Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-11-03


they put aside petty considerations
Men who have sincerely preached crit
icism. often with biting tongue
against certain things done by members
OF their party in it's name,take a larger
view OF the Importance of their right
OF suffrage as November approaches.
They recall the traditions of their
party. in which they have gloried dur
ing all their manhood. They remember
their pride in It's achievements when il
has peen in power. and no less exull
IN their loyalty to 1t and TO each os her
when the fortunes of politics cast them
down in defeat They remind them
serves that outside of their two great
parties, no sensible political good "a
the people mas been accomplished in
~ years. They call over the list Of
side issues, propagated by all the vari-
Gus SIDE snow political organizations
since anti Masonry and Know othing-
ism, and they find no results from them
to which those who participated In
these movements can point with sa.is-
faction.
And so, with the advent OF frosty
weather. mems minds expand to tn.
appreciation Of the larger and more i'm
portant public questions. They take
thought of what a vote cast against
their party ticket will be taken 10
mean They hear in advance the jubi-
liant cheers of those to whom they have
always been opposed until now, bur
whom they have been beguied into
assisting to victory They can imag gine
their jeers, as well, and realize THAI
somebody has been fooling them.
They can smell beforehand the of
fensiVe smoke OF the burning tar bar
relS around which their ancient enc
mics Will dance in triumph Oh election
night. and 1t is all the more offensive
In their foreboding because they realize
that they have been nisled into help
ing a movement to deliver their party
into the hands of its enemies
And then their stalwart blood is
reused in their veins, and they cast
aside small considerations. and march
to the polls under their old and honored
party standards
There have been many illustrations
of this, but never a better than the re-
cent subsistence of the crank wave In
PENNSYLVANIA politics. which has been
led by DR. Swallow. As midsummer
submcrge some of the old party lines.
| at least in the opinion of those who dtd
not think far enough back to recall
| that even Horace Greeley would ap-
| parently have been elected in August.
| 1877 and yet died broken hearted by
! his overwhelming defeat in November
There is no such consummation to
| be expected in the case Of the Vocif-
/ erous Swallow, or at least he will not
/ die of lung DISEASE.
/ But all the Indications Of tho past few
| weeks point out that he will I've ri
| oiculous third in the race. and that tn"
! issue is now sQuatglN Joined between
I Stone and jerks, between Republican
! ism ana Democracy.
! You can read il in the uuconcealed
! iubilance of the reports IN the leading
/ Democratic papers Of the state. pro-
! claiming the news from various coun-
! ties that the Democratic rank and file
! who have been talking Swallow and
! fusion are lining up 10 their regular
! party tickets and eXulting in the
! chances of clectine Democratic mem
| bers of congress, state senators and
members OF the state legislature by
party tickets. and exuitinc In the
! virtue of their hope that Republicans
| Il ".
| One of tha most significant signs of
! this feeling upon the Democratic side
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