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CHAb. LOREN WING, Editor.
THURSDAY, DKC. 12, HH)I.
"FIRST OF ALL—THE NEWS/'
The News Item Fights Fair
IT IS A PATRIOTIC HOME NEWSPAPER
Published Every Friday Morning,
By The Sullivan Publishing Co.
A.t the County Bent of Sullivan County.
LAPOBTE. PA.
Entered at the Post Office at Laporte, as
second-clase mail matter.
Harrisburg, Dec. 10. Democratic
politicians and their allies, the insur
gent leaders, have failed in a desperate
eit'ort to create the impression that
there are serious dissensions among
tho regular Republicans in the state.
They have endeavored to arouse per
sonal bitterness over the Issue of the
next governorship and have sought to
j-lace Senator Quay in a position of
hostility to Attorney General John P.
Elkln, and to have it appear that they
are at loggerheads.
While Mr. Elkin has been very favor
ably mentioned in connection with the
next governorship, he has up to date
m:ide no announcement of a determi
nation to be a candidate for the Re
publican nomination for that office. It
is true that the only county which has
elected delegates to the next state
convention, Berks county, unanimously
indorsed Mr. Elkin for governor, but
no formal declaration has as yet come
from the Indiana county leader as to
whether he will or will not be an as
pirant for governor.
QUAY AND ELKIN CORDIAL.
Most persistently, however, were
rumors circulated that Senator Quay
and Mr. Elkin had parted company and
that Senator Quay and he were no
longer in accord. These reports were
quickly disposed of when it was learn
ed that Senator Quay, who was direct
ed by his physician togo to Florida
for a couple of weeks, had invited At
torney General Elkin to be a member
of his party and to remain with him
for a short time at least.
Mr. Elkin, while unable to be away
but for a brief period, accepted the
invitation and accompanied Senator
and Mrs. Quay when they left a few
days ago for the south.
While no special political signifi
cance can be attached to this in
cident, it simply put an end to the
silly stories about there having been
a rupture between Colonel Quay and
Mr. Elkin, who have been fast per
sonal and political friends for so many
year 3.
The circulation of the rumors re
garding Senator Quay and Mr. Elkln
was but part of the general scheme of
those who are planning for an inde
pendent campaign next fall. They are
doing their utmost to bring about fac
tional differences in every county in
the commonwealth. They have the ac
tive support of the Democratic news
papers in the state and the insurgent
organs of Philadelphia, and neighbor
ing counties, which are under the
Wanamaker influence.
While Wanamaker has gone abroad
for a couple of months for the benefit
of his health, which has not been good,
those who have been associated with
him in his recent campaigning against
ihe regular Republican organization
appear to be quite as well supplied
with funds for political purposes as
ever, and they are spending money
with the same lavish recklessness
which has characterized their opera
tions of the last five years.
A MISLEADING STATEMENT.
During the last week there was put
out for publication an alleged state
ment of expenditures in the recent
contest by the Union party against the
Republican state ticket. Chairman
ltiter, of the state committee of the
Union party, announced that but a lit
tle over $4,300 had been expended by
his committee in the campaign. It is
possible that this sum was all that Mr.
Riter was permitted to handle in that
fight, but those familiar with the in
side workings of the insurgent and
Union party fusion combinations know
that half a million dollars would not
cover the full output of money against
the Republican state ticket in the re
cent campaign.
Over their own signatures, Union
party managers in Philadelphia in an
.repeal for funds, stated that SBO,OOO
was absolutely necessary to cover cer
tain expenses which they Itemized. But
it is known that as much as SIO,OOO
was spent in a single ward in Philadel
phia for the Union party ticket. In
Luzerne and other counties in eastern
Pennsylvania it is charged that enor
mous sums of money were used against
the Republican candidates.
Evidence is at hand of the use of
money in a preliminary campigning
now under way to weaken the Re
publican organization for the coming
contest.
REPUBLICANS ARE ALERT.
But the Republican leaders are on
the alert, and they do not propose to
♦he insurgent and their Demo
ers any advantage in the
i. Good men are to be
for all offices, and the
ecting the party organiza
e carried on incessantly
ntil the campaign shall be
.iuniut
PENROSE TOTHE FRONT
Young Pennsylvania Senator Leads
In Two Important Issues.
WILL KEEP OUT THE CHINESE
Pennsylvania Workingmen Are Also
Pleased With His Determination to
Block the Importation of Foreign
Labor.
(Special Correspondence.)
Philadelphia, Dec. 10.—Admirers of
United States Senator Boies Penrose
are delighted over the national promi
nence he has received since the recon
vening of congress through his leader
ship of the movement to re-enact the
Geary Chinese exclusion law an 4 to
have Introduced such additional safe
guards against the Invasion of foreign
labor as may be deemed expedient.
Senator Penrose is chairman of the Im
portant committee on immigration,
which is made up of some of the
strongest members of the senate, in
cluding Lodge, of Massachusetts; Ma
son, of Illinois: Fairbanks, of Indiana,
and Sewell, of New Jersey. The initial
move of Senator Penrose In the cru
sade against the invasion of the Chi
nese was the introduction of a bill
simply re-enacting the Geary law, with
a provision for the exclusion of Chinese
laborers for a period of twenty years.
This time limit is not, however, in
tended to mean that at the expiration
of that period the Chinese will be ad
mitted, but for diplomatic reasons it
has not been deemed wise to have such
a clause Inserted in the bill.
CONFERRING WITH ROOSEVELT.
Senator Roosevelt has been in con
sultation with President Roosevelt, and
they thoroughly agree as to the general
terms of the bill to be reported from
Senator Penrose's committee. There
have been so many bills and amend
ments Introduced on this subject that
Senators Penrose and Lodge, who have
been constituted a sub-committee of
the senate committee on immigration
on this measure, will get together and
draft a new bill, that will be known
as the Penrose Chinese exclusion bill,
and which will meet every requirement
of the situation.
Senator Quay took a hand in the
matter before by presenting an amend
ment to Senator Penrose's bill to ex
empt from exclusion all Chinese who
have embraced Christianity and the
Chinese who took part in the defense
or the relief of the foreign legations
and in the defense and the relief of
Pe-ting Cathedral in Pekin in the sum
mer of 1900. Senator Quay stated that
the cathedral was entirely defended by
Chinese.
PROTECTING AMERICAN LABOR.
Another matter in which Senator
Penrose has taken a conspicuous part is
that of the regulation of immigration.
He has introduced a bill which em
braces 50 sections, and which is the
outcome of numerous conferences he
has had with Commissioner of Immi
gration Powderly.
This measure provides for boards of
special inquiry at the various ports of
the country to examine immigrants
and order the deportation of those who
shall be found undesirable or ineligible
for admission to the country. Provis
ion is made for a physical examination
of every immigrant by the United
States Marine Hospital service. The
purpose of the proposed legislation is
to further restrict immigration with
a view to giving more protection to
American labor and to excluding the
undesirable elements which have been
introduced in many regions through
the present too liberal laws.
Senator Penrose has been In receipt
of many letters from leaders of labor
organizations, particularly the coal
miners, assuring him of their hearty
co-operation in hia efforts to curtail
the importation of laborers to the
detriment of those American-born and
naturalized citizens now employed in
this state.
With the intended reduction of the
number of immigrants it is believed
there will be better opportunities af
forded labor in every direction to pro
cure more satisfactory remuneration,
and to have the hours of the working
men shortened without reducing their
compensation.
WILL FIGHT AGGRESSIVELY.
Senator Penrose will make several
rpeeche"; i:i support of his bills for the
restriction of immigration and the ex
clusion of the Chinese laborers when
they come before the senate. He does
not anticipate much of a fight on the
Chinese issue, but says that he fears
come of the corporations that are bene
fited by the importation of foreign la
bor will do everything in their power
to keep the immigration laws as liberal
as possible to further their business
interests.
The workingmen of Pennsylvania,
who are so keenly interested in this
issue, are gratified over the determina
tion manifested by Senator Penrose to
take up their cause and contest it to
r successful conclusion.
Senator Penrose has always been
popular with organized labor. Some
of his staunehest friends in his public
career have been men who stand high
in the councils of workingmen's or
ganizations. He has made it a point
to keep in touch with the laboring in
terest, and during his career at Har
risburg in the Pennsylvania legislature
and since he has been in the United
Stßtes senate he has followed a con
sistent course as a friend of the wage
earners.
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Furniture and .
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