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REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
Judge of the .Superior Court
VV. J>. PORTER, of AUegtieney.
Electors at Large.
MORRIS L. CiiOrillEß, Philadelphia
P.. I". -ION ES, Pittsburg,
For Congress 17th l>i.«lriet,
E. W. SAM!'ELS
REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.
County Treasurer, \V. A.GFMBLE.
Member of Assembly, 1.. 15. ZANER.
Coniity Cornmissioners,
F. W. PEALE and \V. H. ROGERS.
County Auditors,
G. E. WILCOX. 'IIARRY BOTSFQRD.
GLOB MEN WILL
RALLY FOR TAFT
Great Galherlng Anticipateil at
State League Convention,
[Special Correspondence.]
Wilkes-Barre, Sept. 1.
A mighty host of stalwart young Re
publicans will assemble here oa Wed
nesday, Sept. 16, to ratify the action
of the convention which placed the
Tat'i-Sherman ticket in the field, and
to formally inaugurate the campaign in
Pennsylvania to he waged by the State
L.eague of Republican Clubs.
This will be the twenty-second an
nual convention of the league, and all
indications point to it being the most
yui ct ssful in the history of the or
tuuization.
Vice Presidential Candidate Sher
man, Senator Boles Penrose, Congress
man Nicholas Long worth and John
Hays Hammond will be among the
principal orators at the mass meeting
to he held on the opening night of the
convention.
This wlil be the first convention to
be addressed by Senator Penrose for
some years, and by reason of the
prominent part lie is to take in the
management of the national campaign
his remarks will have special signifi
cance.
Pi ir.es For Clubmen.
Rob i t B. Habgood. president of the
State League, has been here and has
cordially approved of al! of the ar
rangements for the entertainment of
the visitors. Prizes are to be awarded
to the clubs sending the largest dele
g:t 1 ions and for those coming the long
est distance.
The league clubs are to take a eon
s; tcuous part in the campaign and
v.,n co-operate with State Chairman
Andrews and the various county com
mittees in arranging for mass meet
in. and providing the speakers and
distributing literature.
Pennsylvania clubmen have a warm
feeling in their heart , for Judge Taft.
v/h< so strong character and sturdy pa
triotism appeal especially to the young
men.
First Voters' Club.
Pians arc under way for the organi
zation of First Voters' clubs In every
school district in Pennsylvania to en
livt. those who will cast a presidential
vote for the first time in the ranks of
the militant Republicans ID the great
national contest.
Reports from every part of the
country show that the trend of senti
ment among the young men is toward
the Republican party and its standard
bearers and that hundreds of thou
sands of first voters throughout the
Union are being enrolled under the
Republican banners.
Particular attention is to be given
by the State League to the several
congressional districts In l'ennsylva
nia which have been classed as doubt
ful. and in this connection the officers
of the league will work In harmony
with the national and state commit
tees nnd the Republican congressional
committee in their efforts to get oat
every Republican vote.
The Democrats are making bold
claims in the matter of congressional
seat* in this state They now have
seven representatives in the house and
they are -1 iir iir; ten.
Tf the Repu'.'icpn '-Tubmen nctom
pllpli half < what t'te expect in the
way of orlurrt'.n;; (' e voters and rous
ing ©nthi n for •■'•p T le-v,ijli<a'i
nominees, the I' •••. •.>>! b iucl-v
If they c-'M v t-.-.i-,. distrh ts in this
jt« !r Kv hi
tjucoe.-'. c
After a lii.:! of «•!•.. , . .
ploy luem of i-ouvi. i . ~i. . i .
ers at hi;ihv. :y |c.'! i:i I
ma canal /one l« siu.'l !.y !!:.•
of municipal Ie; i:"_; t:> h.M 1
passed the ex peri;- -ntt'i xMpe. it.-- = r.!-
iiif? to thr Canal Record, with h re ently
reached Washington. Three t'.i.-tlnct
i mis were iu view in the prou ammo
submitted by the special committee on
the employment of prisoners, which
was approved last February. The first
»>!* these wi's the improvement of the
prisoners' condition; second, the open
lit K up to development of the fertile
valleys of the canal zone. and. third,
reimbursing the government for the
expense of maintaining Its penal sys
tem, the latter view having been justi
fied.
4sir MAT ft'ftisjp
nwi Übssilfa
TO SWAP HORSES
Pennsylvanians to Follow Old
tbe Lincoln's Policy.
TARIFF MADE STATE WEALTHY
Taft and Sherman Stand For Protec
tion, and Their Triumphant Election
Will Insure a Period of Unprece
dented Prosperity and a Continu
ance of Roosevelt's Patriotic Ameri
can Administration of the National
Government.
(.Special Correspondence.]
Harrlsburg. Sept. 15.
"Never swap horses while crossing
u stream." This trite and homely ad
monition of "Old Abe" Lincoln will be
followed by the voters of Pennsylva
nia at the coming election, when they
will roll up a tremendous majority for
the party of protection and prosperity.
Reports from every county in the
commonwealth show that the great
body of Pennsylvanlans, the farmers,
the merchants and the wage earners
iu all the big industrial centers are
determined to vote for Taft and Sher
man and indorse fhe platform of the
Republican party.
Bryan is making tariff reduction,
which to the Democrats means their
old slogan of free trade, the para
mount issue of his campaign.
In feing that he is striking directly
at Pennsylvania, at Pennsylvania la
bor, at Pennsylvania capital and at
Pennsylvania's vast natural resources,
her coal, her iron, her cement and her
tarious other interests.
No Free Trade For Pennsylvania.
The Keystone state has acquired
lier enviable position as the most
prosperous and wealthiest state in the
Union under the Republican party's
administration of statu anil national
affairs, and to no other policy does she
owe more than to that of the protec
tive tariff.
The present onslaught of Bryanism
upon the tariff has aroused a feeling
of indignation and alarm in every
quarter of this state.
Just as confidence is being restored,
us orders lor manufactured products
are coming in and mills are starting
up. coke ovens and blast furnaces are
being lighted and the textile and all
manner oi industrial establishments
are resuming operations, after a tem
porary cessation, along comes Bryan
with his tirades against the protective
tariff. He is serving notice upon capi
tal and labor alike that iu the event
of his election revolutionary tactics
rnay be looked for to the inevitable
destruction of the interests of the
wage earner and the manufacturer, to
the granger, the dairyman, the mine
worker and all classes of citizens of
this state whose happiness and liveli
hood depend upon the administration
of the national government under safe
and sane and well established policies.
Taft's Nomination Brought Confidence,
No reasonable man has attempted
to charge to the Republican party re
sponsibility for the recent disturb
ance in business and momentary ha»t
in the march of progress.
But every one who stops to consider
the revival of confidence, the resump
tion ol' commercial and Industrial ac
tivities and the universal predictions
of a renewal of good times, cannot but
attribute these conditions to the popu
lar belief that the election of Taft and
Sherman and the continuance of the
Republican party in control of the
federal government means an assur
ance of national prosperity.
To Promote American Patriotism.
The patriotism and sturdy Ameri
canism of the administration of Theo
dore Roosevelt, all know, will be ac
centuated with Judge William Howard
Taft in the White House, and the
prestige that has been added to "Old
(llory" by the vigorous Rooseveltian
policies will never be detracted from
by any act of the distinguished son of
Ohio who is now the Republican
standard-bearer.
The vital concern which every Penn
sylvanian must have in the present
canipuign was emphasized by United
States Senator Boies Penrose In his
recent speech before the Republicans
of Lehigh county, when he made the
tariff the principal feature of his ad
dress.
Penrose On the Tariff.
Senator Penrose. aruong other
things, said:
"This is pre-eminently an age the
world over of commercial, industrial
and agricultural development. The
United States leads in all these forms
of activity. We are today admittedly
the leading nation of the world, and
our progress In the past and the pros
pect of development in the future a>e
beyond precedent iu the history of civ
ilization.
"We #ant an assurance of prosper
ity. of a continuation of our commer
cial and industrial development at
home and of our trade expansion in
.he markets of the world. The his
tory of the United States shows clear
ly that prosperity has always attended
upon a protective tariff.
"The American people cannot fail
to recall vividly the immediate past.
There has always been a relation of
protective tariffs to prosperity and of
great financial depressions to low tar
iffs. The long period of depression
which followed the return to low tariff
Immediately succeeding Mr. Bluinu's
defeat for the presidency continued
(luring that entire period of low tarifi
and until relief was obtained by a re
turn to protection. ' The history or
tariff legislation in congress ts one of
continuous struggle.
"Success has been achieved by a
narrow margin. The principle of pro
tection to American labor and indus
try has frequently been putin peril in
the house of its friends.
Democratic Soup House Period.
"Every one recalls the dreadful in
dustrial depression during Cleveland's
second administration. Following the
re-establishment of protection in 1897
came an immediate restoration of'
prosperity, which continued steadily
until the great disturbances in world
finances resulting from the Boer and
Russo-Japanese wars and the local
disturbances resulting from the great
losses consequent upon the Baltimore
and San Francisco disasters —disturb-
ances due ultimately to monetary
causes and being but temporary In
duration.
"These causes, with the lack of suf
ficient currency to finance great un
dertakings consequent upon the tre
mendous prosperity which has come
to the country under a decade of pro
tection. are generally conceded to be
the chief elements in that cessation
which we all believe to be but tem
porary in the extraordinary prosperity
and industrial development and ex
pansion of commerce which the coun
try has enjoyed since the principle of
protection and sound money were es
tablished in the election of William
McKiniey in 1896.
"Setting aside minor issues and
theories of legislation, does any sane
man doubt that the future prosperity
of the country cannot be safely in
trusted to the Republican party by
the election of William H. Taft as
president?
"The people from one end of the
land to the other demand a cessation
of the temporary interruption to our
prosperity from which we are recently
recovering. They are most interested
in such an administration of the gov
ernment and such legislation by con
gress as can most reasonably be ex
pected to bring about a resumption
of our splendid march of development
at home and abroad.
Want American Standard of Wages.
"The great mass of our people want
to be assured of permanent employ
ment at remunerative wages, which
will enable them to maintain a stand
ard of living such as becomes Ameri
can citizenship. History demonstrates
beyond any question that the mainte
nance of the principle of protection
under Republican administration and
legislation has secured these results.
"History has shown that where this
condition has been interrupted by
Democratic success and tariff tinker
ing and free trade principles that dis
aster and panic have ensued.
"Closed mills and idle men were too
familiar to all of us a little over twelve
years ago. arid would hardly need re
calling now were we not so apt to for
get. Nor is there anything in the atti
tude of the Democratic party to assure
the American people of a consistent
adherence to the protective principle.
Tariff Cuts Cause Depression.
"It would seem to be evident enough
not to require argument that the pro
tective system can best be maintained
by those who have been successful for
nearly 100 years in its maintenance
and development.
"The general statement stands un
challenged that whenever the tariff
has been reduced in whole or in part
a business depression has followed,
and in many cases most severe com
mercial and industrial panics.
"The present tariff law has been in
operation unchanged longer than auy
other tariff law in our history.
"Many favor continuing the law un
changed for the present, on the theory
that stability of conditions is an es
sential feature of any tariff system,
and that the agitation in changing thc
same introduces uncertainty in the
trade conditions, and is apt to be fol
lowed by a curtailment of industrial
activity.
"There is, however, a general de
mand for a readjustment of schedules
to meet changed conditions in the in
dustrial world, and it is couceded on
all sides that general revision will be
made in the near future, but what
ever changes are made the Republi
can party this year stands emphati
cally pledged to the principle that a
tariff shall be imposed on all imported
products, whether of the factory, the
farm or the mine, sufficiently great to
equal the difference between the cost
of production abroad and at home, and
that this difference should, of course,
include the difference between the
wages paid in this country and the
paid abroad, and embrace a
reasonable profit to the American pro
ducer."
Senator's Pledges to Constituents.
Senator Penrose told of the move
tnent already under way by a Repub
lican congress to revise tariff sched
ules to meet changed conditions, and
in this connection he said:
"As a member of the senate com
mittee, I pledge myself to sustain the
protective principle so vital to the in
dustrial prosperity of this great state
of Pennsylvania.
"A harmonious and triumphant Re
publican party continued in power by
an overwhelming vote of confidence
on the part of the American people 011
election day in November next is bet
ter calculated to insure an immediate
resumption of that extraordinary pros
perity which began with* the election
of William McKinley in 189G. than can
ne hoped for hv the most sanguine in
the election of Bryan and the election
nf a Democratic house of representa
tives. with tlie record of the Democ
racy in the past for blundering and
disaster in connection with the finan
cial legislation of the country."
_ ———
REGISTRATION
CITIES ESSENTIAL
Republicans Must Qualify How
In Order to Vote For Tall.
ALARM SOUNDED FOR AGTtON
Committeemen Throughout the State
Admonished to Urge Their Neigh
bors to Comply With the Provisions
of the Personal Registration Act, Go
As to Be Ab'e to Vote For Taft For
President £«d Sherman For Vice
President at t'.-e Election In No
vember.
[Special Correspondence.]
Philadelphia. Sept. 15.
A note of warning has been sent all
along the Republican lines in Pennsyl
vania of the danger of voters over
looking the requirements of the per
sonal registration law and thereby de
priving themselves of the right to vote
at the presidential election.
Colonel Wesley R. Andrews, chair
man of the Republican state commit
tee, concerned over the neglect of
many Republicans to register, has
sounded an alarm and all of the Re
publican committeemen in the state
have been urged to thoroughly can
vass their respective election districts
where personal registration is neces
sary. and see to it that their voters
qualify.
No resident of any city who does
not register this fall, personal regis
tration being required In all c-ities,
can vote for president or any other
official pi the November election.
Philadelphia. Pittsburg, Allegheny
and Scranton are the only cities af
fect rl by the section of the law cover
ins? first and second-class cities, but
there are nineteen counties in the
state in which there are third class
cities in which personal registration
is necessary. Today. Tuesday, Sept.
15, is the second personal registration
da.v for all classes of cities, and the
last day for registration in third
class cities will be Saturday, Oct. 17.
The registration officers sit from S
a. m.to 1 p. m., and from 2 p. m.to
(! p. m„ and from 1 p. m.to 10 p. in.
in all second class cities.
All Must Get Registered.
"We cannot too forcibly impress
upon Republican voters the absolute
necessity of their being registered in
order to be able to vote for Tal't and
Shci'inau and the balance of their
party ticlcet," said Colonel Andrews
with great earnestness.
"All previous registrations bavins
expired, every voter residing in a dis
trict where personal registration is
called for, must go this fall, person
ally, to tin.- voting place and have him
self enrolled by the registration of
ficers.
"No one who is not registered can
\ote in Noverttber, so that the precinct
committeeman who fails to see that
his neighbors are registered will be
inexcusably delinquent. All our efforts
to get voters to the polls later 011 will
be of 110 avail if they have not been
personally qualified by having been
registered.
The Poll Tax Issue.
"To be qualified to vote every citi
zen must have paid a state or county
tax within two years. The last day for
paying poll tax to quality for the No
vember election. Saturday. Oct. 3,
should be impressed upon all who have
not thus qualified themselves."
The following are the counties in
which third class cities are located
and where this matter of personal
registration is of vital importance to
all voters:
Berks, Blair. Cambria, Chester,
Clinton, Delaware, Erie, Lancaster,
Lawrence. Lebanon. Lehigh, Luzerne,
Lycoming, McKean, Northampton,
Washington and York.
Prominent Speakers Coming.
While the matter of qualifying the
voters is being given very close atten
tion, the Republican leaders are not
overlooking any other feature of the
campaign work.
Chairman Andrews is directly in
touch with National Chairman Hitch
cock. and he has also the advantage
of the co-operation of Senator Penrose,
who is a member of the executive
committee of the Republican national
committee, in having prominent speak
ers assigned to Pennsylvania.
Vice Presidential Candidate James
S. Sherman and Congressman Nicho
las Longworth, of Ohio, son-in-law of
President Roosevelt, at the request of
the national chairman, have accepted
invitations to address the convention
of the State League of Republican
clubs at Wilkes-Barre this week, and
Speakers Cannon and Senator Bur
rows, who was temporary presiding
officer of the Republican national con
vention, are among others of promi
nence who have assigne 1
to speak in this state.
To Win Debatable Districts.
"We are working in Pennsylvania,"
said Chairman Andrews, "as though
this were a doubtful state. We want
vo get every Republican voter possible
to the polls and we want to carry
every debatable district, congres
sional. senatorial and representative,
and we can only do that by perfecting
our organization in every direction
and making an aggressive and deter
mined cauvus until the polls close."
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Wood School Shoes
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Reciprocal Boosting.
Judge Parker is laboring for the
Bryan cuiifi" In California, which re
the fart that Bryan's campaign in
Nf : r.'i: for Parker kept the Repub
lic"! :i majority in the state down to
fid.ooo. St. Louts (rlohe-Denioenit.
LAST
WORD TO PARTY
Praised Tali and Called For cf
cf Bryanism
i Special Correspondence.]
Harrisburg, f'a.. Sept. 8.
Pennsylvania Bryanites are greatly
exercised over the publication of
Grover Cleveland's last political doc
ument in which he forecasted the
election of Judge Taft and recorded
his opinion that the national Democ
racy will never regain its prestige un
til Bryanism shall be eliminated.
There is no, doubt Ciat these de
clarations have had far reaching in
fiuenr'c an;oas the conservative ele
inert of the Democracy of the Key
stone State.
Tiie Cleveland article was the first
of a series which the late ex-president
inter, lei to write, but which his
death cut short It was copyrighted
by the New York Times alter permis
sion to print it had been obtained
from Frederick S. Hastings, executor
of Mr. Cleveland's estate.
In this article Mr. Cleveland among
other things said:
"With the other parties disorganized,
redeveloping and procreating, the Re
publican party is certain, though with
a considerably lessened strength, to
move onto a safe victory av.r.talmd by
the popular support of reforms which
should not redound to iis glory solely,
those r -forms having been the work
of decent of all partis?. * * 1
"Personally and oi?.ciallv I have fc-.d
the opportunity or' l.i; in: many
things 1-oncoming Mr. Tai; that were
not a matter of g.-rer"! !
and with a keen interest i have watch
ed his large share* in >.■ toui\u i of
our national afTair , s in v:y repeat
years. Tils excellence as a federal
judge in Cincinnati is something not
to be underestimate,! or cToremphasiz
ed, for should he come to the presi
dential chair the qualities which made
him a judge of high ability, which i
know him to have been, will be the
most needful to him as president of
the United States. His high Heals ol
honesty owl of relative justive. his
great capacity for severe labor and
his humorous wisdom in the face of
the serious problem are attributes
equally valuable and commendatory tc
a people, seeking him in whom they
may repose the trust of their collec
tive Interests while they turn their in
creased attention to their pressing
individual demauds.
After discussing problems resulting
from national expansion, continuing
be said:
H35 Important Qualifications.
"These questions are fruitful of
trouble and perturbation, and the pri
mary requisite of the man or men w'. o
must deal with them is an abundant
knowledge of the people of the outly
ing domain. That Mr. Taft is posses
sed of this knowledge as is no other
man in the country is hardly to ho
denied; granted that he has had ex
traordinarv opportunities, he has
shown himself able to improve thosi
opportunities in a manner which it i.-
not extravagant to say will be hi
broadest claim so far to enduring
fame when the acute visual distortion
of the present and opportune sha
have given place to the inexorable per
spective of history in which the re'a
tive values of public deeds to publi
cities are completely clarified ati
innouncecl to posterity."
Harrisburg. Sept. 24.
A significant feature of the {Cather
ine of Republican clubmen In this city
this week is the presence of so many
young Republicans, many of them to
be first voters at the coming election.
The activity of young men in the
ranks of the State League of Republi
can clubs in this rampaign has been
the subject of general comment, and
the party leaders who have been fight
ing the battles of Republicanism for
years arc elated over the accessioa
of so many enthuiastic recruits.
The popularity of the nominee for
state treasurer, the fact that he is,
himself .a staunch member of the
State League of Clubs, and that his
candidacy typifies the desires of the
men who seek to advance the cause
of Republicanism's highest ideals, may,
in a measure, account for the gratify
ing interest taken in the present state
campaign by the young men, both of
the citieß and the counties of Penn
sylvania.
Mr. Sheatz's career In public life
Is calculated to inspire the youth of
this commonwealth.
The story of his labors as a lad in
th« great Baldwin Locomotive works
K Philadelphia and his subsequent
success as a business man. his nomi
r.atisn lor the state legislature In on
Independent district in the Quaker
city, his splendid record as a lawmaker
at Harrisburg. which led to his nomi
nation by the Republican state con
vention by a.unanimous vote for the
office of state treasurer, has been
studied by the young Republicans of
Pennsylvania, who have enlisted in the
campaign to bring about his election by
an unprecedented majority for an oft
year in November next.
Presidential Battle Coming.
The fact that next year will be presi
dential year may also account for the
Interest taken in the Republican party
organization this fall by the younger
element.
Colonel Wesley R. Andrews, chair
man of the Republican state commit
tee. reports that the chairmen of the
several county committees find that
great interest is being taken in na
tional politics this year, and that, every
one is looking forward to the coming
Republican convention.
Pennsylvania will have 68 votes in
that national gathering, the largest
delegation, save one, that will sit in
the convention, and the voice of Penn
sylvania. as in the past, it is predicted,
will again be potential in the national
councils of the party.
Tn order that Pennsylvania shall
maintain her proud place as the key
stone of the Republican national arch,
it is recognized by the young men who
have rallied to the party colors in the
present campaign that the vote at the
coming election must show a pro
nounced Republican majority.
It is true that the opposition is de
moralized. and is without an issue.
The danger to the Republican forces
lies in over confidence and the apathy
that frequently follows the absence of
an aggressive opposition.
The Capitol Grafting laaua.
Nominee for treasurer, Mr. Sheatz,
has reason to be proud of the ovation
given him here this we»V by the club
men gathered from every section of
the state.
While in this city, Mr. Sheatz had
several conferences with Governor
Stuart They talked over the state
capitol graft cases. It is recom'z**
that the Democrats lost their only is
sue when Attorney General Todd pro
ceeded against the men who were
named In the report of the legislative
probers as responsible for the looting
of the state treasury through irregu
larities attending t.he construction ot
the capitol.
With the knowledge that the pledges
of the Republican party are being ful
filled. and that after the thorough
probing of the capitol Job, the Re
publican state administration is pro
ceeding to prosecute all who had a
hand in the affair, the Democrats ar*
absolutely deprived of an opportunity
to play the capitol scandal to advaac*
Uielr political Interests. 4