flews ahem. CHADfcES L. WING, Editor. Published Every Thuiiiday Afternoon By The Sullivan Publishing Co At the County Heat of buillvau County. LAPOBTE, PA. W c. MASON, fresiden. THOS. J. INUHAM, Sec'y & TrfettS. Entered at the Post Office at Laporte, ue second-class mail matter. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET, Judge o! the Superior Court W. D. POUTER, of Allegheney. Electors at Large, Mill; KIS 1,. CL» > TUIKR, Philadelphia I!. F. JONES, Pittsburg. For Congress ITtli District, K. \V. SAMUELS REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET. County Treasurer, W. A. (JUMBLE. Member ot Assembly, 1.. B. ZANER. County Commissioners, !■'. W. PEAEE and W. 11. LOWERS. Couutv Auditors, «i. I-:. W1 LC< »X, 11A KR Y DOTS I-«»KD. urns lTS AIM iOWiN CONGRESS KeystoneState'slnterestsWnuld Thereby be Jeopardized. REPUBLICAN GALL TO ACTION Special Attention Must Be Given to tile Canvass For the Nominee* For the National House and For Other Candidates On the Ticket. Along With Electors For Taft and Sher man. | Special Correspondence.] Philadelphia. Sept. 22. Pennsylvania Republicans have been called upon by the national leaders of the party to put forth most strenu ous efforts to carry every close con gressional district at the coming elec tion. The Democrats are making a gieat canvass to carry the next house, aud it behooves Republicans everywhere, according to reports received at the national committee headquarters in New York, to get to work to line up their voters for the party's nominees lor national representatives. No one doubts that Pennsylvania will roll up a big majority for Taft and Sherman, but unless there shall be <lose attention paid to perfecting the party organization and enlisting the rank aud tile of ilia voters for tlit congressional candidates in several of the di .itricts there may be a falling oft in the Republican representation from this elate at Washington. Pennsylvania lias too much at stake to allow this to happen. Her vast industrial and farming in terests. which have thriven so well under Republican rule, must be pro tected, and there is no better way to insure a continuance of the Republi can party's fostering policj' than to elect Republicans to congress. A Power In Congress. Pennsylvania, itli the largest Ro publicau delegation of any state in the Union ou the floor of congress, has for many years wielded a potential influ ence In shaping national legislation and in blocking the games of men who have nothing in common with the wage earners, the farm owners the manufacturers and business men of the Keystone state. Men who seek to promote the cause of the importers and others concerned in getting into this country at as cheap a rate as possible the products of for eign nations, of their mills, their fac lories and their farms, are heavy con tributors to the Democratic campaign funds, especially to the treasury of the Democratic congressional cum pah u committee. They want to break down the tariff, to wipe out the "Pennsylvania idea" of protection to American industries and American granger Interests, so that they can reap the benefit of iro mendoush increased importations of foreign goods and foreign products of all sorts, through their foreign busi ness connections. What Democratic Victory WculJ Mean Uryanism in the While House, it is everywhere admitted, would lie bad enough, but with foreigners domluat ing the action of congress, especially iu the matisr of ta.i . Penn •.. .vauia interests v> ullid be terrtblj jer.par dized and u, :v.y of tliem, in time, ab solutely deal>v. c i. While bus!at generally through our tiie United States ii puling up mills are resuming o; cms t.i' railroads are ■, «;<. ,rting e.!:; creased sl,i:/ij,eii!s fcnd u, : telsgrop companies, I lie pulse ot t.i- . ~mir,,.: cial world. : !.o-\ i"-.-.dually increaMu ■ receipts, titer-- reports of lad.is trial depression, of hundred-: t.i' itr u sands of idle workmen all over Ci ca Britain and the European <•<. .r. ireat. Business Depression Abroad. While America is showing that she is going to have a resumption of pros perity. provided that there shall be uo unexpected political upheaval, there are no indications of anything like those conditions abroad. Business men, manufacturers and others who are closely following events declare that if Taft and Sher man shall be elected by a good ma jority in the electoral college and the next house stall be Republican, there will be witnessed a period of uapre i eedenfed prosperity ail over the Unit ; ed States. If. on the other hand. Bryan should I win or the house should go Demo : cratic, the whole commercial am! iu I dustrial world would he thrown into . a state of consternation and disrup tion. and there would be inevitable i distress among the wage earners and men of small capital engaged in I business, and even the heavier capi | talists would be seriously embarrassed ! and prevented from promoting or de i veloping enterprises of every char | acter. Penrose On This Issue. | Senator Penrose, in discussing the political situation a few days ago, among other tilings said: "A protective tariff is essential tg American prosperity. The Republican party has always been pledged to the principle The Democratic parly has almost invariably leaned towards free trade. Panic and financial disaster have generally attended Democratic legislation upon the tariff. Immediate snd extraordinary prosperity has al ways accompanies tariff legislation by the Republican party. If the present tariff, which has been in existence for ten years, a period louver than has marked the existence of any previous tariff law. is to be revised, it would seem evident that such revision should be made by the party which has con sistently favored the protective princi ple. The revision should be made as promptly as possible and with as lit tle disturbance to business conditions as possible. "Already committees of the house and senate are at work on the subject itnd it is hoped that the revision is being largely discounted iu manufact uring and business circles. On the other hand, a revision by the. Demo cratic party must inevitably nieau rev olution and disaster. The Democratic platform declares in favor of imme diate revision of the tariff by the re duction of import duties and generally states that gradual reductions should be made in such schedules as may be necessary to restore the tariff to a revenue basis. This practically amounts to a declaration in favor of free trade. "On the other hand the Republican party declares unequivocally for a re vision of the tariff by a special session of congress immediately following the inauguration of the next president and affirms emphatically that in all tariff legislation the true principle of pro tection is best maintained by the im position of such duties as will equal the difference between the cost of pro duction at home and abroad, together with a reasonable profit to American industries. "The Democratic party utterly ig nores any reference to the welfare of American labor, while the Republican party in its platform specifically de clares that its aim and purpose is not only to preserve security against for eign competition, to which American manufacturers, farmers and producers are entitled, but also to maintain the high standard of living of the wage earners of this country, who are the most direct beneficiaries of the pro tective system." CLUBMEN BLAZE WAY TO VICTORY Pennsylvania League Lines Up For the Campaign. ARE READY FOR BATTLE Republicans Inaugurate An Aggressive Canvass to Insure the Election of Taft and Sherman and to Keep the Keystone State at the Head of the Party Column In November. [Special Correspondence.] Wilkes-Barre, Sept. 22. Pennsylvania's Republican campaign was formally opened last week at the convention of the League of Republi can clubs, and there is every assur ance that the Keystone state will give a splendid account of herself at the election on Nov. 3 next. The clubmen were particularly for tunate in having so many men of na tional prominence as their guests and to speak at their mass meeting. Vice Presidential Nominee James S. Sherman was very happy iu his references to the stalwartism of Penn sylvania Republicans, and he declared that their fellow Republicans of the Empire state would vie with them a 1 the coming election in rolling up a big majority for the entire Republi can ticket. Congressman Nicholas Longworth Senator Uoies Peurose and John Hays Hammond were among others who ad dressed the great assemblage in the armory. This meeting, the splendid attend ance at the convention and the demon stration made by the mine workers and others iu the parade which was given prior to the opening of the meeting, left no room to doubt the en tliusiastn for Taft and Sherman among the Republicans of this state. Aside from the cordial indorsement of the nominees and the platform of the Republican national convention, the club league placed upon record strong testimonials to United States Senators Penrose anil Knox, and later : on there was an exhibition of earnest aiiC sincere approval of a suggestion ! from Colonel John R. Wiggins that the j members of the league should goto I work at once to insure the election of 1 Republican members of the legislature who will in January next be called upon to elect a successor to Senator Penrose. Colonel Wiggins was ap plauded* when he advocated the re election of Senator Penrose. Following the re-election of Robert B. Habgood, of McKean county, to the presidency of the league and the elec tion of other officers, a platform was adopted, which among other things saya: A Patriotic Party. k The Pennsylvania State League of j Republican clubs in its twenty-second j annual convention assembled, declares j Us unwavering faith in the policies of tha Republican party under which the \ state of Pennsylvania, in common with Its sister states, has grown and pros pered. In the more than fifty years of Its existence the Republican party in state and nation has ever been loyal to the patriotic institutions of the country, while It has advanced the material interest* of alt tha people by wise and progressive legislation. "In every great movement for the ! development of industry or the im- j provenient of commerce, it has taken ! the lead and maintained the ascend- ! «ncy. It has been opposed and ob- j structed by the Democratic party, and Its achievements have always been in spite of the assaults and obstructive ! tactics of the Democratic party. Only . once in the past tifty years have the ; people voted for a change from He- I publican to Democratic rule. They : were misled by the arguments of the i supporters of Grover Cleveland Into I believing that tariff revision which would lead to ultimate free trade j would be better for the common peo ple than the Republican system of pro tection to American industry. A Painful Experience. "The experience was a wretched and painful one, as the records of the sec ond Cleveland administration clearly demonstrate. Prom the Cleveland ad ministration to the present ime Re publican presidents and Republican policies have been sustained. Under Republicanism thus restored to power, the country has experienced its great est progress. It has seen the free sil- j ver heresy come and go. It has ob served the cry of anti-imperialism and ! of government ownership of railroads. These theories were advanced as the j entering wedge for the overthrow of Republican success, but they have been met and countered in each sue eeedlng national election. We are now approaching an election where new ' theories are to be met. Democratic Experiments. "One of those is the proposition to j Impose upon the government of Un united States the business of an in surance company for the protection of | deposits in national banks to the pre judice of the larger deposits of the farmers and thrifty industrialists of the country who have placed their faith instate banks and savings funds. We are opposed to the Introduc tion of this theory as an experiment In our national life, believing that it is not a government function to protect the money of the schemer and specti lator, while the savings of the honest toller are to be prejudiced and endan gered. "With this new theory advanced as another expedient by the candidate of the Democratic party, this convention • has no other concern than to point out its fallacy and the danger thai would follow its attempted introduc tion. We stamp this "new thought" of the versatile dreamer of Democracy j as an insidious and dangerous bit of demagofuery. no more entitled to the ; respect of the puople than was his proposition to sell fifty cents worth oi Bilver bullion to the government of the United States for a good gold dollar. Warning to Republicans. "We warn Republicans upon the farm; In the factory: in the mine; and in business circles generally, agalns' the experiments that are being pro posed by our Democratic opponents; each and every one of them Is simply intended to confuse the political sit uation and to undermine the founda tlons upon which the prosperity of the country has been reared, in order to discredit the Republican party ami to place the Democrats in power. We believe as firmly today in the protec tive tariff of the Republican party as we ever did. "We believe the time has come when the tariff law may be revised by its friends in order to regulate such inequalities as may have arisen or to correct such abuses as may have crept in. but we do not waive our devotion to the protective principle, nor do we yield in the slightest measure our de mand that Ar.erlcan industry shall be a safeguard against unfair foreign competition. "We believe the tariff should be so adjusted, so maintained, that every imported article that comes into com petition with domestic manufacture, shall be made to pay duty represent lng the difference in cost between the wages paid abroad and the wages paid at home, with a reasonable profit to the manufacturer. Our Industries have grown and prospered under this sys tem. and we claim for the Republican party the credit of having made it what it i*. The Two Senators. "Our distinguished senators, the Hon. Boise Penrose and the Hon. Philander C. Knox, are to be congratulated upon the records they have made at Wash- ! ington. The long service of Senator j Penrose upon the important commit tee of postoffices and postroads. dur- j lng which time he has seen the growth 1 of the postal business of the country i from eighty millions per annum to two hundred and twenty millions uur , _ _ annum, and during which he has con j tributed largely in the developing of 'he l'rce rural delivery service 01' the country, is especially noteworthy. j "What shall we say of our junior isenator? .When the proposition to prosecute tbo illegal trusts of t!:c •ountry was brought before Mr, Cltv' ; land's attorney general. Ric; aril Gl uey. it was reasoned that the lav.; were too feeUe to reach the pov; r.'ui malefactor. I'uder T!:co ;orc l; . volt, how different the situati n' Mr. | Knox, the attorney general :i;>d n. w the junior senator from P. 1 . j declared the law sufficient i ■el :i'. | rich malefactor equal'..'- wit:. 1 and. still better, he demomt n.t truth of his opinion by brir.' ne t,v illegal combinatk us to t>.o bar <> , ttce and overthrowing them. An ! r'a brings us to the final dcdai:. ion • I' this con\ >'Tt: : The league convention v,:> - one .1. | the most successful that h .3 i ►he, 1 in reccii. ->arß. and n tel* ■:-n re ceive i fro-- < ; 'o: el Wesl" • I; An drews, ch . :i c i tli.s '■ Mili'i-. n the work of thf members of rl.e Re publican ch:ba hi r i■ nt cftr.:i«iy\a. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an Invention ts probably patentable. Comnmnlca tlonH strictly confident tal. HANDBOOK on Patents stMrt free. Oldest Hpency for seeurlnpr patent ,h. 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