The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-19
POLITICAL GOSSIP.

POLITICAL GOSSIP.
| To the extent of nearly IL three column
| interview ex-senator Fassett, of Elmira,
unburdens himself of the indignation
| which he feels toward Thomas c. Platt
and others for taking advantage of his abb
sence in California to cut great gaps in his
Chemung county fences. Mr.. Fassett
| doesn't think this was chivalrous in the
aforesaid Thomas and his allies; and
| among other comments appertaining
thereto, the spirited young Elmiran says:
''Mr. Platt has buried his hatchet in the
political body of quite Il number of men
who had been his friends. but who could
not always approve of his erratic conduct.
He quarreled with Garfield and then with
Conkling: with Arthur and then with
Cornell: with Tracy and with Harrison.
He has quarreled with Warner Miller.
Chauncey Depew and Whitelaw Reid
with Judge Robertson and George b.
Sloan. with Frank Hiscock and John
Sherman. l really feel complimented that
he feels impelled to come way up into Che
mung county to quarrel with me-"
II II \
After u conference with Senator Quay
and others at Brigantne beach, Senator
Penrose, on Monday evening said: II be-
lieve that Governor Mckinley is the
strongest candidate for the Pennsylvania
delegation to support in the next national
Republican convention. Pennsylvania is
the greatest industrial commonwealth in
the Union, and protection to American
industry has been for fifty years the vital
issue with our people. Mckinley is pop
ular, brainy and representative American
and the champion of the American prin-
ciple of protection to our home industries.
We can win with Mckinley on platform
of protection to American Industries, and
the development of the United States as
the dominating nation of the civilized
world. / should say, however, that / am,
of course, for any Pennsylvania who
can be nominated, IL such contingency
should possibly arise" Chris Magee re-
Gently talked in similar strain. saying
that If no Pennsylvania could be NOM
mated, he would strongly favor the Ohio
executive.
Nine cities want the Republican ma
tional convention: Pittsburg. Chicago,
Buffalo. Cincinnati, San Francisco. st.
Louis, Omaha, Denver and Atlanta. A
Washington dispatch says: There is lit
tie doubt in the minds of prominent Re-
publican leaders that next years national
convention of that party will be held in
Chicago. Many of the members of the ma
t.onal committee have talked this matter
over among themselves and Chicago Is
the nearly unanimous choice. When Platt,
Quay, Alger. Clarkson, Payne, Fessenden
and other Republican politicians held
conference here some weeks ago they
talked of the place where the convention
should be held and not one Of them had
an idea the convention would be held any
where but in Chicago"
Ex-senator Warner Miller has written an
open letter mercilessly flayng State Sena-
tor Coggeshall, of Utica, one Of Platt's
Albany lieutenants. for his betrayal of the
cause of municipal reform In New York
city. Among many bitter things he says:
II want to say TO you that It s a thousand
times better that Oneida should be repre-
sented by q Democrat than to be longer
msrepresented by its present senator.
The time was when Oneida county led by
a great man, stood before the people of
the state with clean hands and was con-
cededly the leader OF all the Republican
counties of the state. Today 1t stands
disgraced and humillated because 1t IL rep
resented In the senate by "a man who has
betrayed his party. the cause of reform
and honest government
Philadelphia advices intimate that there
are to be two tickets for state delegates
in nearly every ward of that city. David
Martin and Senator Porter at the last test
OF strength. controlled about twenty
eight Of the thirty-seven wards. Quay
will urge his followers to make fight for
state delegates, even though they are
beaten This Is the policy OF Penrose and
Durham.
General j. s. Clarkson. who can not be
said to De a Mckinley man." figures out
the probable strength OF the leading Re-
publican candidates in next years con-
vention as follows: Mckinley. 300; Reed,
lCs: Harrison, 1874; Allison, 7O Morton Is
credited with New York's VOTE Hastings
with Pennsylvania and Lincoln with that
Of Illinois
Congressman John B. Robinson an
nounces that he proposes, II possible, TO
defeat state Senator Jesse NJ. Baker for
re re-election. The reason given IL that
Baker had the judicial apportlonment bill
so amended that Delaware county does
not get an additional Judge Ex-State
Chairman T. V. Cooper will support Baker
II II Il
Ex-Congressman Cooper of Indiana,
says that year ago he would have re-
garded General Harrlson's chances for a
denomination az little better than moth
ing; but since then his movements among |
the people have convinced him that the
ex-president will be renominated on per-
haps the first ballot.
Il H II
1t 10 intmated that one OF the reasons
which may persuade Congressman Paul |
Sorg to immediate himself on the altar of
his party's gubernatorial necessities IN
Ohio this year is the splitting habit. Sorg |