Republican News Item. VOL. BX. NO. 13. ( This Is the Place CTo Buy Your Jewelry S, in Town to Compare With p ( the Quality that We are Giving J / You for the Low Price Asked. S C Oualitv and moderate prices mnkes a force that\ > irresistibly draws into our store the best patronage r C of this section. Many years here in business, always 3 \ with a full line of goods above suspicion; chosen C (with a care and judgment commensurate with its . \ desirability and adaptability to refine taste, makes \ ( our store a sate place to invest. C / Repair work done on short notice and guaran-Q \ teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated. C RETTENBURY, S < dushore, COLE ' HARDW J^j^ No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OB "WOOD. HEATERS; ONE OF WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHTS. House Furnishiug Goods, Tools of Every Description, Guns and Ammunition. Bargains that bring the buyer back. Come £md test the truth of our talk. A lot of second hand r.toves and ranges for sale cheap. We can soil you in ctoves anything from a fine Jewel Base Burner to a low priced but satisfactory cook stove. Hot Air, Steam and Hot Water Heating and Genera! Repairing, Roofing and Spouting. thuei COMFOKTS in a great variety of floral effect patterns either light or dark colorings. They are tilled with pure white cotton. EIDERDOWN COMFORTS when you are looking for Eiderdown Comforts, don t forget to see the nice sateen covered ones we are sell ing at very reasonable prices. The New Tailored White Goods for Waists. Suits and Gowns. .... , , , . . I he saleol white cotton W uistuijfs, ha? MIII iniikinvr Im- reached ,'t liijrli state Itcen 8o satislactorv that we have lar"elv of perfection. I I,is perfection v.m will extended the assortment. You are" in find lullv emphasized in our stock. They vited to sce'these new designs in wliiu lire the representative styles from repre- mercerized VVaistinirs. sentnii\e makers. Taiiored Suits Kain ' oils, l>ressy Golf Blouses. (! '\vii.-i, tourists ("oats. Silk Waists. . ..... t hililrenV t'oats. livening Wraps, Infant's , K »" » 00l (JolfHlouses. sever ('o ;l i s , 1 81 styles to select Irom in navy, gray In everv new style ami shape shown 1 -"dinnl, Hack, white, for fall or winter. " 1 rlees rßl, g e lrolr > *-- r »0 to Subscribe for the News Item LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13,1904. MOST VITAL ISSUE. l'lir Attempt of liruiuci'Hcy to Kill I'ruUctive 't'urlUa. The Democratic party in uutiouul convention at St. I.ouJs declared pro tection to be robbery. Tile leading l'aiker orgaus are uvowed enemies of the protective tarW, aays the Troy Times. The foreuioMl IJemoeratle ora tors, suoii us Hourke Cockrun, are u vowed free traders. The most Important economic issue now before the American people is the «4uestion of the tariff, as it is the most vital issue in other countries of the globe, on this question the democrat ic party aud Its leaders huve been cou sisteutl.v oppoai-d to the protective tariff. Everybody remembers '1 rover Cleveland's free trade message. The Democratic party lias placed itself on record uguin and again a* opposing a tariff whose intent is rite protection of the wage earner. Aud now wiMi blind boldness the Democrats at St. reiterate their parrot cry that protec tion is robbery. The American workiogmau, compar ing his wages aud standard of living with those of the cheap labor of for eign countries, is not wiflkig to plunge tire knife Into his own breast by uid lug any party that Intends to break down the tariff barrier which so equal izes conditions as to give to the work logman of this country the wages which he is receiving. The voter will be asked to decide be tween Theodore Roosevelt aud the pro tective tariff platform, on which be stands, and the Democratic party, which denounces protection as robbery. There can be no doubt of the result when men of common sense are asked to vote to reduce their tvage* aud to forego the standard of comfortable Bv- Lug. which has made the American worklugiuan's lot envied the world over. HARD TIMES GONE BY. It Is Writ For WorklßSßiH to He ueuibcr the Cleveland D«r>. Speaking of b«rd times, we have only to £<> back to the Cleveland adminis tration. The tariff smashing bill knock ed business skyward. Mills closed. Only a portion of the people found employment. Prices went down. Of course they did, for who was there to purchase? Does not every one remem ber the free soup houses for tfce starv ing multitudes who could not get em ploy men t V What was the use of the butcher shop advertising meats at a reduced price wlies the laborer without work did not have the price? It was tan talizing for bint t» be told that lw could purchase a leaf •( bread for • cent or twe less than in good Mutes, far in good times he would have had I cents In his pocket to pay for a loaf, but now If the bread were selling for a penny be could not procure it. That is what the workluguien must understand. If they are all at work at a fair wage tliey have the price ut bread aud meat la their pockets, aud If the prtco is higher than In trouble some times tkey should remember that it Is the farmer who Is prospering with them, and the farm and the mill are necessary to each other If there Is to be general prosperity. l-a wreucn iMuss.i America*. FACTS OF HISTORY. Free Tariff* H«»» Alw«r« Broaarht Mulrtari IMguallM. From 181'.' to IStfl, akMt Mffcy yearn, free trade tariffs wera followed tlirea times by industrial stagnation. Aud three times u protective tariff led t« industrial activity, financial <■ win fort aud prosperity among the peeple. The last seven years ha*® beeu the most prosperous lu American history. Industries have been active, markets at home and abroad have been la creased, the laboring clause* have beeu benefited aud the wealth of the coun try has been largely anniented. 11l spite of these facts of history t=he Democratic party la Its platfsrm of ]!KM denounces the protective tariff as a robbery and asks the v«tes of the country lu support »112 that deuuncla tiou. Sw long as the citizen Is justified ia defending his own comfort and pras perlty and In repelling Idleness and consequent poverty. s« long will the Democratic attacks upon the tariff con stitute a menace that will he taught with unflagging energy. -Troy 'limes. Parker **• Traatn. The alliance between .fudge Parker and the trusts Is undisputed by the well Informed. That is why he is gentle In allusions to then! aud falls back on the common law when there Is no common law In the federal Ju dicial power H> he used In fighting any thing. That Is the Parker way of promising to do nothing, fie would be foxy, but Is anly foolish. —Buffalo News. The tat* Judge Parker says the sold staudard is "Irrevocably established." By the way, judtee. who established It? if the gold standard Is such a good thing that you accept It. wouldn't It be pru dent to keep iu power the party that established it?- Burlington liawkeye. Communication. \Vn>!iingtun, 1). C., Oct. 11, 1004. Horror X I:\vs IT KM. I Wiis old enough to vote when I came to Washington and I have lived here thirty years. I have observed and studied t lie Government machine ut dose range. There tire many things connected with government, administration that every citizen cannot know, and much that is hard to believe even when told by :i per son of known truthfulness. There has been, sin. e the days of Grant and until three years ago, scandalous looseness and recklessness in the management of the civil, mil itary and naval establishments <.f the government. The world knows something of this from heaisay, but there is a difference in swing things at tirst hand and hearing about them. The tirst eighteen months of my -tay in Washington, was spent as a clerk in the Navy Department, and I then and there got impressions of the idleness and inefficiency, the favoritism and dishonesty prevading the rank and file of Bureaucracy and infecting everybody from clerk to Cabinet Officers. The successive Presidents that have come and gone from Grant to McKinley, inclusive, have seemed to he powerless to change these conditions—conditions that would have ruined the best pi i vate or corporate business in the world—conditions that can be sup jiorted only by taxation and exhaust less natural resources. For thirty years, party platforms and orators have fulminated reform, but the new president when he came in had to take the machine as he found it, and let it and himself be run very much according to custom. The term of a president is only four years ami it takes that long for an ordinary pres ident to become acquainted with the rottenness of the different services that make a government, and most of them have been mere politicians too mealy-mouthed to denounce it or too nerveless to attack it. But for three years we have had in the White House, an extraordi nary president. One who is neither mealy •mouthed nor nerveless and one who came to the presidency fully, keenly, indignantly cognizant of the gangrene permeating every depart ment and determined with'inerciless strenuonness to cut it out. What he has accomplished in three years is marvelous and inspiring. The Civil Service, the Postal Service,the Army and the Navy have responded won derfully to his intelligent, disinfect ing tonic treatment. Not only have tho organization and the equipment of all services been improved, hut the morale and esprit du corps have been elevated and energized until it is not too much to say that from clerk to Cabinet Officer, from stoker to Admiral, and from army mule to Chief of Stafl' new life and health prevail. Any person of disocrnment on the ground, and eognizant of past und present conditions can see it and feel it. But the work is not complete and retrogression will set in if it permitt ed to stand still, anil how much worse if committed to alien and un friendly hands. The country has waited long for H president with head,heart and hand, to dddesperate ly needed things. What he has done is but earnest of what he can do ami will do. It is known that if Theo dore Roosevelt is elected president j in November, lie will come into! olflce unhampered by pledge or promise. This too, will be unique in the experience of presidents and iu its beneficent reaction on the country. It is already known who two of the Cabinet Officers will he. Mr. Hay will continue the firm, hut pacific management of our foreign relations which has, during the last seven years, given us much honor able international distinction; Mr. Cortelyou will bring his youth, his energy and his faculty of organiza tion to hear upon the largest postal system iu the world. There will he at flu* heads of the I War and Navy Departments, men of the type of Hoot and Tall —men 'of capacity for work, i The election of I'rc-ident Koose ! velt means for the I'nio States—pr<»s perityat home, preside abroad. C. A. S. Dynamite Placed in Shta! of Grain. llughesville Imlepeililent. What appears to have been a das tardly attempt to cause death aud destruction hy exploding dynamite iuathrashiug machine on a Penn township farm was frustrated by a fortunate incident. The attempted outrage occured at ; the home of Milton Poust, and the I discovery was made last Monday. Mr. Poust was getting ready to thresh his buckwheat, and the sheav es of the grain were being hauled from the field to his barn by Harry Poust and Abraham Smith. A shea I fell from one of the loads as the swaying wagon mounted the barn floor, and was allowed to lay there until the balance of the load bad been transferred to the mow. Then Harry Poust lifted the sheaf on his pitchfork to pass it to Mr. Smith. As he did so a bundle drop ped out of the sheaf. Its contents wore carefully concealed in buck wheat straw, and Harry's first im pression was that there was a snake coiled within. " Great Scott! Here's a snake ! " he exclaimed. lie gingerly transferred the bun-1 die to Mr. Smith, who proceeded to make a closer investigation, which resulted in a startling discovery. "My God ! It's dyna nite !" j Smith exclaimed as he unwound the ! straw. And there, mho enough, was a I stick of flyntuiite such as is used for blasting rock, etc. This discovery naturally caused a great deal of excitement in the neighborhood as it da vned upon the good people of that section thai a ' most diabolical crime had been at- j tempted. The awful consequences of such a ' catastrophe can only be conjectured. I It is hardly likely that the men I operating the machiue could have escaped their lives, and others would surely have been seriously maimed. Mr. l'oust, it is stated, is at a loss to understand the motive that led to the concealment of the dynamite in the buckwheat. The authorities are cognizant of the matter, and it is likely that Dis trict Attorney Spencer will insist up on a rigid investigation in the hope that the guilty party may be brought to justice. The crime is too serious to allow it to pass without an attempt to run |down the vidian. The railroad bridge at Hillsgrove was completed this week and Mr. Hone's bark trains can now run direct to the Hillsgrove tannery. This I will be a great convenience. The road will now be a bark feeder in two directions— Muncy Velley and Hillsgrove— besides being a lumber ! line and offering to the business in-1 terests at Hillsgrove an outlet other j than the stage line to (Jlen Jiawr.! To anyone who has made this' journey, twelve miles by wagon, the ! trip hy rail, even through circuting will be a great relief. C. La Hue Munson of William sport, has been ap|K>intcd by Gover nor I'enny packer a member of the; committee representing this [state I which will meet with similar com mittees from all the oilier states fori the purpose of devisiug.methods and I offeringsuggestions to secure greater | uniformity in the laws of the differ- j ent states on subjects where uniform- j ity is highly desirable. The Muncy Valley Farmer's club is out of debt as a result of the re cent fair. Not only were the re ceipts large enough to pay all of the premiums and other expense, but there was enough in addition to pay j off the note that has iK'en hanging lover the club for some time. j Judge Biltt nger of York, recently I rendered the following "decisirn: A | man's home for voting purposes is i j where his wife lives and where he sleeps, no matter where he pays hi> taxes, works or where he cats. I The annual report of the ' j Valley railroad company discloses | i its most prosperous year, its gioss i earnings of #:}0,000,000 being an in crease of more than $:>,000,000. Its " coal properties produced more than a million and a half tons of coal I ban last year. 75 TS. PER YEAR Associate Judges Paid According (o the Amount ol Work They Execvlc. lii its issue of October r>lli, 1904, Sullivan Herald makes the foil wing statement: "For tin? year ending August SJI, 1903, Associate Jacob A. Meyers of 111 is county re ceived as salary s.lfl:J.9i> while Assoc iate Reeser received for the same year $917.19. Why it is Judge Reeser receives mofe than twice as much salary as Judge Meyers we are unable to explain. The two Asso ciate Judges sit upon the same bench during the same session of court and each reside about an equal distance from the county seat. * * If we were to attempt an explanation as to why Judge Reeser'* salary so great ly exceeds that of Judge Meyer we could only attribute it to the possi bility that Reeser may sit a little closer to Judge Dunham than to Judge Meyers." This statement is intended to mislead the general public, and to arouse public sentiment against an honorable public officer. That there should be a vast difference in the respective salaries of Judges Meyers and Reeser is readily seen when the resilience of each and the manner in which Associate Judges earn their salaries is taken into consideration. Judge Reeser lives at Dushore where there are a num ber of lawyers, and where the greater amount of legal documents are prepared. As it is one of the duties of an Associate Judge to ad minister oaths and make acknowl edgements for which he is com pelled to obtain remuneration from the State per diem, since he is not allowed to charge the person mak ing the oath or acknowledgement. Judge Meyers on the other hand lives wh u recomparatively few legal transactions take place, his salary necessarily is smaller than that of Judge Reeser. The Herald, however, is imt laboring very hard nowadays for the enlightenment of its readers, and would be pleased if by hook or crook it could mislead the people when the subject is on some one of the Sullivan County Officers. Tim comparison might be carried a little farther so as to include our sister county of Wyoming. Why not come out John and give the salary of Brother-in-law Harvey Sicklerwho lives at the county seat and who therefor has no mileage, and whose salary for the year end ing August .'sl, 190.'), was #1.'594.00. And then take .Judge Vaughn also of Wyoming whose salary was £15<>9,35 for the same length of time. HIT then if you did that John you would have to explain how and of w hat Associate Judges' salaries are made up, and that would enlighten some one. MILDRED AND BcRNICE. Dr. and Mrs. ('amphcll are enter taining the latter* sister from Will iamsport. Manyot our town people attended the Forksvilie Fair last week. .Miss Mayme Haley is visiting friends at Kingston. Tlios. Collins of Arcadia is visit ing his parents here. Mrs. ('has. liaverley ami children of Dushore spent Saturday and Sun day with her mother, Mrs. John j Meyer. Mrs. A. Walsh and children, Mi.-s Katie Dotiohoeof Dushore and Mrs. 11. K. lK)wnsof Lal'orte spent Sun day at the home of Thus. Donohoe. I ] Miss Laura Allen left Monday moinin