The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-02-03
Gnnc Over to the Enemy.


appear to be unjustifablv suspicious.
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Gone Over to tho Enemy.
The following from the Scranton Re-
publican of Saturday shows that that
paper has at last ceased to be even
nominally Republican journal, but is
now committed beyond recall to the
support of the Democratic city ticket:
Democratic headquarters have been
opened at odd Fellows hall on Wyoming
avenue and here from now on until the
close Of the campaign Chairman Horn
and enthusiastic workers OF the commit
tee may be found. Every day prominent
workers from all parts of the city have
called and given assurances of their de-
sire to assist IN the election OF the Demo-
cratic nominees by every lawful means
within their power. Three enthusiastic
meetings of the Democratic committee
have been held and another will be held
this evening. Reports Of desperate ehorts
to ocorrupt voters have reached Democratic
headquarters, but every legitimate enort
is being put forth to checkmate these
schemes to secure votes unlawfully that
under other circumstances would go to the
Democrats"
Do the Republican readers of this
Democratic organ like this kind of
reading?
There is nothing uncertain about the
London Daily News comment on Lord
Salisbury's recent speech. 1t says: He
told all whom it might concern. includ-
ing the sultan. that in his opinion as
prime minister and foreign secretary,
England Is in no way bound to protect
the Armenians against their oppressor.
The little monster who gloats in con-
stantinople over the butcheres ana
worse than butcheries which he orders
and rewards will receive this announce
ment as glad tidings of great JOY. 1t
will come as a last message of death,
misery and despair to those Armenians
who have not yet suffered death by tor
| ture for worshipping Christ. Unless
| we are much mistaken, it will be read
with inexpressible shame and disgust
by thousands of decent men and women
| in England" And it might have add
| ed, in America. too.
| The passage In the senate Saturday
by a vote of AZ to &c. of free coinage
bill emphasizes the pertinacity of the
| sentiment in behalf of bimetallic
standard of coinage. We are not of
| those who hold that every friend of
silver is necessarily rogue, or that
the patriotism and integrity of the
country are confined among the advo-
Gates of the single gold standard. At
the same time. it Is clear to any who
| cares to see it that q decided majority
OF the smartest people of the United
States are today unfavorable to in
dependent action by this government
| in slver's behalf. This being admitted,
it follows that their will should be
obeyed; and judged by this standard
the senate's action amounts to some
thing not very much different, in prin-
cip!e, from high treason.
| A fine of 500 and a sentence of thirty
days in Jail form the punishment de-
creed on Saturday in Washington
against +. r. Chapman. the New York
broker who refused to betray business
/ secrets at the beck Of a senate smell
| ing committee. The carrying of this
| outrageous sentence into effect would
be a studied insult to American free
| dom.
The editor Of the Free Press is a
| young man who doubtless means WE'LL
he will therefore probably discover in
the course Of time, that abusing men
| like William Connell is a shallow style
| Of argIlment which soon loses its hold