l tour. 1 Lieutenat Colonel ! i•. to allow use of his name i'<> i hie »jn< . iJv • body who is intcrr " : all in 1' sn sylvania politics i. ■ nim-.: upoe the manly way in v. hid. Colonel liar nett has acted am" i , "tig cireur; stances. 1 lis prom;.; ~ cephalic re fusal to allow his name u> he consid ered in <onneciion with la- colonelcy of the "Fighting . h as su, eessis to the late Colo: -' it,. prefer ring, as lie say.-. Ilia, t! • command shall he mustered out a. • liawkir.. regiment." and his «H.-.it»t«d pnii.se „.•• the services of hi. i .te commande, and his devotion lo his memory have been the subject of general comment The political leaders have no informa tion ;ts to whether Harnett will con sent to allow the use e: his name in connection with the slate treasuiet ship. His brief public statement on this subject, in response to a news paper query, was that while apprei ia: ing the compliment intended in the mention of his name, it is a matter which he could not pass upon without due consideration. Hart' it is known to be as level headed as he is brave. His brilliant work on firing line in the Philippines with Filipino bullet, whizzing all round him while he gal lantly lead his battalion into the thick of the tight is but part of the glorious history of the "Fighting Tenth." That bullet shattered testament which in tit" breast pocket of the brave Harnett halted an insurgent shot and saved his life is one of the interesting relics brought home from Manila by the boys from the Keystone state. BAUNKTT BY ACCLAMATION. Unless an unqualified declination shall be received from Colonel Har nett his name will be presented to the state convention, and his nomination by acclamation will certainly follow. With Harnett at the head of the Re publican state ticke; the coming cam paign will be an exceedingly interest ing one. He is well known in the Na tional Cuanl. with whicn lie has been connected for Ifi years, having served successively in the various grades from private to his present rank. He is a member of the bar and a stalwart lie publican. He was deputy secretary of the commonwealth under General Tleeder. and has a host of friends among the active Republicans tirougli out the state. Another nomination that will be made bv the coming state convention has also been virtually sell led. Josiah R. Adams, of this city will be named for the superior court. There Is an un doubted sentiment in favor of allowing the choice of the Philadelphia delega tion to be named for tills honor V «
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