Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-29

Allegations and CalumnieS of the
Anti Republican Bureau of Defama-
tion, Points Out Their Falsity, and
Does Not Leave a shred ofThem That
Holds Together with Another.
Especial Correspondence.)
Philadelphia. Sept 19-The event of
the week politically was the mastery
arraignment of the Wanamaker de-
famation mill by State Chairman John
p. Elkin, in a speech at Media on Sat
urday. 1t was the formal opening of
the campaign in Delaware county, and
the court house was packed with peo-
pie, who received the speeches of Colonel
Stone and Mr.. Elkin with tremendous
enthusiasm. Colonel Stone devoted him
self largely to discussion of the ma
tional bearing of the campaign. The
state chairman took the gloves off and
spoke substantially as follows:
1t a source of pleasure to appear
before an audience of Delaware county
Iepublicans. l recall with pleasure the
returns received from your county at
our headquarters in the city of Phila-
delphia on the evening of the presiden-
tial election in 1896. The returns at that
time certainly entitle your county to be
called the Little Giant of the East
and | know of no good reason why you
should not continue to be regarded as a
stronghold of uncompromising tepub
licanism. In that campaign the Repub-
lican party promised if that splendid
type of American citizenship, William
Mckinley, should be elected president of
the United States, prosperity should
again be restored throughout the ma
tlcn. The repeal by the Cleveland
Democratic administration and a con-
gress in sympathy with him of a Re-
publican protective tariff law ana the
passage of the Wilson bill resulted i'll
the reduction of the annual output of
our manufactures about one-half, and
the opportunities and wages of the
laboring people were reduced in the
same proportion. You will recall that
the wheels of industry had stopped TN
der the baleful influence of that ad-
ministration, the marts of trade in
many instances were closed, capital
was idle and unproductive, and many
of the wage-earners of the country
marched up and down the face of this
fair land begging for leave to earn a
livelihood, II has now been about one
and a half years since President Nc
Kiney was inaugurated. In that short
space of time, however. business has
revived, capital is being invested labor
is rewarded with good wages and ample
employment, and the business condi-
tions of the country from one ocean
to the other and from the lakes to the
gulf have steadily improved. The ad-
minstration of President Mckinley has
D1r ma 1a fol tp 4 he udU
tage of our country and people in two
hemispheres. Our nation is respected
on the continent and in the orient as it
has never been respected before. Our
soldiers and sailors under the direction
and patriotic guidance of the present
administration have won distinction for
Valor and courage which have merited
and received the appreciation of the
civilized world. Under these circum-
stances it would seem as though every
person who voted the Republican ticket
in 1896 would feel proud to continue his
support of a party that had performed
such valuable service to the country
and the world. In that presidential
contest Pennsylvania stood at the head
of the column of Republican states. 1t
was a splendid record to make under
adverse political conditions. and every
true Pennsylvania is proud of it, The
administration of President Mckinley
is now on trial throughout the country
Up to this time the state elections held
have voted confidence in his admins
tration. Oregon. off on the Pacific
coast led the way several weeks ago
and the result there has been followed
by the Republicans of the Green Noun
tain and Pine Tree states 1t is our de-
Gin hat e.,rJ,
to the position she has already at
tanned as the foremost Republican
state of the union.
SELFISH AND PERSONAL INTER
ESTS.
There are those, however. who. not
withstanding the glorious history of
the party in the past, and it's splendid
achievements at the present time, for
selfish and personal reasons have con-
spired to encompass it's defeat These
people for several months past and now
are going about the state making
charges by innuendo and otherwise
against our party in the hope that the
people may be mystified and misled by
their highly colored misrepresentation
of facts. In my opinion the time has
come when these deformed pictures of
morbid lmaginations should be stripped
of their colorings and reduced to their
real dimensions. The difficulty of COM
batting with such antagonism to the
Republican party as was expressed by
IL leading merchant of your neghbor-
ing city in a political harangue de-
livered by him at Honesdale yester-
day, while still posing as Republican,
Is much like that which confronts those
who do battle with the devil fish. 1t is
characteristic of this sea animal, which
IS composed of numerous arms and a
stomach, that when ii seeks to strike
It's prey it first clouds the surrounding
waters with foul and noxious fluid
which 1t elects from it's own person.
and under this concealment stretches
out it's tentacles in all directions. seek
ing what it may absorb into it's Jelly
like body. Against every weapon it is
as evasive as a rubber ball, and as
rapidly as one grasping arm is smitten
off another reaches out in its place