The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-01
POLITICAL NOTES.


The platform upon which ex-senator
Buckalew is canvassing for votes IN the
Seventeenth district is unique to say the
least. He comes out flat-footed for free
wool, free lumber, free iron ore, free coal
and taxed sugar. And yet there are hum
dreds of working men in Sullivan and
Montour counties whom free lumber will
throw out Of employment; many farmers
in Montour and Columbia counties upon
whom free wool will infict heavy losses,
and scores Of furnace men and coal diggers
In Northumberland county, not to speak
of trainmen, to whom free iron ore and free
coal would, If fairly enacted into law,
bring wage reductions and shortened time.
The candidacy of Monroe h. Kulp means
the exact opposite to these things and
while Mr. Buckalew, at 70 years of age,
may appeal successfully to some older
Democrats, fellow comrades in the hey
day years gone by, Mr.. Kulp is bound,
from the nature Of the situation, to make
heavy inroads upon the younger and more
active wing of the Democracy of the Sew
enteenth, to whom steady employ ment at
good wages is more important than par
tisan triumph which brings personal loss
and national shame.
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General Hastings itinerary for this
week contempetes visit to historic
Gettysburg tonight, under the able pilo-
tage of Colonel Stable, who is going TO re-
deem the Nineteenth district from Demo-
cracy as represented by Peter Strubinger;
tomorrow night speech at Chambers
burg, the town whence Colonel Alexander
Mcclure emerged to journalistic great
ness as editor of the Philadelphia Times
likewise the home Of Judge John Stew
art, one-time idol of anti-machiue Repub-
licans; on Wednesday, visit to Carlisle,
which Scrantonians know best as the
home of Judge w. r. Sadler; then over to
York on Thursday evening, and on Friday,
q run up to Pottsville, where for the time
ex-C Congressman Brumm, Chairman Burd
Payne, Major Sam Losch and Jack White
house have conenited to dwell together on
the same stage without breaking the
peace. 1t was intended to hold big rally
in Lancaster on Saturday, but that date
has since been Cancelled.
The voluntary withdrawal last Friday,
of Hon. X. Allen Lowell in the Forty-ninth
Republican judicial conference, ending
deadlock which, after 232 ballots, seemed
no nearer solution than at first, smoothes
out one bad tangle in o creditable manner.
John G. Love, his antagonist, is clean
and reputable Republican attorney, whose
elevation to the bench will add to the
luster of that high position. Mr.. Lowell,
by having twice put aside personal ambi-
ton In the interest Of party harmony,
establishes q strong claim to future con-
sderation. But the conferree system. to
which all these recurring wrangles can be
directly traced, will undoubtedly have to
60. Sentiment upon this subject grows
stronger day by day..
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The state agent for one of the largest
agricultural implements firms in the
United States, who has charge Of all the
local agents. and who makes quarterly pill
grimages through the state recently said
to Thomas NJ. Jones, editor of the Harris
burg Telegraph; II have Just been over
the state making settlements. l have
talked with farmers in every locality in
the state-many OF them men who have
voted the Democratic ticket all their lives
and IL the ball keeps on rolling as l have
observed 1t, no man on earth can predict
the majority that will be given for Geu-
eral Hastings In November. 1t will sim
ply be enormous. Everybody is for him."
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DR.. j. S. Trexler, of Kutztown, whom
the Republicans Of the Ninth district have
selected to do battle with Constantine j -.
Erdman, is buckling down to business in
manner that BODIES i'll for the Democratic
'stone wall" majority. The voters OF
Berks and Lehigh are ordinarily Demo-
cratic, but they do not relish this hard.
mes-and-low. wages dispensation any
better than any other class of citizens do:
and if the reports which reach Republican
ears as to their determination in the mat
ter be correct, 1t will not be surprising il
even the rock-ribbed Ninth should be lost
this autumn to the cause Of low tariff and
general distress.
The effort to induce the warning Repub.
lican conferrees Of the Sixteenth district
to drop both Packer and Lewis-Con-
gresham Hopkins having already retired
from the field-and unite upon Mayor
Eliot of Williamsport, has not been sue.
cessful. Four hundred ballots have been
taken, the available time for the filing of
certificates Of nomination is rapidly pass
ing away and the deadlock Is still rigid,
standing Packer, 0 and Lewis, G. Some
thing decisive will have to be done at once