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."
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Goods Sold Exactly as Advertised.
John D. Reeser's Big
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Some of our Xmas goods came too late to sell
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Come in and if you can find anything you want we i
will make the price right.
Tkic il is Rockers > Ru S s ' Portier Curtins,
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LAPORTE
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vinced of the low prices we are offering,
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OPERA HOUSE BLOCK,
DUSHORE, PA.
Wiliiamsport & North Branch Railroad
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