Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1907-06-20


Sheath by the Republican State
convention for the Office of State
Treasurer was the most sensible
thing that could have been done for
1t silenced the guns in all quarters.
1t is seldom of late that a candidate
for State office has been named
that did not stir the critical spirit
of some wing or faction of the party
but the nomination of Sheath seems
t. be the exception to the rule, and
if anybody is not pleased with his
selection the fact is not made known.
Mr.. Sheath is native Lacaster
county Pennsylvania German, now
u resident of Philadelphia He is a
square-tOed reformer, and even his
opponents have given him credit for
honesty in his fights for clean public
politics. He is now serving his third
term in Legislature where he has
made his influence felt in promoting
laws that were intended to check
some of the abuses that existed. His
nomination is another indication of
the changed conditions that donate
public affairs. Age.
A citizen of Scranton, in writing
to the Philadelphia Press in regard
to Governor Stuart vetoing the
Pension bill says: "Your editorial
IF June 18th of Governor Stuart's
vetoing of the soldiers pension bill
saying che manfully faced what the
Legislature timidiy shirked" is not
ed. The Press adds: "rhe bill was
crude, raw and impossible" and that
the Legislature would not have pass
ed it in its ill-cOnsidered form if it
had not expected the Governor to
veto it. 1t voted the pensions with
out voting the money to pay them.
If such We're true, why, then, did
not the Governor veto the bill inn
mediately upon its coming into his
hands, throwing it back upon the
Legislature and thereby giving the
opportunity to pass it over his veto
or acknowledge it was only intended
for "buncOmbe' and no expecta-
ton of its becoming law:
Again, if all were true of this bill,
what reason have we to expect or
think that many other bills carrying
appropriations of money were not
passed for the same purpose, viz,
the Governors veto:
Is there any reason to believe the
soldiers pension bill was not passed
(as it was almost unanimously in
just as good iaith as any other legis-
lation enacted into law and was there
not just as much money in sight ia
pay the pensions a, to pay any other
appropriations asked for from the
State?
The Governor had ii perfect right
and it was within his province as
the executive of the State, to sign
or veto the bill. That no one ques-
tiOns. But why not have shown his
good faith and consistency for the
soldier by his immediate veto, there
by testing the Legislature whether
it ever intended it to become IA law
or not:
The soldier is not complaining
nor is he in any manner threatening
because it did not become law
that he is disappointed goes withou,
saying. He is not mendicant ask
ing for charity from the State. Ii.
does feel, however, that this great
rich commonwealth, the great State
of Pennsylvania, drawing its wealth
from all over the world, has money
enough to pay the small pension call
ed for in the bill, and the Legisla
ture passed 1t ana made the apprO
priation in just as good faith as il
any other bill. And had he not by
his faithful service for the Common
wealth and nation in days of grea
trial and necessity fairly earned al
that was proposed to give he would
still suffer in silence, believing thu
State had done the best she could.
The modern wife is beginning tt
astonish the modern husband. a
man came home at 3 "a. m. He tool
off his shoes on the front doorstep
Then he unlocked the door and wen
. cautiously upstairs on tiptoe, holding
his breath. But light was stream
5 inp thrOuph the kevhOlp of the bed