Republican News Item CHAS. LOREN WING, Editor. THURSDAY, AUG.I6, i'.HH). 4 ]first of_all-- THE NfcWS." The News Item Fights Fair. IT IS A'.PATRIOTIC HOME NEWSPAPER Published Every Friday Morning. By The Sullivan Publishing Co. At the County Sent of Sullivan County. LAPORTE, PA. SUBSCRIPTION —$1.25 per annum. 11 paid in advance SI.OO. Sample copies free. All communications should be ad dressed to REPUBLICAN NEWS ITEM, Laporte Pa., Entered at the Post Office at Laporte, as second-class mail matter. -\n Important I'onferonee Willi tlie Secretory of the Republican Con- Kre«»lunii I Committee Itcssn riliim file Election of Members ol' C'on irrcNi. (Special Correspondence.) Philadelphia, Aug. 14. —The Repub lican state campaign in Pennsylvania was formally opened today with the Btarting into work of the entire force of the Republican state committee, under the direction of Gen. Frank Reeder, the state chairman. For sev eral weeks the preliminary work was looked after by T. Larry Eyre, chief executive officer of the state commit tee, with Chairman Reeder making fre quent visits to this city for consul tation with his assistants. From now on both Chairman Reeder and Mr. Eyre will be at the state headquarters daily, looking after the details of the campaign and getting matters in shape for the fall fight. There will be little speech making until next month, but there is always a vast amount of cor respondence between the state com mittee officials and the county chair men in making arrangements for meet ings and the canvassing of the var ious districts. TAKE NOTHING FOR GRANTED. "We propose to run this campaign," said Chairman Reeder today, "upon the principle of taking nothing for granted, and we want to impress upon the Republicans of Pennsylvania at the outset the danger of over con fidence. We are too apt to assume because Pennsylvania has prospered more than has any other state, under the McKinley administration, that our people will rush to the polls and vote the whole Republican ticket as an evi dence of appreciation of what the Re publican party has done for the state and the country at large. Unfortunate ly our experiences do not teach us that we can expect this movement to come voluntarily from all classes of our voters. There are always many who seem to forget the advantages they de rive from the success of the Republi can party until it is sometimes too late to overcome the result of this lack of appreciation of the benefits of Re publican supremacy. Many Republi can candidates have in the past been defeated not because a majority of the voters in their respective districts were opposed to them, but because many of those who really favored their election, neglected togo to the polls and vote for them. "Now, the aim of the Republican or ganization in this state this fall will be to impress upon those citizens who are not ordinarily interested in politics that they must goto the polls in No vember next to vote the whole Republi can ticket to insure a continuance of present prosperous conditions. "It will not do to allow the campaign in this state togo by default because it can be taken for granted that Presi dent McKinley will get a large major ity next November. We must see to it that every close or debatable congres sional and assembly district is won for the Republican party and that the Democracy, with their fusion alliances, shall not be permitted to defeat regu lar Republican candidates for congress or the state legislature. "The Republican party has lost mem bers of congress in the past through fusion deals made with tlie Democracy by disgruntled Republicans and the loss of Republican members of the leg islature by similar combinations will all have a bearing upon the election of a United States senator, which will come up before the legislature which meets in Januarv next. A REPUBLICAN U. S. SENATOR. "No Republican can afford to jeop ardize the election of a Republican to the United States senate. Those who give aid and encouragement to the Democracy in the election of members of the legislature will be held respon sible for the result of such alliances against regularly nominated Republi can candidates for the senate and of the state house of representatives. "The Repubican state committee will throughout this campaign give every assistance possible to tho county or ganizations, not only to get out a lull vote for the state ticket, including the presidential electors, but wherever necessary a helping hand will be given to pull through nominees for county offices. We want and expect to have the hearty co-operation of the various Republican county committeemen and any Republican who can in any way contribute to the party success this fall will be always welcome at the state committee headquarters to give sug gestions or advice in the interest of Republican nominees. "With the Republican organization presenting a solid front against the Democracy in November we should make important gains in the congres sional delegation, but this can be ac complished only by hard work and per sistent canvassing." MUST GAIN CONGRESSMEN. Congressman Jesse Overstreet, of the Seventh Indiana district, who is secre tary of the Republican national con gressional committee, stopped off in this city yesterday while on his way to New York and had a conference with Gen. Reeder regarding the situation in the doubtful congressional districts in Pennsylvania. "The great danger to tho Republi can party this fall will be in over con fidence," said Congressman Overstreet. 112 "We must make a determined fight in every doubtful district It we are to elect a Kepublican majority to the i house. In '9B we carried the house by a majority of 13. By contca' s decided in our favor our majority v.:• in creased, but we cannot now dcp-.ul 011 the districts they came from. Wo had three congressmen from North Carc lina, but of course since the disfran chisement of the negroes we shall HOT. get n representative from that state. In '9S we had two from Kentucky, but one was by the narrow majority of ten. We are not counting on that as certain. The other district in Kentucky gave us a large majority, and they cannot count us out of it. We had one repre sentative from Texas —from the Gal veston district —but it is always close there, and the presidential election may change the result this time. DEMOCRATS HAVE AN ADVANT AGE. "This makes a total of five that we are almost sure to lose from what we now have, leaving us a bare majority of three. We are making our estimates on a majority of three now. But the odds this time are really in favor of the Democrats. They have to begin with 322 representatives from the southern states that always give a solid congressional delegation for them. In some northern states they have 40 per cent of the congressmen. In New York they had IS in the last house, or CO per cent of the New York delega tion. So on the face of the outlook their chances for carrying the house this time are better than ours. "We look for gains in Pennsylvania and New York," concluded Congress man Overstreet, "but we know that these gains cannot be made unless Re publicans shall stand together and labor to get out the party vote for the full Republican ticket. Factional in terests must be subordinated for the welfare of the party. By the Republi cans of Pennsylvania presenting a solid front to the Democracy we should win in every debatable district in this state." It is understood that Gen. Reeder and Congressman Overstreet arranged for another meeting in the near fu ture, when plans will be mapped out for close co-operation in the work of the Republican organization ol' this state and the congressional campaign committee in the several congression al districts where the Democrats think they have a chance to win. ««•>" juiifiXutui," K-iiirtU.t'U an. rjl kin, "more than a majority of the doubtful districts will be carried by the regulars. Most of the counties in the regular column are safely Republican, and in a Presidential year will be car ried by the stalwarts. The above figures are only for members of tho house, but they clearly show that if the Republican party does its whole duty in November the contest will be settled by Republican votes in the house. The only hope left for the in surgents is to join hands with the Democrats in November and elect Democratic members in counties where they think such tactics will win. This, of course, will be done, but the lead of the regulars is too great to be over come. This is a Republican year, and fusion with free silver Democrats is not. palatable to sound money Republi cans. The fusion movement is falling flat all over the state. The masses of Republican voters are becoming very tired of being made the tail to the Democratic kite, flying free silver and insurgent streamers. The allied forces in the Republican party will win against the mad designs of the Boxer element within its own ranks and the wild vagaries of the Bryan Democracy outside. "This is a table showing probable make-up of the senate at the next ses sion of the legislature: Regular Republicans 27 Insurgents 7 Demi eruts 14 Doubtful i Total TO "When all the nominations are made," concluded Mr. Elkin, "the re sult will be as follows as nearly as can be estimated in advance: REGULARS. Already nominated in lower home S3 Estimate of those to be nominated 3S Probable nominations In doubtful list 12—133 Estimate of regulars In senate 27 Half of doubtful list 2 29 Total nominations by regulars in both branches of the legislature —estimated 102 INSURGENTS. Already nominated in lower house 27 Estimate of those to lie nominated 9 Total in house, estimated K6 Estimate of insurgents in senate... 7 Half of doubtful list 2 9 Total nominations of insurgents In both branches of legislature —estimated 45 Doubtful among p'oliable nomi nees to house 11 WILL WORK WITH HANNA. Gen. Reeder has been invited to visit New York and confer with the leaders of the Republican national committee in reference to the work of the cam paign, as it is desired that the chair man of the various stale committees shall be in touch with the national, committee and work in harmony with Chairman Hanna. The speech of acceptance from Bryan, in which lie made imperialism almost the only issue, made an impres sion upon the conservative element of the Democracy and the Republican leaders fear that unless there shall be a renewal of the agitation on the silver question, this speech from Bryan will have the effect of sending sons of the sound money Democrats back Into line with the national democracy. It is be lieved that this speech was prepared with the sole purpose of misleading the gold Democrats of the east and getting them to give their support to Democratic candidates for congress. Bryan has the confidence of the silver ites of the west and the no; thwe: t. and they know that he will lie true to their interests no matter what lie may deem politic to say in any of his campaign speeches. With the knowledge that the silverites are for him. Bryan diplo matically made his speech of accept ance on imperalism, with the idea of getting the sound money Democrats of the east working in sympathy with the Democratic organization. The Demo cratic silverites of Pennsylvania are now boasting that Bryan's Indian apolis speech will bring back into the Democratic party many of the sound money advocates and that they will be serviceable in helping to elect Demo cratic candidates for congress and the Democrats and insurgents who will be on the fusion tickets for the stute legis lature. There are a great many styles to select from. All white enameled and brass trimmed, from the lowest to the highest. Good ones cheap and cheap ones good. Come in and see the cut prices on these for August only. , We also have a laiger and more complete stock of house furnishing goods than ever before. Carpets, Mattings and Sewing Machines. HOLCOMBE & LAUER, Undertaking, d H>UBbOte, £a. Telephone call, Hotel Obert. Williamsport & North Branch Railroad TIIMIIEL! TABLE. In effect Monday June is, 1900. Read down Head up P. M. AMr.M.PM P M)' M A. M. A M STATIONS. AMAJIA.M.P MpMP M AM P M 1025 835 1025 525 420 2 12, 1020 7-18 llalls 740 945 11 45 400 145 1015 820 10 15 10 30 f8 40 flO :!0 f530 f4 2S 1215; f102317 51 Pennsilrtle ... 17 35 f'.» 10 11 40 57 fl 11 1010 815 10 10 10 408 51 10 40 540432 224 10 31 800 . Hughesville.. 7259 31 11 30 3484329 59 805 959 f904 f551 f4 44 ! 809 ...Lyons Mills... f9 20 fll 18 420 f946 9 It. 907 554 440 2£o 10 42 811 ....Chamouni ... olsfll 15 117 9 4:5 943 913 602 453 2 471 10 47 816 /..Ci leil Mhwt,.., 912 11 09 330 111 937 937 I*9 2*2 (011 f5 01 flo 53 8 22 ..Stra\vbri 49 2 51 § rh u: f6lO fl2 00 ..Heruiee Komi.. 112 «>4<» 245 -f, -f Connection with Phila.& Beadinglnt Halls For Philadelphia, New York and inler mediate stations —LeaveWilliamsport ~:.'50 a.m., 10:00 a. in., Arrive Halls 7:4N a.m. 10:1 ya. m. 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