Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-10-20
BATTLE GROWS DESPERATE.
Politics for Breakfast, Dinner and
Supper Here in Sullivan.
WALSH is GROWING NERVOUS.

Meyers is springing Newspaper An
nouncements Nowadays. A Hazy Out
look for Walsh and FRANKIE.
It is simply impossible to arouse
interest in anything here but the
campaigns. The most important
topic of the day all dwindle down to
who will be next Sheriff, Member,
and Prothonotary, Notwithstanding
the fact that Woodin has taken first
place in the race and seems to retain
it. TO say that the contest is not
warming up is absurd. Here is
Meyers out with a published announ-
cement stating what he thinks he
can do if elected, and next we see
Big jim Walsh constantly coquetting
with both wings of his party; and Il
score of men of political reputation
in different parts of the county talk
ing part in conference held at Null
lens Office one day last week, and
advertised thunder meeting soon to
occur in the county in hopes of
SCATTERING the Republican party.
The political wisdom here is Mullen
and Gallagher's.
To claim the ''silent voteo for
either FRANKIE or Walsh is preposter-
Gus. All that they have, are pro-
claiming themselves on every house
top and street corner The difference
between them and the regulars is
the difference between the street and
home circulation of newspaper. a
hundred noisy boys with thousand
newspapers on the streets make more
show of circulation than Il hundred
thousand papers delivered at the
homes of subscribers. The unwary
may be caught by such outward dis
play, but not the veteran.
1 The last dodge of our Democratic
! friends in this Congressional district
/ to defeat the election of Woodin for
| Congress is Il shrewd one. They
have found that they have no stand
ing with the people on the National
issues. They dare not repeat their
exploded arguments on the silver
question:; nor dare they denounce
the Mckinley tariff. The memory
Of the Cleveland tariff,and the Cleve-
land financial policy is too fresh in
the minds of the people. The con-
trast between the present prosperity
of the nation and the ruinous de-
preston which existed under the
last Democratic administration is so
great that no Democratic orator has
brass enough in his face to openly
contend against the successful adj
ninistration of President Mckinley.
They perceive that the popular
man for Congress is w. II. WooDIN,
who is pledged to sustain the admin
istration of Mckinley, and therefore
true issue.
F'lairing handbillsa are posted which
starts out like this, "The friends of
better government in Pennsylvania
will hold q mass meeting ut Garey's
Hall, 'and ends up with announcing
that the leading orator is to be r. X.
Polk the Democratic candidate for
Congress, and O'Boyle, the well
known Democratic leader i'm Luzerne
county. They are claiming to be
the especial friends to better govern
ment in Pennsylvania, but what has
that to do with the great National
issues with which Congress has to
deal: If the Democratic candidate
for Congress wants the support of the
him put out his true colors. VIII
he support II ritf measures, the
finanr' sand the war and
.fes of President Me-
Kinley, or will he oppose them I?
If he will, wherein is he better then
than w. III. Woodin: If he wont
let him say so, and those who agree
with his sentiments will vote for
him. If he is truly Democrat let
him advocate the measures before
the public which he intends to sup
port in the National House of Rep
resentatives. We can tell him he
makes his debut as an orator
before the voters of Sullivan
county in very questionable shape.
He will find the voters of Sullivan
county too wide awake to he deceiv-
ed by false pretences. The man
who represents them in Congress
must be an honest supporter of Nc
| kinley's administration.