The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-10-03
POLITICAL GOSSIP.

Pittsburg Commercial Gazette "Dr.
Chauncey NJ. Depew is widely recognized
as one of the most intelligent and OBJ
servant of men. He Is in thorough touch
with the business, the social and the po-
litical trend of sentiment in the United
States, and has kept himself well in
formed as to the drift in the more impor-
tant European countries. In a recent in
terview on the excise question in New
York city he takes the ground that the
comirlg campaign must necessarily be a
struggle for the maintenance of the Sab
bath as civil institution. DR.. Depew
says it has taken the form of Sunday or
no Sunday The doctor believes that if
the question We're left to a popular vote
in New York a larger vote for Sunday
laws would come from the Bowery and
East Side than from Fifth avenue and
Murray hill. That the great mass of
working people, who have nothing to
gain and much to lose by the seculariza-
tion of the Sabbath, would naturally be
found in opposition to its abrogation as a
civil regulation Is not surprising. There
is nothing that shields them so effectualy
from seven-day servtude and toll as the
Sabbath, and to the average wage-worker
open saloons on Sunday would be so many,
vice and crime. Every consideration of
morality and patriotism will prompt the
mass of true Americans to rally in defense
of the Sunday laws"
III
The st. Louis Globe Democrat never
was much of high tariff paper; and just
now it is giving new evidence of the fact.
In an editorial on mckinley as a Presi-
age Republican McKiniey's name always
brings up the recollection of the over
whelming defeats of 1890 In the congress
sional elections and Of 1892 in the congress
sional and presidential elections. No in
telligent Republican doubts that McKin-
ley was directly and absolutely RESPONSE
BILE for the defeat of 1890. and largely re-
sponsible for that of 1892. The public's
memory Is proverbially short, yet as the
Republicans are still suffering from the
consequences of those disasters it has
net forgotten them. Wendell Phillips said
that defeat was education, yet, in such
cases. both individuals and parties, while
profiting by the education, usually reject
and repudiate the educators. Personally,
Governor Mckinley Is worthy and popu
lar, but in the present attitude of the peo-
pie toward him his nomination In 1906
would be bad politics.
ment among the anti-McKinley and the
anti-Harrison forces to combine at the
November meeting of the Republican ma
tional committee and elect Senator Quay,
of Pennsylvania. national chairman In
place of Senator Carter, Of Montana. The
programme includes, Of course. making
Senator Quay national committeeman
from Pennsylvania, to succeed David j.
Martin, or Phifadelpnla.
Rochester Post-Express: "Quay's al
lies? They are powerful. Here are the
most important: Platt. of New York:
,Fessenden. of Connecticut; Hobart. of
New Jersey; Clarkson, of Iowa; Foraker,
of Ohio, and Malone. Of Virginia. This
is one of the strongest combinations ever
formed in national politics."
st. Louis Globe Democrat: Senator Al
lison's speech at Marshalltown. Ia. is be-
ing generally commended by Republican
papers as that of man whom his party
could nominate for president without any
danger of losing the election"
Chicago Times Herald: "Mr. Cleveland
is disposed to regard Senator Gorman's
protestatlons of political affection as one
grand. sweet bluff for campaign pur-
poses"
II II II
Washington Post: 1.-THE Cush X. Davis
presidential boom Is not afraid to make n
noise. There Is nothing pussy-footed
about Davis