The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-24
THE FIELD OF POLITICS..

iHe oplhlon OF Assistant District Attor-
ney O'Neill, of Carbondale, on the pro-
posed new county scheme is interesting.
he tells Z. A. Barrett: II don't see how
II is going to be established. The constl-
tuition Is very particular in the creation
OF new counties First it requires us to
get an area of 400 square miles and then
population of no less than 10000 people.
In getting this area we must keep at least
ten miles away from the county seat of
any other county, and in getting the
population we are not allowed to take
from any county number that would re-
duce the population of said county below
zV'VVu Susquehanna county has no more
than the required population, hence We
can borrow no population from that side
scranton, the county seat of Lackawanna,
is so near that we can't go much below
Jermyn, and as for Wayne it has nothing
to spare. 1t requires population of 49,
OOO Tor a separate judicial district so you
see the real thing we are after-a court
house-is simply out of the question"
THE reception given General Hastings
and his party at Scranton evidences"
says the Philadelphia Press, "that the Re-
publicans in that section of the state are
the February election the people of Lack
awanna county entered a very de-
cided protest against Democratic mis-
rule and incompetency with Republican
majority of little over 5000 The Re-
publican vote was almost 1000 greater
than ever before. All that part of the
state has great Industrial interests which
have been affected by the Democratic
n vVin ptitT nj nr
President Clevelands declared intention
to carry on the war must continue to be
affected, unless the people elect Repub-
lican congress and give such Republican
majorlties as to paralyze the Democratic
destructionists. That is the most direct
way to restore business activity, indus
trial peace and general confidence"
According to prominent Luzerne Dem
ocrat interviewed in Philadelphia by an
Inquirer man things look blue for Con-
gresham Hines, orin addition to the fear
full loss which the Democratic ticket
must sustain by reason of the conditions
the administration has brought about,
Hines has estranged any number of his
old political friends by his lavish promises
of postoffices. He has shown himself
wonderfully lacking in the moral courage
necessary to say no. and there is not
postoffice in Luzerne that he has not
promised to half dozen persons. Every
appointment that has been made has
aroused the ire of those persons who have
been disappointed by Hines, and there has
never been a congressional candidate IN
Luzerne for whom so many knives have
been sharpened. 1t appears as though
II Tnfc Nt.ft, f,, IL,
covers the facts.
Before l leave your city / want to say
that in no other place in the state that I
have been in, this campaign, have 1
found so many evidences of business
thrift and push and life as l find here
in Scranton" said Congressman Charles
w. Stone, of Warren, yesterday. "The
people here seem to have almost con-
quered the hard times. With a vigorous
forward stride, by the election of a Re-
publican congress, your citizens ought to
regain lost ground with little, If any, diff
ficulty. l wish the remainder of the
country was as prosperous, under the
Wilson-Gorman bill, as Scranton seems to
be, in spite of that bill"
IF the election in our district were held
tomorrow" said General Frank Reeder,
of Easton, going up to Carbondale yes
terday, Judge Kirkpatrick would de-
feat Hart for congress and have votes to
spare. The people all know Kirkpatrick;
whereas very few Of them know anything
about Hart, and what little those few
do know about him, doesn't particularly
strengthen him in their estimation. Be-
sides, the Eighth has had its full share of
Democratic times. 1t is as ready as any
other section to confess its mistake and
change back again."
The announcement that Isaac Il. Long,
Of Wilkes-Barre, is genuine candidate
for mayor will pleasantly surprise his nu-
merous Scranton friends. During twenty
years scurrying hlther and yon, in this
valley, in search of the elusive lad"
Grandpa" Long has accumulated host
of friendships which, if he be in the race
in earnest, ought to be of great political
assistance. Mayor Long would sound
nice and it would also mean business.
The solicitude of the Wilkes-Barre
News-Dealer as to the whereabouts of
"Orator Colborn of Scranton" will be ap-
peased in due season.