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;..<ylva)iU. There are the Berry
I 1 i. ocirtt: . who are running after Wil
li i;.i 11. Berry, tTie friend, the fol
lower t. e disciple of William Jen
rings Biyan. Mr. Be -v wants to be
clw ed governor, but at >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!
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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.
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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-
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