V TIIB SCRANTON TRIBUNE TIIUIiSDAY MORNING. JANUARY 10, 1895. PUBUBRII) DAILY IN SCRANTOH. PA, BT TBI TR1BUM Pobushmo Oomfaht. C. P. KINGSBURY, Pick Mfl'l E. H. RIPPLE, 8c uo Thus. i LlVVt. RICHARD, Io.toh. W. W. DAVIS. SuMIIIHTCMOtRT. W. W. YOUNGS, Ay. Mm'. tisw York omci : tribdri botldiko. Irahe & GRAY, kANAOIR. HTBRIO AT TBI TOSTOmOl AT SCRANTON, FA, At 8IU0MD -OLAB8 MAIL H ATTBH. " Printers' Ink," the recognized Jonrnnl for advertisers, rutcs THE SCKANTON 1 Illlll NE as tbc best advertising medium in Northeastern Pennsylvania. "Printom' Ink" know. SCRANTON, JANUARY 10, 18U5. THE SCRANTON OF TODAY. Come and Inspect our city. Elevation above the tide, 710 feet Extremely healthy. Estimated population, 1894, 103,000. Registered voters, 20,599. Value of school prope rty, $750,000. Number of school children. 12.OU0. Average amount of bank deposits, $10,- eoo.uoo. It's the metropolis of northeastern Penn sylvania. Can produce electric power cheaper than Niagara. No better point In the United States at Which to establish new Industries. See how we grow: Population in I860 'z!3 Population in 1S70 S5AM Population in 1SS0 Population In 1S90 K-'il: Population In 1S91 (estimated) 10S.M) And tho end is not yet. Mr. Slblpy's remark, In so far as it TIMS directed against the president of the United States, was In questionable taste; but as referring to the Individual, Grover Cleveland, It aptly crystallizes v u good deal of generally accepted opin ion. Lt It Be a Kouser. The public meeting in this city next Saturday evening, called In protest against the Armenian atrocities, will le addressed by eminent citizens, and 4t should be a rouser! Each day adds to the horrors of Turkish misrule; and each dtiy of inactivity on the part of the civilized governments of 'the world decivas3 the likelihood of a satisfac tory investigation. Primarily, of course, this Indigna tion meeteing will be directed sgainst the barbarities indicted upon Inmoeent men, women and children in a far-off ilaml where Justice is known only through Occident or favoritism; and where freedom of faith and liberty of conscience are an unvoiced hope. But secondarily, the meeting will, in effect, if not In Intention, help to stimulate the itrowlng demand In this country for an American policy which will not compel th" American (traveler In Turkey, If he wishes to have any rights before the lav.-, to seek the protection of the Brit ish consulate and the Uritish flag, be cause his own Ha Is regarded with su preme contempt. Among the thousands of Innocent lives recently sacrificed to Moham medan prejudice in Asia Minor there may have been not one American, life. But we want a condition of public sen timent In this country, back of its au thorities, which will enable us to be lieve that no American life will be lost, in time to come, through the senile ob eoltsctince of the present Turkish dyn a.sty; and that .no orderly American citizen, setting foot on Turkish soil, phall stand in danger of death, Impris onment or injury of any' kind whatso ever. Representative Farr, now that he has been re-appointed chairman of the house committee on education, will doubtless move promptly toward the establishment in this state of compul sory education. Sentiment Is ripe for it; a gubernatorial hindrance will soon disappear and all that Is now needed is work. That Reconciliation. There has been numerous "explana tions" of the sudden recent reconcilia tion between the president and Senator Hill, the majority of which have utterly failed to explain. But we suspect that the Washington correspondent of the Chicago Evening Post comes near to the truth when he writes that "Senator Hill, wearied of eternally struggling in the trough of the waves, has made up his mind to try for the presidential nomination In 1896 juflt hard enough to lose. It, thus giving somebody else the opportunity to do the hard fighting for once. He has figured In a cold-blooded fa.'thion that the chances of Democratic euccess two years .hence will not be half as good as in 1900, and being patient he prefers to reserve his crowning struggle for a stage that will offer the best pros pects of winning. The senator Is be lieved to favor a western or southern man' for the presidential nomination, no special preference yet expressed, but neither Carlisle, Stevenson, Morrison, Crisp nor Vest being considered objec tionable." In considering this plausible theory It must be remembered that David B, Jllll, whatever his faults, la a man of conceded astuteness. While Tammany represented th indispensable requisite of Democratlo success, Hill, albeit In finitely Tammany's superior In Intel lectual ability and personal tastes and (habits, sedulously cultivated Tammany, When to retain Tammany's favor meant to wage bitter warfare upon tho administration, Hill unhesitatingly threw down dhe gage of battlo and fought aa only great politicians can fight. Now that an uprising of the pub lic conscience has unhorsed Tammany, the consequent question which David U. Hill Is smart enough to study In all its aspects is how to detach himself from the Tammany entanglements without vharlng In Tammany's overthrow. The idea of Joining forces with a tra Jflltlonai enemy would never occur to commonplace minds; but It wns prob ably the very first Idea ithat occurred to David B. Hill. . He very likely rea soned that Mr. Cleveland was In pretty muoh the same kind of a dilemma; and "being- so much better a politician than Cleveland, he doubtless manipulated mutual friends In a manner to cause Cleveland to make the first overture. This hypothesis tallies admirably with all the known facts and in addition sup plies an adequate imotlve for the much- advertised reconciliation. The days of Cleveland's lofty scorn have passed. The president has rapidly deteriorated of late; and Hill Is Just adroit enough to work upon raw material of Cleve land's present quality with a skill that Is truly Machiavellan. Whatever its end, the game is cer tainly worth waitchlng. We wonder how Colonel Sweeney knows that the water at llarrisburg Is polluted. The nomination at yesterday's Re publican primaries of Adjutant W. 8. Millar for the Eighth ward alderman ship assures the polling of the entire Republican strength In this Important ward, next month, and may be taken as presaging Mr. Millar's triumphant election. Ills qualifications for the posi tion are notopen to question. In other and en ally difficult relations ho has shown an executive capacity for de tails and a soundness of judgment that cannot fall to make him a superior ward magistrate. Especially note worthy were Ills indefatigable and courteous services last fall, when acting as secretary of the Republican county committer These services fairly en title him to the support of every Repub lican in .the ward; while his personal popularity and conceded fitness will un doubtedly procure for his candidacy the votes of many Democratic friends. In Philadelphia, It Is said, a Penrose by any other name would disseminate the usual quantity of fragrance. A Risky Game. If the gentleman who chiefly superin tends the destiny of the Republican party In Philadelphia and Harrinburg knows good reasons for the sudden turning down of Senator Boies Penrose and the equally sudden turning up of City Solicitor Charles F. Warwick us tho approved Republican candidate for mayor of Philadelphia, he seems to have kept those reasons carefully se creted as yet. The subject Is not one for outside interference; but in so far as the welfare of the Republican party In Pennsylvania Is ldentilled with its wel fare in Philadelphia, state-at-large Re publicans may with propriety take In terest 'in a situation which seems, at this distance, reasonably certain to re sult In the election of Robert E. Pattl son to the position now graced by Ed win S. Stuart. David Martin, the gentleman to whom we refer, it is to be presumed Is In a position to know the full mean ing of this eleventh-hour transposi tion better than it Is known by those who se-m disposed to criticise him. If he shall succeed In electing Mr. War wick under present circumstances such a result would conspicuously strength en his hold upon the politics of the en tire state and place him, In point of political prestige, fairly alongside one who is now looked upon as his superior. Senator Quay. We do not recall, on any scale, a more ambitious and dra matic political climax than was en acted In the early hours of yesterday morning, when a Penrose convention was changed Into a Warwick conven tion between mldn'lght and dawn. Had Martin really been Warwick, ho could not have been more proficient as a maker and unmaker of kings. But Is the prize worth the risk? To Mr. Martin, It may be; but how about the great bulk of the Republican voters of Philadelphia? Do they share In Mr. Martin's ambitions and wish to further his Interests by being careless of their own? We are inclined to doubt the ex pediency of relying too implicitly upon affirmative replies to these interroga tions. The situation to us bears a sus picious look;, we fancy we can detect in It Just such symptoms as have twice before, In state politics, played Into the hands of the present Democratic governor. Tlje mistakes mHde'ln 1882 and In 1890 by those who Mien occu pied much the same relation toward state politics that Is sustained by David Martin today toward themunlcl- pal politics of Philadelphia proved too costly, we should think, to suggest the wisdom of their repetition, even upon a smaller scale. Congressman-elect Lelsenrlng, of Lu zerne, has already begun the epicurean portion of his political career at Wash ington by giving an elnborate dinner at Chamberlln's to a company which Included such distinguished entertain ers as Colonel John A. Cockerlll, Dr. Edward Bedloe, Major Moses P. Handy and Colonel Thomas P. Ochiltree. Mr. Lelsenrlng has selected the proper route to success. Honest Ballot Reform. The politicians hqye already begun to cry out against any amendment of the present ballot law, upon the ground that frequent changes of that law give the voter insufficient time In which to become familiar with Its operation. It is a satisfactory reply to this weak ar gument to say that If the politicians had perm 1 tied a proper ballot reform measure to become a law in the first place, amendments of It would not now be necessary. In view of the fact that the only measure which they did per mlt to become a law was notoriously defective, Intelligent public sentiment will offer no apologies to the politicians for insisting upon amendments until those defects shall have been corrected The amendments most needed at this time have already been pointed out by The Tribune; and Its designation of them has recelved'emlnent and wide. sprend approval. We are pleased to see such able Journals ns the Philadel phia Record, the York Gazette, the Chambersburg Public, Opinion and the Wllkes-Burre Record come to the sup port of our position In this matter, The last named Journal's remarks upon the subject are especially timely. It says: Under cover of tho very loose wording of section 20, which allows voters, under certnln circumstances, to be helped In marking their ballots, It has often hap pened that men perfectly able to mark their own ballots have b. en allowed or even required to tuko other men Into tho compartments with them, so ns to prevent the possibility of secrecy. The courts would almost certainly hold such a prao tlco to be a criminal offense, but It can not be effoctUh.'(ly prevented as long un there Is tho least doubt about convicting and punishing those concerned lu It.' The provisions lu section J4 and 22 whereby a "straight ticket" can be voted by marking a cross In a circle ubove a party column Is not only useless to the average voter who rarely wishes to vote an absolutely straight ticket, but causes endless uncertainty and mistakes, expe rience shows that if a bullot can be marked In two ways many voters are cer tain to attempt to use both at tho sume time. This causes many votes to be lost by Inconsistent murklng, besides leaving it to partisan election officers to decide ilellcate questions as to voters' Inten tions. In so far, too, us this provision fa cilitates "straight" voting und obstructs the exorcise of tho voter's free choice. It Is utterly un-American and Inconsistent with popular government. A similar pro vision hus been declared unconstitutional In California und our courts would prob ably reach the sume decision If a case cume before them. Our ballot luw, therefore, needs to be mended so us to require That every voter shall murk his ballot absolutely ulone, unless clearly prevented by physical disability or Inability to rea i, and that In all such cases the mun who helps a voter to mark his bullot shull himself be sworn to secrecy. One uniform system of marking ballots, namely, by putting a murk opposite tho nuino of each cunillduto voted lor, ex cept In tho cuso of presidential electors, when1 a murk for a whole group shall be ullowed. 'Phis Is the only tenable position for those who honestly favor lionest ballot reform. Because the new district attorney did not choose as one of this assistants a Carbondule candidate, the Herald, umidst furious airs, declares that resi dents of tho l'ioneer City "are not a lot of Jays." AVe are now laboring to trace the Intellectual connection be tween this premlst! and the Herald's conclusion. The only police Inspector In New York who escaped smirching by the Lexow investigation Is now boycotted by the other inspectors and will soon resign. Viewed from all standpoints the New York ikollceman's cup of Joy does not seem tJbo bubbling over at present. Lackawanna at Harrlsburg has a clerkship, a committee chairmanship and several good committee appoint ments, not to speak of Sam Hudson. Lackawanna, thanks, is doing quite well. The Inventor who springs a new lawn mower upon un unsuspecting public at this season of blustering blizzards and burated water pipes seems to lack a sense of the eternal fitness of things. In the matter of explanation as to .1,., ... If 1 f A ,.ii,.r. n wnrhlna from Honolulu, ithe administration of corpulence still displays a disposition to beat about the bush. o It begins to look as thuttgh Democ racy mt large had been released from the hypnotic spell cast over It by what Mir. Sibley terms the b. b. b. adminis tration. A searching party will need to be organized to find the trail of Colonel Breckinridge's lecture tour which was lost in the blizzard several days since. It Is unfortunate that the ballot law In this state has to be amended; but It Is also unfortunate that it needs amendment. Queen Lil bids fair to become1 a rival to the divine I'attl in the business of farewell appearances. LEGISLATIVE TOPICS. New huritlcs I'lun. A bill creating a state department of charities and correction has been drawn up at the Instance of some Interested par ties and will be umong the first presented to the house at llarrisburg. tlovernor elect Hastings, it Is understood, hus been requested to recommend It In his message, ami there will be a strong fight made to push It through. Tho new department would cost the state Just the sum at pres ent expended on tho boned of charities. il5,0uo. This fund now goes to salary two men, Cadwallader Kiddle, the secretary cf the board of charities, und .Mr. Wetherell, secretary of the commission on lunacy. tho remulnlng ten members being unsal aried appointees of the governor. Tho new bill contemplates four salaried of ficers, and the cost of running the depart ment will be about the same as for the board. The superintendent of the depart ment will be appointed by the governor and approved by the senate, as are super intendents of bunks, schools and other departments. The department will be di vided Into three bureaus charities, cor rections and lunacy, respectively, with un Inspector lit the bead of each, ap pointed by the superintendent. These four officers will be salnrled. Whenever the various Institutions throughout the state make application to the legislature for appropriations, the bill further pro vides thnt the superintendent of this de partment, the auditor general and the state treasurer shall form a commission to pass upon und recommend to, or with hold from, tho committee on appropria tions the special application. As tho au ditor general knows the revenue of tho commonwealth, the treasurer knows Its llnanclul status, und the superintendent would or should know the needs of the Institution, It Is supposed n much moro equitable basis of appropriation could be secured than heretofore, Children .Must Ho I dlicutcd. Erie Dispatch: "Pennsylvania should enact a compulsory ediicutlnn luw at the session of the legislature this winter. It should not be vetoed as Governor Pattl son vetoed the act passed two years ago und we believe tlovernor Hustings will see to It Unit it has his signature. Penn sylvania should not bn behind other states In matters of education. The com monwealth owes it to the perfection of her Institutions to see that her children are ediiouted. There ought to be no hnng Ing between duty nnd the Inlliienees which have ulways operated to prevent this law. There are people who do not know and do not care anything about the value of education and this class must be reached. If In no other way, then by force. To maintain the state, the youth must be ediicuted nnd If pn rents nre so forgetful of their duty, they should be made to fully realize. It by legislative enactment. Let us have this compulsory law and have it In 1W5." Iliilldlng nnd Loan l egislation. Two bills affecting building nnd loan associations will make their appearance ut Jlnrrisburg this week and possibly two or three others may follow. The first one will provide for the filing of reports at Intervals seml-unnnally with the super intendent of bunking, showing compre hensively the business of the association, Its receipts, expenses, earnings, dividends, outstanding capital, loans and withdraw als. It will also provldo for periodical examination by the state banking de partment Into the business of all asso ciations or companies organized under the laws of this Btnte, territory or government which mny bo doing business In this rommonwenlth to ascertain I and make publlo tlrtdr condition. The second one, drawn by Representative Cotton, of Pitts burg, limits the operations of building and loan associations to the counties In which those associations lure organized, and rules out all foreign associations whatBo evor. v ' The Dntv of the Drama. Prom tho New York Sun. It Is the duty of the drama, first, to be clean1 and wholesome, then truly, to enter tain, to create as powerful a charm as it can out of the trugio and comic elements of real life, mixed not too strongly, with the Ideal sympathies, the Ideal beliefs, and hopes und poetry of men. Let It not skip either the fuets or the poetry, for men are made up of both; and as It hopes to live, let It not be so meanly real as to produce tho thing Itself rather than the artistic and Ideal suggestion, and so attuln merely a cheap shock rather than an abiding pleasure. Of all the reasons for tho Inability of men to write plays, this tendency is perhaps the commonest and most effective; und wo commend this truth to all dramatists who desire to practice their art on mutters essentially uncleun. ONE MODEST AMERICAN. Ho Believed in Rendering Vnto Caesar and America tho l ull Amount oCWhat llclongcd to Thorn, From the Commercial-Advertiser. It seems that thirty years ago when the civil war whs nt Its height, the patriotic Americuns then in Paris came together to celebrate tho Fourth of July In un appro priate manner. When the toast "Our Country" was given, a gentleman re sponded by proposing: "A lieulth to tho 1'nited States bounded on the north by British America, on the south by Mexico, on the east by the Atluntle, und on the west by the Pacific ocean." The toust wus drunk, but the company were not yet seated when (mother guest requested thut u second one follow which would do the subject Justice, and Bald: "The United Stutes, our country, bounded on the north by the north pole, on the south by the south pole, on the eust by the rising und on the west by the setting sun." The up plause wus greut, but at Its conclusion u gruy-halred old soldier, who for half a century had served his country with fidel ity and courage ut home und abroad, slowly arose In his place and spoke ns follows: "It grieves nio greatly, gentle men, to hear my countrymen speak with so much levity upon whut should be a serious subject, und set such nurrow bounds to our country's domain. Let us drink aguin to the United Stutes bounded on the north by the aurora borealls, on the south by the precession of the equinoxes, on the eust by the nebular hypothesis and on the west by tho Buy of Judgment." (live the People a Chance. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. As we are to have more bond sales, let them be fixed so thut the people can get the bonds. The banks should not be ul lowed ull the profit from the government's necessities. Punishment I its tho Crime. From the Chicago Dlsputch. In capital offenses sllpknotlsm Is the best cure for hypnotism. Hope for Cigurctto Smokers. 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