THE SCRANTON TBIB IJNE MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 16. 1895. CfSe cranCon rt6utie Dally and Weekly. JTo Sunday Edition. ebllabsd at Bennton, Pa., by Tht Tribune Pub- Hahlna fompany. Hsw Tork Offlot: Tribune BulMln-, Freak & Gray, Alanager, I. P. KINGSBURY, Pm. mo Oik-i Mm. g, H. HiePLK, gco'v and Thai. tlVVe. NICHARO. Ioitoh. W. W. DAVIS, Buamiu MMaia. W. W. YOUNGS, An. Maaa-a. JTIalD AT THI POSTOFflCi AT 8CR1NTOB, ML, AS 8I0OKD 0LAU3 MAIL 1IATTIA. Print1 Ink." Urn recoKOlml Journal fur adver ts, rati Tun scha.nton Tiiiuun Mine bent advertising niHtlnni In Kortheutern Pwuisylva. uta. "1'rlntm' Ink" known. rE Weekly Tbibunk. Issued Kvery Saturday, Contains Twelve Humtmmie ruac. with an Abun dunce of Nphh, Flrilon, ami Well-KdrU'd Hiwl lany. Vot Tbie Who ttuiiot Tnkf Tint lMii.r TmaOKt, the Weaklr Is Itecoiumeniieil as the UeatUArcaiaUolng. Only 1 Year, In Advance. turn Tbibcvs i for Sale Dally at Ike O., L. and W. Btatlou at Uubuken. 'SCUJ.VXTOX. SHPTKMIildt 1G. IS'Jj. KEl'llll.lCAN STATU TICKET. !'or Indies of flic Superior Court: rilAKI.KS K. KICK, of Luzerne. K. N'. '1LL.III. of liokawuima, iiou;i J. iii:i:ni:i!. of xonhumpton. JAMlld A. IIKAVHU, or Center. JnllX .1. WK'KHA.M. of l'.KAYKH. CEuKUl-; i. lU'.LAnY. of Huntingdon. I'or Stnte Treasurer: IIEXJAMIX J. HAYWOOD, of Mercer. Kltictlon day, Nov. 5. BKPl'BLU'AX CONVENTION. S.-runton, Sept. 2, 1S9'.. Tn compliance w:th a resolution adopted liv the Itepulillean comity committee at u' meeting held ut Central Hepiildletin rlub rooms on Tuesday. Auit. 3. l"-. the r.eimbi;euns of l.aekawanmi county w.ll nsi-.'tnblM in convention at the court house, Peranton. l'a.. Tuesday. Sept. 17. W at 2 o'clock p. r.i., to place In nomination on person for coroner and one person lor county surveyor, and to fleet two dele gates nnd two uncinates to the Kepuoll can national eonvent'ou of lS!'f liZIlA II. IMPri.K. Chairman. W. S. MILLAU. Secretary. The citizen wh wilfully and repeat edly neglects the party primary de serves to forfeit his franchise. As to Primary Election Reform. We have yet to encounter a real ob jection to the f tewart plan of primary election reform. The press of the state. In discussing The Tribune's recent In terview with Its author, has advanced no obstacle to the proposition that vot ing at the primary should he made a requisite riunllfloation for voting at the next ensuins general election. The Philadelphia Inquirer suspects there Is "some reason to fear that even the loss of the rlsht to vote would not induce many persons to attend the pri mary election"; yet itadmitsthat Judge Stewart's suggestion would be a much more satisfactory one than "a property qualification or a requirement that the voter' must be able to read or write." The ilarrisburg Telegraph, while not disposed 'to waste much pity on the. man who, after shirking his duties aa a citizen, complains when government al affairs go wrong, nevertheless be lieves -that "the time Is coming when the people, In self-defense, will Insist qn the passage of a law embodying the Htewart primary reform." And the West Chester Republican, wi'th even greater enthusiasm, says: A great many remedies have been sitir gtsted at vur:ou times during the past nve years for Improving the mode of con ducting primary elections, hut JudgeStew nr:'s plan, !n our opi.iion, is the liet-t one yet advanced. The vi'imary Is either the root of ev:l or tfood, as the ca.se may be, mid as long as It is perm ..'.ted to be loo.se ly conducted Just so long may wo witness more or less corruption and Irregularities in nominating nu n for pulil.c otllce. If a.i improvement is desired heroic measure must be introduced. It la bs much the duty of a voter to attend the primary elee- on as It is lo attend a rcgulur election, but unfortunately many thousands of them throughout the commonwealth do ot look nt It 'n this light. If, therefore, their qualifications to participate in a general elei'tion depended upon their vot ing ut a primary We believe there would be a genuine revolution. Where one man at tends a primary now, under the above conditions a half-dozen would participate; nnd with a full attendance ut the pri maries more wholesome nominations would bo the logical result. The claim that any considerable num ber of American citizens would rather lie disfranchised than attend a primary election appears to us almost prepos terous. But if such a disregard of ob vious duty should become manifest after popular attendance had lifted much of the odium now attaching to this elemental political function, then we should declare unhesitatingly In fa vor of making thrice-repeated absten tion from the primaries without ade quate excuse a reason for permanent disfranchisement, revocable by act of congress only. The man who will not do his duty as a citizen should be pun ished. The right of the state to ad minister such punishment cannot lie disputed. The Republican party next year will stand for an American foreign policy as well ns an American domestic policy. It will uphold the American flag and lend a hand for liberty wherever lib erty Is crushed by foreign usurpation. It will have backbone. Tobacco and the Church. An Issue of considerable Interest has been raised in Illinois. Bishop Joyce of the Methodist episcopal church has declined to sanction the admission to the ministry of any applicant who will not agree wholly to abstain from the use of tobacco. This decision, as was to have been expected, has not pleased users of the soothing weed, and there Is a mutter of protest. "The bishop exceeded his authority in exacting the pledge in the form he is eaid to have done," says Mr. Kimball, of the First 'Methodist church, Chi cago. "He .was authorized to ask the applicants to abstain from the use of tobacco In ' fact, it , was obligatory upon him' to do so, as It was in 'the discipline' of the church. But If the applicant refused to so pledge himself, It does not neces sarily bar him, although It might, aa he is accepted by a vote of the confer ence. There was a case., before the . Massachusetts conference in which the applicant, who had never used tobacco, refused to take the pledge. 'His appli cation was deferred for a year, but he was Anally accepted by the conference. The church discountenances the use of tobacco by its ministers and laymen, and for sixteen years has sought a pledge from applicants for the ministry to abstain from the use of tobacco In any form, bull It does not place a ban on those who use that weed." Fortunately the bishop has suggest ed what ought to prove an acceptable compromise. He proposes that laymen who smoke should at least give to the church as much as they spend for to bacco, and leave the preachers to ifrl Just among themselves the question of their own use or disuse of the weed. Upon such a basis, smokers and anti smokers ought to agree with entire harmony. Indeed, the only objection in sight Is lest In the desire to secure nickels for the church, zealous man agers of church fairs might take to canvassing the brethren In order to sell Indifferent cigars. And now It appears that the Defend er's manager, Mr. Iselln, offered to de clare all the races off nnd begin over again, but FHmraven would not ac cept, lie evidently knew when he was beaten. The United States and Cuba. The people of the United States are in full sympathy with the Cubans who are making such a brave struggle for lib erty. The pity is that our people are not permitted to extend to these gallant patriots anything more substantial than sympathy. The government of the United States occupies a most pe culiar position whenever the people of some other tuition, even on this contin ent, strike for the same liberty that we prize so highly. Only once has our government permitted Its representa tives to ir.atiifost something more than barren sympathy for a people striking for political freedom. The rxceptlon referred to was when the Hawaiian patriots overthrew the monarchy. Gen eral Benjamin "Harrison, a patriot of patriots, was then president, and ho did not hesitate to permit the United States minister at Hawaii to give sub stantial encouragement to the cause of the patriots. There Is not now any doubt that 'to Mr. Stevens, the then minister to Hawaii, the success of the patriots In overthrowing the monarchy, was largely due. Unfortunately, the policy of President Harrison's adminis tration was nt once reversed when Mr. Cleveland became president, and the liberty-loving people, not only In the United Slates, but all over the world, were shocked by the attempt made by Cleveland and his secretary of state, to restore the fallen monarchy In Ha waii. Happily the wave of Indignant protest that swept over this land was not wholly lost upon an unpatriotic ad ministration at Washington, and the scheme for restoring the monarchy In Hawaii was abandoned. The Cuban patriots are making a gal lant struggle to throw off the Spanish yoke that has rested so long and so heavily upon that Island. Less assist ance from this country than France extended to the struggling American colonies would assure liberty and In dependence In Cuba. Are the hands of the United (States government so com pletely tied by International obligations and comity that It cannot or dare not so much as notify iSpaln that the war In Cuba must cease? Cuba has been inhumanly oppressed by Spain. The yoke placed upon the people of that Island has been made heavier and more galling year by year. Unable longer to bear the oppression and Injustice, the people have revolted. iLarge bodies of Spanish troops have been sent there from time to time, and bloody battles have been fought, but the cause of liberty has. not been crushed. At the very doors of this great and powerful republic, our patriotic neighbors are In a death struggle for political Independ ence, and our government not only gives them no encouragement, but in terposes an active surveillance to pre vent assistance reaching them from our shores. This Is, we repent, a remark aide position for the great American republic to occupy. If ours were a monarchlal government, interested In preventing the extension and spread of liberty and Independence, It could not do less than It is doing for struggling Cuba. The position occupied by our gov ernment with reference to Cuba is not In the slightest degree representa tive of the sentiment of the people of the United States. This, too, is an anomaly scarcely less remarkable than was 'the attempt of the present admin istration to restore the fallen mon archy In Hawaii against the all but unanimous protest of the American people. Is It not "time to cease talking about our "obligations to Spain" and "our peaceful relations with that coun try?" Has this great, powerful and CJod-blessed republic no mission what ever In the cause of human llberty7 Do we owe nothing ito the patriotic and freedom-aspiring people of a neighboring country? Have we not even so much as an official protest to make against a continuation of the ruthless war waged by a distant gov ernment against a people on thla con tinent? The Cubans have been patient and long-suffering under a system of tyranny, and wrong, and oppression, compared with which the grievances against which the American colonists revolted were almoilt Insignificant. The so-called and much-vaunted Monroe doctrine is not sufficiently far reaching. If Cuba were a republic and Spain tnail the attempt to secure dominion over her our government would trot out the iMonroe doctrine and notify the government at Madrid to keep hands off. But when Cuba revolts against the ever increasing tyranny and oppression, injustice and mlsgov ernment of Spain, the policy of our government Is to practically assist that foreign country in perpetuating Its cruel power upon a brave and liberty loving people. The United States la today literally doing police duty for Spain in preventing aid from going to the Cuban patriots from our shores Such a policy is contrary to the spirit of this country; 11 is Inconsistent with government by the people. The Cubans have struggled long enough to entitle them to some recog nition by this country. Spain is about to send another army of 20,000 men to Cuba. This Is sufficient evidence that oil previous efforts to put down the revolution for freedom have been un successful If there were a liberty-loving administration at Washington, If a (rant, a Garfield, ft Harrison, or a Blaine were In the presidential chair, it is altogether probable that a differ ent policy would prevail, and the in dependence of Cuba lie recognized, now that Spain has after long efforts failed to put down the revolution. Cuba has thrown off ithe Spanish yoke; why should not the United States Interpose a stern protect against Its restoration? Such a policy would be as consistent with the duty of our government to the cause of liberty as would be the en forcement of the Monroe doctrine if Cuba hud been free and Spain attempt ed ito secure dominion over her. Our national policy Is too narrow; at some time in the near future It will be made broader. Jupan's foreign commerce last year approximated $117,000,000; but while Kuglaml sold her one-third of her lm Iorts, which were $.r.i,6S0,8H3 altogether, and bought only one-nineteenth of her exports, whtdh were $r.7,i2!).Ull, the United States bought a third of the exports and sold only one-fifth of her Imports. Yet It was the United, States which opened Jnpun's imrts to the trad ing vessvls of civilization, and which theivfoiv had. a fair start. Kngland's I'xiln Is our loss. In fact. It Is our gift; because had American diplomacy re tained a clear idea of the potential value of our oriental trade relations, Kngland would mt have outstripped us in tihe race for bargains. It Is time that the foreign nffaJrs of this govern ment received proper thought and at tention. The South Carolina situation grows In interest. The constitutional conven tion sitting at Columbia Is now said to favor the adoption of the Aldricli draft of a new constitution, the nin;;i; striking clause in which limits eligi bility to public ofllce to white citlzorM only. The contadt of such a constitu tion with the United States Supremo court would be at once edifying and instructive. A ball from the new Krag-Jorgensen army rifle, mfter splintering a fugitive soldier's skull at 100 yards, recently went through a piece of ouk timber r.lne Inches thick ami sank three feet In the ground. This weapon Is appar ently almost powerful enough to punc tuiw the misinformation of the man who believes thut protection is dead. Those Empire state Republicans who fear that Roosevelt has "embarrassed the party" don''t know Roosevelt or else don't understand their party. The Re publican party Is never injured by standing up straight for law and order. For a physician who doesn't adver tise, Dr. Forbes Wlnslow, late of Lon don, is displaying a good deal of shrewd familiarity with the newspaper inter view. No Cuban Is permitted to hold ofllce in Cuba. Public ofllce there is a Span ish snap. COMMENT OF THE PRESS. A Question of National llonor. Syracuse Post: "The Waller case has reached that point where the national honor is Impugned by the Inaction ami apparent apathy of the present federal adminislrat;on. The issue really Involves more than the personality of Mr. Waller. The French government has shown by .ts course In the whole proceeding a contempt fur American methods and administration thut Is air Insult to every American citi zen. France has treated with scant cour tesy the protests of the United Stutes und its requests for a fair trial and fair treat ment for Mr. Waller. It has shown In this matter thut it does not think that the I'n. ted States has enough backbone to protect its own Interests abroad, it has Imposed upon American patience us It would not dare Impose upon the pre sumed frienduhip of any other nation." No Hoom for Compromises. Clevelund World: "The Republican party has won its greatest and must sub stantial victories by boldly proclaiming the right and courageously sticking to it. The regulation of the liquor traffic on Sunday and the preservation of Sunday from riot, drunkenness and debauchery as far -ns law and order can. do that, is right; right all through; up and down; and stands on solid ground. There should be no compromise on that question. The larty should stand straight und firm." All tbo HittsrncHs Now Gone. rittsburg Times: "Since the last hostile shot was fired between the north und south, a new generation has had time to be born und grow to manhood and wo manhood, nnd it has joined with the vet erans on both slides to luy awuy all that was bitter nnd unkindly In that gigantic struggle and to cherish Its heroic memo ries as an inspiration to a new birth of patriotism." Can Ho Without Him. Washington Post: "We believe that Mr. Cleveland has no thought of seeking or nnceptlng a fourth nomination to the pres idency. We do not think so poorly of the American people ns to Imagine that they cannot itovern. themselves successfully without Mr. Cleveland's help." Millions of llorso Cower Obtainable. Washington filar: "When Niagara falls Is successfully harnessed It may pay our Inventors to Interest themselves In util izing the tremendous waste of energy at a political convention." lie Kcefs Ills Nome. Boston Globe; "The full nnme of Lord Dunrnvnn !s Sir Windham Thomas Wynd-hum-Quin, K. P. llut, then, be does not carry all the sail upon ordinary occa sions." A 1'luln Fact Concisely Staled. Rochester Post-Kxpress: "A Bhort pres idential campaign next year would be worth millions to the business Interests of the country." POLITICAL POINTS. This sentence from President Warren's address to tho York convention Is u good rallying cry for nil loyal Republicans: "Tills fall Is the Initial work for Mini. We have sounded forth the fcugle thnt shall never sound retreut. From this day for ward Republican banners stand toward the white house. There must be no falter ing In our ranks, no turning back until they float again over the stronghold of power; there to beckon prosperity to tile Amoricnn people, and here In Pennsyl vania, whatever Individual criticism there may have been this summer of leaders and I heir plans, whoever we may have Bought out for preferment within the party lines In the coming campaign, let us unite our hopes, our work,, our votes with the dist'ngulshed state and national leader, Hon. M. B. Quay, who holds the standard of the party, and under his in spiring leadership move on to a certain and lasting victory In November." Ex-Representative M. A. Folti, of Frnnkliji county, thinks that the possi bilities for Senator Cameron's seat are ex Lleutennnt Governor Watres, of Lacka wanna: J. Hay Brown and Congressman Brosius, of Lancaster; Congressman Rob inson, of Delaware, Quay's choice for tem porary chairman of the late state conven tion, and Senator Penrose, .of Philadel phia. Wllkes-Barre Record: "Colonel 3. D. Lnelnr writes to the Scranton Tribune thnt In his opinion there Is a good chance to elect not only Rice and Wlllard to the Superior court, but Smith as well. He ( suggests that If the voters of the two counties turn In for these three gentle men. Luzerne and Lackawanna, may have the honor of posaessing three of the seven judKf". That would be nice, and as Rice and Wlllard will be elected anyway, it wuuM do no harm to give Smith Ti friend ly lift if it can be done consistently. We would rather have him as the minority Jult.-e thun uny of the other Democratic candidates." Judge Stewart, of Franklin county,' !s having quite a senatorial boom In a num ber of newtqmpers. Judge Stewart would be a Benator worth having. . TOLD II Y THE STARS. Daily Horoscope Drawn by Ajacche. The Tribune. Astrologer. Astrolabe cast: 3.13 a. m., for Monday, Sept. JC, 18Si. To a child born on th's day it will be ap parent Ih it It Is about time to give the Defender and Valkyrie a rest. The vivid manner In which the Wllkes Barre forest lire correspondent follows up lurid tales of conflagration with predic tions of water famine, gives one thut dry fcelins in the throat. The small boy residing in the lower part of Ihe state, who recently experienced the sensation of having l.iMHI volts of elec tricity pass through his body, doubtless thotmht that green apple time hud come OKaln. If nothing stronger than Ice cream soda was sold In the city yesterday, the ap pearance of several citizens toward even ing would indicate that Saturday night's piehl'ng tlu'd must have been lusting in Its effects. The Individual who jumped through n plate glass window last evening to get nt a tweiity-llve-eent dinner, may bo consid ered n living refutation of the slurs that have hitherto been east upon the cuisine of the modern restaurant, Ajrtcchus' Advico. Beware of "new" cider that arrives In las; year's kegs. Pack your straw hat away In camphor. Place electric fans on half-time. Harvest pumpkins. Mat pie. 11 Hill &" Conneirs.i31MDS WASHINGTON AVE 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, Jfoth Proof, In Three Sizes. Hill & Connell, 01 IRQ 133 WASHINGTON AVE ii ili OF SCRANTON. Will II Special Attention Given to Bnslness and Personal Accounts. INTEREST PAID OH TIME DEPOSITS. ON THE LINE OF THE CAiDIl PACIFIC R'Y are located the finest fishing nnd hnntinii grornds In ' tho world. Descriptive books on application. Tickota to all points In Maine, Canada and Maritime Provinces, Minneapolis, St Paul. Canndian and United States North wests, Vancouver, Hoattle, Tacoma, Portland, Oro., San Franciscj, First-Class Sleeping and Dining Cars attached to nil throuvh trains. Tourist can fully fitted with bedding, curtains and ap inlly adapted to wants of familtm may be h id with sccoud cluBd tickets. Hatoa alwayilenj tlinn via other Unas, For full information, timo tables, etc., on application to E. V. SKINNER, CS. E. A. 353 BROADWAY. NEW YOiU Stocks, Bonds, and Grain, Bought and sold on New Yorli Exchange and Chicago Board ' of Trad, cither for owb or on margin. G. duB. DIMHICK, 41a Spruce Street. LOCAL STOCKS I SPECIALTY. Teleohone 0002. DR. HILL & SON ALBANY DENTISTS. Ret teeth, K.SO; best set, tt: for gold caps nd teeth without plates, called crown end biidgo work, cell for prices end refer ence. TONALQIA, for extracting teetb Without pain. No ether. No see. . OVER FIRST NATIONAL BANK. mill ii i GODSvTH'S New Silks Fall, 1895, Just received and in spection is invited to our beautiful collection. We will mil HU n W'c have on hand between twenty and thirty Daby Carriages, which we will oiler for the next ten days at a discount of 20 PER CENT THE t Ifalllbllj v lilllblfbl vvty LIMITED. 422 UCKIWINNA AVENUE. NEW LINE OF FOOT BALLS Also Big Stock of Guns, Revolvers and Ammunition. C. M. FLOREY 222 Wyoming Ave. YE OLDEN TIME HAT Did Tory well for Colonial forefathers, but it won't anwor for 1885. Nothing anawors for this year bnt thla year hats, and the up to date bat in erory style la shown In onr fall stock. The more vou exainlnj our hats tbo more you'll see they're the bnt. EXCLUSIVE SALE OF THE MILLER HAT. CONRAD, 305 Lackawanna kit. THAT WONDERFUL Tons Is fauna only la the WEBER . PIM0S Oall end soe these Pianos, and some Ins see end-bend Pianos we bare takes it) xohaafe for them, t GUERNSEY BROTHERS) GOLDS WEBEk do the talking when you get here to see them. UP TO wnnirnnnwnwnwfTiTnwnnnt?T?wwntftff Established 1866. THE, (jENUINE, It ii PIANOS At a time when many manu facturers and dealers are making the most astounding statements against the merits and durability of inferior Pianos, intending pur chasers should not fail to make critical examination of the above instruments. eTcTrFcker General Dealer in Northeast ern Pennsylvania. E5 t: E3 New Telephone Exchange Building, 115 Adam Ave., Scranton, Pa. ii;;Miiiiiii.iHiiuuiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiituiiuiiiiiiii DO NOT FAIL to see the wonderful STERLING RANGE bake one barrel of Pills bury's Best Flour Into bread with one tire pot of coal at our store TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 Ever body invited to come. After bread is exhibited it will be GIVEN AWAY 119 Washington Ave Moosic Powder Go Rooms 1 and 2 CommowealUi Bid', SCRANTON, PA. MINING and BLASTING POWDER MADE AT M008IC AND RUSH DALE WORKS. tAfflln A Rand Powder Co.a Orange Gun Powdor Ellectrlo Batteries, Ftuea for explod ing blaata, Safety Fuse and ftepaxutoCbemtcal Co.'s HlJfeExploslTO. BAlAAGi r 4. let the Silks M DATE. Ovsr 26,000 la list. ii ii ii 14 ii It Roe Stationery Blank Books, Office Supplies. EOISON'S MIMEOGRAPH nd eupplle, TYPE WRITERS' SUPPLIES IH ALL ITS BRANCHES. REYNOLDS BROS,, Stationers and Engravers, 317 LACXaWINM lit ROOF TIMING AND SOLOERIRS All done away with by the use of H ART MAN'S PATENT PAINT, which constat of Ingredients well-known to all. It eaa be applied to tin, galvanised tin, sheet Iron roofs, also to brick dwolluR, which will prevent absolutely any crumbllat, crack ing or breaking of the brick. It will out last tinning of any kind by many yeara. and H'e coat does not exceed ons-Oftn that ut tha cost of tlnnlnir. la aold b tka Jofe or pound. Contracts taken by , ANTUmw ttAKTMAAH. Sm UUVB BJta I 001