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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-18
A SPLENDID RECORD.
Hyde Park Courier-Progress.

Hyde Park Courier-P Progress.
The state of Pennsylvania has not lost a
dollar since 1910 by reason of the default
or mismanagement of a state treasurer
In the fifty-siX years since 1910 the state
has received in revenues si10 974, .73, and
has paid out in the same period S407 i3l,-
l3l.6S, without loss in the treasury depart
mont. Total losses from all sources since
1910, S9,432G1-or the twenty-three ten
thousandths of one per centum. This loss
was occasioned by the failure of bank
made special depository under act
of assembly.
What financial institution in this or any
other state or country can show such a
minimum of loss in the handling OF such
maximum sum of money? Is not this
great record? Is anything more needed to
inspire confidence in the Republican par
ty? The state nominees of the Republi-
cans Will continue this good work.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-18
The Paramount Issue.

we repeat that the paramount issue
of this campaign, SO far as Republic
cans are concerned, is whether they
will stand by Mckinley and the Re
publican administration or by apathy,
carelessness or open revolt, contribute
to the encouragement of Bryan and the
cohorts of free silver.
In politics as in war it is not Gettys-
burgs alone that count. If it had not
been for the many minor battles in
which organization of forces, strength
of unity under fire and confidence in
leadership were first made effective,
the embattled hosts Of the Blue who
fought Lee to rebelllon's turning point
at Cemetery Ridge in '63 would not
have crowned with gladness that soul
stirring and forever memorable Fourth
of July. If it had not been for the
same contributing elements of small
victories earned between his monu-
mental achievements Grant at Vicks-
burg would not have had the honor
almost simultaneously to chronicle Sc
cession's second death blow.
1t is only a county ticket which Re-
publicans are asked to elect next
month; yet it is a ticket whose elec-
tion or defeat will strengthen or
weaken the party's battle line. The
enemy are on the alert to seize the
smallest opportunity. "A sheriff's office
captured now means a congressman
TO be won next year; a congressman
won then would mean strength for
Bryan in his presidential campaign
two years later There is no delimi
tation of the consequences. The one
result means the other, say what Won
will.
Republicans have a majority in this
county and they can win if they will
try. Some may think it not worth
while to try this year; but those who
say this ignore the future. Party SUI
premacy is not a thing which can be
built up one day to be kicked over the
next. The structure of party success
is not so elastic that it can be expanded
or contracted at will. Vantage ground
won must be defended. Otherwise,
when greatly wanted it cannot be had.
We appeal to loyal Republicans to
give more thought to party interests
and party welfare than to the selfish
ly-prompted misrepresentation Of NAL
contents in the enemy's livery.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-18
A Question and an Answer.

candid question merits q candid an
sWer. Saturdays issue of the daily
oracle Of Organism in this city pro-
pounded the following inquiry, to
which we hasten to append our reply:
Does The Tribune consider the gold
Democrats and the honest Republicans
or LackaWanna county to be fools and
foes of good government?
Most emphatically we do not, all
though if We had believed what the
Scranton Times said about them in
the campaign of last fall and for
months subsequently we should now
consider them even worse than fools
and foes we should even have to
consider them traitors. That paper.
during the period to which we refer.
poured out upon the advocates of
sound money in this county, Democrat
ic and Republican, the most vicious
and Incorporate daily volleys of abuse
and Vituperation ever put into the
types of q political journal edited with
pretence to some lingering remnants
of decency and fairness. We hesitate
even now. when the passions of that
bitter canvass are in some degree abat-
ed, to risk the revival Of them which
would be assured were we to republish
our collection of the epithets then en-
ployed by the Times in characterizing
the patriotic citizens of this commu-
nifty who, stepping over party lines I'M
der the impulse of a stuDendous ma
tinn11
Mckinley and honest money.
Foes of coed government? When
everywhere among judicious Americans
the action of these Democratic patriots
of 1896 is yet receiving applause and
sincerest commentator? What a fat
uous,what a supremely ridiculous oues-
tion! But we can tell you what would
expose these sound money Democrats
to a charge of folly. If, permitting
themselves in 1897 to be stampeded by
"stop thief" cry set up by their un-
scrupulous assailants of 1896, they
should now play into hands ever ready
to stab, vllify and betray them, thus
giving encouragement to the promised
renewal of last years battle against the
good faith and the honesty OF the gov
ernment' then indeed might these men
be considered as deficient in foresight,
unsophisticated, easily deceived and in
this sense foolish.
But We decline to believe that these
friends of good government of year
ago will line up this year with those
whom th2y know by very recent and
painful experience to be good govern
ments most mendacious foes.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-18
BUNcoERs ABROAD: BEWARE

1t Is tho trick of the Bryanlzed De-
mocracy this fal to make false
charges against Republican methods,
raise big dust, hire Republican NAL
contents to organize Republican bolts
and then coax individual Republicans
TO desert their party on the represen-
tation that party ties needn't count
trick, if it shall work, the Bryanitos
will get a foothoh for a hopeful fight
in national campaigns, and make just
so much more trouble for Mckinley,
the Republican congress and the cause
of sound morey.
You now see through this trick. Are
you going to let it work?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-18
Fearless and Undismayed.

The ingenious gentleman who con-
tributes to the fiction department OF a
local contemporary over the signature,
Frederick Random" seeks in his latest
imagining to make it appear that The
Tribune in the present campaign is
evading an issue. The issue which this
amiable romancer has in mind is the
alleged corruption of Republican local
politics, a condition of such fancied
depravty that even his experienced
olfaCtories, seasoned to the odor Of
political rottenness in an era when it
was no uncommon thing for ballot
boxes to be stolen in dead of night
from vaults in the court house and re-
turns altered to suit the exigencies of
Democratic campaigning, now affect to
rebel in virtuous horror. Because we
urge upon Republicans the importance
Of standing by their party while it is
under fire, Brother Random affects to
believe that we are affrighted at his
phantom of the night and afraid to
call it down.
1t is not so. The Republican party,we
would have him to realize, is in a posi-
ton to take the aggressive on every
issue he may wish to invoke. If he
will present in specific form one fact
to uphold his rcsounding but empty
accusations touching the methods of
the present Republican management in
Lackawanna we will agree to set be-
side it two facts of equal deflnitencss
in specification arraigning those who
now cry corruption as themselves
guilty of corruption twice as foul as
any which they vaguely allege. More
than that, for every spot that he can
show on the record of Republican as
cendancy in Lackawanna county we
hereby agree to disclose ten spots TO
the discredit of the domination which
preceded and which Random now seeks
to re-impose. We recognize that two
wrongs do not make one right; but we
submit to practical men familiar with
the ways Of the world that when in
politics an absolutely vicious era is
replaced by one in which nominees are
worthy, methods fair and results hon
est and progressive, a gain is made for
by the artful ISLANDERS of corruptionists
determined by any means to regain
power.
The Republican party does not seek
to hide an act in its past actions or
word in its present declaration of in
tentions. 1t is not perfect and it does
not pretend to be; but in practical re-
suits honestly won for good govern
ment in city, county state and nation
1t IS ready to stand comparison with
any party that ever lived; and it con-
siders the calumnies of the enemy
in the present critical moment as most
gratifying evidence of it's strength in
open battle and of its hold upon the
public's confidence.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-18
TOLD BY THE STARS.
Daily Horoscope Drawn by Aiacchus,
The Tribune AstrOIogeT.
Astrolabe Casts 41S a. m.. for Monday
October IS. 1897.



In the opinion Of child born on this
day the local Bryan leaders would do less
brayin' if they had more brain.
purity and reform Organized Demo-
crat" is like the stuffed skin of the double
headed calf in a side show; interesting to
look at but not very active in promoting
public welfare.
Our unterrifed local contemporaries
while pretending TO turn on tho search
light are In reality trying TO cover up the
truth with mud.
Gold Bug Horn under the melodious pip
ing OF the Bryanite Times becomes a
sort of Silver cornet," so to speak.
It IL eald that Colonel Fitzsimmons will
be Obliged TO write editorials on asbestos
paper for the next two weeks.
Civil service is one Of our greatest in-
stltutions-unless you are looking for an
oftice,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-18
THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
State.

State.
State Treasurar-J. S. BEACON, of
WestmCrelard.
Auditor General-LEVI G. MCAULEY,
of Chester.
County.
Sherff-CLARENCE Il. PRYOR, OF
Scranton.
District Attorney-JOHN r. JONES, Of
Blakely.
Prothonotary JOHN COPELAND, OF
Carbondale.
Treasurer-W S. LANGSTAFF, OF Scran-
ton.
Clerk OF the Courts-THOMAS p. DAN
IELS, of Scranton.
Recorder CHARLES HUESTER, of
Scranton.
Register-WILLIAM X. BECK, of Mos
cow
Jury Commissioner - CHARLES WIG
GINS, of Scranton.
Election day, November 2.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-18

The Tites has no fear OF what 1t has
said within the past year about gold or siS.
yer, or about the Democrats or Republl-
cans who voted for Mckinley. IL has
nothing to regret and nothing to take
back.--Scranton Times.
Then you still consider every sound
money Democrat a traitor" do you,
a tool of Wall street." n "minion of
the sharks and shylocks of the relent-
less money power? You are yet Of
the opinion that they should be
"drummed out Of the Democratic
camp" and forced to make their per-
manent abode with the "hlrelings Of
monopoly" are you? You continue, do
you, to sanction the knock down and
drag out discipline administered by
Garman and his ilk at the recent Bry-
ante state convention at Reading?
We must confess, neighbor, that in
view of your presumption in assuming
to deliver these sound money Demo-
Gratis over to Bailey, Boland and
Schadt, you have a fine supply Of
nerve.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-18
THE DEMOCRATIC OUTLOOK.
FroIn the PhiladoIptia Times.

FROM the Philadelphia Times.
The Democrats slapped the whole sound
money sentiment of the party squarely
in the face at Reading, rejected all meth
DDS looking to unity, and cannot now
command anything like harmonious ac-
tion for their ticket. A large number of
Democrats who usually vote at all cleo
tions, will either refuse to vote at all, or
cast their ballot for DR., Swallow by way
OF general protest against the existing
rule of the party.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-18
WHY, INDEED2
Hyde Park Courler-Progress

Hyde Park Courier Progress.
1t is a noteworthy fact that the Repub-
lioan officials of this county, since its ere
alton, have not betrayed the interests OF
the people, that they have been faithful
and honest, This record speaks for it.
self, Why should any citizen want TO
overthrow party that has done SO well2
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-18

that more than all else It was because
of his unquenchable Americanism, hold
ing always the flag the highest; and
then his quaint, and wholly individual
sense of humor, that caused one often
to imagine the sound of chuckle back
of the bitterest roast.
This much at least is certain; he
was the most resourceful, the most pc
cular and yet wthal the most admir-
able and influential journalist of his
ago
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-18
A POLITICAL POINTER

If you indorse the free trade and free
silver Chicago platform as the Lacka-
wanna Democracy does, fully and
without reserve" then work and vote
for Schadt, Horn, ct. al. If you be-
heye in Mckinley, protection and pros
perity, turn these agents of Bryan
down.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-18

If any expert ward worker doubts
the statement Of the Times that this
is fight for honest methods" let him
proceed at once to the Schadt head
quarters and sample the contents of
the Bryanite "barl." There's said to
be upward of S25,000 on tap.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-18

In New York one of the Democratic
candidates is going about shouting:
ITO hell with reform!" In Lackawan-
ma the Bryanite bosses will not say
this until after election.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-18

Duggan himself may be lined up, for
policy's sake; but do you suppose Dug
gan's friends are going to wreck their
constitutions working for Mr.. Mouse
for-the-Irish Schadt?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-18

In the opinion of The Tribune the presi-
dent judge Of LacEawanna county has no
regard for his integrity and is an abettor
In a scheme to ombarrass ii Republican
candidatc.-BClands Sunday World.
If you can show when and where The
Tribune said that, it will pay all your
debts.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-18

whom Fitzsimmons once scored SO
viciously for his Intellectual attempt to
stab Judge Smith at the Williamsrort
convention in '9J?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-18

spend half of his revenue as county
treasurer; that is to say, half of more
than S5O,OOO, in his present campaign
for sheriff. This is certainly a queer
kind of purity in politics"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-18

When in a city like New York on a
Saturday night, with the public up to
its neck in business and politics, an
audience of $4,000 persons can be gath
cred together on short notice to well
come to liberty a Cuban refugee, es-
capped from a Spanish prison, it indi-
Gates something which both at Wash
ington and Madrid had better be noted
with care
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-18

Mr. Pryor has not yet denied the charge
of attempted backmail preferred by Mr..
pbell.-Scranton Times.
Mr.. Lowry disposed Of that in his
speech at Carbondale Saturday night,
elsewhere reported. And that reminds
us that nothing has been heard in the
way Of denial from Mayor Bailey.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-18

Elect Pryor sheriff and he will not
feel too big to speak to you as he meets
you on the street, after election,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-18

Says the Times: "Mr. schadt 4
does not buy his nominations" And
yet the organ OF the present Demo-
cratic county chairman admitted the
Sunday following tina Schadt conven-
tion that the delegates who voted for
the Schadt slate were paid SIS apiece.
And yet it is currently rumored that
schadt has declared his willingness to
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-18

Does Mr.. Schadt indorse the Chicago
platform or does he not? If elected
Sheriff. would he use his office to help
on Organism in 1898 and 1900 or would
he not? This is the paramount issue.
II Schadt were a manly candidate he
would at once speak out.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-18

We notice that several more or less
esteemed contemporaries up and down
the valley have temporarily abandoned
their subsidized championship of the
Bryanite county ticket to pitch into
The Tribune. They are welcome to do
this; it doesn't in the least hurt The
Tribune. But Will the cashier of the
Schadt campaign pay them their price
for such a begging Of the real issue?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-18
Republicans Must
Bury Bryanism
From the Philadelphia Press.

The campaign in Pennsylvania Is not a
very fast one this year. This is largely
accounted for, doubtless, by the fact that
II Is conceded by the opposition that the
Hepublican candidates for auditor general
and state treasurer will be elected. There
Is no real pretense that any other result
is possible. 1t Is only a question of major
ity. But 1t is worth while to see that the
majority is a decisive one. There are Re
pubicanS of the most uncompromising
character who Think the majorities the
party has been getting for several years
are much too large, believing that the
party management would be OF a higher
order and the party greatly benefited in
many ways If success for the ticket had
TO be fought for with more care. There
is force in this reasoning, and there are
very Few who do not regret that the DEM
ocratic party by utter lack of principle
and steadfastnecs has got itself into such
condition Of Generalization that 1t Is
no longer respectable opposition. 1t is
hardly to be regarded as a factor in the
campaign, and there is less interest in
the movement Of its candidates than att
taches to the daily goings on of the sew
eral Independent candidates.
O.
Notwithstanding all this the attitude Uf
the Pennsylvania Democrats as declared
by the Reading convention imposes upon
tNtly INtpuDuCdn Ine uuty 10 40 MS part
in making tho Republican majority this
year as large as can be. The proceedings
of the Reading convention are notice that
Bryan is just as much a candidate for
president this year as he was last, and
that Bryanism is just as much the issue.
The fact that Democrats very generally
are now trying to run away from that is
sue does not change tho fact. They load
ed the platform with AN that was in
hn,v 1tn11a ci1G thoir
pose to tolerate nothing but Organism by
eVicting Mr.. Harrity because he would
not consent to char &c the principles he
had held all his life. The test Of Democ-
racy in Pennsylvania is fidelity to Bry-
anism, and that is all there is to that.
IT is as desirable to bury this out OF
sight this year as it was last, and we
haven't the least doubt it will be so
buried. Much, however, is going to de-
pend upon the per cent. Of the total vote
polled.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-18

Saturday evenings enthusiastic meet
where, establishes the fact that the
voters of the upper end are interested
and alert. All that is needed to insure
two weeks from tomorrow a sweeping
Republican victory is to get the people
fairly to understand the insidious pur-
poses of the local agents of Organism
and free silver, who hope to steal
victory behind the cover of false rep
resentations and pretences.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-18

When Schadt declined to lift his hand
to help ex-senator Mcdonald in the
city solicitorship fight. little did he re-
alize what a barrier it would place in
his own race for the sheriffs office,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-18

Those who read the editorials in the
Scranton Times will observe that that
papers anxiety is directed chiefly to
the election of Schadt for sheriff. Rea-
son: Schadt has promised if elected to
give to the Times the pap of the sher-
ifs office so that it may hereafter have
additional incentive to blackguard Re-
publican candidates and preach the in
sidicus and dangerous dema gogism ad-
vocated by Bryan and the Chicago
platform. Sound money Democrats
who want to strengthen Organism and
generate new abuse of themselves in
the Rryanite organ will therefore pro-
ceed at once to line up for Schadt.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-18

We are glad to hear that the advance
sale of tickets to the concert to be
given in this city on Thursday evening
as a testimonial to John T. Watkins,
the popular baritone, has been encour-
aging. For at least two reasons the
attendance at this concert should be
large. The programme to be followed
is an inviting one, both as to num-
bers and as to interpreters. But more
than that, Mr.. Watkins is an artist to
whom Scrantonians are much indebted
and of whom they should be proud.
We wish him abundant success.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-18

IT Is as desirable to bury this out of
sight this year as it was last, and we
haven't the least doubt it will be so
buried. Much, however, is going to de-
pend upon the per cent. Of the total vote
DOlled.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-11
Burns and lDwyer.

4 clipping from an indianapolis paper
gives some interesting information in
regard to Sonny" Dryer, the well
seo wn wrestler. Joe Burns, the English
1sget weight wrestler, will meet Dryer
at the Opera House at indianapolis next
Monday evening. Dryer has been giving
instruction in physical culture at Indian
aiioiis for sumo time past and has also
spent some time at Grand Rapids.
Burns is the man who stood Max Lutt-
beg of for over two hours and half in
Cincinnati two years ago, the match
being called draw. Burns also wrestled
Herbert Hale in indianapolis one month
ago, the match being called at midnight
ON Saturday night, neither man having
gained fall.
The match will be catch-as-c a tch-cap,
pin falls only to count, and the strange
hold barred. The best three in five will
constitute victory.