The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-01-10
POLITICAL POINTS.

The Republicans of LuZerne are united
in their purpose to send Congressman Lei
senrins as one of the district delegates 10
the national convention. and will do their
level best In the state convention to have
Hon. Charles a. Miner chosen as one OF
the delegates-at-larse. There Is rattllnS
contest for the Second district delegate,
the aspirants being Colonel William j.
Harvey, Theodore Hart and Morgan h.
Morgans, with possibly some dark horse
TO be entered. II is said that the delegates
from Carbon. MOntour Columbia and wy
ominS will be likely To unite with LuZerne
In support OF Alr. Miner for deiegate-at-
large.
III
There will be lively times in Lancaster
county presently when the Republicans
hold their primaries 20 nominate local can
d!dates and delegates 10 the state and ma
t!onal conventions. In Lancaster these
nominations are made by popular vote di-
rect for the candidates. and more votes
are usually polled than at presidential
election. If the Scranton Republican were
published there il would doubtless allege
that the excess votes were east by Demo-
Gratis.
Lieutenant Governor Lyon, who might
reasonably be supposed TO cherish guber-
material ambition, has Informed some OF
his friends that he iS not Il candidate ana
will support Congressman William \.
Stone for governor in 1898. Unless Sena
tor quay changes his mind during the next
two years he will also support Colonel
Stone. Two years, however is a long time
in politics and many changes may occur.
ILL
The announcement that ex-senator Platt
has no expectation of being able to nOmi-
nate Governor Morton for president will
not surprise any one Very few people
have at any time believed that Mr. Platt
wanted Morton nominated What he
wants is Il New York delegation that will
obey orders and vote as they are directed,
wit hnlt being too inulli lisit!ke tn the
why's and wherefores.
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There are symptoms of Republican peace
in Philadelphia. Quay and Martin are on
speaking terms now and may yet shake
hands across the bloody chasm. 1t is
about time tnat the Republicans of Phil
adelphia get together. Since the war be-
tween the factions the Republican major!-
ties have been increasing so rapidly in that
city as to almost wipe out the Democratic
party.
Schuylkill county has three common
pleas judges, but she might just as well
have only one, inasmuch as two of them
are hopeless invalids and cannot perform
their duties. They refuse to resign and an
attempt is to be made to compel them to do
so. This incident supplies the Phiadel-
phia Press with the text for a strong ar
ticle in favor of law pensioning judges.
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The New York Evening Post. the only
ultra-British paper published in the
United States. has soured on Cleveland
since he gave vent to his Venezuela mes
sage. Previous to that the Evening Post
divided its smiles about equally between
Great Britain and the president now 1t
has smiles only for the formeF and frowns
for the latter.
Governor Morrill,. OF Kansas. declares
that Prohibition Is a failure in that state.
that the law prohibiting the sale of liquor
cannot be enforced. This will be the sig
nal for a violent attack on the governor by
the PrOhibitionists all over the country.
They have no patience with a man who
says Prohibition laws cannot be enforced.
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If President Cleveland were only able to
exercise little influence over a few
Democratic sena tors 1t might be possible
to enact legislation for the relief Of the
treasury without increasing the national
debt. The Republican senator's are willing
to do this, but there are not enough of
them.
II has been alternately announced that
the present session of congress will be a
short and a long one. These announce
ments have not been made by the members
OF congress-they haven't the least idea
" he ther the session will be long or short.
and they will not know until some time
next summer.
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The average Democratic leader tries to
be patriotic one day OF the year-the day
when he celebrates what they call Jack
son Day" If jackson We're alive he
couldn't be a Democrat without being glar-
ingly Inconsistent But you couldn't make
u Democrat believe that.
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New York hopes to secure the next DEM
ocratic national convention and Is work.
ing hard for It, For once Hill and Cleve-
land are in accord. Both favor New York
as the place for the convention, and both
Will contribute money to secure it.
ill
The New York Sun includes our Sena-
tor Cameron in its list of green goods
statesmen" Pennsylvanians are no lon
ger interested in Senator Cameron; they
seem to be Indifferent to what he does or
leaves undone.