The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-19
For Representative
in The Congress
From the Elmira Telegram.

from the Eltnlra lelegram.
RI VERY voter should study the qucs-
IL ton to be voted upon at every
r election, and especially at every
IL election where lie Is called upon 10
cast his ballot for one who is to
congress. Every voter should form an In
tellgent opinion of the candidates and
their principles, and then fearlessly vote
as he believes. intelligently, independent
ly. consclentiously. 1t is the citizens
highest privilege, an act of sovereignty
an expression of his will or choice. The
man who sells his vote is a traitor TO his
country; he who is kept from voting by
fear Is a coward; he who votes intelli-
gently and independently is freedoms
friend Under all forms of government
where men have been permitted to think
and speak freely they have differed in
opinion and have been divided into parties
by these opinion =. No intelligent, free,
virtuous people need to submit to unjust
or unwise laws, nor vote for man SIM
ply because he is the candidate of a GER
tain party. The best way to secure good
government is to elect good men to Of
flee. | think every man who is conVers-
ant with affairs will admit that the lead
ers of Industries and commercial enter
prises are virtually the captains of the
world. There is a deplorably greater de-
mand in everything in which direct sup
erintendence Is needed than the supply.
man who has been educated and reared
In the school of adversely and poverty
and eventually attains wealth. promin-
ence and position, generally knows some-
thing of the value of success and the
value of property. He broadens into a
man with expansive ideas, and seeks for
that which will benefit him wherever he
may find IL. He understands from the
school of experience the relations that
should exist between capital and labor,
in order to bring prosperity and happi-
ness. He knows they are mutually SER
viceable; that capital to be productive
must employ labor and that labor is de-
pendent for reward upon capital. lie be-
comes too broad for any narrow, pol,.cal
cOnfine and is always willing to acknowl-
edge good in any measure presented for
the public good by any of his so-called
opponents. At all times open to convic-
tion. he never hastily acts, nor comes to
rash conclusions over questions affecting
the general welfare. His first, great con-
Germ is for the people to whom alone he
owes allegiance. lie believes govern
ment is a trust and the officers of the
government are trustees; and both the
trust and the trustees are created for the
benefit of the people" And there for you,
in nutshell, is the Hon. William Con-
nell
Were It not for that one element in
politics, known as party principles, -
which often serve to prejudice men s
minds, nearly every man in this county
certainly every man who has the welfare
of the county at heart-would go to the
polls on election day and cast his vote
for William Connell. 1t Is rather unfor-
tunate for us, when we find a man suited
to and capable of going into the forum
and battling for our rights, that party
ties divide us, and party prejudice takes
us from the man and ties us to a hobby.
IL we were free to act-free from these
hobbies, called political principles" Mr..
Connel would have what his work and
fealty to Scranton have honorably won
for him, the united and enthusiastic sup
port OF all the people.
o
We all know what Mr.. Connell has
done for our town, and when politics do
not sway us from rendering Justice TO a
fellow man. we are ready and anxious TO
pay Mr. Connell the tribute of respect
we feel we owe him. Mr.. Connell is a
man of the highest character-thorough-
ly representative OF our people-one Of
us, and a man for us. True, he Is a Re-
publican, but not a biased or prelude I'd
one. What he is, he sincerely is, and |
am sure II Mr., Connell thought that
Prohibition or Democracy were the best
for the people of this valley he would
be with the party that served our inter-
ests best. Whether or not we like Mr..
Connelis politics, we must accord him
the honor that he Is sincerely and honor
ably what he claims TO be, and believes
that to be for our best interests.
o
Mr.. Connell is no demagogue. He seeks