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THE SCKANTON TRIJIUNE-THURSDjv F MORNING-. APRIL 5. 1894.
SCRANTON TRIBUNE
F. E. WOOD,
Gene ra I Manager.
rtnUIHBD DAII.V AMI WEKKI.Y IN SlilAN-
to.v. Pa., uy Tan 'Jiuuuss J'Udlibhi.'SO
CourAxr.
New Yohk Okciob: Thiuunk Building,
Frank B. Ouay. Manaokh.
iWfitd ul the PottofflC4 uf BoroMtoa, Pa., as
Stcond-ClaU Mall Halter.
THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE.
FORANTON. APRIL ", 1H.
What WITH Breckinridge, tlua Kice
t usinetia mid Mm muiiHles, life in Scrnn
ton in not vfithont its occasional annoy
ances. The Trouble Witli the Legislature.
Correspondent Whitney wants to
know why the Pennsylvania legislature
doesn't v the tato sJTOO.OOt) a year by
not meotiuK. As an extiiuiil of satire
the query is bright. Hut at this par
ticular time, when ths problem of se
lecting a new legislature is conspicu
jnsly before the people, more perti
nent qeeition, it would seem, is why
the people of Pennsylvania do not
choos law-maker.-) who will bi au in
vestment worth their cost.
It is unhappily tru that a good deal
of the newspaper pleaeautry aimed at
legislative bodies la general, and at the
Pennsylvania legislature in particular,
has something more tangible behind it
than a playful fan;:y auxious for some
thing to write about. One reason why
this ie the fact may be derived from
the excessive timidity which a number
of Republican journals and politicians
are snowing throughout the com
monwealth with reference to whut
is not inaptly called the Cam
eron issue. That a man who,
in an iudividiul tense, is neither a
noted orator, a gifted originator of
wise laws nor an especially useful, in
dustrious or desirable senator should,
through the sheer momentum of his
family name, be able to OMt a spell
over a lar'e element in the dominant
political household to which he be
longs is neither creditable tn the ju Ig
raent nor complimentary to the cour
age of our Pennsylvania p iliticians ami
cur legialative candidate While snch
timidity exiata it is uieiessto lok
for a very large preponderance either
of wisdom or of manhood among the
gentlemen who essay t make laws for
this common wealth.
We might as well fao this fact
fairly and fiimroly, first as last. The
temper of the controlling forces of our
citigeashlp has undergone a change
since the time when it was considered
party treason to lift a whisper agaiust
Ihe particular individual who chancel
to represent theleadershipof the party.
What governs to-dav is an intelligent
conviction with reference to principles,
and not abject snbierviency to the per
sonal ambition of distasteful individ ual
lead.-rs. Until merit can gain a
clearer and more courageous recogni
tion among the men who form the bulk
of our legislators, there will continue
to be sneers at legislative incapacity;
and what is worse, thote sneers will
continue to have a foundation of sub
stantial justice
The Breckinridge kiss, which he
swears did not betoken love, is not new
in history. It originated with Judas.
Whether the lieutenant governor
ship be captured by Lyon or Robinson,
a good deal of admiration will reward
the latter for bis plucky fight. Against
odds which would diicouraze many
men he has entered into the present
contest with a Tim which is surprising
those who fancied he would possess
comparatively little strength. In poli
tics, as in war, the average man re
spects a herd fighter; and in the par
ticular political skirmish just now
raging in Pennsylvania flashing Jack
Robinson is proving a veritable Phil
bheridan.
The habit of throwing mud at Lack
awanna's courts ought not be permit
to become a fad.
( r
We Need That Viaduct.
It is to be regretted that at the final
session of the outgoing councils a dis
covery of technical defects in the West
Lackawanna avenue viaduct ordin
nce necessitated that measure's de
feat. Coming at the very moment
when victory seemed within bailing
distance this diseovery has permitted
the impression to go forth that the pro
ject will now be allowed to lapse ; -that,
in fact, it was purposely killed in re
sponse to pressure from a source that
J id not desire the ordinance to become
law.
Inquiry has satisfied us that this sus
picion Is incorrect. The introduction
of an amended ordinance will com
mand strong support in the new coun
cils, and the ordinance itself, If so
drawn as to evade the former techni
cal objection, would, it is believed,
pass both branches. It is said that a
letter has already been formulated by
the officials of the Delaware, Laoka
wanna and Western Railroad company
formally confirming the proffer of a
10,000 contribution made informally
by General Manager Hallstoad; and
with the Scranton Traction company's
equivalent donation available at any
time, it is difficult to see how a prop
erly worded viaduct ordinance could be
open to objection.
There certainlr oanaot at this date
bo any uncertainty as to the need of a
viaduct at this dangerous and muoh
traveled portion of our leading busi
ness thoroughfare. Nor cin the im
munity from serious accident with
which a kind desliny has endowed us
of late be reasonably expected to con
tinue forever, in defiance of the multi
plying risks. This proposed viaduct
has become n settled public necessity;
and its construction dare not much
iongor be delayed.
The POINT il raised by the Pittsburg
Times that all this nausenting testi
mony as to the relations existing be
tween Colonel Breckinridge and Made
line Pollard Is irrelevant to the funda
mental question whether or not the
defendant, while sane, promised to
marry the plaintiff. Breckinridge
himself concedes that he did; and in
this conceseion he is corroborated by
Mrs. Luke Blackburn, Major Moore
and other witnesses of equal repuU
Why, then, beat all around this large
legal bush'; To a layman it seems verr
much like an unjustifiable waste of
time and money. Tho depictiug of
Breckinridge in his true colors may
serve the useful moral purpose of nn
awful example, but it has. as we view
the matter, no legal relation to the one
fact upon which the jury will be in
structed to center all their delibera
tions; namely, the fact of a violated
civil contract.
Let's Have It Settled.
Yesterday afternoou, before Trial
Judge McPherson, Attorney Cornelius
Smith renewed bis attack upon the
fairness of the jury bystoin lu tn:
county, taking as a method the pre
sentation of a motion directed against
Deputy Prothouotary K-tsson, and ob
jecting to his muuner of drawing a
jury. Judge Mel'herson very properly
declined to rxpress uuy opinion as to
the practice of this court, but so far as
the uct of assembly was concerned, he
rulod that Mr. Katsou, in default of
contrary evidence, was to be regardod
a disinterested person within it i iua.ui
lug. The question now nrises, what will
the president judge of this court, who
may with entire propriety take cogniz
a nee of Its practice, and who, Indeed,
is in a sensj bound to take cogniz tool
of ulleged abuses or irregularities
when they have attained proportions
calculated, if not officially noticed, to
bring the oourt into disrespect, do in
tho matter? Is he not in honui- obligated
to call Mr. Smith before him, givo op
portunity for the presentation of evi
dence, if there be any, in support of
Mr. Smith's re-iterated imputations,
and then to deal with the subject in
such a manner as will leave no further
doubt in the public mind?
Interpreted m the light of contem
poraneous events, Mr. Smith's motion
raises a point of manifest importance.
Whatever may bo the soundness of his
motion legally.it is in its influence
upon popular opinion sufficiently
weighty to make desirablo n speedy
and a difnite decision. It scarcely
needs to be said that the method by
whlch jurors are drawn iu Lackawanna
county ought tube in strict conformity
with tho law. Any irregularity, or any
alleged irregularity would be a dauger
ous supplement to the inherent vici
ousuess of a jury system that appears
to prefer ignorance to intelligence and
that occasionally adiuitd to the juror's
bos, with power over property and
life, illiterates unable to read, write or
reason.
No DOUBT if the present senate could
find any reasonable pretext for rej-ct-ing
the credentials of Mr. Colquitt's
journalistic successor, th"y would se.ze
it with eagerness. Patrick Walsh is
not the type of man that finds favor in
the upper chamber of congress. He
has a distasteful habit of speaking bis
thoughts in terae Anglo S 1x011. He is no
courtier, no sycophant and no coward.
The worst that can be said of him
is that he is a Democrat; vet
even here be is better than his party,
because he is a Protectionist and a
trenchant fighter of Dimocratio sham.
Mr. Walah is the kind of man we ought
to have in the senate; but like Murat
Halstead, he is not the kind of man
that the senate takes to. And the
chalices are that lie will kick up a big
hornet's nest before he gets through
with it.
Responsibility of Mine Foramen.
Iu an action recently brought iu the
Schuylkill county court of common
pleas by two widows against the Le
high Coal company for damages result
ing from the death of their husbands
ia the company's mines, JiUge Kio, of
Luzjrne, presiding iu Schuylkill tem
porarily, last week rendered a decision
of geueral importance. It is particu
larly noteworthy since itaff ids a large
porportion of the suits for damages
brought by widows and orphans against
mining corporations as a result of h-.i!
terrauean accidents, Counsel for the
coal company in this case submittel
for approval the following points
which, itapp'ars, covored without dis
pute tne equity of the case:
That the defendant company in operat
ing its collierlos is not liable to Its em
ployes for the injuries sustained by them
caused by the iiegligeuce of a fellow ser
vant eugaged auuerully in the same busi
DM provided there be no negligence in
the appointment of such negligent ervant,
or iu the retention of such servant after
notice of bis Incompetency.
That when an owner or operator of
mines has employed a competeut mine
foreman and awdstant, and an accident re
sults to a workman in tin mine from tliu
negligence of such foreman or assistant,
the common employer ia not liable in dam
ages for the Injury mi-dug from the ac
cident. Njch a negligence Is held to be
one of the risks of the business, which the
workman takes upon hiiuseif.
Judge Rice, by deciding in favor of
the defendant company, endorses the
foregoing contentions, and points unew
to the need of increased care iu the se
lection of mine officials. Inasmuch as
the conditions of succeasful mining are
constantly becoming more perilous and
severe, there should, if possible, be a
corresponding increase in the standard
of efficiency governing the selection of
mine foremen and their assistants. If
iiegligeuce can be established either in
the selection or in the retention of un
fit foremen, there would by this deci
sion be a clear liability to compsnsa
tory damages. Examinations for mine
foremen ought therefore to be frequent
and rigid. It does not pay to take
chances iu this matter.
.
Hereafter it will be in order to pro
vide our susceptible congressmen with
male chaperones.
The Exposure Is Complete.
i Me of the pleasing features of the
Breckinridge trial, if anything con
nected with that unfortunate aff.tir
can be said to bo pleasing, is the hon
est and candid tone of numerous intlu
ontial l);mocratic journals in Ken
tucky which might, through partisan
reasons and considerations of state
pride, be expected to let the defendant
down easily, Very noteworthy in its
vindication of the fairness of the press
is the attitude of the Louisville Cjiir-ier-Jonrnal.
While it has said noth
ing editorially, out of deference to the
belief that outside comment during the
trial of a case constitutes an impro
priety, its headltnej have been suf
ficiently suggestive.
Take these, for example, "Mr. Brack
inridge Tells the Htory of His Shame
ful Life;" "No Remorse for bis Own
Duplicity, No Pity for His Weak Vic
tim ;" "Soft and Silvery Were the De
nials That Fell From His Ivps" "D;
nies the Promise of Marriage, Denies
That Ho is tho Father of Her children ;"
"He Has the Tougueof a Stint and the
Blood of a Satyr." Th lesion taught
by the prompt exposure of a now no
torious hypocrite is not without value
to it generation which ssems at tiin-is
to doubt that eternal truth handed
down from vsnerable days; "Be sure
your sius will find yon out."
THE REFUSAL Of the house yesterday
to pass the Hland seigniorage bill over
the president's veto ends for a time, at
least, the struggle, of a section to get
rich at the whole country's expense
Without doubt the free silver issue
will figure largdy iu future poli
tics. The souls of false argu
ment scattered broadcast, by men
iike Teller, Stewart and Wol
cott have been cuuninglv devised
and ingeniously placed. Every man
who has failed to prosper ll invited to
take free coinage for a cure; and there
are many of such malcontents in these
Democratic days. But right is bound
to triumph iu tho end ; and the delusion
that fiat makes wealth, killed once in
this couutry, will eventually be re
kilied. To-NIOHT's Mass meeting in the arm
ory, under the auspices of the com
mittee iu charge of the Sheridan uionu
mont fund, ought, to witness a liberal
outpouring of outhusiasui and funds.
The hero of Winchester is one of the
great ueueruls of the century who has
as yet received somewhat scant recog
nition iu the direction of memorial
itatuts, The fame of Liucolu, Grant
and Sherman is secure beyond all
doubt; and Scrautonians may therefore
enter upon tho movement to honor
Sheridan with Ihu assurance that thoy
are practically leading the van iu one
of the truly creditable projects to day
before the American people.
Now that Evangelist Rice has been
discharged by the court, it is hinted that
he will eue the mayor of Scranton for false
imprisonment. Wilkes-Havre Record.
And tliua we should have the sp?c
tacle of a man not only defying the law
but seeking damages from an official
who did his duty by trying to enforce
tho law. Bnt Rice has not yet got the
better of law and order in this munici
pality, and Mayor Con uel I has not yet
been sued, although tor that we owe no
thanks to the Record, or to the maudlin
seiilmeut it endeavors to create.
We DESPAIR of bning able to con
vince the evidently obstinate Wilke -Barre
Record that the reason Mr. Rice
was arrested iu this city was not be
cause he preached the gospel, but be
cause he deliberately violated a city
ordinanco aud resisted an ofilcor. If,
however, the Record can send a repre
sentative to the reargument of tu
next Saturday morning, we suspect it
will getsome of its mental kinks pretty
tlioioughly straightened out.
MONG
the Musicians.
Miss Jean Slot, of Morristown, N .
J., who hus been engageil as solo con
tralto at the Second Presbyterian
church, possesses a voice of -marve
lous sweetness, which is under
good control, and sings with dramatic
effect. For some time past Miss Slee
has acted as a supply at Grace church
iu New York. She was second choice
for the position as solo alto iu S. P.
Warreu's choir and has rendered solos
during the absence of the regular con
tralto. The young vocalist, upon ad
vice of physicians, has been obliged to
seek a home away from the sea coast to
avoid throat troubles, and it is upon
this account that the Second church
music committee has been unaided to
secure hr services. Miss Sloe's voice
was firat beard iu Scranton a year or
two ago at a soiroe given at the resi -denes
of Mrs. Thomas Dickson, where
her singing was greatly admired. Her
efforts at the church on Sunday last
evoked many enthusiastic compliments
from various lumbers of the congre
gation posseting ability to Criticize,
II II II
E E Southworth has removed his
studio from Lackawanna avenue to
rooms in Powell's building, which
have been reconstructed especially for
his use. In the matter of geural ar
rangement nnd acoustic properties Mr.
South worth's studio is probably the
most desirable of any in Scranton.
I! II II
Mijs Annette Reynolds, who has re--igned
her position as solo contralto at
Second Presbyterian church, expects
to continue her visits to this city dur
ing the summer to give instruction to
numerous pupils iu Hum vicinity. Miss
Reynolds will assist Georeo Carter at
several organ recitals to bo giveu in
the near future.
II II II
Alfred Wooler, solo tenor at Elm
Park church, is one of the most pii
thnilsjtia students in the city. Mr.
Wooler's voice is constantly Improving
under tuition that he is receiving from
Mrs. Kate Wilcox, the well known ex
ponent of the Marches! method.
II II II
Miss Annie Durkin. of the South
Side, who won the first prize for piano
solo at the Wllkes-Bsrro eisteddfod re
cently, is one of the promising pupils
of Haydn Evans.
II II II
Miss Lillian Haminett now has
charueof Steele & Seeley's sheet mnsic
department.
II II II
John Howard, of Now York, origin
ator of the celebrated Howard system
of vocal culture, will open a studio in
Scrunton iu a few weeka.
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The Oulv Rial Remedy.
Wilkei-Hurre Meeorii.
Tho unlicensed grog shop thrives in de
fiance of the law aud openly disavows its
authority. Thero is only one way to dojl
with It. Arrest and jnll every proprietor
of an unlicensed gin nhon. Iu this way
only will tho community be rid of thau
moral post houses.
Society's Incurabln I justice.
Wayne Initeietident.
One of tho curious phases of human opin
ion is that which sets up two different
Standards of morals for two persons equally
involved in the commission of a hoi or
crime that one could not have committed
alone,
On "f Ihe Saaaon'a Myaterlae.
H 'i I ken- li aire fftslsvDSflflf.
Tho Scrau tou Tiniea's serial story, ' No.
In," has been sulllclently advertised, end
its publication should begin without (In
lay. The public ure anxious to know what
it is, and how it will bu bandied.
Mtrly Moral Poser,
JVctP York Tribune.
Instead of being n pillar of the Presbyte
rian church,lt Is now asserted that Colouel
Beeckinridge was never more than a rhet
orical minaret, pointing the wuy upward,
not going himself.
Platltudia , Drawu Out.
AVuj York Ct inimrcial'Ailetrtian'.
Cleveland has agaiu demonstrated bow
easy it is for him to say in two columns
what ordinary people can express in two
paragraphs.
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Ii Btmeelf Onoa More.
.Veir Yoth Uummeremt'.litti'i titer.
By Introducing a bill for the free coinage
of (diver Senator Stewart has succeeded iu
exclling a suspicion that he bus gut his
second wind.
Tbelr Sol. Olalio to Fain
iYiUhtngton l'ot.
There are a great many men who would
uover be handed down to posterity If It
were not for the illustrated puteut medi
cine ads.
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Doaau't See Its Way Clrar.
ittonttipoHi Times
The VVhitelaw Reid gubernatorial boom
has withdrawn its prospectus pending
propositions for a now scries of guaranteed
stock.
His Cua to Escap:".
WttMAtUQtM Poif,
Tho present i uhIi of IniportHiituows mat
ter gives Hon. Josiuh yumcy an excellent
opportunity to slip to the rear of Ihobtuge.
TO THOSE WHO FAIL.
Courage, bra re heart; nor in thy iurposo falter;
Go ou aud wlu tb fight St ucy cost.
Though aid: nutl weury after heavy conflict,
ltejuieo to fcuow thu luttio i.s not lost.
The Held Is o-n still to those brave spirits
Who uoljly st i i till the itrlfe ia dune,
Through fun aud storm with couruj;u oh un
daunted. Working and waiting (Ul the liatUu's won
The fairest K-arl:i are found lu deepest waters.
The brightest Jewess to the darkest mine;
And through (he Very blackest hour of midnight
The star of Hope doth ever brightly shine.
Pres) on ! pre-w on : the ivit.h is stoep and rugged,
And sto: in clouds almost hide IIopu's lijhttruui
view ;
But you can pass whom other feet have, trodden;
A lew mure, skua may briny you safely through.
The battle o'er, u vletor CFOWMd with hunurs;
Ity patient toll each dUBoultJ past,
You thOO may see these days of bitter failure
Uut spurred you on to greater deeds at last
Nellie llarlow iu Chamber's Journal
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