THE SCJt ANTON TRIBUNE-MONDAY. JUNE G, 1898. v' I t C(Je licranfon CriBtme 'nbllshed Unlly, Except Sunday, by llic I Mine Publishing Company, ut Fifty Conn Trlblltl n .Month. The Tribune's telegraphic news .s from three to five hours fresher than that of any Philadelphia or New York paper circulated in its field. Those papers go to press at midnight; The Tribune receives news up to 3 a. in. and sometimes later. All the news in The Trib une while it is new. New Yorlc Olllce: 1 Ml Nnnu St., ., U tt.l..f.'l t .11 t-olo Agent for i r Foreign AdvcrllHltig. lMKItt:tl ATTItr. POSTOFriCK AT KCItANTOS, VS., AB BF.COttlJ-Ct.4M MAIL MATTER. TEN PAGES. FCHANTON. Jl'NE 0. 1S08. REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS. StMtv. 'Oovcinor-WILLIA.M A. STUNK. l.ii'ilt?nnnt (5overnor-J. 1'. S. GOIUN. Hcrre'tiiy of Internal Affairs' JAMES V. l.ATTA. JuiIko of Superior Cotttt-W. V. l'OH- TKIt. Congressmen - at - Lnrge BA.Ml'KI. A. DAVRNFCHT. CIAH'StlA A. ClltOW. Iii-givllllivi-. Elrst Dletrlct-JOHN It. FAmt. Fourth Dlatrlet-JOHN F. REYNOLDS. The American nnvy ns It Is Is n hint of what the American nnny ought to be. The Men WIto Man Our Ships. A reading of the graphic story of the f-at of Lieutenant Motion and his sev en companions on hoard the Mcrrimac will have a wholesome effect upon American patriotism.. The charge of the Light Hiigade, so fittingly com minorated in Tennyson's inspiriting verse, was n dash In the open, with sumo chance uf escape. Kven the dat ing exploit of CusVIng was performed in the night-time, when the objective new was asleep. Hut Lieutenant Holxon chose a role tint seemed to innlt" death an Inevlta 113 climax.; He (I'd with the unpro tected collier Alerrlmac what even our steel clad battleships dared not at tempt; he rode straight throi'cjh the torrent of shot and shell, over torpedoes and mines, Into the neck of the bottle like harbor, and there anchoring dell nntly until hi?, ship swung crops-wise, himself touched the button which sent the JTerrimae to the bottom and coolly I'owed away toward the Spanish 'lag hhip, upon which he and his seven gal lant companions found shelter as pris oners of war. Tt Is infinitely to the -rodit of Admiral rvrvera and the Spanish navy that this unexampled heroism was rewarded even by the enemy's applause and Unit It was luter acknowledged under a flnst of truce by a tender of "xehnnge. This fine exhibition of Spanish manliness is as fortunate from a diplomatic stand point as It was creditable per se It proves that not all Spaniards are Wey lem. and that In th much-abused liv eiv of ripaln theie nn some servants et worthy of American respect. As for the Yankee sailors who dared, their spirit H but the spirit of all the men who man our ships, a spirit that, despite the odds, makes ours, so far as it goes, the best navy nfloat May men like this soon have ships to match In numbers and perfection of design the qualities of the Yankee crews. Poultney nigelow writes to the Lon don Times that the management of our army Is far Inferior to that of the Herman aimy. Possibly; but It Isn't nice hi Poultney to parade the fact before nations none too well disposed toward the I'nlted Ptateo at best. His critical exuberance should be tempor arily, suppressed. The Gubernatorial 5ltuat;on. So far ns the politicians are con cerned the nomination of Colonel Stone for governor has produced less dissat isfaction than was anticipated. No lie publican newspaper In the state within our knowledge has bolted his candidacy; Magee and Martin are In line for the ticket, and even John Wnn amaker seems more bent on scalping Quay at the next legislative caucus th.ni on running for governor as an Independent candidate. It Is probably fair, therefore, to assume that the head of the state ticket will bo supported this fall by the nctlve party workers. tho men who make regularity In party affairs a watchword, with as much loyalty and effectiveness as will the admittedly popular remainder of the ticket, whoso triumphant election no one questions. Straight party men who are not prl niHiily politicians, but who are com monly designated as the "rank and file," will undoubtedly support the ticket on the ground that It Is fully hs fjood us any gubernatorial ticket within their recollection and therefore nut a proper target for Invidious at tack. This element In Pennsylvania politics Is not so numeious ns It once was, hut It yet constitutes more than 50 per cent, of the noting population classifiable as Republican. When It Is entliusla:itlcally rallied by the party workers It constitutes a political bul wark needing very little reinforcement to dotermlnu the outcome of tho battle. The Independent element have not yet Indicated their attitude and prob ably will not until the linos of the cam paign aro uioio clearly and broadly de fined. It I jlkely that Dr. Swallow will uc'i n Jmii vol In jinv vpn. partly on religious grounds, nnd It Is possible that an Independent Hcpuhllcan candi date could also secure a considerable following, although thnt would depend largely upon developments yet to be reached. Hut unless the Democrats agree among themselvc-s upon a clean, ro.qpertnide nnd not offensively partisan i.wn like I'attlson nnd run hlin upon a pint form emphasizing state and exclud ing national l.'fues which Is a consum mation hardly to be expected under tho cxlftlng conditions of factional demor alization In that patty the Incentive among Independent llepuljllcans to bolt v ill scarcely le of sutllclont strength to give Colonel Stone nnd frlumlH great uneasiness. Tl.elr best plan Is to mnke a hold fight, stand unflinchingly for Republi canism and trust to the people to pass a ratlsfactory judgment. Van U'yck Is trying to play n misty mime to get control of the election ma chine! y of this city. In violation of the election law. In older to use it corruptly. New Yoil: Sun. And those Republicans who voted for Low aie directly responsible for Van Wytk's election. Colonel Stone's Platform. "It will be my purpose when elected to so conduct myself as to w'ln the re spect and good will of those who have opposed me us well as those who have given me th'ir support. I shnll be the governor of the whole people of the state. Abuses have undoubtedly grown u in the legislature which are neither the fault of one party nor the other, bu rather the growth of custom. Un mecssiuy Investigations have been n't thoilzed by committees, resulting In urnecesxnry expense to the state. It will be my care nnd purpose to cor net llvse and other evils In so far ns I have the power. It will be my purpose while governor of Pennsylvania, as It has bmn my purpose In the public po sitions that I have held, with Clod's help, to discharge my whole duty. The people rue tjreater than the parties to vhlc li they In long. I am only jealous of their favor. I shall only attempt to win their approval and my experience has taught me that that can best be done by an honest, modest, dally dis charge of public duty." "When the war Is over the American people will have several things to hay to the hayweed statesmen whose small potato Ideas permitted this Imperial nation to fall so far Into the rut of mllltnry unpreparedness that nlght-and-day energy plus unlimited money nnd credit are still unable to get it out. The Reality of Money. A few days ngo The Tribune pro pounded the thesis. What Is money? Wo endeavored to recapitulate briefly Its more obvious functions, and the scientific basis upon which it rests and acts as a measure of the relative vnlue of commodities and the products of labor in nil civilized countries. 'We did not, wo need scarcely say, seek en lightenment on the subject from the Scrnnton Times. We would have been ignorant alike of Its past financial policy nnd of human nnture had we done so. Neither did we write for the special delectation of the editor of the Times, although b(. calmly assumes that we did. This Is n world of In tense Philistinism, and no profession wholly escapes the taint, nlthough we are ready to believe It Is less rampant nnd less manifest In journalism than anywhere else. Our object In dealing with a problem so abstruse and In tangible as the intrinsic reality and functions of money was lucid and com prehensive enough not to be mistaken by any man of ordinary Intelligence. We wrote in order to encourage tho friends of sound currency to persist In influencing public opinion on tho organic and constructive conception of finance by studying the problem as it presents Itself In one of the great sub divisions of political economy nnd In fluences all branches. It cannot be other than Interesting to make a study of the money question, Its nlms and Instruments. This Is something very different from putting a suppositious question to a contemporary and receiv ing us an explanation a didactic for mula extracted from the works of a professor of political economy. Any argument which the Times has brought forward to holster up the Populist con ception of money only confirms us In our belief of Its bedlamlc phnntasy and mental obfuscatlon. Although, like so clallsm, the financial heresy of Mat money has been widely disseminated, yet we are convinced that It has not taken deep root, and that It will slow ly but surely be eradicated by the good sense and progressive Intelligence of our countrymen. We will be told that six millions of the American people voted for W. .1. Hryan nnd gave adhesion to what his name and his principles stood for. Wo are aware of the fact, and It would be disquieting did It represent nn Iso lated phenomenon unprecedented in tho history of politics; a revolutionary project which endangered the stability of the government and the happiness of those very people who were ready to hand it over to' anarchical experi ment on the supposition that having nothing to lose or relatively little, the substitution of one standard of money for another. If It did not prove to their advantaije, could not certulnly tuke place greatly to their disadvantage. Actuated by somewhat ulmllar selfish motives the French burgeolslo pretipl- tated the Revolution, under the belief ! that If tho old nobility were dissolved or banished they would sharo In tho properly confiscated by the revolution ists. Never was confidence more mis placed. While a largo proportion of the nobles managed to escape, It waH the blood of the bourgeoisie which fell In cataiacts from the scaffold. In all Instances qf which we hold record where the finances of n country fall Into disorganization nnd discord the first to suffer nnd the last to recover from Its baleful effects wero tho poor and the workers It may bo well to remark here that any theory which conflicts with the prepos?t'Ksoiis of our contemporary Is "nonsense." He seeks to veil the In consistency of his position and tho In conclusiveness of his arguments by jejune observotlons or rusty hyper hole. Ho covers tho sober, logical and original tnpdltnitnnn of an opponent with vulgar ridicule, which harms no one but himself. He nuoten Professor Walker, nnd holds his definition of money ns conclusive. As a matter of fact In this extract Professor Walker explains the function of money nnd reduces It to u format proposition or axiom of political economy. It no more explains the genesis of money than tho proposition thnt two nnd two mnkes four explains the genesis of mathe matics. The Times says thnt Aristotle mora than two thousand years ago said that money was the creation of the law. Aristotle said nothing of the kind. Aristotle won n man of rommon sense. His knowledge of what constituted money Is as profound and applicable todny ns It was on the day It was written. Ho never postulated that money woh the creation of law. The sago distillations of the mind of tho great Ionian philosopher will not blend with the nmorphous hallucinations of theorists who hold that wampum nnd beads nnd cowerle shells, clumsily nnd laboriously performing the function of moni'y In n barbarian state of society, are money In themselves, ns civilized Minn understands nnd employs It. If during a period of social convulsion or fiotn other causes the Inhabitants of a country are reduced to make cod fish and musket balls nnd tobacco pass as currency, that does not signify that these artfcles of commerce are money, the money of commerce. Hecause Nebuchadnezzar lived on grass. It does not follow that the natural food of mankind Is pasturage. Money nnd finance in all forms, divisions, in terchangnblllty nnd ramifications fol low and are governed by natural laws. These laws are definite and Invariable. Statutory laws can pervert and out rage these natural laws, but they can not change them they cannot annihi late the greatness and energy of na ture. That It should be given out at the end of the nineteenth century that money is the creation or flat of gov ernment is one of those degrading superstitions in which a considerable part of mankind Is still kept In bond age. Tho Mugwumps owe nn apology to Senator Morgan. For ears they have been holding him up to execration as the ultra-exponent of Jingoism; yet here he l with nn argument against the adoption of a colonial policy that couldn't have been more temperately written If Richard Watson Odder himself had formulated It. He wants I'ncle Sam to get coaling stations wherever he can, but he docvm't approve of adding to our territory as a permanent possession any Island or group of Islands whose Inhabitants are by race and status unfitted for ultimate Incorporation among our citi zenship, nnd as usual on matters of foreign concern, the senator fiom Ala bama Is not far from right. General Agulnaldo, the Philippine In surgent leader, has hustled together an nrmy of 2,r,00 men within two weeks. General Agulnaldo wears his hair pom padour, according to contemporary chalk-plate portraits, and Is said to bo as unscrupulous as a Tammany poli tician In affairs of state, but he has certainlyt set a pace In the way of mobilizing troops that few generals can equal. It looks as though the war between France and the t'nlted States would be confined to the pages of a very few yellow Parisian journals. If Spain realizes that she Is licked why does she continue to accumulate misfortunes? It will only alienate rational sympathy. I'ncle Sam: "O, would write a few that mine enymy more letters!" Hobson's choice. was certainly a nervy Sfaf? Press Upon Convention's Work John Wnn.imakir, In Pittsburg Dispatch. I never doubted that V. A. Stone would be nominated at the convention. Kvery body knows it was u packed, purchased, prctendedly instructed convention, nnd like a loaded gun, could lite but one ball. From the Hazletnn Sentinel. Colonel Stone, the gubernatorial nomi nee, Is not responsible for the perilous conditions which surround the situation. He did not cieate them. There Is noth ing In Ills pcrx rnlit or In his publlj record to cause Republican dlHlntcgra lion. Ho Is a gallant soldier and a gen tleman of blameless reputation and of admitted ability, but months igo his con test for gubernatorial honors ussuined a distinct factioi nl attitude that ha.4 mado him the objective point of a profound and widespread ieolt. It is our hope thnt methods will prevail which will end the revolt at Its Inception. From the Lebanon Report. Colonel Stone's success may have been due to mihiue methods, or may be tho result of hard, unflagging work on the part of the candidate and his personal ft lends. The question Is cne of fact to bo determined by the people at the polls. From the Philadelphia llulletln. The refusal of the convention to make the nomination of Colonel Stone tor gov ernor unanimous Is ominous. It will be followed by a similar and larger refusal In the rank and file of the party. It Is a nomination which will put Its supporters outhedefei slve firm the beginning to tho end of the campaign. Theto is no doubt that it will be mrtre bitterly opposed than nny gubernatorial iirmlnatlon the Repub licans of this Mnto havo ever made. From Chamliersburg Public Opinion. Colrnei Stnuo will mrke a good gov ernor. Ilo has back of lilm a record for which ho need offer no apology and which Is a guaranty that hf will admin ister faithfully the trust the people will commit to his bands. He lacks none of tho qiiallllentlons of a governor. Nxperli enco In public affair, familiarity with the needs of tho state, sturdy Independ ence, knowledge of tho right and tho strength to enforce It alwnvs. a soldier, and cognizant of the needs of our sol dier Iiojh who are enrolled for the war against Spain, a foe to the illiterate for eign Immigrants, and the defender of Pennsylvania's worklngnien against tlnir cheap Inbor and their anarchistic teach ings, and his never-f ilterlng Republican Inn all tin so make him a candidate who will have the hiipport of his party In No vember. From tho Pittsburg Dispatch. Wo do not depreciate Colonel Stone's estlmnble personal character. Wo have no Intention of denying the popularity that mny partially enable him to bear tho load under which he enters Into tho campaign, But neither popularity nor chnrsrtcr ran overshnrlow the fact ibHf ho stands ns tho candidate of political organization which, having undortnkrn reforms nnd pledged Itself to their per formance, coolly turned the whole plat form nnd pledges Into a Jovial bunko game without even the pretense of un apology. From tho Lancaster New Krn. Now thnt the next buttle must be fought with the common enemy, family dlssuti slons should cease. It Is ramurkablc as well ns a giatlfylng fact that through nil the hlttmncM of the late canvass not it word was said or printed dctogatory to the public or private character of Col onel W. A. Stone. The opposition to him was based solely on the fear that ho would be controlled by tho men who de manded hln nomination and who tesorted to doubtful means to accomplish tt. On the other hand It should not bo forgot ten that Colonel Stone In tho earlier singes of IPs canvass had, by his per sonal force, mnde hlmelf so strong ns to he able to tnnlntnlu the lend, which he held from beginning to end. From the Lancaster Kxnmlner. It was machine methods and the ntlto cratlc fiower of one man which have pro voked so much resentment throughout the state and which may lead to a serious revolt. Kvcry one knows how Colonel William A. Btuno was nominated, and so men will think and feel as they are for or against the machine. That dissatis faction will bo wide and profound need not be denied, and If the head of the ticket Is chonii It will bo under the pro tests of thousands or because they have nothing else to do but support the regu lar ticket. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. So far ns personal merit is concerned, the ticket is altogether respectable. Colonel Stone's individual record Is hon orable and Inspiring, and his traits of character exlrfblt those warm nnd genial qualities which evoke personal good will and friendly feeling. If tho governor ship may be regarded ns a reward of per sonal desett, it will bo worthlli be stowed upon Colonel Stone. Considering It as a base of ndmlnlstiatlon, however, It Is omposslble to legard candidacy lor the olllce In other than a representative character, so that tho amiable qualities of the candidate are Insignificant as com pared with his political attachments nn t surroundings. In Cob nel Stone's case these are not such as to satisfy public sentiment. From the Allegheny Record. Colonel Stone Is a man of brain, dignity and Independence, and will carry all those traits Into the gubernatorial eillilr. lie Is safe, sound, eonsei votive and will havo the contldenoo of the pecple after, 4s well as before, election. Ills victory Is well de-served. Ho made a noble canvass, went directly to tho people, laid his rec ord before them, and thus secured enough delegates to win. And win lie did. without deals or concessions. He made his own light, to him belongs tho laurels. Colonel Stone will be elected by u sweeping majority. From Hyde Park Courier-Progress. Colonel W. A. Stone, of Allegheny county, won the nomination for governor at the Republican state convention through a fusllaile of lire that few men could have stood up under. This Indi cates Colonel Stone's great Individual strength. He Is the kind of a candidate that will now grow stronger as he is bet ter known. Ilo Is an able man; he has had extensive experience In public nffalrs and a recoid for honi'sty that has not been assailed, embittered as was the re cent campaign. THE COMMERCIAL FACTOR. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Casting sentiment aside, and looking at the war between Spain ami the- I'nlted States from a business standpoint, tho powvrs of Kiiropr cannot fall to sou that their Interests lie In maintaining an atti tude of neutrality, or, if they take sides. In favoring our cause rather than that of our adversaries. o The total trade of the t'nlted Stales for the fiscal mi which ended June 2", IS'17, with the countries named below amounted In value to the sums following: (Heat Hrltaln l.ac.4L (.iermany 21I.W5.IjS7 Franco U1.17.Si2 Italy 40,415, 11 J Itussla 10,703,021 Total Uj.-i0. 141.073 The annual trade of Spain with the same countries, as dhuwn hi' 'he yearly aver ago from 1S.'iO to lSiti. Is as follows: Great Rrltaln $9,473.5fl7 Ocniauy 7,ljs,"s:i France OS.ol'i.W Italy 5l7l.'il9 Russia 5.571.IW3 Total HS5,VJii.!"U o Thus the commercial exchanges be tween the'se live nations anil the T'nlt-d States are about sx times as great as between the same nations nnd Spain, and this Immense- preponderance should and doubtless will prove a peisuaslve argu ment If n point comes when F.uropo must definitely eUtcunlnc whether she is lor or against us. In printing these- figures wo have availed ourselves of i. compilation maele by the Philadelphia Record, which paper gives tho following additional facts- "As to the Spanish colonies, their trade- with continental Kurope, exclusive of Spain, is comparatively Insignificant. Cuba has long been practically a com mercial dependency of the I'nlted Stales; and of the foreign trade of the Philip pine.', which amounts to about WI.OOO.WJ per annum, over $17.000,lHW is with Gr-:it Ilritaln nnd the I'nlted States about S. fdO.uiK) with Spain and $1,500,000 with China and Japan-leaving barely $l,0ro,wo for the rest of the world." o Great Rrltaln Is already with us In spirit, not only from commercial mo tlves. but from a conviction that the Anglo-S.ison nice must stanel together for Its own Interest!) and for the good of the world. The other nations cannot af ford to be against ns; nnd, even If their passions and Jealousies should get tlv better of their business sagacity, they would not bo able to prevail against an ulllnnce v hleh Is already a moVcnlltv nnd which Is certnln to develop Into se metblng more substantial If the oc casion slia'l arlse Rut this contingency is not imn.odlarHv probable. 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