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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-09
Ready for Any Issue.

The organization of the Republican
party in this state is not at all partic-
ular upon what lines the campaign is
waged. We are ready and willing to
meet our enemies in open, many battle
upon every issue in which the people
are interested. I care not whether it is
national or state in character. We are
proud, Of course. of the record the party
has made in the administration of our
national affairs, but grand and heroic
as that record is, it is equaled, If not
surpassed by the record made in the
administration of our state affairs.
NO state in the Union supports its
schools with the liberal generosity of
our own. No state in the Union has
better churches. No state in the Union
has ADLER or more fervent preachers.
No state in the Union has more in
teiligent and conscientious men and
women. No state in the Union has bet
ter cultivated farms or more comfort
able homes upon them. No state in the
Union can point with such satisfaction
to mighty citizenship of prosperous
state in the Union has richer mines of
bituminous and anthracite coal. No
state in the Union has better conducted
railroads. No state in the Union has
brighter and more capable children. No
state in the Union has larger and better
equipped mills and factories, and in no
state in the Union do the great mass
of citizens pay so little tax to the sup
port of the state government.
why is all this? Does any person
whose mind is not deformed by disap-
pointed ambition undertake to say all
of these flourishing conditions could
exist if the party that had control of
the affairs of the state had been reek-
ing in vice and stepped in corruption? ?
VIII any sane person contend that q
free citizenship, so nurtured and so
educated, would continue year after
year to indorse by magnificent majori-
ties party whose leaders and repre-
sentatives practiced pillage and corrup-
tion upon them? 1t is an insult to tn :
intelligent voters of the state to say
that they have continuously elected
from time to time criminals as their
representatives in high public positions.
Will any one be so blind as to contend
that Pennsylvania could have forged
its way forward until it stands at the
head of the column of the great states
of this country in everything pertain
ing to the welfare and happiness of a
free people. if the party that directed
and controlled its public affairs had
been guilty of the. crimes and msde-
meanors charged against it?'-State
Chairman Elkin, at Pittsburg.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-09
COLONEL STONES PLATFORM.

1t Will be my purpose when elected TO
So conduct myself as to win the respect
and good will Of those who have opposed
me as well as those who have given me
Their support | shall be the governor
OF the whole people Of the state. Abuses
have undoubtedly grown up in the legis'
lature which are neither the fault of one
party nor the other, but rather the
growth of custom. Unnecessary invcsi"
cations have been authorized by commit
tees, resulting in unnecessary expense to
the state. 1t will be my care and pur-
pose to correct these and other evils in so
far as | have the power. IT will be my
purpose while governor of Pennsylvania
as It has been my purpose in the public
positions that ] have held. with God 3
help, to discharge my whole duty. The
people are greater than the parties %
which they belong. ! am only jealous Of
their favor. | shall only attempt to win
their approval and my experience has
taught me that that can best he done by
an honest. modest daily discharge of
public duty.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-09
WILL NOT YIELD AN INCH.

"Our young soldiers of the present war
have proved themselves worthy of the
high example set them by their fathers.
Wherever a son of Pennsylvania has
worn the uniform of his country, wheth ar
at the front or in the camp, whether fac
ing hostile Spanish bullets or the still
more deadly fever, he has followed the
colors CALAMITY and endured the hard
ships and dangers of a soldiers life with
heroic self-sacrifice. BY the fortunes Of
war, all have not had equal opportunity
to win distinction in actual battle, but all
are equally deserving of the tribute
earned by high courage and devotion TO
their country.
"If l may be permitted in this spirit TO
refer to one particular regiment, l would
recall to you that it was a Pennsylvania
regiment, and one recruited from the
counties adjoining Allegheny, that lay at
the front one night in the trenches before
Manila and bore the brunt of the desper-
ate night attack of Spanish brigade.
There could be no higher test of the quail
tiles of young troops than this, and what
Pennsylvanian's heart did not thrill when
the cable brought the words of the com
manding general across the ocean. who
after describing the fierce nature of the
attack, added. But the PennsylYanians
did not yield an inch.
"As a Pennsylvania | glory in the
words, and as Republicans l think we
may appropriately emblazon them ON our
banners in this campaign. lntrenchcd in
the indestructible record of our party, in
spired by it's glorious achievements in the
past, armed with confidence in lis fidelity
to the people, and equipped with an abid-
ing trust in its capacity TO administer the
future, here we take our stand, by the
same party flag that we have followed in
so many victorious campaigns. Whether
attacked in front or flank, whether ihe
enemy comes with Spanish stealth like
the assassin I'm the night, or whether
bearing the familiar colors of Democracy
or Disgusting himself like a guerilla in
pretended Republican uniform; whether
upholdng false and dangerous political
principles, or merely seeking to turn our
lines and get at the suffers wagon, let
the attack be met. Let us meet it in
manner worthy of our party and our
state, Let us so meet IL, that when our
great commandeT-in-chef in the White
House reads the election returns on the
morning of November 9, he shall have
cause to repeat the glorious words report
ed to him from Manila: The Pennsyl-
vanians did not yield an inch. h."-State
Chairman Elkin at Pittsburg.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-09
A Representative American.

The bereavement which has come to
Major General Joseph Wheeler in the
loss of his son by drowning. while
purely personal, supplies nevertheless
an appropriate occasion for sympa-
thetic public attestation to the superb
quality of his recent service in behalt
Of his country. The New York sun the
other day, in an editorial appreciation
worded in the Suns best English spoke
of General Wheeler as one of the finest
characters of the war, and said of him,
with entire truth:
General Wheeler is a Democrat aud a
southern man, strong in his attachment
to the south. but In this war there mas
not appeared i'm either his conduct or
speech the slightest indication of his po-
litical or sectional sympathies. lie mas
been simply n soldier of the United
States, gallant, faithful, efficient, re-
sourceful, and always magnanimous. No
complaints have come from him concern
ing either his superiors or subordlnates,
or of his treatment and the circumstances
In which nc was placed. He has accepted
his conditions without a word of cavil,
has remained cheerful and confident al
ways, even under the depression of Illness
peculiarly provocative of !rritability, has
obeyed orders without question or criti-
cism. and in all ways has sought to make
himself useful to his country and helpful
to his military comrades. lie has never
pushed himself forward. never blown his
own trumpet, never posed for admiration.
but has gone about the pursuit of his
duty, thinking of it rather than of him
self That is a characterization of the
highest type of the soldier and the best
quality of manhood, and that it is Just
and in no respect exaggerated will be, we
are sure, the judgment of all the army
cognzant of the services of General
Wheeler.
1t remains to be added to this just
Characterization that the quality of
General Wheeler's leadership in battle
has been up to the highest standards
in American history. Undisputed
testimony gives to him large pre-
ponderance of the credit for saving
the army at Santiago from the meal
culable misfortune and mistake en-
bodied in the seriously daliberated
suggestion to retreat otter the success
full stormng of Ell Caney and San
Juan. His conduct before and since
has been no less creditable. Whether
climbing a tree to reconnoitre the en-
emy getting up from a sick bed to
lead the forward charge, stiffening
up the prostrated Skaters weakening
backbone, sustaining Colonel Roose-
welt in his necessary protest against
the contemplated dedication of the
| gallant regulars at Santiago to useless
| sacrifice by fever or using with swift
| intelligence the whole power of his
| office in the attempt to bring order
| out of chaos at Montauk, General
Wheeler has been at all times a re-
preventative American commander,
worthy of admiration, obedience and
| love. In the hour of his personal sorrow
| he has the sincere sympathy of every
| fellow-citizen.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-09
Our One Hundred
and Forty-Thfrd

tThe following poem was read yesterda
at Gettysburg by Mr.. Arthur L.. Collin:
of Scranton, at the thirty-second annus
reunion of the One Hundred and Forty
third regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers
What brings ye here today.
In all This proud array,
Here to this sacred ground?
What means the rolling drum
AS marching heroes come?
Come We as ye came OF yore
Your hearts blood to outpourt
With battle flags flung to air
Come ye with battles blare
Here TO this sacred grouno?
Not so We come today
As ye came but yesterday,
Not So not so, ye come.
No pomp of war is here,
No dread forboding fear,
Lest brave attempt should fail,
And treason's cause prevail
No sword CLEAN leads the way
TO death or victory,
Not SO, not so, ye come.
The tramp of marching feet
Along the quiet street
No terror brings today.
The cannon's sullen roar,
No flames of He'll outpour
No bugle's clarion call
Awake the echoes all.
The gleam and CLINT of steel,
The rage that foemen feel,
No terrors bring today.
Echoes the measured tread,
A requiem TO the dead,
Tho dead that never die,
The banners that ye bring,
And to the breezes fling,
No menace have of war,
But to heroes, tribute are.
Heroes whose lives were giyeL.
That shackles might be riven,
The dead that never die.
Yes, this Is sacred ground,
Here slab, and shaft, ana mound,
Have each a history
Here rolled the highest wave
OF treason, here its grave
Here surged its fun red tide,
Here war was deilied.
Here rose our star Of hope.
Here hill, and vale, and slope,
Has each history.
How shall I tell your story,
Tell your deathless glory,
Tell the records that you made.
You of tho Second brigade,
Hundred and Forty -ThrdY
Amid the battle crash.
Breasting the rebel dash,
Was there ever a man to quail,
Did one Of duty fail,
Hundred and Forty"Third?
Was there ever a man afraid,
Fronting a cleaning blade?
Amid the BATH hail
Did your colors ever trail,
Hundred and FcTty-Third?
When from ambush sprang the foe
Leaping to strike the blow,
Was there one that blanched with fear
One that held life dear,
Hundred and Forty-ThIrd?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-09

In his own good time and without in
justice to any man the president of the
United States will correct the admin
istrative abuses in the war department
and show that he is as thoroughly the
master of this situation as he has been
of the previous ones since he took the
oath of office. The people who mistrust
Alger can trust Mckinley.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-09

by the major general commanding, a
lot Of unnecessary trouble would have
been saved. Sugar catches more flies
than vinegar.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-09

General Miles may seem a little eager
to claim the credit due him, but that
is probably a natural result of having
had to fight both Spain and the war
department.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-09

Governor Blacks friends say they
will fight the Roosevelt boom to
finish. In that case It is easy to fore
see what their finish will. be.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-09
COUNTY.

Congress-WILLIAM CONNELL.
Judge--F. w. GUNSTER.
Coroner--JOHN J. ROBERTS, NJ. ID.
Surveyor-GEORGEE Il. STEVENSON.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-09
LEGISLATIVE.
Senate.

Senate.
Twentieth Dist.-JAMES &. VAUGHAN
House.
First Dstrict-JOHN Il. FARR.
Second District-JOHN SCHEUER, JR.
Third District-N. c. MACkEY.
Fourth District-JOHN Il. REYNOLDS.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-09

Even in its mistakes the Republican
party is superior to Democracy at it's
best The Democrats cant get trust
on the strength of Algers misfortunes.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-09

There is no doubt of the justice of
General Miles observation that II the
natives of Cuba had been propitistsd
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-09

General Garcia says he had no
grievance at Santiago against the
American people; his difference was
with Shafter only, whom he considers
personal enemy. Well, Shafter is
out of there now and man of kindly
disposition and tact is running things in
his stead. Let Garcia make up with
General Lawton, permit his men to dis
arm and disband and lend his whole
influence to hasteneing the restoration
of peace, industry and good order.
Thus he can best exhibit the gratitude
States has done for Cuba.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-09

1t would be a sorry day for American
institutions if the Bible were ruled out
uf our public schools.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-09

war department in a nation whose
ways are the ways of peace, but an ex-
perienced and efficient soldier. trained
In every branch Of the soldiers profess
sion. Next to this, II needs n CENTER
ing OF authority in the major general
commanding, who certainly in time Of
war should know no superior and
brook no interference save from the
president alone. In the present in
stance General Miles, who for years
has been preparing himself for the
very emergency of war that lately con-
fronted the country, and whose oppor-
tunity should have come with war IL
ever, found himself, from the moment
of the beginning of hostilities, thwart-
ed at every point by a conceited civil
Ian secretary whose own army record
thirty odd years old, would not bear
investigation. His counsel was resist
ed, the Instruments with which he was
expected to do efficient military work
were turned topsy-turvy by the COM
mssloning from civil life of a lot of
greenhorns to staff positions; politics
rather than military needs was per-
mitted to dictate the assignment of
troops and the designation of their COM
manders, ,and not until this kind of thing
had got army affairs all tangled up was
the expert soldier in nominal command
permitted personally to execute his
plan of campaign, which he did in true
soldier-like fashion. Even then, while
he was experimenting at the front the
concluding incidents of the decisive
campaign of the war, intrigue at the
war department sought to stab him
in the back.
1t is not personal vanity in Miles
which does not propose to stand that
kind of treatment; it is the profess
sional instinct that recognizes the time
and place to effect imperatively need
ed reforms in a branch of the public
service which, if not reformed and put
on professional basis, will soon
break down altogether. Personally,
Miles fame is secure. But the future
Of the finest body of individual soldiers
in the world is involved in the rectfi-
cation of the notorious abuses that
have grown up in the war department
under civilian and political control;
porarily in Difference to the wishes of
the president, it will only be until such
time as he can bring it forward for
agitation until there is genuine relief.
-
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-07-16
A HoId-U Up.
Il now hope for peace earl.

When the passenger train No. l ar
rived at a point one mile east of the
Humboldt last ! light a negro and a white
man covered the engineer with guns.
stopped the train. and, going back to the
express car, thep blew it up with dyna-
mite, almost destroying the express
packages. Covering Messenger Geo.
Hughes they blew open the safe and
lifted it of it, contents, which was but a
trife, and decamped. The train went on
to Winnemucca where the damaged car
was set out, and the express matters
transferred to a box car and then pro,
ceeded east.
1t is rumored that the negro has beer
arrested. A strong posse from Winnie
mucca is in pursuit.
1t is thought the robbers boarded the
train at Reno at S:25 last uight.-Gazette
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-07-16
THE WORSHIP OF MARS.
Why the Female Mind Turns &c
the Soldiers.

1t is ridiculous for any body to imagine
that women can be kept away from q
military camp.
There is something irresistible about a
soldier to a woman and this idea has been
on deck ever since the days when Hector
threw the spear and Helen of Troy caused
the big mix up between the Greeks n
T~rojtns.
A woman admires Drawn and bravery
and Il man with a four inch chest eXpan-
sion; a man that has passed under the
critical eye of the examiners is guaran-
teed to he IL perfect specimen of IA man
and has a government stamp on him to
insure the guarantee.
Besides this he i getting ready to 60
forth and defend the flag and risk his
life to be a nero and all that sort of thing
and every woman adniires that and so do
the girls who are scarcely in their teens
From the dawn of creation this feeling
ruled the female breast and Mars was
the boy who had all the Goddesses at his
feet.
Perish the thought hat this should
ever he otherwise. Convince IA battalion
of fighters that there is not a woman i'll
the world who cares a rap for them or j.
ready to shed Il tear for them when they
die and it is a safe bet that such a battal-
ion would not go up the hill at San Juan
in the face of the Spanish runs.
The fellows who get in the front and
fight like IA house a fire generally wears
lorketS alb put their persons with some
sweet faced woman's picture between the
lids.
The great incentive to earnest effort il
a man is the feeling that there is som
woman behind him, no matter how far
who is going to Welcome him when h
com es home.
1t is strange what an attraction a mill
tary uniform has for some of the girls
and it seems to make little difference
whether a major general or the fellow
who tuo.s the brass horn is on the insid'
of it remarks the Reno Journal.
With Carson girls a soldier is Il soldier
Rank is hut the guinea's stamp, tn
mans the man for "a that
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-07-16
Clearance Sale

Saturday and Monday +. w. Day will
hold his annual clearance sale of summer
dress goods and cliildren's hats. From
past experience with these sales his Gus
toners are fully aware that genuine. bar
gains are offered, and this weeks sale is
no exception. All lawns, dimities, canvas
cloths, ETC., will be marked down from
the original selling cost and in many
cases below cost. ~ ..--rj -
De not neglect the opportunity, but
call early to make your selection before
the best patterns are taken.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-07-16
Reno Celebrates.

Yesterday bombs and irecrackers eX-
plodiug OF Virginia street and CONNER
cial Row announced to the people of
Reno that Santiago de Cuba had surren-
dered to General Shatter. AS soon as the
good E@wS from the front had been cir
cuIated among our citizens a movement
was immediately made for Il r0uSing eel
ehratiOn of the American victory. A
program was arranged during the after
noon and at s O'clock last evening the
procession was formed on the plaza OPP
tenant Frank Campbell Of Company c
acted a> Grand Marshal an the Wheel
mems Band led the parade. The Signal
Corps of Company G followed the band
and Immediately behind them came
members of the Wheclnlan's Club and
olherS carrying tlambeaus. The column
moved up Virginia street to Commercial
Sierra to Second in front Of the New In,
%vestnlent Building where the processio,
came to a halt and the exercises of The
evening took place. Daring the evening
a national salute Of t~wen1y-One guns
WAS fired, BOMBS and tirrcrackers eX-
plodel and patriotic enthusiasm pre-
vailed. Good, strong, sound Americai
speeches were male by DIR. Stuhbs ant
other prominent citiZ ms and the meet.
ing Acknowledgement.
We publish the above to show VIVA
Carson should have done on the sam,
OCCASION.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-07-16
Spanish Demands.

Washington, July 1.-THE Star claims
TO he in Il lO>itioE to state authoritative
ly that an active exchange of views oc-
cured on Monday and Tuesday between
he diplomats who are endeavOring to ar
rive at peace understanding between the
United States and Spain. 1t also states
that the Spanish Government is ready to
agree to evacuate Cuba if her soldiers are
allowed t. depart in a manne acceptable
to an army which has not been defeated
and if the United States is ready to a.
sumo the Cuba debt. The greatest diff
Guilty is with the question of war indem-
nifty, hut a solution of this may perhaps
he found in a proposal from a syndicate
of American and English bankers to re-
pay the United States its war expenses in
twenty annuities, taking in return the
tobacco monopoly and the railway con
cessions in Cuba and the PHILIPPINES.
1t is rumored that if Spain will sur
render Santiago without further blood
shed, President Mckinley, in order to IA
c~ilitate peace, may abandon the attack on
Porto Rico. If the pending peace nego
t~iatiOns succeed, the Queen Regent viii
appoint a Moret Cabinet TO sign the
articles Of peace.
The Star adds that at the last momen'
it learns that Spain has expressed it,
readiness to code Germany the Nizcay;
Islands. provided Germany Will guarant'
to Spain possession of Minanao and thu
Carolines. i'll which case Spain vii
abandon LIzon to the Unite States.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-07-16
Burial of Lawrence Elrod.

Lawrence Elrod was buried yesterday
from the Odd Fellows Hall under the
auspices of the Knights of Pythias.
Rev. Mr.. Eddie and the choir of st.
Peters church rendered the solemn bur
ial service. the choir also singing the
beautiful hymn, "kindlv Light" Among
the many floral offerings was the
knights of Pythias emblems-a shield of
flowers. The employees of the Virginia
and Truckee Railroad and the Knights
in a body marched in the funeral pro-
ceSSion.
The pail bearers were Chas. Colhurn,
Henry D~augherty, I. r. Hofer, |. y.
Fording, \. C"hn, George Bryson, Hume
Y~eringlOn and J. d. Torreyson.
Mr.. Elrod's father was unable to be
present owing to serious illness.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-07-16
A Peculiar Woman.

San Francisco, July 1.-THE family al
lowance of Jane l.. Stanford from the es-
tate of her husband, Leland Stanford,
was reduced today by Judge Hunt from
$500 to 81 900 a month. The reduction
was made at the request of the widow,
who is also executriX of the estate under
the will.
She made no explanation of her re-
quest beyond stating that the smaller
amount would he a fair and sufficient
allowance. Soon after the death of her
husband, Mrs. Stanford was granted
$4,000 a month allowance, which, at her
own request, in 1896 was cut down to
$500. 1t is understood that the distri-
button OF property has rendered her fl
financially independent of the late Sena-
tors estate.