Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-11-03
JUST BEFORE The BATTLE.
What Shall the Harvest Be. The Verdict
Rests With the People.

1t has been IL hot campaign. Not
even in Il Presidential year has there
been more excitement among the
politicians. .ssssBut the politicians are
only small part of the voters, and
the voters have been strangely apa-
thctic. The great majority of men
who take no special interest in poll
tics except to read the newspapers
and cast their ballots on election day
| have not been aroused as they Ordin-
arily are, yet these are the men to
decide the fight. Democratic Ring
sters of the old stripe have tried to
break through this Indifference to
get the masses aroused, but with
rather poor success considering the
efforts they have made. If has been
one of the surprises of the canvass
this apparent Indifference of the
general public.
Yet, the dullest mind cannot mis-
take the meaning of the vote. State
issues are not enough to explain it.
The attempt to rob Judge Durham
of an honest election and throwing
the county heavily in debt, is pro-
duction from the hands of the "bet-
ter government" howlers. The
wrath of God has already visited
one of the perpetrators in this vile
attempt to rob the people of their
choice and suffer them with the eX-
pense of SO doing, and the end is
not yet reached.
These irrepressable howler> may
stuff their own ears with the cotton
of such sophistic treachery until
they bulge, yet they cannot avoid
feeling the truth even as the festive
Philistines on the temple roof felt
the thrill of SIMPSONS muscles
when he put forth his hands upon
the pillars to take vengence for his
blindness. The people have been
oeguiled more than once by these
.ame croakers and let themselves
Ibt bound, but their inv,neiSfe strenl
9Th is in them still, and they give
notice to those who read the election
returns to stand from under or be-
ware of the smash on Tuesday next.
These votes are made up of the vet
erans of the Jacksonian tpye, who
stand by sound principles; who die,
but never surrender to the serpents.
What shall the answer to their
warning be? What will be the
effect of this vote upon the prosperity
of the country: 1t will make the
result of the election bear fruit in
furthering the reviving industry,
returning prosperity and good times
again, and they have patriotism and
wisdom enough to do it.
If they are unequal to this breadth
of patriotism and go on aiding their
leaders in their blind purpos to tear
down the great industrial structures
merely because it was Republican
hands that built it up then they can
narrow the present fruits of Tues
days election, but the intelligent
voter is too wise for that We can
not believe the voters will have the
impudence or the party blindness to
do so.
We have been through n war and
we have won. The Congress to be
elected on Tuesday will deal with
all the great questions growing out
of it. There are governments to be
formed, ships to be built for the navy,
merchant vessels to be placed upon
the seas. The extension of CONNER
&c and business in two oceans is a
most important problem, and we
are face to face with it. The Repub-
lican party can be depended upon to
satisfactorily settle these questions
and the duty of the people of this
district is to send w. II. Woodin to
Congress.
Our Candidate w, II. Woodin.
W. III. Woodin's home life ut Ber-
wick is Il good indication as to what
kind of man he would be if chosen
to preside over, the interests of this
district ut Wash, ngton. His neigh
bors know him to be honest, active
and charitable as we'll as very intelli-
gent. His family t,nd him loving
christian husband and father. He
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