Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-10-18
Vote for DIR. Christian for the

ularly qualified to fill these high and
important offies. Give them vote.
Atty. F. HI. Ingham has pur-
chased a large, hand cider press and
will divide his leisure pressing juice
from his apples. For good draught
apply at the rear of the brick house.
AS drinking water is now very
scarce, it may be a paying invest
ment.
Mr.. Bernard Sheean, highly
respected citizen and farmer of La
porte Twp, died at his home Satur-
day morning, aged about 73 years.
Mr.. Sheean had not been in good
health for the bast year, and his
death was due to complication of
diseases. He is survived by two
sons, Thomas and Daniel, and three
daughters, Mrs. McDermot, Mrs. f.
j. Flynn and Miss Annie. Funeral
services were held at the, Sacred
Heart Church as this place, Tuesday
morning conducted by Rev. Father
Enright. Interment was made in
st. Basil's cemetery, at Dushore.
r. E. Evenson is now conductor
of the passenger train on the w. d
N. B. r.. r. This road always have
had gentlemenly and obliging con-
ductors and Mr.. Evenson is fully
sustaining these distinctions to the
highest limitation. 1t is plain to
see that he is keenly alive to the
comfort of travellers, and it is evident
that manners is of more moment to
him than style in assisting those
burdened with luggage and collect
ing ticket, bearing his name, that were
issued when he was general manager
of the road.
The man who boasts that he has
dollars where his neighbor has cents
seems to be running what he calls
the democratic party of Sullivan
county. That it is not the democrat
ic party of four years ago is sufficient
ly apparent. The old principles are
left in the back ground, and we do
not hear from these talented men
who were then holding public meet
ings in almost every school house.
1t remains to be seen whether the
men of brains, or the man of dollars,
will lead the democratic party Of
Sullivan county next year.
Our Skunk correspondent says
that there are some animated cOntro-
versy in that section on the Trust
question. In this the News Item
asks the privilege of intruding.
First, we will refer to the Congress
ional Record and see what the DEM
ocratic situation is on this question.
In so doing we find every line of
legislation now on our statute books
was placed there by the Republicans,
and the Democrats voted against a
constitutional amendment to regulate
them only four months ago. We
also find the Democratic national
chairman trying to help the sugar
trust. Every line of legislation now
on the statute books the United
States directed against trusts and un-
lawful trade combinations was plac-
ed there by the Republicans. That
there is not more stringent law again
st them is the fault of the Democratic
party. The last occasion on which
the parties went on record on the
trust question was on June l, 1900.
On that day final vote was taken
on a constitutional amendment to
grant Congress power to "detine, reg
ulate prohibit and dissolve trusts,
monopOlies and combinations, wheth-
er existing in the form of corpora
tiOns or otherwise" 1t requires a
two-third vote of Congress to submit
a Constitutional Amendment to the
State Legislatures for ratification.
The question to SO submit it was lost
by vote of l5I yeas to 1872 nays.
Now listen, of the yeas li9 were Re-
publicans and only 5 We're Demo-
Gratis, and Rufus X. Polk of this dis
] tIlCt was iIOt OHC vi tiN NV iitip
legislate against Trusts. OF the 1872
nays, only two We're Republicans,
Loud and Call. Richardson, Lentz,
Sulzer, Rupert, Salmon and all the
other professional ''trust killers
voted NAY. They declined to give
Congress the power to grapple with
the Trusts. The Democrats indulged
i'm spasms of virtue for two days, de-
nouncing the trusts, and then voted
to continue them. Now what kind
of hypocrisy would you call that or
the fool that will try to argue that
the Republicans are favorable to
Trusts? In one of Bryan's recent
speeches he admitted the value of the
Republican idea and the one he
would finally adopt after expert
menting with other methods first,
In case he was elected. Some trusts
/ 10, 4.