Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-11-01
At another point he declares:
Must Not RepudIate Roosevelt.

Mu8I NOV nSPdusak0 ssSSS~'Ss"
"Let any one who doubts the abso-
lutte accuracy of what l say ask him.
self this question: What would the
Democratic party claim in the next
national campaign II Pennsylvania
would change half million votes In
this campaign twhere the Democracy
challenge the efficiency for the public
good and high motive OF the Presi-
dent?
"No hamlet in the land is so remote
as to escape their triumphant hefalds,
who would proclaim the stupendous
fact that the Keystone state had re-
pudiated Roosevelt, and the cry that
as Pennsylvania goes SO goes the Un-
ion. would be the slogan of our politi-
cal foes"
Marked An Epoch.
After laudinG the splendid work Of
the recent extra session Of the Re-
publican legislature of Pennsylvania,
Senator Knox adds:
ut is because of all this that when
Theodore Roosevelt contemplated tho
work of this last session he was con-
strained To say that II marked an
epoch to which he added that he did
not recall any other state legislature
which In a similar length Of time has
to it's credit such . body Of admirable
legislation
Even IL I had not always bson q
Republican I would feel inclined TO
trust, at this time, the party that put
in force this system OF law 50 thor
oughly protecting my political rights;
but having always been . Republican.
cannot conjure up single doubt ~
to my duty"
Then agp'n he says:
"It has been demonstrated that the
great rank and Ale OF Pennsylvania
Reuuhlicans desire ali that 10 best in
government. They stand for clean prin'
ciples and practices and have prcvid-
ed the means by which they are u be
certainly secured.
1--WE have cleaned house. Why
should we now move out?
Honor to BE = Republican.
Ell a man Is ashamed of being Re-
publican in Pennsylvania today" said
Senator Knox, at the conclusion OF his
Pittsburg speech, there never was
time In it's history when he could have
made that claim with honor.
Il cannot understand the attitude OF
people who are standing aloof or oppos-
ing the election OF Mr.. Stuart. while
freely conceding that his pledges and
promises are all that Is desirable and
that he honestly intends, II elected. to
administer the government OF the state
solely in the interest Of the people.
81 cannot understand why a man
should put up the cry OF 'bossism
against an honest candidate who SOL
emnly says he never recognized . boss
and in the most specific manner dc.
clares he never will.
Il cannot understand those who pub
licly proclaim that the political rights
of the people have been fully secured
by legislation, and then prophecy dis
aster to the state through the exercise
Of those rights by the people.
"And more mysterious than ali tc
me is the attitude Of those Republi.
cans who claim to have been instru-
mental In bringing about these reforms
by appealing to the Republicans Of the
state and through them to the legisla.
ture of the state, who now. after thsil
voices have been heard and their ad.
vice followed, mutiny against the shir
whose course they claim to have d.
rected and consort with those whose
most charitable wish is that she ma,
go to everlasting destruction upon thu
rocks"