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.
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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.