4 THE FCHANTON TItlBUNE Fill DAY MORNING, DECEMBER 27, 1895. Jc cxanton Zxxtmt Seayaed Weekly. Ho Buuday Edition. Fubllshsd at Scrutno, Pa , br Toe Trteune Pufc- KMT Tark OOcr: Trleuee Building. Frhlc a C. N. aiPPlK, ' see Thus. LIVV 8. RICHARD itk. W. W. DAVIS. iiniNiM NUkmi. W. W. YOUNGS, A. Dun. ISTIMS At mi Fotnomsi at senium, as SIOOHD-CUSS MAIL HATTUk Frlnteia' Ink." the ncoa nlied Journal tor atfver tiMta, ratM Thb Scruito Tajauaa u th brtt aSvertfolng Medium In Northuru Muujrlva- aia. "rnoun iuk" Knows. fun Wczklt TaiBiTHK, Isanrct Everv Saturday, tontaiim Twelve Handsome !(, with an Abuii- dance or Kews. fiction, aua weti-Kaiiwi nwi lanv. For Throe Who Cannot Take ill IU1LY Thibvmb, lae Weekly U Keeommendcd as the SfM Bargain (Joins, unij i a i ear, m unam turn TaiauKE Is (br Sal Dally at lha D., L. and W Station at uoookta. 8CRANTON, DECEMBER 27, 1895. KKPIBI.ICAN STATE CONVENTION. Headquarters Republican state commit' tee, 1231 Walnut street. Philadelphia, Pa., Dee. 12. 1893. To the Republican Electors of Pennsyl vnnln! The Republicans of Pennsylvania, by their duly chosen representatives, will meet In state convention, Thursday, April M. ISM. at 10 o'clock a. m.. in the opera House, city of Harrlsburg, for the pur pose of nominating: two candidates for representatives at large in congress nn'i thlrtv-two candidates for presidential elec tors, selecting elfjht delegates at large to the Republican national convention, ami transacting such other business as may be presented. By order of the state committee, M. 8. Quay, Attest: Chairman Jere B. Rex. W. R. Andrews. Secretaries. Representation In this convention will be the same as In the last state conven tion. Several gentlemen of the press are again In great perturbation over the fact that Senator Quay on Tuesday at Harrlsuurg, called on Oovernor Hastings and was not thrown out. Ills escape doubtless was marvelous. An Ideal Candidate. Mr. Daniel Williams, the Republican candidate for city treasurer, and run nlng mate of Colonel Ripple, lias been a resident of the West Side for thirty five years. For this length of time Mr. Williams has been one of the leading contractors of the city but Is now large ly Interested In the development of coal. Many years ago he represented the Fourth ward In the common coun cil and Is now one of the leading mem bers of the board of the Scranton poor district. His term on the poor board bus been marked by strict attention to his duty, regularity in being found In his seat and an alertness to labor for the public good. The reputation he holds In the business world represents the energy and assiduity typical of the thorough business . man and stamps him as one well fitted to grasp the complete details so peculiar to the office for which he is a candidate On the West Side he Is held In par ticularly high esteem, and through his integrity, public splritedness and popu larity has won for himself an enviable position. No one fact so forcibly es tablishes a man's reputation as his po sition in the community in which he lives, and if this evidence alone were applied to Mr. Wlllams It would be sufficient to Invest his canvass with the assurance of success. His friends claim him to be stalwart, honest and popular enough to win, and they ought to know. Whatever Is thought of C. L. Magee as a politician nnd it is somehow a fact that those who admire him in that capacity and those who do not are both enthusiasts in their respective beliefs It cannot be denied that in business hels a generous employer and an unselfish 'friend. His Christmas gift for prac tically it Is his gift, although made in the name of a street railway corpora tionof $100,000 to the city of Pittsburg for the purpu.se of establishing a zo ological garden is characteristic. Pitts burg may have done a deal for Majjee; but it is equally true that Magee bus reciprocated. Such Instances of re ciprocity are none too frequent among traction company magnates. A Chance for Reform. In connection with the reforms to the achievement of which the Republican party In the last state convention pledged Itself It might be well to Includo a law revising the salaries of the com mon picas judges of Pennsylvania so as to make it unnecessary for them to augment their regular . incomes by swapping benches under the law which allowes visiting judges $10 a day apiece and expenses, la uUditlon to the regular home salary, which goes right on. There is no objection to the exchango of woolsacks, for, like the exchange, of pulpits In churches, it often does good. There are few judges who are not broadened by travel nnd few courts which do not benellt from the coming of trial judges from afar.- The judge who sits always upon one bench Is liable to become rusty; if not that, his weak points are studied by the lawyers before him, and advantage Is frequently taken of his inevitable prejudices. In addition to all this stands the principle embodied in the adage that famil iarity breeds contempt" novelty Is always a sharpener of the finer in stincts. So that on no account ought the practice of occasionally trading benches to fall Into disuse. But It Is manifestly absurd that the judges who thus trade should receive double pay, thus turning the exchange Into a source of personal profit. Enough money Is -probably spent by the com. monwealth each year in consequence of this Indefensible provision of the law to pay the regular salaries of sev eral additional judges and thus bring the overcrowded and belated dockets In several courts In the state up to date. good an opportunity to correct a self-evident abuse ought not to be ncg lected by the next legislature. , wThe Syracuse Post is responding nobly to the demands of civilization. It has promised to give a souvenir spoon to every baby born in its city be Christmas and New Year's, and six months' free subscription to every couple wedded during that time. A Blooming Farce. The course of the Democratic mi nority in the houBe In Interposing ora torical obstructions to the speedy pas sage of bills which are enneededly needed to save the government from financial embarrassment affords a pretty good example of Democracy's natural caliber. It recalls attention to the fact that that party Is fundamen tally and pre-eminently a party of ob struction, and that It Is never so happy as when trying to pull progress back. The Democratle objectors In the house knew full well that the Wilson bill has built up nothing but debts and deficits, They knew equally well that If some thing were not soon done to Inrvcase Its Inadequate revenue the government would have to provide funds for the payment of current expenses by u new sale of bonds, which simply means the costly accumulation of more deflcitn and debts. They knew that even their own president had frantically pleaded with congress, publicly and In private Interviews with Its leading members. to do something In the way of relief before the situation got desperate. And yet, knowing all these things, and knowing, too, that so far as the ultimate effect of their orations went they might just as well have sat still and said noth ing, the few surviving captains of the little Democratic band now sitting under Tom Reed's eagle eye vainly strutted their brief time upon the stage of discussion and pre tended to have no knowledge that Pncle Sam's finances were in a hole. This, In good truth, Is supremely ri diculous and altitudlnously asinine, but It nevertheless Is characteristically Democratic. That Incapable party, having In the legislative branch at least, washed Its hands of power, must now proceed to howl and kick and pose and sputter, else It would have no remain ing warrant for continued existence. But what a blooming farce it all was. Americans will hope the report Is true that General (lomez. the commander-in-chief of the Cuban Insurgent forces, has eluded the Spanish army and be gun a march direct for Havana. What is more, they will hope that he may capture Havana, and, for that matter, everything else which smacku of Span ish tyranny and oppression. That South Side Fire. The tragic fire at Irving avenue and Hemlock street yesterday morning calls attention to the need of an additional number of fire hydrants on the South Side. This is the fourth or fifth recent fire In that section of the city which might have been prevented or at least easily checked had there been as gen erous a distribution of hydrants as Is to be found In many other portions of Scranton. In one instance that occurred not long ago a stable was consumed In a populous district because the nearest hydrant was six blocks away. Such facts as that will never do In a city as suming to be metropolitan. The tax payer on the South Side Is Just as much entitled to protection against fire as Is the taxpayer In Hyde Park or the cen tral city and councils should regulate Its appropriations accordingly. . In view of the probability of an early adoption of a paid regular fire service, It would seem to be a fit tlnie to sug gest a thorough overhauling of present urrangements and equipments to the end that when the forward step is once taken. It may be taken Intelligently and be' effective. There should no stinting of needed appropriations and no more of the hitherto too prevalent custom of playing one section of the city against another section, regardless of the real needs of both. This strikes us as a good time for urging forward the grow ing disposition to regard Scranton In all Its parts as one integral city, with common requirements, common pur poses and a common destiny. The Wllkes-Barre Record a few davs ago thought that Governor Hastings would be Just the man for president, but no it pronounces his candidacy inadvisable. This Is a world of chanire. Of Interest to Shippers. A subject of vital Interest to Hhlpners has been touched upon by Representa tive Hardy.of Indiana.in his bill recent ly introduced in congress, to repeal sec tions 3006 and 3007 of the revised stat utes, and the amendments thereto. These two sections form parts of the Interstate commerce law which pro vides that goods Imported Into the Uni ted States can be placed In sealed cars and transported over our railways to the Dominion of Canada, thence carried on the dominion railways across the continent and thence sent to any part of the United States, the movement of freight to be subject to the regulations of the treasury department. These pro visions are based upon section 29 of the treaty of Washington, which relates to the transportation of merchandise In bond from one part of the United States to another part therein over the terri tory of the Dominion of Canada by rail road routes or partly by railroads and partly by water route. Mr. Hardy will follow up his first bill with another de claring the treaty section annulled and calling upon the president to issue a proclamation to that effect. The real purpose in Mr. Hardy's two measures Is to prevent those Canadian railroads, notably the Grand Trunk, which run In part through United States territory, from gaining an undue traffic becuuse of freight rate conces sions which competing American roads, Under the long and short haul clause of the interstate commerce act, cannot parallel. Representative Hepburn, who was solicitor of the treasury under President Harrison, Is a warm support er of the Indiana member's purpose. While in the treasury department Mr, Hepburn made an inquiry which re. suited In the discovery that In orte year the Canadian roads received from the United States 480,000 loads, worth to the Canadian systems (20,000,000. "This," he says, "was business that naturally belonged to our own roads, and which, If controlled by them, would enable thorn to give as low rates as their cum petltors. TheCunudlun roads not being subject to the long and short haul clause of the Interstate commerce law possess an unconquerable advantage over roads on this side of the Hue." In an Interview upon the subject Colonel Hardy recently said: The United States has now Invested In one lino of railwuy from Omuha to Ban Francisco considerably over 100,UOO,000, be sides which there are three American lines of railway across the continent from the Mississippi to the Pacific coast, hy should the United States permit, goods transported between different sections of It 3 own territory to be carried over for elnn railways when we have railways of our own, altogether within our own country, which are fully capable of doing the work? I believe that all merchandise brought into this country from foreign ports the ultimate destination of which Is an American port or city should be trans ported exclusively over American rail roads. As, Americans have 'to pay tho freight, 1 believe American railroads should receive the freight charges. The more money that Is paid American railways In transporting merchandise from the east to the west the lower rates they can af ford 1o take for freighting, the fanners' crops and cattle from the west to the eastern seaboard. What the farmers nnd shippers of the middle nnd western states demand Is a cheaper freight rate from the west 1o the east, but how can they hope for lower rates when the law and regular tlons of the treasury department grant special privileges, even advantages, to a foreign railway like the Canadian Pad He, This view may appear selfish, but I trust It embraces the true American spirit. . It certainly does. The attention of our readers Is called to the detailed review, on another page, of The Tribune Annual and Political Hand-book for 1896, which will be ready for distribution next Wednesday. It has been compiled with great care and is believed to embody a more compre hensive and accurate collection of In formation vital to Northeastern Penn sylvania than has yet been presented in any similar publication. The pre paration and supervision of this annual are the work of Colonel J. D. Laciar, whose life-long Identification with po litical movements In this quarter of the commonwealth, coupled with his high standing as a journalist, affords a suf ficient guaranty of Its authenticity and value. In succeeding years it will doubtless be Improved and amplified, yet this first number In a contemplated series of political hand-books will un questionably prove and indispensable reference book and ofilce guide; and It will without doubt specially commend Itself to the politicians of this and of the proximate counties because of its in telligent grouping of election figures. Senator Quay Hiays that Governor Hastings gave him a very fine cigar. Had it been Magee, would the gift have been a Pittsburg stogy? WASHINGTON GOSSIP. Tribune Bureau, No. CIS Fourteenth street, N. vt, Washington, Dec. 2S. There was more drunkenness in Wash ington yesterday than there tins been on Christmas lor many years. The streets were tilled with intoxicated men and boys and not a few females took advantiiKv of the occasion and mtule merry. Most ut the Jags were ulguiittc In size. Many of them were of the swinging tuke-up-all-or-the-street vuriety. A good deul or the drunk enness wus due to the fact that nearly every saloon In town kept "open house," and the boys took advuntage of tills rare hospitality on the uart of tha rum uill,.i and loaded up. Very few arrests were nia.le, considering the large number of fellows who foil by the wayside. If "Rising Sun Stove Polish" Morse, who represents a Puritan district In ilus- suchusetls, and who has Introduced a bill In 111 house prohibiting; the sale of liquor In the District of Columblu, hud been here today he could have gathered some valu able duta which he might use In favor of his measure. It Is needless to say that such a bill will never pass as long as there are so many fellows In congress who like u pull at the bottle themselves. Senator Squire, of the state of Washlnu- ton, Is not the brightest man in the upper branch of congress, but nobody ever sus pected him of being so fur behind the times as the following story will show him to be. A short time before congress con vened Squire met a fellow senator at one of the hotels In this city and this conver sation took place between them: think It Is a shame that congress does not admit Utah into the Union." said Sen ator Squire. "iiy ueur senator," said his colleague, t'tuh was admitted as a state by the last compress. Is that so? replied Senator Saulre.wlth great astonishment. "1 hadn't heard of it before." Senator Saulre must be suffering- from a lapse of the memory, us he was a mem ber of the senate when the Utah bill passed. Joe towls Is still here. He will likely ho appointed clerk to the committee on terri tories, of which Mr. Scranton Is chair man, unless Uncle Joe can secure for him bone with more meat on It. The sal ary of the clerk to Mr. Scrunton's com mittee Is 0 per day during the sessions. II II II Colonel Clayton McMlehael. editor of the Philadelphia North American, Is slated for the secretaryship of the senate when the Republicans reorganize that body. Colonel MeMichael was United States marshal for the District of Columbia during President Arthur's administration, and was a very popular ofllclal. II I' II Colonel William A. Stone, who represents the Twenty-third Pennsylvania district, nnd who had the distribution of the "bones" under the Combine, has collapsed from the strain he has been under since the house organized, and he Is now ink Ing a rest nt White Sulnhur Springs. Vn. It Is said that he hasn't averaged three hours' sleep a day in the past three weeks. The "tone" hunters have been on his trail day nnd night, and. the strain wis too much for even a man of tho Colonel's colossal stature. II H '! "Bertie" Adams, ex-Mlnlster to Rrnzll, and the successor of "Fflther" O'Nell In the bouse from a Philadelphia district. Is one of the mnl1est men- In Washington. He was a member of the famous Combine nnd was promised a rood, fnt office for one of his constituents. He had his eye on the carpentershlp of the house, a nlace which pays In the neighborhood of $.1.0no per year, snd had his man plckeil out. R-it Renre sentative Brtimm. of Schnvlklll county, stripped In and walked off with the "bone." Thnt Is why "Hertle" Is mad, and ho Is real mad. too. ( )( ( Senator Quay declines to be Interviewed on the suhect of Ms alleged reconciliation with Governor Hastlne-s. It Is believed, however, that he bp'1 the rovernor hive kissed nnd mde no. The senator hss some legislation which he wants tn get through the next legislature snd without a friend In the executive 'chslr he flirht as well not attempt It. Oovernor HssHnirs has manv thlna-s In H favoVf h decides to enter the wntorlnl contest. Ouay esnnot afford in fls-ht hint. In fsot. H would be rood untitles for nimy to help him. Ouav's friend Lyon would be tnrt povernor snd there would h no question about scnr. Ine the exrntlve's annrovnl of snv IpiIs Intlon Inst he mle-ht Mve onsed. Oov ernor Hnstinrs certainly oeonrdes an en. viable position In the senatorial riee. He "s the hst of t fleht no ti date. Ttrothnr Wanninkr's letter as-slnt Cnme'on has placed Mm outside ffc breastworks, snd as for the other cnndldates thev are nhoi't twenty to o"s shots, as the sport ing fraternity wimW w, "Trthv" hs had n unnrwedepted nn tn this cltv. Tt Is the onlv show thst hss heM th honrrls for two consecutive weeks In Washington for msny yearn. At manv of the performances It was lmooas'M secure standlnr room snv price "Thn. tv." n burlesque on "Trilby,') made Its In itial bow to the publlo here this week. It made a grut hit ami la drewtns crowded JlOUt-fi. I! ll !! Postmaster Oenenti Wilson, never pos. sosee. I of robust constitution. Is showing the wear und tear ur the hurt! work liu posed iion him sine he entered th cabi net. I met him vesterduv for the llrat time since he became a member of Presi dent Cleveland's olllclal family. He has changed wonderfully since he left con gress, and It wouldn't surprise me If he were compelled to resign on account ot in ncann neio -e me end or the Cleveland ad ministration. II II II Russia's offer to loan the United 8tats ttco.oiO.OilO In gold has caused considerable talk In executive nnd lecislallve circles. It Is not a fresh offer. Shortly nfter Presl, dent Cleveland's second Inauguration, when the treasury surplus first bfcun to oner was duly acknowledged oy ine an ocffr was dulv acknowledged by the ud ministration, but was not taken because the money lenders of the world showed an eauerness to buy Uncle Sam's bonds at such low Interest that PresiJent Cleveland illdn t enre to test the friendship or kus sla to this extent. If the United Stntes should accept Russia's offer now It would only tend to complicate the already strained reletions with this country and RnKlnnd. and It Is doubtful If President Cleveland cares to further involve matters. War tnlk Is cheap, but to enter into a real conflict with England or any other power ful nation Is a attest Ion which Is worth careful consideration. There will be no war with Enslnnd not for a day or two at least. I II II The members of the Spanish legation In this city are not loslnir anv sleep over th rnnnrieil insurfrpnt victories near tin vnnn. Neither are they spending nnv cash on cable dlrotches between Washington and Jlsdrid In a mnd endeuvo- lo verify or discredit the wIM rumors. Their npne tltes are also good, and their thlrt for n-lne Is Inst as great as It ws before Cuba revolted. v . it. o, FIVE MINUTES FOR FUN. - r ii... i "I've called full twenty times," said he, "Your slnnv hpnrt in soften." "I'm shocked to hear," responded she, "That you ve been run so orten." Kansas City Journal. Reason In All Things, "t want to know why, Mrs. Me.Corkle, you give mo hush for breakfast this morn ing when you know that yesterday ut brenkl'ast I did nut touch It." "That's just why. When you hnve eaten that I shall provide something else." Harper's linzaar. Comprehensive. Papa Well, Tommy, what do you want Santa Clans to bring you this Christmas? Tommy Oh. jes the same as usual one of everything he can think of. Harper's Round Table. A Terrible Ordeal- She saw n mouse, but did not swerve, Although It must have shocked her. She hail to make a show of nerve- She was a female doctor. Chicago RecorJ. An Invitation Dolly If you kiss me the second time, I will scream. Dick I haven't kissed you the first time jet. Holly I know It. Town Topics. Sometimes So. "Is It really true," said the little boy, "that politicians are sometimes not strict ly honest?" "Yes," replied Senator Sorghum, sadly; 'I am sorry to say that (t Is. I have known politicians who got votes years nso and have not paid for them yet,. ash lngton Star. Christmas Presents, HILL & GONNELL, 131 AND 133 N. WASHINGTON AVE. BASKETS AT n 131 AND 133 N. WASHINGTON AVE. CHRISTMAS Is now over. 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