The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-24
POLITICAL GOSSIP.

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POLITICAL GOSSIP.
One Of the events Of the Cleveland
league convention was the witty speech of
Postmaster James II. Hoyt at the big
banquet Thursday night In the Arcade.
He kept the 1000 persons present in con-
tlnual roar of laughter and applause.
This was his introduction: IN this uni
verse every creature performs some APP
propriate function: every cause has IT'S
legitimate effect. and everything has Its
proper place. The viper and the song
bird. the poisonous herb and the blushing
rose. the dreadful storm and the shining
calm. are all essential parts of the COM
pleX whole. We finite beings cannot at
tempt with our inch of line to sound the
immeasurable depths of an infinite intel
ligence. For all we know, evil is no less q
part of the great plan than good is death
may be as essential as health Tennyson
voiced great truth when he sang:
Nothing walks with aimless feet
I say with reverence; hell itself may be
an institution of unspeakable mercy and
not only the archangel Gabriel, but Satan,
too, u chosen instrument. 1t may fairly
be conceded. then although we are unable
to discover It. that there Is some good but
inscrutablc reason for the continued ex-
istence OF the Democratic party"
General L. A. McAlpln. the new presi-
dent of the National League of Repr lean
clubs was born in New York city June ..
1915 He was only a lad of l3 when the re-
bellion broke out. but the fever took hold
of him and he ran away from home to
fph nurpntc hrnnpht
him back once, but he ran away again,
and was again captured. He enlisted in
the New York National guard I'm 1870 and
was rapidly promoted from the ranks to
colonel. Governor Morton recently ap-
pointed him adjutant general of his staff.
General McAlpin was elected president of
the New York Republican league In 1890
and increased the number of Republican
clubs from 200 to 1000 In four years. A few
years ago he ran for congress in Demo-
cratic city and increased the Republican
vote by 1900. His home Is in Sing Sing,
n. Y.
Some Republican journals that should
know better are speaking these days
about Hastings dynasty. There is no
evidence to prove that the governor has
yet overstepped the proper functions of
his position as the chief executive of the
second greatest state in the Union. What
ever of dynasty he has built up is
largely the result OF his official position,
and Is inevitable in the case of man bent
upon giving the people a clean and honor
able administration.
When all the speech making was over at
the Cleveland league banquet. the audi
ence yelled far another speech from Toast
master Hoyt until to quiet it, he had to
tell "A humorous tale of sleeping car
passenger in a rear-endI collision, who
looked out of his berth when the first shock
was passed and anxiously inquired "ls 1t
all over?" To which inquiry a friend re-
piled: "You darned fool, haven't you got
enough?" Laughter followed the pointed
wtt;cism, and the crowd soon after dis
persed.
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The Phttsburg Dispatch has always been
an anti-Quay paper; but 1t frankly init
mates that If the alleged Hastings-Martin-
Magee triumvirate hope TO beat the old
man" at Harrisburg in August. they VIII
have to settle upon q single man for boss,
and take his orders implicitly. The Dis
patch evinces O. disposition to discount
some of the CORY tales about the horrify-
ing ferocity of the rumored uprising
against the senator from Beaver.
The Harrisburg Patriots Superior court
slate now stands as follows: Ex-Governor,
Beaver of Bellefonte; j. Hay Brown, of
Lancaster; Judge Wickham, of Beaver; ex
Judge Reeder. of Northampton; George Il.
Orlady. of Huntingdon: l.. N. willard. of
Lackawanna, and Henry j. Mccarthy, of
Philadelphia. The appointments Will be
announced this week Simultaneous with
the notice of the governors approval OF
the BIN.
Many politicians are beginning to won-
der whom Governor Hastings will name
as banking commissioner when Judge
Gllkeson resigns; for they argue that Mr..
G,lkeson. being a candidate for reelection
rs state chairman, will not embarrass the
governor or his friends by retaining the
other Office. with which political manlpu-
lation is so thoroughly Incompatible.
The Wilkes-Barre Times declares that
there Is u misprint in State Chairman's
Gilseson's list of delegates allotted TO
Luzerne county. 1t says he only gives
one In the Fourth district, which 10
entitled to two. making ten In all for Lu-
zerne county, instead of nine, as the chair
mans call publishes
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The Hazeton Sentinel Is convinced that
there will be big fight for national dele
gates in L,lzerne. "A man from Scran-
ton," 1t says, has promised them to u cer-
tain party, but that sort of thing won't
hold out"Who is the man? and what is his
deal?
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Fred w. Fleitz Is quoted In the Cleveland
World as wanting TO take Cleveland home
with him. This must have been mis-
take. The World man probably got Fleitz
confused with one of the delegates from
Wilkes-Barre.
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Senator Quay made formal announce
ment Saturday evening of his candidacy
for chairman of the Republican state