Republican News Item CHAS. LOREN WING, Editor. THURSDAY, JAN. 23, 1902. "FIRST OF ALL—THE NEWS." The News Item Fights Fair j IT IS A PATRIOTIC HOME NEWSPAPER Published Every Friday Morning. By The Sullivan Publishing Co. At the County Best of Sullivan County. LAPOHTE, PA. Entered at the Post Office at Laporte, as second-class mail matter. Philadelphia, January 21.—The Union party organization in ths Quaker City lias ceased to be held in respect even by Its former mott ardent champions. It ha* been revealed, by its former fi lends, in its true light of a combina tion of disgruntled and disappointed and scheming politicians who have nothing in common with the principles and alms of sincere reformers, al though their stock in trade in the re cent campaign were their professions of reform. The very men and interests which put up the money to run the recent Union i>arty campaign in Philadelphia are mow the loudest in denunciation of the politicians whom they gathered hround them and engaged to make their fight against the nominees of the Republican party. An organization was formed in every ward in this city. Headquarters were established and the millionaires and others who were be hind the movement paid the rent of the rooms, furnished the cash to em ploy clerks and canvassers, and in many cases gave the politicians hired to take charge of the organizations in {ho several wards from S2OO to SI,OOO each for their personal services during I he campaign. FAKE REFORM. ; This was, indeed a "reform cam paign," run upon strictly business prin ciples. These hirelings of the wealthy men, jvith personal ambitions to advance, iir private grievances to satisfy, went iit their work to disrupt the Republican [ rarty in the hope that besides the | eady money of which they were as ! tired, there would be offices to be had i.fter the defeat of the Republican can didates,and then Democrats and Union !'.arty men would be entrenched in the j ity offices. I Mass meetings were gotten up and streets parades were organized, with jnuny of the men in line paid from 50 : or.ts to one dollar a night to turn out under the Union party banners. The Snsr.-gent and Democratic newspapers [were daily filled with glowing reports :it the proceedings In the Union party campaign, and recounting, with graphic descriptions and precise detail, the ' grand work being done in the Interest <>f reform," but the voters soon be came acquainted with the tactics being lesorted to and realized that the whole show was a scheme gotten up to serve the purposes of men who have been repudiated by the Republican party. These men believed that they had but to defeat the nominees of the Re publican party to command considera tion from the leaders who had refused to comply with their wishes. When the politicians who had been subsidized Into joining the Union party and who had gotten control of Its ma chinery saw a chance last week to possibly benefit themselves they "threw reform to the winds" and started out in business on their own account. They held a Union party convention and nominated two of their own number for magistrates in the hope of electing them as the minority members of the board of magistrates, irhey believed that they could com mand more votes than the Democrats, and would thus get representation as the minority party. In order to strengthen their position theyplacedon their ticket for city solicitor the name of the Republican nominee for that office, John L. Klnsey, who has made a most very creditable record in the office. MILLIONAIRES ARE INCENSED. This action of the active workers in the Union party incensed the men who had spent thousands and thousands of dollars backing the Union party in its unsuccessful campaign to defeat John Weaver, the Republican candidate for district attorney. They had hoped to be able to keep up the fight, to form an alliance with the Democrats for a fu sion campaign, and to strengthen the Union party and Democratic combina tion for the real contest for which all the money was being spent, the elec tion of members of the Legislature, which is to take place next fall. These members of the legislature will vote on the United States Senatorshlp, and this is the grand prize for which the Union party was organized. The Union party, according to the declaration of its state chairman at the initial convention held in Philadelphia, formed primarily to figure in the ! lection of a United States senator. There are half a dozen eminent gen- Jemen who have either put up cash to keep the Union party going or have t:lven their influence in other direc tions to serve its purposes who are now damning the men who have gotten • 'mtrol of Its Philadelphia machinery. | Wanamaker's Philadelphia newspa per, which has been the organ of the Vnion party in the state, la showing lie keenest disappointment. In a | athing arraignment of the Union .'arty this paper, among other things, • ays: I"The Union party organization in Ihls city has been guilty of an act ■ither of perfidy or supreme folly, or both. In any case, It has abdicated Its principles and abused 1U trust." Coatlnulng. It states that by the «o lion of Its c6nVentlon It b«euu "the tool of spoilmen," and then adds, "as the instrument of mere spoilsmen it represents no principles, and has no | banner that any independent or parti- j san citizen can follow. "The spoils hunters who have tem porarily gained control of the Union party organization in this city should be made as contemptible and ridiculous 1 as their folly or perfidy deserves." And this is what the principal organ of the Union party has to say of the men who have been running Its "re form campaign." WILLPRWfLABOR Senator Penrose Meeting the Great Question of Chinese Exclusion. OPPOSITION NOW DEVELOPING Business Interests Trading With China Havs Taken a Hand In the Fight, But the Republican Party Will Not Ignor the Workingmen. (Special Correspondence.) Harrisburg, Jan. 21. —The Insincer ity of the average reformer has again been demonstrated in the pres ent silence which has been observed among the insurgent newspapers over the question of the exclusion of the Chinese laborers. The Pennsylvania insurgents have finally discovered that United States Senator Boies Penrose, by reason of his position as chairman of the com mittee on immigration of the senate, will wield great influence in shaping the legislation in congress on this sub ject. In an effort to cater to the labor vote some of the insurgent news papers made a great ado over this is sue some weeks ago in seeking to lead the movement for the re-enact ment of the Chinese exclusion law. But things are different now. The editors of these papers have learned that Senator Penrose is the real leader in this agitation and that upon his shoulders will largely rest the respon sibility of meeting the organized op position of large capital interests for liberal legislation affecting the Chi- AN IMPORTANT PROBLEM. Senator Penrose has arranged to give a hearing this week to represen tatives of both the advocates and the opponents of the proposed legislation to bar Chinese cheap labor from this country. It has developed that many business interests fear that if the action of congress shall be too radi cal on this subject trade with China will be seriously affected, and it may lead to retaliatory measures on the part of the Chinese government. New England interests, including the Great Boston and Maine railroad, representatives of the Canadian Pa cific railroad, In which a large amount of capital from the United States is invested, the Chamber of Commerce of New York, fearful of curtailment of the Importing and export trade with China, and the Cotton Planters Association of the south, who ship millions of dollars worth of cotton and cotton goods to China, are among others who have requested an oppor tunity to be heard before Senator Penrose's committee. On the other hand, Senator Penrose has extended a cordial invitation to all labor organizations throughout the country to have representatives at the hearings or to communicate with him direct by mail, that he may submit to his colleagues in the sen ate, in a practical way, the views of American mechanics and laboring men on this great question. In conversation on this issue a few days ago. Senator Penrose among other things said: "I was not until recently aware of the many ramifica tions of this question of the exclusion of the Chinese laborers. I have re ceived many communications from business men, manufacturers, import ers and exporters and others on this subject, which goto show how keen ly some of our commercial and manu facturing interests are considering this matter. From the outset of this agitation I have made it a point to keep in touch with representative workingmen, among them officers of various trade unions and other organi zations, and I have gathered a vast fund of valuable information which will be available in framing the bill which will ultimately come from our committee. PENNSYLVANIA'S INTERESTS. "Throughout our own state of Penn sylvania the workingmen are fully alive to the situation, and I have had hundreds of letters from almost every section of the commonwealth insisting that there shall be no departure from the policy of exclusion of the Chinese laborers. "The men engaged in the vast an thracite and bituminous coal fields of Pennsylvania, our great coke indus tries, the lumber interests and the im mense iron and steel plants and the other manufacturing establishments of the Keystone state, including many thousands of workingmen, are all deeply concerned in this subject. "Personnlly, my aim from the out set shall be to protect American labor from all encroachment of undesirable foreign labor, which at low wages would come in competition with the men who have served to make this country great and prosperous. "The American home, above all, must be protected, and I am satisfied that when this issue shall be finally met in congress the Republican party, which has always been a friend of labor, will not be found wanting in appreciation of the claims of the work ingmen of the country, and ths caur j age to afford them full prottctloa la j this matter." John D. Reeser's Big Store ! L 1 Winter Goods Must Go. | »— mmmmmrn i — mmm i^a^ao— mxmm a— Another Slaughter in Prices.- j $lO. Coats, now s6.so Capes, now SB.OO #i.2ij Underwear, now Shirt waists, now 2.98 S.OO •• ' *5.00 10.00 " " 7.00 1.00 " " 79c I " '• 2.19 7.50 •• 4 4.50: 8.50 '• 44 5.50i .75 " ' 4 59c 1.50 •. 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