Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-10-31
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"a ,egarding democratic
candidates. 1t does not tell which
candidate or what the reports are.
This is very weak mode of cor
recting false reports, if such exist.
The News Item has nothing to say
in favor of false reports, but it must
not be assumed that all reports are
false. Some reports in circulation
are certainly true.
1t is a remarkable fact that the
most reliable and talented democrats
of this county are in the background.
Scouten pushed himself to the front
by series of underhanded tricks,
and blossomed into boss. He
treats the veteran democrats as his
subordinates. He relies on them to
help elect the men he nominated,
but never thanks them for it.
The people want a clean well
tested man for sheriff, and they are
going to get such man in Mr.. Cox,
and you might as well try to turn
the tide as to change the minds of
the voting taxpayers whose friend
Cox has always been.
The Scoutenites are on the run.
We have had them that way since
before the nominations. 1t is shown
by the fact that Scouten dropped
McCarty and Craft, both of whom
he had promised to nominate for
prothonotary and sheriff, to get his
man Walsh nominated for associate
Judge. 1t is further shown by the
fact that he ard his man are willing
and have Il trying to trade either
Kennedy or Cott to get a vote for
his man Walsh. The cry among his
chosen few is, "make vote for
Walsh at any cost" To those ac-
quainted with the situation this will
not work; and to those who are not,
we say, don't trade. Neither Reeser,
Deininger nor Cox need trading or
want their friends to trade. Don't
trade! DON'T TRADE! DON'T
TRADE!
Friends of Reeser, Deininger and
Cox! Be wide awake on election
Let it be remembered
that after election last year Scouten
in his Herald letter from
his trusted agent to Fox township in
which it was said. "Bright and
early on Tuesday morning l opened
fire on the enemy and at eleven
o'clock had them knocked out" and
three cents left!
Bright and early is their time,
don't be caught mapping.
1t is currently represented that
Scouten is making pathetic appeals
to republican friends to vote for
James Walsh. He claims that he
has been "hardly used" by the Court,
and that he cannot be returned to the
bar unless Walsh is elected.
The fact is Scouten has never made
any application to be re-admitted to
the bar. Judge Dunham stated in
his opinion which he filed, that if
Mr.. Scouten conducted himself prop
erly he would be re-admitted. If
Mr.. Scouten is of the opinion that he
has conducted himself in such a
as would entitle him to re-
turn to the bar, why does he not
make the application
Since the nomination of John ID.
Reeser, Scouten's Herald has made
assertions upon his private
character. Last week it spoke of
MI leSSoVi ., ittNNiiooc SiSSu ici
and declares that he has de-
voted every moment of his life to
money getting, IGNORING every OBJ
legation of charity and benificence,"
and that he "grabs every dollar
within his reach and squeezes it
until the eagle screams"
If what the Herald says against
Mr.. Reeser were true, (Which it is not)
it would be like Satan rebuking Sin,
for the editor to denounce such con-
duct. Scouten's "ravenous greed for
money!" however, would be no ex-
cuse for such conduct in Reeser if
proven. But nothing is proved, no
circumstance is mentioned, no auth
ority adduced; all rests upon the
words of the editor. Mere rot!
In the Herald of September %,
Boss Scouten asks the question, "Do
you want a machine man or clean