The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-11-02

ascrtion. we have mills running ou all
sides ana the smoke of our factories Is
seen above the houses OF every hamlet.
MIR Wanamakcr says that there are
three or four hundred men daily camor
ing for work in his store, but we are TO
remcmber that the population - seventy
million people. But I would Ike To ask
Mr. Wanamuker If any soup house has
opened up in Philadelphia, or any other
city Of the federal Union. You may take
the record Of our industries all over this
land, and while the profits are not large
the volume of business is tremendous
But Notwithstanding the small profits. IA
bUr Is receiving more wages than they
received i'm 1895 under the presidency Of
MIR. Cleveland. and IL they Will but give
us a fair chance, we Will do better things.
At the beginning of the Republican ad-
minstratlOu Of affairs you must rcmem.
bCr that the manufactures OF this cotn-
try started up along many lines They
had to contend against markets that
were absolutely ChOked with the products
OF foreign Manufacture, which had been
| imported into this country under the OPP
GRAFTON of the Wilson bill and these mar
| kets had to be cleaned before there could
| be an opportunity for the demand of Am
| eriCan products. You cannot keep the
| people of this country employed unless
! you have a market for the various goods
| which you have manufactured, and we
! do not forget that when the Democratic
| party came into power they struck out
| every reciprocity treaty we had with all
other countries of the earth, and the Re
| publican party had the tremendous task
/ of trying to restore the trade that was
! stricken down by the operations Of the
/ iniquitous party that did so much to de
| stroy the prosperity of the people of this
! country.
GLORIOUS HISTORY MADE.
Morf history has been made in the last
! four years in the United States than has
| been made i'm all the years following the
! close of the civil war. People seem TO lur-
| get that the Republican party while it has
carried out all its pledges and restored
prosperity, and started up the fOrgCs, and
| started up the mills, has, at the SAME
| time, conducted one of the most glorious
! ana successful wars in modern history,
/ ana, what is more, has had the courage
| and the good sense TO provide measures
| whereby money could be secured to pay
/ the bills for the war while it was going
! on. We have raised the tariff to pay the
common expense of the government; and
| We have taken steps to sustain the war
upon which President Mckinley entered
/ with every reluctance, for ] had it from
! his own lips. in his own office, and he
! said, in that conversation, Il shall do eN-
| crythinE in my power to avert the war
/ but when all the resources of diplomacy
! and civilization failed (as Mr.. Gladstone
! puts iD and there was nothing to do but
/ fght, then Mr. Mckinley was there and
| Ac is there stll. tremendous appause).
1t Is hardly fair to say that this war
is essentially Il Republican war. No one
! proClaims that.
| The Democratic party i'm congress de-
/ maudcd that hustilitcs should begin, and
| drove Mr. Mckinley to the point of des-
/ peration, but he would not move until it
seemed that ~ other resources had been
! exhausted. When it did begin, Mr.. Me
! kinney. like the great American that he
/ is--fur he is more than Repubican-he
| is an American, Mr.. Mckinley laid aside
all party lines and issues, and put into
! positions of trust and influence both Dem
/ OCrutS and Republicans for the proper
/ conduct of the war. We know that Dem
! oCratS fought by the side of Republicans
IIp Ia "a u \ ri5s,,1o 4
! all so far as the prosecution of this
| great war was concerned. But when Mr..
/ jerks said in Willkes-Barre a few weeks
/ ago that the war was not an issue, that
/ the war was over, he said what was not
. true, and he ought to have known better
/ than to have said it. lie knew that there
mad been but suspension of hostiities,
, ana hc knows now that there is a strong
| possibility that the dogs of war shall be
! let loose again, because there is not a
. single great question growing out of the
war which has yet received final settle
mcnt
THE WAR is NOT OVER.
/ The war is not over, and while it is car
| ried ON by Democrats and by Republicans,
! let II be remembered that the Republican
/ administration will be held responsible
! FOR the final outcome Of the war. The
/ Democratic party will not be held ac-
.countahle, but President Mckinley and
. the Republican party must bear the re-
! Spunsibility and face the issues.
There was a man in Scranton last night
! who gave an address at the armory. lie
/ Is Republican, so he says, we have Il
! take his word for 1t, because there il
/ nothing in his actions Just nOw and there
is nothing in his words so far | think
/ hat goes to show that he is a RepuDli-
! can. He tells Us that people are asking
/ him how they should vote, ana he says
/ Ne mas had many people ask him bow
. they should vote. If You try to pin him
down 10 the question. however, by asking
/ him how he would advise YOU to vote
! Mr.. Wanamaker declines to give any an.
I SWcr. or To give any satisfaction. lie
/ thinks it would be an infringement on
| the personal liberty of the voter. Though
! No has been on the stump in ponnSyl
! Nania, ne won't say, in direct words that
/ he would not advise a man TO vote fOi
. Colonel stone, but he goes about and does
al he can to destroy and ruin the Re,
publican party of PENNSYLVANIA, of which
he claims to be in some sense il supporter
lie would not advise a man directly
not to vote for Stone for governor. but
he VIII come into lackawanua county
! aud without being asked for whom the
I people OF this district should vote fol
/ congressman he feels prompted to say
| with relerencctO tOa gentleman Oh this pat,
! form, 81 say tn YOU one thing, don't vote
| Tor William ConnelL' Still he cannot
give any advice YOU know upon IN,
/ question, "Whom shall we vote for fo'
, governor" because it would be infrinGlnl
| upon the personal rights of the individual
THE BASTARD IN POLITICS.
| into This county, to come to Scranton
, and deliberately tell the people not Il
! vote for the gentleman who sits here be
/ hind mo uu the platform. | say that ii i:
1 the action of Il bastard in politics.
lie is the man who has the hardihOOt
To come to Scranton ana ask this qu"S
7 zion: "Who is this Mr.. COnnoll? Who il
/ this Mir. Conncll?" Just as If the people
: OF Scranton did not know who william
/ Connell is l would ike to answer tn,
question as "A comparallN" stranger II
/ your midst, but not stranger to ypIl
| huuOrcd representative in congress.
"Whu is this AIr. COnncll"' lie Is
man who came to this region forty years
. aIr with his fortune upon his back
/ without a friend in the world; a mar
, without culture. without the advantage
of educition, but honest and upright an,
/ energetic. asking no odds but a fair tielC
ANA an open iicld. lie went Into the mine.
/ On the hills OF IiaZlCtOn, and was COnten
/ io die coal as miner for years. lie Wnl
| promotion and became a mining enginccl
/ and then a boss, not a political hos!
/ UuughtcD. tie stuck TO his bisiness lik,
! an honest man, made a little money, anC
invested it. lie has lived H. scranton fol-
fully forty years, and has made nearly
| every dollar in the town Of Scranton. an,
, has invested in the town of Scranton
nearly every dollar that he has made
tApplauscL
By his good habits ana bv his careful
| mana cement hC has been very ~UCC, ia
and has made "A considerable" fortune,
am told. Ana ! want to ask where is ia,
/ industry in Scranton that has not ha,
the support and patronage OF William
| Connou / want TO ask whore Is The en-
trrprise which has called Tor capital tina
has NOT been forthcoming. lie has by hi!
money and influence helped largely I,
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