THE SCTR ANTON TI?IHTJ.N"R MONDAY MOHNINO. MATICII lSDf.
SCRANTOiN TRIBUNE
F. E. WOOD,
General Manager.
rrni.lSHEH DAILY AM) WEEKLY IN ScnA
ton. Pa., uy Tut TmIBOKI Hlui.isiiino
COUPANT.
New York Omor.: TRIBUH Buildino,
I'HANK B. Uiiay. Manauer.
Eutered at the runtujjh-e at Scranton. Pa., at
Betoad-CIa foil Matter.
1 HE SCRANTON TRIBUNE.
SCRANTON. MARCH :.. 1801
Ihe jir.-t year oj i 'UreianaVt second pret
idtntll ended yette.dar, amid the humilia
tion of k(l party, the drpremion of hi
toyal countrymen and the ecstasy of Hie
re-instated Confederacy. It is yet Una to
be duly ret gutted that America sustained
a national lasi when DanUl Manning
died, and tool: into the yi aee with hint the
trains of the Democratic party,
THE liRIDGE ISSUE.
At the lust mttttlng of select ioiiU''il
there was a spirited contention us to
the minner of estebltenlnB tn legal
machinery necessary to procure thoaii
proaches to the propoatd now DriiltfBS.
One lid, led by Mr. Sanderson, insist
ed that the city authorities should
move carefully tnd conservatively, do
ins uothinK that would (live the peo
ple reason to OOtrgO bad faith upon
those loreiuost in Minting the electors
of Scrauton that the coat of the bridge
would not noeed 1330,000. The other
Bide, captained by Mr. Kuche, wanted
ordinances passed appropriating the
rijjht of way and, in case of non-agree
ment with property owners, wanted
the mayor to rile a bond and the city
to take immediate possession. This
ilifMvnce, it will be seen, is one of
procedure rather than of ultimate re
sult. Both sides In this controversy
have done efhcient.service Id advoca
iug the bridue bond issue; and both de
serve well of the community, however
they may di!t'?r as to details ot muni
cipal progress. But lest In the diver
gence of counsel and frictions of
method valuable time should be lest
and false steps taken, it may be well
hastily to review the facts in the case
and let thein guide common sense to a
wise conclusion.
vVhtn tbtoity engineers ehtimated the
cost of the Roaring lirjok brida-o at
$100,000 aud its approaches at $20,000,
the latter calculation was based on a
written offer from the I'Utt estate that
afterward left ..", 000 available for con
tingencies. Now that the bridges are
nssured, certain property owners on
Plutt place, feariut; that the adoption
of this approach might work inj :ry to
their property by tbepoailbhi construe
tion opposite, of undesirable buildings,
want another approach, to he made by
limply widening Piatt plao. In order
to gratify their wish It would be neces
sary to purchase from the Piatt estate
land fur which the estate asks the city
$85,000; or iJIj.OOO more than the laud
upon which the city engineer based his
triginal estimate, and $10,000 more
than was contemplated in the sum set
apart for the bridge and approach -s.
The question at once arises, liow cm
the city, without violating its faith
with taxpiyrs, uccpl an ct'f r that on
its face pledges it to pay a sum largely
in excess of the amount originally
agreed upon and accepted by the voters
of Scranton f
As we understand the position of Mr.
Roche in this matter, he proposes to
evade this troublesome Interrogation
by having the property condemned
This would be all right if he did not
also propose to have the mayor file a
bond aud have the city enter into pos
session at once, claiming, no doubt
correctly, that until the approaches
are acquired, bonds cannot legally be
llined. The point in this plan to which
objection is raised is in the tiling of
the indemnifying bond. The instant
that bond should be tiled, the city
would have no legal escape from pay
ing whatever damages might subse
quently be imposed by viewers or bv
nrico of bis land. These offers, in writ
ing', are now on file in the city clerk's
eftice. Absolutely no necessity exists
for condemnation proceedings, in visw
orthefRctth.it the property can be
acquired amicably and voluntarily.
The institution of snch proceedings
would simply mean thnt the owners of
this land could throw tiirir letters to
the wind and claim every possible cent
that might be awarded, besides dam
:!grs for the grading, which, if their
present propositions are accepted, they
will not claim. Only in ono instance
Is their any friotion with respect to
these voluntary off.-rs. Ttiis arises
from a dispute as to the land's owner
ship, and coul.l, so far as the city is
concerned, be easily adjusted. The
argument that bon Is for the Linden
street strnotnrs cannot be legally issued
until the approaches are secured is
overthrown by the fct that the city
already owns technical approaches,
an. I needs land simply for the purpose
of widening thess approaches It is
the contention of Mr. Sinderson that
Mr. Heche's proposition to institute
condemnation proceedings relating to
the Linden slreet I ridge would, if
adopted, be to delay the structure's
completion and incur dangers of in
creased cost. What he and hie friends
urge ia that the city solicitor bo recom
mended to put the letters of these
Bwetland street property owners into
legal form, and that the city then tit
once proceed with the work of build-
lug the bridge.
Thb Tribune offers no apology for
the devotion of much space to an ex
tended presentation of what it believes
to bo the true facts of the case. No
question before the people of Scranton
is of greater interest than the one
which wo have just endeavored to out
line Experience tn every new losson
re emphasises the force of Davy
Crockett's sapient advice: "First, be
sure you are right; then go ahead."
Scranton wants the two bridges as soon
as she can get them; but she does not
want tlnm to bj builded upon legal
quagmires or upon a foundation of
broken faith with the taxpayers who
authorized them. When two ways
present themselves to a certain end,
one of whieb is tilled with doubt and
uncertainty aud the other, a snro and
certain one. it would bj lolly not to
take the latter.
.
It has taken Congressman Dnnphy
a long time to make up his mind that
Tammany Hall is not a collection of
seraphs ; but even a late enlightenment
is better than none.
JCDQIXCl lltuM his course with refer
once to the liland bill, Representative
Hums has decided that the double
jointed, now -yon-see- me-and-now-you-lon't
kind of advocacy isu'tas safe, po
litically, as it looks When the seign
iorage vote wrs taken, llines simply
dodged, Whan the people nf his dis
trict take n division next November,
they should make his exit final.
ANDREW Carneoie'8 indorsement of
the Wilson bill was evidently In par
tial liquidation of a much more impor
tant bill, the last of which has yet to
be reached.
PENSION STABBING.
The Democratic party, in its pension
retrenchment, apparently shares the
feelings of Mr. Meredith, the Virginia
congressman who, :last Friday,
"thanked CJod thirs were no loyal mon
in his couuty" ami afterwards wanted
to light the Republican member who
shamed him for this robel yawp. Mr.
Meredith is a (ire eater with something
less than the usual Democratic diplom
acy and somothiug more than the cus
tomary Democratic frankness. His
principal defect, from a Democratic
Standpoint, is in hit tendency to show
the party's band. That, in politics as
in poker, is against the rules.
Representative Grout, of Vermont,
has prepared some statistics with ref
erence to tho pension bureau which ii
lnstratos the gladness of the present
administration at the gradual decrease
in the number of surviving I'liion vet
erans. During tho first six months nf
the present fiscal year Commissioner
Locbren, under the Hole Smith system
of pension reform, issued in round
in New York city Inst fall, according
to Representative Dnnphy, who has
been a member of the Taiuuiauy gen
eral committee nud who ought, there
fore, to know, under oilers of prizes to
be awarded by Diclc Croker to districts
Mowing tho greatest majority for
Elcctiou-Keturii Thief Mayuard, the
entire registered void was polled and
In these districts Maynard AOt every
vote. This startling unanimity of
liking for a smirched criminal proved
such a potil to Mr. Dnnphy' con
science that he has washed his bands
of Tammanyism, regardless of conss
qosneea Yet this little Inoldent is on
titled to dismissal as inooasequsntial
and trivial as compared with tho al
leged vote for Maynard of interior
Troy, under the personal orders and
supervision of Senator Murphy and
his smoothly, working subsidiary forces
of falsa registration, police Intlmlds
tton, ballot stu'tiig and dazzling
mathematics in the count Whereas,
hist fall, Brooklyn showed a Repub
lican gaiu of y7,0D0, Buffalo, oue of
10,1)00 and even rotten Gotham, de
spite Dick Cruller' premium list for
expert franchise pollulion.oue of 0,000,
it rem lined for Troy, under tho clutch
of Murphyism, Molloytsm and the sub
ordinate factors in Democratic supre
macy, to return a majority for May
nard ot 0.000, or nearly double the av
erage Democratic excess.
It would take a solid page of Tit::
1K1BUNE to tell what its editor person
ally know concerning the irregulari
ties that are practised at elections in
this Trojan citadel of tbngtsm, polios
brutality, professional repeating aud
unblushing perversion of the popular
will. Another pane would fail to con
tain the supported testimony which he
has heard rendered by others. Not in
the wildest tlights of the Keystone Im
agination, us applied to electoral
frauds, has there been conceived such
a degree of franchise profanation a is
here developed aud systematized into a
machinery that moves forward to its
corrupt onils with the unerring preci
eiou of an automaton. For twenty
years this mechanism has bneu x (cut
ting its perfect work, and not once has
it failed to do just what its owners
and bosses wanted it to do. Tho pub
lic has alternatively iqnirmed, howled,
fought and pleaded; but with its one
hand it has held the public steadily by
the throat, while with the other it has
coolly picked the public's pocket,
i bis year, by one nf those stranire
co-incidences in which reverent ob
servers perceive the handiwork of a
compassionjte Providence, tho Murphy
plundering machine has b;en jeoparded
by a revel; within its own ranks. One
of its creations, Dennis Whaleu, three
times its choice for mayor, has, like
Representative Dnnphy, reached bis
limit of tolerable acquiescence in fraud,
and has turned upon his old-time
masters. The Republican committee,
assured through a score of humiliating
failures that a straight Republican
nomination would encounter only de
feat, nas endorsed Mayor WiiaUn aud
is giving bw Independent candidacy its
best energies, Opposed to Whaleu, as
the embodlement of Murphyism in all
its black phases, is Francis J, Molloy.
The struggle has been so bitter as to
necessitate Senator Murphy's personal
presence on the battle field. Regard
less of his public duties he. lias dsvoted
the past fortnight to a personal inspec
tion of his fraud mill, nnd to redoubled
plotting in tho mill's defense. U ider
Murphy's orders Governor Flower has
just vetoed n bill giving Troy elections
non partisan supervision. Tho culmin
ation of the battle will bo reached to
morrow; and its result will play an
important part in discouraging or in
accelerating honest elections in our
greatest state.
Tub Democratic Harrlsbnrg Patriot
draws a characteristically long bow
when it accuses Lieutenant Governor
Waters of laying wires for the United
States Senate in 1897. The Patriot's
resources of exclusive misinformation
are a study in journalism
One of the Empire state Industries
expected to closo toon after Governor
Morton's election is the liiauufactiirj,
In Buffalo, Troy and Albany, of bogus
Democratic majorities
aud jumped uti
poenaed nie.
bin, and so they sub-
BOUI Pajkinu ThoiuIITS.
Most men ore generally bravest when
the nneuiy is around the corner out of
sight.
It is best, lo nnilo occai-audly, jud for
the sake ot developing facial muscles, if
nothing more.
Luck Will idteu bring a nan to li ia level
where efforts have failed.
The meat terrifying sign of spring to the
average husband is the spring bonnet,
The silent man who louks wise and dig
uitled in jut as apt to be a blockhead as a
deep thinker,
(hi was n bad man but bis relatives
are to be congratulated that lie never
"tuuk music lesauus. '
UU (xh Slater.
"I Will be, ' she mul, "a sister to"
"Bacuse me,' broke in he,
"Five sisters 1 already have.
That's ipiite enough for li e."
Bhe Bulled "And yet, Alphonso,dear,
You'll have to take another,
For 1 am going to be the wife
Of your big, handsome brother."
- Kansas Oity Journal,
GOLDSMITH'
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BAZAAR
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Moving and House Cleaning
SEE WHAT
Will buy in the
way of a
IT
n n
Arc near at hand, and the question will naturally arise: Wher e
will we buy our new Carpet, Shades and Curtains.
For your benefit W3 beg leav to my that tin doori to our Carpst Department
are open, and ever ready to extend you a hearty welcome. That, v3 are head
quarters you will soon b3 convinced whra you see what a hr?e stock wa carry,
and how low our prices are. We handle every coaceivab'.a graJh of Carpets, such as
RAG CARPETS, BODY BRUSSELS,
HEMP CARPETS, WILTON CARPETS,
INGRAIN CARPES, VELVET CARPETS,
TAPESTRY CARPETS, MOQUETTE CARPETS
. fSattini
aterials,
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LANK BOOKS
LANK BOOKS
MEMORANDUMS
Office Supplies ol all kinds
inks and Mucilages
LEADING MAKES.
Fine Stationery
W IRT.WATERM AX and FRAN K
LIN FOUNTAIN PENS.
All Qusrsntoed
Agents for Crawford's Pens and
Buck's Flexible Rubber Stamps,
Oil Cloths, Linoleums
Curtains, Drapery I
window shades.
And we make a specialty of Fine Interior Decorations, employing none but the
most skilled workmen in everp branch of the business.
Carpets cleaned by our New Process and relaid at short notice.
Grol dsmitli's Bazaar.
juries. It is wll known tbst rlswsrs numbers 158,000 certilic itea. Daring tho
una juries, in uses liks tliin, are la
dined toma;,'nify rattier than minimize
iluuiHges, particularly when a munici
pal corporation in the victim. Thin
would he introduced in this problem a
juiw factor of grave uncertainty and
iilmost incvitablu embarrassment. It
! not improbable that under such a
procedure tns result might be an in
crease over the vol unt try off -r of the
Piatt estate, to s iy nothing of dauiaze
which might be recovered by the grad
ing of tho spproich to other property
owners. The estimate of the city sn
gineer made no spacilic provision for
iiaproviug the approach, it being ttksn
for granted that the surplus of $5,009,
which would exist if the original ap
proach were rarried out, would meet
this contingency. The changed ap
proach therefore with its expensive re
taining wall, can hardly be constructed
without a considerable increise over
the Minimum original estimates.
Upon tho other hand, it is contended
by Mr. Sanderson and bis supporters,
that the only saf and proper oours.
nnder the circumstances, to avoid
even the possibility of a breach of
faith with the people, is to have vi.iw
era appointed without riling a bond.
This the law permits, and if the conse
(jtience is heavy datiing'" the city will
not be bound, hands nnd feet', but can
take either a new slternntive or else
fall back upon the original estimate.
Conversely, if the daniuges are low
enough to come within the moral con
tract ontnred into at tho racent election
by the city with the taxpayers of
Hcranton, the signal to "'o ahead" can
beglvsn at once, nnd all would be
well that should thus end well. This
plan, moreover, would afford adjacent
property ownors seemly consideration,
as much as they have any moral right
to expect, without sotting th tir desires
above and beyond tho welfare of tho
(treat maps of Hcrniiton taxpayers who
voted for thu bridges under the repre
sentation that they would coit a epoci
hd sum, and who do not desire now
to be juggled with by councils.
With respect to the Linden street
bridge, different conditions prevail. A
special committee of councils obtained
from every interested property ownsr
Ik definite statement as to the selling
correH.'inmli'iz ptriod of the year be
fere, Commissioner Kaum had issued
:il 1,000 certihY iteg. During this s ime
six mouths Mr, Lochron rejscted 07.000
claims; while, in the corresponding
period of Mr. Konm'g commissioner
ship only 48,000 claims bad been re
jected. To uvsry rsJsoUd claim, Gen
eial Raum passed favorably on four.
On the other hsaiLCouimissionsr booh
ran, under Clsrsisndism, has rejected
two claim to every one admitted.
When men like Holes Smith are put
in Amtrlosn cabinets: when Confeder
ate brigadiers like Meredith get the
whip hand over legislation in both
branches of congress, and when, in
every tendency illustrative of its un
patriotic impulse?, tho Cleveland ad ministration
panders to the pockets
and trie prejudices of the Solid S irtlb,
even going o far ns lo wipe from the
ItatQts books n law that tried to make
southern slsStiODS fair and honest, the
Republican revival that is nntnlstak
ably sweeping over the country is evi
dently no inexplicable mystery. His
tory iB repeating itself.
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LlT l h have the bridges; lint let us
have them in the spirit of fairness,
tqaltjr nnd economy. Lot us not have
any breaking of faith.
,
T HERS aiik lively times In view, lo
cnllv, in tho state, nationally and in
European politics. It is tlms to pity
tho man who does not regularly read a
romplote daily newspaper every secu
lar day in the year.
THE FIQHT IN TROY.
Tho resignation of Upresoutntive
Dnnphy, of New York, from Tammany
Hall, cnupUd with serious charges of
ballot trrsgttlaritisi In wblcb tbo Tatar
many organization plays an ignoble
part, throws an interesting" side light
upon a desperate buttlo which is wag
ing in the Empire state against lh
most unscrupulous conspiracy of ballot
corruption in the bistor,- of American
politics. ThD battle will tomorrow,
in Benator Murphy's home city of Troy,
which for tweuty years Mr. Murphy
has rulod with tin firmness of an abso
lute monarch, reach a partial expres
moii at the polls, deciding a muiiicipaJ
contest ot instructive issues.
In three separata election districts
THE
Pie Counter.
With lamb-like aspect .March drew near,
While maplosHp was Rowing;
liut she'll depart in manner drear.
With angry, wild winds blowing.
s s
father What's ttmtdeviliih noise in tho
Itltchsd, Bobby r Bobby That's mamma
making angel cHke! Life.
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.lami's Can a man oat a ipiail n day fur
thirty dnybV
Wllllam 1 think so. I know of Damo
crnts who have been eallug n crow a day
for a l inger period.
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Hello, Kiljordanl Deen buying a now
overeoatf
"No. Don't give it away, Shadbidt.bnt
Its my ua chinchilla.. 1 paid a barber R0
cants to run his clippers over it." Chicago
Tribune,
Young Manager- What do yon consider
the gri atest drawing card for an opening
:! Stager -Well, I've found that the
complimentary card board generally
fetches 'eiu.
Ileheiniau does nut
that ho dors
lliluud Tho My
Catcn ninny.
Van liiB im Do you menu
not, catch many iisti?
Blland Noj ho doesn't eateh many liies.
Pittalittrtj Telegraph.
If yon em an old gold bin; then your ago
Should immediately teach you to mend
ytittr rage;
And smlls upon I'laud,
in lending a hand
To give us a slice of the seigniorage.
Wife (at the amateur ronosrl) What a
rich fullness there ij In Charlie. Mead's
voice '
Hubby Pal In eiS j yes, Charlie has got a
pretty heavy loa 1 on tOttighl
Wife Who Is that benstly sot leaning
against the telegraph pole.
Husband That Is tho person who pre
pares tho tampsranoa column for the
BottgtOWn Eagle.
Attorney What do you know about
this case!1 I V
Witness Nothing.
Attorney What uro you here for? 1
U lines? hy, ynu se.-, 1 heard Dan
call Hill a liar and Dill knocked Dan dowu
Reynolds Bros.
Slationors and Eiiyravcr.s.
817 LACKAWANNA XvH
With the New Valves
Out of Bight
Our new Bicycles are now
to be seen at our 314 Lacka
wanna avenue store.
VICTORS.
SPALDING,
CREDENDA,
GENDR9NS,
1 And a full line of Iioys' and
j Girls' Wheels. We are mak
I in extremely low jjrices on
j Second-hand Wheels.
J.D.WILLIAMS&BRO,
314 Lacka. Ave.
IRON and STEEL,
NORWAY IRON
BLA k DIAMOND
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EXTRA SPECIAL
SANDERSON'S ENGLISH
JESSOP'S KNGL1SH
r.xsr STKEL
HOUSE SHOES
V. ILMY &
TOE CALK
1 IKE
M IOHINERY
BPItINU
sol T STEEL
ANVILS
Ut- LLOWS
UOKSE NAILS
RUSSELL AND WELLS BROS
CUTTING MACHINERY.
WAGON WHEEL
AXLES
SPRINGS
HUBS
S!' liiKS
ItlMS
SI EEL SKEINS
It. li. SPIKES
SCREW
Bittenbender & Co., Scranton,
ha'
Wholesalo uuJ retail dealers' in Wagoomskora1 and Ulnciisuiit
SUPPLIES.
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ECRANTON AND WU.KES rjARKT, PA, MANUFACTURERS oi
Locomotives and Stationary Engines, Boilers,
HOISTING AND PIMPING MACHINERY.
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Repairing Furs a Specialty.
WATCHES
DIAMONDS
JEWELRY
SILVERWARE
SPECTACLES
of
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Lackawanna Avenue.
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