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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-08
SOUND POLITICAL SENSE.
From the Troy Times.

From the Troy Times.
The Scranton Tribune is an earnest Re-
publican paper, which does not hesitate
to freely speak its mind when in its view
party leaders make mistakes. But 1t rec
ogniZeS the necessity of party organiZa-
tion and discipline within reasonable and
well defined bounds If Republican govern
ment Is to be properly maintained and
safeguarded and authority lodged in re-
sponsible hands. In a thoughtful article
on Government by Party" The Tribune
alludes to the exciting situation in New
York city, and after deprecating the sug-
gestion that the Republican organization
there should abdicate and yield to the de-
mands of outsiders 1t says:
"It will hardly be held that II parties
may be released from service and dis
banded in municipal affairs there will be
any consistency in clinging to party in
state and national politics. The governor
of a state Is not called upon to be more
OF a partisan than is the mayor of a
large city, and if either be chosen re-
gardless of party ties then II will be In
order tc argue against party and in favor
of non-partiSan personal government In
the nation, after the fashion of Mr.. Cleve-
lands second administration. We do not
believe that the American people are ready
thus to discard the forms Of government
by political parties which have served
them upon the whole acceptably during
more than 100 years"
That is sound American common sense
and sound politics.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-08
In II to Win.

On the day, not long ago, that Spain
caused a false report to be sent to
Paris of the capture of a large Cuban
filibustering expedition, wealthy
Cuban in that city cabled to New York
that he had forwarded $4,000 to make
coed the loss. And yet these are the
people whom Spain has the sublime
effrontery to charge with being In
capable of government.
We have personal knowledge of
another Cuban, long a resident OF this
country, who has cheerfully sacrificed
estates in Cuba worth before the war
not less than $250,000 and who now,
from his daily earnings, supports
large circle of Cuban exiles and regu-
larly contributes fourth part of his
income to the revolutionary cause, and
his example is not by any means un-
common among his countrymen. At
the beginning of the present uprising
he offered to abandon all and volun-
teer, but the junta considered that his
best service could be performed in this
country. OF such is the backbone of
the present Cuban movement for free
dom.
Facts are more eloquent than words
in refuting Spanish falsehoods concern
ing the revolt in Cuba. First denying
the claim of the Cubans to belligerent
rights, Spain sends to Cuba 100000 SOL
diers, strains herself for nearly three
years, practices every conceivable kind
of cruelty, exhausts every dollar of her
credit and then is forced at last to
make official acknowledgment that her
campaign has been failure-all be-
cause of the opposition of what she has
continuously termed a handful Of
ignorant rebels. Does Sagasta's talk
at Madrid sound as if the Cuban up
rising bore the character heretofore as
cribed to it by General Weyler and
Minister de Lone?
What is now proposed? Certainly
not more war, for Weyler did all the
warning that Spain Is capable of. with
out success. Persuasion? So Sagasta
intimates, bu. did you ever hear of a
man, after suffering the abuse that
Cuba has suffered, letting up on his
abuser when the latter AZ consciously
licked but refuses to acknowledge it?
We dare say Cuban nature is not diff
ferent from human nature elsewhere,
and we have yet to find in these parts
a normal specimen of man who would
listen to coaxing on top of the treat
ment vouchsafed to Cuba by Weyler.
The government at Washington may
be fooled by Spanish artfulness, but
we don't think the Cuban patriots will.
They are in this fight to win.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-08
THE IMMIGRATION QUESTION
From the Lancaster Examiner.

From the Lancaster Examiner.
Some time ago Terence V. Powderly,
commissioner of immigration, wrote a
letter to a personal friend in New YORK
in which he plainly and clearly gives his
views concerning the department over
which he presides. In the opinions con-
tanned in this interesting letter. the new
commissioner announces the doctrine that
if anarchism is bred beneath the foster
ing wing of monarchy it ought to remain
there as a parasite upon the monster
which gave it girth. 1t ought not to be
scattered abroad and allowed to carry
the poison germs of political disease into
the New World.
Mr.. Powderly aptly illustrates the dan
ger which threatens the country through
immigration by reference to the old-time
idea that America is the asylum OF the
oppressed, and the refuge Of the down.
trodden in every land. He cheerfully ad-
mits that there was a time when the
people OF the United States could af-
ford to entertain such sentiments, but
that was before the oncomers became op-
pressors, and when the tide of immigra-
tion to this country was not a stream OF
refuse" to quote the exact words. When
water moistens the earth as rain 1t is
welcome, is his rotion. But when it comes
as did the floods at Johnstown it is a
danger to be averted.
Mr.. Powderlys other view-that no vote
should ever be put in the hand of ignor-
ance--will find wide acceptance. Happily
the courts are more carefully looking
after the intelligence of the foreign voter,
and refuse to naturaliZe those who cannot
read or write or understand the English
tongue. In time we will solve the natur.
alization problem by making the quail
fications mentioned conditions precedent
for citizenship. Every one knows Mr..
Powderly is an able man, and II he carries
out the views expressed in this private
letter it can be said over again that Pres.
ident Mckinley is very happy in his ap.
pontments.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-08
The Next Prothonotary.

When a man like John Copeland,
of Carbondale has worked his way
up from the ranks to business posi-
tion of responsibility and trust, all
TIL while gaining the esteem of his
neighbors and the admiration of those
associated with him in labor, it is fair
to assume that the qualities he pos
sesses are real and substantial, and fit
him for wider responsibilities in a more
public relationship. 1t was the recog-
milton of this fact by many Republic
cans prominent in the councils of the
party that led to Mr.. Copeland's nomi-
nation for the prothonotaryship
This Office is of much greater import
ance than appears on the surface.
The prothonotary is the custodian of
invaluable records, upon the safe care
and orderly arrangement of which
much at all times depends. His duties
as an officer of court are numerous
and eXacting and call for practical
sagacity and a spirit of judicial fair
ness no less than clerical accuracy and
promptitudc. He is no mere figure
head but vital and influential part
of the machinery of the county govern
ment. and after the office has been
filled so efficiently and acceptably as
by Trothonotary Pryor, it is doubly
necessary that no mistake shall be
made in the selection of Mr.. Pryors
successor.
1t is the belief of those who know
john Copeland best that no citizan bet
l. q. qualified for such a trust resides
III Lackawanna county. On the score
of character and personal fitness his
candidacy is irreproachable. Equally
strong is his claim upon the Republic
can party. For half a generation he
has been fighting the battles Of Rcpub
lcansm in the upper end, often
against odds that would have excused
discoura cement; and tie best t9sti-
monal which can be offered of his
efficiency and steadfastness in party
service is the record of Republicanism's S
steady growth in Carbondale and its
vicinity; a record which is very large
ly a consequence of his indefatigable
efforts.
To support with carnestness such a
candidacy should afford pleasure to
every Republican and every admirer
Of sterling worth.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-08
The Henry George rlovement,

1t is beginning to impress the public
mind in greater New York. and less
distinctly throughout the country, that
the mayoralty candidacy of Henry
George, deemed insignificant at first,
has behind it the same dynamic possI-
hilities that made the national candi-
dacy of William j. Bryan formidable
has fallen fiat. That unprincipled con-
spirdcy Of public plunder strong in
ordinary times because of the very pas
siveness of the better elements, finds
now that there is an agitation Of thu
popular conscience and a general
quickening of civic vitality which
makes its negative candidate and its
still more colorless platform appear in
a sense ridiculous. Force of past osso-
citation may cause it to poll a few
thousand votes, but instead of the pub
lie menace which was expected of it in
the present New York mayoralty cam
paiyn, the situation has suddenly shift
ed and behold it is Henry George who
looms up as the dangerous factor in
the problem.
And, strange to say, the peril in
Georges candidacy lies in the very
honesty of the man. If he We're a shall
low schemer or mere enthusiast, The
bottom of his political movement would
soon drop out. But while there is
massed behind his candidacy the un-
disciplined and chaotic strength of the
general restlessness of the urban poor,
who grope for their own betterment
without any clear idea of the necessary
means, Henry George himself is an or
ganizer Of marked ability, a man sim
gularly possessed of the genius Of COM
mand, and moreover a man absolutely
sincere in much that he teaches. Men,
tally Bryan's superior he is also far
superior to Bryan as an effective poll
tician, as a manager Of political forces;
and he has moreover superior store
of practical worldly wisdom. With the
zeal of the enthusiast he unites much
of the shrewdness and calculating pow
er of the mere diplomatlst; and the
combination. when reinforced by the
entire socialistic ferment of the dlsaf-
fected elements In the population of a
great city, naturally becomes some-
thing which prudent and conservative
citizenship should not fail to take into
careful account.
Mr. Georges platform is a mix-up. IT
indorses well-nigh everything unique
and bizarre in modern socialism, from
free and unlimited silver coinage down
to three-cent fares, dollar gas, and pub
lie debating societies. 1t is regulated
upon the plan that II any group of citi-
zens don't see in II what they especial
iy want. all they have TO do is to secure
the incorporation of their hobby is ia
form separate organization and ten
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-08

der to Mr.. George another nomination.
II is not platforms that Mr.. George Is
concerned about but votes; yet unlike
most politicians his eagerness for votes
is, we believe, prompted far less by
any personal ambition or vanity than
by a somewhat heroic although in the
main mistaken inspiration that the
placing of himself in office would be
followed by the administration of sub
stantial benefits to the great masses of
the poor. To the modern city problem
with its deepening shades of social and
economic contrast he comes as a mas
culine Joan of Arc, Offering himself for
leadership much in the spirit that ami
mated the maid of orleans, but like
her, destined, we believe, to be power
less at the finish.
Presenting, as he does, this parallel
to the Bryan canvass of one year ago.
how does the opposition sterd? One
year ago it centered on Mckinley, con-
quered at the polls and trusted to rs-
suits in business for vindication that
speedily came. Today in New York
the forces of conservative government
and stable social order are widely d.
vlded and the instrument of this divi-
sion, Seth Low, is asserting from the
stump that he proposes to continue as
factor Of disruption unto the end. 1t
is a situation to cause genuine and
widespread regret among lovers OK
good government and one which puts
| on Mr.. Lows shoulders most un-
| enviable responsibility.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-08
THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
hintc.


State Treasurar-J. S. BEACOM, or
WestmUreIaEd.
Auditor General-LEVI G. MCAULEY,
of Chester.
County.
Sheriff-.CLARENCE L. PRYOR, OF
Scranton.
District Attorney-JOHN II. JONES, OF
Blakely.
Prothonotary JOHN COPELAND. OF
Carbondalc.
Treasurer-w. s. LANGsTAFF, of scran-
ton.
Clerk OF the Coprts--THOMAS p. DAN
IELS, of Scranton.
Recorder - CHARLES HUESTER, OF
Scranton.
Register-WILLIAM X. BECK, of Mos
cow.
Jury Commissioner - CHARLES WIG
'i1NS, of Scranton.
Election day, November 2.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-08

Does the strictly independent Car
bondalc Herald deny that 1t made
overtures to sell out it's influence to
the Republican county campaign man
agement, and when Informed that its
support was not wanted, replied that
il would then deal with the DemC-
Gratis? But perhaps we give its antics
unnecessary notice
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-08
MEANT WELL.
From the Times-Herald.

TIUIII lIIt IIIIIt5-IItIuIu'
The society reporter Of the Des Moines
Register evidently enjoyed himself thor
oughly at a reception held in that town
the other night and we strongly suspect
that he stayed until after the refresh
ments were served. At any rate he said
next day: at was a delightful social
gathering, which will linger through life
as a green and pleasant oasis that will
ever stand as one OF the mi.estones along
life's highway as a tender memory and
vibrant chord in the heart Of each OF the
participants"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-08

According to the Times, the "inter-
est of every poor man who has an am
bition to enter public life demands
that Mr.. Pryor should be defeated"
Are we to infer by this that Mr.. Pry-
or's opponent, the present county
treasurer is posing as the poor mans
friend? And that, too, when for every
dollar that Pryor possesses Schadt
can lay down a $40 bill?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-08

The platform adopted at the national
convention of Democracy in 1896 may
be endorsed fully and without le-
serve by the Lackawanna Democrat
ic convention in 1897 but it will not be
so endorsed by the thoughtful voters
of the county.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-08

The state bank commissioner Of Kan
sas is a Populist, but even he is forced
to admit that prosperity is overtaking
the Kansas farmer. Seven years ago
the mortgage Indebtedness of Kansas
amounted to $25O,OOO,OOO; today it is
less than 10000, 900 and is decreasing
steadily. Kansas at this rate will soon
recover her political sanity.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-08

that In his death Scranton and Penn
sylvania sustain a loss the full proper
tions of which are possibly as yet un-
guessed
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-08

Do the paid agents Of Democracy
who are calling the Republican county
ticket q ring ticket suppose the voters
don't know that the rankest of rings,
the city hall Bailey-Boland ring, Is
responsible for the nomination Of
Schadt, Horn, ct al?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-08

Tom Platt has had Mugwumps to
deal with before.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-08
FIN LIE s
FOR FINE
Dress
Goods

Has always been pro-
verbal, and OUR constant
ly growing trade ON lower
and medium priced goods
only tends to show that
we are also to the front
ON this lime of goods, as
we'll
To demonstrate this
fact more fully than ever,
we have placed ON sale for
the next TEN DAYS,
Three Great Specialties,
that are we'll worth the
attention and scrutiny of
the closest buyers--as we
guarantee them the best
values i'm NEW GOODS
offered this season
/, is a lime of Mixed Chew
lots, strictly wool and
am Al cloth for general
wear. This week, $l.oS
a Dress Pattern
,, choice lime of jacquard
and Camel's I'll al r
effects. An imported
cloth and shown only i'm
the newest color-con1-
binations. This week,
$3.35 a Dress Pattern
5, a line of high class
"Crepon'' effect. "Nov-
city" Suitings, also i'm
the latest Color-Combi-
nations. Looks equal to
goods at more than
double the price. This
week, S4.S5 a Dress
Pattern
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-08

One 1l2-piece Royal Blue English
Porcelain, worth $500; sale price, '.$lS O'
One 1l2-piuce Brown Printed under
glaze. worth sl2.00; sale price ...... "
One S5-piece American China Brown,
Border Pattern. full gold lined ana
gold illumination, worth 5000; sale
price .'.s.ss''.''.' ''''' ~ ~
Seven 1l5-piece Brown and Blue Eng
lish Prints, clean, nice White Gran
lite. worth $500; sale price .......,.. O
One 115-piece Gold Band set. worth
$1,000; sale price ................,,.... II
Six 100 and 112-piece Pretty Hand
painted filed in Patterns (PinD
English Porcelain, worth sl1.OO and
$500; sale price $500 ana 10 D
DO NOT MISS the opportunity II, yot
need dinner set.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-08
MINISTER HOsHrs NEWS.
No Danger of Serious Trouble He.
tween Japnn and HnHxnfi

No Danger of Serious Trouble He
tween Japan and Hawaii. ----
Minister Hoshi of Japan has received
late advices from both Hawaii and Japan
which state that negotiations on the diff
ferences between the two governments on
the immigration question are going for
ward peaceably and that there Is nothing
in the progress of the negotiations to jus
a1fy reports that there is a probability of
serious trouble between the two govern
ments.
The minister's advices state that there Is
nothing new in the situation and no cause
whatever for apprehension.
With respect to the editorial statement
of the Japan Herald that Japan has de-
signs on the Hawaiian Islands, and was
making preparations to supplant the Ha-
waiian with the Japanese Tag, the minister
authorizes the NEST direct and positive de-
NAL of them without even basis of
fact
The Japan Herald, he said. is an English
newspaper published at Yokohama in the
English interest and was entirely discred-
tied by the government of Japan, to which
IL had been hostile for twenty-five years.
1t was entirely without information from
the government and its utterances had no
sanction from Japan or the Japanese peo-
pie.
The government never gave it any infer
nation or news of an kind ami it's state
ments to JaDan's having designs on
Hawaii the minister characterized as I'M
warranted and untrue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-08
THE TRIAL RESUMED.
Hearing of Charges Against Station
Keeper Allen In PrOgress.

Hearing Of Charges Against Station
Keeper Allen In Progress.
The long-drawn-out trial of Station Keep
er Allen of the first police precinct which
was begun before the board yesterday,
was resumed this morning, and Mr. Web
ster Ballenger, one Of the compliments,
was heard. He related to the board the
story Of his arrest and Incarceration in the
police station. Although he alleged in his
complaint that he was denied the facilities
for sending messages, he said he sent four
notes. but they were not all delivered.
Some officer in the station, of whom he
asked to be permitted to go to court in
carriage, informed him that he would have
to receive the treatment given criminals.
This kind of language, he said, was also
used by the station keeper. He asked that
he be permitted TO sit in the Office behind
the rail, instead of being put in a CELL but
this was denied him. The privilege of US
ing the telephone was also denied him.
Mr.. Ballenaer did not think he was prop
erly treated.
There was a colored man in the cell with
him. he said, who was charged with vio-
lating the bicycle law and Mr.. Ballenger
left collateral for him. This action. he
thought angered Allen. Sam Banks, the
colored man whom he had released, prom
ised to take notes for him, but one of them
he did not deliver. Mr.. Ballenger said he
was not able to tell much about how long
he was in the cell, but he knew he thought
minutes were days, and, judging from his
feelings, he was in there for year.
Sam Banks, the colored man, was called
but he was not able to give much evidence
He paid little attention to what was said,
because, he said, he was thinking about
getting out.
Lieut.. Amiss, Sergt. Shilling and other
officers were present to give evidence to
show that the station keeper performed
his duty. The hearing will probably be
concluded this afternoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-08
CHARGES CRIMINAL LIBEL,
Robert e. I. white Brings ACCUSE
tfOn Against Thomas staIey.

Robert e. I. white Brings Accusa-
tfOn A9AiAst Thomas Staley.
Mr.. Robert E. L. White who was recent
" nominated BY the President for appoint
Ment Is Justice Of the peace for the Bright
wood district, and whose nomination was
afterward withdrawn. this afternoon VISIT
ed the Office OF Assistant District Attorney
MuHowney At the Police Court and re-
quested that a warrant be issued for the
arrest Of Mr.. Thomas ]. Staley. a real es-
tate dealer. whose office is at 623 F street,
the charge being criminal libel. After hear
Ing the facts of the case. Assistant District
Attorney Mullowney ordered that the war
rant be issued.
The warrant alleges that in a commune
cation to Senator John H. Gear. dated June
. last. Mr.. Staley uttered certain fake.
defamatory and malicious statements re-
garding Mr.. White, which tended to injure
him. The letter. which was included in
the warrant. sets forth that Mr. White is
an incorporating democrat Of the worst
kind, gambler. a horse-racer. a fire.
quenter OF saloons. He was appointed, so
II Is said In the letter. by President Nc
ktnley over good republicans who had re-
sentatives and other influential persons.
Continuing. Mr.. Staley wrote that he could
back up what he alleged. He desired to
make these statements, he said, for the
purpose Of defeating Mr.. Whites confirma-
ton BY the Senate. In conclusion, he in
CURED OF Senator Gear what was neces-
sary for him to do to that end.
The warrant will, in all probability. be
served this evening or tomorrow morning