The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-24
Three Men in Review.

Each of the three gubernatorial can
didates in this state has now in thor
ough fashion presented his views upon
public issues, and it is unlikely that
the ensuing fortnight will bring for
ward new arguments or new informa-
tiOn. Starting upon the assumption
that a majority of the men now hold
ing political positions in Pennsylvania
are thieves and liars, the Prohibition
candidate. DR.. Swallow, has with un-
Ceasing din presented himself as the
one man living within the borders of
the commonwealth who unites within
his personality the qualifications neces-
sary to an honest administration of
the gubernatorial office. The inferior
of each Of his colleagues in adminis-
trative experience; wholly lacking in
breadth of view and i'm equipoise of
temper; man SO unmindful of facts
that his accusations against others
have repeatedly been disproved and
himself once convicted in open court
for criminal libel; so intense in narrow
opinion and so furious in zeal as to
suggest the fanatic, this candidate,
however effective may be his work in
disturbing public opinion and in aid
ing the Vaccinations of the shrewd
Philadelphia who is using him as
temporary cats paw, must be consid-
cred as beyond the possibility of an
election. The staid citizenship of Penn
sylvania will never knowingly choose
a firebrand for governor.
On the Democratic ticket a gentle
man is running for this high office
who, while of respectable intellectual
powers, represents no principle to
which a majority of Pennsylvanians
can respond. Judge jerks is tempera-
mentally better fitted than DR.. Swal-
low for the chief magistracy of the
commonwealth; his experience in pub
lie affairs is much wider and more
varied; his acquaintance with the ways
and means of public administration is
larger; he would not make a person.
ally offensive or a freakish executive.
Yet as n representative of political
opinion and policy he belongs to a
school of public thinkers grossly OBJ
jectionable to the predominant senti-
ment of the state. An opponent of the
Lincoln administration during the war
of the rebellion, he has followed his
party into every erroneous position
which it has assumed since; he has
been opposed to proper Protection to
American industries; he is a believer
in the fallacious doctrine. of free silver,
and his connection with the present
campaign is that of man foisted by
free silver influences upon a reluctant
party driven to nominate him under
the whip of Guffey and Garman. If
elected his first allegiance would be to
these political sponsors and proprietors
and by them he would be controlled so
that every influence at his command
would be thrown to the support of the
free silver movement His present
advocacy of reform is but the feint of
spokesman seeming prey; the only
reform he wants is to keep the other
fellows out and to get himself in.
The Republican nominee, Colonel
Stone, stands before the people of the
state exempt from accusation or sus-
plcion; stalwart exponent of stall
wart Republicanism; known as a lead
er in national legislation and as man
well-rounded and serene He won his
nomination by going for ii before the
voters of his party, and during all the
noise and splutteT of this vindictive
accusative campaign he has never once
lost command Of himself nor deviated
from a frank discussion of issues rath-
er than men. His personal record is
that of man who has done his duty
quietly and conscientiously in every
position military or civil; and his party
credentials are as regular and as hon
orable as those Of any Republican ever
elected to the gubernatorial chain. He
might not make sensational COVER