The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-05-02
LIVE JoTTlsGs OF POLITICS.

Buffers two delegates are FOR Lyon.
Secretary steward carried Bdcss county
with wLo0p.
Giles d. Price will have Warren county .
support Tor tho auditor gouegaship
Robinson defeated Lyon az the Warren
county primaries Monday. after a spirited
battle.
Senator Showalier, q Butler las with.
drawn from the canvass for secretary Of
Internal Anaira
Judge Harry White, OF ladiaua. has
three bitter Republican opponents 10 bis
hght i.r rsuom.uAtloa.
Judge s.nouton refused 70 let the
popu.sts hold ysstrrlAS's State c3uyeu-
ton Ia the DAuphia county courtroom.
senator John II. Brown aud er Senator
f. T. Robbins are having q sEirmish Tor
the congressional eouiersoi Ia Wcstmors.
land
Representative Burdick. II McKsau, will
be a candidate for the spsAkrrsLip next
session; but the prophets say II will be
Speaker Walton.
Formal announcement Is made o' tho
candidacy o. lsAac T. Hand, of LuEeTuc,
phan's court judge.
Representative Ira +. Mansfield, tho
Beaver coal operator, and Jacob Weyaud
will be reuom.uAted by acclAmati1n Both
are experienced and useful legislators
The state delegate from Wyoming
county will vote Tor Colonel Stewart Tor
lieutenant governor. lie has At leas,
twenty-five surc and perhaps more to
come.
The case against County Commissioner
Charles Allen. OF Schuyikill county, who
elected ~ Republican, Topped over When
Il came TO dispensing patronage, has been
quashed.
Captain Johusons friends now claim
sufficient delegates 90 defeat Judge Clay
ton for denomination 10 Delaware county.
IN spite OF Clay tons strong but disreputA.
bic backing
$ r.. White, Of New Brighton, and 5. p.
Stone Of Bridgowstor, are candidates for
the senatorial nomination in Senator
QuHy's district the Forty sixth. Quay IS
nOu-committal
Tho big fight In Schuylkill county ended
10 d-aw, with slight balance Of vic.
tory on the Anti.Losch eide. Robinson
captured two delegates aud Lyons one;
but none were instructed.
Reading has large and and juicy coun-
Gilman scandal on her hands. II is charged
that four councilmeu offered TO approve a
certain sewer contract for a consideration
amounting TO 10000. An invest cation has
been ordered.
Senator Tom Stewart seems to be can
didate upon the general principle that il
there Is any likelihood Of n factioual scrap
between the other fellows, the party will
want him as compromise. He has, for
some time, been the dark horse In the lieu.
tenant goyernor5hip struggle, and is now
mentioned as an excellent alternative ia
case Mcdowell and Huff get too spirited In
their struggle for the associate place with
Galusha A. Grow. Meanwhile his great
popularity is constantly bringing him
rapid accretions OF strength and II is worth
while to keep an eye on him.
AS convention day draws nigh there ia
renewed preparation among the faithful
The Lochiol, at Harrisburg. viii shelter
Colonel Stewart, who will locate his lien.
tenant gubernatorial boom in room lis.
Major Mcdowell, who will disnense lea
water from rooms liz and ia: Fighting
Jack Robinson, who will entertain his
friends IN suite OF apartments on the sec
ond floor; besides Chairman Gilkeson and
Secretaries Tetterolf and Rex Of the state
committee, ex-Collector Cooper, who will
be merely an ''on.looker in Venicen Gen.
eral Reeder, Of EaSton, Representative
Focht, OF Union, and Burdick, OF Mexican,
ex-Reprssentativ Elkins, OF Iudisna. ex.
Senator Showalter of Butler, Candidate
GILES d. Price OF Erie Candidate George
=. Hut OF Westmoreland, ex-Chairman
W. H. Andrews, fresh from bis senatorial
victory in Crawford, Journal Clerk Fred
Eleitz with a party Of friends from this
city and numerous other prominent Re-
publicans. At the Common wealth the
Hastings contingent will unfold its tent,
escorted by Colonel James II, Lambert, OF
the Philadelphia Press the entire Phila-
delphia delegation, which has engaged
thirty rooms, Lieutenant Governor
Watres, Major Warren and other friends
from Lackawanna, Editor Theodore Hart
Of Pittston, victim Of the DeArnater fu.
lection OF four years ago, and many Others.
The Commonwealth will also shelter Wal
ter Lyon, ex-Adjutant General L,atta and
Senator Boies Penrose. At other hotels
there Is a corresponding demand for ac.
commodatons, ana enthusiasm 10 obyi Qua
ly mounting higher each day.