The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-01
Mastery Speeches Delivered by Hon.
Charles Emory Smith and Hon.
Stewart MaCkibbin.
IMPORTANCE OF THIS CAMPAIGN
Speakers Urged the Necessity of Electing Republican
Congress to Hold Up the Hands of President Roose-
welt in the Great Work He Is Doing.

iapprove and support the policies and
achievements of the administration in
auguratcd by the noble martyr president!
successfully carried on by his patriotic
strenuous and earnest successor. Theo-
dore Roosevelt who is pre-eminently the
man of the people and never more the
you feel here in Lacka wanna county.
Kind of Men to Elect.
You are to determine whether you will
elect members of congress who will sns-
tain and uphold his hands. or whether yo,
will elect representatives who will do their
! great work. You are to decide by your
| votes whether YOU want to continue UNI
broken the unparalleled prosperity which
the country row enjoys. or whether you
| tries and your business. In a word, you
are to determine by your votes whether
you want to place this government. SO far
| as it can be controlled AT this election. IN
the hands of the prophets of evil. and OF
the evangels of discontent, and of the
| apostles of calamity, or whether you
wrought the splendid achievements Of the
| last six years.
| Happily, as we face the issues OF this
aux" We ap Know now ia ss % at the ai close
| of the administration of President Ifarri-
son, this country enjoyed prosperity
which was the greatest it had eyer exper..
/ fenced up to that time. The industries Of
| the whole land were active. Business was
prosperous. but in spite of that condition,
IN an hour Of madness and of passion. the
| of electing Democratic president and q
Democratic congress. You know what
| followed. Your mills We're closed and
your souphouses We're opened Three mil
lions of workingmen in the United States
We're out of employment The loss sus-
tanned by the people during those four
years of Democratic rule was greater than
the entire loss sustained by. the Civil war:
You were in the Slough of Despond, and
YOU elected William Mckinley to lift YOU
out. And did he not do it?. The election
| of 1896 was just as much the signal of re-
turn to prosperity as the election of 1892
had been the signal of stagnation, de-
| preston and disaster. I shall not stop
to weary You with many figures. but If
YOU will indulge me for a few moments
want to give YOU some direct. practical
object lessons of the difference between
Democratic and Republican administra-
tion-a difference illustrated not in glitter
ing generalities. not in mere words. but in
actual, concrete facts which stand upon
| he records and which are absolutely in
diSputnble.
Barometer of Conditions.
lon all know that the bank clearinss of
| the United States indicate the volume OF
| business. When the bank clearings go
| down we know that business is declining
When the bank clcarings advance you
hlloW tldt business is advancing ana
workers are employed. Well in 1882 the
total volume of bank clearings of the
United States was sixty billions of dollars.
What happened under Democratic rule?
While the country was still growing in
popula ton the volume of bank clearings
decreased to forty-tvc billions of dollars,
decline of one-Guarter under Democratic
rule.
In 1896 YOU elected Republican admin
istration and re-eStablished Republican
policies, with the return Of confidence and
credit and business activity. Bank clear
ings began immediately TO increase until
last year, in their steady progress they
reached the almost astounding figure of
one hundred and fourteen billions of dol
lars--morc than double what they We're at
the beginning of the Republican admin
istration. CApplause.)
Pertinent illustrations.
Now let me give you Just one or two
more Illustrations. The deposits i'm The
national banks represent in n general way
the, same things as the bank clearinss
and the deposits in III" national banks ac-
tually declined while Democratic, rule pre-
vailed in this country. and they have in
creased more than $1,000, ,O0O. 600 under Re-
Is true of Your saving banks deposits
Take the great interest of iron. which is
the barometer of all trade. In 1882 the
production of pig iron In this country was
100000 tons. and in 1891. after TWO years
of Democratic administration, that pro-
ductlon had gone down to G,3O00O0 tons. Il
cratic administration. But when Repub-
lican administration came in again the
ascending scale was seen, and ii increased
year by year, steadily. rapidly, mcoasing-
~, lintil last year the production OF pig
IRON in this country reached the enormous
hSlr"s of llSOO,OO0 tons, twice what il was
AT the beginning of Republican admnis-
tration, If I had time | could give you
fhe statistics of steel production showing
the same thing,
Railroad Transnortatiop
There is only one other illustration
which ! want 10 give YOU. and II is an IL
lustration which you will appreciate. You
know that as the business OF the country
dcclincs. railroad transportation declines
ana that as business advances, railroad
transportation increases, until II comes
10 such time as now when all over this
land il is almost impossible 10 get cars
enough to transport the products of the
country IN 1892 the total tonnage carried
by the railroads. reduced To tons per mile,
was i,OOOOOO,OJO of tons.
Under Democratic administration that
tonnage went down To about so. 900 100 900
OF tons but as soon Republican ad-
mlnistralion came in and confidence had
wilson bill had been replaced by the Ding
ley bill, and Republican, policies We're fully
aeNeiopeu, your railroad tonnage began
to mount. and to mount. and to mount.
steadily, until last year it reached The
hsures of III 900, 900 of tons, or am in |
crease of 10000 O0OO,00O of tons under Re-
as against an
actual decline under Democratic admin- |
islratlon, These are the facts They are |
ngnres drawn from the official reports
ana no man can challenge them or dispute |
them.
Modern Ethan Aliens.
Our Democratic friends do not DENY that
We have great prosperity: but they mn
aertake TO answer that this prosperity is |
due 10 natural causes and to our great
aterial resources Well Were moi The
natural causes just the same when they
We're in control? U.aughter) Did NOT
the same sun shine on us then as nov?
DID not the same rain fall equally on the
Just ana the unjust? And We're NOT the
material resources of the country lust as
great and available then as now? Have
not the great measures and policies uf |
RepuDlcan administration developed
these resources and organized successY
In the Revolutionary struggle Ethan AL
len captured Fort 'riconderoga, and when
the thanksgiving service was held and the
preacher was giving thanks altogether 10
for the great victory, the hero
or the hght rose and asked IL the preach |
er would mind mentioning than Ethan |
Alien was there. And my Democrats
friends, when they rejoice over the pros
perity which they share with u.s. will not |
mind my mentioning that William Me
kinley was there (applause); that ;rheo- |
lore Roosevelt Happlause) is there to day:
Ihat a Republican congress containinr
William Connelt is there lapplause); thai |
he Republican \polley of protection and