The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-06-28
Has Earned q denomination

"HE OFFICE of congressman is
one that takes business abil-
Il ity to fill. This is getting to
be a big country. 1t is
growing every day. Its affairs are
steadily broadening in every direction
More than anything else in the hand
ling of those affairs ripe experience
and common sense are required. Men
who are brilliant of speech very often
do not succeed we'll in practical mat
ters. When you see a man who has
demonstrated his capabiity to manage
enterprises successfully for himself
and along liberal lines. making them
beneficial to the community. then you
are justified in believing that such Il
man can be trusted to manage the af-
fairs of other people.
The Office of congressman is in reality
just like that of the trustee of an es-
tate. A trustee looks out for three or
four heirs, whereas a congressman is
expected to, and, If he does his duty,
does look after the affairs of thousands
No voter should vote for a man to go
to congress whom that voter would not
be willing to have administer his own
estate, If he has one. If two men are
running and one is superior to the 9TH
er in business experience and in the
ability to look after matters of large
concern it would be the policy of rca-
son and common Sense to prefer the
better man. 1t should be viewed as
business proposition entirely.
The congressman from this district,
Hon. William Connel, Is q candidate
for reelection and is opposed for the
nomination. 1t is hardly necessary to
call attention to Mr. Connelrs business
qualifications. They have been proved
by the fact that, starting in life as
common laborer at a wage hardly suf-
iicient nowadays to keep Il boy, he
worked his way up until by honest
methods and to the benefit of every
man, woman and child in the commun-
ity round about him--for Mr.. Connells
money, as he earned and saved it. was
put at once to work in building up
home industries and in opening
tional labor--he became man of large
wealth. But there has never been Il
time since fortune favored William
Connell that he has not been easy of
approach by any man, however humble:
OF that the voice of want or trouble
appealed to him in vain.
AS a congressman Mr.. connell has
InI T,; 4, Lit.
If he had not another interest in the
world to look after. He has been Il
worker and telling worker at WASH
ington virtually every day of each ses-
sion. Not only has he secured the pas
sage of the federal court bill, something
which his predecessors had been try
ing to do without success for almost u
score of years, and gained the consent
OF congress and president to an appro-
priation of $4,000 for the enlargement
OF the Scranton federal building-most
of',which, will be paid out here, in wages
to labor---he has also been exceptionally
successful In pushing pension matters,
in .laalJnR aftef the',va rious business af-
fairs of the people of the district.in the
executive departments, and in Submit
ting petitionss patsippfials <iAnd other
matters M lisSf5u AiDNE and fraternal
societies, :NPehllis as bssin left undone
that shpuid have heeM Done byHhim in
justice To- hisdaonst tftneptssi i. ,s,sssf
Fhe afaetserl5. \ shss he 4 lns,stiep ss u that MI
CS'nei has. earnss, the right so re-
election, The lpsbTlss ofsteis county