Republican News Item. VOL. XI. NO 26 (J This Is the Place \ (To Buy Your JjvveL-y C Nothing in Town to Compare Withes r the Quality that We are Giving j s You for tilt' 1,0 I'ri'.:e Asked. C Qunl'tv ami m-'dent? precc makes a force that j) \j.r<si si My dra-vs in!-) ms: re '!• K-v patronage C C r-t this section. Many years hen- 1 IOUSIIVSS. always J S W'ili a full line of < 00. 's above susp.cirtn; chosen C [with a care r -d yj mnt c -nm nsnr't- wiili K i \ desirability an J mianl d i-nx u.» t- tin-. • .-t- , n a e.> \ (our store asa e place to invest. ( / Kepiir work done on short notice and irnaran-Q S ftH d, b\ s'w lied workrn n Yuirerders appreciated. X S RETTENBURY, > <, DUSHORE, I'A. The Jeweler V COLE HARDWARE No Place Like this Place For Reiiabie STOVES and RANGES, COAL OB WOOD. HEATERS; ONE OF WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHTS. House Furnishing Goods, Tools of Every Description, Guns and Ammunition. Bargains that bring the buyer back. Come and test the truth of our talk. A. lot of second hand stoves and ranges for sale cheap. We can soil you in stoves anything from a fine Jewel Base Burner to a low priced but satisfactory cook stove. Hot Atr, Steam and Hot Water Heating and General Repairing. Roofing and Spouting. Uiisfiore^a. The Shopbell Dry Good Co., 313 Pine Street, WILLI AMSPORT, PA. The NevfcillSoitSi Are arriving evcry day.the line will soon Be complete. Season after season we are selling more suits. We have every reason to lielieve that our efforts linve Been repaid and that your confidence in us to secure the hest styles will lie sustained when vou see what a line showing we will have ready in a tew days. New Walking Skirts We have scoured the whole market until we found the most stylish, most serviceable walking skirts that would he shown anywhere. They are Both plain colors and the new plaids and the new English mixed effects. THE NEW WOOL DRESS GOODS FOR FALL Are on the counters. Everybody who wishes quiet, rich, tasteful things in dress fabrics will find them here. Not a desirable cloth or color missing. There are two fashionable cloths this season, Broadcloths and Panamas. We have an excellent assortment of both. Plaids Are Stylish Plaids are once more in favor and are made in some lovely color combinations. They aVe the quiet and coinbre tone plaids, not loud as the few years back. Corsets of the Best Before the new gown a new corset of course. Let us help you to select the right one. We cannot afford to have anything but the best at the various prices. Criticallv sel?cted models make up the fall assortments. Every corset shows the new linen demanded by late styb-u. Whether you buy one for . r >o cents or the very linest we can suit you. Subscribe for the News Item LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY*, DECEMBER 1,1906. | Exercise the Sights You Fight For. If :my political parly, or any oth er organization should start a move ment to disfranchise any class of men, there would be almost a revo lution. The men who were denied the right to vote would tight for their rights, and they would l>e just fled. But the rights of citizenship which men fight for, they will not exercise. There are thousands of men in this country who will not go to the polls on election day without importunity, and some who will he deaf to all argument and importuni ty. They are so well satisfied with the business conditions in the coun try, that they will give all their time to their business affairs, and have to others the public duties of protecting prosperous conditions. The men who so neglected their public duties in 1892 were the first to complain of the result of their neglect, and the tir*t to become pan ic-stricken at the threat of a change, j It is incumbent upon every business j man, every farmer, and every wage j earner, to join together for their j common defense. They all have! an equal interest in the mainte nance of prosperous conditions. They ! have all been" benefit ted by there- ■ turn of Republican policies, and they can continue prosperity by continuing the policies which i brought prosperity. I'or the last forty years the Re publican party has only been an other name for the majority of the I people. The majority believes in j Republican policies because they [ have'prospered under those policies. , In isyo, and in 1892, the majority' did not vote and the minority elect ed a Democratic House and then a Democratic President. The Repub licans who stayed at home on elec tion day v ere responsible for those re*ults. They saved an hour's time, which' wi.'iM have been needed to cast their votes, and they lost a year's business, effort and profit. They followed the rule of saving at the spiggot and wasting at the bung hole. The situation today is lik that in j 1800. The prosperity of the whole people is unrivaled. It can be con-1 tinned, but a half dozen Itepubli- i cans who may stay at home in each precinct may give the election to the minority and make the 00th Con gress Democratic. No man who believes in the Roos evelt Administration has any right j to neglect his duty on election day. j The President has the power to call every able-bodied man into the army to tight if need he. They ought to vote I > maintain their own busine.'s prosperity. Every stay-at homc is a drone in the public hive. Let every man exercise the right he would fight for, if there were an at- I tempt to take It from him. VOTE I FOR DR. SAMUEL, VOI R CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS. The Valve ol Farms. The farms of Pennsylvania are worth almost $1,000,000,000, or a good deal more than the funded debt of the nation. This shows an increase of $000,000,000. There has been an increase in value in every class of agricultural land, and it has so happened in all these years crops have been uniformly good. The in teiesting statement of the census bureau is that this increase is due al most entirely to the improved meth ods pursued by tlie* farmers, better methods of plowing and seeding, better fertilizing and more econom ic use of all that a farm produces. The whole wealth of the United States in ltf.jO was estimated at only $70,000,000,000. The wealth of Pennsylvania today far exceeds that figure. "Last yeai when Dr. Swallow was chief engineer of the muck machine for the fusion combination, he was a patriot, a scholar, and above all, an honest man; this year, when he re fuses to train with bis former associ ate and produces some ugly charges against Proprietor Emory of the fusion party, they simply boil over in their rage and nothing is too se vere in the shape of criticism. This year's fusion campaign is certainly a remarkable combination of incon sistency, vituperation and prevarica tion."—-Lancaster New Era. i Will be Opened by Prol. Svrlace on Nov. 18. On Nov. 2nd and 3rd Professor . Surface will call a meeting in Ilar risburg of all his orchard and nurs- j ery inspectors preparatory to begin- ! ning the work of public spraying. Some thirty expert sprayers will be in Harrisburg to compare notes and exchange experiences. Investiga tion shows that not a county and but few orchards in this State have es caped the San Jose scale. The east i ern end of Cumberland county alone j shows a loss ot between $200,000 and ! $300,000 from the San Jose scale, so j ! that the work done along these lines jis most important. Next month I these inspectors will go throughout the State, spraying trees with lime I sulphur wash devised by Prof. Sur | face. A letter received at the do- i 1 partment from A. C. Steamer of Al- | | lentown, states Prof. Surlace's rem edy saved his orchard from total, ruin. Scores of such letters are re-] i reived weekly at the department. | j . v ' - . ■ "William H. Berry, the borrower lof State monies from a State depos | itory holding half a million dollars ■ placed there by his own hand, and I from which he is borrowing to fin | ance a private enterprise! Juggling j ! with State deposits! Using the t public monies for mercenary pur poses ! William 11. Berry, the "re former,' the lifter of the lid, the spotlessly pure man, the exposer of 'criminal methods' in the manipula j tion of State deposits to advance pri- ' vate money-making speculations! "Spare the State from such hypo- 1 (•rites !" Teddy Roosevelt hunting bears up ! around Jamison City! Well not that exactly, but one of the bear dogs which won world-wide fame two years ago by assisting the Presi dent to run down bruin in his fa- | mo us bear hunt in the fastne.-»ies of ; the Mississippi has been secured and brought to Jamison City for the pur pose of running down the bears which have been repeatedly seen in that locality, and whose tracks can be found almost any morning in ; somebody's back yard. It appears that Dr. Rouham oft Fairmont Springs, who recently : died, was a close friend of President Roosevelt, and secured from him one of the trained dogs which Roose velt used in his Mississippi hunt. ; On the death of Dr. Bonham James T. Brady, the well known Jamison j City lumberman, obtained the dog in question, and Tuesday the ani mal arrived in Sullivan county ready to run bruin to earth. Mr. Brady is the man who last week caught a bear alive by means ; of a steel trap which he had set in j his field where the bear tracks had frequently been seen. Liverymen all through this sec- j tion are being warned against a j gang of eight men who are operat- | ing in Central Pennsylvania as horse ( thieves. Descriptions have been oh tained of some of the men and the j wires have been kept busy inform ing every liveryman in several coun ties. Three horses have been stolen recently from Shamokiu liverymen, two being recovered, and one was hired last week from Dr. Ira. G. Coble, of Berwick, and driven for a couple of days before it w as secured. In following up the route taken by | the men who procured the horse from the Berwick liveryman it was learned that they made several at- j j tempts to sell the turnout. At Mainville they offered the horse, buggy and harness for $125, but the man who was about to make the purchase was scared thinking that on account of the low price there was something wrong. • People liv ing in the country will do well to j investigate before purchasing horses ; from strangers. In the United States District court l at Reran ton, Friday, Elmer Farns | worth, the young Shamokin postal j clerk accused of rifling the mails was j 1 found guilty and sentenced by Judge I Archibald to two years at hard labor in the Northumberland county jail. IA heavy fine and costs were also j placed upon him. Samuel's to Grange Letter. Dr. Samuel recently received a j letter purporting to come by author ity and direction of the Grange, lie ! however ascertained that the Grange had "nothing to do officially with j sending it. The letter accused the Doctor of being an agent to Hie so called State machine. Charged him with voting against certain Roose velt measures and told him a whole lot of things that were false to the Congressional Record, This letter of considerable length was published in the Sunbury News along with ] the following reply from Mr. Sam uel : Mount Carmel, Pa., Oct. 20, 'OO. Mr. J. S. Campbell, Mr. C. 11. Dildine, ltohrsburg, Pa. Dear Sirs: i Although your letter of Oct. oth bears no evidence that it came to me by any direction of any Grange, or ; that you were authorized in your j official capacity to address the inter | rogations to me, I recognize the j right of any constituent of mine to write upon any questions of interest, either to him or the community at large; this consideration has prompt ed me to answer your questions at length : 1 During my course in Congress I have acted on all legislation, as in my judgment, seemed for the best j interests of my constituents and the j country, and without being subserv ient to any man; this course I shall continue. 2. 1 did not refuse to sign a • ■all for a caucus to consider the rate bill, but on the contrary was in favor of and voted for the rate-bill, i 3. My votes in favor of the pure i food law and the meat inspection liill show my position on those ques- I lions. j 4. My duties as a Congressman I required my attendance at Wash | ington and I did not deem it right j nor proper to neglect them in order to be in Harrisburg to lobby either for or against the passage of any res olutions by the legislature. 5. I did not speak or vote against parcels post; the only reference in I my speech to parcels post was the ; part of the Postmaster General'* re port commending the merging of third and fourth class mail matter; you are respectfully referred to that part of tin report of the Postmaster General. <>. I did not vote for the repeal ; of the eight hour law in the Panama canal. 7. In any of my official acts, I ! have faithfully represented my con stituents, and in so doing have sup ; ported the policies of President Roosevelt, believing his policies to i for the best interests of my constitu ( nts, as well as the country at large ; i My votes and action on all legisla tion are contained in the Congres sional Record, which is the official report of all legislation in Congress, to which you are respectfully re ferred. Yours truly, E. W. Samuel. Report o! Ponmono Graje Legislative Committee. Lincoln Falls, Oct. 25, 190(5. We, the undersigned Grange Po j mono Legislative Committee, repre i senting Sullivan county in this l'o i mono district beg leave to report, ; that we have interrogated Mr. John Shaad, Mr. Maynard Phillips and Mr. M. W. Calkins, candidates for j the legislature, and that each have | ai.s\vered in the affirmative to all j (lie following interrogations: Ist Will you, if elected, vote to give trolley lines the right to carry I freight ? ; 2 Do you pledge yourself not to accept personal transportation from any t;.,importation company during your term of office 3. \\ ill you support a bill for a uniform rate of 2 cents a mile. j I. Will you favor enforcing the I Constitution of Pennsylvania, espe ! dally the 17th article relative to the powers and duties of transportation companies ? 5. Will you support a measure to permit the counties to r< tain all the personal properly and. licence tax? 0. Will you favor an increase of State aid for township roads from 151 to 50 percent. ? 7 Will you favor an increased ap propriation for centralized township 1 schools, and also for township high | schools ? 8. Will you favor equalization of i taxation 0. Will you favor an amendment to the constitution providing for dl i reet legislation i We also wish to report that a copy of the above has been sent to all the Sullivan county papers in time for publication before election. E. <!. Rogers, ) L. B. Zaner, Com. Peter Mesersmith, j 75C PER YEAR BERNICE ITEMS. Mrs. J unit's J. Connors of Mi dred, is under l>r. J. L. Brenimn's care at present. The Republican and Democratic candidates for associate Judge were shaking hands with the voters at this place on Friday. John Fitzgerald has bought A. L. Oyer's meat market at Lopez and will take possession November 1. William Cook will move into the house made vacant by John Fitzger ald. Katonka Tribe No. 336 has adopt ed 4 Pale Faces since Oct. Ist. A. J. Bradley of Laporte, was calling on old-time friends at this place last week. Misses Agnes Collins and Bessie Wheatley of Lopez, spent Sunday with their parents at this place. Squire Lowrie's office is open for doing business and not for loafers. Promoters o! Electric Boad Still Looking the Ground Over. W. L. Connell, a prominent Scrantonian who owns coal lands at Bernice and who is also largely in terested in the electric ro.td that is building from Scranton to Factory ville, is in frequent correspondence with some of the business men of Tunkhannock regarding the possi bilities of securing the right of way to run the road to Bernice by way of Tunkhannock. He says that a survey has been made from the western side of the river through to Bernice, and that a tentative site for a bridge to run diagonally across the river at a point near Tunkhan nock creek has been considered. lie plainly states that such a road would not pay without legisla tive enactment, permitting it, it. common with other roads to carry freight. From thp position of slate-picker while a boy, Dr. E. W. Samuel has forgfcd ahead in life and through his untiring efforts and close attention has now gained a position in the business world that he can well feel proud of. He has made his income by hard manual labor and until he had sufficient funds to secure an edu cation and becoming a medical stu dent, after which he entered the drug business. Dr. Samuel now has a nice, clean, legitimate business, a business lie can well feel proud of and a business that is of some bene fit to the general public. He was sent to Congress from this district and from the outset he gain ed the confidence of every member in the National House. He has a great influence among his co-mem bers, and has never voted for a bill that his constituents were uot in favor of, and has voted for every bill that interested this district. Dr. Samuel is in hearty co-operation with all the measures President Roosevelt advocates, and a vote against Samuel means a weakness of the President's plans. Dr. Samuel possesses all the quali fications most desirable in a good representative. He is genial, ener getic and painstaking,with the help ful disposition that makes it a pleas ure for him to do anything in his power to accommodate a constitu ent. Vote for Dr. E. W. Samuel for Congress. Dr. E, \V. Samua! for representa tive in Congress from the Seven teenth Congressional District, es pousing the Roosevelt policy, and if re-elected to this important oflice will stand by President Roosevelt. Good citizens whether they be Dem ocrats or Republicans, know what this means for the welfare of the na tion. The appeal made by President Roosevelt for Republicans to stand by their Congressional candidates is almost pathetic. In the midst of his term it would be a mistake worse than a crime to leave him alone in his efforts to better the condition of the country ami with a Democratic brake on he would be impotent to help. Vote for Dr. Samuel. If you believe |in a Republican policy of government and want President Roosevelt backed by a Republican Cbiigress vote for Dr. E. \V. Samuel, representative from this district.
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