Republican News Item
CHAS.'LOREN WING, Editor. '
THURSDAY, APR. 3, 1902.
"HIRST OF ALL"THE NEWS."
The News Item Fights Fair
IT IS A PATRIOTIC HOME NEWSPAPER
Published Every Friday Morning.
By The Sullivan Publishing Co.
At the County Seat of Sullivan Coonty.
LAFOHTE, FA.
Entered at the Post Office at Laporte, as
second-class mail matter.
Harrisburg, April i.—General Frank
Reeder, chairman of the Republican
state committee, and T. Larry Eyre,
chief assistant to the state chairman,
were in consultation here today re
gin ding the arrangements for the Re
publican state convention, which is to
be held in Harrisburg on June 11 next.
They both state that the attendance
promises to be very large. They find
that there is a widespread interest
shown in the canvass for the governor
ship and the nominations for the two
other offices to be filled at the coming
election on the general state ticket, the
lieutenant governorship and the sec
retaryship of Internal affairs.
There will bo a good field of candi
dates and the hotels are already book
ing engagements for rooms. t The
friends of the several candidates are
counted upon to have large delegations
here to work up sentiment among the
delegates for their respective favor
ites, and a number of Republican clubs
will be on hand with bands of music
and flying banners heralding the names
of their standard bearers.
ELKIN MEN PREPARING.
The largest crowds will undoubtedly
come from western counties, where the
enthusiasm over the candidacy of At
torney General John P. Elkin is most
pronounced. In Indiana, Mr. Elkin s
home county, they are now forming
clubs in the different townships to
come here and cheer and shout for
"The Indiana County Plow Boy," as
they affectionately style their choice
for governor.
Not only will the western counties be
represented among the Elkin boomers,
but Chester, Montgomery, Lebanon,
Lancaster, Cumberland, Union, Sny
der and other counties east, of the Alle
gheniee will each send large contin
gents of their active Republicans to
swell the crowd of Elkin supporters.
Lawrence county seems to be fairly
worked up over former Senator W. M.
Brown, of that county, for lieutenant
governor, and nearly every member of
the Republican county committee, and
practically all of the county officials
have expressed their intention to come
here to work for the nomination of
the former senator.
Crawford county Republicans are ar
ranging to flock to the convention city
in goodly numbers to press for the
nomination of Dr. Theodore L. Flood
for lieutenant governor, and they say
they will be joined by leading and in
fluential Republicans from neighboring
counties who will render them all thc
assiatance in their power to land their
candidate with the winners.
Cumberland county took no action on
the indorsement of any candidates for
favor at the hands of the delegates to
the state convention, in accordance
with an unwritten rule of the Republi
can organization thore not to give In
structions to the state delegates. Dr.
Reed, of Cumberland, has been fre
quently mentioned for the lieutenant
governorship, and there is no doubt
that he would be pleased to accept this
office If the convention would see fit
to honor him with the nomination.
Should Dr. Reed be a candidate by the
time the convention date comes around
there will be a representative party of
Cumberland county Republicans here
in his behalf. The Cumberland county
delegates have expressed themselves as
in favor of the nomination of Mr. Elkin
for governor.
GENERAL SCHALL A FAVORITE.
There Is another eastern favorite
whose friends are closely following the
developments in the canvass for gov
ernor and the lieutenant governorship.
They are hopeful that Elkin, of In
diana, will be placed at the head of the
ticket and that former Senator Brown
or Dr. Flood or some other western
man shall be named for second place,
so that the east shall stand a good
chance of carrying oft the nomination
for secretary of Internal affairs.
This candidate is General John W.
Schall, of Montgomery county. Gen
era! Schall's candidacy appeals largely
to the veterans of the civil war and the
members of the National Guard, to
whom he is well known, both as a
prominent member of the Grand Army
and as a brigadier general in the guard.
General Schall will be indorsed for
the .secretaryship of internal affairs by
the Montgomery county delegation and
his friends say the county convention
will appoint a committee to take charge
of his candidacy. General Schall Is
very popular and it is quite probable
that Montgomery will vie with Indiana
in seeking to have the largest delega
tion at the convention to labor for her
local candidate. General Schall's ad
mirers have been sending Into other
counties to obtain pledges in favor of
his candidacy, and they report that the
suggestion for his nomination has beon
most favorably received.
Major Brown, of Erie, has been in the
field for some time as a candidate to
succeed General Latta aa secretary of
internal affairs and he has received
i !ime flattering indorsements. He, too,
will have a following in the convention
throngs.
Other candidates are likely to be an
nounced and there will be lively times
before the balloting shall decide th«
winners. ,
*TEM IM»
Former Insurgents Now With the
Regular Republicans.
DRURY NOW SEES THE LIGHT
The Luzerne Senator Believes His
Colleagues, Who Ignored the Cau
cus Last Session, Will Hereafter Co
operate With Party Organization.
(Special Correspondence.)
Philadelphia, April I.—This has been
a week of much activity Instate and
local politics, due mainly to a visit of
Senator Quay here while on his way
to Beaver county. The senior senator
was called upon by a number of lead
ing Republicans from this and neigh
boring counties, and they all reported
the Republican organization to be in
excellent shape, and that the prospects
of polling a large vote in the fall were
most encouraging.
Senator Quay was especially pleased
to hear the reports from counties like
Chester and Montgomery, where the
Insurgents have heretofore been strong
through their fusion deals with the
Democrats. The senator was advised
by the Republican leaders of these
counties that the insurgents have prac
tically lost their organization, that the
old-time leaders can no longer control
or deceive the following which they
once had, and that the disposition of
men believing in Republican princi
ples is togo along with the party or
ganization and to support the full Re
publican ticket. In Chester county T.
Larry Eyre, the recognized Republican
leader, informed Senator Quay that the
Republican organization In that county
has never been more harmonious or
stronger with the people and that there
will be no difficulty in electing the full
Republican ticket, including a solid
delegation to the legislature to vote for
the re-election of United States Senator
Penrose.
PENROSE GROWS IN POPULARITY.
Senator Quay was delighted to learn
that Senator Penrose has grown in
strength recently at an amazing rate.
His course In leading the fight for the
adoption of the Chinese Exclusion bill,
and the aggressive work he is doing in
support of the bill advocated by the far
mers for the protection of the pure but
ter Interests from the encroachments of
the oleomargarine trust, has won for
him thousands of admirers and enthus
iastic supporters.
While Senator Penrose has beon
winning popular approval the pros
pects of his having practically the
united support of the "hold-over sena
tors" when he comes up for re-election
in January next are most encouraging.
One case In point has beon the sub
ject of comment during the last few
days. Senator Drury, of Luzerne coun
ty, who was associated with the Insur
gent members of the senate In the fight
against the re-election of Senator Quay
and who co-operated with them in mat
ters of legislation, has stated that he
does not intend to continue outside of
the party breastworks. Senator Drury
Is a "hold-over" and will vote on the
next election for a United States sena
tor. In an interview with a well known
Republican a few days since Senator
Drury said he Intended to hereafter
work with the regular Republicans an
all party measures, that he will go
into the Republican caucuses and abide
by the action of the majority, and that
he believes, with Senator Stewart, of
Franklin, and others who were in the
old insurgent movement, that "there
is no longer anything to kick about"
and the proper thing to do Is togo
along with the Republican organiza
tion.
QUAY AND THE GOVERNORSHIP.
During Senator Quay's visit to this
city there was naturally much specula
tion regarding his probable attitude on
the governorship. When questioned on
this point the Beaver statesman made
a characteristic utterance. He said
"there is but one candidate for gov
ernor that I am against—his name is
Quay."
It was after making this declaration
that Senator Quay had a talk with At
torney General Elkin, Indiana coun
ty's candidate for governor, at the Ho
tel Walton In this city. Later Sena
tor Quay and Mr. Elkin travelled west
together. Before boarding the train Mr.
Elkin in an interview expressed great
satisfaction over the election of dele
gates to the state convention in his be
half and announced that he proposed
to continue an active canvass until the
date of the convention, and that while
he was confident of receiving the nomi
nation In the event of some other can
didate being chosen he would be among
the first to declare in his favor and
lurn In and work for his election.
On Saturday last the Republican
county committee of Indiana met for
the purpose of reorganization and after
the election of the officers, adopted res
olutions expressing satisfaction over
the result of the Republican primaries
held since Mr. Elkin's candidacy was
first Indorsed in his home oounty. At
tention was directed to the fact that
out of the seventeen counties which
have already elected delegates to the
state convention fifteen of them have
named delegates favorable to the nomi
nation of Mr. Elkin.
The last county to elect delegates,
Lebanon, named a full Elkin delega
tion. In this county a canvass was be
gun In the interestof former Lieutenant
Governor Watres, with Lieutenant
Governor Gobin leading the campaign
In Watres' behalf. The sentiment of
the Republicans of the oounty was so
Strongly In favor of Mr. Elkin that the
Watres movement was abandoned and
Ihe Elkin delegates had a walkover.
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We have some bargains to offer in odd pieces of lace curtens at half price, Ladies wrappers,
at a big reduction. Shirt waists 1.25 at cents. A big reduction in lcdies' shoes to close out 2.00
and S.OO shoes at 1.00. We will tell you all about Spring jpods next week, as we are now in the
city buying goods.
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