The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-24
POLITICS IN BRIEF.

Springer, of Illinois, is in danger.
Mckinley will speak in Pittsburg to-
night.
Billy Hines threatens to sue John Leis-
enring for libel.
Mckinley will speak in Philadelphia
twice next Saturday.
General Hastings will open his Philadel-
pha campaign tomorrow night.
Colonel William l.. Strong formally ac-
cepts the anti-Tammany nomination for
mayor
Blue-eyed Billy Sheehan, of Buffalo,
warns David Martin not to get too ac-
tive in Gotham.
In retaliation for Cleveland's indiffer-
ence Hill will let the New York congress
sional ticket Slide
Ben Butterworth is sanguine of Re-
publican success In Nebraska, Iowa, Illi-
nois and New York
Harry Hall, who spoke in West Pitts
ton last night, will stump Mercer county,
beginning Thursday.
Leon Abbott will not be a candidate for
the New Jersey senatorship. but ex-Sen-
ator William j. Sewell will
Harrison and Morton will appear on
the same platform at forthcoming Re-
publican rally In New York city.
Eight million pieces of Republican lit
erature have been distributed by the con-
gressional committee this campaign.
Collector Grant Herring, of Scranton,
and District Attorney Garman, of Wilkes
Barre, are with Singerly on the stump.
Philanthropist Nathan Straus, Tam
manys mayoralty candidate for a day,
has sailed for years sojourn in Europe.
Senator Hill is trying to shake off the
Maynard incubus by claiming he wasn't
fnr orIi at,,a
Nathan Straus has sent his brother,
1sador, to Buzzard's bay, to get Growers
opinion of Hill's shabby treatment of
him.
Betting at Buffalo on the coming New
York election is decidedly in favor Of
Levi p. Morton The odds on him range
from 10 to 8 and 10 to 6.
Objector Holman's campaign for re-elec-
tion to congress Is seriously objected to
by his Indiana cons 'ituents and II looks
now as If he would oe defeated.
1t is said William L. Wilson is disap-
pointed at the small subscriptions to his
campaign fund made by the New York i'm
porters for whom he did so much
Congressman Tom l.. johnson, Demo-
crat, of Cleveland, is charged with colon
lzing voters to secure his reelection He
offers reward Of $500 to anyone prov
ing 1t.
William l.. Wilson's failure to procure
an appropriation for Stacking the Monon-
gahela river between Morgantown place
and Fairmount will probably lose him
his seat In congress
At Troy, Senator Saxton, Republican
candidate for lieutenant governor, repu-
dated proscriptive secret societies and
condemned the attempt to Introduce re-
ligious prejudice into politics.
One-half the Breckinridge supporters IT
is reported, will vote for Denny, the Re-
publican candidate, and thus defeat
owen, the Democratic nominee for con-
gress In the Lexington, KY, district.
Speaking at Charlestown, w. Va, Gov
ernor Mckinley said: 1T is better for the
Democrats who believe in the protection
of American homes to be regarded as
traitors to their party rather than as
traitors to the best and most sacred inter-
ests of the country. 1t has been charged
hat the Republican tariff bill was full of
mistakes, but they were in the interest Of
the masses, while of the 500 mistakes the
Democrats had themselves discovered in
their new bill not one was in favor Of the
people,