The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-07

than Ex-Governor Frank S.
Black. of New York in the
knack of effective speech writing. He
crowds columns into sentences. His
speech at Saratoga nominating b. b.
Odell for governor was composed be-
tween dawn and daylight on a rail-
road train. yet it is a gem. We quote
from 1t:
The ghost Of anti-imperIalism which stalks to
and fro between Lincoln, Ncb., and Bloomington,
ILL.,, with occasional manifestations in Boston,
is not and cannot be made an issue This Coun-
try is and always has been committed TO the poll,
cy OF growth, and it cannot be swerved from that
policy by mere sCare-Crows scattered along the
way. In that policy are involved the causes of
civilization and American progress, and the Re.
publican party stands for both.
The issues now are they were in 1896, They
were then met and understood, and, as completely
as the Spanish fleet at Santiago, they were sunk
or run ashore The Democratic party since that
time has been engaged in prying somr o. tAen
of the rocks and trying to make then Eaat.
That will never be done. Those ISSUES wi ! never
be seaworthy again, and il they are the American
people will not embark on them while they have
auttcring at their masthead flags with the Demo.
cratic inscriptions of disorder, disappointment
and despair.
That party seems never to understand the tenn
| per or intelligence of the people. 1t has en-.
| daavored in every campaign for forty years 70
make the discarded hcresies Of the preceding cam
paign presentable by joining live hcresy to the
| old dead ones. IL seems 10 believe that the
| voter would be glad 10 embrace the rankest kind
Of heresies, il he can only get them in quantities
large enough. The people are themselves in
| some measure, responsible for this belief for in
| 1892, without proyocation, they permitted them.
selves to stumble and fall over as glaring a hcresy
| as ever befogged child. They committed one
| Of the most inexcusable blunders in the politics
of this country; and, as in nearly every case, the
mistake was largely paid for by those who did
their best 20 prevent it. At the first chance that
| blunder was corrected and | prophesy that the
day Of its repetition is remote.
There are but few things new under the sun
and the discovery Of a safe principle by the Dem.
ocratic party is not among them. But il is not
| by principles alone that the success of the Re.
| publican party has been achieved The best Of
causes may fail II they have not also the best Of
| representatives. The successful advocate Of a
cause is 80 faithful that he would die for IT, but
SO strong that he does not nave to, and the rare
and almost unbroken fortune Of the Republican
party has been that whenever the emergency la,
arisen, no matter how tempestuous the course
there was always a pilot who could steer il anC
bring the ship to port without throwing the cargo
overheard We have already selected the pilo
for the national craft. lie has been over IN,
course once. He has steered with such precision
| and skill that even in the turb, lence that ha
surrounded him he has gained the confidence o
his fellow citizens and increased his own renowl
TO a degree almost without example,
! The duty - this assembly is to select a pilo