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Volume 5.
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as much for your money as you will get elsewhere.
GENERAL LINE OF HARDWARE, MILL SUPPLIES.
STOVES and RANGES,
FURNACES. Plumbin s anci general job work.
Estimates given.
Hardware,
DUSHORE, PA.
furniture
and CARPETS.;) Tn^TLS
Will do well to see
'r Our
White Enameled Beds
$4.75, 5.25 and 8.76
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HARDWOOD BEDS $2. 7s, and 6,75. Chamber
Suits #2O. to 25.00. Solid Golden Oak Double Cup
boards 9.50. Extra High Back Kitchen Chairs
High Back Dining Chairs, 8.50." Rockers, 1,50 to #8
Ingrain Carpets, 30, 40c. Brussels Carpet to
85c. Rag Carpets, 30c to cjoc. Matting, 12 to soc.
Cltilds Cradles, 1.00 and 1.50. Cribs with springs,
2. 75 and 3.00
Cook Stoves aitb IRanges
liEl) CItOSS MAKE, S— 20 Herald with high pipe shelf $2:5.00
K 2(1 Ditts $26.00 X—l s wilhreservoir, s- 20 with reservoir, $1 ex
tra. H—23 Champion Cook Stove $23.00 s 2") l)itts, $2">.00
Every Stove warranted to give satisfaction.
Jeremiah Kelly,
HUGHESVILLE.
Republican News Item.
"ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY."
LAPORTK, PENNA., THURSDAY, JULY 12 1900.
Democrats and Republicans!
In fact it matters not with what
political party you are affiliated, you
should be a Protectionist in one re
spect. That is to say you should
protect yourselves against loss by
the destruction of your property by
fire; and what is still more essential,
protect your families against the loss
of their support by the Tleath of the
person who produces that support—
the husband the father. This latter
protection can be obtained practical
ly without expense, since it is pos
sible, and in fact compulsory, for the
life insurance company to safely in
vest the funds paid into their hands,
and, after a term of years, return
same with profits to policy holders,
if living, on demand.
This matter should command your seri
ous attention. Delay is dangerous
and expensive. You will therefore
do well to consult the agent in regard
to the merits of the l'enn Mutual
Life insurance Company of Phila
delphia, which is justly reputed to
be the most conservative and the
most economical as well as the most
liberal and equitable in its dealings
with policy holders.
It is 110 experiment or adventure
hut by all odds the safest and best
investment you can make, besides
furnishing protection to your family.
The l'enn Mutual is already over
! .V! years old and has over 20(1,000,110(1
!of insurance iu force, several hun
dred thousand dollars of which is in
Sullivan county.
Von may obtain all desired infor
mation l«y addressing
M. A. Si r I:km an, Special Agent,
1 inshore, I'a.
J J. K KKI jKK.
1 < Justice-of-the I'eace.
Oflice in room over store, LAI'OHTK, I'A.
Special attention given to collections.
All matters left to the care ol tliis office
will be promptly attended to.
CARROLL HOUSE,
D. KEEFE, Proprietor.
DUSIIOKti, I'A.
One of the largest an I best equipped I
hotel." in this tfet tio.i <>t the htatc.
TaMe ol the bunt. R,»tc>3 ! .o*l dollar jier -lay. j
Luftfe St.-hies.
(JLYSSES BIRD
Land Surveyor Engineer and Conveyancer.
Kelopating <>l<l lines and coiiu»i>, uiu! draw
ing map* as|H«eiulty.
Will usually Ik> found at home nit Momluy>.
Charges reasonable.
Estella, Sullivan Co., Pa.
COMMERCIAL HOUSE.
THOS. K. KENNEDY, Prop. j
LAPORTE PA.
This liirg« iirnl well uppuiutrd ln>u.-e is I
the most popular hoslrlry in this Suction
LAPORTE HOTEL.
h\ W, GALLAQHEH, Prop.
Newly erecled. Opposite Court j
house sipiare. Steam heat, bath rooms,
hot and cold water, reading and pool
room,and barber shop: also good stabling
and livery,
WM P. SHOEMAKER,
Attorney at L»w.
Office ill County I'uildilig.
LAI'OHTK, I'A.
Collections, conveyancing: the settlement of
ettalcs unit other les, r al biu-iness will receive
prompt attention.
J J. BRADLEY,
ATTORHBT-AT-LAW,
OrriCß 111 COUHTT BUILDING
HEAR COURT 80011.
LAPORTE, PA
r-IKST NATIONAL HANK
' OK liI'SIIORK, ['KNNA.
CAPITAL - - $50,000.
SURPLUS - - SIO,OOO.
Doesja/leneral Ranking Business.
B.W..JKNNINOS, XI. D. SWARTS.
President. Cashier
T. J. & F. H. INGHAM,
ATTOKNErs-AT-LAW,
Lrgnl business attended to
in this and adjoining counties
-APORTE, PA.
£ J. MULLEN,
Attorney-at-Law.
LAfbRTE, PA.
t mice over T. J. Keeler'sjstore.
J # H. CRONIN,
▲TTORNKY'AT-LAW,
NOTARY PUBLIC.
OPPICB ON MAIM HTKMKT.
DUSIIOHK, PA
FUSION KILLED BY
SIXTEEN TO ONE
Republicans of Pennsylvania Can
Have Nothing in Common With
GufFey and Free Silver.
CONGRESS MUST BE WON.
Clialrmnn lliilicork, of the Rcpukll
runCoiiKreHSiunnlComiiilltov.l.ooks
to This State For Snbatnntiul Gnlnn
Thin Fall.
(Special Correspondence.)
Philadelphia, July 10. —Free silver at
sixteen to one in the Democratic plank
destroys all hope of the Democrats of
Pennsylvania making even a fair show
ing in the coming campaign in the
congressional and legislative districts
of this state.
It was with his home interests In
view that Col. Guffey, the leader of the
Bryanite wing of the Pennsylvania De
mocracy, sought at Kansas City last
week to side track the Bryan plank for
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
at the ratio of sixteen to one. But Mr.
Guffey, when he found that Bryan
would not accept the nomination for
the presidency without a specific decla
ration of sixteen to one in the party
platform, withdrew his opposition and
turned in with the rampant silverites
of Nevada, Colorado, Wyoming and
other western states and territories
against the manufacturing, the busi
ness and the farming interests of Penn
sylvania.
The Pennsylvania delegation, under
Guffey's leadership, after the Bryanites
had won out in the committee on res
olutions of the Democratic national
convention by a majority of but two
votes, joined with Boss Croker, of New
York, and blocked the plans of David
B. Hill and other opponents of the sil
ver crazed Bryanites.
GUFFEY FOR SIXTEEN TO ONE.
Guffey's loyalty to Bryan and the
wild notioned leaders of the Tiilman-
Altgeld type prevented a continuance
of the fight against the sixteen to one
plank on the floor of the Kansas City
convention. The Pennsylvania delega
tion. under the operatons of the unit
rule, wer.t to the front with a solid vote
of 64 delegates committed against the
filing of a minority report in the na
tional convention against sixteen to
one. This plank, which Bryan wrote
himself, will be the cause of the de
sertion of many hundreds of thousands
of sound money Democrats from the
Bryan and Stevenson ticket this year.
In Pennsylvania alone there are al
ready many Democrats who say they
will vote the entire Republican ticket
this fall. By this they do not mean
that they have gone over entirely to the
Republican party. They argue that
th® sooner Bryan is driven from the
leadership of the National Democracy
the soCner that party will get back to
its old moorings and teachings. The
way to kill off Bryanism and free sil
ver, they say, is to vote the entire Re
publican ticket.
Had Guffey and the Pennsylvania
delegation to the Kansas City conven
tion fought to the end against free sil
ver they would have come home de
serving of the thanks and the respect
of the conservative Democrats of their
state. Their half hearted support of
the conservative plank in the early
stage of the struggle counts for noth
ing. since before the light was half over
they turned in with the Tillmans, the
Altgelds, the Townes and the other
single idea Democrats of the present
freakish Democratic organization.
NO FUSION POSSIBLE.
It will be interesting to note the ef
fect of Guffey's support of the sixteen
to one silver plank upon Guffey's fusion
campaign with the Flinn insurgent
combine in this state. Not only will
Guffey be unable to deliver but a small
portion of the Democratic vote to his
fusion candidates for the legislature,
but with Guffey on record as voting for
the sixteen to one plank he cannot ex
pect Republicans who have business in
terests in this state to give encourage
ment to his scheme to defeat regular
Republican nominees for the state sen
ate and the house of representatives,
who will have a vote on the important
issue of the election of a United States
senator.
Sixteen to one kills fusion in Penn
sylvania on the legislative ticket and
means the election of Republicans in
every doubtful congressional district in
this state.
The first primary election to be held
in Pennsylvania since the sixteen to
one declaration in Kansas City was in
the Luzerne-Lackawanna district on
Saturday last, where Senator Scott, an
Insurgent, was defeated for renomina
tion by William Drury, friend of Col
Quay, who had 1.200 majority on a pop
ular vote by Republicans. Scott train
ed with the Flinn-Martin insurgents.
Gen. Palmer, a staunch supporter
of Col. Quay, was nominated for con
gress in this district at the same pri
maries.
REEDER MEETS BABCOCK.
General Frank Reeder, chair
man of the Republican state com
mittee of Pennsylvania, has been in
consultation with Chairman Babcock,
of the Republican congressional com- i
mittee. upon the subject of the con
gressional campaign in the Keystone i
state. Chairman Babcock has hnuress- |
I ed Gen. Keecier with the fact that
Pennsylvania shall make gains in the
Republican representation in the house,
so that this stalwart Republican state
shall do her share towards preventing
the Democracy from gaining control
«112 this branch of congress.
One of the most serious difficulties
of the impending campaign, so far as
the Republicans are concerned, is the
almost universal belief that the money
«u«stion cannot be reopened, except as
a Subject of academic debate, for the
next four years at least. Chairman
Bibcock, who is about to open his
fourth campaign in that capacity,
keenly realizes, as well as do all the
other more sagacious leaders, that a
Bryan victory this year would almost
inevitably give the silver men control
of both branches of congress on March
4, 1903, at the latest, and might possi
bly produce that result on March 4,
1901.
Those who know the details of the
congress campaign of 1898 remember
how difficult it was to arouse Republi
can voters and sound money men gen
erally to the importance of that con
test. Sound money had won a victory
at the polls two years before, but the
fruits of that victory could not be gath
ered because of an opposition majority
in the senate. It was known in 1898
that the sound money men would con
trol that body in the Fifty-sixth con
gress, but that would be of no avail un
less they could also control the house
of representatives, and yet it was not
until late in the campaign that the
sound money men could be aroused —so
late in some states that seat after seat
In the house was turned over to the en
emy, and the Republican majority in
that body was reduced to less than a
dozen. The losses were mainly in
states which gave heavy pluralities for
McKinley in 1896 on the sound money
issue. No less than 25 districts were
thus turned over to the Democrats in
the six states of Maryland, Massachu
setts, New Jersey. New York, Pennsyl
vania and West Virginia. A Republi
can victory was as vital to the estab
lishment of the gold standard in 1898 as
it was in 1896. Such a victory this year
is equally vital to the preservation of
that standard.
CHANGES IN THE SENATE.
If Bryan is elected, the house of rep
resentatives in the Fifty-seventh con
gress will be controlled by the oppo
nents of that standard anil the senate
will be uncomfortably close. It may
be so close that the casting of a
vice president elected on tin
City platform will decide whether the
gold standard shall be maintained.
Among the states to elect United States
senators who will take their seats at
the beginning of the Fifty-seventh
congress are the following;
Colorado —To succeed Woleott,
Republican.
Delaware—To succeed Kenney,
Democrat, and also to fill a vacancy
Idaho —To succeed Shoup, Re
publican.
Illinois —To succeed Cullom, Re
publican.
Kansas—To succeed Baker, Re
publican.
Minnesota —To succeed Nelson,
Republican.
Montana—To succeed Carter, Re
publican, and Clark, Democrat.
Nebraska—To succeed Thurston,
Republican, and Allen, Democrat-
Populist.
North Carolina —To succeed But
ler. Populist.
Pennsylvania—To succeed Quay,
Republican.
South Dakota —To succeed Petti
grew, Silver Republican.
West Virginia—To succeed El
kin. Republican.
Wyoming—To succeed Warren,
Republican.
The representation of these states
at present consist of 15 Republicans.
1 Democrat and 6 Populists and Silver
Republicans—the Nebraska vacancy
caused by the death of Hayward, Re
publican, having been temporarily
filled by the appointment of Allen,
Populist. Of the 12 states mentioned
B—Colorado, Idaho. Kansas, Montana,
Nebraska, North Carolina, South Da
kota and Wyoming—were carried by
Bryan four years ago. If he is elected
president this year there is at least a
reasonable probability that he will car
ry two of the others—Delaware and
West Virginia—and that the represen
tation of the 12 states in the senate
will stand: Republicans. 8; opposi
tion, 16, as follows:
Republicans—lllinois, 2; Minnesota,
2: North Carolina. 1; South Dakota. 1;
West Virginia, 1; Wyoming, 1.
Opposition—Colorado, 2; Delaware,
2; idaho, 2; Kansas. 2; Montana, 2;
Nebraska, 2; North Carolina, 1; South
Dakota, 1; West Virginia, 1; Wyom
ing, 1.
The representation of the 33 other
states in the senate in the Fdfty-sev
enth congress will stand as follows:
Republicans, 38; opposition, 28. The
senate would then stand: Republi
cans (for gold standard), 46;i opposi
tion, 44. The re-election of a Silver
Republican senator in New Hampshire,
or the loss of a Republican senator in
Illinois (which state sent a Democrat
to the senate nine years ago. as the
result of a fierce factional fight) would
divide the senate equally on the money
question, and the existing financial
policy and legislation might be over
turned and reversed next yeaj- by the
casting vote of a Democratic-Populist
vice president, as the protective tariff
was overturned in 1846 by a Demo
cratic vice president carried into of
fice on the war cry of "Polk, Dallas
and tho tariff of 1842."
WHERE DEMOCRATS MIGHT WIN.
That the election of Bryan to the
1.25 Per. .
presidency tins year wouia result in
a silver majority in the senate in the
Fifty-eighth congress, which will come
in on March 4, 1903, seems to be rea
sonably certain. Among the Republi
can senators whose terms will expire
on March 3,1903, are the following: Per
kins of California, Mason of Illinois,
Fairbanks of Indiana, Deboe of Ken
tucky, Wellington of Maryland, Piatt
of New York, Pritchard of North Caro
lina. Hansbrough of North Dakota.
Foraker of Ohio and Kyle of South
Dakota. At least three of these—De
boe, Wellington and Pritchard—will be
succeeded by silver senators, in all
probability, in < ase Bryan wins this
year, and the seats of several of the
others will be in serious danger.
In Indiana only one Republican
(Benjamin Harrison) was elected to
the United States senate between 1875
and 1897, and in that entire period of
22 years both senatorshlps were held
by Democrats for 20 years, with only
one break of two years' duration. It
has been only since March 4, 1899, that
both seats have been occupied by Re
publicans. since Joseph E. McDonald
was elected to succeed Daniel Pratt in
1875. The election of Bryan to the
presidency in 1900 would indicate a
probability of the election of a Demo
crat to succeed Senator Fairbanks in
1903.
From 1869 to 1897. a period of 28
years, one of the Ohio seats in the
United States senate was occupied by
a Democrat, and from 1879 to 1881 botii
of them were so occupied. It has been
only since the beginning of the present
administration that both have been oc
cupied by Republicans since the recon
struction period.
From 1875 to 1899 the Democrats
held one of the New Jersey sets 'n the
senate, and for four years both of
them were so held. For the first time
in a quarter of a century Republicans
now hold both of the senatorships
from that state.
From 1891 to 1899 New York was
represented in the senate by two Dem
ocrats for four years, and by one Re
publican and one Democrat for the
rest of the period, if Bryan should be
elected president this year, and especi
ally if New York should contribute
her electoral vot<? tc that result, Sena
tor Piatt's successor in 1903 in all
probability would be a Democrat.
OUTLOOK IS HOPEFUL
Foreigners Said to B9 Safe
In Pcicing.
PRINCE CHING OPPOSES PRINCE TU AN
<IIIIIIH« of the ( 1(4 N nu'hNii r.t . mi.l
Drill >• AIIIIN to 15o\ rr I'lui'i's—K;u
-liri-MM Donatier Vcr> Murli \ll\4-.
\ iiivrlcim Troup* TttUil.
LONDON, July 10. -With tin foreign
ers in Peking probably safe amidst 1 iv.;
war, with Prince Ching 011 their Mil
with the power# united ynd I heir foix
constantly increasing, the outlook i" Chi
na is now rather more liopel'nl than it h,:-
been for a month past. It appears from
the cautious statement given oat by Tao
tai Sheng in Shanghai that the reason
the heavy guns bearing on the lcgation>
at Peking were not used is that l'linn
Ching, who is served by 10.000 troop-,
seized all the artillery ammunition.
Sheng likewise intimates that Vung l.'i.
commander in chief of the northern arm. - .,
is associated with Prince Ching in op
posing Prince Ttian's ferocious design--
and dictatorial ambition. Sheng. who ap
pears to be the sole Shanghai conduit oi
Peking news, cheers the foreign consuls
by these confidential communications, but
takes excessive precautions to pi-even;
the Chinese from thiuking him friendly
to the foreigners.
The feeling of unrest in the southern
and central provinces continues. The
members of the oiticial class in those
provinces strive to remain neutral, with ;i
leaning toward the foreigners, until the.v
shall see whether the moderate or e\-
treme factions will win in Peking. Prince
Cliing seems to be standing for the dynas
t.v and the old order against Prince Tti
an's inordinate ambition.
From the foreign viewpoint the capture
of Peking is the key to the situation, as
there is a fear, says The Daily Mail's
Shanghai correspondent, that delay now
means 100 recruits for the Boxers for
every soldier of the allies in the land.
Two couriers arrived at Tien-tsin on
July 1 from Peking. One brought a let
ter from Sir Claude Macdonald. 'he Brit
ish minister, to the same effect as that
previously received from Sir Koi>ert
Hart. The couriers confirm the rcpoCs
of the death of Baron von Ketteler. The.v
say that-Prince Ching is doing his utmost
to protect the foreigners, but that the na
tive l'eeliug against the whites is strong.
Two high officials opposed to the Boxers
are reported by the couriers to have been
assassinated.
The Daily Mail's correspondent at Che
fu announces under date of July 7 that
the N'inth United States infantry lins ar
rived at Taku.
Inventory «»' lluluirt'n Kutnlf Filed.
NFW YORK, July 10. The inventory
of the personal estate of the late Carrel
A. Ilobart luis been tiled with the surro
gate at Patorson, N. J. It appraises the
bite vice president's wealth al $2,6i!8,941.
Mr. Ilobart held bonds in about 20 cor
porations and stock in over 100.
Governor Allen In Wii»liltmtim.
WASHINGTON. July 10. Coveruoi
Charles 11. Allen of Porto Rico, win. i
,,n tl visit to the United States on ollieiid
business, has arrived here from New
York. He was accompanied by Mrs. Al
leu.
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