T' ' THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE SATURDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 15, 1S9. 0e ctanfon Ztitmt PUILKNCO ltY IN 8eT0(l, . Imuh fvsuswKO COHMMT. t p. Kinosaunr. New Vena or-oi tiimn rat. Mammch. tIMaMUM TT. "I'rlnten' Ink," the reoogulzod Journal for Blf ertlners, rate the bCBAMTON Xlillil'KKa the beat advertising medium In Northeastern Ve-neylvanla, "Frl-tor' Ink" know. tCRANTON. SEPTEMBER, 15. 18W. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKIT, For Governor: DANIEL H. HASTING or CKMT-K. For Lieutenant Governor: WALTER LYON, OVALLSUHEKr. For Auditor General: AMOS H. MYLIX, Or LaJCABTkR. ir Secretary oflternal Affair JAMES W. LATTA, or vaiLADicriUAi fT (toHS-eMmavat-iarpe; OALUBHA A. OROW, or SUfKiDBHANNA. GEORGE P. HUFF, or wisTMORiuAua. 1 Mil on Time, oy. & REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET. for Conorem: JOSEPH A. SCRANTON. For Law Judge: ROBERT W. ARCHBALD. for 6lktrlff: FRANK B. CLEMONS. For-Countv Treasurer: THOMAS D. DA VIES. For Clerk of the Court: JOHN H. THOMAS. for Frothonotary: CLARENCE E. PRYOB For JHttrlct A ttorney: JOHN K JONES. For Recorder: CHARLES HEUSTER. For Seaister of Willt: WILLIAM S. HOPKINS. For Jury Commitrkmer; T. J. MATTHEWS. Election Time, No 0. We did not expect uuy representa tive of any paving company to admit, in a signed letter fur ipublication, that he had ottered bribes to public officials, in Pittstou, or elsewhere. Neverthe less, Mr. Furmun, The Tribune's article of yesterday still stands. We are reporting, not fancies, but facts. An Awkward Straddle. It is an interesting fact that no Dem ocrat has ever been a candidate for congress in this district upon the na tional platform of his party. The mo ment one is nominated, he rushes pell niell to the newspapers with the in formation that he is just as good a protectionist as the other fellow, only he daren't say so with quite so much emphasis. Mr. Amerman, it will be recalled, treated the Eleventh district to one of these bluUs; and hud no sooner taken his seat at Washington than he was bobbing up to vote for free wool. Judge Merriileld says he is a "Pro tection Democrat." The exact mean ing of this is, we suppose, that he is in favor of a protection law but opposed to its enforcement. If he is a protec tionlst.heis by so much no Democrat ;if he is a Democrat, he is by so much no protectionist The two things are as different as day is from night. There is no honest compromise between them. A shifty band of political pres tigiatoro may try to make the people believe that they can successfully ride the two horns of this dilemma, but the artifice is ft thin one. Democ racy means war to the knife on all vestiges of protection. So its platform Bays and to its orators proclaim, in those districts where it isiyet the fash ion to tell the truth. He that is not for protection is against it He that is against it cannot be for it Judge Merriileld is personally too honorable a gentleman to willingly place his party In the indefensible position of straddling this question. It is his custom to speak out plainly, himself; and before he signifies his formal acceptance of last Tuesday's compulsory nomination he ought, in justice to the party behind him, to tell it flatlyi that he is a protectionist, and therefore, to that extent a Republican, and that he will only consent to re main upon the Democratic ticket upon he expressed understanding that it an not get a genuine Democrat to lake the nomination. This might not Improve bis chances of election, but it would preserve his honor and conserve Us self respect It would also obviate a most awk ward straddle. The Future of Silver. In the recent withdrawal of Sena tor John P. Jones, of Nevada, from the Republican party, those persons who believed that with the repeal of the Sherman silver purchase clause cur rency legislation came to a long stand still have been supplied with a subject for serious consideration. Senator Jones is one of the ablest men in public life. Upon his Bpecial subject of free silver coinage he h a walking encyclo pedia of patiently acquired and extra ordinarily ample knowledge. It is not credible that he should have taken the step which he did take without careful thought and deliberation. We do not doubt that he feels disappointed with the Republican party's course re garding silver as a money metal; and tbat,in this feeling, he is representative of a large number of earnest and con scientious men throughout the west, men heretofore in sympathy with Re publican Drinclnles and clad to be eu rolled among the volunteer soldiers of the Republican cause. We do not find provocation to flip pancy in the loss of comrades like these. We cannot bring ourselves around to the radical belief that they are less honest and less patriotic than the inhabitants of other states. From our standpoint they are mistaken; judged at this distance they have acted unwisely. But we will not wantonly abuse them for it We prefer instead to ask them if they perceive at any point in the chain of Deniocratioeventa such a superior knowledge of states manship and sui li a riper capacity for enlightened political action as would justify them in weakening the cause of Republicanism by a desertion which mu.tt inevitably aid the other Hide. Let it even be assumed that the masses of the Republican party today enter tain beliefs inimical to free coinage. Is the prospect of continued Democratic administration more auspicious for the prosperity of the sliver states than the Teturn to power of intelligent and rea sonable Republicans, upon whom manly argument and rational explana tion are seldom lost? The position of the great majority of the rank-and-file of the Republican party upon this coinage question may be expressed without recourse to be wildering figures or recondite discus sion. It is one not of preconceived hostility to silver, but simply of pro found regard for the honor and stabil ity of a currency "every dollar of which," in the forceful words of Gen eral Harrison, "shall be the purchas ing equal of every other dollar," and have behind It, if necessary, the equiva lent of a dollar in real value. We, in the east, do not believe it to be feasible to open the nation's mints to the silver of the world; but few of us are so in sincere in our devotion to protection as to wish ill fortune to come to the silver produced in American mines by American capital giving em ployment to American labor. The useofsilverasa money metal, up to the limit of the safety of the national credit and up to the limit of the sol vency of the American treasury, is conceded to be wise, right and proper; but we submit, for the consideration of our western friends, that this limit will be sooner reached under Demo cratic supremacy than it will be under the wise control of experienced and prescient Republican statesmen, to whom the formulating of progressive financial legislation is not au impos sible task. The Talk of a Socialist. The Philadelphia Record, of which William M. Singerly, Democratic can didate for governor of Pennsylvania, is chief proprietor, finds itself under a cross lire because of its attempt to justify the Democratic effort to briug about free raw materials. The Record first quotes this assertion of The Tribune: Free iron ore means absolutely no good to Scranton. The Lackawanna Iron and Steel company gels its ore from the Corn wall ore banks in Lebanon county; and the removal of the duty on imported ores, if it shall affect the local iron Industry at all, will affect it by depreciating the value of its Lebanon properties. Free lumber means depreciated values to the lnrge timber interests of Scranton milling capi tal in Potter county, besides hurting the farmers of Wayne, Pike, Wyoming and Bradford. Free coal meant, the loss of anthracite's seaboard industrial market, and free wool, unless soon changed, will mean the extinction of the sheep-growing industry in the agricultural counties ad joining lis and the readjustment of our textile Industries on a lower wage basis in order to ward off the costly rivalry of German competitors in the knit goods market. Tben it makes tba following reply: Out of the 150,000 people who live in Lackawanna county there are probably not 500 who make a specialty of mixing wool to sell. They are not so foolish as to attempt to compete on their valuable acres against the herders of Texas and the territories, and of Australia, Argen tina and South Africa, who have the ad vantage of cheap land?, and who control the markets of the world. Bat every one of the 150,000 are interested in the low ered price and better quality of woolens. They all wear clothes, and most of them sleep under blankets. For like reasons, the large majority of the Seople of Lackawanna connty itvill nd their advantage in the cheaper shelter and larger means of comfort renulting from free lumber. Free coal, instead of curtailing the market for bituminous coal, would widen It. The late William L. Scott, himself largely interested in coal production, was a strong advocate of free coal as a means of steadying prices and se curing a special field for the Pemmylvania product In lower Canada. The abundance of bituminous coal in nearly every part of the middle, western and southern states is a fact that tariff rates do not alter. The competition between anthracite aud bi tuminous coals cannot be mitigated or prevented. But free iron ore, by stimu lating and cheapening the cost of iron pro duction in eastern Pennsylvania, would be of large advantage to the producers of both hard and soft coal. It would set soma of our prostrate steel works going again, to the advantage of the coal pro ducers of Lackawanna county. The Scranton Tribune probably lets the cat ontof .the bag when it says that a few owners of ore beds and timboa, tracts in Scranton would not find free iron ore or free lumber favorable to their special in terests. The great corporations which gather np the ore beds, the timber tracts and the coal fields, and which manage to make dear the commonest necessities of living, find ready trumpeters and de fenders in the journals quoted. They have the audacity sometimes to turn up the whites of their eyes and pretend that they are speaking as the champions of labor. Oat with them I They cannot forever fool tbe people, even the anthracite people for whom they so confidently speak. It Is Interesting to note, first, that cheaper clothing is of little benefit to the man who has no money with which to buy It The object of the German knit goods manufacturer who competes at low prices with the woolen goods made, for example, in the woolen mill In this city will have been attained when, after having discouraged wool growing In the United States, he shall have the Scranton woolen mill at. his mercy and can raise prices at pleasure. Thus, we shall have two results, neither of which is desirable. We shall have the wool growing and the wool manufacturing done In a remote country, aud we shall not have either the low prices now promised or the wages with which to pay those prices, whether they be low or high. We desire to note secondly that Lackawanna county cannot well be prosperous while the various indus tries within its borders or conducted by men who live within those borders are not prosperous. Lumbering is one of these interests. The Scranton capital which is invested, for instance, in Potter county timber lands has as good a right to make a profit as has the English capi tal invested In Canadian timber lands. We would prefer, any day, to Bee an American Industry prosper rather than a foreign Industry, if it is necessary that either should Buffer. Let Canada take care of herself. Wo live in America. Our markets and our interests are here. The duty of Amer ican legislation is to look after tho wel fare of Americans. Canada's Interests should be a secondary consideration. If the removal of tlieilutyou lum ber shall make some homes cheap, it will just us surely make other homes dear. The thousands of men in the northeastern counties of Pennsylvania whose sole means of livelihood Is con nected with the prosperity of the American lumber trade will not be comforted, in the hour of that indus ty's depression and of their own idle ness, by the reflection that some fellow workman, in another state, saves a dollar or two on a pile of raw lumber. The same hand that is raised to strike the lumberman may at any moment descend upon the other workingman, crippling him, too, in his opportunities for gaining a livelihood. In the matter of coal the Record has been refuted by Its own party which, with all its concessions to syndicates aud trusts, at the last moment did not dare to say to the coal producers of America: "We are indifferent to you and you welfare, we prefer the wel fare of the coal producers of Nova Scotia." The Democratlo party, in repudiating reciprocity, destroyed its one chance of "securing a special field for the Pennsylvania product In Lower Canada." ft wanted to give Canada everything aud ask Canada for noth ing in return. The Canadian duty on American bituminous coal is not fixed at Wushiugton,uufortuuately,butat Ot tawa. It is our humble belief, founded upon some knowledge of conditions hereabouts, Unit tho Lackawanna coun ty miner would rather have the fuel of the Atlantic seabourd mined In Penn sylvania than to have it mined in Cape Breton; he would rather get the wages for mining it than to have those wages paid to Canadian half breeds and Canucks. We are glad, in conclusion, that the "cat" is "out of the bag"-if thereby the Record means that this newspaper is for home interests first and we are not at all ashamed of having let the animal out. We do not find it neces sury in making political arguments to assume that "the great corporations" which turn the wheels of Lackawanna county's industries and provide the only employment there is for thous ands of Lackawanna county's citizens are necessarily a pack of baudits and" extortionists; but even it we believed that they were all of this, we should still trust ourselves to home bandits aud home extortionists in preference to being "held up" by the corporation bandits of some other country. We think, If the worst came to the worst, that we could make better terms with the robbers that we know, and are neighbors to,than we could with entire strangers, who want to spend their stolen riches in a foreign clime. Mr. Singerly's argument is that of a socialist. It is unworthy the man and the theme. The esteemed Washington Post should beware of the explanation gun. It is generally loaded. POLITICAL K0TES. Assistant Postmaster General Joms ban ' abiihhed the La Plume post office because certain citizens who were dissatisfied with tbe postmas ter at that plnca had boycotted the office. Upon aocount of the action of b y cotters Mr. Jones, like Debs, tuiuks that innocent people should be put to incon venience, and rogiirds tbe humble petitions of La Plume citizius who wish tho oflie i restored with tho complacency of the t'z ir of all Mussina. Jones, like aiuny other in dividuals clothed with fleeting authority, seems to imagine that the peopln in every instance ureeervanis of the office-holder. From an unbiased view of the situation it would Beem that the taxpayers of L Plume had some rights that even the Bour bon administration is bound to respect, Tbe forcing of obnoxious postal officials by appointment upon a disgusted peoplo appears to be one of the policies of the Cleveland reign. The Tribune hm heretofore called attention to the injustice of this system of rewarding party hench men. Tbe unpopular Individual in rural districts who could not be elected by vote of tbe people to drive oxen lor the road supervisor, is often flaunted in the faces of disgusted citizens of his own opposing political faith under the patronage system whereby wire pullers of greater or Ibis degree are enabled to cancel their in debtedness for some cringing favor of the past. The appointment of a postmaster in defiance to the wishes of a larger clos of patrons of the office, for the purpose of rewarding a higher official who has claim upon the patronage, is a shameful abuse of power that only finds parallel in lands where rulers govern by "divine right" This year's Smull, the hand book which Is indispensable to students of Pennsyl vania politics, has been received with the compliments of Lieutenant Governor Wa tres. Tbe compilation of it reflects great credit upon Thomas B. Cochran, former chief clerk of the senate. It would be difficult to guess what is not found in this meaty manual. Tbe complete text of the new ballot law, with ample returns of the last February election and all other infor mation bearing on state politics thoroughly revised to date are noteworthy features. We casually detect one error. In the list of city school superintendents, Professor W. H. Hockenberry, of Car bond ale, is credited to Cbambersburg, and John J. Forbes, of Chambersburg, to Carbondale. But In tbe main the volume is a model of accuracy and - crisp condensation, and every citizen should have and study a copy with care. . The election in Maine of every Repub lican candidate for state senator and all but four members of ths state house of representatives is a hint to Pennsylvania that should not be forgotten in the Twen tieth senatorial and four Lackawanna legislative districts. t. There is renewed talk of a new paper in Wilkes-Barre, to champion Democratic principles, but la view of the coming deluge it woulJ dearly be money wasted. - Ohio Democrats are in a quandary. The friends of Senator Brtce say that if the Democratlo state convention next week adopts resolutions censuring him for his course against the Wilson bill be will at once resign. This wonld lose the Demo crats one vote in ths senate, as .Governor The governor would have the filling of the Tsuaucy entirely in nis power, mo general assembly has adjourned sine die and cannot assemble except upon the governor's call. , Colonel Breckinridge's fate will be de cided at today's primaries with possibly s supplementary decision or two in Novem ber aud af tor death. Tom Reed will begin his argument in the supplementary proceedings about a week from Tuesday, in Gotham. Judge llerrifleld's obedionce to party duty would be very touching, it it were not als ) so very tunny. REMEMBER'there are hundreds of brands of White Lead (so called) on the market that are not White Lead, composed largely of BarytC3 and other cheap materials. But the number of brands of genuine Strictly Pure White Lead is limited. The following brands are standard "Old Dutch" process, and just as good as they were when you or your lather were boys : "Atlantic" "Beymer-Bauman," "Jewett," "Davis-Chambers," 'Fahnestoc-," "Armstrong McKelTy." For Colors. National Lead Co.'s Pure White Lead Tinting Colors, a one-pound can to a 35-pound keg of Lead and mix your own paints. Saves time and annoyance in matching shades, and insures the best paint that It is possible to put on wood. Send us a postal card and get our book on paints and color-card, free; it will probably save you a good many dollars. NATIONAL LEAD CO., New York. Just received s nice Dew 11ns of SILK SHADES in ohoios colors and styles. Our stosk of Banquet, Piano and rarior Lamps is complete. Haviland Chins. Carlsbad anil Amur lean China, Dinner and Tea Sets in many styles; also a comber of open stock patterns from which yon can seises wnat pieoe yon want. COURSEN, CLEMONS & CO. 422 Lacka. Avenue. COMPLEXION BLEMISHES My be hidden Imperfectly tiy cosmetics and powders, but can only be removed periua nontiy oy I HotssTs Supsrior Face Bloac! ! It will positively remove Freokls, Tan, Moth, liovn.-., and cure any diseases of tho skin, such aa lMmpiei, Acne, lilnnk lieB'la, oillnean and renders tbe skin soft and beautiful. Price SI per bottle. For sal at E. M. HETSEL'S 330 Lacka. Ave., Scranton, Fa. maisjs!djak A. W. JURISCH 435 SPRUCE STREE1 BICTCLKS AND SPOUTING GOODS. 'fMor, Oendron, Eclipse, LovelL DIamont M Other Wheels. Hotel Waverly European Plan. Flnt-olass Bar attaches. Depot tor Bergaer A Kngei's Tsnnhusr Bear. IE Cor, 15th and FUliBrt Sts., -Philada. Hoat desirable (or residents of N.E. PamfJ sylvaula. All conveniences (or traveler to and from Broad Street station and the Twelfth and Market Btreet station. De sirable (or visiting Herantonlana aad po tie In the Anthracite IUkIoo. T. J. VICTORY, PROPRIETOR. BUY THE p4 mM' w n if j MR? r lis W Jfc ? 4at For many years this Piano has stood in the front ranks. It has been admired so ranch for its pure, rich tone, that it has become a standard for tone quality, nntil it is considered the highest com pliment that can be paid any Piano to say "It resembles the WE BE R." v ' We now hare the full control of this Piano for this section as well as many other fine Pianos Which we are selling at greatly reduced prices and on easy monthly payments. Don't buy until yon Bee for goods and get onr prices GUERNSEY BROTHERS' NEW STORE, GOLDSMITH'S S COMBINATION Now on exhibition in our center window, consisting of 8 yards of 4o-inch, all-wool French Serge and Vi yards Changeable Taffeta Silk, at only $4.25. Goldsmith CLEARING SALE OF BICYCLES. A Child's Bicycle.Rubber Tire, new SO A Child's Bicycle, Kurior Tire, new 10 A Boy'B Bicyole, Rubber Tire, new 1 A Boy's Bicycle, Rubber Tire, new 18 4 Boys' or Girls' Bicycle Cushion Tire, new 60 down tO8 1 Youth's Bicycle, Pneumatic Tlre.new., BS 2 Victor B Bicycles, Pneumatic Tire,sec- ond band 10 1 Victor B Bicycle, Pneumatic Tire, new SO 1 Secure Bicycle, Pneumatic Tire, sec cud-band 60 1 Lovel Diamond Bicyole, Solid Tire, second-band 10 1 Ladles' Bicycle, Solid Tire, second hand , 85 2 Victor A Bicycles, Solid Tire, second hand 15 1 Viator C Bicycle, 1H In. cushion Tire, second-hand 38 1 Victor B Bicycle, lXj in. Cushion Tire, second-hand 40 1 Columbian '92 Blcycle.PnoamatioTlre, BS 1 CbalnleBS Bicyclo, Pnenmatlo Tire, nearly Dew 100 Come Early for Bargains. Lawn Tennis Racquets at a discount of one-third for two weeks. J. D. WILLIAMS & BRO. 814 LACKA. AVENUE. A Fall Assortment Letter Copying Books OUR SPECIAL: A 600-page 10x12 Book, bound fn cloth, sheep back and corners, guaranteed to give satisfaction, Only 90c. FINE STATIONERY AND ENGRAVINd Reynolds Bros, Stationer and Engravtrs, 317 Lackawanna Ave. Dr, Hill & Son Albany' Dentists et tenth, JSJfl; best set, IS: for gold cap and teeth without plates, called crown and bridge work, eall for prloea and refereneae. TONALOIA, for extraoUiig teeth without Moetner. no gu OVEB riBST SATIOMAt pAMH. 22 Y. M. G. A BOOKS WEBER BUILDING OF AND WOOI- DRESS Will be more universally worn this fall than ever before. Such a variety of new weaves, Dots, Figures, Stripes and Plains, have never been displayed as this seasoa Youu inspection invited. Brothers & gpiiwEMig!iMi..iimi..m.!.iiiii.M Big Gut in School Shoes ro mm s . a S During the month of SEPTEMBER we -will sell ! MUN DELL'S SOLAR TIP SHOES i Nos. 6 to iya , Nos. 8 to 10 , Nos. 11 to 13 ! GLOBE SHOE STORE, .lEIIKKaUlllilllSIIUIIIISinmilHIIBItH 1HEY ARE AND WILL SOON BE GONE At Greatly mmi mm . . . . THE REMAINDER OF OUB STOCK OP REFRIGERATORS, $ $ ICE f Cream Freez9rs, OIL AND GAS STOVES i Foote & Shear Co., 513 LACKA. ATK. A 5 Cauliflower, Pickling Onions, Horse Radish Root, Green Ginger Root, R ckllng Cucumbers, Mangoes, Hot Pappero, Garlic Dill And everything used in manufacture of Pickles. PIERCE'S MARKET, PENN AVENUE. and Get the Best. WY06lNCr AVENUE, SC&ANT0N, 9 sBk. sav inn CTV ( BAZAAR PATTERNS Company. BICYCLE BARGAINS Daring the month of SEPTEMBBB we offer the verf best bargains ever shown In this city, None but first class Wheels in stock. Call and examine. Open even lugs. COLUMBIA BICYCLE AGEMCf 2 oVi-ff muneT' 80 Cents 90 Cents $1.10 227 LACKAWANNA AVENUE. Atlantic Refining Go. Micufacturtrt and Dealer In! niamiaating and Lubricating II Linseed Oil, Nap thus and Gaso lines of nil grades. Axle Qreose, Pinfcn Grease and Colliery Com. poond ; also, a lar.e Una ot Par mfflne Wax Candles. W also handle the Famous CROWN ACME OIL, the only family aafety burning oil in the market WILLIAM MASON, Manage. Office: Co! Exchange, Wyoming At Work at fin Brook. DOCTOR JOHN HAMLIN Veterinary Surgeon and Veterinary Dentist. TEIEPHOJiE 1918. Prompt attention to eall for treatmralot til domestio sniniala Veterinary Medlcinf carefully compound! and (or aatu at reaaoaabla prtoaa. Office at the Blnme Carriage Works, 12 DIX OOUBT. Scrauton. waerol direct shoeing-after noon. Graduate of the American Veterinary C letreaad the Columbian School of Oompars. tire Mv.HcJuo. Well. Sir! "Spectacles!" Yes, sirl Wa have a special ist here to M you who doei nothinz else. SUxightdowu If If aud have your 1 ' II 1 eyes fitted ia ascientifio manner. LLOYD, JEWELER 423 LACKAWANNA AVE. Inserted in THE TRIBUNE at the late of ONE CENT A WORD. 1 J