Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1907-10-17
4 DESPERATE GAME
Democrats Resort to Campaign
of SIander and Abuse.
BOURBON TACTICS REVIVED
Cespite Onslaught of the Enemy Re
publican Lines In Pennsylvania Are
L;nproten and Moving On to
Triumph.
Harrisburg. Pa. Oct. Is
Especial Correspon2snce.]

Especial Correspondence
Harrisburg, Pa, Oct Is.
Without Il single Issue upon which
10 make g campaign the Democrats
0! iennsy ylYania il q des perate effort
t. Win the coming election. have re-
serted to toe cid-time tactics of sian.
Ger personal abuse and wilful mis-.
Iepresentation OF the Republican party
end It's candidate.
IN tne closing hours of the present
state contest the Democratic editors
ana professional spellbinders find the
i.ae 0f popular sentiment running so
eiroMgty against them that they seem
to have lest all regard for decency and
se!t-te pect in the reckless and un-
ecrapui0us methods employed TO pro.
mote taeif cause.
Despite the lac; that before he was
made the Republican nominee for
state treasu er, Iohn O. Sheath was
iau1vd hy every Democratic newspa-
pei ia the state as a fearless. indc-
pendent ana pubiic-spirited member of
the state tcg stature, these same jour
naiistic stars are now filling the col
utnnS Of their newspapers witt violent
attacks upon Mr. Sheath with state
nlcnts entirely at variance ith their
laudat0ry references to MIN while he
was q member OF the general Assem-
Ely, fS&ting the battles of the people.
and they are calling upon the voters
TO defeat him 81 the polls and elect in
hi stead a man whose strongest claim
HVOn them is that he is Democrat.
S7ec!tieos Democrats oratory.
Suppiementing the work Of the Dem
Ccratic editors, are a corps OF profes-
flonal Democratic politicians who are
stumping the counties repeating
charges that are absolutely unbound
ed, and circulating most hagrantly
, false statements in regard to Mr.
sAeatz's votes in the legislature and
in other ways misrepresenting the Re.
publican candidate and his party.
This campaign of vituperation and
abuse is a logical sequence to the at
tempt at the very outset of the con
Test 10 weaken Mr.. Sheath among the
Cd soldiers of Pennsylvania by the
distribution of circulars teeming with
falsehoods and malice, and designed to
array the veterans of the Civil War
against him in the matter of the sol
diers pension bill
The prompt and emphatic repudia.
ton OF this scheme by leading and in
fucntial members of the Grand Army,
who knew Mr.. SheatZ's ardent aud
conscientious interest in the old sol
Giers and sailors, and who. over their
signatures, told the story OF his devo.
completely demoralized the managers
of the Democratic machine.
Bourbon Tactics Recalled.
Aosulities have been resumed. how.
ever
There has evidently been an asree.
mert among the Democratic politi-
Clans to go the limit in the closing
days Of the canvass in the matter of
misrepresentation and abuse of every.
thing Republican, and especially Of
the Republican nominee for state
treasurer.
Last week marked the opening OF
this contemplate campaign 1t is TO
be carried on without cessation until
the polls close upon the 5th of No
vember, but there is every reason to
believe that the well-meaning citizens
OF the Keystone state will recognize
this revival OF the despicable Bourbon
methods which for years characterized
Democratic campaigns in this and
other states
The citizens of Pennsylvania are
all familiar with the high personal
character, the unblemished public
record, TIE clean purpose and the
proved Integrity of John 0. Sheath,
aud it Is certain that the more the
Democra editors and machine ora
tors attack him the greater will be his
majority at the coming election.
The people have confidence in Mr.
Sheriff and will resent the disreputable
campaign that is being waged against
him
Looking to the Presidency.
Under existing conditions in Penn
sylvania, the success of the Republi
can ticket is inevitable.
Every effort on the part OF the op-