The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-09-26
POLITICAL GOSSIP.

Senator Pettigrew, of South Dakota, ad
v!ses political prophets to keep an eye on
Senator Cushman *. Davis, of Minnesota.
Says he: Davis prospects brighten ev-
cry hour. lie VIII so into the convention
with five to eight states solid. He is a
friend Of all the gentlemen whose names
have been mentioned for the place, and
VIII not excite personal antagon.sm
While nobody ever accused him of being
q trimmer or attempting to carry water
on both shoulders. there S no truer friend
in the country of both the working man
and the business man. 1t is perhaps a
curious fact that while so many d.stin-
gushed and able lawyers have been al
most all Their lives representatives of Opu-
lent ra 'lroads. steamship companies. etc.
Davis has never been n corporal ION law
yer. Indeed, he has generally been en-
p'oyed against corporations in law suits
which affected them. 1t would be n great
thing for the United States If II could
have at the head of affairs n man whose
sympath.es are so cosmopolitan. and
whose scholarship embraces at once the
practical knowledge of the statesman
and the elegant requirements of n lttera-
teur. Perhaps no man in America has
more thoroughly mastered our relations
with other nations. and his speeches and
reports concerning the bumptiousncss and
tend to increase his popularity at the pres
ent time
Walter Wellman learns that the Cleve
IiHu ptOple Iliu SET up IL JDD Oh oend-
tor Hin prior to the Syracuse convention.
whereby the Democratic state machinery
was to be adroitly wrested from the con-
trol of lIll and put IN the hands of Whit
ncy. But David tlmbled to the trick and
soon had It nipped. Senator HILL" says
Mr.. Wclman. "hnds 1t impossible to for
give anyone who opposed his election for
governor last fall. That was the saddest
experience of David's life--he was caught
in his own trap and slaughtered with his
own weapons-and i has left scars on his
soul: If Charles Fa.rch!ld. cx-secretary
w year he could now T have @ what HATH he wa wanted, ted
which Is the nomination for governor next
year. Hin won't permit any man who
boltcd him in 1894 to have anything to say
now. HIS hand Is raised against every
that crisis. Moreover, he has n shadOwy
sort of conviction that 1t was Mr.. Whit
ney who set up the governorsh.p job on
him last summer. and he doesn't intend
that Mr.. whitney shall get his clutches
on the party now. lI,ll doesn't IKE Whit
ney. and. while not fighting him openly
has concluded to TO into the Warwick
business on his own account"
II j II
Professor Sh.el, of Piitston, thinks the
plank in the state Republican plat
form calling for the enforcement Of the
public school from politics would make
rooms Of eyaTy Gy f %ns board o tine e
the state and If Senator quay should
earnestly. sincerely ana successfully work
to convert that principle from a mere
abstract statement into a cancrete. living.
working factor in our public school sys-
TEN, he would achieve the greatest VIC
nant in fruitful results to his state. Let
him." the professor adds. work for the
accomplishment of this end, and II he sue
and enduring monument ii, honor ~ bis
achievements as Thaddcus Stevens. the
founder of our common school system. or