i niiijni'i I "PUBLICAN NEWS ITEM. CHAPi.CS L WING, Editor. Published Every Thursday Afternoon By The Sullivan Publishing Co. At the County Beat of Sullivan County. IiAPOBTE. PA. vv c. MASON, Presiden. TIIOS. J. INGHAM, Sec y & Troas. Enu red at tlie Post ( Mliee nt Laporte, as second-class mail matter. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. For Supreme Court JustieA. .IT >ll N P. KLKIJF, of Indiana County. For|Presidential Electors. Electors at Large —Robert Piteairn. Allegheny; LeviM. Mc('alley, Chester. REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET. For President Judge. HON. E. M. DUNHAM, of Laporte. For Member of Assembly. ]>li. M. 15. 11 EHRMANN, For Sheriff. FRANK W. HUCK. For Congress E. W. SAMUELS. A FREE TRADE PARTY THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THE DE MOCRACY IS. History Proton Tliat Democrats Have Uocu. Art* und Will Continue to He Hontile to the Policy of Pro teetinf? American lndu«*try. It would be precisely as true and fair to d. 1. ounce the Republican party as the party of atheism as to denominate the J/. :m ratio party as the party of free trade. It never was a free trade party and is not now.—From the Partly Deliv ered Speech of lion. Champ d'lark, Per manent Chairman Democratic Convention. 1 repeat, so that all men may hear, that I am a free trader and proudly take my stand with Sir Robert Peel. Richard Cob den. John Pright and Henry George. I may be a humble member of that illus trious company, but it is better to be a doorkeeper in the house of honest free traders than to dwell in the tents of wicked protectionists.—From a Speech of II;.n. Champ Clark in House of Repre- j jsentatives, March 31, 1N97. I Would destroy every custom house in America. If I had my way today, sir, I would tear them all down from turret to foundation stone, for from the beginning: ti. . have been nothing but a den of rob bt is.—From Same Speech. The Democratic party Is a free trade party or it is nothing. The conflict be twven free trade and protection is irre pressible and must be fought to the bitter end. Henry Watterson. All nade should be as free as possible.— Kx-Speaker Carlisle. Add to the free list as many articles as possible. Reduce duties upon every duti able article to the lowest possible point.— Ex - Secretary Fairch i1 d. If Grover Cleveland is re-elected presi dent of the United States, as he will be: if another Democratic house of represent- i atives is chosen, and if we can get our 1L publican friends out of the other end of t. Capitol and get Democrats in place of th m, then we will pass a tariff bill that p raw material on the free list, and then we.will put our own intelligence and a : lful and productive labor of this coun try upon a plane of equality with the la borers of all other countries. I dt sire free trade, and I will not help oct any law that stands in the way trade.- Roger Q. Mills. ?dr. Cleveland stands before the country as the champion of free trade against pro t- < ticn.—Henry George. .or Cleveland has challenged the pro tect i interests of the country to a fight oi' « xtermination.—Senator Vest. L;ut coming back to the fact of free tr. do, it Is undeniable that thla is the ul timate policy of the Democratic party.— 'M« mpiiis Appeal (Dem.). i am not here for the purpose of voting for a tariff on lead or a tariff on flax or a tariff < n anything, but I am here to get the tariff off everything 1 can. I am in a carabine for the purpose of reducing taxes, ar.d Iv ill vote for a bill with free lead or fre i. vthing else in it to accomplish that purpose.—Congressman R. P. Bland. Such expressions could be quoted in definitely, but free trade is not the abolishment of all duties and the tear ing down of all custom houses, as Pro fessor Sumner, the leading free trader in the United States, says: Free trade does not mean the abolition oft ustom houses, nor does it mean the substitution of direct for indirect taxation. A country may collect its entire revenue by duties on imports and yet be an en tiiviy l'ree trade country. Thus the cus ton duties levied by England, with a very 4 w exceptions, are not Inconsistent Won .icr profession of being a country which believes in free trade. Consequent* ly the following extracts from Democratic piatiorms will be interesting: The time has come for the people of the United States to declare themselves In favor of free seas and progressive free trade throughout the world and, by s« l i: \:i manifestations, to place their moral i:.!l : nee at the side of their successful e.;.. <iiplo.—Democratic Platform, 1866. N" bounty shall be granted from thi treasury not shall any duty or tax on iinp« rtations from foreign nations be laid to promote or foster any branch of in d. ytry.—Confederate Constitution. We demand that all custom house tax ation shall be only for revenue. — Demo era tic Platform, 1876. A tariff for revenue only.—Democrat: • Platform, 1880. \Y e demand that federal taxation shall b exclusively for public purpose and shall not exceed then fieri s of the eminent » . comically administered. democratic Platform, 1881. This convention hereby indorses and rec ommends th early passage "J" the bili (fr trade Mills bill) lor the reduction cf t revenue now pending in the house of i\ .uvsentatives. Democratic Platform, II We declare it to be a fundamental prin cip'e of the Democratic party that the fed. val government has no constitutional p • r to impose and collect tariff duties, tx" pt for the purpose of revenue only, and we demand that the collection of such tn-v s shall be limited to the necessities of the government when honestly and eco n» i cally administered.—Democratic Plat form, 1802. We hold that tariff duties should be lcvit d for purposes of revenue and that taxation should be limited by the needs of the government, honestly and economical ly administered. Democratic Platform, 1896. Yesterday, today and tomorrow the 1> moeratie party lias been, is and will be a free trade party, or, what Is pre cisely the same tiling, a tariff for rev enue party. Mr. Clark cannot change history, cannot pervert facts, eanuot deny his own statements or those of other Democratic leaders. ■' of ClevelHndlam. /roe silver was only a threatening fteril from which the election of Mc iCßili'j- saved the nation. Free trade was the rouil to ruin from which his election diverted the national course. The election of 181)0 saved the United States from Clevelandism no less than from liryanism, and Clevelandism is a peril into which the people are not likely to Hint; the country in a reaction fiiim liryanism. The threat of Bryun isiu has not obscured the dangers or Clevelandism. The people have had full experience of the miseries pro duced by the latter and do not feel encouraged to bring them oti ngaln. The promise of Democracy is bad, whether the promise appears in the ascendency of one Democratic faction or the other. The people are not ripe for a change such as the Democrats would give them.—Pittsburg Chronicle. Stonlnf? Their Propliet. Bryan in defeat is greater than his victors. No one can help respecting lilni and his convictions, but the sub- Terfuges and misrepresentatatlons of the Hill-Parker crowd receive nothing but strongest condemnation from all sides.—St. Louis Watchman-Advocate. ire expected to be much 1 tetter during the coming months. While there is as yet no full return to the immense Iron and steel business of 1901 and 11)02, yet there Is a most lirtu undertone to the market, and the coming months are liable to sec a con siderable increase In that industry over the slump of the earlier part of the year. This is evidenced in many ways, one of which may be particularized In the resumption of the Homestead Steel works, which have again started up at full capacity. The 7,01K) men are promised not only steady employment, but already are working double time. The Newcastle plants, In Pennsylva nia. have also started up again, and reports all over the country are ex ceedingly encouraging. Taken as a whole, the financial and commercial condition of Uncle Sam and his people was never more satisfactory, and outlook was never brighter. To be sure, there will be more or less hesitancy and doubt till Koosevelt and Fairbanks are elected and the continu ance of our present tariff law assured, but the country seems to have become convinced of the belief that the Re publican ticket will be successful and aße planning on that basis, which means prosperity not only for the com ing year, but for an indefinite time in the future. MUDDLE HEADED BOURBONS Whatever IN IN Wrong, and to Rrm edy It You >IIIN( Lower tin? Tariff. After having watched Mr. Williams whisper a sermon, the delegates at St. Louis had the privilege, of which they seem not to have availed themselves, of hearing Mr. Champ Clark deliver a comic monologue. The country has been cruelly deprived of the expected consignment of eloquence by which Mr. Clark was to put In nomination the Missouri sage and statesman who is af fectionately known as "Old Garden Sass" Cockrell. As a slight measure of recompense Mr. Clark kindly consent ed to rise and everlastingly demolish those arch villains, George 111. and Lou- Is XIV. After reading the exposure of those hardened malefactors it is plain that everybody who thinks now Is the time to punish them will have to vote the Democratic ticket. The permanent chairman also lent the weight of his influence to Patrick Henry and George Washington, who are at last definitely set right before the American people. Hut when he finally leaped over the centuries and landed in 11)04 it Is pain ful to observe that Mr. Clark became less definite. The country has a curios ity to know what the Democrats think they would do with the tariff if they could be elected. The best that Mr. Williams could tell them was that it would be "wisely" reduced. Mr. Clark did not venture even that much. But his mind did struggle with the subject in a way which is interesting in view of past events. In 1880 President Cleveland thundered loudly against a high tariff on the ground that it pre vented our manufacturers selling goods cheaply enough abroad to compete with foreigners. lie devoted a large part of his annual message that year to ex plaining that it was a terrible state of affairs that American goods could not get into foreign markets, and asserted positively that it was all because the protective tariff was too high. Now Mr. Clark, echoing Mr. Williams, is de claring that American goods are being sold all over the world; that it is a siu and a shame, and that the cause of it is the American protective tariff. Whatever happens to be the condition of business at the time of a campaign, the Democratic orators assert, is all wrong. The way to change it, they aver each time, is to lower the tariff. The fact that goods were not sold abroad ill 1880 in competition with foreign manu factures was a reason for doing away with protection. The fact that goods are sold abroad In 1904 in competition with foreign manufactures is a reason for reducing the rates. Lower the tariff and enable our products to be sold cheaply abroad; lower the tariff to pre vent our products being sold cheaply abroad. Whatever the voters think about the tariff, they will not intrust it to the hands of bunglers who know so little about it that tliey cannot even lie of one mind as to which way the tool cuts.—Brook Ivn Standard-Union. Need Their Allien. In 1890 and HUM) the Populists wrote the platform for the Democrats. This | year the Democrats were left to tlieui | selves, and the result was almost no ! platform at all.—St. Louis Watchman- Advocate. John D. Reeser's Big Store, Bank Block, Dushore, Penn a. v v Reasonable Goods. 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