The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-10-28

Have Boomerang Effect.
Last nights Times contained a tear
stained story of how George Howell
was retired" from the position of city
superintendent of schools by the heavy
hand" of William Connell. The vote by
which Mr. Howell was ousted was 16 to
3. or the sixteen who voted against
him, nine were Democrats. Only three
of the twelve Democrats on the board
voted for him. Nine out Of twelve
Democrats on a board of twenty-one
voted to put an out-and-out Republic
can in his place.
A Tribune reporter last evening asked
Il. j. Jennings, the Democratic leader
on the school board, in what manner
William Connell had retired Mr.. Howell
from the position of city superintend-
ent. Mr.. Jennings replied:
why, Connell had nothing to do
with that. 1t was" and then Mr.. Jen-
nings stopped. What Mr.. Jennings
might have said, had he not recol-
lected that he was a Democrat and
that Mr.. Howell is now a Democratic
candidate, would probably make inter-
esting reading.
Those who have lived here and here
abouts for any considerable length of
time will not attach much weight to a
charge against William Connell that he
is given to throwing men out of en-
ployment. In fact, there are those who
will admit that his inclinations are
somewhat Of an opposite trend.
One thing about which the Republi-
cans can well felicitate themselves is
the solidarity Of their ranks. The or
ganization Is perfect, everybody Is
working in harmony with everybody
else and not as much as one Kicker"
of any consequence has to be placated.
County Committeeman Thomas H.
Dale said yesterday with enthusiasm:
I'm ten years there has not been such
perfect harmony in the party. Very
few men of any consequence and not a
single man of real consequence is out
side the breastworks. Most gratifying
of all is the fact that every worker in
the party is not only with the ticket,
but with it in a most enthusiastic
manner How any Republican candi-
date can be defeated in this county
this campaign is beyond me to fathom.'
III tOHlIdSl WIFI lHt happy
conditions on the Republican side are
those obtaining with the local DEM
ocracy. Hundreds of the decent men
of the party are openly declaring they
will have no hand in furthering the
desperate and despicable plot to steal
the convention which a few of the
would-be leaders Matched at midnight
in Hotel Schadt. and hundreds of 9TH
ers, who feel they can not afford to
disclose their purpose of rebuking the
pirates, can be counted upon to quietly
register in the voting booth their dis
approval of the mean, shabby treat
ment accorded Thomas P. Hoban.
The contemplation Of this is no more
consoling to the Democratic leaders
than is the further fact that the one
hundred and thirty-four practical, ac-
tive, party workers, scattered over the
whole county, who were driven out Of
the alleged convention by the high
handed methods of the Hotel Schadt
conspirators will be found at their re-
spective booths on election day bent on
preventing the consummation of the
plotters designs. Not the least of
Democracy's troubles is the succession
of "fzzles" in their mass meetings.
Every one of the comparatively few
which they have attempted to hold
have been ''frosts'' and some of them
were complete failures. At Dunmore,
one night last week, with Candidate
Howell on the platform, the meeting
was dismissed without word from
any speaker. And the meeting had
been advertised with all unusual eX-
penditure of band music and printers
ink.
The following bearing on the alleged
conspiracy against the Anti-Machine
candidate for orphans court judge has
been received:
Editor of The Tribune
Sir: In view of the preposterous claims
made by the Democratic candidate for
orphans court judge Mr. Sando, that
he Is the victim of a conspiracy and the
innucndo on the part of the editor OF
the Scranton Times that the Republic
can candidate for that office was in some
mysterious way concerned in it, IL seems
proper to us to publicly express the feel
ings of the mine workers upon this mat
ter, as we hear 1t discussed among them,
and we are both members of the United
Mine Workers of America.
The only conspiracy that we know any
thing about is the reported deal made
between Sheriff Schadt, Sando, Fahey,
and some other Democratic machine
leaders, at Hotel Schadt, the night before
the Democratic convention, by which
Mr.. Hoban was cheated out of the nomi-
nation. Although he unquestionably had
II large majority of the fairly elected
delegates, We know that advantage was
taken of Mr. Iiobans attendance upon
the funeral of his mother to carry out
this abominable deal. Surely a creditablc
position for judicial candidate TO take,
and it is refreshing to see the machine
made nominees of a main-strength con-
vention running upon an anti-machine
ticket, and shouting conspiracy.
We know all about the editor of the
Democratic paper, who Is resorting to
uncalled for and malicious attacks upon
the Republican candidates, and Is at
tempting to put on an air of injured in
nocence. and TO assume a pose of friend
ship for the workingmen. We know Ly-
nett as a director of the Dime bank, an
officer of the Paragon Plaster company,
stakeholder I'm other corporations, as
man who has no interest In common
with the workers and who Is only trying
to pose as friend of labor for business
and political reasons.