The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-02
POLITICAL POINTS.

tllbtlu llheils 0TONCT 10
Bissell and Maxwell will vote for Hill.
Crisp will speak in Gotham tomorrow
night.
The betting on Morton in New York is
now 5 to 2.
Hill win blame Tammany treachery for
Senator Carey says Wyoming is safely
.objector Holman admits that he is
closely beset.
Indiana Democrats don't want Gresham
to speak for them.
Carlisle says he hopes Hill will win but
he cannot help him.
Depew is making nine and ten speeches
daily for Morton and SaXton
Cook county, ILL.,, Is reported to be good
for 10000 Republican plurality.
Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury
Hamlin Is stumplng with Wilson.
Indiana Republicans assert they will
elect ten out OF thirteen congressman.
Senator Allen thinks the Iowa Democ-
racy may carry one congressional dis
trict.
EX-President Harrison has given 1000
to the New York state Republican COM
mittee.
Speaker Crisp has come to Amos Cum
mings' assistance with letter of recon-
mendation.
Senator Washburn thinks Minnesota
Will send solldly Republican delegation
to congress.
Republicans now claim dwenty-four
out OF New 1ork's thirty-four congress
men, gain of eight
| Franklin Murphy, the Newark yarnish
manufacturer, is u Republican candidate
for the Jersey senatorsrip.
Malone claims three districts in Nir-
ginia and says with an honest count Re-
publcans would get seven.
| Tom Johnson. Ohios celebrated free
trader, has challenged Mckinley to q Joint
| debate Saturday at Cleveland.
Michigan, says Chairman Mcmillan, is
| good for 10000 Republican plurality, and
twelve Republican congressman.
| Governor Brown says Rhode Island will
substitute two Republicans for the two
| Democrats now in congress from that
! state.
The Fifth Maryland district has seven
candidates for congress, one Republican
! two Democrats, two Populists and two
Prohibitionists.
In Senator Allison's judgment, "the
| Republicans will have on Overwhelming
majority In the next congress of the
| United States"
Senator Faulkner now claims that West
| Virginia Will send Il solidly Democratic
delegation to congress: but Republicans
merely laugh at his nerve.
Willard salisbury, son of ex-senator
! salisbury, of Delaware, has senatorial
asprtions, but Delaware gives every lndi
cation of going Republican.
New Hampshire will elect two Republi
can congressman, q Republican governor
and Legislature that will elect Re
publican United States senator.
The Democratic national committee has
II Is alleged, received another fund o
100000 from New York importers whC
have benefited by the Wilson bill.
Wholesale ballot frauds are beinf
planned by the Democrats of st. Mary
parish, Louisiana, In the hope of defeat
ine Judge Beattie, the Republican con
gressional nominee.
Chairman Babcock, OF the Republican
publican majority of $4,000 In his hom'
state. Wisconsin. He says three con
gressmen will be gained.
There Is a wonderful concurrence o
opinion on two points-that Hill will re
ceive an unusually large vote In the stat
above the city, and that In New Yorl
city he will be cut terribly
A New York dispatch says Senator Hi
hopes 10 secure an Endorsement from Mr.
Powderly and thus capture 10000 labo
votes. The statement Is not credited b,
Mr. Powderly's Scranton friends.
j. j. Joy, ostensibly an organizer o
miners unions In Wilson's district, ha
been exposed as q disburser OF Wilso
Doodle and clrculator OF llbels about tn
Republican candidate, a. G. Dayton.
Mayor Hopkins, Of Chicago, tried t
get Republican State Chairman Tame
Indicted for saying he GHopkins) ha
leYled blackmall on Chcago's vices; bu
the grand jury refused to take action
Ex-Mayor Grace yesterday prosente
the Democratic state committee with
check for 5000, and Is In many ways glvin
evidence of his earnest desire for Hill'
election, though he is fighting Tammany
The Democrats OF Elmira are buIldin
wigwam for Senator Hill to speak /
Saturday night. The building will hol
1000 people, and 40 workmen are EN-
ployed In its construction, working da
and night
Ex-Minister to Turkey Oscar 8. Strau
and his brother, lsdor Straus, the cor
, gressman,. have bolted the nomination {
Senator Hill and declared for Everett l
Wheeler. They have both sent check
J ! to Wheeler's campaign fund.