I " PUBLICAN NEWS ITEM. CHAM.ES L WING, Editor. ■ Published Every .Thursday Afternoon By The Sullivan Publishing Co. At the County Sent of Sullivan County. LAFORTE, PA. .. Entered at the i'ont Office At La porte, ae second-class mail matter* STATE TICKET. For Governor, S. W.'FEN NY PACK EK,of Philadelphia. Lieutenant Governor, WM. K. BROWN, of Lawrence. Secretary of Internal A (fairs. ISAAC B. BROWN, of Erie. COUNTY TICKET. Congress, (full term.) FRED A. GODCHARLES of Milton, (unexpired term.) W. K. LORD, of Mt. Carmel. Member of Assembly, A. L. DYER, of Lopez. County Treasurer. ULYSSES BIRD, of Estclla. County Commissioner, W. L. HOFFMAN, of Ilillsgrove. O. W. BIGGERS,of Muncy Valley. County Auditors. A. r. STARR, of Muncy Valley. W. C. FANNING, of Sliunk. THE DEADLY PARALLEL. E itract From Legislative Record Mr E. G. Rogers, Sullivan County: Page 3967. Page 6232. Salary $1500.00. Asked leave of Mileage 80.00. absence. Stationery 50.00. Presented three petitions. Total, 1630.00. Scouten backs water on Rogers failing to vote on 255 measures by saying he served on four committees, Forestry, Labor and Industry, Pub lic Roads and Centennial. It may be worth while seeing how well Mr. Rogers looked alter his committee work. He is reported absent and not voting on final passage of: An Act to establish a Department ol J'ortvirr; page 267* Act relating to shooting of deer; p. 201'!. An Act requiring (ion resident gunners to secure a license; page 767. An Act for the encour«genient of For rest Culture; page 774. An Act (or the appointment of game commissioners; page 779. So much for his interest in Fores, try, and be it observed, that he did ii<it care enough for Sullivan county to be present and vote for a bill which required non resident hunters An Act taxing all papers representing payment <>( wages, dividers etc; p, 1105. [N, 15. This bill was lost, only 95 Yeas. An Act providing for the health and palely of men, women and children in iiiiinnlaeturing establishments; page 12f>6. An Act requiring semi-iiifiithly pay ment of wage workers; page 1515. [N. B. This hill was lost, only 97 Yeas. An Act regulating Trusts; page 2579. An Act requiring registration of plumb ers; page 2654. An Act requiring sealers of weights and measures ol bituminous coal: page 2781. An Act requiring inspection of weights and measures; page 3079. So much for his interest in Labor and Industry. He is also recorded absent and not voting on the tinal passage of An Act for the improvement of the ii travelled roads; page 758. An Act defining the boundry lines of public roads; page 771, An Act relating to roads in Chester Co; page 1507, An Act regulating the maintaining of fenci>; page 1599. An Act authorizing County Commis sioners to construct roads to either end of a county bridge; page 2007, An Act relating to the maintainence if 'I i'-pair of abandoned turnpikes; 2009, An Act relating to road in Lancaster county; page 2209, \n Act relating to roads, highways and bridges; page 2215. So much for bis interest in the Road Committee work. There only remains his Centennial Committee. We have looked through the index of the House and could liml no mention of any legis lation on the subject. Centennial affairs in l'ennsylvani i in 1001 cut no figure. The fact iiiat Mr. Rogers is marked absent and not voting on the bills above named shows that he mglectcd his Committee work as well as his duties as a member of the House. It is no answer to say he may have been present for if he was present and neglected to vote on such important measures as those above named he might as well been at home. The truth must be that Rogers belonged to a Committee not named by the Speaker and which held its sessions down town. In another place we print in par allel columns showing what Rogers received and what he did for his pay. j Rut he did more than is shown at j page (5232 of tiie record. lie voted against the bill to pre-1 vent pollution of the streams. This j bill was directly in the interest of; Sullivan county for it would have ■ prevented the How of filth from the tanneries. lie voted to increase the number of employees at Harrisburg, making a useless and unnecessary expendi ture of public money. He must have had a reason for this vote, what it was we do not know, nor do we think he is apt to tell. He voted for the passage of the Franchise Rills after being at first opposed to them. His party was fighting these bills, they asserted money was being used to pass them. In the face of all this, he changed his mind and voted for the bills. Guthrie and other Democrats say bribery was used to pass these bills and that any democrat who voted for them has forfeited public confi dence. This vote Mr. Rogers has never explained although for weeks we have called upon him and his master, Scouten, to tell us who he saw and what was said to him to make him change his mind. In addition to all this Rogers was absent and not voting on the final passage of 180 bills, as well as absent or not voting on 75 other votes of the House. It is hard to believe this can be true, but it is a fact as proven by affidavits in another col umn. Rogers was only absent from Harrisburg one day, but he took so little interest in legislation that he was either out of the House or did not vote. Some of these measures were of great importance to Sullivan county. Some weeks ago we print ed the list of bills and the reader can easily pick out measures on which we would expect our member to vote. In conclusion it seems that Mr. Rogers was too lazy or too care less to be present and vote the great er part of the time, that when he did vote it was against the interest of his own people or in favor of cor porations on bills which his fellow democrats say had money in them. This record made by Mr. Rogers i.; not a good record, it is a Wail rec ord. To be continually out of the House, to vote against Sullivan County's interest, to vote for corpor ation measures which it is said had boodle behind them, is certainly not what our people expected of him. lie is clearly condemned by his ow.n actions and has no claim upon Dem ocrats for their votes. We predict he will be defeated by a substantial majority. We have heretofore quoted from Mr. Ikeler's speech on the Franchise Hill, but will make room for one more extract which may be found on page 2907 of the Legislative Record. ••But, as I said before I cannot hope to convince yon. Logic, reason, the law,the constitution, even the truth itself', is losl upon this floor. An ancient prophet of Issarel once used strong language when lie said 'We have made a covenant with deatli, and with hell we'are at an agree ment.-' Of course I would not dare apply ihose words to this body; but temptation do sometimes press a man. I am glad you have reserved this measure to almost the I ist. That is a fitting and final climax to all of our outrageous work. With the passage of this hill you may well go hack to your homes, tor beyond the wickedness of your present action there is no iniquity under God's heaven possible of accom plishment." Notwithstanding this severe con demnation of the Franchise Bill and in opposition to his party lead er; E. G. Rogers voted for it I if lie believed his party leaders were wrong, why did he not put his reasons upon the record? Or fail ing in that why did lie not explain his action to the Democratic county convention? Or, failing in that, why not publish his reason NOW over his own signature? If his vote was not honest there is no excuse for him. Mr. Rogers,it was the Democratic Representative HON. FKEUTAYLOK IKELER, of Columbia county, (who has served four terms as City Solic itor of Bloomsburg), not the Editor of the News Item, who said, "With the passage of this bill you may well go back to your home, for be yond the wickedness of your pres ent action there is no iniquity under God's heaven possible of ac complishment." "It looks bad for a Representative to ride on a Rail Road pa?-s." Thus argued 10. (J. Rogers two years ago. So it does E. (1. Rogers, why are you doing it? J (/o THANK VOU.I KM tfOT TOR SALE. 1 W W X \ I INTEND TO VOTE FoR FRED (iODCHARLE*, J Oral®- / WHO. HAS THE CONFIDENCE OF THE ( / •' WORKINCMAN, BECAUSE OF HIS EFFORTS V " of: J Look Out For Scovten's Eleven th Hour Lies. It would seem like an unnecessary precaution to warn voters not to pay any heed to any publication by Scouten the last week before elect ion. He knows that what he pub lishes then cannot be refuted, and all voters should realize this. Hut that Scouten is of the class that be lieves the last lie does the most good, is evident by his manner of conducting his caniimisrn last year when lie got out different papers for lifferent parts of the county. The edition he sent to the west was not the same as that used about On shore. In the western edition he printed a tale of woe about Reeser ndVincent that he knew would not iobelieved in Dushore. He will al -o hold back his paper until the otli >r papers goto press. No person •an feel sure when he has read the paper that it contains the same lies hat are in the paper his neighbor is reading in the next township. Why should any one believe what they read in his paper when every person knows that he lies without compunc tion outside of his paper ami when caught at it, admits there are times when he does things he ought not to be held accountable for. See his an swer in No. II Dec. term, 1897. Be lieve nothing printed in his last is sue. The world loves to hear of the success of its fellows and the spice of the telling is enhanced in the recognition that the subject of the story is self made in the fullest sense of the word. Such a man is W. K. Lord, candidate for con gress from the Sixteenth District. Lowly born he served his appren ticeship id the anthracite mines of Schuylkill county. In the hours of freedom from these duties he he laid the foundation of an educa tion that, accompanied by an en ergetic, ambitious temperament, landed liini in the whirl of mercan tile activity. That rare combina tion of characteristics th.'.t bring success were found in him and his rise was commensurate. He stands to-day as one of the highest types of the successful business man, con ducting no less than seven stores in Mt. Carmel. He has sat as president of borough [school board and now sits as director in the Guaranty Trust Co. of the town while his associations with all pub lic enterprises and movements have proven him a type of the highest in public spirited men. It is men of Mr. Lord's stamp of character that we want in our legislative halls, men of ability and honesty of pur pose. About Monday next, if former customs prevail, the Scouten ring boodle will be tapped. One of the factors 1 hat is enter ing into the present campaign, the effect of which cannot be foretold, is the manner in which the labor organizations of the country are prying into the business affairs of the congressional and legislative candidates. The laboring man has at last come to understand that a member of a legislative body is more than likely to reflect in his official capac ity, a bias shaped by his individual environment as a. business man, and that the member of congress, or legislature, who as a private cit izen possesses interests in common with trusts and monopoly, can lie counted onto support the interests of trusts and monopolies with his vote in all legislative matters. When it is remembered tha tthe Democratic candidate for Congress, Mr. Clias. Dickerman is at the head of the American Car Trust, it is not surprising that the labor ing men of the district questions bis ability to withstand the press ure brought to bear in the interests of great monopolies, ii he is elected to it seat in congress. It was in following out this line of reasoning that the representa tives of trades unions and the So cialist party have endorsed Hon, Fred A. Godcharles, whose inter ests lie with the common people. His record on legislation in the last session has been investigated and found satisfactory to the laboring element. Principle versus principal and interest seems to be the rallying cry of the laboring man] this cam paign, and that is why they are booming Godcharles. All hands rally to the laliorers best interests. '•B9 cents enough for a laboring man." —Clias. H. Dickerman. Clias. H. Dickernian would evi dently like to see the toiler cut to SO cents a day. Here in America where a protective tariff is sustain ed for the benefit of higher wages for the laborers, the voters of this district have decided to be just about as lilieral with Dickcrinan. He may get 89percent of the votes and no more. "Honesty is the best policy," is good in politics as well as buninoss. In the news columns of the Phil delphia Press appears the following article from a Harrisburg corres pondent, which haw a particular interest to Sullivan county voters: "The State Legislative Board of Railroad Employees on Sept. 2, passed resolutions denouncing Gen. Gobin for ordering his men to fire 011 the striking miners who assault ed them, denouncing the Coal trust and pledging the striking miners support and assistance. The com mittee to examine the records of legislative candidates seek ing re-election endorsed the fol lowing candidates: J. W. Wayne (Dein.)Lehigh; Patrick Philbin, ' (Rep,) Lackawanna; R. W. Mc \Yhinney(Rep.)Allegheny; W. T. Creasy (Dem.) Columbia; Jere N. Weiler (Soc) Carbon; Louis Marr, (Union) Phila.; J. M. Hunter, (Dem.) Schuylkill; A. J. Palm, (Dem.) was endorced for Senator in Crawford district and Fred. A. Godcharles (Rep.) for Congress in the Seventeenth district' Pattison was endorsed for Governor because of the forty-five members present, about thirty were democrats and the majority outvoted the others." This endorsement coming from the source it does is highly complimen tary to Mr. Godcharles. This is positive proof that our worthy can didate is a friend to labor and is working for their interests. The above endorsements are scarcely but one-half of those running for office that served in the last Legis lature, our own member E. G. Rog ers not being numbered with them. This committee,of which a majority were democrats, did not consider party liuesand were conservative in their endorsements, taking only those whom they were satisfied could be depended upon and in whom the utmost confidence can be imposed. Hon. Fred. A. Godchar les is the man to send to Washing ton. Since he is a candidate Mr. Dick erman says he has changed his mind about 89 cents being enough for a workingman. So too we suppose Mr. Rogers has changed his mind about accepting Rail B'Wid passes. Two year- n ohe was "agin" pass es, but w!.et. hegottheni lie chang ed his mint! and accepted all that were oft Mil. Perhaps his delight at being able to ride free may ex plain hi.- absence on 25"> votes of the House. . One of the funny episodes of the campaign is that Mr. Rogers has said to several voters that if he was elected it would make the taxes of the farmers lower, lie did not say how. No one knows how. Mr. Rogers could not reduce the taxes on his "portable" (?) saw mill (which has stood in the same place for 20 ! years) for the reason that "there aint :no taxes" on that mill, and there havn't been any since he swore them, off many years ago. Mr. Rogers neglect to be pres ent and vote "yea" on the final pas sage of the bill to compel the semi monthly payment of wages to wage earners was one of the most unfor tunate of his acts—that is if he would have voted "yea" if present. This bill fixed a penalty for the neglect or refusal of corporations to pay twice a month and would have been of great benefit to all wage earners. It wa» lost on final passage because the 10* votes required by the constitution were not obtained, only 97 votes be ing recorded "yea." Rogers's neg lect it still worse because his Com. mittee on "Labor" had reported it favorably. He had not enough in terest in laborers to be present and vote for this excellent measure. On page 151") of the Record it will be 1 found that he is recorded absent and not voting, that neither one of the- Democratic Legislators who signed Scouten's affidavit voted for the bill AND FRED A. liODCHARLES S VOTE IS RECORDED "YEA." LET THE LABORING MEN REME MB E R TIIEIR FRIENDS! Beware of Last Hour Lier. We warn voters against last hour lies. Lust year Scouten published wo editions of the Herald. One for he Hast and another for the West, n this last edition he had a lot of ies about Judge Reeser and a pcr -inal appeal against him. How far hat may have influenced the rote ve do not know, but we do know it was dirty politics. It is altogether likely that Son ten will work some similar giilne this fall. He gets his ittidavits by the bunch. Now let no voter be fooled by such tricks. The issues have been before the peo ple for weeks. The News Item hat made an open and above board fight and we have stored up nothing for a midnight attack. It is quite possi ble that Scouten will attack Bird in rhe East and Dyer in the West by ies that he woukl not dare print in time to be answered. We warn Mr. Bird's friends in the East against this. We warn Mr. Dyer's friends in the West. You may be sure that these eleventh hour stories are sim ply li«w made out of the whole cloth.
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