The Scranton tribune. (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, August 28, 1895, Page 4, Image 4
THB BCrULTTTOT! r TRIB UNE WEDNESDAY . MORNING, AUGUST 28, ' . " WalM LIHiWIIJ KM Tark Onto: TfUnoa BuiMlac. Fnak a Qcaj, Maaacar. C P. RINMBURT. Paaa. ca'i Naa. . I.H.IIIHU,lniwTMM. UVY B. MICNAMD, Iktm. W. W. DAVIS. Bwaiaaaa Maaaaia. W. W. VOUNOS, An. Maaa'a. MIIU AT TBI fOBTOFTICl AT CBAK109. A MOMDUtn HAIL MATT Ml "Frtatara' Ink," Ik itcocoIikJ Jourol r aaVr ttMra, ratal T Scaajitoh TBiHUMuUwbnt adranlatac nifdlum la Knrtlwutera INuJtv ala. "ItlAtcn Ink" knowa, Tan Wkklt Taiaroc, lancd Ewy Saturday, Contain Twlv Hanaawi Vmtrn, with an Abun tarn tt JHnra. Fiction, and Wll-MIU-d Mtowl laay. For Thai Wbo Cannot Tak Th Dailt Tame a, Ih Weekly l HecrmaMBded th Bait Barcala (Mag. Only l a Year, 10 Advance. to Taiatrwa la ftr M Dally at tha D, Uand W. Button at Ilobokeo. SOKIANTON, AUGUST 2S. 1S9R. Hundreds of little Domocrntle organs about the country nre clfarins their throats to loin In the chorus. "I Told You So!" Today's Convention. By one of those swift mutations conv mon 111 politics, a convention of the iW- publicans of Pennsylvania which, four months ago, would h.ive excited no in terest whatever, beyond the friends of the few candidate for state office. Is to day transformed into an epochal event In the history of the commonwealth, Whatever Its Immediate outcome, it will pass Into history as the culminat ing point in a factional war as bitter and disgraceful as it was utterly gratuitous. In saying: this we take careful measure of our words; and con Aden My appeal to the Impartial' decision of the future to support our character ixaHon. 'Here was a party that, lens than nine months previously, had polled 'the un exampled plurality of 210.000 votes, the very highest point ever marked in the record of tidal wave majorities. It had by this unprecedented vote re placed a Democratic by a Republican governor; turned a comparatively closo legislature Into a shining example of Democratic absence; and seated In the various minor elective offices In the executive departments a harmonious handful of contented Republicans. Never before had .Republican prospects looked more roseate. 'Never before had the partisan sky seemed clearer of po tential' trouble. Suddenly there came, through no fault of the party masses, Mr. Quay's mad attempt to Delamater . the mayor's office In Philadelphia, In defiance both of popular protest and of the admonition of his lifelong friends, This was rebuked, as it deserved to lie, and many hoped- that the incident would close with Mr. Warwick's elee tlon. But the deceptive lull, which en sued, was dramatically ended when Mr. Quay, after assenting to a fair pro gramme of long-postponed reappor tionment, abruptly raised the standard of resistance and by plot and trick and secret alliance nominally succeeded In overriding the state constitution. Tet a third time, after an interval of out ward calm, this eccentric senator, for reasons not yet disclosed, leaped Into the lists against State Clrfiirman Gllke son, during whose two terms of execu tive service the party's majority had multiplied Itself almost by Ave; and coolly asked the party to follow, with its eyes blindfolded. It was at this opportune point In the curious sequence of surprises that our long-patient but not cowardly governor decided to stand up for party manhood, with consequences already known, and with victory fairly In sight. The war was not of his choosing. It was a war he repeatedly tried to pacify and to ad Just. It was a war absolutely unpro voked by any cause other than Mr. Quay's Inordinate ambition, and sus tained through Its various stages by no other motive than Mr. Quay's desire to humiliate every conspicuous Republi can In the state not willing to part with his iblrthrlght In exchange for the sena tor's uncertain smile. For the starting and the waging of It Mr. Quay alone Is responsible; and for the personal conse quences which will today be incurred by Its decision In his adversary's favor, he can have nothing but his own Insen sate egotism to thank. It Is. from any standpoint, a painful hour in the party's history; but the de feat of Quay will surely prove the wholesome victory of Justice and com mon, sense. A resident of South Dakota claims to have raised a squash which Is filled with a sour, milky substance resem bling Dutch cheese. It lit evident that some of the campaign seeds distributed by our bilious contemporary over on Court House square must have reached Dakota. Indications of Prosperity, The boom In prices of railroad stocks brought about by Increased traffic on nearly all roads, especially on the west ern lines, Is one of the most certain evi dences of the return of prosperity. As an exchange truly remarks, tho trans portation Interests are among the first to feel and the last to recover from the effects of a genral business depression. It strikes at once at freight and passen ger trafflo and soon reduces business from a paying to a losing basis. Dur ing most of the time for the past three years the railroads of the United States have suffered more than any other de partment of business.. They .could not suspend operations,' as manufacturing corporations did, but' were compelled to run trains and keep p expenses that were, In many lnstanoea, greater than their receipts, A large- proportion of the ralfwAy mileage f the country was forced Jn to the hands of receivers, and rouoh of It Is still n that condition, .. But the .tide has .turned-at last and the railway' managers are confidently expecting a tons; period of activity In their business. ?ht revival of manu faetures and trade has brought a great Increase In freights. The return of prosperity has put new life Into the passenger traffic. There Is a cheerful feeling all along the lines. The certainty of a great demand for transportation tacilitlea to move the large crops of this abounding year would be more gratifying to many of the railroads If they were better pre pared to meet It. During the period of depression they could give no attention to Improvements. They had no use for additional rolling stock even It they had been able to pay for It. The result Is that they now find themselves short of cars and have little time to supply the deficiency. It la stated that the car-build Ing establlhments all over the country have orders booked for more cars than can be built this year. They are working to their full capacity, but fears are expressed that scarcity of cars will be seriously felt In a few weeks when the great wheat and corn crops are ready for the market. This large harvest of cereal staples may be productive of temporary annoy ances and disappointments, but the In ability of the roads to handle It as rapidly as the farmers wish may not prove nn unmixed evil. A sudden ond grout rush of grain to market Is not calculated to enhance prices. Trobulily the average of prices for a year would be higher if tho delivery of crops Were evenly distributed throughout the months of the year. Rut that plan would bo Impracticable, liocause the producers need the pay for their crops, if, however, there Is an unavoidable de lay in transportation It will tend to the maintenance of remunerative prices. As Tommy Kllrow, the master mind of the Susquehanna combination, sits in solitude while Messrs. Wright and Ml tie receive the senator's smile at Harrlsburg for work of his planning, ho must admit that there Is an unusual amount of Ingrntltudo in politics. From a distance It looks as though Tommy had pulled out chestnuts for a very heartless crowd. It Is apparent to all that Mr. Kllrow's services have not been properly recognised In this mut ter. Proportional Representation. A good many eminent and earnest men, whoso character and zeal com mand genuine respect such men, for example, as Charles Francis Adams, Morfleld Storey, William Lloyd Clitrrl- son, C. C. IJonney. Professor Richard T. Kly, "Felix Adler, William Dudley Foulke and iRobert Treat Paine will meet today at Saratoga to 'discuss a line of reforms that, when contrasted with present methods, seem revolution ary, if not impossible. These men form the Proportional Representation league, which aims to introduce in this country the Swiss free list system of voting, the essential provisions of which are set forth below: Districts are extended so as to Include a number of representatives to be elected at lnnto In each one. Small states or cities may consist of but one district, air.tl mem bers would then be elected on a Keneral ticket. Large ones may be subdivided so that each subdivision would have a con venient number of representatives. Any group or voters may be entitled to norm tin to candidates under suitable restric tions. A voter has as many votes as there are candidates to be elected and can Rive one of them to earn of as many candidates as he chooses. These votes are counted for the candidates voted for. All of the votes to which a voter Is entitled nro counted for the party to which the candl dates he tins voted for belong. After the election the sum of all the party votes which may havo been, nven In the district Is divided by the number of representa tives to be elected and the quotient Is tho quota of representation. The total num ber of votes cast for each party divided by this quota determines tho number of memhera that It is entitled to, nno mat number of candidates In each party who have received the h uhest number of mill vidua! votes are declared elected. Should there mot bo cnoucrh full quotas to elect all the members, the required number is taken from the party or parties having the largest unfilled quotas. Should there be n vacancy during a term of office the re mainder or tho term is served ny tne can 1Mne of the same party whoso vote was highest of thoso not at first chosen. As nn example of tho way In which this system would work. It Is explained that California is entitled to seven roripxessmen. Instead of districts, as now. the entire seven representatives would under this plan he elected at large.- By dividing tho total vote of the state by seven the quotient would he the quota of representation, and whenever any jmrty ticket' receives one-seventh of nil the votes cast It elects one representative upon Its tick et, if twice the number, two represen tatives, and so on. Thus any body of voters having a quota would be enti tled to ono of the vacancies. The only question which then remains is, which of the candidates of each party shall have the scats? The candidate who receives tho iriost votes gets the first place and trie next gets the second place, and so nn. If a seat becomes vacant during the term, the remainder of the term Is served by the candidate of the same party having tho next highest number of voles. So far as theory goes, this system ap pears to work ndmlrably. But Inas much as the method of casting the votes and the safeguarding of the count would, under this proposition, re main in the hands of the professional politicians, who would continue to govern their actions as at present, by their partisan necessities, the net gain to the public Interest, If any, would be small. Tho old system, the system of the fathers. Is abundantly good enough If properly protected ; and the more .we think over Judge Stewart's plan of getting people out to the party prima ries by threatening the stay-at-homes with dif.franchlsement, the more we are 1-npresNcd with the belief that It Is the proper solution to apply. The ninth annual reunion of the sur vivors of the Pennsylvania Second (Heavy artillery, held In Mils city yes terday, was one of the notable events of the week. The regiment, including the veterans who assembled In Scran- ton, made one of the most brilliant rec ords of any during the war of the re bellion, and Scran ton, or In fact any other city, may feel honored by the presence of this handful of heroes who gather each year to deal in reminiscence and renew old ties of friendship. All honor to the warriors Of the heavy artillery! May they live 'Jn peace and prosperity to enjoy manlr more re unions of the pleasure'able character of yesterday's meeting. The leading --spirit In the recent massacre of (Bannock IndlansVwas one "Rye" Smith, whose father wis killed by the Indians In 1878. "Rye" sterns to have undertaken tha oontraot vf e terminating tha tBannock tribe, and at present rate Is liable to. succeed unless something Is done to check his rapid career. If here are any young Ameri can missionaries out of aa engagement who are desirous of converting the Chinese vegetarians at some future date, they might during vacation profit ably employ their 41me In the endeavor to convince "Rye of the error of his way. A man who has caused the death of fifteen or twenty human beings Is certainly not to be sneeaed at as a subject for missionary attention. (Murderer Holmes seems to think that he has been neglected during the past few days, and has expressed a willing ness to talk for the papers. It Is hoped that his offers will not be accepted. The public has heard enough about Holmes. An account of his hanging will be about the onlySthlng that will hereafter prove Interesting. It Is a pleasure to note that the series of green cucumber editorials in the Scranton Republican, bearing upon the Quay-Hastings trouble, will soon be discontinued. Quay's desperation Is best evidence of the shadows of coming defeat. - -- - -. COMMENT OF THE PRESS. v That Advanee Victory. Chicago Titnes-dierald: "So delighted are the Quay people with their victury in t'ennsylvanln that they are already reach ing out for more. 'What's the matter with Quay for prerfUen '!' uxks tho Pittsburg t'ommurlcal-tiuxette, one of -the senotor's ulurdiest supporters. Tlioro is a good deal the matter. Ho couldn't le nominated. and if by some chance he should be nom tliuted he couldn't be elected. Philadelphia Judges Are Shy. Philadelphia Inquirer; "The statement of an eveninir nutier thut there Is a move ment to nomlnute one of two Philadelphia Judges for an Appellute court JinTKesn.p In i. hire of Judire WHIurd or JuiIkc Oiliuly, Is probably a mistake. No Plilludelphia common uleas indue would voluntarily x fhimiw hlM tu-iH'.iInn fur 11 neat on 'the Itin erant court, especially wince the court has Involved itseir In a poKlleal contest. Is a Just Trihnto. Wllkeu-tturra Nun-a-llenler: "Tho Den picture of William Connell, In yesterday's Press, the work of Colonel J. I. Laeiar. is eminently worthy in every respect ami is a tnn trlltiito tn tho mnn. William Connell Is one of the men, and few there nre, who has never soutcht political distinction, but who has hnd It forced on mm. lie is in ev ery wav I vi) leal of the race he represents, ami Is easily the leader of the Republican party of northeastern Pennsylvania. Col onel Laelar's pen picture of the man nil, -hi tr lw rend hv the vouth of the entire state. It graphically describes how the young man starting in 1:10 nione ami un aided; possessing but small advantages In tho lino nf nn education, but heroically surmounting all difficulties, until today lie occupies the most commanding pqs.i.on In the business and political world. A man of kind and generous position, thor oughly loval to his friends, we havo every reason to believe that the future has more pood thlntrs In store for him, and the nest that can be said is that he deserves and 4k.. n him ' meriia every nuwww iiiuivwiits w m..a. TOLD BY THE STARS. Dolly Horoscope Drawn by Ajneolins, Tha Trlhune Astrologer. Astrolabe cast: 2.48 a. m.. for Wednesday, Aug. 28, 1895. 5 3S A child born on this day will be pleased that no state convention Is being held at his house. Me will also be of the opinion that Wada Finn was properly laoeiieu yes- .tnnliiv Hefore tho month has passed some of the talkative politicians hereabouts will reel small enouun to go inrougn tne main m rnnnA nf IliA MenrS lllllld-inlT. It -beirlns to look as though many of t'nele Matthew's convention canteloupes were nicked before they were ripe. It 1s always noticeable that the paper which advocates your own ideas is tne one that you consider tne most orainy. AJncchus' Advice Keep an eye on Frank Willing Leach, He was not always for Uuay. To tie on the safe side lut the other fel low take the chances. When addresslmr Quay headnuarters In Scranton In future, enclose stomp for re ply. u PRICE OF THE PRESIDENCY. From tho Chlcaco Times-Herald. Time was when a presidential election was decided on somo great quest.on 01 principle or theory of government on which the people were honestly divided in (inlnlnn. or 0.1 ion vurvlnu estimates of tho chnracter, ability and patriotism of the respective candidates. A moderate expenditure was necessary to put the nominee fnlrlv before the ueoole. but no body ever stopped to think whother nn nmiirnnt for the nomination was rich enough or had friends wealthy enough to put up hnlf a million dollars or more on the presumption that the office will go to the hiKhest Milder ana inni tne opposition will nut iv 1 at least that much. Tho money required to elect any president from (leorge Washington to u. a. uram would not be enough nowadays to carry congressional district, no, not even to rnrrv a ward tn some of our big cities, William Waldorf Astor spent as much money as General Washington was worth In an unsuccessful attempt to win a seat In congress from New Torn, anu uovep nor Flower, who defeated him, spent a small fortune In the effort. Many con gressmen snend their salary ror tne term ten thousand dollars In making their calling find election sure, and genatornhlps have sold as high as half a tnlllon dollars. For a presidency, then, a trillion must be In sight. For what? Of course there nre legiti mate expenses, and they are not small; but they ennot reach any such figure. Tickets must be printed when, as is not often the case now, the Btate does not nrovlde them. There must be a distribu tion of documents. Halls must be hired. bands of music engaged, banners painted, and thero are numberless Items coming under the head of advertising. But these things aro usually cared for by local com mittees. Public speakers are necesary, and so long as men of tho CarlSnhurs type tnke that view of the case they must be paid for, but with so much oratorical ability available and with so many well equipped speakers as candidates for the minor offices, they ought to be within reach for tho good of the cause, or at most for their t traveling expenses. Allow a good deal more for sundries and still the question Is unanswered for what? Why was tt that when Hancock, a poor man, was nominated for president the second place on the ticket had to be sold for IKiO.000 to s miserly Indlanlan, who afterward repudiated the contract and had to he taken, literally by the "throat by W. H. llarnum, chairman of the national Democratic committee, to secure payment of the price? Why was It that when Gar field was nominated, Arthur, with his backing of rich New York friends, had to be coupled with him? It does not alter the rase that Arthur, then unknown ex cept to politicians, and to them only as a spoilsman, aMor-word made one of the best of presidents. Why was It that Morton, who also turned out well, was tacked on to Harrison In ISSS. that Harrison wns charged with falling to milk his rich friends, thnit Morton's one hundred thousand was tiot enough, and that ac cording to credible testimony Chairman Quay had to fry the eastorn manufactur ers in the fat of their own wealth In order to raise several hundred thousand dollars more? .For what? . Why was It that''tlooa,0( had to be spent for Tllden to secure a. nomination and claim an election? He was the last man in the world to buy a pig In a bag, and yet he thought he waS buying some thing and actually put up a quarter of a million out of his own pocket. Whv was it necessary to levy assessments to the extent of hundreds of thousands of dollars on new rors importers to make Cleve land president the first time? and why In addition to supplies from the same source and the contribution of a mammoth ear. poratlon grldimnlng large 'oitles, was It necessary ror wniMun u. wnitney to cnlp In a quarter of a million on his awn an. count to give tha aama upright man a re election? All this big money for what? There la soaBethsna: wrong about such enormous expeaaiveaeM of campaigns, and the people will want, sooner or later, a bill of particular, even now, with the presidential election a year away, the politicians behind the scenes are slaing up the worldly circumstances and expecta tions of men within the range of presi dential nominations. If they have their way It will be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a preidentr It poor, somebody or some corporation must ge on his bond. A million dollars for what? FREE TRADE WAGES. . From the Chicago Times-Herald. la a general characterisation of free traders, uttnred during a presidential campaign. General Harrison declared them to be "students of maxims instead of markets." Mr. Harrison never gave expression to a greater truism. The American people have had occasion to ponder over its i llthfulnes during an era of smokeless factory chimneys and tiro less forties. They have also found oppor tunity during a period of unprecedented Industrial depression to ruminate over the proposition that a few cold facta wil kick to death the finest .theory ever spun by colli k- professors or dreamy writers upon political abstractions. Borne of the facts that threaten to kick to death the vapid sophistries of the free traders are Just now coming from the Orle.iit. There are no beautiful theories or fdiiciful abstrac tions ubout these facts. They conic clothed In the commercial raiment of cold llpines that oiiKht to send a chill down the spinal column of every Ameri can workliiKinan ami put to shame the campaign howlers who have tried year after year to tiim-llain the artisans and mechanics of this country Into the belief that their condition would be Improved by allowing our markets to be deluged with tho pioduols of cheap foreign lubor. If European labor Is cheap, As'atlc lnlior Is cheaper. Recent Investigations of the Industrial conditions that obtain in China and Japan have resulted In revelations that muy well exclle the apprehension of every friend of American labor. It Is authoritatively stated as a result of per sonal acquaintance with the facts that tho oiieratives in Chinese cotton mills are paid from h to 10 cents a day. Should the ports of this country he thrown open free to the oriental manufacturer tho com petition would not only he ruinous to American manufacturer but the produc ers of raw materials would also suffer heavily. ' A glance at the wonderful growth of China and Japan In the Indus trial arts must convince any fair-minded man that the United States has more to fear from the Orient than from all the countries In the old world.' To exclude Chinese laborers from the country and throw open the mrta to the products of t'hlnese Inhor would bo a piece of monu mental folly unworthy of a republic that bits always prided itself upon Its match less opportunities for securing a Just re word for skill and and Industry. For American manufacturers to be compelled to pay a eriile of wages adjusted to the Chinese or Japanese standard would mean a degradation of American labor to the Chinese level, which we all know Is un speakably low uml vile. The reason that China and Japan are to day buying lai'fte quantities of Knglish and American piece poods is because these countries only recently lenrned to manu facture these goods and have not suin clent sp'ndle cupnelty as yet to supply the home demand. Hut their rauld acquisi tion of the secrets ol these Industries has been phenomenal. Shanirhnl, China, will soon become a manufacturing metropolis rlvalhr.g Lowell, Mans., and Manchester. England. It mut also be borne In mind that China's capacity for producing raw materials Is practically Inexhaustible, Its resources are tremendous, and the ability of its people to subsist upon what can be purchnsed for 2 or 3 cents a day makes the prospect of Industrial competition with such n country most disastrous to con template. The complotlon nf the Slherinn railway to Vladlvostock will also open up possibilities of comiietltion that will be fraught with serious menace to European as well as American manufacturers. The Indissoluble industrial brotherhood of mnn, which Is a cardinal tenet of free trade expounders. Is a beautiful theory, but the racial differences that soparnte the America rs nml Chinese are so pro nounced and so Ineradicable that nny prospect of degrading American labor and American Id-eas of living to the Chinese level, which would ultimately follow free nhd open comiietltion with the products of their mills, tills the mind of n patriotic man with deep concern. Happily the American people, regardless of pnst party srrvltude, aie gradually awakening to the fnct that it Is better to pay a little more for the goods we wear than to de base and Impoverish American labor. HH1& Connell's. a lira 133 SHIGI0I tve The Best of Them All Is the ZERO Porch Chairs and Rockers, Fine Reed Chairs and Rockers, A Few Baby Carriages Left at Cost Cedar Chests Moth Proof; in Three Sizes. HH1& Connell, 1111133 W1SH1NGT0R AVE CALL UP S88X UD 1 D MANUF1GTDRIR3 CO- OILS. VINEGAR AND . CIDER. 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