The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-28
Stand by the CoIors!

Stdlu ny thS Soioio'
There are peculiar reasons at TINS
time why Republicans should decline
on Tuesday next to vote for any Demo
cratic nominee, either in personal COM
plinlent or as a trade. one of these is
that the Republican nominees, without
exception, are capable and efficient;
well qualified to administer the duties
of the offices for which they are run
ming. and possessing fair claims upon
their party for it's cordial and entire
support We do not say that the Demo-
cratic ticket contains the names of no
worthy men; but we do affirm with
absolute fearlessncss that not a man
on the Democratic ticket could better
serve the public in office than his Re
publican competitor; and the Republic
can ticket by far outweighs the Demo-
cratic ticket in point of the ripper and
broader experience of its nominees in
public affairs. If all politics were
eliminated. the gentlemen on the Re
publican ticket would be the ones who
would stand the strongest test on
strictly business principles.
But to this strong personal showing
of the Republican ticket must be added
the important fact that it stands before
the voters of LaCkawanna county as the
embodiment in this campaign of the
admirable principles of the Republic
can party; principles which, though in
dOrsed one year ago by the largest
plurality in the history of the county,
are again assailed by precisely the
same forces that then appealed to the
voters to indorse the nernicious teach
ings of the Chicago platform. To he
sure, Organism today is trying to Sc
crete itself in the backgrounds it's local
eulogists of the last campaign are now
striving with desperate cunning to
make the public believe that the Popo-
cratic leopard, by some swift hocus
pOcus, has since changed his spots
But their efforts are unavailing. The
people see the danger; they perceive
that the men in control of the present
Democratic local machine are the same
men who eXulted last year in the vic
iOus ideas of the Boy Orator; and they
can i'll afford, in view of their verdict
then, to weaken it's moral effect now
by the slightest encouragement to the
victims of that unheeded rebuke.
We affirm it to be the duty of those
who last year elected Mckinley to sus-
tain him now. He has proved COM
pletely worthy of the peoples trust.
His administration so far as it has
gone has merited the fullest confidence
of the nation. AS a Republican, de-
pending for effective support upon a
Republican congress and hopeful and
triumphant Republican party senti-
ment, he is not to be encouraged by
the throwing of votes to the hostile
Democracy. The structure of Repub-
lican organization which in its highest
circles comes directly into contact with
him, strengthening his hands, cannot
be weakened in the lower circles with
out weakening the structure as whole
and thus indirectly weakening him. 1t
is idle to say that political enemies of
Mckinley and Republicanism can be
elected to local offices in so-called off
years, or Republican majorities mater
tally reduced, without involving the
friends of Mckinley and the believers
in his party doctrine in embarrassment
and confusion when the years of direct
national elections are reached. In
politics, as in war, loyalty is not alone
for the decisive battles it is a duty
as we'll Of the smallest skirmshes.
Fortunately this truth is pressing
home to the Republicanism of Lacka-
wanna. But let it decide each true Re-
publican to stand squarely and brave
ly by his party colors, from the highest
name, on the ticket to the lowest. Make
the coming victory complete!