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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
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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
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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 «