The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-10-25
TRIAL BOTTLEFREE.

wasn't. We are going to have capito
worthy the state, and there is now in the
| treasury enough of money to pay for it,
if we never collected another cent
The freshet of last spring swept away
the bridges over a number of navigable
streams, some thirty or forty, 1 believe,
in this part of the state. These the state
is rebuilding at a. cost of about s5OO,OOO
and there is money in the treasury to
pay for them. That relieves the county
and relieves local taxation. and is doing
something for you.
While the last legislature was in session
it passed 5io laws and of that great num-
berry only thirtythree We're criticized If
it was admitted that these We're bad,
three out of ji2 would be a mighty good
record, ! think.
Frequently people say to me, "Elliin,
are you going to vote the Republican
ticket this year?' There has never been
any doubt in my mind about it, | al
ways have been Republican and / al
ways will be. We had "A lively fight down
at Harrisburg last June for a nomina-
tion for governor 1t was not Il game of
ping pong. but a good souare-toed game
of political foot ball. Before the conven-
ton and the day of the convention | said
to the people of Pennsylvania that no
matter who was nominated | would be
shoulder to shoulder with him in the cam
paien and l am here tonight to do my
best for every Republican candidate, from
the distinguished jurist who heads the
ticket, to the lowest county candidate
Why | never voted a Democratic ticket
in my life; | would not know how to vote
Democratic ticket.
Subornating Self.
That could not be, To me it would be
a humiliation If | thought the test of
my loyalty 10 the Republican party
would be measured by my ability to get
an office. We can get along without Of
iices, but We cannot go back to the dark
days before the Republican party res
cued the country; the party that has
given MS commerce in every cline The
American people do great things under
the stimulus given by the wise laws the
Republican party has passed.
Already we hear the whispering of the
tariff revisionists and there is danger In
their whisper. l would like to see Penn
sylvania send back a solid delegation this
year against whom the waves of tariff
unrest would beat in vain. | would like
to see you return to congress your dis
tinguished citizen, Hon. William Connell
who has done so much for his district,
his state and the country while in con-
gress.
You ought TO elect your county ticket
and you ought to send men to the legis-
lature who will be true to the policies OF
the Republican party.
My friends, don't let Ms underyalue our
citizenship. You ought to so to the polls
on election day and vote for some ticket
and if you vote the Republican ticket
believe you will feel better, The Demo
Gratis don't see any good in the country
or the government. They are wrong
We are living In the greatest days of the
world, We have difficulties confronting
us and will have difficulties but they will
be overcome. / know they will AS
Archdeacon Farrer said before leaving
America, "ro despair of America would
be TO despair of humanity"
Let ms not grow Respondent There is
no cause for II. ] want 10 say to my Re
publican friends i'm Iackawanna that all
this talk is as nothing il you do not go 10
the polls and vote. You have had your
little difficulties and your repulses. but
want you to rally round the flag of Re
publicans which has done something for
you and for me.
The North End Glee club sang an
inspiring number and Attorney Gen
eral Elkin was followed by W. NJ.
Brown, the Republican candidate for