The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-10-01
POLITICAL GOSSIP.

Did you ever notice. asks Major
hahuy n the Tlmes-Herald, how lew
Pies.uents OF the United states were ety.
ofed ana now few h&l led from c.t:es when
ciected. Come 10 think of i, New YORK
city has contributed only one president.
Chester a. Arthur, and his presidency
came about by act of Providence. tn
den, who was a city resident, was beaten
Dy Hayes, who was a rural product.
BESIDES, T.lden was not urban by birth.
Arthur, the solitary pres.dent was coun-
try born, his birthplace beng Fairfield,
". IN tact, it may be said that no man
dent of the United States Jefferson,
Monroe and Madison were country gentle
men before and after taking the pres
dehcy. Inc Adamses, father and son,
We're natives OF Braintree, Mass, and
lived at Quincy. Andrew jackson was an
out and out countryman. Martin Van
Buren was born at Knderhook, n. Y,
ana began a life of oiilce-holding as sur
roSdte OF Columbia county. Polk was Il
oountryman all MS life The elder Har-
nson was farmer-born and the younger.
although nal -ng from indianapolis when
elected. was born at North Bend, u small
y.iiage yg IN Ohio, and was country-bred:
Taylor and Tyler were born AID raised
as they say down south, on Virginia plan
taGons. Fillmore was a countryman born
at Summer Hill, Cayuga county, New
York, but lived in buffalo when 1t began
to put on city airs. Buchanan was born
at Stony BaGter, Died at Wheatland and
prded himself on being a farmer Lin
coin, Johnson and Grant, AL three were
conntrymen, the nearest to city born be-
ing Andrew johnson, who was a native
of Raleigh, N c., when t had popua-
ton of "a village Thee prccedenis need
not discourage any of the men who are
now prom .nently before the people as
presidential candidates, except william
Collins Whitney, of New York and even
he can take heart of grace from the fact
that he first saw the Light m the tns!g-
n.iicant borough of Conway, Mass"
Chicago Tlmes-Herald: I'm Senator Al
Eson's mine all other issues are suboyd.-
nate IN pubic concern to the lamentable
inability of the administration TO pay its
Dl.ls without recourse to the sale of s162-
OOJ,0O0 worth of bonds, bearing high
rate of interest issued in an era of pro.
found peace, ostens.bly to miainta n the
sod reserve, but in reality to meet the
deiictt IN revenues caused by the repeal
Of the Mckinley law. Clear and inc.s.ve
IN statement, tolerant and d!gn.fed in
tone, free from stump buffoonery and
cheap wit, the speech of Senator Allison
opening the Iowa campaign commends t.
self to the intelligent consideration of the
people of all the States
Senator Quay's declaration IN favor of
Pttsburg as the site of the next Rcpub-
lean national convention, backed as it
IS by q 81, 900 subscription to the Smoky
CITY booming fund, has given that c.ty's
candidacy "a material boom. Senator
Quay says: "Pittsburg Is not too far
east. Western people would come here as
well as to Chicago or Cincinnati, and so
would the southern delegates. | shall do
all that | can with my friends on the ma
t.onal committee to have the convention
held here
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Although committed to Senator Allison,
General Clarkson. the Iowa leader, pays
the following graceful tr,Lute to ex-
Speaker Reed: 81 believe that few great
er men than Tom Reed have eVar lived.
and / certainly have known Of nUman of
greater abn.ty. He is an unrivaled orator
On the hust,ngs, a thoroughly honest man,
and capable of administering any position
to which he may be called"
Henry Watterson serves notice In the
Louisville COurier-Journal that Kentucky
VIII back Secretary Carlisle for the Dem
cnrat'c presidential nomination "for all
she Is worth"
Waiter Wellman predicts that IN less
than six months Lawyer CouEert. of New
York, VIII be American ambassador at
Paris.
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The Springfield Republican nomnates
Richard Olney for president. President of
what?