The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-22
THE FIELD OF POLITICS.

The able editor of the Philadelphia
Times is deeply interested in Senator Cam
eron; far more deeply, we suspect, than
any Republican is. Says Colonel Nc
Clure: Considering the stride the Repub-
licans of Pennsylvania have made dur
ing the last two years on the silver issue
under the lead of Quay it is not improb-
able that before 1896 the Republican lead
ers Of this state will be entirely in har
mony with Cameron on free silver and will
make him their nominee for president
with yell. He has a strong element of
strength in the old line Republican work.
ers of Pennsylvania, and 1t is next to GER
tain that the anti-Cameron kickers, who
have had their way for the last year or
two, may now get full share of Cameron
kicks in return. Politics very often boils
that way, and the Cameron buZz-saw is
now busy buzzing." Colonel Mcclure has
a great habit of finding out things in pol
itics-things that exist and things that
don't.
"While the Democrats of Lackawanna
county have made nomination for judge
there is no reasn on earth but the par
tisan one" says the Philadelphia Press.
"why they should not have accorded
Judge Archibald unanimous reelection.
Judge Archibald has been on the bench
almost ten years, and, although elected as
Republican, has been altogether free
from partisanship in his official actions,
More than that, he is faithful and in
telligent Judge who Is a credit to the
| bench. By nominating a candidate in op-
position the Democrats have chosen to
| make a partisan contest on which alone
| they would be defeated as they deserve to
| be. As matter of fact, however, Judge
| Archibald will receive the support of many
| Democrats who believe that 1t Is the best
policy to retain on the bench judges who
| by sufficient experience have been tried
and found capable"
| 1t is well to remember, in the words OF
| theesteemed Truth, that 'lf youngCharles
| O'Malley, who has been nominated fol
representative in the Fourth legislative
| district of Lackawanna county, is to be
fought down on the presumption that he
has no right to Republican nomination
because he is of Irish parentage, his oppo
nents will make grave mistake. Irish
men did not leave their land to escape one
form of tyranny for the purpose of taking
on another form of tyranny in this, an(
| lnelr mere nave us BOOu u TlBHl u
political freedom as the children of any
other race. 1t Is a monstrous and un
American assumption to hold that an!
political party owns any particular rae,
in the first or second or any other gener
ation."
The Wilkes-Barre News-Dealer wind
up an uncommonly abusive paragraph II
reference to the Hastings meetings in thi
city today by these words Of cheap dem
agogism: Hastings is simply the too
of Quay and the corporations. They owl
him in fee simple, and as governor h
would simply be puppet in their hands
Plain Bill Singerly is his own master an
would If governor be puppet in tn
hands of no boss, nor the tool of no cor
poratin. He stands for the Democrat
party, the friend of labor and its protec
tor" The Democratic party as the frien
and protector of labor" is rich, very; an
II mere assertion always meant fac
what easy sailing Democracy would have