THE SCBANTON TRIBUNE Til URSD AY MORNING, OCTOBER 8, 189G. I til j tad Weekly. No Sunday Edition. nitlkbfd II Scranton, P. by To Tribune Pub. llnhiug Company. . . HINOSaUNV. hii. ae Gn t In C. H. RIPPLE, io- e Teaae tlVV . RICHARD, Kama. W. W. OAVISJ. Ruamiaa Manaata. W. W. YOUNG,. av. Maaa-a. Kew York Office: Trlbiina Bulldiag, Frank B. Uray, Manager. IMIPIO AT Til" POSTOmcj AT 8CRANT0. .. IICOND-CLASS MAIL UATTIR. SCRANTON. OCTOBER 8. 1S96. THE REPUBLICAN TICKET. NATIONAL. PTesldent-WILI.IAM'KlNLEY. VIce-Prcsldent-UA KtKT A. HOBART. STATE. Congressmen a'. - Large GALT'SHA A. GROW. SAMUEL A. DAVENPORT. VOVSTY. Congress-WILLIAM CON'NELT.. Commlssionrrs-S. W. ROBERTS, GILES ROBERTS. . Audltors-A. E. KIEFER, FRED I WARD. LEGISLATIVE. Renate, 11st DlstrlctOI.. W. J. SCOTT. Representative, 1st District JOHN R. FARR; 2d Distrlct-A. T. CONN ELL: 3d Distrlrt-DR. N. C. MACKRY; 4th Distrlct-JOHN F. REYNOLDS. Mr. Boland might take revenge by paying Mr. Vldaver that balance in Mexican dollars. Get Ready (or Canton. Arrangements for the Canton excur sion tomorrow night have been com pleted, and It Is earnestly urged upon the Republicans of Scranton that as many of them as can conveniently do so will take advantage of this excep tionally advantageous opportunity to visit the homo of the next president and hear from his lips an authoritative expression of Found Republican doc trine. The ride Itself will be enjoyable; sleeping and lunch cars will deprive it of tedium, and the low fare of three quarters of a cent a mile puts the ex cursion within the means of all. The sneers and jibes of the free silver or gans at these popular pilgrimages to Canton cannot be more effectually answered so far as this community Is concerned than by an outpouring of the citizens of the Lackawanna valley, from Forest City down, in augmenta tion of the excursion of tomorrow night. The campaign scribbler who credited. Mark llanna with admitting that Itryan would win should be put to work un circulation uflldavits. The War of the Types. This has been very largely a battlt of printer's Ink. Never before has the printing press played so large a part In a political campaign. Conservative es timates place the total number of pam phlets distributed by the two parties In the present presidential contest at upward from ".lO.OOO.OOO. Of this num ber the Democrats have sent out 600, 000,000 copies and the Republicans the remnlnder. The bulk of the Demo cratic distribution, however, was ac complished prior to the Chicago con vention, while that of the Republican distribution has been accomplished within the past six weeks. It has thus been possible to neutralize the earlier work with fewer copies than If the lit erary duel had been prolonged through out the year. But a more Important factor In the campaign of education than the print ing of pamphlets has been the co-operation with the Republican National committee of the sound money news paper press. The influence which this has exerted In overcoming the silver movement la incalculable. The one weak point In Bryan's canvass has been his lack of newspaper support. It In turn has led to a lack of effective or ganization among the free silver forces and will be chiefly accountable for the loss from the Democratic ranks of the vote which will divide between McKln ley and Palmer. Had he retained the support among the newspapers of the country which went to Mr. Cleveland four years ago there could today be no more question of his election than there was in October, 1892, of the election of the present chief executive. We do not underestimate the potency of platform oratory when we say that it Is distinctly inferior in importance to the dally argument of the types. Mr. Bryan is attracting phenomenal crowds and is giving a wonderful exhibition of physical endurance in his transcontin ental swing around the circle of debat able states; but all that excitement and hurrah dies out within a few moments after the departure of his train. If it could be kept alive by vigorous and ef fective editorial discussion from a standpoint In harmony with his views, it would be no mean force; as It is, it is as a flash in the pan, son over and soon forgotten. The types are the real instruments of political battle; they are the grape, the shell and the canis ter that lay low the enemy's forces. j The Australian ballot in Florida cut the Democratic majority down one tialf, which shows what an honest count would do to the solid South. Discredited Prophets. In support of his statement that there Is no reason whatever to believe that silver would appreciate, as a re sult of free coinage, to a parity with gold at the present ratio General Har rison, In his luminous article in this month's Forum an article, by the way, that every voter should read recalls this Interesting circumstance: "Two of the leading free-silver senators, when the Sherman bill was pending, were, I know, much more positive than Mr. Bryan Is now, that the purchase by the government of 4,500,000 ounces of fine silver per. month would, take up the liver surplus 'that, they said . was weighing down the market price, and so make and keep our stiver dollar at par with the cold dollar. The actual result was that 371 Vi grains of pure sil verworth on the average in 1S89 ."21 advanced In 1S90 to .926, and then de clined each year until, in 1894, It reached the low limit of .457." Are the men who were so far astray in their predlc tions then to be taken as safe guides today In a matter of such vital import ance as a change in the country's money standard? Why should further heed be given in any quarter to their discredited prophecies? Tom Watson Is nothing if not modest. Says he: "If Sewall Is willing to get off the ticket I believe that even non there Is a chance to win. Mr. Bryan and I could at once make a tour to gether and inside of ten days we might restore thousands of votes." But Se wall isn't resigning a little bit. Are we to conclude, therefore, that Watson throws up the sponge? Padded Estimates Are Unwise. Henry C. Payne, of the Republican national committee, has issued a re vised estimate of electoral college pros pects. He claims as sure for McKlnley the following states: Connecticut Illinois 24 Indiana 13 Iowa 13 Kentucky .. 13 Maine 8 Maryland 8 Massachusetts 13 Michigan 14 Minnesota V New Hampshire 4 New Jersey 10 New York !K North Dakota 3 Ohio 2S Oregon 4 Pennsylvania 3- Hhodu Island 4 South Dukota 4 Vermont 4 West Virginia 6 Wisconsin 12 Total M3 The following states, while not claim ed as absolutely sure for McKlnley, are designated as safe: California 9 Nebraska 8 Washington 4 Kansus 10 Virginia 1- Wyoming 3 Total 4fi Lastly, It is claimed that In the six following states the Republicans have a good fighting chance: Idaho 3 North Carolina 11 Texas 15 Louisiana S Tennessee 12 Missouri 17 Total 68 Should all of these states go for Major McKlnley, he would have 377 votes in the electoral college, against 70 for Mr. Bryan, or a majority of 307. No body "but an enthusiast claims that such a one-sided result Is probable. On the contrary, from Information at hand and with a desire to be wholly fair, we believe that there Is little hope for the capture by Republicans of the electoral votes of Idaho, North Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee. Missouri, Wash ington, Kansas, Virginia or Wyoming. We are disposed to give all of these states to Bryan and to clnss California and Nebraska as doubtful, with the chances In Bryan's favor. This would bring us back to Mr. Payne's first table, and even that will bear some trimming. It never pays to underestimate the enemy's strength. We think Mr. Payne does this, and we cannot see any useful purpose In It. When he claims Ken tucky, Maryland, Minnesota and tin; Dakotas as absolutely certain for Mc Klnley we think he errs, and perhaps deliberately. The chances in .each of those stntes save Kentucky appear on the face of things to favor the election of McKlnley electors, but nothing de finite Is known and It simply discour ages Republican effort to give forth the iVnpression that they are already clinched in the sound money column. Neither Is Indiana or Illinois settled, by any manner of means. We hope and believe that both these pivotal states will support McKlnley, but they can not be made to do so by the issuing of public notification from national head quarters that further activity on the part of Republicans would be super fluous. No, let us look the facts in the face. It is a stubborn battle, and McKlnley is going to win; but In order to make his victory reach instructive and deci sive proportions nothing whatever must be taken for granted. The spirit by which Buch a victory can be won is just the reverse of over confidence; it is one of grim determination, keyed to Its highest pitch by fear lest a sparing of energy might cost grave disaster. According to Commodore Slngerly, there "has never before been a candi date for the presidency who traveled so far, talked so much or said so little as Mr. Bryan." But remember his youth- fulness. dry an as a Spoilsman. In the shadow of the silver question, the Chicago plank attacking civil ser vice reform and promising to throw open the federal departments to great swarms of Popullstlc place-hunters, Irrespective of their fitness for public position, has not attracted much atten tion; yet it Is really a proposition of ominous significance. It would, if put in force, open the door to a whole brood of national abuses under which the character of our government would Inevitably deteriorate. The spoils system, frankly and truth fully stated, means this: That the pub lic service is a fit place of lucrative asylum for the personal henchmen or the individual favorites of successful politicians, irrespective, of qualifica tions or merit; that the highest prin ciple of preferment in subordinate fed eral position not only may be at cer tain times but ought at all times to be the force of "pull." It means that when a general election institutes a change of party it should carry with It as a perquisite of the victors the right to remove skilled clerks in all grades and departments of the public service so as to make places for party heelers, needy relatives and disrepu table women. It is to government what the billet system Is to war; and whlla under the spalls system fit men do oc casionally net into office, the rule, in the one case as in the other, Is that the foisted beneficiaries of successful battle are c a class with whom no decent citizen would associate save under com pulsion. It cannot be claimed that civil ser vice reform Is yet complete In this country. As a matter of fact it Is only in its infancy. But the way to secure better results Is not to dispense sum marily with the very means by which all past progress toward cleaner condi tions In the civil service has been at tained. As it is now, some henchmen, favorites and courtezans do get into the departments at Washington through the medium of party politics; but they get in in splteof theclvilservice regula tions and are liable at any time to be dismissed. One shudders to contem plate the probable aspect of the Amer ican civil service if it were to be manned from top to bottom with the type of persons who are foremost In the active direction of Mr. Bryan's canvass. Mr. Bryan's intimate friends scout the idea that he is likely to suffer phy sical collapse. They say he has an un usual power of dismissing all his anxie ties the moment his head touches the pillow for sleep. In this case, he will probably find narcotics unnecessary four weeks hence. Government by Injunction.' One of the planks in the Chicago platform denounces "government by injunction as a new and highly danger ous form of oppression." It has refer ence to a decision rendered three years ago by Judge Ricks. The owner and employes of the Ann Arbor and North Michigan railroad company had a dis agreement over wages and the em ployes, claiming that the company had refused them Justice, went on strike. In order to aid the strikers, the work men on connecting roads refused to handle the cars of the Ann Arbor road while the strike losted. Rather than do this they resigned their positions. To prevent their workmen from stop ping work and thus tying up railway tratilc. these connecting companies se cured from Judge Ricks an Injunction ordering the men not to interrupt In terstate commerce by quitting work In a body.r The men quit just the same and were arrested for contempt of court. All were discharged save one man, Knglneer James Lennon, and he was fined $50 and costs, It being shown that he was the only one who had waited until after the Injunction had been served before quitting, t'pon ap peal Judge Kicks' construction of the Interstate commerce law was subse quently affirmed by the United States Supreme court. Till was the first time such a point in law had been raised In the United States and the decision of Judge Rteks was sharply criticized. While from the standpoint of public interest it seems defensible as a public protection against arbitrary stoppage of Inter state commerce, there is ground for ob jecting to the summary process em ployed. Kvery accused man ought to have the right to an open trial before a Jury of his peers. Judge Ricks did not concede this right In the case in point. He sat as Judge nnd jury com bined; and In order to put a check up on the future employment In this man ner of the contempt prerogative arbi trarily, a bill was introduced in the last senate by a Republican member, Mr. Thurston, of Nebraska, providing that in all cases of disobedience to the orders of the court, in relation to strikes, committed outside the court room, the defendant shall have the right to call witnesses, employ counsel and have a trial by jury. This bill passed the senate practically without opposition and would doubtless have passed the house had it been reached before adjournment. As the editor of Clinton's Magazine points out In a timely article in that periodical's October issue, there Is no reason whatever for the assumption by Mr. Debs, Mr. Sovereign or Mr. Bryan that "government by injunction" is a Republican device. Although Judge Ricks is a Republican, the Supreme court which affirmed his ruling Is Dem ocratic; and the point was considered in both cases without reference to poll tics. Democrats equally with Repub licans are interested in having an un obstructed movement of trains, Just as Republicans have an equal interest with Democrats in desiring that men charged with a crime outside of the ken of Ok sitting court shall have the right of open trial on a par with other defendants. We see no reason what ever to raise In a matter of this kind a partisan issue, or to put to the hazards of public elections the question wheth er the courts shall or shall not deal Im partially by all who come before them for Justice. It seems to us that the Chicago injunction plank is nothing more nor less than a demagogic bid for a class vote; and we submit to intelli gent workingmen whether or not they ought to permit such on Issue to lead them Into the dangers of free trade and a depreciated currency, with which the Injunction plank is inextricably yoked. "It is estimated that one-half the amounts of the debts of the principal powers of the world is the direct result and cost of war. A glance at the fig ures stating the public debts of several countries Is appalling; for example, that of France arhounts to more than $110 per capita, that of Great Britain Is $88 per capita, and that of Italy, $76 per capita. It is also estimated that the world Is Insolvent; that It Is a mathematical impossibility for it to ever pay its debts. Yet this era of civ ilization and peace is most extravagant and elaborate In its preparations for war. New arts, additional appropria tions, 'splendid equipments, modern barracks and stronger fortresses are the order of the day. In France, Ger many, Russia, Great Britain, Austria Hungary and the United States are now 2,853,000 men, ldly standing In arms, at total annual cost of 9790, 6C3.000, or about 40 per cent, 'of the total annual expenditure of those govern ments. Think of how much bread this would buy for the poor!" From an Ar gument In the Albany Law Journal by James A. Webb, of St. Louis, In. Behalf of an International Court of Arbitra tion. In Hungary a bigamist, when, con victed, Is, compelled to live, with his var ious wives at one time and support them. Bigamy In Hungary Is a declin ing crime. - With the opening of the dramatic sea son this year an unusual number of stage struck girls have been discovered about he city. The intluence that has caused such un outbreak of the histrionic fever at this tlms Is difficult to. locate, but there Is no question that the per centage of the young women who have ambition to shine with Incandescent ra diance before the footlights is on the In crease. Many Insist that tlje desire for laurels on part of soino of the young peo ple Is the result of Klrmesa enterprises and other affairs in which young amateurs are successful us entertainers. This may be the caso in certain circles, while In oth ers the cause muy be attributed to the In ducements offered by the managers of the numerous fly-by-night combinations that ore floating about the country. These companies, with the exception of one or two leading characters, are usually mado up entirely of umbitlous amateurs who ore working solely for glory and hygenlc resiflts; and the managers are willing that country girls with fresh, pretty faces should have the opportunity of helms courted on the stage by "Lord Wlbblety wobblety;" dying In the arms of tha heavy villain, or posing In abbreviated costume In the Amazon march, so Ion as the ambitions creatures ure actuated by pure love for tho "art." When the siagc-struck woman begins to feel that she Is entitled to salary, her place Id usually filled by the first applicant with a pretty face. And the young woman with high histrionic Ideals returns to her former sphere, may be. or goes to the bad. There are few exceptions to the rule, and the manager who deliberately advises young people regardless of qualifications to enter upon a profession In which full ure Is almost inevitable Is llttlo better than the contidence man or bunco-steerer. In perusing an old scrap book the other day I stumbled upon a poem which must have been published In the fifties. The author Is unknown; but whoever he may have been, the sentiment in the somewhat crude composition shows that the writer comprehended the proper view that one should take of life. For the benefit of readers who were born long after its pub lication, the poem Is given: THE HAPPIEST TIME IS NOW. Talk not to me of future bliss, Talk not of Joys gone by; For us the hupplest time Is this When Love bids Time to fly. Tho" future doubts may overcast To shadow Hope's young brow, Oblivion's veil may shroud the past, The happiest time is now. , Though flowers In spicy vases thrown Some odors yet exhale, Their fragrance when In air 'tis blown Breathes sweeter on the gale. Like faded flowers each parted bliss Let memory keep; but how Can by gone Joys compare with this? The happiest time is now. Unmarked our course before us lies On Time's eternal tide And soon the sparkling ripple dies As o'er the wave we glide. Like birds, which weary of the wing, Are rocked on swinging bough, We'll gently float und gaily Sing: The happiest time Is now. In this age when we have occasion to censure so many of our American womon for their foreign title hunting, it Is re freshing to know that there are some of our girls who do not forget their Yankee heritage as soon as they step foot upon British soli. The following Is an extract from a letter written by Miss Portul to friends In this city: "I went to a tea. at the home of Sir Henry Oakly, given by his daughter In our honor, after which she took us to a garden party given by the Duke of Teck In the Royal Botanical gardens, where, with the Duchess of Teek and Duchess of Yolk, they received. Miss Oakly asked me If I wanted to bo pre sented, but I declined as in Unit case I would have to bend my Yankee knee be fore each of them. I thought I would not bow before any Britisher Just to have it said I was presented to royalty." Miss Portal Is a California girl who Is doing the continent. She visited our city dur ing the summer while en route from California to New York, being the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Van Dyke, of JefTersoij avenue. The bicycle scorcher has a new fad which Is becoming more popular dally. No crook-neck squash tlyer now considers his wheel perfect unless it Is equipped with an arrangement of strings which produce aeollun harp effects when he rushes along the streets. The sounds produced by this Instrument are like the echoes of a distant buzz saw. While not pleasing to the ear they amuse the scorcher and are of utility In giving warning to the pedestrian that danger Is abroad in form of the rapid wheelman. SUCH MEN AKE NEEDED. From the Tlttston Gazette. In this Important campaign, there Is not a little satisfaction to be found in the po litical situation In our neighboring county of Lackawanna. Hon. William Conn-Mi Is the Republican candidate for congress In that district. He was nominated by acclamntlon, and so formidable is his can didacy that It was with the greatest dif ficulty that the Democrats could prevail upon any member of their parly to take the field in opposition to him. The Repub licans of the district are solidly united on Mr. Connell, and his election is a foregone conclusion. A mud of brains and prac tical business knowledge, Mr. Connell will prove un admirable representative in con gress, and at this time there Is special need there of Just such men. ITS NECESSITY VINDICATED. From the Pittsburg News. When the bill wr.s Introduced in the last leguslature providing for the crea tion of the Superior court a general pro test went up nil over the state against the idea on the ground that the court was unnecessary. It was 1ield that the Supreme court was well able to transact all the business required of It, and that the new body would be only a burden on'the taxpayers without giving them any possible return. A glance at the number of decisions handed down by the Supremo court In this cllyae.tcrday will go far to dispel this notion. Ever since the new court organized last autumn it has been kept very busy, and the higher court has not ceased Its labors in any respect. Sninc Mnterinl. She "Did you see the Latin quarter while In Paris?" He "No. but I got several lead francs passed on me." Judge. TOLD BY THE STARS. Daily Horoscope Drawn by Alnccaui Tho Tribune Astrologer., Astrolabe cast: 1.13 a. m.. for Thursday, October 8, 18U0. A A A child born on this day will notice that the legislative bees In Henry Koehler's bonnet have censed to make honey. Relic hunters will do well to look up the pen vf.th which Mr. Merrlfleld dUKhed the hopes orthe faithful to the earth in making the announcement that the bar'l would not be opened this year. Tho placing of "dope" in the canipnlirn whoop of Pennsylvania' Jeffersonlan De mocracy may be numbered among the crimes of 'Wi. , ITnltgs I'ni'le John Wanamaker Is lack ing In a spirit of reciprocity he will put an "d" In tho Times. Autumnal Rhymes. 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