The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-10
EIGHTY-SEVEN NEW
MEMBERS ENROLLED
Young Mems Republican Club Increasing
at Rapid Rate.
RULES FOR GOVERNMENT ADOPTED
Addresses by William COnneii and
Major Everett Warrcn..Club Will
Meet on the First Friday of Every
Month Except in September and DC.
tOber, When Weekly Meetings will
BE Held.

At the rate of increase now going on
| in the Young Mems Republican club
| that organization will have within its
| ranks before election day upwards oI
| seven or eight hundred young men. al
| lied to advance the principles of protec-
! ton, prosperity and sound money. Al
| last nights meeting 81 new members
were enrolled, and at the meeting be-
fore that Il were added.
The meeting was addressed by Will
| liam Connell, briefly, and by Major
| Everett Warren with an eloquent pres
| entation of the issues of the campaign.
| The first order of business was the
reading of the report of the committee
| on constitution and bylaws by Attor-
| ney James j. II. Hamilton. 1t was
adopted with slight amendments.
The club will be known as the Young
Mems Republican club and will meet
| the first Friday of every month, except
during September and October, OF each
year, when meetings will be held every
| Friday night. It's object is to advance
| the interests of the Republican party.
At each meeting of September and Oc-
| tober, at least one public speaker will
| deliver an address.
MIR. CONNELL'S REMARKS.
After the constitution and bylaws
were adopted and the proposition OF
members was completed, the order OF
business was suspended and Mr.. CON
| nell was introduced by Mr. Hamilton.
| The latter said that the Young Mems
! Republican club is composed of men
who earn Il days pay on salary ny
| the sweat of their brow. and Mr.. Con-
nell, who began at the lowest round OF
| the ladder, needed no introduction TO
| such an audience.
Mr.. Conncll desired to give warning
not to trust too much in what can be
heard on the streets and in the Offices
| that this election is all one sided. DO
not be deceived he said; while the other
party may not be making any noise
| they are actively working; but even IL
| they We're idle, it is our duty to let the
people know that those VINO adNoca'"
these strange measures are not gong
| To impress them upon the American
people.
| He said the real issue now is the
tariff and not the silver question. fou'
| years ago the Democrats put 1orth ifec
| trade as it's doctrine. The mess ma i"
of /. has necessitated adopting another
| issue, and hence the silver craze Is
taken UP. Any one who looks over the
figures, he said, will be astonished at
the millions of dollars worth of goods
| that come into this country from
abroad each year. While the mills here
are idle The Republican party offers TO
correct this by protective tariff.
THE CRY THEY RAISE.
The opposite party realizing now
| that their arguments on the silver
question are not carrying much weight
with the people, have raised the cry
| of the classes against the masses. Mr..
COnnell said there is no such thing IN
this country as classes against masses.
He himself began work driving u mule
for 40 cents a day and worked from
thatto the mines. He was as much of Il
man as far as the qualities so to make
up what constitutes manly worth, as
he is today;and he would consider it
an insult to have any man say TO him
| that because he may not need to work
now as he did then that he is any better
| than the man who has to work.
Mckinley in the white house is not
of much use without Il Republican con-
gress at his back, and it is necessary
| to take interest in the legislative offices
| for United States senator is to be
elected in this state next year. If there
ever was q time in the history of the
country that the nations cause is in
| need of defenders, it is the present, he
| said. and thanking them for their APP
| probation. he concluded. He was greet
ed with warm applause when he began
and when he ended.
MAJOR WARREN'S ADDRESS.
Major Warren was also rec ived with
great applause, and during the
| course of his eloquent address said in
part:
thank you for this opportunity of meet
ing ana greeting the Young Mems Repub-
iican club of Scranton. | am thoroughly
in sympathy with the objects of your or
Sanization. In politics as in war success
| is assured better and easier by organiza-
ton and training than in any other way.
You have enlisted in the most cventful
campaign of recent times for upon its
issue depends not only the integrity and
fair name of our government, but the well
fare of its people. Within the memory
of men still living America has seen two
campaigns which history will describe as
revolutions We are now in the midst of
a third canvass which likewise will be
chGonicled as revolution. The Harrison
| campaign of 1910 was the change of a
dynasty.
For a generation this country had been
under the influence of the masterful Jack
son, who had in some way evolved a gen
ius lor finance out of his experience as an
Indian fighter. Apart from the New Or
leans battle, however, Jackson's princ-
pal legacy to his country was the panic of
lS3'; thls panic was the direct conse-
quence OF the Democratic policy. The peo-
pie responded in anger and elected Cen
eral Harrison. The Harrison campaign
turned on the vote of Maine. History
seems to repeat itself, Maine turned the
has answered the Chicago convention in a
voice that might have come from the
throat of whirlwind. 1t buried free Sill
yer under an avalanche of votes that ef-
"a fnrn1lt. II,
foreshadOws the result in November next
throughout the nation.
THEY GAVE US PANICs.
Van Buren, gave us panic and at the
same time bequeathed us a war which
under Polk become the wanton invasion
of Mexico buchanan developed panic
and also gave us war.
Mr. Cleveland Is too good a Democrat
to break the Democratic record. He gave
us the panic of 1898 and we owe to the
|. .forebearance of Great Britain that the
incident of Venezuela did not evolve into
| war. This tendency of Democratic con-
troll of the government to blossom into
panicS and flower into war makes the cleo
tion of Mckinley the most solemn duty
that has devolved upon American citizens
since the election of Lincoln. Then the
issue was the life of the Union. now the
issue is the honor of the Union. Should
we fail now 1t would be the victory of dis
honor over the ballot, as in 1861 it was the
victory of treason over the ballot. The
Democratic party is in state of appen
dicitis and whether 1t can be saved by the
subsequent careful carving of the Indian
apolis accretions is q problem too dilIi-
cult for me to solve.
There can be no middle course in this
canvass so far as the Republicans are
concerned. no alliance with any other
party. Either the Democracy in the state
of appendicitis as at Chicago or the, De-
mocracy in state Of golden hued incense
as at Indianapolis. There never was a
time when the Republicans should stand
more firmly to their principles.
Silver is thing of the hour, today it Is
and tomorrow 1t Is not, an intermittent,
fantastic business going with the clouds
on which it came, a sort of political night
mare from which the people will wake and
marvel they could have dreamed such
a