Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-02-01

: the Court House on Friday evening
the following ticket was named !:
Burgess, +. j. Mullen; school direo-
tors, VIM. Kennedy, F.W. Gallagher;
j. P.,, Robt. Stormont, Chas. Ian
don; overseers, John Minnier; audi
tor, Jacob Fries; collector, Chas. Lam
don; councilmen, Robt. StormOnt,
VIM. Walsh; judge of election, Mart
Gallagher; inspector, VIM. Helm.
The public can have little re-
spect for the Presidential candidate
who spent an entire campaign on
the stump urging people to vote for
himself, and they must have less
for one who spent an entire four
years following that failure in asking
to be given second trial. There Is
feeling that in position of this
dignity the office should seek the
man, or at least the man is hardly
justified in making Il five years per-
sonal campaign in his own behalf.
General Butler has met with
utter defeat in his attempt to relieve
Ladysmith. Once more the Beers
have outgeneraled and Outfought
him. The capture Of Spion KOp,
instead of giving the British the
key to the situation, gave them
merely another another experience
of how easily the Beers, with their
superior brains, can trap their en-
emy.
Butler has retreated, and is back
in his camp beyond the Tugela,
leaving, according to Afrikander
dispatches, fifteen hundred of his
men dead upon the field.
England is sunk in detection and
humiliation. The war that was not
worth the name, and that was to
see a triumphal march through the
Transvaal, ending with Christmas
dinner in Pretoria, has seen aSuc-
cession of pride-killing disasters.
English prestige is ruined, and the
empire is in peril. Since Japan ex-
posed the weakness of huge China
the world has had no such military
surprise. Small wonder that the
British people are dismayed and
thinking less what they can do to
the Beers than of what Russia, Ger
many and France may do to them.
For the other freebooting nations
are quite ready, as opportunity Of
fers, to prey upon the British en-
pire with as good an appetite and as
little conscience as the British en-
pire set out to prey upon the little
Dutch republics.
Punishment never came upon a
people more swiftly and more justly
than it has fallen upon the English.
The war is wicked war, waged
for the destruction of liberty and
the satisfaction ofgreed. Therefore,
at each victory of the Beers, men
who love liberty and respect justice
have rejoiced. Wherever there is a
generous man whose instinct impels
him to side with the weak against
the strong, there is a friend of the
republics whose stalwart citizens
in defending their homes and free
dom have beaten every English
army sent against them and left to
no Englishman who has fought
them arag of reputation.
The fall of Ladysmith must fol-
low Bullers defeat, if the Beers care
to have it fall. The situation OF the
garrison is desperate. Provisions
and ammunition is running short
and disease is ravaging the army.
1t may not suit the Beers to take
Ladysmith. So far it has proved
excellent bait for the British gud-
geon. 1t may be that Butler will
try again, and so oblige the Beers
as he did when he sent Warren up
Spion KOp to be riddled.
1t would be bold man now who
should venture to say how the war
i'm Africa will end.
Teachers Local Institute at Sonestown
Saturday, February "a, 1900.
O) Nature of Child Study; Mr.. VI.
p. Gavitt. ,, Punctuality in regard
to the progress of the school; Mr.. T.
ii. Gallagher. 3, Benefits of Local
Institutes; Miss Anna Karge.
4, Interest of Parents in school
work, and how this interest is best
, shown: Frank Shoemaker. ), Clean.