Republican News Item. VOL. XV. NO 21 COL. fIOOSEVELT BEATS SHERMAN Routs Old Guard io Fight For Chairmanship. STRUGGLE, WAS BITTER Ousts Bosses' Followers From Com mittees and Appoints Progressives. Roosevelt's Speech. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, of Oy ster Hay, defeated in the Republican state convention at Saratoga, N. Y., Vice President James S. Sherman, of Utica, for the office of temporary chairman of the convention by a vote of 507 to 145. Vice President Sherman .and Cornel ius V. Collins wore designated to es cort Colonel Roosevelt to the plat form. Mr. Sherman congratulated Col onel Roosevelt on his election. The old guard leaders, headed by William Harnes, Jr., Speaker James W. Wads worth, Jr., and their friends said that they were not at all dismayed, not at all overcome by Colonel Roose velt's victory. Colonel Roosevelt's selection was followed later in the convention pro ceedings by performances which are without precedent in Republican con ventions held in the state of New York since the organization of the party a little over iilty years ago. During all those years it has been the practice in selecting the various committees of the convention, like permanent organ ization, credentials, rules and platform for the delegates of each congressional district to select the committeemen for those committees, subject to ap proval by the state committeemen of the congressional districts, and these committeemen are thereupon accepted by the convention. A.: r Colonel Roosevelt's victory no del s.ue .• p resenting the old guard was pern if. I to offer the resolutions coKi. < i.i t..e appointment of theso cKiini.iiti e Only delegates friendly to C te! K. isevc-lt and his adherents i) . ;o iitinh', the committee on rules, I • co.iiini'teo on permanent organiza t ii ;n l the committee on platform, j i'li.uiol Roosevelt, as temporary <• lirman, celebrated the unlimited power given to him by first striking at Vice P. esident Sherman. The Oneida-Herkimer congressional dis trict delegation, the vice president's own delegation, had recommended for the platform committee William H. Schweitzer, a Sherman follower. Colo nel Roosevelt struck out Mr. Schweit zer's name and substituted that of ex- j Assemblyman Mervin K. Hart, who supported Senator Davenport. Colonel Roosevelt, following up this stroke, displaced Timothy L. Wood- [ ruff from the committee on platform j and substituted the name of Comp-1 troller William A. Prendergast, and for Jacob A. Livingston, state committee- 1 man, who had been recommended by j his delegation for a place on the com mittee on platform, Colonel Roosevelt substituted Marcus H. Campbell. Roosevelt's Speech. The mahi points in Colonel Roose velt's speech are the following: "During the last eighteen months a long list of laws embodying legisla tion most heartily to bo commended as combining wisdom with progress, | have been enacted by congress and J approved by President Taft." "These, and similar laws, backed up by legislative action, reflect high cred c° LE 's -Sir — HARDWARE^,, whatever it may be—"shall I buy? Don't poiuler over those things, nor spend your time looking at pictures in "cheap goods" mail-order catalogs. Come to our store and let us solve the problem. We have a line variety of standard goods to choose from. When you think of HARDWARE) COLE'S. SANITARY PLUMBING. We give special attention to Piping, Steam, Hot Water and Hot Air Heating. General job work and repairing In all branches, prompt ly and skillfully executed Samuel Cole, - Dushore, Pa. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1910. r GOVERNOR STUART. I J Attended Unveiling of Soldiers' | Monument at Gettysburg. £ A It upon congress and to our able, up right and distinguished president, William Howard Taft." "Of course, with a party as long in control of nation and state as ours has been, there have been individual in stances of misconduct and corruption. Hut there is no need of any other par ty raising the cry of 'Turn the rascals out,' for we have turned our own ras cals out." "We are against corruption in poli tics; we are against corruption in bus iness, and, above all, and with all our strength, we are against the degrading alliance of crooked business and crook ed politics, the alliance which strengthens the already powerful cor rupt boss and to the already powerful corrupt head of big business, and which makes them in their dual capa city enemies against whom every pa triotic man should stand with unwa vering firmness." "Let no man say that this is an as sault upon the honest business man. That is as foolish as to say that it is an assault upon the upright political leader." "In short, our at.-.tilde is merely that we stand for honesty as well as for progressiveness and for efficiency." "It is absolutely essential that the people should exercise self-control and self-mastery, and he is a foe to popu lar government who in any way caused them to lose such self-control and self mastery." "We should at once introduce in this state the system of direct nomina tions in the primaries, so that the peo pie shall be able themselves to decide who the candidates shall he, instead of being limited merely to choosing between candidates with whose nomi nation thoy have had nothing to do." How Pennsylvania Cities Grow. Population statistics of the thir teenth census were issued by the cen sus bureau for the following cities: Ei ie, Pa., 00,025, an increase of 13,- 792, or 26.2 per cent over 52,733 in 1900. Altoona, Pa., 52,127, an increase of 13,154, or 33.8 per cent over 38,973 in 1900. McKeosport, Pa., 42,094, an increase of 8,407, or 24.7 per cent over 34,227 in 1900. Williamsport, Pa., 31,800, an in crease of 3103 or per cent over 28,757 in 1900. Never Heard of Roosevelt. In the naturalization court at Eas ton, Pa., Toribio Cortazzo, of Dushkill Centre, who has been in the United States fourteen years, told Judge Scott he had never heard of Theodore Roosevelt, but be knew Taft was the president. He got his papers. UNION MEN BACK UP EMPLOYERS Appeal to Tall to Allow Rail roads to Raise Rates. DEMAND A SQUARE DEAL Leaders Say It Marks Growth of Fair ness Toward Companies That Pay the Wages—Represent 350,000 Work men. The most significant council of rail road employes ever held in this coun try instructed, at the Amsterdam Opera House in New lork, the chiefs of the four groat organizations of rail road workmen togo to Washington and appeal to the government of the United States for a square deal to their employers. The meeting was characterized by the brotherhoods themselves as the most momentous since the first spike was driven into the first road for these reasons; "It was the first out and out pronouncement that the interests ol employer and employes are identical.' It was the llrst time the powor of the unions have ever united to back up the railroad companies by going direct to the government. It marked, as the the brotherhood agreed, the growth of a spirit of fairness and mu tuality toward the companies that pay the wages. It served notice that, while the brotherhoods are not minded to be tags for any political party, they in tend to scrutinize the attitude of can didates for oflice (particularly for fed oral oflice) as to how employers as well as employes shall bo treated by the lawmakers and law enforcers. 3000 Delegates Present. Three thousand delegates, represent ing the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Brotherhood of Loco motive Firemen and Enginemen, the Order of Railway Conductors and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen gathered at the Amsterdam Opera House, listened to speeches from War ron S. Stone, grand chief of the engi neers; A. B. Garretson, president ol the conductors; W. G. Lee, president of the trainmen; P. H. Morrlssey, pres ident of the American Railroad In vestors' and Employes' association; G H. Sines, vice president of the train men, and other executives. The delegates came with tho au thorlty from 350,000 railroad workmen on sixty-three railroads east of the Mississippi liver, and they represent ed 2,000,000 voters dependent for a livelihood on the railroad companies After a four hours' conference they addressed a memorial to President Taft, the interstate commerce commis sion and all national and state law making bodies. The memorial contains resolutions which support tho proposal of the railroad companies that they be permitod to make a reasonable in crease in rates. The brotherhoods didn't take action suddenly or tumultuously. The pro posal to stand by tho companies had been talked over for several months in all the lodges. It had been threshed out thoroughly, and the delegates came to tho council with one idea ill mind, that the employes were in the same boat as the companies. They were In absolute harmony on all of the principal points brought up nt the mooting. These were that: Everything the railroads must buy had gone up in price and the only thing taat they soil has gone down. The companies are required to make a greater outlay every year for per fected service, safety appliances, wages and supplies. The rates now permitted are too low to enable tho companies to make a fair profit, pay fair wages or to con tinue to provide high class service tc tho public. The employes can obtain fair wagei only by supporting the campanies in an appeal to the governmont to au thorize railroad increases which ex porionce has shown to be necessary. The companies need the backing ol their employes, especially In view ol tho constant agitation of manufactur ers' associations, jobbers, middlemen and politicians for still lower rates. Pennsylvania Cities Grow. Population statistics issued from the census bureau at Washington on Tues day were as follows: York, Pa., 44,- 750, an increase of 11,042 or 32.8 per cent over 33,708 in 1900; Easton, Pa., 28,523, an increase of 3285 or 13.0 per cent over 25,238 in 1900; New Castle, Pa., 30,280, an increase of 7941 or 28.0 per cent over 28,339 in 1900. Highwaymen to Be Whipped. Clnronco Ilothwell and Fred Jack son, both colored, found guilty of high way robbery, were sentenced in crimi nal court at Wilmington, Del., to forty lashes and three years' Imprisonment each. Joseph Douglass, of Odessa, tes tified that he was knocked down by Jackson and Rotbwell took his watch. BERRY IS JOLTED BY MANYBOLTERS Hot Over Ossertion by Formei Treasurer Sheatz. HE HELPED FORM PARTY Control of Movement by Bryan Demo cratg Too Much For Independent Republicans. A series of desertions from the Key stone Party last week greatly embar rasscd the Berry campaigners. The trouble was due to the fact that the coterie of Bryan Democrats wht have captured the independent organi zation persist in indorsing Democrats for congress and the legislature. This Is resented by independent Republi cans, few of whom have any heart ir the movement since a Democrat Berry, was put at the head of theli ticket. The most sensational break from the Berry forces was the resignation of former State Treasurer John O Sheatz, who was one of the organiz ers of the Keystone Party and was chairman of its first committee on or ganization. Sheatz wanted an independent Re publican named for governor by the Keystone Party. He took an active part in the convention, but he and hit associates were defeated by the Demo cratic combination headed by Eugene C. Bonniwoll, who landed Berry at the head of the ticket. Then they put up Casey and Scully for sesretary ol internal affairs and slate treasurer re spectively, leaving but one Indepena ent Republican, Gibboney, on the ticket. He is supposed to bo running for lieutenant governor. Too Much Democracy. Following tip their victory in the convention, the Berryltes have tndors ed a big batch of Democrats for con gress. In resigning from the Keystone county committee or Montgomery, Charles Heber Clark, who was H prominent delegate In the Keystone Party's state convention, wrote a scathing letter In denunciation of the Indorsement of Dlffenderfer, Democrat, for congress on the Keystone ticket, In which, among other things, he says: "I will never permit myself to be used for the undermining ot the na tlonal house of representatives of thai protective tariff system which, In my Judgment, in of vital Importance tc the welfare, not only ot wage earners, but of all the people ot the land I am confident that the election of a majority of Democrats, ot even a ma jorlty ot fanatical tariff revisionists to the next congress will produce widespread depression of business and inflict hurt upon multitudes of In noeent people. My hands shall be free from the guilt of helping to pro duce that great calamity." On the following day, former State Treasurer Sheatz sent u letter to State Chairman Thomas L Hicks, request ing that his name be taken from the list of the committee. Mr. Sheatz in commenting upon his action said he resigned because he Is a Republican. He found that his business associates in Philadelphia members of the Manufacturers' club the Union League and other organiza tions, are virtually all going to vote for John K. Tener for governor and tiie full Republican ticket. Many Inde pendents who started out with the Keystone Party when Mr. Shr-atz was temporary chairman of the state com mittee of the Keystone Party and for mally opened the state convention, have since come out for Tener for gov ernor. Former Congressman H. B. Parker, of Tioga, who was named on the Key stone Party state committee, was among the first to decline the appoint ment. He Is a Republican who cannot stand for the Berry-Bonnlwell Demo cratlc outfit. The Berry movement Is practically without organization. In many coun ties they have been unable to organize meetings, and In others Berry has gone to find no preparations made tc receive him or to notify the people that he was coming. MARCONI SERIOUSLY ILL Inventor Is Returning to Italy From South America. A telegram received in Paris from Buenos Ayres says that William Mar coni is ill on board the steamer Prin cess Mafalda and is returning to Italy. His state is said to be serious. Early Irish Kings. Beginning from A. D. 4, seven suc cessive kings of Ireland were all slain, four of tbein by their successors. TAFT ORDERS CiViL SERVICE EXTENSION IncludesAsslstants.flecGmmend 2d and 3d-Giass Postmasters. The first definite result of the pres ent cabinet sessions in Washington was the announcement that President Taft will issue an executive order ex tending the civil service to include all assistant postmasters. The president also will recommend to congress that socond and third class postmasters he placed under civil ser vice. This action is in lino with Post master General Hitchcock's recom mendations. By this order some 8000 assistant postmasters will bo affected. The cabinet took up in detail the departmental estimates for the com ing year. General Wood, before the cabinet met, wont over t tie war de partment estimates with the president in the absence of Secretary of War Dickinson. Mr. Taft also discussed with his cabinet the speech he is to deliver in New York Saturday night. This is ex pected to l)e Mr. Taft's last political utterance ol' the campaign. TO KEEP TAB ON LOANS Central Credit Bureau Will Record Sums Borrowed of National Banks. To prevent corporations, firms and in dividuals from borrowing to the extent of their credit in their own cities, then going elsewhere and doing the same, Comptroller of the Currency Murray has decided upon the establishment of a central credit bureau in Washing ton, where will be recorded all such borrowings from national banks. The credit bureau will be located in the oflice of the comptroller. The necessity for its establishment arises from the fact that very often the local borrowings of institutions are to the extern of their ability to'pay, and if obligations of which the national bank examiners have no knowledge exist in other districts the effect is to impair the solvency of the national banks holding the paper. Girl Dies In Maiathon Waltz. Miss Elizabeth Marris said, "I could die waltzing," at the close of a dance in Chicago. As she seated herself she fell over and died within a few min utes. She had been dancing continu ously for four hours. Miss Harris was twenty-two years old. T\Ao Babies Drowned. Clark and Eldo Robinson, aged three and five years respectively, were drowned in Doty's mill pond, near North Vernon, Ind. The younger of the two fell into tho mill race and the older boy lost his life in a heroic ef fort to save his brother. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA FLOUR weak; winter clear, $41i4.25; city mills, fan cy, s(i® (i.40. RYE FLOUR quiet, at $4@4.10 per barrel. WHEAT quiet; No. 2 red, new, 9!) c. @ll. CORN quiet; No. 2 yellow, local, 62 @62c. OATS quiet; No. 2 white, 39Vic.; lower grades, 37c. POULTRY: Live steady; hens, 15 ®l7c.; old roosters, Dress ed firm; choice fowls, 18c.; old roos ters. 13c. BUTTER iirm; extra creamery, 32c. EGGS steady; selected, 31 @ 33c.; nearby, 27c.; western, 27c. POTATOES quiet, at 58@00c. bush. Live Stock Markets. PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards) — CATTLE lower; choice. $7.20®7.40; prime, $6.90®7.15. SHEEP lower; prime wethers, $4.40 ®4.(io; culls and common. s2@3; veal waives, slofi i0.50; lambs, $4.50@7.25. HOGS lower; prime heavies, $9 25 (310.30; mediums, $9.75®9.80; heavy Yorkers, s9.7o{i !).7.">; light Yorkers, $9.55@0.G5; pigs, $9®9.50; roughs, $R <3 8.75. FIRST NATIONAL BANK, HUGHESYIILE, IP^- CAPITAL STOCK $50,000 W C. FRONTZ President. Surplus and FRANK A. RERDER, Cashier. Net Profits, 75 - 000 * DIRECTORS: Transacts a General Will. Front/, .John C. Laird, C. W. Sones, Banking Business. . C.Front/., !• rank A.Kcoder, Jacob I'cr, Lyman Myers, W. T. Reedy, Peter Front/., Accountsoflndivid- J. A . s. liall, ' John Hull, uals and Firms solicited. Safe Deposite Boxes for Rent, One Dollar per Year. 3 percent. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. .State Library . . _ (at r-tn ii_ A R SOBND WARNING Wiiat Democratic Victory Would Moan to Pennsylvania^, VSST INTERESTS AT STAKE Prosperity Under Protection and Dis tress and Free Soup Houses Under Cleveland Regime. A boastful and blatant Democracy throughout the country is not only de claring that the next house of con gress will be Democratic, but is pre dicting that the successor to President Tal't will be a Democrat. Late election returns have unques tionably given the Democrats great encouragement, and reports from cer tain states until recently reliably He publican put the result in November in doubt. Thoughtful men, while dreading the outcome, are at a loss to understand how the great American people could return to power a party which has caused 30 much misfortune and distress, both to the business in terests and the wage-earners of the Union. It has only been within the last few weeks that the citizens of Pennsyl vania have apparently begun to real ize the serious nature of the situation, and there are evidences upon every hand that the voters of the Keystone State will not be carried away with the tide of heresy and fanaticism that is sweeping over the country. Warnings are going out in every direction that Pennsylvania must stand firm; that this bulwark of Re publicanism must remain unshaken and that every vote must be polled,* so that the election n turns shall sound a trumpet blast to the world that the sane and sober citizenship of the Keystone State has rallied again around the banner of true Republican ism and protection. Pennsylvania as the foremost indus trial state has more at stake than any other commonwealth, and her vast army of wage-earners, the workers, in the mills and the mines, realize the interest each and every one of them has in a continuance of Republican domination 01 the affairs of the state and the nation. A Pennsylvania Tariff. The tariff is more of a vital issue today than it has been at any time in the last decade. The tariff act recently framed and now in forte were drafted with partic ular reference to the fostering of Pennsylvania interests, with Senators Penrose and Oliver and a united Penn sylvania Republican delegation un flinchingly adhering to the policy of protecting the business and industrial enterprises of their home state, until the bill became a law with these in terests all protected. If this tariff, with the few minor changes proposed, shall be allowed to stand, Pennsylvania wage-earners and Pennsylvania capitalists can look for ward to an unprecedented period of prosperity. But the advance agents of business demoralization, of closed mills and mines and of shut down factories and workshops of every description are abroad in every state. They are preaching Democracy and disseminat ing false and misleading doctrines, and especially are they holding out false hopes to tlie workinguicn, upon whom they count to swing the elec tions in every debatable district. To the Democratic politicians they are holding out promises of postmaster ships and other federal patronage. They make no mention ot the sor rows and sadness that followed the last national Democratic triumph in