v r THE SCRANTON TBIB UN E-WEDNESDAY- MORNING, AUGUST 21. 1835. $9 anfon CriBune Betty aa Weekly. He tai MUioa. atoa. re., br The Tribuae Paa Htw Yerk OOot: TflbaM BaildtBf. Vlwk ft Gray, lUnafn. I. p. hihmbuhv, Pm am Me, t. N. RIPMt. w Tim UVT . niCNAMO. Imtm. W. W. DAVIS. Iwiim Miuul. W. W. VOUNaS, m Mmm'i Hnio M TU KSTOFrlOl AT sciuuiToa. .. aBOOHD-CUSe MAIL MATTM. rrtaW Ink," IIm raeogalaed Jouraal Or advce I ten, rmlM Tua Scarei Tmiaima u the beM advertMag OMdhim In Noftneauera reaaaylva. ale. "raaieis uia ai faa WaaxLT Tmbunb, lmmd Every Saturday, Coatala Twelve Haaaume Fana, with an Ahuu aeaee of News, Fiction, aad Wall-Edited ltlarat Ian. For Taaaa Who Cannot Taka Taa Daily Taiaoaa, Um Weekly I Haconimwded aa tba Sw Baifmla (Mai. Only l a Year, la Advance. In Yataom la aa? Bala Dally at tba D-. L. an W, elation alHebokea. SORANTOX. AUGUST 21. 1893. SeiNvtor Quay' assertion that he will control 4he ataite convention without nosdlna; a vote from Philadelphia, la known by ihim to be pure bluff. The chHincva are 'that n he wrote that dis patch he looked up at Assistant Saint Andrews am winked Hhe other eye. The Result In Philadelphia. At 1.30 o'clock tihlsvmornlnB' sufficient returns bad been received from the rlmarlea In Philadelphia to Indicate that Senator Quay had made unex pected gains. The Philadelphia Press conceded him 14 and the Publlo Ledger estimated that he 'would have 22. The truth Is probably somewhere between these estimates. Mayor Warwick, It appears, sustained defeat in .his own ward and in 'his own division. This result leaves the Issue of the fight for the state chairmanship In doubt. Estimates by the Quay people elect the senator by from 10 to 20 plu rality, whereas the estimate of Chris topher L. Magee Is that notwithstand ing the reverse In Philadelphia Gover nor Hastings and the administration forces are Still securely In the posses sion of a working majority. The unln structed delegates command the situa tion; and If they are true to the best Interests of the party will hesitate long before turning the party machinery over Into Mr. Quay's hands, to be used by him for the re-election of Cameron and the cancelling of his political debts. If China has refused to permit the American consul at Foochow to Investi gate the recent massacre of American missionaries at Kucheng, China should be called down good and hard by Secre tary Olney. This Is a case In which even our supine secretary of state may safely utilize the Imperative mood. The County Convention. Lackawanna Republicans will take notice that, In accordance with the de cision of the county committee, the Re publican county convention to nomlnato candidates for coroner and surveyor, and to choose two delegates and two al ternates to the next national conven tion, will be held In the court house at 2 p. m., on Tuesday, Sept. 17. Pri maries for the election of delegates to this convention will be held at the regu lar polling place on Saturday. Sept. 14, between the hours of 4 and 7 o'clock In the afternoon. ' Although, the local, offices to be con tested for this year are of minor lm-' portance, it behooves the Republicans of the county to enter Into the contest with. as much seal and unanimity as If weighty interests were at stake. In this way they can effectively give the lie to the Democratic claim that the little domestto unpleasantness - which has lately been agitating the Republi can rank and Ale will In any wise In capacitate them for the pleasant duty of trouncing the scarred battalions of the free trade minority. With a presidential contest near at hand, -carrying, with H extraordinary consequences of Industrial revival In the event of a sweeping Republican victory, there la no wound of factional origin that can justify failure to line up smiling and eager for Democratic attack. On general principles we should say that Governor ' Hastings also ' has grounds for an action against the Phila delphia Inquirer. Time to End ThU Farce. The wholesale charges embodied In the latest ebullition of Cornelius Smith, Esq., cap the climax to a long aeries of erratic allegations calculated. If pre sented In good faith, to reflect upon the fame, of prominent Scran-tonlans,. living and dead. As a matter of fact, .we do not believe What any of these ac cusation have ibeen accepted seriously by the people of this city and county, who understand the animus of them and enter discount accordingly. But they have Ibeen made by a member of the Lackawanna bar. who, ao far as any documentary evidence goes, is yet In good etanding; and .have been en tered upon record, not only In the local court, but also tn the- Supreme court, where, if suitable action he not soon taken, they will, in after years, consti tute a menace to the peace of mind of Innocent descendants of the persons at tacked, r ' v-: v.- ' In common justice, therefore, w sub mit to the bench and ban of this county that U 1 time a serious effort were put forth either -to -establish that a targe number of the most eminent at- . torneys and jurists of nortHeastern Pennsylvania .'deserve to be Incar cerated In the penitentiary, or else to , end the opportunities" of Mr. Smith to drag their probity 1to the Vnlfe'of his Intermittent halluclnatlona. The period of jocularity over these Jenutngs !case vaporing has ten by i further tojeiy ance of them will simply involve the entire bar aaloclafWh et Laokawaana ' Some Personal Remarks. k For rhe benefit of two or three con temporaries that seem ' to be greatly agitated concerning; the political future of the proprietors of The Tribune, and especially for the relief of the Scranton Republican, we desire to say that we have nothing to regret m connection with the recent campaign for fair play In Lackawanna county. If that cam paign were to be fought over again. The Tribune as a newspaper and Us proprietors aa Individuals would not modify their course In any particular, except possibly to add a speck of ginger to their advocacy of Judge Willard and -the Hastings administration. The de-legates are by this time so nearly all elected that there can be no motive for hesitancy In the expres sion of honest opinion. Hence we say that while we believe' Governor Hast ings has fairly and clearly won a ma jority of the delegates to npxt Wednes day's convention, H will make absolute ly no difference to The Tribune as a newspaper or to Its proprietors as Indi viduals, so far as their future welfare Is concerned, whether he shall win or lose. They have supported the state administration as a matter of principle, believing Its side of the current contro versy to be the right side; and they are prepared to bear the full responsibility and accept all the consequences of their course. They are neither dependent on federal patronage for a living nor so near the end of their rope that they have to become the puppets of Senator Quay's favor In order to ward oft final collapse. Another thing. If tt shall appear, one week from today, that Senator Quay has won his battle, The Tribune will not imitate the cryibaby tactics pursued by the local Quay organ when It was walloped out of Ms hoots In Lackawanna county. On the contrary, it will take Its medicine like a man, bury the faotlonal knife and get ready for the proximate warfare on the com mon enemy. Wiethe Scranton Repub lican have nerve to make a similar pledge In case Quay is whipped? , Should Quay win, who would be his Lackawanna broker, Penman or Joe? We trtift Chat "Kurnel" Robert is not unconsciously trying to unhorse his dis tinguished sire. For a Short Campaign. :. F.Ighteen of the forty-nine members of the Republican national committee have responded to the Inquiry of the Chicago Times-Herald as to whether they favor a long or a short presidential campaign next year. Fourteen are em phatic In the expression of a belief that a campaign begun In the latter part of August or the early part of September, and pushed aggressively, would be preferable to a long and tiresome con test which would needlessly disturb the business Interests of the country with out offering any additional partisan ad vantage. Among the 'DemocraUr there is almost an equal preponderance In fayor of a short canvass. Although this expression of prefer ence Is not decisive, It offers hope that next year's battle will be a brief one. With a newspaper discussion of current issues that. In these days of abundant printers' Ink, keeps the voting public at all times well informed, there does not seem to be an urgent need of a pro longed period of stump oratory and artificial campaign hurrah. 'As a mat ter of fact, the old style methods of conducting political contests on the torchllght-parade-and-brass-band order are falling Into disrepute. They hinder Instead of facilitate an Intelligent com prehension of the dominant Issues. Two months of tom-tom beating ought to be amply sufficient to scare out the hermits and stiffen the spines of the vacillating voters.;. , A short campaign, by all means the shorter the better. Nest comes the Lehlglh battle, which will be fought to a finish day after to morrow. The dhances are good for iHaetlrwrs to carry Lehigh; but he can win without It. The Judgeship In Luzerne. , It 4s apparent that the battle In Lu cerne county between Lyman H. Ben nettt and William 8. McLean, the oppos ing candidate for the common pleas judgeship, WUl be most hotly contested. The nominees are both strong and popu lar men, as well am of high standing in their profession. Both have been be fore the people Vn former campaigns as candidates for judge and been defeated, and both owed their defeat to the same man, Bennett directly and iMoLean in directly. Fifteen years ago Mr. Mc ILfan was the regular nominee of the Democracy, for judge, with Judge JUce as his opponent. lAt tha't time Luzerne Was more follalbfy Democratic than It Is now and 'McLean would probably have been elected had not Lynch ac cepted the nomination of ithe Greenback-Labor party. He drew largely on the Democratic vote and IMoLean iwas defeated. Two years ago Lynch was the Democratic candidate for Judge and Bennett was hie opponent.. McLean re membered his defeat through the In strumentality of Lynch and supported Bennett, but (Lynch was elected in eptte of the opposition of MbLean and his Democratic friends. As might he expected, many of Lynch' friends are not giving McfLean a, very cordial sup port In his present campaign, . . But this antagonism in his own party Is not the only nor the most formidable element of weakness In Mr. McLean's candidacy. While the Democratic party In Luserne has not In Us organ lied capacity ever manifested a spirit of non-partlsanism in judicial elections there 'are unquestionably many Indi vidual Democrats In that county who recognise the fact that on a common pleas bench pontalntng three, judges both political parties should be. repre sented. The two older. Judges; of Lu sernt, Woodward and Lynch, are Dam ocrats. The former was re-elected without .apposition from, the RepubH can four veara aero, but the Demo cratic leaders have Ignored thla .fact and insisted on making a nomination this year. . While nothing can be said tp the detriment of iMr. "McLean as a man or as a lawyer, and while his general t- ness for the Judiciary Is freely recog nised, it Is also universally admitted that Lyman . Bennett possesses In a much larger measure the peculiar quali ties which constitute the unexception able and successful Jurist, Mr. Ben- net has devoted himself exclusively to the practice of law ever since his admis sion to the bar, attaining high rank. (Mr. McLean, on the other nana, naa given much of his attention to banking ami nMier branches of business. Mr. Bennett has never taken an active part in partisan politics and Is free from those enmities, prejudices and obliga tions which Invariably attach to active partisans such as Mr. McLean has al ways been. In many respects Mr. Bvn ntt nnaaenaes the Qualities that gave Judge Rice such eminence on the bench. He is one of those earnest, calm, Ue lUiornte men who are never controlled in their acts by passion, prejudice or undue partiality. Luzerne county has had a line or eminent Judges, among those more readily recalled being the reverea Conyngham, the elder Woodward and the scholarly aoldier-Jurlst, Genera Dana. Judge Charles E. Rice was a nvrhv anocessor of these eminent men. and the deliberate Judgment of those who best know Lyman Hakes Bennett Is that he Is better fitted than any ow er member of the Luserne bar to main tain ithe Men standard heretofore sus tained by his greait predecessors on the bench of old Luzerne. The Pottsvllle Miners Journal has the aublime effrontery to call upon Gover nor iHastlnga to abandon his fight, when he has It won! An Imminent Reform. Siroerlntendent Jackson, of this divi sion of the United States railway ser vice, Is receiving many compliments unon the excellent record of his de partment. With 40,365,070 more pieces of mall distributed In the fiscal year of 1Q5 than in 1894. there was an average of only one error for every 18,636 pieces distributed. Mr. Jackson, it should be remembered, was at one time a news paper man, which probably accounts for his thorough comprehension of the value of promptness In the exchange and delivery of mall. If the local mall service In all cities were up to the hlgn standard of efficiency characteristic of th mllwav branch of the postal ser vice, there would be very little room for complaint. it la nrobalble. however, that there never will be this equality of services so long as It remains the custom ror local Dostimasters and their responsible assistants to be changed at every turn In the political tide. Such a custom means unavoidable embarrassment to the efficiency of the postal service, Just as much so as would be the case with, let us say, the express business If local managers of express offices were turned out of office and Ithelr places filled, at the Instigation of local politicians, with green men each time a change was made In the presidency of the company. No bank, railroad or other private en terprise could succeed If It were to change Its responsible employes with the tame frequency that postmasters are changed, rthanks to the spoils sys tem of politics; and It Is a significant fact that the marked efficiency of the railway branch of the postal business dates from the moment of Its honest classification under civil service rules. The time will come when postmasters and revenue collectors will be appoint ed upon their merits as ascertained, first, by practical examination and sec ondly by general Indorsement among patrons of the affected offices; and will hold office during the efficient portion of their lives or during good behavior, and the same will be true of their sub ordinates. Thus the business affairs of these public offices will be put upon the same fair basis of stability and effici ency that Is exacted by patrons of banks, trust companies, pharmacies and common carriers. .When this time comes, and It Is not far remote, the spectacle will not be seen of any sena tor of the United States peddling out positions of public responsibility to any class of men who can serve his personal purposes by the manipulation of dele gates or otherwise. In speaking of the libel suits brought or pending against the principal Quay organ In Philadelphia because of Its abusive campaign tactics, Editor George H. Welshons, of the Pittsburg Times, telegraphs from Philadelphia: "There Is a growing feeling among pub lic men at this end of the state, that 'a man who happens to buy a keg of Ink and a printing press does not thereby acquire an unlimited license to black guard everybody whom he cannot blackmail." That Is a feeling In which reputable publishers can cordially Join. Too Late Repented. Federal -Representative W. A. Stone, of Pittsburg, somewhat flamboyantly announces his belief that "Senator Quay's policy In the legislature of 1897 will be to secure the passage of a law which will make a decided change in the political methods in vogue In our great cities." Col. Stone does not know precisely how thla revolution Is to be brought ttbout, but he is of the opinion that a law will be passed which will make it a misdemeanor for any public employe to be engaged Jn what the pub- Mo colloquially denominates "hustling for votes." The colonel adds: I have not the time to outline the plan wMch Senator Quay seems to have In View, eworrtl'riK, to his declaration, but that wtll be the malm objeptT-to free the administration of pubMc affairs from ac tive poKtlcs. 8enator Quay Is In a posi tion peculiarly ntt'.ng mm to accomplish this. He Is no longer a young man, and he has aMalned the h!nest nosltlon In publlo life itfhat he can aspire to. Me has oroly one groat object before him, and that Is to emlear nunsell to the people who have honored h'.m In times past. In his new policy he has the sincere support of the country, and will. I am confident, be able to accomplish what he has outlined. This may be an enormous tank, but the people demand it now, ana k must De done. It Is exceedingly unfortunate that Senator Quay did not become enamored of this good resolution In the days of Ms vigorous manhood, when, Instead of building up a personal autocracy M Pennsylvania politics of a kind watch has alienated from him and from hie party thousands of the truest and clean est cttlaene In the kind, be might have struck powerful and effective blows la behalf of reform, -and thus "endeared himself to the people" in time to avoid the present dangerous revolt from his leadership. It U unfortunate for the cause of reform, which might thereby have won, In tils best days, the services of a doughty champion: and It Is doubly unfortunate for Senator Quay, himself. whose eleventh hour conversion now smacks more of revenge and finesse than of sincerity. It la difficult to t?ach new tricks to a man of three score years and more. Had Hie senator's conversion happened ten or a dozn years ago, he might have successfully courted admiration as a modern Saul of Tarsus. But Saul, the persecutor, who become St. Paul, the apostle, was In either case sincere, and acted up to his light. We fear that the willy Matthew can never wholly merge his old identity as the chief of political sinners Into hie new one as the prima te of the political saints. It Is more than possible that the Scranton Rupublican Is putting Itself In the position of kiushung too soon. Professor Coles' cold wave was a day late, but It got here, just the same. COMMENT 0? THE PRESS. kulo or Huin Tacties. Altoona Tribune: "Until a few months ago there was nui thu slightest tiiltmu t.on thai .Mr. UMkeson was unsatisfactory lo anybody, but Mr. Quay, in pursuance of hia decwreU purpose to 'crush' Clenerj,l HtuKi.ea, tuiil u.'s:i.n to xut the machin ery of the party Jiv his hunils. partly for tliut punpose, uuU partly 'that he might thu more easily control the delegation to the next ualtomtl cunveiiit.oii, announced him self . as a candldutu for chalrmuti. We have not been uble to ee why Mr. Uil keson ahotilri be suerHloed Klmply be cuuHe tJenatur Quay took a muhlcii fancy for hs pos.uiou at the head of the state committee. If he were 'incompetent that would be a different thing. Hut the party Is surely nut bound to gratify all Mr. Quay's fancies. Nor Is there any rea son why there should be a departure from the ordinary rules of the party simply btoause Senator Quay Is a candidate for state chairman, lie Im not entitled to any privileges thttt have been withheld from other Republican. There may be truth In the usscrtluns of his friends that he manaiied the cnnipulgn of litis in a mas terly manner, but as the party has kept h'tm steadily in olllce for the lost thirty years, It Is under no obligations to him. Hence If the elate chairman has been in the hubit of making up the roll; if the state committee has never been called together to make up the roll of the con vention, there Is no earthly reason why a cbaiiKo Khuulu be adopted now. The sug gestion that Mr. Gllkeson cannot be trust ed to make up 'the roll Is an Insult and was so Intended. It looks very much an though the followers of Senator Quay, realising that defeat Is Inevitable, have dollberately determined to stir up such a bitter feeling amonw Republicans as to endanger the party's ascendancy." Loader Magos's Claim. Pittsburg Times: "Since Senator Quay announced his candidacy, Governor Hast ings has lost only 'the delegates from Huntingdon and Montgomery from the list of his original estimate, which gave h'.m a lui'KO majority, while his gains In Adams, Perry, Lackawanna, Luzerne and Schuylkill have more .than made up the loss. If Cameron and Fulton, or either, be added to his column, he will be that much ahead of his original estimate. Since Senator Quay's entrance linto the contest for chairman he has not elected more than thirty delegates, while the Hastings and dilkeson delegates secured during the some time foot up no lets thnn forty-eJght. Of the delegates elected prior to the announcement of Senator Quay's candidacy at lea llfty-llve are known tn be sure for Hns-tiiiKS and Gllkeson. This leaves thorn only forty-two to gain In Philadelphia and lh!Kh, the only counties yet to vote, and which will yield at least sixty-fix votes, bringing their minimum total up to Kv, or a majority of forty-nine. In all probability, however, their majority will be lnn?ely In excess of this. This Is the exact situation of affairs. and It amply explains why Senator Quay's organs are threatening to resort -to revo lutionary methods to obtain control of a convention which they know they cannot secure, by leKltimate means. Senator Quay l beaten ana Colonel n. F. (JllKe son will be the next chairman of the state committee." a ?.attlo for Home Rule. Philadelphia Tlulletin: Iho success of the flKht against Mr. Quay's arbitrary system of party management will affect 'Philadelphia directly on 'three Important points: (1) The establishment of the home rule idea '.n municipal affairs, m The opening of the way for the election of a PhMnilelphisn for unwed tmte senator. (3) The passage of legislation at Horrla burg for Philadelphia without first con sulting Mr. Quay for permission." Will Stop at Nothing. Philadelphia Bulletin: "Mr. Quay's re iteration of his purpose to call the state committee together on the eve of the Har rlsburg convention means that he will hesitate at no scheme which will enable him to bulldoze the representatives of tho party. It Is 'the most desperate example of the rule or ruin policy which he has yet rur.neu. 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