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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-31

Every yard of these Silks is new ana
represents the very cream of present sea-
sons styles. The makes are the best that
We know of. and in point of value we
have never seen their equal. DO not con-
found this SPECIAL OFFERING win
one of our periodic clearing sales, when
have become so popular. for it in no way
partakes of that nature. As is Well
known, we have a firm grip on the silk
market at all seasons, and if there's d
bargain looking for a buyer we'll get our
share of it. That's how we came by these
remarkable values now.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-31
Special Price, 49c
IS PIECES

% and 2i-inch Fancy Stripe Taffe-
tas. in some of the loveliest light
and medium color combinations you
can possibly imagine. No better
was ever sold for 81.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-31
Special Price, 2Sc
IS PIECES

S0-inch Pongee Silks in the follow
ing attractive colorings: Mais, Old
Rose. Cardinal. Rose, Light Blue.
Nile. Marine. Navy. Cream, White,
ate. Full value for 75c.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-31
Special Price, 25c
20 PIECES

27-inch La Valliere Checks in
chaste, bright spring colorings,
suitable for waists. etc. A quality
fully worth soc.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-31
Special Price, SSc
IL PIECES

All Silk Black Pongae, 90 inches
wide. extra strong and weighty for
dresses, waists, etc. Good value at .
III.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-31
Special Price, zoe
lS PIECES

22-inch Fancy Taffeta Silks. in Just
as many new and striking color
combina tions. This is splendid
lot of 81 Silks
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-31
Special Price, 49c
10 PIECES

All Silk Satin finish Brocades, in
pretty. neat styles. and a quality
worth Csc.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-31
80 PIECES

Surah Silks, in Tan, three Browns.
Myrtle. Olive. Reseda, Nice, Gar
net, Cardinal, Sapphire, Old Rose.
Orange. Nlais, Rose, Lavender,
Cream, White and Black.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-31
Special Price, 55c
20 PIECES

22-inch Black Gro-Grain Silks, with
pretty Brocade patterns. in new
designs. We call them good value
for 81.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-31
AWAITS REQlISITION.

8 News Up and Down the Valley.
The sun., 1896-10-29

Even in our own day we often
hear OF the holding up OF rail-
road train out West by band Of des-
peradoes, who proceed to make collections
at the mouth Of their shootinE,irons. Even
in country districts near New York, when
a wayward farmer, vending his way home
ward in the dark, hears man be-
hind tree cry out Put up your
handsl" he Is apt to put them up
rather than pay the price OF disobedi-
ence: and then the villain goes through
his pocket, while n pal stands ready to
shoot Incidents Of the kind illustrate
Spain's method Of raising money in Cuba.
1t is thus, also, that deprecated paper cur
rency is appreciated there. When MEL
GUIzo points his gun at an unarmed mer-
chant, and tells him that the paper he offers
is as good as the gold he desires to get, the
merchant may not be anxious to deny the
proposition under the circumstances.
1t is true that WEYLER has failed to keep
the currency up to the par of gold in Ha-
vana. But there is good reason for that.
The banks and the Stock Exchange were too
strong for him; and, il he had tried to shoot
them, they might have got the first shot.
He imprisoned some people and banished
others; but that did not help him to get
their gold, or make them take his paper.
And so, after a month of failure, he had to
stand still while the bogus currency fell far
below its face value.
We have noticed one interesting thing in
that thinly settled part of Cuba where
shooting is the penalty of dsobedience.
While the merchants say that the forced
loan is as good as gold, they raise the price
of their merchandise when they accept the
paper In payment for it. They tell their
customers that things have risen on ac-
count of the war and the arrangement Of
trade; and rs WEYLER himself admits that
this is true how can he shoot or imprison
man for saying it or for charging up accord
ingly? Things are dear at this time all over
Cuba, though paper currency is plentiful; ;
and this is n truth that must be recognized
in trade, despite the scarcity of gold.
At this distance from Havana we are I'M
able to see what WEYLER and MELGUIzo can
do about it. The banks, the Stock En-
change and the traders at most places in
Cuba have an advantage, and it does not en-
ure to the glory of Spain. WEYLER has
held up the stage coach; but the passengers
put their cunning against his ferocity.
The sun., 1896-10-29
Icllabod {.

Alta Popocratic meeting on Monday night
the principal speaker held this Bryanesque
language in regard to corporations:
~ would not antagonize the latter tcorporationsL
but we demand fair dealing. We say to them: You
may be mistaken, but it looks us though you are all
under the thumb-screws OF JoS BULL tell you
England can't control our Government or our people
Ranks sarfn1s Institutions trust rnnies railroads
oil combined, apparently, 10 oppreSs the peopis
more than in open rsrOiution II means the destruc.
tion OF institutions, and make on ererv
oorDordtf0n."
The meeting was held in Baltimore The
speaker was the Hon. ARTHUR PUE COR
MAN, a Senator in Congress, a man who has
been, and personally is to-day, active in the
management of corporations, man whose
conscience and sympathies must revolt at
the stuff he is talking and the work he Is
doing in this campaign. In pleading for
the cause of the enemies OF thrift and good
order he is running the political power
which he has created and maintained by
consummate skill amounting almost to ge-
MUS. He has allied himself with the enemies
Of his country, the debasers Of the Democ-
racy, and he must have his reward
II is too bad. He has done, in his time,
good service to his country and his party
That might be remembered in abatement OF
his offence. Butt will not be. He has wiped
out an honorable history. In this great con-
test between honor and infamy he has de-
liberately chosen the baser side.
The sun., 1896-10-29
Two Disappearances.

The wonderful campaign now ending Will
be remembered as campaign OF sudden
disappearances. Among them the follow
ing may be recorded:
The disappearance of all argument for the
free coinage of silver at the ratio OF sixteen
TO one. Previously to the nomination of
BRYAN, the silverites made show of dis
cussing the financial question. Soon after
BRYAN took the field all attempts at rea-
sonable discussion ceased abruptly on the
part OF his supporters This is one Of the most
remarkable, yet least remarked. features
Of the campaign. Neither on the stump by
the few intelligent speakers for BRYAN and
free silver, nor in the few intelligent and
respectable newspapers engaged in promot-
ing Mr.. BRYAN's election, has there been
for months any pretence of controversial
logic. Argument for BRYAN and free
silver disappeared early; it was re-
placed by bold appeal to the dis
honest impulses OF debtors, who might
profit by the repudation of honest debts,
public and private; and this, in turn, by a
yet wickeder and more desperate appeal to
the basest passions Of man In his civic rela-
tions, hatred of the more prosperous. sullen
discomfort with the restraints of law and
order, greed for the spoils Of riot, revolu-
tion, and anarchy.
The second disappearance to be noted is
that Of BRYAN himself as he was presented
20 the country for votes at the outset. The
young student of public affairs, ardent and
conscientious, il inexperienced; the apostle
of new ideals Of government. lofty and dis
interested, il mistaken; the man of the peo-
pie, devoted to the peoples interests; the
amiable and winning gentleman, respect
able in his private life and admirable and
honorable in his private character, has dis
appeared from view, utterly and forever.
In the place Of that fabricated and
fictitious personality stands the real
BRYAN, the shallow, ignorant, unprincipled
adventurer and buffoon; with talent for
s,imicry and nothing else; such a man, as
has been said, as never before in this coun-
Wy aspired to its chief Office.
There is no parallel to this simultaneous
disappearance of both cause and candidate.
The sun., 1896-10-29

dispense favor, except, perhaps, THAT she
wishes to be asked for It rather more fire.
quently and more earnestly, and that she
dispenses less. 1t results from this one
sided situation that, in discussion, woman,
within her womanly limits, speaks to man
pretty much as she likes and will continue
to do 80. She will continue to do so,
whether Emperors or Presidents govern,
and whatever be the limits Of suffrage.
She will do SO, not as voter nor as nom
voter, but as woman. There is no form Of
government which has not been already
tried, and in every one the relation of man
to woman has been, from the woman's point
of view, precisely tho same; that, namely,
OF despicnbe and cowardly tyrant whose
every toll has been undertaken for her sake,
who has been rewarded by her smile and
ahashed by her frown, and two-thirds of
whose spoil, holy or unholy, she has not so
much appropriated as had thrown upon her.
The sun., 1896-10-29
Are They Manager. to BE Tru-ted,

To THE EDITOR OF THE srS-Sir; Every nation Is a
business concern. In America are all partners
sud capita. whether il ha the labor OF our hands
Is nrused to the business managers. In other words
the Government whose duty Is TO give us the best
possible Fcturns II a Government dprs not give sat
istactory returns II has failed and shoCld be replaced
byA set OF managers.
II set OF men. candidates for election shake the
confidence OF tic country by their utteranccs that
the mere danger OF their election produces hard
times" how are they likely to succeed mauagersr
Would you intrust your savings TO them Would you
Ike TO work in concern they managed The increase
Of trade. the extension OF manufacturing. are ouIy
possible when credit cali be obtained. Who will give
credit II the pledged violate the obligations OF
credit are in power'
Every schoo!hoy knows that ninetenths OF all i-sit
innate business AMI n!ncty.ave per cent OF all cr
tension or increase OF trade or manufactures are,
and must be. done upon credit II traders and manu-
facturers cannot go ahead. what becomes OF the
workmHn' Irthe workman cannot buy food what
becomes OF the farmer; Capitalists can, ami will
leave the country: foreign investors can look for
a sanCr nation; rich men everywhere can cscapc
even with heavy loss they will lack food or shell
ter: bus what OF the people whose very existence
depends on work. you and your family are starv.
ing. Will IL help them know Mr.. Eica has had
To give up his carriage: II you cannot pay rent VIII
II be shelter TO TO know that your late emp oyer
has lost his factory. and gone to live cheaply in
some secluded place EAP oNER.
The sun., 1896-10-29
No, It Is Dead aud Buried.

The Mobile Register, Popocrat. attempts
to revive for present effect an ancient and
extinct issue:
I'VE impress upon Democrats the fact that behind
ne Republican party stands the Force bill"
1t is not so. The Force bill is dead. 1t
expired in 1899, four years ago THE
SUN killed it by making it the principal
issue in the Presidential election OF that
year. mo Force Bill. no Negro Domino
tion," was the war cry. and it won the
fight 1t insured the election of GROVER
CLEVELAND, who would probably have been
beaten but for the consolidation of the
Southern Democracy which was thus
brought about.
This was high price to pay, perhaps, for
giving the Force Bill its quietus, but under
the circumstances we would do it again.
But we object to the attempt Of our No
bile contemporary to bring the dead thing
back to life. There is not in the proceed
ings or utterances Of the Republicans of
1885 a single indication of desire to res
urrect the Force Bill. 1t is dead and buried,
and by this time it stnketh and nobody in
any part of the country, except the Mobile
Register, wants ever to hear of it again.
The sun., 1896-10-29
One Way of Raising Money.

One of the Spanish Generals commanding
In Central Cuba has given notice that those
merchants who refuse to accept the new
paper currency at its face value will be shot
as enemies Of Spain. That is one of the
new and impressive Spanish ways OF raising
loan for the war.
We are not surprised that all the mer-
chants and all the other people of the local
ity promptly accepted the green stuff, and
assured the General that to them it was as
good AS gold. They did not want to be
shot. II the General had ordered them to
accept 1t at twice its face value, they would
probably have agreed to that rather than suf-
fer trial by court martial, and then stand up
before firing squad. Lots Of men would
surrender their money rather than be shot.
This treth was often illustrated in our
country in old times upon the Western
plains when stage coach was held up :"
at the point OF the revolver or the rifle.
The passengers would rather shell out
'AAir money than die in their boots.
The sun., 1896-10-29
1.-THE Too Triumphant Mckinley"

At meeting of PALMER and BucKNER
Democrats in Boston. Mr.. X. X. BowKER
of this city gave the Democrats of Massa-
chusetts this advice:
"slve your votes. Don't throw them away on the
too triumphant MCKINLEY. Cast them whore they
can do good Tor the men Who have the making OF
the future In their hands"
That is, MCKINLEY is going to be elected,
anyway. Help build up new Democratic
machine against the so-called regular. The
advice is worthy of good civil-service re-
former, like Mr.. BowKER. What does he
mean by the too triumphant " MCKINLEY :
Can the triumph of honesty be too great ?
Can BRYAN aud the denominations he repre-
sents be defeated by too large a majority
When the vote has been footed up the
measure of the superiority OF the forces
which make for honesty and law will be
exactly the measure OF the excess of the Nc
ktNLEY vote over the BRYAN vote. The
PALMER and BuCKNER vote will be dis
missed as scattering. 1t will not be retained
in the public mind, which will not bother
with third parties. MCKINLEY, so many
votes; BRYAN, so many votes; that is the
way the result will be remembered.
Every vote for MCKINLEY is another page
in the great object lesson that the country
will have none of dishonesty and lawless-
ness. Only after an enormous triumph will
the result be accepted as final. Make the
triumph enormous Make it monumental.
Smash fraud terribly and once for all
The sun., 1896-10-29

The Hon. JOHN w. BREIDENTHAL is Chair
man of the Populist State Committee of Kan
and one Of the most fervid pOpulist philoso-
pliers OF that former capital OF Popul!sm. He
has issued an address. OF course All Populist
Chairmen do that as often as their strength will
permit. The nub Of Mr.. BREIDENTHAL's ad-
dress is the disclosure OF his opinion Of
the severity OF the integrity OF his party
associates. what we have to fear the
most from now on" hs says, is the
Of money Our people will be hired TO stay
away from the polls" No owonder Mr.. BREIpEN-
THAI shiyers Mt the money power. He knows
the weakness of his brethren. But he may COM
pose himself. Nobody will buy his Populists.
Kansas, which they have Injured and dishonored
SO long. will smash them next Tuesday.
The sun., 1896-10-29
Another worh,ngman'. Appeal.

To IHE EDITOR OF THr SuS-Sir: Fake dollars are
not wanted by clligcut and honorable work! !nyen
They Gcsir- and they demand honest money as pay
for honest time and toll given by them; and IN return
they nro wiling to grant unto others the same good
money which they receive.
The fake or false dollars that siivcr.miuc owners
would impose upon the public arr not intended TO
make the work!rsmau more prosperous. whether he
Is mechanic or farmer but such spurious money Is
really intend ii for making certain class OF rich men
SIN richer and more powerful In thcirreedy rubl cry
OF tne poor anI hase corruption ot political sys.
tenn which is established and sHouii be maintained
for the welfare % all the people.
Worklngnen, beware Of 5D-cent silver do,lars! and
asyou value yonr life and liberty scldIy aganst
every man VINO would fore. you to be thus de:raured
anu "'sh"Hor'I' {. A, J.
NEw YuRK Oct 90.
The sun., 1896-10-29
oae woman,. lac expensive Watch.
From the Detroit yree Press.

Prom the Detroit |ree Press.
They were slipping chocolate at q cafe and
talking OF watches.
II have carried my watch for ten years" said
the senior member of the party. and 1t has
never cost me penny for repairs.
Mercy" exclaimed another one. how did
You MANAGE"
II took care OF II. You know men are always
making disagreesule remarks about womeU's
watches. and WHEN my hnsba gave Inc IN Ia
he said il would probably be cut OF order rln-t
Of the time. And | just made up nIr m.ut %
show him that there one woman in ;'s
world who knew how TO take care of q wa'r'
But have you never lost IL or had II sto.-1.'
Never ! dropped il several times a. i-:-
but ii didn't show any marks"
But do the works never get out OF oTtc-:
The what?"
The works inside. Have you never broken
the uaiuspring?'
- never look inside"
- But how do you wind II :"
don't wind It. That's how take care Of 1t
and keep il nice"
They all stared moment. Then they sad,
"Oh. you clever th!ns." aud adjourned sine de.
The sun., 1896-10-29
stra,=h. Reports from Cn.caso.


From BroociYn LUs.
Were II rot for the fact II WAS the corre,yo -
C"!caso OF THL srN who sent the startuns ..ia,nl
from that city To the effect that unless sou, a. --
seen providence ihtervencs, Ch!cago. before 'fNm
Der g. VIII he the scene OF bloody riot ina -a,rd
by the Rryanitrs and Altgeldians we Shot tnvs
lhought news OF such crgr4cter a canar. lHt
knowing personally THE SUNS able corrr,pou 'p =
''"i posht and knowing that Tug SuN does NOT r't
'ahar's, we must believe that pryan's anA 49,, 80
'o"o"e'S are desperate Indeed. We trust ti,t l
hrnSe An" consequent order will prevail - ,a.c1s
hut how significant IT is that the sorlA'i,---N y
'he ahatcHis'c ship, OF which Bryan Is Captain {
A'Se'd hrst mate. should threaten In their rN'r :
I" carry Into Practice tho doctrnes which lueg oad
ers have been promugatinE
The sun., 1896-10-29

The suggestion is made by one OF Madrld's
leading newspapers II Lihcrd that the spanish
Government should take vote OF tie people OF
Spain upon the question OF abandoning Cuba.
II is sensible suggestion. AS the spanish
young men are conscriptcd 10 fight in Cuba rs
the enormous expenses Of the war are levied
upon every Spaniard, as the suffering caused by
the war is felt in thousands OF Spanish homes.
tits proper that the spanish people should be
consulted as to the continuance OF the war.
It's manfestly the oplnion Of ri Liberal that,
II the proposed pIihiScto were taken in spain.
and II II wese respected By the monarchy, the
Cuban war would be brought to an end at once
our Madrid contemporary argument upon the
subject leads directly to that opinion. Let
us" it says. ascertain the judgment OF the
merchant, the manufacturer. the Farmer, tho
workingman. and the capitalist. regardless Of
the babble OF the idler and the blocEhead.'
There is reason in this thought.
A popular vote in Cuba might also be taken
upon the same question. We believe that nine
tenths OF all the Cubans would vote in favor OF
the abandonment OF their country by spain.
And we have no doubt that Gen. GOMEZ would
be glad to stop hGhting long enough 10 permit
the taxing OF the Dltbisclt@
The sun., 1896-10-29

JTW8'
The brainiest Democrat in the Northwest. the
conhdAnt OF Tiden and Seymour and the inter-
prefer to the West and the Northwest Of their
views on public questions for a quarter of a CEN
tury, the founder OF the omaha Herald, and ono
who had high hopes OF Bryan at the beginning
OF his career and helped him until he discovered
him to be selfish and unsafe and dangerous Dr.
George l.. Miller OF Omaha, writes to the editor
OF the tficd Observer under date OF Oct. %.
MY DEARB; write to say for your Information an 4
health that Iowa is as safe for Mckinley as Vermont
and that bryan Is already beaten In his own State.
Selah
Tell that blsbraipei and big hearted man Thomas
l. James, what tell you G. l.. 81.
letter from Minneapolis newspaper man
OF twenty years Of experience in editorial WORK
says MinnesOta's vote is safe beyond doubt for
sound money.
The sun., 1896-10-29
As WALL STREET. Oct. %.


To THE EDITOR OF THE SUs-Sir: Mr.. Shearman in
forms the London Times that reckoned Pcnnsylva-
MAS electoral vote for Mr. Bryan. When challenged
lie refers in TuE Sun OF last Saturday letter
IN the Ddiiy NetcS OF July the 25th have referred
to this letter.
Mr. Shenrmnn is inventive wrote OF the Penusyl
vana farm vo;e was referring only To the farmers
votes ' in such mighty Republican stronghold as
Pennsylvania" There l. not word about PeunsyL
vanIa going Democratic. What Thought then think
now, that the farm vote even In Pennsylvania Will
show how strongly the United States farmer feels
the subject OF silver. The Democrats who came from
Pennsylvania the Fifty third Congress may come
TO the Fifty NTH. We shall sec
lhave objection TO your literary Thersites; am
in sood company. According TO Mr.. Shearman, the
United States Senate is for sale the United States Su
preme Court hen ch Is PACKED such pretty Fannys
way when writing TO the London Times. In Alabama
Mr.. Sherman assures the Times sept ~ there
nineteen counties lying in one block without bank
IL left 70. the United states Consul at BirmInS
ham, Mr. George Parker to show In the 7ires OF Sept
25 that every county In Alabama save two only
either has hank or is ntghbored by county which
has bank. Yours faithfully. MoREToS FREwES.
CHICAGO, oct. 20.
This OF course. is no answer 10 Mr.. Shearman.
1t is merely abuse OF him. and abuse for what
he did not say Mr.. Frewcu's dense ignorance
OF our political situation may tie excusable in
him as an Englishman but 1t docs not Justify
him in railing at Mr.. Shearman because he
knows something about It.
The sun., 1896-10-29
We are having a unique spectacle in politics
this ycar.-BRYAS AT Moline
Yes, and you are making it OF yourself.

The st. Louis Globe Democrat, n journal
regarded as conservative and fair. surprises
every generous mind when II speaks of Governor
WILLIAM J. STONE of Missouri as - the one
horse politician with the gum.shoe habit" Mr..
STONE is a Popocrat OF much zeal, hut his emf
ncnce as an orator entities him to the most dis
tinguished consideration. 1t is incorrect TO call
him one horse politician. He never rides less
than four horses at a time and tho wilder they
plunge In different directions the faster does
his heart beat for JOY. by the gum-shoe
habit" is meant the GoycruJrs practice of en-
snroudInG his s!nguarly handsome feet in rub
Der shoes. come wet, come dry. IL 1t bad
habit? Is it an unstatesmnnlke hab!tf The
late DASIEL PRATT upon whose style Governor
STONES Is in many respects founded. always
wore one rubber shoe and one arctic" With
characteristic modesty Governor STONE imi.
tates. but not too slavshly the great
master and model OF his own highly
composite and mixed oratory. Governor
STONES experiment in tho cross fertilization OF
meta phors and Smiles should alone be enough
to protect him from unjust criticism. But let
the heather rage. As Governor STONE would say,
the braZeu tooth OF envy cannot whip with
its implous canker the undRunted bosom OF
rect!tude, anchored like the neodle to the pole.
nigh on the everlasting breakwater. where the
drowning in their own venom