The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-10-27

A splendid Republican mass meeting
attended by over 1000 voters was held,
Saturday night, in the Auditorium in
North Scranton and the greatest en-
thusiasm prevailed. Addresses were
| made by Major Everett Warren and
Thomas II. Dale.
Seated on the platform in addition to
the speakers were Attorney Fl. S. AL
WORTH who presided, and the follow
ing Republican candidates: Judge A.
A. Vosburg, County Commissioners j.
Courier Morris and John Penman,
John B. Jordan, Joseph Oliver, Hon.
John Scheuer, jr, Hon. Edward James,
Hon. p. A. Phlbin. Llewlyn NJ. Evans
| and David f. Williams. Others on the
platform were: Select Councilman John
Won Bergen, Common Councilman j. B.
Casterline and School Controller Walter
B. Christmas.
In introducing the speakers Chairman
Alworth referred briefly to the urgent
| necessity of electing a Republican con-
gressman. Mr. Dale, the first speaker,
began by asserting that there can be
no possible excuse for a failure on the
part of any Republican to come out
| and vote the straight Republican ticket
| on election day. Nasty weather and
Democrats always go together and the
Republicans need to remember this in
| case November is an unpleasant day.
Merits of the Candidates.
Mr.. Dale next discussed at some
length the merits of the Republican
candidates as compared with those on
| the other side. He spoke of Congress-
maj a a l.
ways been jealous of the interests OF
the Republican party and of his dis
trict. To elect Democrat dominated
stead would be an insult to President
Roosevelt, he declared Judge Vos
burgs distinguished ability should in
sure him an almost unanimous vote
| from North Scranton, he said. The
rest of the ticket is made up of men
| in every sense capable of efficiently
| filing the places they are seeking, he
| declared
The Democrats. Mr.. Dale asserted,
have no fixed policy. They are as
changeable and as uncertain as fad
| dish woman. They have offered no
state issues for the consideration of
| the voters and content themselves with
| mud-slinging. He referred to the argu-
| ments upon the question of tariff re-
| vision which are being advanced by
! Democratic papers to influence voters
| for Democratic congressman and said
| that if the tariff is to be revised, and
| he would not admit the necessity of
such revision, it would be better to
| have it revised by it's friends than by
| it's enemies.
Settlement of the Strike.
| Major Warren made one of his char
| acterstic speeches full of biting sar-
| casim and caustic hits at the sham
| issues raised by the Democratic party
| in this campaign. He referred to the
settlement of the coal strike through
! the intervention of a Republican presi-
| dent and declared that the miners
| have every reason to vote the Repub-
| lican ticket. These remaks were greet
ed with loud applause and when he
| asked what Democrat interested HIM
| self in behalf of the miners big man
| in back seat shouted John Mitchell.
| John Mitchell is not Democrat. He
| is a Republican, replied the major and
| the big man was heard from no more.
| Major Warren referred to the title
of AntiMachine party adopted by
lot of Democratic renegades and said
that this party represented a lot of dis
satisfied malcontents and nothing more.
| He referred also to the trust question
and showed that many of the men
| largely interested in the control of these
| giant combinations of capital are DEM
ocrats, notably. John ID. Rockefeller
and J. Pierpont Morgan. He said that
| it shouldn't be forgotten that President
Baer, of the Reading, is also Demo-
| crat