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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17
The Great Eyader,

The Scranton Times has just donated
another half column Of editorial space
to The Trbune's Mexican dollar object
lesson, and once more it lodges the
point. 1t started out to claim that the
American silver dollar wasn't worth
any more than the Mexican silver dol
shown that a Yankee silver dollar
would buy two Mexican dollars. al
though one Mexican dollar contains
more silver bullion than one American
silver dollar. 1t shifted the argument
and declared that the American dollar
was held UP to the gold standard be-
cause it is a full legal tender. But SO is
a Mexican dollar a full legal tender in
Mexico. Hence that explanation
doesn't explain.
The reason why an American silver
dollar Is worth two Mexican dollars,
Notwithstanding the fact that the two
Mexican dollars have nearly 2 1-6 times
as much silver in them as the American
dollar has. is simply and solely because
It is backed by gold, in the manner
clearly explained in yesterdays issue
by Secretary Carlisle. Remove that
gold backing, and the American silver
dollar would fall with q thud to the
level. or below the level, Of the Mexican
dollar. That Is all there is to 1t. The
Times can't get away from the fact
without ignoring q demonstrated truth.
BY the way. why doesn't the, Times
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17

of Homestead made an excursion to Can
ton to give Major Mckinley personal as
surance Of their hearty support. This in
cident came in conflict with the Times
frequent allegation for Bryan and free sill
yer coinage. But the Times was equal to
even such a contingency, and now it as
serts that the tyrant employers of the 5000
Homestead iron workers compelled
them to make the journey to Canton
against their will. The Times must place
very low estimate on the manhood and
independence of the workingmen. The
real explanation of the action Of the men
of Homestead is that they have sense
enough to know that the way to attain
their desire is to restore the protective
tariff policy, and in William Mckinley
they see the proper man to do the restor-
Ing.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17
QUAY AND HASTINGS.
From the Easton Free Press.

rioii tie Eastoh riec IIesS.
Senator Quay is opposed to no one more
strongly than to Wanamaker, and his
friends and supporters everywhere should
know and realize this and act accordingly.
Quay's friends should see to 1t that dele
gates friendly to Quay are elected from
every district, SO that the nominees for
the legislature also may be friendly to
Senator Quay and ready to support him In
all good work. Let us elect Governor
Hastings to be the successor to Senator
Cameron. For what Is wanted now Is a
strong, capable man to represent Penn
sylvania in the United States senate in
place of Cameron. It is indisputable that
Governor Hastings would make an excel
lent senator. Whenever you see u state
ment that Senator Quay Is for this or that
man for senator and Is not for Hastings,
put it down that the statement Is false.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17
ANIMPORTANT CAMPAIGN.
From the Carbondale Leader.

From the Carbondale Leader.
This is an important campaign. Per-
sonalities should not enter into n consid-
Grafton of the vote for congressman. and
Lackawanna does not want to be repre-
sented at Washington by a free siverite
or free trader, no matter how lovely he
may be personally. Every one who is op-
posed to these baneful heresies should be
certain to cast his vote for William Con-
nell who stands for honest money and
the manufacture of American goods ny
American workmen at American wages.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17

man adopt our test? Let him take 100
yer dollars and see with which lot he
can purchase the larger bill of ex-
change on London, Berlin or Paris.
That will answer the question whether
or not the gold backed American silver
dollar is worth more in foreign lands
than the free coinage Mexican dollar
which contains the larger number of
grains Of silver bullion.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17
Don't BE Too Sanguine.

Secretary of Agriculture Morton
says 1t Is all nonsense to conclude
that the battle for sound money has
already been won, and we are In
and Maine have never been claimed
by the Popocrats. They do not lie
within the natural sphere of William
j. Rryan's influence. And while 1t is
undeniable that the verdict of those
states. unexpectedly emphatic as it IS,
is source of great qualification and
encouragement to those who are bat
tling for the restoration of business
confidence and prosperity, it would be
work Of ineXcusable faulty to con-
clude from these two skirmish line
brushes that there is no special need
for getting into fighting trim in an
tlcipation Of the decisive battle.
We are confident that Bryan will
he defeated. We trust that he will
be defeated overwhelmingly, as he can
be if the sound money forces will
guard against premature conclusions.
But it is not politics to take that for
granted. The real fight has yet to be
made. In the middle west. where the
pivotal states are, Bryan started with
the odds in his favor The silverites
had been for years preparing the pub
lie mind for n free coinage harvest.
that vast area with silver literature.
They had played with consummate
adroitness upon the springs of popu-
lar discomfort. They had propogated
the impression that all disappoint-
ments in life We're due to the gold
standard. They had imbedded sophis-
tries in minds that afterward proved
reluctant to comprehend the truth.
We repeat that Bryan had the odds
in his favor when he started. We don't
think he has them in his favor to-
day, for the. simple reason that in the
turned upon his shallow assumptions
and unjustifiable deductions. But the
subject at issue is too grave, too mo-
mentOus, too far-reaching for good or
i'll in the consequences Of it's determ-
ination to justify the slightest relaxa-
tion on the part Of those who have
error. While we may think that the
odds Of battle are turning, and while
the evidence is pretty clear that they
are turning, the only safe way is 20
act as II the final issue were yet in
volved In doubt. Such q course of
action will either make victory doubly
welcome or rob defeat of any just
cause for self-reproach.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17

An effective refutation Of the fallac-
les contained in Bryan's Madison
Square Garden speech has been written
by James 5. Barcus in a dialogue form
and published under the title: 1.-THE
Boomerang; Or Bryan's Speech with
the Wind Knocked Out" The book
justifies its title. for it simply annihil-
ates Bryan's argument.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17
OUR COMIC NEIGHBOR.
m the Milkes.R Barre Record

From The Wi1kes-Barre Record.
The Scranton Times Is an intensely
Bryanlte- -Free-Silver-C Coinage organ, much
more intense, indeed, than any other ex-
Democratic paper published In this sec
ton of the state, and consequently 1t 8
more ridiculous In its dellverances. The
fact is that 1900 hard-handed iron workers
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17
WILL GUARD THEIR OWN.


FROM the Times-Herald.
Having a gold dollar as a basis. the
people viii express their disapproval of
the attempt to cheaper 1t. Having Il
wrotchedly inadequate system of rev.
cnues the people will vote for n remedy
that has been tried and found to be ef-
frorious
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17

The chance to work steadily at good
pect held out by Mckinley. 1t beats
the Popocratic cheap-dollar fake
scheme all hollow
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17
WILL ASK HIM TO MOVE.

From the Baltimore American.
It Is generally understood that, while
Major Mckinley may prefer to stay home
during the campaign, the people will po-
litcly ask him to be ready to move after
the vote Is taken
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17

The American Volunteers took the
field against Satan on March Of this
year. Today it has lis differed posts,
has made 900 conversions and has COM
municated its teachings to total of
27O,550 attendants at indoor meetings.
The American Volunteers has been
called IAN army Of deeds. not creeds.' -
It deserves the epiGram.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17

i. ]. Edwards, better known as "Hol-
land" the New York correspondent OF
the Philadelphia Press and one of the
most trustworthy and capable Journal
lists OF the country. has written cam
paign pamphlet entitled "The Silver
Conspiracy" which more effectually
combines history and argument in sup
port of the gold standard than any
other publication, big or little, that we
have seen. 1t is published by the Hub
bard Co.. Philadelphia.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17
LEGISLATIVE.

Senate. 2lst Distrlct-COL. W. ]. SCOTT.
Representative. lst Dstrict-JOHN Il.
FARR; I'd D!strict-A. T. CONNELL;
Sd Dlstrict-DR. n. c. MACkEY.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17
II will tell you how I am frying ;

II will tell you how am trying TO
run this campaign" said Chairman
Hanna to Walter Wellman, in New
York a couple Of weeks ago. II am
proceeding on the theory that we are
going to win by majority of one vote,
and that that one is in danger of get
ting away from u.s." That is the way
to Win
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17

Congress-WILLIAM CONNELL.
COMMISSIONERS. w. ROBERTS. GILES
ROBERTS.
Auditors-A. E. KIEFER. FRED l..
WARD,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17

General Palmer doesn't appear to be
in danger Of getting many votes. but
II he works it rightly he can have a
lot Of fun.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17
COUNTY.

Congressman at Large-GALUSHA A
GROW, SAMUEL A. DAVENPORT.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17

Tuesdays primaries in Philadelphia
demonstrate for the third or fourth
consecutive time that the Penrose-
Durham faction, despite its profuse
claims, is very much in a minority
when it stacks up against one David
Martin
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17

The Tammany type of Democracy,
as exhibited at the Buffalo conven-
tion, doesn't propose to let a little
thing like principle stand between 1t
and the control of the regular party
organization. What does it care for
principle, anyhow?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17

The free silver farmer always lives
over the line. in the next county. He
is harder to locate than the base Of
the rainbow.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17

This assault has to be met This surge
of reputation and revolution must be
| rolled back. The swelling tide of sanity
| of reason, of patriotism and of all right
eousness must move on without a check
1t must be turned as the rivers of water
are turned on every doubtful state The
country has too long paid the frightful
price of doubt over these issues, on which
rest the foundations of society. One hour
| of real question as 10 the election of Me-
Kiniey and Hobart would outweigh n
thousand-fOld the cost of reaching with
direct spoken and printed arguments every
voter in every state. Diffused as the
doubtful voters are through both parties
in every state, in both city and country.
the campaign of education and agitation
is costly beyond all the past. The final
result must quiver in uncertainty, unless
it is possible from now until November TO
flood the doubtful states with argument
and to make the canvass man by man and
house by house with patient perseyer-
ance. This is indispensable. Maine se:-
ties nothing but the drift of the tide. I'm
less it is seized at its flood and carried on
to victory by tirelcss, unremitting work,
the ebb will be hoarse with the roar of
defeat and destruction to the Nation and
to all its great fabric OF industry and in
yeStment,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17

If the truth must be told, Senator
Teller's prediction of Bryan's success
has a very audible boy-in- the grave
yard sound.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17

nerve the silver trust to make in
creased expenditures in Bryan's be-
half. which is a good reason why
sound money men should keep right
on fighting.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17
CHEAP MONEY NO CURE.

From the Times-Herald.
The hardships the farmers suffer today
are pleasures compared with the hard
ships OF their fathers. Think of that long
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17

1t is eminently fitting that n gentle
man Of personal responsibility and
honest intentions should hesitate long
and solemnly before deciding to ac-
cept congressional nomination on
the Chicago platform.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17

TO put into activity once more the
good money that we already have
should be the aim of every sensible
voter. Not cheaper money but more
business Is the need of the time.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17

Governor Hastings predicts 100000
plurality for Mckinley in Pennsyi-
vania 1t ought to be easily that
large, and it is likely to be still larger.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17

1t will be noticed that McKinleys
speeches are growing better day by
day. In this respect they are differ
ent from Bryan's.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17
MAKING HISTORY.

From the Times Herald.
The front porch campaign is making his
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17

Senator Jones does well to get In
advance all the satisfaction he can out
of the theory that Ohio is for free
silver. He won't have much chance
to cherish this delusion after Nov. 3.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17

The dispatches report Bryan as be-
ing exceedingly weary. He and the
public can now swap sympathy.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17

The Times says straw votes on rail-
road trains don't amount to anything
because people are 'too poor To
travel" They were not too poor to trav-
el prior to the passage of the Wilson
hill
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17

Maine has done much. More remains.
The East Is secure. The West must be
secured. This perilous campaign holds
no hours SO full of peril as those which
pass before November. No state will
speak. No majorities will be heard. In
silence the millions will gather to decide
an issue still to he decided. For years
great classes have been piled with all the
arts of the demagogue and all the lies OF
self-nterest. Worldwide causes have re-
duced the apparent return to the farmer.
Labor agitators find their sure reward in
setting class upon class, and for the first
time in a century of presidential elections
q presidential candidate aids, abets and
leads them. Envy has been sown thick by
men whose i'll trade of detraction and DEM
agogery prospers when the ignoble pas
sons of men cast up the mire and dirt
of the nethermost depths of society. Great
newspapers are aiding. Lying documents
are seeking every farm and reaching ev-
cry laborer. The prosperity which all
thrift shares is used to barb the weapons
and point the shafts Of venomous assault
on the very structure and framework Of
law and order, because it Is easier to place
before the envious eyes of men the wealth
of the few than the vast advance in COM
fort, health, happiness and prosperity OF
the many.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17
THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
NATIONAL.
STATE.

9resident-WILLIAM MKINLEY.
2ice President-GARRET A. HOBART.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17
THE NOBLEST WORK.

From the Baltimore American.
An honest dollar is the noblest work Of
politics.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17

Bryans egg argument conveys the
inference that under free coinage the
government would buy at $1.29 an
ounce all the silver that would be Of
fered But the government would do
nothing of the kind. All it would do
would be to stamp 4l21a grains of sill
yer and alloy as dollar and hand 1t
back to the bullion owner to take its
chances. And like the Mexican dol
lar, such a dollar would soon fall to
its bullion value.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17
The Lesson Taught
by Names ResdIf.
From the Philadelphia Press

FROM the Philadelphia PresS.
The magnificent majority in Maine ends
all doubt in the East. In the West it
leaves no doubt, if this crowning mercy is
followed by such fight for the right as
great issues and great peril demand and
deserve. Maine Is the one Eastern state in
which the supporters OF free silver coinage
claimed chance. and nominated Sewall.
The state is the only one east of the Ale
ghenies ever carried by Il Greenbacker. II
Is new state. II was admitted after Ill
nois. Most of its area has been settled since
either Indiana or Illinois. 1t is a mining
state. Its industries have suffered cru
ely. The Maine farmer has endured more
than the Western. Silent factories have
yielded Il host of the unemployed. The
lumber of the interior and the fishing
of the coast have both had Il bad year.
Not Maine port but has its vessels
tied up. The loss from cheap freights in
Maine has been bitter and hard to bear.
| The Democratic party in Maine kept Its
organization. 1t is efficient. 1t was well
provided with speakers and documents.
All the East was neglected TO concentrate
on Maine. For twenty years Maine !e-
turns have recorded a vote which respond
ell to effort and pre-n%ured the future,
now on enc side and now on that.
These facts deepen the lesson of the
verdict. 1t was made on one issue and
one oniy-silver. II was made after the
fullest knowledge. on both sides the
last vote was polled, The state has
spoken. The result Is decisive. All
! classes unite. The logging camps and
the fishing villages, the farm townships
and the factory villages, the cities and
! the great counties which stretch for
| leagues with here and there house, all
are of one mind. one act. one vote No
room is left for doubt. No space is left
for question. To no single element in
| the varied population of Maine can free
silver point as responding to its plea
it's argument or its appeal to the envy
ana discomfort of men. The Democratic
vote Is cut down to the sheer bare bulk
OF voters whom nothing can detach from
party. mastless, leaderless hulk, rolling
submerged and watcrloggcd in this great
tidal wave, whose triumphant surge has
rolled in upon the coasts of Maine as the
waves come when navies are stranded.
For this great deiverance all thanks
giving and praise. The great experiment
of self-government is again sealed in sue
cess and crowned in triumph. Once more
liberty is justified of her children and free
dom proved the wiscst rule known to men,
The steady march of law, of honesty and
of honor which a great Nation has kept so
long with flying banners forward hcnt
along the open highway of the worlds
praise is not to end in - quagmire Of
repudlation and the Uuicksands of mob
law. The influences felt in Maine will be
felt everywhere. Maine leads. The people
have spoken. Once more and yet again
| divine Providence guides their utter
ance.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17

tune have relieved from any necessity
for exertion. the great mass of the
American people are laborers, either
with their brains. or with their brains
and hands. or with their hands, and
that the great capital fund of this coun-
try's wealth is the labor of its citizens?
And does he realize that the financial
policy which he would inaugurate. will
cut in half the purchasing power of the
wages of all these people?
mo one can read the later speeches Cf
Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. Tillman without see
ing that they have begun to realize that
their free silver facts are fictions., their
arguments are fallacies and that the
burden of their song now is In the de-
nunciation of wealth and in the attempt
to excite those whom they call the
masses against those whom they call
the classes. There are. of course, eX-
ceptions to every rule, but, in general,
the possibilities of individual enjoyment
are limited and the so-Called rich men
are nothing more than trustees, and. IN
general. they recognize the fact that
wealth is a trust and not n gift. Who
maintain the great colleges Of this coun-
try, whose doors never open so quickly
as when a needy and Industrious stu
dent presents himself? Who build the
churches of this country? Who endow
the great hospitals in which the poor
can now receive a degree Of medical
and surgical care and an amount of
comfort which no mere wealth can ever
buy?"-From a Recent Speech by c.
Stuart Patterson.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-04
TALK OF LYNcHING.

The Bluefield Telegraph of yesterday
prints the following special regarding
| the outrage upon the person of little
Mary Gullion, an account of which APP
peared in yesterdays Times.
The preliminary hearing of the case
against VIM. Duncan for assaulting the
little girl, Mary Gullion, was held to-
day. The courtroom was crowded almost
to sutfocation. The victim of the brute's
lust was in the courtroom, but was not
put on the stand. The examination had
proceeded but little when it was seen by
the prisoners attorney, NJ. L. Browning,
that the evidence was so damaging that
something had to he speedily done or the
people would take the law in their own
hands. Mr.. Browning asked for re-
cess of one hour and Il half in which to
summon other witnesses and the court
granted the request. During this recess
Duncan was struggled away and taken To
Tazewell for safe keeping. This was
made necessary by the excitement of the
people, who were threatening to lynch
him.
Duncan confessed his crime to Mike
Rupert, policeman, and another man.
He said he threw himself on the mercy
of the court. and would promise not to
commit IL like offence again.
We were misinformed as to several of
tuc Ill our vi
1t seems that the little girl was lured to
the woods near the town by Duncan, who
was drunk. He gave her candy and
treated her kindly, and she went with
him. She was not utterly helpless after
the assault, but came out of the woods
with Duncan, carrying wild flowers in
her hands, which he had gathered for
her
She told her mother what had happen
ed, and an examination by the doctors
disclosed the fact that She was fearfully
laceratcd.
Her father Indifference is subject of
general remark. He seemed to consider
it no more serious matter than if the
child had the headache.
Duncan i married man and has
family in Bluefeld. His aged father lives
here also.
TO look at this frightful occurrence in
it, true light the responsibility rests to a
great extent upon neglectful parents
The child was allowed to run alone upon
the streets, and, consequently. make ac-
quaintances that must necessarily tend
to her decentralization sooner or later
The Indifference of the father over the
fate OF his baby daughter is astounding
to people of feeling 1t is possible that
a.man, a human being. made in the inn
age of his Creator, endowed with under
standing and paternal feeling for his Off
spring, could be SO Indifferent in aS eXas
perating n case as this:
The brute that committed the out
rage has sunk to the lowest depths of |
depravity. His crime i evidence of that
fact but the father who is unmoved in |
the face of such an indignity to his |
daughter is lower, if possible. than the |
fiend in human shape who outrages a |
baby. Such a parent deserves the con
demnation of men. and the hate and
loathing of his children and family. and
this man probably has both. With the |
sin 'nurtured sheer of born bastard of
moral depravity. he is unmoved in the
face OF an awful crime, and that crime
committed upon his own flesh and blood.