The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-10
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According to the Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin, q journal by no means friendly
10 what is known in Philadelphia politics
as the antl-combine crowd, of which Sem
ator PenrOse is the leader, Mr.. Penrose
upon whom the mantle of Don Cameron is
likely to fall. Is but little more than SO
years OF age. the same age as William j.
Bryan. This comparative youthflilness,"
adds the Bulletin, ''is sometimes given as
reason why he would not be fitted for
senatorial service. But scores of men
have gone to the senate at even a younger
age. Clay entered the chamber when he
was thirty; Jackson was the same age
when he became senator from Tennes-
see, and John c. Breckenridge presided
over the senate when he was thirty-five.
PenrOse has had fourteen years of con-
tinuous service, first in the house and
then in the senate at Harrisburg; he has
the requirements of a Harvard educa-
tion; he has been trained in the legal
profession; he has written on historical
and political themes; he Is lucid and CO.
gent speaker in debate; his tastes in pub
lie life have been in the direction of civic
studies; he has inherited the partisan tenn
per of Charles B. PenrOse, who led the
great Whg battles in the senate and
house at Harrisburg half u century ago,
and no one has been able to show that his
hands are not clean. His personal pres
ence Is marked by distinction and virility
Of manner and expression. He came into
the politics Of the Eighth ward with the
reputation Of a young silk stocking who
might have something of bent toward
reform and reformers, and he has devel-
Oped into type of the educated stalwart
not unlike such college-bred men as Hen
ry Cabot Lodge.
"The patience and self-restraint which
Penrose showed, with no small degree of
dignity. after he lost the prize Of the may
orally. when ii was almost within his
reach, gave considerable evidence of
strength and maturity of character He
can wait long and fight hard and strong.
He has the candOr and straightforward
ness of politician who has enough for
tune to be Independent of the passing
changes. and enough brains to take care
of himself without playing the small tricks
of the craft. We have never heard a
charge that could be fastened on his pub
lie character. The sewer rats that
swarmed into the cesspOols of scandal
which his enemies stirred up two years ago
brought him into a temporary disrepute of
the same kind that many of the best char
acters in public life have suffered from
the days of Hamilton and jefferson to
Cleveland and Arthur. The scandals that
were flung at Penrose We're conceived in
the malignant recklessnesS OF the coiners
OF slanders and clippers of reputation. He
has followed Quay with unshrinking loyal
ty ever since Quay himself was an Eighth
warder, and ne is clever specimen of the
machine politician who IL both orna-
mental and useful. and who believes in or
ganiZaton and fidelity to leadership. be-
cause he has read history well. and be-
10 of 10 N
makeup The city had such men in poll
tics when DR.. Michael Leib went to the
senate. and ! have fancied that Penrose
has had ingrained into him a good many
of those old-fashiOned traditions of parti-
sanship that are not at all Incompatible
with civic worth, and that often make
man of aristocratic temper very demo-
cratic In his dealing with the crowd
o
Lonnie Warren the famous eX-bicycle
racing man of the days of Glass "B' (sea-
sons '94 and 80. was in the city yesterday.
Mr.. Warren represents the Sterling Cycle
company of Chicago and has put q "g7''
Model Sterling wheel on exhibition in the
display room of the local agents, Bitten
bender & Co., where 1t will remain for Il
few days. The '97' model of this popular
bicycle Is beauty, and has brought forth
much favorable comment from all who
nave examined IL
o
Attorney John G. McAskie is being
doomed for burgess of Dunmore and there
is every likelihood that if he cares for
the office he can have 1t. He would be ac-
ceptable to the people. being one OF the
most progressive and public-spirited citi
zens of the borough and he deserves any
recognition the party can accord him, as
he is always to be found in the front os
the fray in local and county battles. Mr..
McAskie was the first man to Demon
strate by q close canvass that Dunmore H.
solidly Republican, something that no one
had dreamed Of until the canvass had
been maze.
Attorney John r. Scragg was years ago
one of the hustling and ubiquitous re-
porters on the Scranton newspapers, and
on this account probably Is always ready |
to assist the interviewer in working up
the telling features in a grist of news. |
While in the reportorial harness Attorney |
Scragg performed his duties f.N.hfully and |
gained patience and tact that have been |
ya In h1p aids n supcesa in tho lapal pro. |