Republican News Item. Published Every Thursday. Volume 4. Twenty Years £ \ in Dushore. p The largest and best stock of goods We ever had for the V fjfall anb Mtntcr Zvabc £ The finest line of Q rHolida;) floods, ( Ever seen in a Jewelry Store in Sullivan S RETTENBUiIY, S C DU SHORE, PA. THE JEWELER. ) fiardwart-— EPAL " WI HARDWARE PAINTS, OILS, VARNSHES and GLASS. SPECIAL inducements given on QTOVES and RANGES and all kinds of HEATING STOVES for Wood or Coal, suitable for parlors, halls, churches, school houses, camps, etc. Attention to a line of Cheap air-tight wood heaters from 83.00 to SIO.OO. Also a line of coal heaters from $2.50 up to $35.00. My Special Bargain Sale 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 ready to heat the universe either in hot water, steam or air. Try us, we guarantee satisfaction. STOV REPAIRS AND REPAIRING. PLUMBING, STEAM FITTING AND SUPPLIES. MILL SUPPLIES. Gobs Hardware. DUSHORE, PA. .*■ -gage This stove is the very best one mame for Cold Weather. (its name ) "Maple Clemont" We keep sizes No. 22 and 24. Wood is putin top Keeps lire over night. Cast iron lining. For prices write us. Jeremiah Kelly, HUGHESVILLE. "ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY." LAPORTE, PENNA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 4,191)0. Wanted at once for cash ;1000 cords Bass wood I i Cut 4 1-2 feet long, 5 to 15 inch es diameter. Apply to AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION! SONESTOWN, PA. HOTEL MAINE THOS. W. BEAHEN, Prop. LAPORTE, PA. This new hotel litis been recently opened, newly furnished throughout and will lie run for the sjweinl accomodation ot the travclins public. The best stocked bar injthe county. Kates are low. CARROLL HOUSE, D. KEEFE, Proprietor. DUSIIOHE, PA. One of the lurgest and best equipped hotels in this see?''" ■»"•«« statu. Table of the best. Ri.tes 1.00 dollar por day. Lurge stables. BLACKSMITH AND WAGON SHOP Just opened at the Laporte Tannery. Custom work solicited. All work guaranteed. O. W. BENNETT, Prop. COMMERCIAL HOUSE. THOB. E. KENNEDY, Prop. LAPORTE PA. This largo and we!! appointed house is the m<»Bt popular hostelry in this section "L A PORTE HOTEL P. W, GALLAGHER, Prop. Newly erected. Opposite Court House square. Steam heat, bath rooms, hot and cold water, reading and pool room,and barber shop: also good stabling and livery, P. SHOEMAKER, Akrney at Law. Office in CouKy Building. ■L LAPORTE, PA. Collections, coi®tyaneing; the settlement of estates and other legal business will receive prompt attention. J J. BRADLEY, ATTOBHBT-AT-LAW, orrici in i'odstt iuildino HEAR COURT BOUSE. liAPORTE, PA First national hank OK OTSHORK, I'KNNA. CAPITAL - - $50,000. SURPLUS - - SIO,OOO. Does it General Banking Business. R.W. JENNINGS, M. 0. SWARTS. President. Cashier J. J. & F. H. INGHAM, ATTORN KYs-AT-LAW, Legal businesa attended to in this and adjoining counties _APORTE. £ J. MULLEN, Attorney-»t-L«w. LAPORTE, PA. Office over T. J. Keeler's store. J # H. CRONIN, ATTORNKT-AT -LAW, ROTARY PUBLIC. OrriCß OH MAM BTRBBT. DU SHORE, PA Cash prices FOR HORSE SHOEING No 2 Shoes 65c No 3 Shoes .75c No 4 Shoes 85c No 5 Shoes 1.00 C. T. FULLER, ESTELLA, PA. GUNNING AFTER THE CORPORATIONS Governor Stone's Administration Determined That All Shall Pay Every Penny Due. FIGHTING FOR STATE TAXES Auditor tieiierid McCauley .loins In the Irnaade, und 1m lluvliik an K\- 11 initiation Mailt* of the .Situation iu Every County In Peiiimylvaiila. (Special Correspondence.) Ilarrisburg, Dec. 26. Governor administration ;uah.' g /> reemfl for compelling the corporations of Pennsylvania to toe the mark and live up to the letter and spirit of the law, especially in ihe matter of the payment of taxes levied by the state. Attorney General John P. Elkin de voted almost the entire week upon cor poration cases, and as the result of his strong arguments in court and the fact that the officials of corporations have come to realize that there is to be no letting up in this matter, thousands upon thousands of back taxes, claims that have been contested for years, will, within a short time, be paid into the state treasury. The fact that dur ing the past year over a million of dollars was gotten from the corpora tions by the state is already to the credit of this administration. State Treasuer lieacom's splendid showing in his recent report of the financial affairs of the commonwealth for the year ending Nov. 30 last evoked GOVERNOR STONE, praise even from his political oppo nents, and now attention is attracted to Major Levi G. McCauley, tho popu lar auditor general, who has co-operat ed with Governor Stone and the mem bers of his cabinet in the various re forms in the matter of the collection of taxes and the prompt payment of appropriations. Major McCauley has just instituted another innovation by which he expects that the state will be a gainer to a large amount before the end of another year. He has di rected a special representative of his department to make a complete tour of the state, visiting the several county seats in turn and making a thorough investigation and a complete Inventory of all the corporations which have done business in this state between the years 1888 and 1889. The auditor gen eral believes that many of the corpora tions have deprived the state of thou sands of dollars of taxes during the past decade, and he proposes to recover this money or know the reason why. He haR be<run at the eastern end of the »t°te. with Delaware. Chester and j Montgomery and ir develop-" , ments show what he believes to be | the ease, he will probably have other examiners at work In the west simul taneously, so that he may be able to ' make an early return to the attorney I general, that he may hring suit against ■ the delinquents. ' The political opponents of the Re j publican organization of Pennsylvania. ! both the Democrats and the insurgents', jure manifestly annoyed at the activity of the state officials who are allied with j the regular Republicans in looking 1 after the interests of the people. They ; had hoped to make some campaign thunde# out of delinquencies on the part of these officials. The fact is that the Republican party has never had better reason to be proud of its repre sentatives in public office at the state capital, and the chances are that the Stone administration will continue to command not only the respect and con : lldence of the Republicans of the state. i but the admiration of all the people of I the commonwealth. THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Dr. Nathan C. Schaeffer. superintend ! ent of public instruction, has very pro ■ nounced views upon the various things afTectlng public education in Pennsyl vania. His forthcoming report will contain some vigorous, straight from the shoulder blows against the falla ; ty of a child's labor worth more than ' his education. He says progress has been made in the | enforcement of compulsory attendance j at school, and adds: "The arguments i used to justify farmers for not comply i ing with this law will sound strange in the next century. The value of a < hild's time at school is now -stimated by the difference between the earnings of uneducated and educated labor." Dr. Schaeffer puts it in this way: "It !s apparent that if a man keeps his 10-year-old son at home to do work which is paid for at the rate of a dol lar and a half a day. while every day of the boy's time properly spent at I school yields ten dollars in future earn ing capacity, He is really robbing eight and a half dollars from the family es tate. Even if this result is two or three or even four times as high as it should be. the foregoing still remains a case of robbing the boy of the future earning capacity." In many districts the directors hailed with delight the change in the law fix ing the minimum school term at seven months, because it relieves them from criticism for taking a step which they felt ought to be taken and which they hesitated to take through fear if incur ring the ire of taxpayers. The head of the department express es the hope that at no distant day the Increased revenues of the common wealth will warrant the restoration of the state appropriation to $5,500,000, and that when this day comes a liberal sum will be set apart for the promo tion of township high schools. The report shows that there are nearly 28,000 public schools in Pennsyl vania. These schools are in charge of 28,829 teachers and are attended by 1,152,352 pupils, an increase of nearly 10,000 over 1898. Dr. Schaeffer states that the seven month school law brings an additional month of schooling with in the reach of over 200,000 children. STONE AND THE CONSTITUTION. "The anti-Quay newspapers of Penn sylvania," says the Philadelphia In quirer, "are falling back upon the proposition that in appointing Quay Governor Stone violated the state con stitution. Here is the concentrated essence of the opposition as expressed in one of the noisy insurgent organs: The evidence multiplies that Mr. ! Quay committed a fatal blunder | for himself when he had Governor I Stone set aside the constitution of ! the state and make an uppoint i ment himself. "It so happens that there is a docu i ment extant known as the constitution of the United states. The constitution of the United States uuder certain con ditions gives a governor the right to appoint. We believe that those con ditions have heen complied with by Governor Stone, and the senate will decide for itseif whether Quay is eligible. Under no circumstances can a state constitution become superior to the federal constitution, and if the greater instrument gives' power to the governor a state constitution nullify ' ing these powers coulu not stand for a I moment. REEDER PREDICTS BIG CONVENTION | When Republicans Meet at Har risbuvg on April 25 Next ! TO NAME THE STATE TICKET | Former Cliiiiniiiin Cou|>rrTell* Wlf.t I He Thinks Vliaiut Colonel «in«'<'.*. I With Whom tlie Repuhllenn Insur gent* Haven flame Alllaance. (Special Correspondence.) Harrisburg, Jan. 2. —General Frank Reeder, chairman of the Republican state committee, having issued ills call for the Republican state convention to meet in this city on Wednesday, April 25 next, political interest has cen tered in the canvass for the honors to be conferred by this convention and the arrangements for the election of the delegates. General Reeder, who is giving per | sonal attention to the details of the arrangements for the convention, I seems impressed with the Idea that 1.25 Per - a r Number 41). tnis is going to tie an unusunny largo and interesting gathering of Republi cans of the Keystone state. "This being presidential election year, and the additional fact that tin- Republican national convention is to be held within the borders of our com monwealth, should certainly arouse Republicans in all sections of the state to take exceptional interest in the af fairs of their party organization. We have important offices to fill at the No vember election, those of auditor gen eral and two congressmen-at-largc. Then there are the eight delegates-at large to the Republican national con vention and the presidential electors, who have to be chosen by the state convention. I am glad to see that the committee of citizens of Philadelphia who have the arrangements for the national convention in charge, pro pose to seek the co-operation of the other cities of Pennsylvania in their plans to make the national convention a great success. It should be the pride of every Pennsylvanian, Democrats as well as Republicans, to prove to the Republican parly national leaders that the citizens of Pennsylvania appreci ate the compliment of the selection of Philadelphia as the meeting place of the national convention. "The reputation for hospitality held by the people of the Keystone state will be fully maintained in the enter tainment of the visitors to the na-. tional convention. A suggestion has been made that the Republican state convention should make some recogni tion of the action of the national com mittee in selecting Philadelphia as the convention city, and this will no doubt be given due consideration by the com mittee on resolutions." STATE CONVENTION CALL. The call for the meeting of the Re publican state convention, just issued by Chairman Reeder, is as follows: "To the Republican electors of Penn sylvania: I am directed by the Re publican state committee to announce that the Republicans of Pennsylvania, by their duly chosen representatives, will meet in convention at the Opera House, in the city of Harrisburg. on Wednesday. April 25. 1900. at 10:30 o'clock a. m., for the purpose of nomi nating candidates for the following offices, to wit: "One person for the office of auditor general. "Two persons for the office of con gressman-at-large. "Thirty-two persons (four at large) for presidential electors, and to choose eight delegates and eight alternates at-large to the Republican national convention, to be held at Philadelphia on Tuesday, the 19th day oX June next, and for tfco transaction of such other business as may be presented. "In accordance with the rule adopted at the state convention held in Harris burg on Aug. 24 last, the representa tion in the state convention will be based on the vote polled at the lust presidential election. Under this rule each legislative district is entitled to one delegate for every 2.000 votes cast for the presidential electors in 189<!. and an additional delegate for every fraction of 2.000 votes polled in excess of 1.000. Each district is entitled to the same number of delegates as rep resented It in the convention of 1898. "Ry order of the Republican state committee. "FRANK REEDER. Chairman. "Attest: Wesley R. Andrews, Charles E. Voorhees, Secretaries." COOPER ROASTS GUFFEY. Former State Chairman Thomas V. Cooper has been paying his respects to Colonel .fames M. tiuffey. the Demo cratic leader with whom the Flinn- Martin-Wauamaker Republican insur gents have been working in harmony for more than a year. Colonel Cooper says: "Guffey—he is the admitted Demo cratic leader in Pennsylvania, the suc cessor of Harrity and Randall and Wallace. He has not the brains of any of his predecessors, none of whom were wealthy. He owes his leadership en tirely to his wealth and liberality. He is a multi-millionaire, gathering liis millions through connection with the Standard Oil company. "Guffey being in the saddle, is slic ing the Democratic caucus nomination for United States senator over Jenks. He is telling of a contract with leading insurgent Republicans that he can ger their vote if he pays the freight in every fusion and other contest. "Guffey Is a Bryan Democrat since Bryan has shown his ability to boss the. party; he was not before. In other words he is an opportunist, and a rich one. "It is a sad commentary that only rich men see hope of attaining their ambition for a place in the United States senate." That seems like pretty plain talk, but Colonel Cooper usually knows what he is talking about, and he generally hits the nail upon the head when he gets out his little hammer. LAWMAKERS TO MEET. Arrangements have been completed for a reunion of the survivors of the first legislature elected under the new constitution. It will take place in the senate chamber on Jan. 5. 25 year' from the date of the first meeting. Lew than half of the members are living. The president of the association is for mer Auditor General Amos W. Myliu, of Lancaster, and the secretary is ex- Representative M. B. Embick, of Boil fg Sprngs. Governor Stone wll make nn address of welcome, and there will He speeches by W. W. Brown, auditor of the war department; ex-Speaker John E. Faunce. W. J. Roney and Will iam Vodges, of Philadelphia; Congress man W. H. Graham, of Allegheny; Judge Harman Yerkes, of Doylestown, anil ex-Senator Thomas V. Cooper.
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