Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1907-02-07
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c. f. jackson was E;C<t. Wis
itor on Saturday.
Thomas Ramsay wentsto Wilkes
Barre on Saturday to take an exam
ination fora fireman on the Lehigh
Valley railroad.
David. Cook of Dushore visited his
mothera Mrs. John Cook of Mildred
on Sunday.
Mrs. James J. Connors'of Mildred
was a Dushore visitor on Thursday.
Miss Driscoll of rSayre is visiting
her parents Mr. and Mrs. p. Drisco1l
of Sugar Hill.
Jo-eph Ryan of Pittston is visiting
friends at this place.
II. J...O'brien of Pittston was call
ing on Mildred and Lopez friends.
~ Joseph A. Helsman"' and James
Spencer were at Cherry Wednesday
attending the republican caucus. I'D
A republican caucus was held in
Shaad's hotel on January 20, when
the following nominations were
made, Judge of election, John Ionic;
inspector, Ira Powers; asst. assessor,
G. b. Newell; school director. J. A.
Helsman; town clerk, William Allen
auditors, j. B. Duggan; l.. Hunsing;
overseer of the poor, Joseph Sick;
assessor, S. ID. Kisner;trea.. William
ID. Bahr; supervisor, Edw Weis-
broad
On, Wednesday the following young
people of this place and Mildred en-
joyed a sleigh ride to Cherry Mills,
Agnes Walsh, Bessie Gallagher, Mel
lie Gallagher, Lucy Hannon, Alice
White, Katheryne DAILY, Alma Far
rel, Lorena Helsman, Harry Weed,
James Gallagher, Bernard Shields,
Fred Gore, James Green, sJulius
and Raymond Meyers.
Now that both tickets have been
nominated it is for. the,voters to say
who will fill the various offices if
they elect good men we will get
good results. In selecting school di-
rectors. tits advisable thatjwc,should
elect.only men that has.the interest
of schoolsatsheart not men who are
looking only .tosdo favors for them
thats favored. him ,..by - voting gfor
him, we cannot expect to geta high
er standard Of education when men
have to be elected on promises made
beforeselection.
It.is: decided that. the interpret
alton of the. corrupt practices act APP
plies to every y,,office in,whieh X cand-
idate for any office may be elected
by the people. 1t was generally sup
posed that the act relating to the
primary elections and which, it was
decided, does not apply to this county
would free. all candidatessbefore sthe
primaries or caucuses from filing pap
but careful perusal Of this act shows
that this is not the case and every
candidate who WAS nominated fer
borough ward township or other Of
fices at the primaries that are now
being held generally throughout the
county will have to file hi. state
ment or affidavit showing that his
nomination did not cost him $50 or
he cannot take his ssoffice.
This will mean great thing in
the way of accumulated papers as
there are hundreds of candidates in
Guiding school directors, auditors,
councilmen and others nominated in
the county during the last few weeks
not to mention the number who
were candidates or who We're not
nominated. The Interpretation of
the law has given the clerk of the
courts all kinds Of trouble as he will
probably have to enlarge his Office
vaults to care for the macs of docu-
mentary literature that will necessar-
lily have to be filed and cared for un-
der the law. An extra clerk will
probably be needed to care for the
extra papers. After the candidates
are elected they will have to file a
second affidavit of the same charac-
ter, showing that the election did
not cost them more than $50 or Civ
ing a statement of the expenditures.
There is absolutely no connection be-
tween the primary law and the CO.
runt practices act The lazy Gives