REPUBLICAN NEWS ITEM.
CHABLES L. WING, Editor.
Published EverylThursday Afternoon
By The Sullivan Publishing Co.
At the County Beat of Sullivan County.
LAFOBTE, PA.
Entered at the Post Office at Laporte, as
second-class mail matter.
STATE TICKET.
For Governor,
S. W .;p EN N Y PACKER,of Pb iladelph ia.
Lieutenant Governor,
WM. K. BROWN, of Lawrence.
Secretary of Internal Aftairs,
ISAAC B. BROWN, of Erie.
COUNTY TICKET.
Congress, (full term.)
FRED A. GODCHARLES, of Milton,
(unexpired term.)
W. K. L<)lll>, ofMt. Carmel.
Member of Assembly,
A. L. DYER, of Lopez.
County Treasurer.
ULYSSES BIRD, of Estclla.
County Commissioner,
W. L. HOFFMAN, of Hillsgrove.
<i. W. BIGGERS, of Muncy Valley.
County Auditors,
A. P. STARR, of Muncy Valley.
W. C. FANNING, of Sliunk.
It Stares us in the face that
the outstanding obligation of
Sullivan County on the Ist of
January 1902, amounted to
$63,433,48, as follows:
Bonds $38,000.00
Interest bearing 0rder5,20,052.90
Judgements, 5,380.49
Total $63,433.48
The Sullivan Herald is the greatest
known t imbler in politics. Last
week the editor came out boldly and
in positive and definite terms defend
ed the "street railway franchise bill"
which at the time of its passage he
pronounced to be "the most villian
ous legislation ever passed in this
country." This bill was generally
termed the "boodle bill." It was
claimed that from $500(1 to SIO,OOO
was offered for votes. This bill, as
all our readers know was supported
by E. G. Rogers, after he had voted
twice in favor of amendments to kill
the bill as these amendments were
designed to so weaken the original
bill that its value to those desiring
it would be useless to them when it
became a law. But when the third
amendment was being voted upon
Rogers was "absent and not voting"
and on the fourth and following
amendments, all designed for the
same purpose, Rogers voted against
them and on final passage voted for
the bill. This proceedure of Rogers
is found in the Legislative Record
and is precisely the same as we here
state it, yet the Herald says we
"speak without evidence, without
information." It is simply a fact
that he cannot satisfatorily explain.
We have repeatedly asked what it
was that changed Roger's mind on
the "boodle bill" when the official
report showed him "absent and not
voting" on one amendment.
In his frantic effort to extricate him
self from the hole in which these facts
have placed him, Scouten has the
sulilime brass to repudiate his own
statements made at the time the
"boodle bill" was passed and now
pronounces it O. K. It now has so
many virtues that he proposes to
give a full page or more of it to his
readers. If it is true that this bill is
so good, then the utterances of the
Herald must be accepted as a pre
tence most hollow and a farce most
howling, and his sudden acquire
ment of seriousness in repudiating
bis own statements has no parallel in
political effrontery.
If E.G. Rogers has any defence
to the statements made by the News
Item' as to his record at Harrisburg,
why don't he come out like a man,
wit'i a letter over his own signature,
as Fred. A. Godchtirles did when
Scouten lied about him? Apologies
or denials made in fence corners
witli his fingers in a man's button
hole don't count for much.
When each one of two hundred
and fifty-five bills were on final
passage in the House of Representa
tives the clerk called the name of
E. G. Rocjkkh. There was no an
swer. The voice of the Sullivan
County Representative was silent.
O shade of Henry Clay, whkrk was
he?
'Twas the voice of John G. Scout
en on the Fair ground. We heard i
him exclaim, "The News Item is aj
miserable lying sheet."
Why does he goto the Fair ground ;
to make this fantastic charge? He ;
has a newspaper, let him refute our
statements if he can. We defy him I
to disprove any statement we have j
made about him, or his newspaper,
or about E. G. Rogers. The News
Item was established to tell the truth,
and it tells it fearlessly.
What was Scouten's newspaper
started for? Let Samuel V. Bovee
answer. In his testimony in the
trial of Commonwealth vs John G.
Scouten, Mr. Bovee said that on the
9th of May 1898, John G. Scouten
told him that, "in the near future
he expected to start a newspaper,
and he would ruin thesonofa b—h"
(meaning Judge Kraus), "if it cost
half that he was worth."
The vindictive spirit which im
pelled this remark has permeated
his newspaper from the beginning,
and made it noted as the organ of
the vilest misrepresentations. The
manner of his attack on the family
of our candidate for Congress is an
example of his turpitude. He start
ed with an article imputing fraud or
dishonesty to the candidate's father
and when corrected in a manly let
ter from Fred. A. Godcharles, he
followed it up by repetitions of his
false inferences.
It is vain to correct him. The
scripture saith, "The dog retui neth
to his vomit."
The Herald desires to impress up
on the public that a great quantity
of money is circulating in the cam
paign. It stated that Mr. Dyer
said it is not his money that was
being used for his election. Mr.
Dyer did say at the time and place,
and to whom the Herald refers, that
he was not using money to buy votes
nor did he intend to. This is as near
the truth as John usually gets. The
Dickerman barrel must heve been
heavily tapped at the Herald office.
He is able to talk of nothing else
but "wads" and "grease."
President Roosevelt has grasped
the labor situation with a masterful
hand. Nothing since he was inau
gurate basso completely shown his
keen comprehension as his fear,
less action in bringing to his pres
ence the representatives of the coal
operators and the leader of the min
ers and urging a settlement.
It it true that the constitutional
limits of his power prevented him
from the accomplishment of his end
of a beneficent settlement of the
strike; but what he has done has had
an immense effect upon public sen
timent, which is likely to widen and
intensify, until justice is done and
prosperity restored to the vast min
ing interests, and the millions of
people thereby effected.
Will the voters of Pennsylvania,
rising above the petty ties of party,
uphold the hands of the President at
this trying hour? Will they permit
the blind bridles of party to close
their eyes? Will they permit button
holing politicians, fighting for petty
offices, deafen their ears? The Re
publican party of Pennsylvania have
unanimously nominated Roosevelt
as their candidate for President in
1001. Will the people at the com
ing election ratify that nomination?
The issue is not a mere state issue;
it is as expansive as the United
States. There is only one way to
uphold the President at this hour—
give a majority of half a million to
sustain him while he is striving to
avert the ruin which is overshadow
ing our great state.
The I lerald has seen fit to attack
Mr. Godcharles because his father
was unfortunate in business, and has
insinuated, if not actually charged,
that the elder Godiharles was the
means of the First National Bank of
Dushore losing several thousand dol
lars. Mr. F. A. Godcharles' letter
which we published last week, suffi
ciently explains that, and the bank
officials further say that they never
had any paper bearing the God
charles signature. The notes on
which they suffered loss were the
notes of Fuller Bros. & Co. of New
York, the same firm whose failure
brought ruin to C. Godcharles.
Now, we submit, is it fair to blame
Fred A. Godcharles because the par
ties who failed, owing his father
thausands of dollars, also owed the
Dushore Bank several thousand? —
Sullivan Review.
Vote for Ulysis Bird for County
Treasurer. He is competent to
perform the duties of the cilice
himself, if elected. Give him your
g upport.
John D. Reeser's Big Store j Bank Block, Dushore, John D. Reeser's Big Store Bank Block, Dushore, Pa
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A WORD TOJVORKERS
Beneficient Results of the Republi
can Policy of Protection.
VOTE FOR PATTISON DANGEROUB
It Encourages Tariff-Smashers —Euro-
pean Labor Is Underpaid, While
American Labor Fares Well—What
a Distinguished Financier Says
About the Conditions In Europe and
Here.
Pennsylvania voters who contem
plate giving their support to Robert E.
Pattison, Democrat, should pause a
moment before they decide on such a
momentous slip. A vote for Pattison
Is a vote of lack of confidence in Re
publicanism. It strengthens the hands
of the Democrats who seek to tear
down our tariff policy, and ruin our
present prosperity.
Particularly should the voter who
has to depend on tho toil of his hands
for daily bread halt before he makes
this mistake.
THE WAGES OP EUROPE.
Mr. James R. Keene, the well-known
financier, who has just returned from
an extended visit to Europe, says the
condition of the laboring classes in
Hungary, Austria anil part of Germany
is really pitiful. The rate of wages
barely admits of existence, and when
he saw the workmen in those countries
he wondered what we would do with
out a tariff. "America is the paradise
of earth," declared Mr. Keene. "Here
is the greatest return offered to the
man who has muscle and brain to mar
ket. Here is the place for the man ol
ambition to discover that energy and
worth find their way to the top more
suddenly than anywhere else on earth."
This statement of a man of large and
careful observation should command
the attention of American worklngmen.
The more intelligent of them of course
know that labor is better rewarded in
the United States than in any othei
country. They know that the wage
worker has greater respect here than
in any other land. But do tney gener
ally appreciate why this is so? Forty
live years ago labor in this country was
in about the condition that labor is
now in most of the countries of Europe.
THE CAUSE OF HARD TIMES.
It was not steady employed and il
was poorly paid. In 1855 Horace
Greeley wrote: "The cry of hard times
reaches us from every part of the coun
try. The making of roads is stopped,
factories are closed and houses and
ships are no longer being built. Fac
tory hands, roadmakers, carpenters,
bricklayers and laborers are idle, and
paralysis is rapidly embracing every
pursuit in the country. Tne cause of
all this stoppage of circulation is to be
found in the steady outllow of gold to
pay foreign laborers for the cloth, the
shoes, the iron and other things that
could be produced by American labor,
but which cannot be produced undei
our present revenue system."
TARIFF FOR REVENUE ONLY.
Then the country had a "Tariff fot
revenue only," which not only failed
to yield sufficient revenue to meet the
expenditures of the government, but
kept the industries prostrated. In his
message to congress in 1857 President
Buchanan thus presented the situa
tion: "With unsurpassed plenty in all
the productions and all the elements of
natural wealth our manufacturers have
suspended, our public wprks are re
tarded, our private enterprises of dif
ferent kinds are abandoned, and thou
sands of useful laborers are thrown out
of employment and reduced to want.
We have possessed all these elements
of material wealth in rich abundance,
and yet, notwithstanding all these ad
vantages, our country, In its monetary
interests, is in a deplorable condition."
One of the severest panicß the country
ever experienced was in 1857 and it was
particularly disastrous to labor. There
were bread riots In New York and some
other cities and destitution and suffer
ing among the laboring classes was
general.
A change came with the inauguration
of the economic policy of the Republi
can party and It is needless to point
out what has been accomplished undei
the operation of that policy for Ameri
can Industries and American labor.
All intelligent men are familiar with it
and it is this which the wage workers
neeu to Dear HI mina wnen tney are ap
pealed to to strike down or seriously
impair that policy. Labor conditions
in the United States may not be in all
oases what could be desired. Improve
ment in some respects is to be wished
for. But on the whole American labor
is vastly better off in every way than
is labor in any other part of the world
and this is one of the beneficent results
of the policy which has made tho
United States first among the indus
trial nations.
Tb* Divine Light.
If there were men who had never
been awake during the day and had
never once seen the sun or felt its
•warmth and if these men had come to
doubt even the existence of the sun,
their doubt and every trace of their
agnosticism would be instantly remov
ed were they to come out but once un
der the sky in which the sun was shin
ing. In like manner all doubt and ag
nosticism with reference to God are in
stantly removed by coming into God's
light. Kev. \V. S. Fulton, Presbyte
rian, Pittsburg.
The Nevr Testament Miracles.
Regarded as symbols of Jesus' love
und sympathy, the New Testament
miracles have a unique value, but the
moment they are put forward as proofs
of his nature or work the question of
evidence and testimony arises, and we
»re diverted from the spiritual experi
ences of the soul to the problems of
science, philosophy and criticism. It is
also well to remember that Jesus left
no account of himself, his work or his
claims and that what we have in the
New Testament is the reports of those
who did not always understand him.—
Rev. K. L. PUaleu, Unitarian, Worces
ter, Mass.
NO TARIFF SMASHING
UNANIMOUS CONCLUSION OF RE
PUBLICAN LEADERS.
The BuNinem Men of the Conn try
Will Welcome This Decision of the
Preiiident and Hi* Adviser* M
Sound, Sensible and Patriotic.
No turiff legislation ut this session of
congress and no tariff revision now at
all is the unanimous conclusion of a
conference of Republican congressional
leaders at the White House, whither
they had been summoned by President
Roosevelt.
Representative Babcock of Wiscon
sin, author of the bill reducing the du
ties on certain iron and steel products,
was present at this conference and
joined in its verdict. If the Massachu
setts legislature had passed that reso
lution demanding the passage of the
Babcock bill, how absurd would now
be the Massachusetts attitude! The
Republican majority of the common
wealth has new cause for thankfulness
that the common sense of the Massa
chusetts house balked this programme.
The decision of President Roosevelt
and his advisers that the tariff shall
not be changed rallies all the solid, con
servative business forces of the coun
try to the support of the national ad
ministration. Merchants, manufactur
ers, bankers, are satisfied with things
as they are. They have no yearning to
embark with new experiments. They
know by the experience of 1892-97
the terrible cost of a political campaign
against the American system of pro
tection, to which the trade und indus
try of the United States huve adjusted
themselves as they have to the gold
standard of currency.
Every newspaper that now advo
cates a smashing of the tariff, every
politician that Insists on the reopening
of this difficult and dangerous question,
makes itself or himself at once the foe
of every prosperous business man in
the community. The Democracy in
congress has assailed the army. It has
found thut that did not "pay" and Is
now abandoning it, but with that per
fect genius for blundering which has
distinguished this once great and
strong American party ever since it
identified itself with the cause of slav
ery sixty years ago the Democracy,
through its infatuated Washington
leadership, turns from attacking the
honor of the American soldier to at
tacking the solvency of the American
business man.
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The Quality, price and style of our spring and sum
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Our Complete Line of Groceries.
Our new Grocery Department is growing popular.
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OPERA HOUSE BLOCK
DUSHORE, PA. ;
Williamsport &. North Branch Railroad
TIIMIIE TABLE.
In effect Monday. Sept. I(>, 1902.
Rcaildown Read up
~ j ~ KltiK stations where time is marked "I" I
P. XI. AMA. M. PMPMAM| A. M. A M STATIONS. AXIAMAMA. M. PXI PXIP XI AXI
10 22 5204 20 110 22 740 Halls... ! 600? 15j 94511 85 4 00)4 45
1 flO 25 f5 23 1428 f1025 f"4.i Pennsdale... 615 720 940 11 30 356 1441
i 10 34 532 432 10 34 755 . Hughesville...: 620 7 30| 981 11 20 340 432 71':
10 42 540 440 10 42 803 Picture Rooks.. 'J 23 11 10 389 424 7' 6
flO 16 f544 f4 44 8 06' Lyons Mills... S f9 20 fll 04 14 20 6 8
fio 48 546 146 flO 48 808 ....l.'hanioliui ...i 918 11 01 333 417 6 2
10 54 553 153 10 54 814 ...Glen Xlawr... [912 10 54 328 4 11 6 6
1102 ?601 f5Ol 822 ..Straw-bridge.... i f»O3 10 47 402 6:,
i flj 07' ' ... Beech Ulell | |1859 flO 13 358
11 10 Vio 510 11 10 830 ..MuneyValley. 856 10 40 316 855
11 16 616 516 11 16 835 ... Sonestown ... 850 10 32 310 34y
I 11 si : 531 j Nordmont... 10 12 382
1148 f5 48 1 I Xlokoma , 19 54 312
i 1150..... 550 ! Laporte | ! j 952 309
!12 07' f603 Ringdale t f9 41 254
1216 f6ll ..Berniee Road.. 112 9 30 2 45
12 20 6 14 !„..Satterfleld.... j 9 25 2 40
A. XI. P. XI.PXi P.M. A.M. I'XI AXI
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Stage leaves Hughesvil t'OH o ice r acce p te j oll ]y tor through passengers trav-
Lairdeville, Mengwe and Phihpsdaledaily ► J ® £ 6
Wilson, Beaver Lake and Fribley on eling from Halls to Satterfield or Satter-
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 11.30 field to Halls.
Stageleaves Glen Mawr for liillsgrove , The general offlcw of the company are
and ForksviH •at 11 02 a. m. located at Hugheeville, Pa.
Stage leaves Muncy Valley for Unity- " Pa.
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