The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-15
REV. DIR. SWALLOW
ON STATE ISSUES
Prohibition State Treasurer Candidate
Is Heard In Scranton.
OTHER ADDRESSES IN Y. M. c. A. HALL
DR.. swallow and Rev. Quincy Lee
Morrow Did Not Split Words in Up
braiding the State Administration
w. w. Lathrope, Candidate for
Auditor- General, and Charles L..
HawIey Also Addressed the Gather
ing.

Rev. DIR. s. c. Swallow, of Harris
burg, and w. w. Lathrope. of Scran-
ton, Prohibition candidates for state
treasurer and auditor general respect
lively; Rev. DR.. quincy Lee Morrow, of
Baltimore, engaged as speaker to boom
the Prohibition Good Government cam
paign, and Charles l.. Hawley, of this
city, addressed a gathering in Young
Mems Christian association hall last
evening. a. G.. Thomason. of this city,
presided. The crowd was large and
occupied nearly all the seats in the
hall.
Rev. A. F. Chaffee, Leroy Wheeler,
Dr. Bateson and other local Prohibit
tionists occupied the platform with the
speakers. The meeting began with the
singing of America" by the audience,
prayer by Mr.. Chaffee and a Prohibi-
tion song by a quartette.
DIR. Swallow was the last speaker.
He is a man of commanding presence
and an easy, graceful speaker. After
announcing that he represented a plat
form with good government as its only
plank and which had nothing to do
with Prohibition, the tariff or similar
issues of the former campaigns, he
sailed into the present administration.
A portion of an outline of Dr. Swal-
lows address follows. 1t is an excerpt
from manuscript furnished The Tri-
bune by the speaker. The complete
manuscript did not contain the speak
er's radical criticism of the state ad-
ministration:
One of the causes of the hard times is
the perversion of the law of supply and
nd off Of 4 bp
op",.sts and trusts of the country they
employ the bosses to secure legislation in
their interests. and the bosses pay them
selves liberally for hoodwinking the peo-
pie. They go farther and say what laws
shall and shall not be enacted. They &C.
tsrinine who shall and shall not be can
didates for public office, from the low
est precinct to the presidency of the
United States. This is so because tne
people love to have 1t so. The bosses de-
pend largely on the forsetfulness IS of the
people.
RELIGION AND POLITICS.
We must learn that in securing a perm
anent rddance of boss rule" eternal
vigilance is the price of liberty. 1t will
not do to take an interest in this cleo
tion and neglect the next. We must look
after municipal state and national gov
ernment. 1t is a heritage worth caring
for. We must not forget that the moral
worth of the people is of more value than
material prosperity. Washington said:
Morality and religion are Indispensable
to political prosperity" About us are
those who indulge the supposition that
morality can be maintained without re-
ligion. We must be as religious in the
primaries, at the polls, in the legislative,
and in the judicial and executive depart
ments of government, and on election day,
as we are at the family altar, on prayer
meeting night, or at the sdcramental table.
our public CustodianS must learn to
be as conscientious in disbursing from
the accumu1aions of money that have
come from millions of tax payers as they
would in handling the money of the pri-
vate individual. We must cease to count
out God in the politics of the country.
We must cease to do evil and learn to do
weil.
Every good citizen should make il his
business to crush to powder the awful
teachings of Senator ingalls,, which in
practice have been endorsed by every
political boss in every state including our
own. Ingalls, says: 1.-The publication of
politics is an irredescent dream. Govern
ment is force. Politics is battle for
supremacy. Parties are armies. The dec
alogue and golden rule have no place in
political campaign. The object is sue
cess. To defeat the antagonist and MAIN
tain or defeat the party in power is the
purpose. In war 1t is lawful to deceive
the adversary, to hire Hessians, to pur-
chase mercernaries, to muti!ate, to kill,
to destroy.
Such teachings and practice have near
ly ruined our country. Our effort should
be to redeem it from the grasp of the en-
emies of God and men.
DR.. Morrow, the first speaker, was
more pronounced than DR.. Swallow in
his charges of corruption. The eXecu-
tive head of the state, the treasury ad-
ministration, the appropriations and in
vestigating committees and the legis-
lature as a body were very nearly
directly charged with peculation.
Addresses followed by Mr.. Hawley
and Mr.. Lathrope. A collection of
money from the audience then ensued,
Dr. Morrow explaining that it was to
be turned over to the state committee.
Thomas Kelly Killed in Montana.
News was received in Wilkes-B Barre
Wednesday of the death in Anaconda,
Montana, of Thomas Kelly formerly
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