The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-01
POLITICAL POINTS.

Don Dickinson has put money into Hills
hat.
Reed is making a tour of the southern
states.
Wilson is slated to inherit Growers
Strong is still the favorite among those
who bet
Nebraska Democrats have split and
are quarreling.
The opinion is growing that Tammany
will prove Hilrs deathstone.
Hills friends think that Carlisle might
at least write him postal card.
Odds of . to l are given in Gotham that
Morton will have $1,000 plurality.
Cleveland's check will do service for
Wilson; and they say it's a big one.
John Boyd Thatcher yet processes to be-
lieve that Grover will indorse David.
Republicans are in fair way to carry
the Fourth Virginia congress district
EX-JudSe Maurice j. Power thinks
Strong will defeat Grant by 10000 plu-
rality.
Jersey Republicans expect to gain two
congressman, and capture the state legis-
lature.
Henry Watterson says he is "out of pol
ltlcs, but his friends want him to run for
senator
Coxey is using n monologue artist as
croWu-uraWer In his Ohio campaign for
congress.
1t really looks as If j. Hampton Hoge,
Virginia Republicanism's recent pickup,
would win.
Cleveland cannot help Hill. but last year
he gave $1,000 to Fitzhugh Lees Virginia
campaign.
Gresham wants to stump Indiana and
the Democrats, very naturally, are not
anxious to have him do 1t.
Eli Quigg has Il hard fight on for re-elec-
tion TO congress. but declares with confl-
dence that he will pun through.
Tammany will throw 100000 into the
betting places before next Tuesday, to
stiffen up Grant mayoralty stock.
Congressman Boutelle, of Maine. who
has just stumped Ohio, says Republicans
Will elect sixteen congressman there.
There are five candidates for the one
congressional seat TO which Nevada Is
entitled, and it looks as II the Silverite
would win.
Since Malone has taken charge Of the
Republican campaign in Virginia, the
Democratic leaders have been badly
frightened.
Even Democrats are beginning to fear
that Colonel Shannon, Rep, Will defeat
Amos Cummings in the Thirteenth New
| York district.
! Indications are that Bourke Cockran's
old district will elect q Republican con-
/ gressman Tuesday, much to young George
McClellan's regret.
| Those who know say many Second dis
trict West Virginia Democrats who are
nominally supporting the party Will
scratch Wilson next Tuesday.
No one in Washington doubts that Mr.
! Cleveland expects to appear before the
! country once more as the leader of tariff
| reform and free trade policy.
Shrewd Gotham politicians say Phil
Low, Rep, will have u walk-over in Isa-
dor Straus' district against Colonel Mon
roe and Senator Jacob A. Cantor.
This Is said to be the Hill programme
| Democratic success In New York next
week, and Hill for the Democratic candi.
date, and free raw material for the Dem.
ocratic ISSUE In 1896
Hills friends say Hill really believes
that If he Is elected governor of New
York next week 1t will be on the cards fol
him not only to be nominated, but elected
president two years hence.
The story that Congressman w. l.. VII
son and the West Virginia Democratic
committee We're robbed of campaign cor
respondence Is ridiculed at Grafton
where the alleged robbery is said to have
occurred.
When Proprietor Hitchcock, of tn,
Omaha World Herald, sold editorial spac,
to the Republican state committee, Edito
William J. Bryan, who, has senatorial as
pirations, threatened to resign, and Hitch
cock took water.
Austin Il. Ford son of Editor Patrlcl
Ford, of the Irish World, is waglng
first-class fight against Congressman
Bartlett in the Eighth Tammany dis
trict; and 1t would not surprise Republl
cans II he should win.
1t is deliberately explained by Cleve
lands defenders that he Is for Wilson, be
cause Wilson represents the adminlstra
tons views, while he Is against Hill. be
Il cause Hill doesn't represent anything
except an lnordinate ambition.
Andrew ]. Campbell, an iron manufac
turer of twenty-five years standing. VIII
never reduced the wages of his men, 1
the Republican opponent Of Genera
SiclSles In the Eleventh Gotham congres
district and bids fair to win In canter.