REPUBLICAN NEWS ITEM. CHARLES L. WING, Editor. Published Every.Thursday Afternoon By The Sullivan Publishing Co. At the County Seat of HulAivan County. LAPORTB, PA Entered at the Post Office at Laporte, as secmid-class mail matter. STATE TICKET. Kor Governor, S. W. PEN N Y i'ACK Kit,of Philadelphia. Lieutenant Governor, WM. K. BROWN, of Lawrence. Secretary of Internal Affairs. ISAAC B. BROWN, of Krie. COUNTY TICKET. Congress, (In.l term.) KI;!•".!> A. < iODCH A K LKS, ot' Milton, (unexpired term.) W. K. LOUD, of Mt. Carniel. Member of Assembly, A. L. I) V ER, ot Lopez, County Treasurer. I'LYSSKS BIRD, ot Estella. Countv Commissioner, \V L. HOFFMAN, ol llillsgrove. • W. Bit iUERS. of Muncy Valley. County Auditors, A. P. STARU,of Muncy Valley. ~W. ('. F A N X I N< i, of Shunk. AN INTERESTING DISTRICT. < >ne of tht' most interesting con tests for Congress in Pennsylvania this year, and probably one of the tinist uncertain in its results, will be 1 hat of the Sixteenth district, com posed of Columbia, Montour, Nor thumberland and Sullivan counties, says the I'hilabelphia Press. The district would naturally be conceeded to the democrats, but the nomina tion of !•'red A. Godeharles as the republican candidate has inspired a feeling of confidence on the part of republicans. Mr. Godeharles is one of the youngest men nominated in the State, having just reached the age of • in. He is a native of Northumber land county and has high standing among the people as a successful business man. He was a member of the last legislature with a record without stain. The democrats have nominated (.'has. 11. Dickerman, a prominent attorney, who also lives in Northumberland. It is in that county practically where the battle will be fought out. Columbia, Sal livau and Montour together will give from 1800 to 2800 democratic majori ty .which must be overcome in Nor thumberland if a republican is to win. This adverse majority has been twice overcome in the past ten years. The district lirst went republican in the year that I Listings was the party candidate for Governor. It was re publican again in the first McKinley campaign, but four years ago the democrats won it back, when they succeeded in electing ten members of the state delegation instead of the three they had in the previous con gress. The following table, shows the result at the last five elections for Congressman in the district, is worth attention: Yt'M.. Republican. Democrat. Majority, is »j Kvcs.. . 10,0:10 Wulverton l;*»,:W.'i f>:ur> 1). ls'.M Kulp 12, (>77 Buckalcw .11,783 894 K IS'.h; Kulp 15,195 Walsh 11,07:; 1122 It IS9S -WIMMUu 12.4K7 Folk 14.792 '2Bof> 1). ] 900 llut.ll 12,891 Polk 10,<>23 37.52 D. 11 would require very hard work, stys the Press, to elect any republi can in that district, but if any repub lican can be elected Mr. (Jodcharles can be. At all events Ids nomina tion makes the district fairly doubt ful and good fighting ground up to the day of election. It is not generaly know that the treasurer's sales that were held in the treasurer's office in this Bor ough last June will be the last, the legislation under which the sales have been conducted in the Jpast having been suspended by the act of assembly of lUOI. Under the new law, as it now stands, where the owner of the land fails to pay his taxes, the county commission ers simply file a claim in the pro thonotary's office which thereupon becomes a lien upon the land. The execution may then be issued and the land levied upon and sold by l he sheriff. Owners of real estate will save considerable money in costs by pay ing their taxes promptly in the fu ture. There will be the usual services on Sunday next. August 24th, at St. John's Church, Laporte, at 11 a. m.and 7:.'SO p. m. Sunday School at 10 a. m. TO ATM 11 TARIFF Democrats Plan to Assail the Na tional Prosperity. PENNSYLVANIA MUST BE FIRM Bryan In High Qlee Over the Pros pect—What Protection Has Done For Pennsylvania's Industries, As Shown By Official Figures. (From a Special Correspondent.) Washington, D. C., Aug. 19. —if ever there was a time when Pennsylvania needed to renew her loyalty to Re publicanism and the doctrine of pro tection, which has made her great among the stateH, this fall is that time. A Democratic victory in Pennsylvania in November would be the greatest boon that the Democratic party has known since Grover Cleveland crossed the threshold of the White House out ward for the last time. There is no concealment of the fact that the Democrats in the next Con gress hope to renew the free-trade agi tation with the aid of a small element In the ranks of the Republican party from the west. William Jennings Bryan, the apostle of Financial Ruin, is publicly congratulating his party, tossing his hat in air, over the lowa Republican platform, which declared in favor of "such changes in the tariff from time to time as may become ad visable through the progress of our industries and their changing relations to the commerce of the world." This much is seized upon with an hurrah by Bryan, who. in an interview, declares: "I am glad to see that the Republi cans of lowa admit the necessity for tariff reform, for. while it will strengh en the Republican party in this state for the coming campaign, it will ulti mately weaken it, for the Republicans cannot permit any reform in the tariff without endangering their whole sys tem." The situation so far as the tariff is concerned is creating more comment here in Washington than any other subject. Experience has taught that the slightest attempt of Democrats to tinker with the tariff has brought dis aster to American industries and lower wages or idleness to American work men. No state has had such a bitter lesson in this as Pennsylvania, and the question is, will she encourage this at tack on her unexampled prosperity by electing Mr. Pattison governor, and at the same time increasing her Demo cratic representation in congress? If the hope of the Democracy can be achieved the soup-house era will again come to Pennsylvania; her mills and factories will be closed and the output of her furnaces restricted. This is no idle assertion. Official figures prove it. Pennsylvania is the banner state for iron, steel and textiles. It is these industries, employing the great bulk of her people, that will be most af fected by the proposed Democratic on slaught on the tariff. Now, what do the official figures show? In 1896, when Grover Cleve land left the White House, there were just 159 iron furnaces in blast. In 1901, under Republican administration, there were 266 in blast. In that same period the manufacture of tin plate had grown tiom 40,000,000 pounds to 678,000,t)00 pounds, while the number of wage earners employed had increased from ■i.251,613 to 6,231,687. The same ratio of increase can be shown in the increase of farm values under Republican administration. The value of the live stock on the farms of the United States, according to the reports of the Agricultural Department here, has increased $253,128,031. And with this increased value has come increased consumption, with greatly in creased prices to the farmer for his product. The farmers of the country lealized in the year 1900 alone, $350,- 000,000 more for their ceareals than they did in 1896, the last disastrous year of Democratic control. It is the popular thing when discus sing tariff revision and its relation to Pennsylvania politics for Democrats to exclaim: "But what has that got to do with state issues?" It is the only way that a Democrat can get out of a corner, and the an swer is: "Everything." There is one point that Republicans must not lose sight of.and it Is that in addition to a governor, there are congressmen and a United States sen ator to be chosen as a result of this fall's election. These congressmen and this senator will have all to do in hold ing the balance of power in favor of non-interefrence with the tariff. In deed. they may prove to be the salva tion of the entire protective system of this country. Is it any wonder that widespread interest is felt in rhe result in Pennsylvania? In recent years the old saying that, ' as Maine goes so goes the Union," has been transposed to read, "as Pennsyl vania goes so goes the Union." This saying is prophetic. In 1882 Robert E. I'attison was elected governor, and two years later Grover Cleveland was elect ed president. In 1890 Robert E. Patti son. Democrat, was again elected gov ernor, and two yrars later (irover Cleveland was for a second time in stalled in the White House. The train of evils that followed this later event are too fresh and painful to require repetition. What Pennsyl vania suffered in those years Is beyond computation. Here and there official figures convey some idea of the dam age that Democratic rule wrought to Pennsylvania and what a blessing Re publican administration in the White House has been. In 1896, when the state was just John D. Reeser's Big Store Bank Block, Dushore, Pa- John D. Reeser's Big Store Bank Block, Dushore, Pa Still Marked Down. All summer goods of every description are marked way down. Lawns, Dimities, Organdies, Batiste are very cheap. Ginghams, Percails, Chambray, GOOD BARGAINS, now is the time to buy them at < ;c a yard, worth 9c. Fine new batiste in-excellent patterns, wash dress goods, ARE ALL REDUCED. At ioc a yard, a special lot of dress goods. Percalls in excellent patterns. Skirts at soc, good wearing skirts. Ladies' Dress Suits at having been marked down. Shoes I Shoes I Shoes J Great Bargains in them all have been reduced and will give comfort to the wearer. Straw Hats are marked below to close them out. Underwear at cost. All sizes. Great bargains in them; and the very best made. Great Bargains you will find at John D. Reeser's Big Store, THREE STORES IN ONE. gathering Itself together from the In dustrial depression occasioned by Dem ocratic mis-rule, there were 134,790 per sons employed in 830 establishments, representing 89 industries. In the year 1900, after two years of Republican rule, in these same 830 establishments there were employed 190.024 persons, who were receiving til per cent, more wages than they did in 1896. In other words, while 151,293,561 were paid for wages in these establishments in Penn sylvania in 1896. in 1900 (he amount of wages paid was $82,913,073. This prosperity has been going on steadily today in every county in the slate. Under the circumstances, do the people of Pennsylvania want to return to the old Democratic system? Will they join hands with William J. Bry an. Robert E. Pattison and other free silver monomaniacs, who, now that their crazy financial policies have been discredited, are turning their attention to a scheme to wreck our protective system? 1 think not. They will stand by Roosevelt and the tariff and elect Pennypacker and a Republican con gressional delegation. HE iRTS PATTISON Democratic Committeeman Declares For Pennypacker. DEMOCRATS CANT BE TRUSTED Former Assistant Collector of Phila delphia Charles Henry Jones Re fuses to Serve On Pattison's Com mittee. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Phialedphia, Aug. 18. —Charles Henry Jones, who was assistant collector of the port under Cleveland, a prominent Democrat and a member of the Phila delphia bar, has publicly declined to become a member of Robert E. Patti son's Democratic campaign committee. In his letter, which says that the Dem ocratic party cannot be trusted, and in which be declares for Judge Penny packer for governor, Mr. Jones says: REFUSES TO AID PATTISON. "I am in receipt of your letter in forming nie that 1 have been named a member of the citizens' committee to aid the campaign for the election of Hon. Robert E. Pattison for governor. 1 highly appreciate this honor and re gret very much that 1 am unable to accept the position; but as I am not in accord with the present policy of the Democratic party upon the important Question of money and expansion, 1 cannot advocate the election of its candidates for office. •'Sound money and expansion have always been, until the present time, fundamental doctrine of tne Democrat ic party. Florida and the whole coun try lying between the Mississippi river and the Pacific ocean, including the Louisiana purchase, the annexation of Texas, (he Gadsden purchase and that vast extent of territory ceded to the United States as the result of the Mex ican war. were all acquired under Dem ocratic administration of the govern ment. when the party was a united and powerful organization. This policy ad ded to the country more than two thirds of its present area. "The territory acquired under it now comprises twenty states, and is the seat of more than one-fourth of the population of the country. To this expansion is largely due our present greatness and prosperity, and the Dem ocratic party is entitled to credit for the great benefits that have resulted to the country from this wise policy in the past. EXPANSION IS NECESSARY. "I can seen no distinction in princi ple because the results of the Spanish war, which have been of so incalcula ble benefit to the country, both at home and abroad, have carried this doctrine, in the natural course of events, beyond the seas. It has cer tainly added greatly to the power and importance of the country as a member of the family of nations, and as we are a commercial people the value of this cannot be over estimated. "As one of the great powers of the world we must avail ourselves of every advantage that will enable us to per form our duties as such, and to sus tain ourselves in our relations with for eign powers. This certainly cannot be accomplished if we retire within our own borders and confine ourselves to our own domestic affairs while the oth er great powers are pursuing a different policy. "That the Democratic party ravorea expansion beyond the main land is shown by its record upon the question of the acquisition of Cuba, which was always favored by the party, and strongly advocated during the adminis trations of Pierce and Buchanan. 1 do not consider the fact that the Republi can party happened to be in power at the time the country entered upon this great epoch in its history justifies the Democratic party in changing its his torical attitude upon this great ques tion. "Its hostility to this policy has been carried so far that upon one, occasion in the house the party voted as a unit, with one marked exception, against ap propriating (he small sum of $500,000 to build shelter for our troops in the Philippines. CAN'T TRUST DEMOCRATS. "I have followed the course of the Democratic party In congress with much interest, and am constrained to say that, in my judgment, it would not be for the best interests of the country to put it in control of that body at the present time, and, so believing, I find myself unable to support its candi dates. "The selection of a senator of the United States from Pennsylvania and of members of the lower house of con gress will be largely influenced at the coming election by the attitude of the voters toward the head of the ticket. The contest, therefore, cannot be con fined to state issues, or to the correc tion of existing evils in the adminis tration of state government. National issues will be paramount. "Questions of state administration will be subordinated. If state issues are incidentally considered no more | abundant guarantees that the duties of | the high office of governor will be j wisely and faithfully performed are needed than those which are furnished 1 by the ability, high character and in , tegrity of the Hon. Samuel W. Penny j packer." 1 Figures Compiled By a Philadelphian Warn of Democracy's Evils. In a little monograph which Mr. John I W. Frazer, of Philadelphia, has issued, I there is food for thought for every 1 Pennsylvanian, irrespective of party. ! Mr. Frazer has been at considerable j trouble to collect statistics showing the ; disastrous effects of Democratic ad i ministration on the country. Here are | some of his figures: During the four years of Cleveland, | under the Wilson free trade tariff, from ! 1592 to 1896, our total exports of do mestic merchandise amounted to $;!.- ! 346,828,808. (See page 92, Statistical : Abstract of the United States for 1901.) During the four years of McKinley, , from 1896 to 1900, under the Dingley ; protective tariff —which took the place of the Wilson free trade act —the total value of exports of domestic merchand ise was $4,816,994,309, an execess of sl,- | 470,165,501 over that of the four pte | ceding years of Clevelandism. (See ; same page, same publication.) During Cleveland's four years—lß92 I to 1896- the total value of exports of I American domestic products, in excess j of the total value of foreign products | imported into the United States, was $396,858.686. During tne four years of McKinley— | 1596 to 1900 —the total value of ex i ports of American domestic products, in | excess of the total value of foreign j products imported into the United I States, was $1,976,112,531, an excess of $1,579,253,845 over the four preceding years of Clevelandism. (See Statistical Abstract of the U. S., page 92 for 1901.) j The total amount of tin plate im ported into the United States during i the four years of free trade under Cleveland, from 1892 to 1896, was 50.- i 629,894 pounds. During the four years under McKinley, from 1896 to 1900, our j total import of tin plates was 16,567,- ! 146 pounds, a decrease of 34.062.748 | pounds. During the four years of Cleveland j and the Wilson tariff -1892 to 1896 -we I manufactured 531,072,363 pounds of tin j plate. During the four years of Mc | Kinley and the Dingley tariff we inan : ufactured 2,665,601,263 pounds of tin j plate, an excess over the four preceding I years of Clevelandism of 2,134,525,900 I pounds. (See page 368, Statistical Ab stract of the U. S. for 1901.) During the four years of Cleveland and depression, front 1892 to 1896, we produced 32,385,198 tons of 2,240 pounds to the ton of pig iron. During the next four years of McKinley and pros perity we produced 43,670.444 tons of 2,240 pounds of pig iron, an increase of 11,285,246 tons. (See page 367, Statisti cal Abstract for 1901.) 1 A RE YOU GOING TO BUILD A NEW HOU j OR LAY NEW FLOORS IN THE OLD ONE" If so, it will pa;- you to get some of our . Dar") ZXloofc Jfloortng i Kiln dried, matched sides and ends, hollow backed and bored, MAPLE and BEECH. It will out-wear two ordinary floors and is very much smoother, nicer and easier to put down than soft wood flooring. All kinds kept in stock by Jennings Brothers, Lopez, Penn'a. ALSO ALL SIZES IN HEMLOCK WE HAVE IN STOCK NO, 1 AND 2 LUMBER, SIDING, PINE SHINGLES. CEILING, LATH, ETC. AT LOWEST PRICES. BEAUTIFULLY DECORATED Hand Painted Chinaware. Absolutely Free. We will give with each purchase, coupons which entitles the holder to a set of High Grade China Dishes, irrespec tive of the extremely low prices prevailing here. Oh! No Trouble at ail to Show Goods. The Quality, price and style of our spring and sum mer SHOES which are marked down for closing out are the main attractions. Call and see them. Our Complete Line of Groceries. Our new Grocery Department is growing popular. You save yourself if you let us save your money. When you think of true economy this is the place to come. J. S. HARRINGTON, OPERA HOUSE BLOCK DUSHORE, PA. •fe VViiliamsport North Branch Railroad % TI3VEE TABLE. s v v In effect Monday. June 16, 1902. , , Read up Road down -— j—• Bundoyl Flag station* where Em* Is marked "I" I Bonoay F M am A. M.'i'M'pm'pM A.M.AM STATIONS. AMA MA. M.l' Ml'M j 112 M |AM P.M »»«!•» 230 sdteK vs s ?ijr:S !»£!!£ "om It !vi IS* UK «« lli § ~r ni' iV, l t ill b 2'2 ..StrawVuidKf.... iiVoi> 10*17 401. J l.» / 41 J B.» s '1 111 17 M» no .3 a» 'MV7 » »-J» H •»? Q •"% 11 10 <i 10 • -0 830 ..Mum-yValley. iKM MMO *1« »«& #««!t W »-'t> i I■ ;T 11 l« fi !, 1.; 257 8 « ... 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