Republican News Item CHAS. LOREN WING, Editor. j THURSDAY, — THE NEWS." The News Item Fights Fair. IT Vs %PATRIOTIc'*HOME NEWSPAPER. Published Every Friday Morning. By The Sullivan Publishing Co. At the County Seat of Sullivan County. LAPOBTE, PA. SUBSCRIPTION —$1.25 per annum. If paid in advance SI.OO. Sample copies free. All communications should be ad» dressed to REPUBLICAN NEWS ITEM, La porte Pa., Entered at the Post Office at Laporte, as second-class mail matter. (Speelnl Correspondence.* Harrisburg, March 13. —There has been considerable discussion of the question of the propriety of the Repub lican organizations of the several counties of the state insisting upon candidates for nomination for con gress, the state senate and the as sembly pledging themselves If elected to abide by the action of Republican caucuses. It is manifest that who oppose such action have an ul terior purpose in so doing. Through out the entire state there has not been a single Republican county committee which has declined to adopt such a resolution whenever it has been of fered. The latest county to act in this respect was Lebanon, which on Sat urday last, through the Republican county committee, decided to make every aspirant for congressional or state legislative nominations append bis signature to a pledge to abide by the action of all Republican caucuses. The offering of a motion of this char acter was quite a surprise to the local insurgent Republicans. They did not expect anything of the kind In Leb anon, where they thought they were in control of affairs political. Their success in a previous contest in the county made them imagine that they would have everything their own way. They have discovered that there has been a great change in sentiment and that the Republicans of Lebanon do not propose to indorse the action of men who, while elected as Repub licans, refuse to abide by the rules and traditions of their party. They recog nize that a caucus is a prime necessity of any political organization. The American republic is founded upon the principle of majority rule. With this principle ignored all would be discord and anarchy. CAUCUSES IN NATIONAL POLITICS. To preserve the integrity of the Re publican organization of the United States and to sustain the McKinley ad ministration it was necessary to call a caucus of the Republican members of the house of representatives at Wash ington last week, when the Puerto Rican bill was under consideration. It was believed to be absolutely neces sary, if the policies of the Republican party were to be carried out, to have the Republicans of the house vote as a unit. There was a difftTence of opin ion, even between the president and the ways and means committee, as to the best method of treatment of the question of tariff for Puerto Rico. There was a very serious division in the house and enough Republicans were ready to join with the Democrats to defeat the very ends which the Mc- Kinley administration sought to ob tain. Under these circumstances a Republican caucus was called, and a conclusion was reached by which every Republican In the house voted in accordance with the action of Hie caucus. This was not an unusual ac tion, but a time honored practice. When General Henderson was pro posed for the present speakership of the hoifse of representatives at Wash ington, there was a big field of as pirants for that honor. But. when he secured a majority of the Republican caucus all the other candidates giace fully abided by the action of the ma jority and he was elected without trouble. Had the friends of the rival candidates for the speakership followed the example of the Flinn-Martin in surgents in Pennsylvania politics they would have bolted the Republican caucus and joined forces with the I'ry anite Democrats. Then if they could not get one of their own number in this speakership they would have elected a Democrat to that important place. Caucuses in congress and every other legislative body in the I nited States are considered essential, and they are invariably called in the in terest of either the Republican or Democratic party, as the case may be. The caucus is a recognized institu tion in American politics and men who take pride in the success of a po litical organization to which they be long will always advocate the holding of the caucus to preserve the integrity and advance the interests of such or ganization. If personal interests and not the welfare of a party or organiza tion are considered they will, of course, take a different view of the case. Paid agents of the Flinn-Martin in surgents and bolters are traveling around Pennsylvania with the inten tion of breaking up this time honored custom and sowing discord in the Re publican ranks. When men are to be placed in office in the various counties of the common wealth primary elections are held. A primary election Is really a caucus. Voters choose either delegates to a convention, or, in some counties, di rectly between candidates. When these candidates once have been nominated they become the candidates of the en tire party. There is no other way of selecting them, and when party voters refuse to be governed by the will of the majority they become bolters. It is just as necessary for party caucuses to be held at Harrisburg when a Uni ted States senator Is to be elected as it is for counties to hold primaries or for congressmen to caucus over the selection of a speaker. In the last legislative session a regular caucus of Republican members was called, and Senator Quay was made the nominee. In no other way could the wishes of tne majority nave been discovered. Certain enemies of Quay refused to consent to majority rule, and formed a bolting party of their own. The re sult was chaos. It is now proposed by the insurgents to set up candidates in various districts who, while pretending to be Republicans, will refuse to unite with the Republican majority unless that majority should happen togo their way. Such methods do not commend themselves to honest men. If a candi date takes a party nomination it is his duty to sink his individual prefer ence and abide by the majority deci sion. If it were not for the caucus 20 different Republican candidates might be named for senator, and in such a state of affairs it might well be that the Democrats would elect their candi date to office. As a matter of fact. It is very well known that the Democrats will have a candidate for senator in the next legislature, Colonel James M. Guf fey, and they will act together, and it is also very well known that the insur gents, when they cannot elect men of their own way of thinking to the leg islature will undertake to elect Demo cratic members. The insurgent move ment today is a Democratic movement. Republicans of Pennsylvania must know that if they lend their aid to the nomination of candidates who will not agree to act with the majority of the Republican party that they will be giv ing their support directly to a Demo ocrat already picked out. All Republi cans have a right, as have all Demo crats, to their own individual opinion and preferences, but when their party has taken a stand through a conference known as a caucus their duty is to obey the voice of the majority. A member who sets his own opinion above the opinion of the majority of his party associates after a fair and square vote has made the majority will manifest becomes a mere party wrecker. WHERE M'KINLEY LEADS. The Republican caucus in Washing ton fixed upon the terms of the Puerto Rican bill and President McKinley, good Republican that he is, refrained from pressing his own personal views, and gave all his influence to the adop tion of the caucus measure. Where President McKinley leads no genuine Republican in Pennsylvania need fear to follow. President McKinley be lieves in the caucus, frir it Is the only way by which a great politict.l party can act unitedly and successfully. Men in Pennsylvania claiming to lie Repub licans who refuse to follow McKinley are not Republicans at all. In Advo cating candidates for the legislature who will not abide by Republican cau cuses they are advocating party wreck ing and, could they have their way, the legislature would be handed over to the Democrats, and all important legis lation would be made impossible. No candidate for the legislature in Pennsylvania should be nominated un less he will agree to abide by the deci sions of the Republican majority. SUSQUEHANNA-BRA DFORD WAYNE. With counties like Lebanon follow ing the lead of Indiana, Chester and other counties where the stalwarts have recently won great popular victo ries, there can not be much consola tion in current events for men of the Flinn-Martin school of rule or ruin politics in Pennsylvania. Following the great stalwart sweep at the Re publican primaries of Mercer, Law rence. Armstrong, Bradford and Lan caster, other counties have been lining up with the regular organization. Susquehanna held a Republican coun ty convention last week at Montrose, and unanimously renominated George E. Tiffany for state representative, who throughout the late session of the legislature voted for the Republican caucus nominee for United States sen ator. They placed on the ticket with him another stalwart Republican, George H. Mill. They named three del egates to the state convention, R. B. Little, (Jeorge Palmer and G. S. Tin gle, all of whom are closely identified With the regular Republican organiza tion. The convention went on record in favor of the renomination of Con gressman Wright. There was not even a show of insurgent opposition. On the same day the Bradford coun ty Republican convention met at To vanda to carry out the instructions of the Republican voters who participated at the primaries, it was a great gath ering of loyal Republicans. They adopt ed ringing resolutions indorsing the administrations of President McKinley and Governor Stone, and especially commended the fidelity with which the officials of the state have discharged their duties. C. S. Means, M. C. Hol coml), O. B. Ballard. L. H. March and G. Lancaster were chosen delegates to the Republican state convention, and were instructed to advocate the nomi nation of E. B. Hardenbergh for audi tor general. Instructions were given the conferrees to support John H. Brown for presidential elector and F. L. Kinner for delegate to the Republi can national convention. On Saturday last the Republicans of Wayne county held their primaries and they went on record as sustaining the regular Republican state organization. Governor Stone and his administration and the stalwart leadership in Pennsyl vania politics generally. The death of Congressman Harmer, of this city, last week removed a famil iar figure from the politics of the state and nation. Congressman Har mer represented the Fifth congression al district, and his term of continuous service in the house was longer than that of any other member. He accord ingly was known as the "Father of the house." General H. H. Bingham, of the First district of this city, who suc ceeds him as "Father of the house," is one of the stalwart Republican leaders of the state. He is a close personal friend of President McKinley, having served with him in the Union army, and is an ardent supporter of Colonel M. S. Quay. General Bingham was born in Philadelphia in 1841; was edu cated at Jefferson college, studied law, entered the Union army as a lieuten ant in the One Hundred and Fortieth Pennsylvania volunteers, was wound ed at Gettysburg In 1863, at Spottsyl vania in 1864 and at Farmville in 1865. He was mustered out of the service in July, 1866, as brevet brigadier general of volunteers. He was appointed post master of Philadelphia In March, 1867, and resigned in December, 1875; was delegate-at-large to the Republican na tional convention held in Philadelphia in 1872, and has been a district del egate to nearly every Republican na tional convention held since that time. He has been a member of the house since his election to the Forty-sixth congress. We Have ] Our Large furniture Stock ffcj TO THE CARROLL BLOCK, Next Door to J. W. Carroll's Clothing Store Telephone call, Hotel Obert. HOLCOMBE & LAUER, ©uebore, fca. Williamsport & North Branch Railroad TIME TABLE. In effect Monday Dec. 11, 1899. Head down Corrected to February 22 1900 Head up A. M A. M. P. M. P. M.'A. XI. A M. STATION?. A. M. A. M. P. M P. M a. m. ; 805 10 25 12 .V> 4 I'. 525 Halls 7So !> 4. r .| 12 00 400 1 f8 09 /10 30 lUi Si 18' /ft «)': Pennsdale 17 45 /» 41 11 5,. 18 55 | 820 10 40 1 10' 4 271 540 Hughesville - \'i, 932 1145 345 606 10 48 4 :ift rs 548 Picture Rooks 9 25' 11 37 83 7 550 flO 51 f4 89 = S Lyons Mill fy 22 IS3 34 fIU 51 t'4 41 C— Chamounl 1 920 13 31 11 02 448 & w : Cilen Mawr 9 14' 323 fll 11 fl 56 Strawbrirtgr fy 05 f3 II 11 15 15 01 i Beech Glen S 901 ' *3 10 1119 ft 05 Muncy Valley 8 58i 3 OK 112 ft ft 11 11 or. Sonentown 852 3 00. j 8 00 ft 26 11 25 Nnrdmont 8 37 ' 2 38 /ft 43 11 45 Mokoma 8 21 2 15 5 45 11 50' Laporte Tannery.... 8 19 1 2 11 fO 02 12 15 hingdale 1 18 05 1 46 ft> 11 12 30 Bernireltoad *7 581 1 35 A.M. P. M P. M. P. M.I i A. M. P. M p.m. Connection with Phila.ft Readingjat Halls For Philadelphia, New York and inter mediate stations —Leave Williainsport 7:42 a.m.. 10:00 a. 111., Arrive Halls 7:59 a.m. 10:1W a. in. 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Beet Sugar Coated Hams @llc per lb. Buckwheat Flour 25 pound Buckwheat Flour 100 pounds, SI.BO. Yellow Corn per 100 pounds 90c. Corn Meal or Cracked Corn 90c. Corn, Oats and Barley Chop 90c. Wheat Bran 200 pounds $1.50. Flour middlings, 140 pound sack $1.40. Fine middlings 200 pounds $1.60. Flour per sack SI.OO. Winter Roller per sack SI.OO. Good Flour 90c. Rye Flour 25 pounds, 50c. Graham Flour 12J pounds 30c. Common Fine Salt per barrel $1.20. JJ TO EVERY READER who mentions this Ad. and sends us an order, we will make u 10x20 Cry on Portrait in 51 inch Oak and Gilt frame, and give AWAY ABSOLUT LY FREE, the latest Oil Portrait, of Admiral Geo. Dewey, all complete for $2.50. All work hand-finished and guaranteed to deliver. We will give during 1900 SPECIAD induce ments to agents. Write to-day. Address all orders to THE HOME ARTIST, HILLSGROVE, PA. 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