The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-18
MINOR FACTS AND FENclEs.

1t will perhaps interest Colonel James
A. Sweeney OF the Hazleton PLAIN
Speaker, to know that while his mission
airy effort at Harrisburg, last session, In
behalf OF Ha2leton county was being
neatly outgeneraed, the Wilkes-Barre
Record contained an editorial concluding
with the words; ave cheeIfully wish the
projectors Of the scheme success and hope
they never will be sorry for leaving us"
This was the final sentence Of Il strong in
dOrsement Of the proposed new county of
Halle and was not the only favorable re.
mark uttered during that fight by our es-
teemed Wilkes Barre contemporary. This
explanation is rendered necessary by
the Hazleton Plain.Speaker's present edi-
torial ignorance on Il subject concerning
which 1t seemingly pretends to have a
monopoly OF information.
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The Philadelphia Press administers
wholesome rebuke to the Democratic or
gans when 1t brands as ridiculous" their
attempt to make it appear that Galusha
A. Grow is sympathi2er with the Popu-
list cause. Continuing 1t says that 1.-THE
only excuse they offer for their allegation
is an incident which occurred in Scranton
some months ago, and which when cor
rectly told acquits MIR. Grow of the re-
hottest suspicion Of having anything to do
with the Populist cause. Mr.. Grow was
written to by somebody OF other in Scran-
ton, who sigued himself chairman, asking
him to make 3 speech in that city Mr..
Grow, having no personal experience with
the writer, presumed very naturally that
1t was a Republican meeting TO which he
had been invited and he accepted. He
was so we'll known and his position so well
understood that the suspicion never en-.
tered his mind that he would be expected
to address any but Republican meeting.
1t happened, however--but entirely un-
known to Mr.. Grow-thRt the man who
had signed himself as chairman repre-
| sented Populist organization, and a
Populist meeting was widely advertised
with Mr.. Grow as the speaker"
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"When Mr.. Grow reached Scranton on
| the day Of the proposed meeting and
| discovered the fact he was profoundly in
dignant, and in that blunt and unmistak-
able language which he knows how to use,
he expressed his resentment of what he
felt was trick, and which there is now
| exceedingly good reason to believe certain
Democrats were concerned in. Mr.. Grow
| did not speak at the meeting, of course.
|
about his course from the moment he be-
came acquainted with the facts. The
whole political career Of Mr. Grow Is a
sufficient denial Of the assertion Of the
Democratic organs, and their indecent at
tempt of the Democratic newspapers to
discre1it him defeats itself. He has al
ways in his speeches and IN his official acts
manifested the strongest sympathy with
the cause OF the farmers and with labor,
but it has been in practical and rational
way, and not by accepting and approving
the various and sometimes dangerous isms
that have now and then arisen. Although
it is more than thirty years since Mr.. Grow
retired from congress- he has since been
before the public enough TO make it i'm.
possible that his views should be misun-
derstood, and they cannot be misrepre-
sented by any Democratic paper in Penn
sylyania save by the gTossest ignorance or
a willful purpose to deceive and cheat its
reader5.n
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OF piece with this effort at misropre-
sentation is the"free coal"lie which Demo-
cratic newspapers are affording promi-
nence just now. Mr.. Grows champion
ship of a readjustment OF the bituminous
schedules before the Republican ways and
means committee which framed the Nc.
Kinley bill had In view the expediency OF
q reciprocity arrangement with Canada
His belief that the commercial interests
of the United States and Canada are by
nature one and inseparable is shared by
many eminent fellow protectionists.
Whether or no the arrangement he desired
was then practicable. without political
union also, Is an open question. The Re-
publican members Of the ways and means
committee evidently thought not; and
their decision was cheerfully acquIesced in
by Mr.. Grow, so far, at least as existing
relations were then concerned,