The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-12
Small Potatoes.

lue SuDJeCJ lulS lull away llOlu llS lCC-
ord, but we fear that the public will
not accommodate it. The Democratic
party was entrusted with complete
control Of the government, two years
ago, by majority larger than that for
a long time previously enjoyed by an
American political party. 1t obtained
this extraordinary evidence of popular
favor by promising, before election, to
do great things for the country.
1t promised the wool grower higher
prices for the feeces from his flock
and it gave him free wool.
1t promised the wheat grower of the
Northwest q dollar per bushel for his
wheat-and it gave him a market
price at which it is cheaper to grind
the wheat whole and feed it to horses,
cattle and hogs than to ship it to the
elevator.
1t promised the laboring man IN
creased employment at higher wages
and it gave him commercial panic in
which 5000, 900 able-bodied men had no
work and no wages.
1t promised economical administra-
tion of the national finances-an it
gave such a control of affairs us sent
the secretary of the treasury scurrying
to Wall street to sell $50, 900, 900 of new
bonds, which Democracy has added to
the national debt.
1t promised civil service reform
and it has loaded the departments at
Washington up with the sons of DEM
ocratic congressman and blood relation
recipients of partisan favor.
1t promised honest revision of the
pension rolls, to the end that fraudu-
lent pensioners might be stricken off
and it gave such supervision of this
department that the Grand Army of
the Republic, in national encampment
assembled, had to protest against ex-
Confederate official insults, snubs,
sights and humiliations.
Itpromised relief from the extor-
tions of giant corporate combinations
of capital-and it sold itself out, body,
soul and breeches, to the sugar trust
and the whisky trust, and came with
in an ace of completing deal with
the Nova Scotian soft coal trust.
1t promised progressive and en-
| lightened administration of the affairs
of this nation, in the interest of the
masses against the classes, free from
sectionalism or race prejudice and
strongly grounded in the immortal
principles Of the American constitution
and it gave such jumble Of sectional
hatred, inconsistency, inequality of
imposed burdens and utter lack of
breadth or depth that within a year
the country was in the throes of a
monetary stringency which has, up to
date, cost us more, in the aggregate,
than the entire cost of the civil war,
and which is not yet ended.
Yet, with all this ignorance and
havoc in its wake, the Democratic
party in this vicinity has the sublime
audacity TO request the public not to
listen to tariff talk, or to talk about
pensions, civil service reform or any
other national issues, but to consider
how many times Joseph A. Scranton
responded to schoolboy roll-calls, or
what this, that or the other local paper
two or three years ago said of indi i'd
ual Republicans. The whole Demo-
cratic campaign, apparently, rests
upon file-searching and scrap.book
"reminiscences. AS to the present crisis
in business and the Legislative needs
of the future, the party to all appear
ances knows nothing and cares moth.
ing. All that it knows is that it has
furious appetite for public Office, and
in order to crafty that, is willing to
descend to any depths.
The Democratic party in Lackawan-
ma county is getting to be, as the Yam
kee says, "mighty small potatoes" "
and at next months harvest will be
found to be "few in hill.n
MANY Republican readers of THE
TRIBUNE, perhaps, may not be person
ally acquainted with all Of the candi-
dates for the Legislature, John r. Farr,
Alex T. Connell, Frank j. Grover and
Charles P. O'Malley. The fact that
they have been chosen by the party of
protection and prosperity to represent
the people of this section in the body
of Pennsylvania lawmakers should be
introduction enough for any true Re-
publican. Confidence in the ability of
Republican officials is gaining ground
daily in these times of tribulation and
disaster occasioned by Democratic In
competency.