Republican News Item. VOL. XV. NO 22 NATIONAL PHASE OF STATE FIGHT Congress and Next Presidency Involved In Result. The campaign now being waged throughout Pennsylvania and in every oongi essional district in the Union, is of national scope. It leads directly up to the presi * dency. Two years from now we shall be electing a president. This struggle is preliminary. This fact should not be overlooked. All over the country the Democrats! are aroused. They are claiming thai in November they will elect a ma jority in the national house of repre sentatives. They have figured—am! they are light in their figures—that if they can but gain thirteen senators they will also control the senate. They already have carried the state of Maine, which means the gain of two representatives and one United States senator. They believe that they can win in New York, in Massachusetts, in Ohio, in Indiana, in a dozen states now aligned with the Republican party. They are cock sure of the house. They are cock sure that they will reduce the Republican majority in the senate to a beggarly majority, even if they do not wipe out that majority entirely. But they are certain, if they fail in getting rid of that majority this time that, two years hence, they will sweep that majority out of existence. Two years lieiuc they expect to elect their president and give him a Democratic congress. That is the object at which they are aiming, and they have brought the chairman of the Democratic national congressional committee into Pennsyl vania to help them to do it. For they rely upon Pennsylvania to help along the Democratic cause. It is up to the Republicans of Penn syh.n'a to say whether they shall re< ei\ . all in this great Republican state. T' ->re are two :;ets of Democrats in P "ii;..e same time he .irl-..i >ou to vote for..'m on the K> vsl;>ne Party ticket, which carries i'. -uroii Democratic candidates for i nbi. ind lor the legislature. Vole tor Berry on the Keystone ticket and you vote not only for the 1 ,aii'iation of President Taft, for the lopuuiation of former President Uoose \ *, but you vote for Democratic con gressmen and for Democratic or as sistant Democratic members of the legislature. And if you vote for Democratic members of the legislature you vote in turn for a Democratic United States senator, and you vote for a combination which will reapportion the state in the congressional districts that additional Democratic congress men will be elected for years to come. Mr. Berry heads one set of Demo crats —the Bryan contingent. Webster G.im, the leader of the other set of Democrats —the "regular" set —also asks you to elect Democratic congress men and Democratic members of the legislature. The two Democratic .can didates are for themselves when it comes to the governorship. They are for the Democratic party in all other respects. If you want a Democrat in the ex ecutive mansion, and if you want a Democratic congress, and if you want a Democratic legislature, which means in turn a Democratic United States senator and a reapportionment of the congressional districts on a Demo cratic basis, why by all means vote for Berry or Grim. COLE'S HARDWARE^^^^^P whatever it may he—"shall I huy? Don't ponder over these things, nor spend yonr time looking at pictures in "cheap goods" mail-order catalogs. Ciime to onr store and let us solve the problem. We have a fine variety of standard goods to choose from. When yon think of HARDWARE think of COLE'S. SANITARY PLUMBING. We give special .attention to Piping, Steam, Hot Water and Ifot Air Heating, (ieneral joh work and repairing In all branches, prompt ly and skill fully executed Samuel Cole, - Dushore, Pa. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1910. C. C. HARRISON. j Provost of University of Pennsyl- I i vania, Who Has Resigned. j! it l| PHOTO BYHftHELER.PHILft" REVOLUTIoTiREAKr OUT IN PORTUGAL Government Troops Ofitsateu and King a Prisons!. Definite news has been receive! In London that a revolution broke out in Lisbon. Portugal The king is a pris oner. The army anil navy are with the revolutionists, who have cut all the telegraph lines Warships bombard ed the royal palace, which stand' above the river Tagus, in the western part of the city. There are no t'urthei details. It is reported that the republican: are victorious after severe fighting So far as can be ascertained no tel egrarns have left Lisbon for several hours and no details can be obtained from any source The Daily Mail, which gives promi nence to the foregoing rumors, says that all communication with Lisbon has been stopped, the wires being cut Nothing passed between Lisbon and the Portuguese legation on Oct. 4; An official at the legation, while declaring ignorance of the reported happenings, couldn't explain the dislocation of the telegraph service. A Portuguese merchant in London if qui ted by the Mail as saying that lie received on that day news of a plot in Lisbon, but lias heard nothing since. DEER PLENTIFUL HERE Destroying Crops and Playing Havoc With Fields In Sullivan Co., N. Y. Deer are so plentiful near Middle town, Sullivan county, N. Y., that they are destroying the farmers' crops and creating havoc in the turnip fields. The hunting season doesn't open until Oct. 15. Old hunters state that they cannot remember a time when deer wore so numerous and are mak ing ready for unusual sport when the season opens. Hudson King, a farmer near Monti cello, found three deer mingling with his herd of < attle in the barnyard. They were so tame lie had difiiculty in driving the maway. Roosevelt to Lecture at Harvard. It is announced that Theodore Roosevelt is to deliver two lectures at Harvard during the current college year. The colonel will talk of "Peace," under the auspices of the William Helden Nobel Foundation. The dates have not yet been fixed. RESIGNS AS PROVOST OF PENN C, C. Harrison to Quit the University. FRIENDS NOT SORPRISED Arduous Duties and Considerations ot Health Assigned at Reasons —Con sidercd Resigning For Three Years Provost Charles Custis Harrison who for the past sixteen wears has been the active head of the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, and who has served that institution of learning in an exceptionally able man ner, submitted his formal resignation from office at a meeting of the trus tees. The resignation, which the provost desires to lake effect not later than Dec. HI. 1910, was not accepted and was referred for consideration to that standing committee of trustees known us the committee on the state of the university. Those trustees who attended the meeting, and also all the other trus tees and personal friends of the pro vost, were not unprepared for the news that the university was face to face with a serious question. In the mail the trustees and the friends of the provost received letters from Mr. Harrison acquainting them In advanco with the decision that had been reach ed by him. This decision to resign his arduous duties had been debated in the miud of the provost for some three years past, and those close to him have been conversant with the reasons which impelled him to offer his resig nation. Considerations of health and family and a desire to be relieved of the vast amount of detail work connected with his position are said to be the rea sons for the step taken by the pro vost. This state of affairs is well known among the trustees, and espe cially by those who are members of thp standing committee on the stato of the university, which committee will make a final disposition of the proffer ed resignation. It Is believed that the trustees will devise some way by which the pro vost's duties particularly those relat ed to detail work, may be lightened, with the end that Mr. Harrison's gen ius for organization and finance may be saved to the university, which un der his leadership has made such gi gantic strides. Coincident with the news of Pro vost Harrison's resignation came the announcement that the resignation of Dr. J. William White, John Rhea liar ton professor of surgery, had been ac cepted by tho trustees at the same meeting. 34 DIE IN TROLLEY CRASH Cars Collided it Full Speed on a Curve. Thiity-four persons were instantly killed and twenty-six others were in jured, when two interurban cars on the Illinois (McKinley) traction sys tem collided head-on at Uickerson's curve, two miles north of Staunton, 111. Both cars were going at a high rate of speed, and as the curve where they met is at the bottom of a hill both cars wore plunging down hill. They met right on the curve, and so sudden was the collision, the motormen bare ly escaped with their lives by jump ing. Both cars were demolished, and the dead, (lying and injured were piled in one bloody mass, while the screams of the maimed and bleeding added hor ror to the scene. SWALLOWED NINE SPOONS Insane Patient Made a Practice of Eat ing Ware. Nine spoons in a human stomach have been disclosed by an autopsy performed on Miss Catherine Mohrer, of Manchaster, an inmate of the State Insane hospital at Concord, N. H. A few days ano one of the attend ants saw the woman swallow a ten spoon. Medical assistance was sum moned, but the patient died in a short time. An autopsy revealed nine spoons, all but one of them beariug the asy lum mark. Whirled on Shafting, But Lives. Whirled around a shafting making 100 revolutions a minute, then hurled across the room when his clothing ripped apart, Henry Orau, aged twenty years, an engineer In the Swift Pack ing company's plant at Pittsburg, Pa., escaped being killed. He is In a hospi tal with a two-inch ribbon of scalp torn off, his arms anil legs broken, but physicians say he will recover. DIX IS CHOICE OF DEMOCRATS Heads Ticket Named by New York Convection. PLATFORM QENQUNCES TARIFF Oeclares For "Old Nationalism," tno Condemns New Movement—Chargeb Republicans With Extravagance. The following ticket WHS nominated by the New York Democratic stale convention at Rochester: Governor —John A. Dix, Albany. Lieutenant governor Thomas F Conway, Clinton. Secretary of state —Edward Lazan »ky, Brooklyn. Comptroller—William Sohmer, New York. State engineer—John A. Bensel. New York. Treasurer —John A. Kennedy. Erie. Attorney eneral Thomas F. Car tnody, Yates. Associate justice court of appeals- Fred. K. Collins, Chemung. John A. nix is a nephew of that fa mous governor, John A. l)ix, of New York, who, while secretary of the United States treasury, issued the or der before the outbreak of the Civil War, "If any man attempts to haul down the Americun flag, shoot him on the spot." The ticket was agreed upon by the leaders after a series of conference:-, throughout the day and night. Permanent organization was soon effected, with Herbert P. Bisseli. ot Buffalo, as chairman. Referring to the assemblage as pro gressive Democrats, he condemned, in his speech to the convention, the ex travagance of the administration and said that Democrats were opposed to "this dangerous tendency to a further centralization of power in the national government. We are upholders of the Democracy of old nationalism," he said. The convention then adopted a plat form, which In part is as follows: The platform pledges the party, first, to the preservation of the "Old Na tionalism." It condemned all attacks upon the supreme court of the United States. It declared for sovereign state rights, "for the largest possible meas ure of home rule for all cities of the state." It denounced the Republican party for its government of the state. It de clared that the Payne-Aldrich tariff law was a "breach of faith" by the Republican party and responsible for the high cost of living. Only by a downward revision of the tariff, it held, could the cost of living be re duced. It pledged the party to a thorough investigation of all official wrong-do ing "that the guilty may be punished and business relieved ot blackmail," and went onto say: "We declare in favor of state-wide primaries to insure the people the right to elect candidates and make nominations for public offices "We favor the enactment of such measures as will compel the personal registration of voters throughout the outire state." The platform declared for popular election of United States senators, for an Income tax and for parcels post, for the preservation of water power for all the people and for forest re serve and"for reasonable regulation by the state of public service corpora tions;" abolition of the use of impure seeds, and improvement of canals and roads to promote easier access to mar ket and lower the cost of living. Says Schwab Will Get Big Job. In an interview during the five min ute stop of a New York-St. Louis train at Pittsburg, Pa., Lee Some, chief socretary for Prince Tsai Suun, of China, is credited by a local paper with the announcement that a con tract for two Chinese battleships to cost $15,000,000 has been awarded to Charles M. Schwab, head of the Beth lehem Steel corporation. The prince and his party traveled through Pittsburg during the night on Mr. Schwab's special train, but as Mr. Schwab was not aboard and the! prince was asleep, the statement of' his secretary could not be confirmed.l The prince sails from San Francisco on Oct. 0 for China. Editor Shot Playing "Indian." Joseph Nolan, editor of the Shab hona. 111., Rxpress and the Lee, 111., Times, while playing "Indian" with his eight-year-old son, was shot and fatally wounded by the child. Harrisburg Has 64,167 Population. According to statistics given out by the census bureau, Harrisburg, Pa., has a population of 04,186, an increase of 14,019, or 27.9 per cent over 30,167 In 1900. Stimson Named For Governor. The New York Republican state con vention at its iinai session at Saratoga nominated the following ticket: For governor—Henry 1.. Stimson, of New York. For lieutenant governor Edward SchoenecU, of Syracuse. For secretary of state —Samuel S Koenig, of New York. For comptroller—James Thompson of Valley Falls, Renssalaer county. For state treasurer —Thomas Ken nell, of Elmira. For attorney general Edward It. O'Malley, of Buffalo. For state engineer and surveyor- Frank M Williams, of Oneida For associate judge of the court of appeals—lrving O. Vann, of Syracuse. The following are the strongest points in the platform: To Governor Hughes is due the credit of arousing the interest of tiic people and convincing them of the need of directly electing their party officers and directly nominating theit party candidates. We promise legisla tion which will enact these principles into law. We believe that the same safeguards should surround primary elections as have been shown to be effective in preventing repeating and frauds at general elections. We therefore favor extending the signature law as now applied to general elections to primary elections. The crook and gratter and unfaith ful iiitin in public service shall be put out and kept out. We enthusiastically Indorse the pro gressive and statesmanlike leadership of William Howard Tatt. Each suc ceeding month has confirmed the na tlon in its high estimate of his great ness The Payne tariff law reduced the average rate ot all duties 11 per cent. Gaynor to Get Bills. According to Dr. W. J. Arlltz, of Hoboken, N. J., there is no foundation for a report that the doctors who at tended Mayor (Jaynor, of Now York, after he was shot look to the city or the mayor to pay bills amounting to about J34.000. A physician who did not wish his name used said that the services ot the doctors would be estimated at that amount. He called attention to the fact that the bills of the doctors who at tended President McKinley came to $45,000, and were paid by the United States government by a special act of congress. Dr. Arlltz said that none ot the (lay nor physicians expected the city to pay the bills. They har 1 not sent bills to anybody yot, he added, but when they did send them in the bills would be addressed to the mayor himself. Not until the mayor was back In har ness, or until the bills were requested, would they be sent, he said. In reply to the suggestion that $34,- 000 might be considered excessive, it was pointed out that Mayor Gaynor was in the hospital about three weeks, while President McKinley was attend ed less than a week. Girl Brings 21 Brothers to U. S. Miss Marie Tufer, u young Viennese girl living in New York, arranged for the passage of a brother from the old country, who will be the twenty first brother she has brought to the United States In six years. She was the first of the family to venture to America and, settling in New York, soon obtained employment and prospered. Her glowing accounts of the promised laud quickly influenc ed her brothers, who began to follow her one by one. Miss Tufer has acted throughout as the American banker for the fam ily, and as each brother made up his mind to emigrate she would send the money for his passage to the sister who made all necessary arrangements. The girl has the work thoroughly sys tematized. When a new brother arrives he applies to the German Immigrant society, and as a result all of the twenty brothers are now profitably employed in and about New York. Only the father, mother and one daughter are left in the old home just outside of Vienna. FIRST NATIONAL BANK, HUO-HESVTLLE, IP.A.. CAPITAL STOCK $50,000 W C. FRONTZ President. Sur P lus and FRANK A. RREDER, Cashier Net Profits, 75,00 °* DIRECTORS: Transacts a General Win. Front/, John C. Lair.l, C. W. SOUPS, Banking Business. W. C.Frontz, Frank A.Reerier, Jacob Per, Lyman Myers, \V. T. Reetly, Peter Frontz, Accounts oflndivid- j A s Ba]) Jobn Bl ,u uals and Firms solicited. Safe Deposite Boxes for Rent, One Dollar per Year. 3 per cent. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. fou YEAR TEDDY FOLLOWED LEAD OF PENROSE New York Platform the Same as Peoosylvaoia's. ON ALL NATIONAL ISSUES Republicans of Two Great States to Battle Under the Banner of Taft and a United Party. Pennsylvania salutes New York and congratulates the Empire State for fol lowing the lead of the old Keystone commonwealth. Under the leadership of Colonel Roosevelt the Republican convention recently held at Saratoga followed al most literally the planks of tho plat form hearing upon national issues adopted by the Republican state con vention at Harrisburg, with notes Pen rose as the leading spirit in the party organization. In their declarations of fealty to the time honored principles of the Repub lican part), their commendations <>l the splendid and remarkable work of * the Taft administration, and the plac ing upon record of the progressive legislation of the present Republican congress, and especially their praise of the new tariff act, as not only fram ed to protect American capital and labor, but to insure largely increased returns for the support of the federal government, New York Republicans, with Roosevelt dominating their con vention, were no more earnest nor em phatic than were the Republicans of this state, who weeks before had worked in accord under the leadership of Penrose. Two Conventions Contrasted. The Pennsylvania convention was tho most harmonious ever held in the history of the state; there was not a dissenting voice to any plank in tho platform either in committee or on the floor of the convention, and an un precedented feature was the fact that not an opposing candidate W*K placed In nomination and not a vote -Wfcs rapt against any one of the men nominated on the state ticket. While the New York gathering was mos spectacular and sensational, Teddy Anally had his way, and his way as far as the platform was concerned, at least, was"the Pennsylvania way." Roosevelt and Penrose have been fast friends from the time of their col lege days. No president could have treated Penrose in the matter of per sonal consideration and patronage bet ter than did Itoosevelt. That under their direction Republicans of these neighboring states will work in unison to promote the general cause of Re publicanism may be taken for granted. In close congressional districts along the border line, the Republican com mittees of both states will work to gether to defeat the common enemy, the Democratic party. Roosevelt Appreciates Pennsylvania. Roosevelt within a few weeks, in his speech in Pittsburg, gave evidence of this appreciation of the work of the Republican party in Pennsylvania, when he was unstinted in his praise of the school laws, the liberal appro priations to public schools and to char ities, the legislation to protect the lives of employes, for the conservation of the forests anil the water ways and the other meritorious laws upon the statute books. It has beon a matter of comment that the one issue for which Roosevelt fought hardest in the New York con vention. that of direct primaries, has already been met under the Penrose leadership, and along with the uniform primaries, Pennsylvania has the cor- CoiU'lu
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