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THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1900.
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SCHANTON, JUNE 19, 1900.
HEPULLICAN NOMINATIONS.
State.
ConRrfiwmrn-at.T.nnre (1 U.tlP HA A. OnOW,
lioiiKHT ii koi:iiii:m:ii.
Auditor Gcticral-K, D. HAItnr..Nnr.ItOH.
County.
Conercss-WIM.IAM COXNI'.t.U
Juiluc-(li:OIIOK M. WATS-ON.
WurlH-JOIlN II. FELLOWS.
Treasurer J. A. SCIt ANION'.
District Attorney-WJI.MAM It. LEWIS.
rrothonol.iry--.IOUN COI'KJ.XSn.
Clerk of Courts THOMAS IV PANIKLS.
Itecordrr of Denis I'.MIIi IION'N.
ItrirMrr of Wills W. K. IlIX'K.
Jurj Cominissloner lUlttAHU It. STUHUnS.
Legislative.
First District THOMN J. UlIYNOt.DS
Second Dl-trlct JOHN SCHIUI.lt, .III.
'llilrd Distrlii-MDWAHD .TAMIM, Jit.
Fourth District I'. A. l'HILIII.V.
General Grosvcnor's Insinuation that
Colonel Itooscvelt Is nieiely pretending
that ho doesn't want the vice-presidency
la ungenerous and unfair.
Air. Smith Out of It.
-HE DEFINITE refusal of
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Charles Emory Stnlth to
permit the, presentation of
his name at Philadelphia as
a candidate for the vice presidency
brings to an end a movement In pro.
inotlng which The Tribune, although
unsuccessful, has nothing to regret.
The spirit In which hi nomination was
advocated by this paper was one that
looked in two directions:
First, toward the selection of a run
ning mate for President McKlnley rep
resenting the best Impulses and tra
ditions of the Republican party; and
thoroughly (luallflad to attract votes
on election day, to perform with dis
tinguished ability the duties of the, po
sition when elected and to measure up
to the exacting recpjlremcnts of the
presidential olfice should he be called
to fill It. Pre-eminently would Mr.
Smith have met ind mastered every
one of these condlclons.
Secondly, toward the composition of
factional strife within our common
wealth and the bringing to the front
of a personality around which the self
respecting Republicanism of Pennsyl
vania could rally without fear and
without regret. Mr. Smith Is a modest
man; faometlmes we suspect too mod
est. His brilliant accomplishments
and splendid intellect fit him to lead
when frequently less deserving men
with greater self-assertion push in
nhead and grasp honors more appro
prlately his. It would be a fortunate
turn In the muddled party affairs of
this Imperial commonwealth could a
man like Charles Emory Smith, states
man, scholar and gentleman, be called
to a commanding place in the party
councils and by his clean methods give
inspiration to the better aspirations of
the Republican masses. For the pres
ent, but this is not to be; but we shall
hope on.
A time Is bound to come, maybe it
Is nearer than we think, when there
v 111 be an uprising of the reputable
manhood of our party in behalf of a
leadeiship such as men of his clean
type could give; a leadership neither
fcordid, selfish nor vindictive, but In
spired by tho desire to give full play
to the higher Impulses of honest Re
publicanism and to lift up the party
banner to n level In keeping with
Pennsylvania's greatness in the sister
hood of states. In the endeavor to
forward this desirable contingency we
may temporarily have failed, but the
cause was worthy of the effort and
we have nothing to apologize for and
nothing to take back.
We surmise that if Mark Hanna Is
being spited by this Roosevelt boom
it's because he wants to be.
Colonel Roosevelt's Future.
A VHE SUMMONS of a great
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party to accept Its nomina
tion for one of the two high
est offices In Its gift Is
something which no man has ever ro
f ised to obey or ever will. Theodore
Roosevelt cannot decline If the su
preme convention of his party with
substantial unanimity presses him to
accept. A declination ui.der such cir
cumstances would destroy his pros
pects and put a period to his public
usefulness. It would Ulustiate firm
ness degenerated into obstinacy and
self-will bordering on Intolerable self
conceit. Colonel Roosevelt Is aware
ot his own importance but he Is not
an 'egotist. In the larger view his
motives and his alms are unselfish, He
will do what ho considers to be his
duly,
And that Is whal in this emergency?
Simply to adhere, as lie Is doing, to
his original assertion that he does not
want the vice-presidency, that he
vlshts to be permitted to complete the
work begun by him at Albany, that
he believes his largest usefulness to
party nnd public Is In the executive
chalt of tho Emplro state. It is his
right to ask the national convention
to consider the circumstances ot hl3
'candidacy as he views them and to
gl"e attention to his wishes. Tho con
vention owes it to him und to tho
Dtlier" eminent Republicans who have
Ic-cn regarded as vice presidential can
didates to honor such a request. Then,
if the decision still Is that ho must
make tho race, tho responsibility will
bi off Ills shoulders; he will have been
overruled by the majority.
Colonel Roosevelt possesses many
elements of strength as a candidate
and in his nomination the country
would recognize an assurance that
should the president not survive his
term of office the succession would fall
Into worthy hands. Wo scout the con
lecture that the vice-presidency would
Vnd his jUHna! career. Although yet
a young man, ho has already been
politically dead many times, according
to' superficial opinion, and every tlmo
has resuscitated himself by virtue of
his superabundant energy and high
purpose. Ho would not enre for tho
quiet llfo of the vice-presidency and
if ho were vlco-prcsldent his llfo would
not be quiet. On the platform und
through tho press his active mind
would find liberal exorcise; and we
doubt not that ho would restore tho
olden precedent which made the vlcc
presldcncy tho stepping stone to the
presidency. There Is no need to worry
as to Roosevelt's future. What wo
don't llko about tho movement to put
hltn on tho ticket Is tho effect Hm suc
cess would have upon tho experiment
of taxing corporation franchises In
New York. If that makes him vlco
prcsldent because the corporations
don't favor tho Idea, It mny make him
president In 1901 becauso tho American
people do.
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teur base ball game on circus dsy.
American Isolation Ended.
T
-fAnn CHINESE crisis nnd thn
part which our government
is forced to take in It In pro
tection of Imperilled Ameri
can interests serve as a timely re
minder that the days of American Iso
lation are gone forever. Without seek
ing It, without wishing It, the United
States has become a world power,
with Inescapable obligations toward
the'preservatlon of International tights
and In consequence with unavoidable
need of a large navy and of an army
In proportion to Its widened circle of
responsibilities.
The destiny which put us In control
of tho Philippines is now plainly call
ing us to an active part In tho solution
of 'the great problem presented In
China's transition from ancient to
modern conditions. There may be thosu
who would bo Liud to be jelleved of
this responsibility. It certnlnly has not
been sought. Rut It is hero, upon us;
no International fact Is plainer, and
tho question Is, What are we going to
do about it?
With China wo have certain treaty
stipulations, among them the right to
trado with tho people of China upon
equal terms with the most favored na
tion. The nations of Europe which
have acquired territorial or political
footholds In China have been asked to
give assurances In writing that In all
the portions of the Chinese empire
which are now or In future may come
within their Jurisdiction or control
these treaty rights shall be respected;
that In those spheres of European In
fluence the American trader shall
stand upon a level before the law with
the most favored trader of any nation;
and they have dono so. On paper our
rights are secure. Rut is that enough?
Tho Boxer uprising, with its wanton
- -n'rtpg;giii xafiitwiiii tmr-'-n-n-ii' 1r,ftr-.-,1 -
murder of foreigners, Including, ac
cording to unconfirmed report, the
Oerman minister nnd perhaps other
personages of high official degree,
brings within probability tho early dis
memberment of China. Lacking co
hesive power itself, China jill either
have to be propped up by a concert of
the powers or partitioned nmong them
with a view to the more convenient
division of the labor of preserving In
ternal order while external Influences
work out better native conditions. In
either case, It Is futile to expect that
the American government can remain
a passive spectator. Participation In
the task of restoring order Is a neces
sary price ot future commercial ad
vantages. Providence does not help
those who decline to help themselves.
Notwithstanding the ability of tho
foreign troops to disperse the elements
of 'disorder In China, tho probability
that many of tho helpless missionaries
may bo massacred before help can
rench them makes tho Chinese situa
tion one for continued serious contem
plation. It looks as though tho Scranton cen
sus count would be no social blue book
affair this season. All willing to an
swer questions have been placed on the
fist.
Mr. Bryan wishes It distinctly under
stood that summer vaudeville troupes
are not to have complete monopoly of
the continuous performance business.
Dr. Swallow has changed his mind
and announces that ho may be tempted
by a presidential nomination that is
backed by a stampede.
Tho political boom of tho "man who
built tho Oregon" seems to have been
shipwrecked early In the fight.
Representation -
In Conventions
From the Philadelphia Press.
T
HE QUESTION of representation In Repub
lican national contentions has been brought
to the front In a way that will hardly
admit it belnc; left undecided by the body roon
to meet In tills city. The national committee at
in Fitrtlnc last December though best to leave
the matter to the convmtion Itself and not take
tho responsibility of changing the basis of rep
resentation which lias been In use longer than
the party has been in existence. This decision
was doubtless wise, but it will not be a wise
decision of the national convention of next week
also leaves the question unsettled. The wrong
growing out of it is so plain and It is increas
ing at such a rate that trouble is sure to follo.v
if it Is not dealt with row.
The plan In use up to the present time has
been to give eyry stnte double the representa
tion In natlcirtfl conventions that it has in cop
grrss without regard to the party vote cast in
any state. This plan might have continued In
use indefinitely had not the suppression of the
colored vote i:i southern states made it grossly
unjust. Tli( suppression of tho Republican vote
in the south, by- force or by law, has destroyed
party organization in many of the southern
states and left Republicans In most of them with
no power to aid in the e'ection of a Republican
president and congress. But with the old scheme
of representation In national conventions still In
force these same Southern Republicans have been
nble to exert an inluencc in the nomination of
president and vice president and in the direc
tion of party poliry out of all proportion to the
votes they cast.
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How grossly unjust this has grown to he can
bo keen from the following table, which gives
tho Republican vote cast for president In eleven
southern states in IS'iO and the number of dele
gates to which those sames states are entitled
in a Republican national convention on the pres
ent plan of apportioning delegates:
States. Vote in ISOeJ. Delegates.
Alabama 51,737 22
Arkansas 37,512 1G
Florida 11,233 8
Georgia 00,001 20
Louisiana 22,0.17 10
Maryland 13G,05 10
Mississippi 5,130 18
North nrollna 155,222 22
South Carolina d,2Sl IS
Te-as 107,520 30
Virginia 133,503 24
Total
7l)3,H3
211
Hero arc eleven states which In a "national
election cast only 71)3,115 votes, or only about
one-ninth of the total Republican vote cast in
the whole country, but which under the present
appoitlonment have nearly onc.fcurth ot the
delegates in the rational convention. Penn
sylvania alone cast nearly as many Republican
votes as all these eleven states together, tut
It has less than one-third as many delegates.
New York cast more Republican votes than one
third tho representation in a national conven
tion. Other comparisons would bring out still
more pliinly the Injustice of the present plan.
The Hon. Henry C. Payne, of Wisconsin, pro
posed a schema which would, in a great meas
ure, remedy the evil. It gives four delegates-at-large
to every state and an additional delegate
for every 10,000 votes cast, or a majority traction
thereof. Under these scheme the eleven south
ern states which have now 211 delegates would,
em the basis of their vote In 1S90, hare only
125 delegates.
A substitute for Mr. I'ajnc's plan has been
proposed by the Rhode Island delegation now In
Philadelphia to attend the national convention,
It eloes not outline any definite scheme of rep
resentation, but pledges tho Republican party
to the enforcement of tint section of the Com
teenth amendment to the constitution of the
United States relating to representation in con.
grcM, and urges that a Just ami equitable repre
sentation of the Republican voting strength and
sentiment of the country be given in the Repub
lican national convention of 1031. Whether it
is Intended to continue to base the apportion,
ment of delegates on corgresjlonal representa
tion alter the number of congressmen from tho
southern states has been reduced accrrdtng to
the fourteenth amendment, Is not exactly clear.
It Is clcir, however, that gross Injustice under
which the strong Republican states now labor
thould be corrected, and that there is no better
tlmo to correct It than the present,
AN OBJECTION.
IMItor of The Tribune
Hr: I do not think It wise to air the troubles
of the Republican party in the pjpeis. Tho pla. e
to settle these family differences is the conven
tion. It would seem, however, that some of
tho party leaders are so Infatuated with the
Crawford eounty s.vstem they have parted com
pany with prudenco and perhaps reason. When
Mr. Chittenden talks in the following vein he
thould understand he represents, if any one
other than himself, an exceedingly smalll mi
nority of the Republican party: "Of the eUVct
of this venality, at picsent the venal voter sells
bis vote for one or two offices and votes honestly
on tho remainder, rcalltlng perhaps 1 to flu.
Under the delegate s.vstem his vote went lor
a glass or two of beer and the elcle;ate sold
the whole official list to a slate' for J200 to
$1,000. Surely jou will approve of the great
est good to the greatest number." (Tribune of
today).
Ilujlng and Belling votes "greatest good to
the greatest number?" Pollution ol the ballot
"greatest good!" Degradation of American rlti.
icnshlp "goodt" Surely we have strange bed
fellows In tho Republican party! I seo no
"good" In It at all either with delegate or
voter. I would reforni Ilrother Chittenden's ssn
tence to read: Surely jou will not approve of
the greatest evil' to the greatest number. The
Crawford system has Its merits but one of them
is not the buying am) selling Vf votes, and those
who claim to bo Us friends fhould understand
this. Cturlea It. Smith.
F-lmhurst, June 13.
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WORLD'S COAIi OUTPUT.
The remarkable Increase, In coal exportation!
from the United Stales, coupled with the fact
that wo became In 1S90 the world' largest pro.
ducer of coal, gives special Interest to an elab
orate discussion of the world's coal product,
published by the bureau of statistics of the
treasury department In the April number of
the Monthly Summary of Commerce and Finance,
Importations of coal from the United Stiles In
the ten months ended with April were nearly
50 per cent, larger than those of the fame
months of the piecedlng fiscal year and tn per
cent, larger than those of the corresponding
months of ISM, while our total production for
IMS was not only the largest In our history,
but larger than those of any other country In
tho world.
For the first time the United Rtatea figures
sliow a larger production than the Ilrltlsh fig
ures for the same period. The significance ot
this fact cannot be over-estimated. Coal la
now moro than ever "tho inatcrlat energy of a
country, tho universal aid, the factor In every
thing wo do." The relative abundance or
scarcity of coal, therefore. Is tho truest Index
of a country's position among Its Industilal
rivals. According to recent information steamers
have been chartered to carry coal from America
to St. Petersburg and Stockholm, as well as to
Italian, French and Herman port. While these
exports may be due mainly to the present ab
normal condition of the Urltlsh coal market,
there Is no doubt that In time this country will
be called upon to supply an even lirgcr part
of the coal needed by foreign Industrial coun
tries, which, until recently, have been drawing
upon the Ilrltlsh output. This Is the more
probable since cost of production and prices of
coal show a falling tendency for this country,
whereas the opposite holds true of European coal
producing countries.
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The rapidity with which the production of
coal has increased may be appreciated when
we consider the present volume of that pro
duction and reflect In how recent n time the
production formed but a very small fraction of
that quantity. In 1PP0 the total coal. product
of the world was CGt million short tons or 00
million metric tons. Until as late a period as
187S the world's product had never been hilf
so great, being then only 202 million metric
tons, and not until 180S had the world's pro
duction been as much as a third as large as it Is
at present. In 15(51 the world's product was
only 171 million metric tons, or less than TO
per cent, of that of 180G. The statistics of
the world's production for still earlier periods
cannot be- determined with any pretense of ac
curacy; but on the basis of the Ilrltlsh statistics
from 1851, and of estimates for earlier periods
and from such statistics as are obtainable from
France, Germany, Belgium and Austria-Hungary,
an approximation may be made to the
actual production. In 1860 the world's pro
duction of coal was about 111 million metric
tons, or less thin one-fourth that of 1S90 and
much less than that of either the United States
or the United Kingdom at present. Ten years
earlier the world's production amounted to only
about S3 million metric tons, or about two-fifteenths
of the present vroild's production and
considerably less than the present output of
Pennsylvania alone. In 1810 the production was
much smaller still, but about -15 million metric
tons, or about one-thirteenth of the present
output, while during the three-quarters of a cen
tury since 1820 when the output was obout 17
million metric tons, the production has increased
3,000 per cent.
The production is chiefly In the hands of three
nations, the Americans, the British and the
Germans. During the last thirty years and
even earlier, the combined output of these three
countries has averaged year for year about five
sixths of the world's total output. Possessing
but about 10 per cent, of the world's population,
they have produced about S3 per cent, of the
mineral fuel, while the remaining 00 per cent,
of the world's Inhabitants have produced only
about 17 per cent, of the coal, and even If the
savage and semi-barbarous nations be disre
garded, the Immense preponderance of coal pro
ductlon In these countries must be conceded.
To this group might be odded Belgium, which
produces and consumes more coal per capita
than any other country except the United King
doin, but for the fact of its small population,
placing It in the second rank of coal-producing
countries.
While the continued output of these three
countries has kept pace with the production of
the rest of the world, their relative position
has been materially altered. In 1S03 the United
Kingdom produced over three times as much as
either the United States or Germany, the output
of those countries being approximately 32, nij
and lfl',4 per cent, of the world's production, re.
spectively. By 1S73 the output of tho United
Kingdom was still considerably greater than the
combined output of the United States and Ger
many, their proportion of the total being 45 per
cent, 20 per cent, and 13 per cent respectively.
The next half-decennial period witnessed a re
markable Inciease in the American product and
a corresponding relative decrease in that of
Great Britain, the respective proportions being
SO, 28 and 17 per cent. This increase was main
talned In the present decade, and In 1690 tho
output of the United Kingdom was only 3Cper
cent., that of the United States 30 per cent.,
and that of Germany 19.2 per cent, of the
world's total output. These statistics clearly
show- that the United Kingdom is rapidly losing
Its former pre-eminence as a coal producing
power, and that while its production is incrcas
ing rapidly Its absolute increase is less than that
of the United Stales, and Its relative Increase
considerably less than that of either the United
States or Germany. In ISrtS the production of
these three countries, the United Kingdom, the
United States and Germany, In the order named
was 115.5 million, 31.0 million, and 30.2 million
net tons: in 1807 their output was 220.1 million
00.2 million and 132.7 million net tons respec
tively. The absolute increase in the British
production was 110.9 million, as compared with
08 5 million for Germany and lttS.G million ret
tons for the United States. The proportional
Increase during these three decades (1S0S-1S87)
was 00.1 per cent, for the United Kingdom, es
compared with 200.1 per cent for Germany and
532.3 per cent, for the Unltod States.
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NUBS OF KNOWLEDGE.
France receives $170,000 a year from taxes on,
bicycles,
.lupin will orcm lv,cr.ty-onc new potts to for.
elgn commerce.
As many as 4,000 dales hive been gathered
from a single palm.
Tho tjpholil bacillus, frnien In Ice, has been
found ailvc after 102 days.
The dally medical Inspection of school clille'rcn
has been adopted In Philadelphia.
There are over 2,500 traveling libraries III the
United States. Wisconsin his 213.
The Income from the Monte Carlo gsmlng
tables for the past .vear reaches over 10,000,(yOO.
The pay of English officers, as well as men,
Is stopped when they are made prisoners by the
enemy.
Norwcgiin statesmen are planning a system
of national Insurance to protect people Incapacl.
talcel to earn a livelihood.
For 300 years Mexico lias produced one-third
of all the silver that was mined. The production
at present Is more than $OO,O00.P0O annually.
Residents ot Valparaiso, Chile, complain that
the city is becoming a haven for American
crooks, becauo of the absence of extradition
laws.
An EnglU!i authority has discovered that the
average ogc at which Englishmen marry is 23
years and 5 months, ond that of women 28 years
and 2 months.
A good English authority estimates that $1,
000,000,000 foreign capital Is now operating in
Russia In manufacturing, Industrial, steamship
and other enterprises.
The United States turns out annually 185,000,.
000,000 pounds of plug lobicco, 12,000,000 pounds
of fine cut, 11,000,000 pounds of snuff, 1,000,000
cigars and 6,000,000 cigarettes.
Over five tons of documents produced by
England In the Venezuelan arbitration case have
been removed from Paris. They required two
large railway vans to take them away.
The healthiest spot In the world seems to be
a little hamlet In France r.amed Aiimone. Theic
are only forty Inhabitants, twenty-five of whom
are 80 wears of ngc, and one Is over 100.
At Johannesburg the telephone system Is op
erated by tho Dutch, ond one has to pay a year's
subscription in advance about $75 a month
and no service is furnished after G p. in.
The turkey w-.is first discovered In imcrlci
and brfiught to England In the early part of the
sixteenth centiirv. Slnco then It has lieci ac
climatized In nearly all parts of the world.
Out of the Vatican's 11,000 rooms. Pope Leo
has reserved for his personal use only three a
small sitting room, a little dining room and a
bedroom.
The tomato Is now definitely assigned a place
as a tonic ameng fcods. A noted physician his
made extensive experiments with tho juice as a
medloinr, ard sajs as a health-preservative it Is
unequalcel.
Canada lacks only 237,000 square miles to be
as largo as the whole continent of Europe. It
is nearly thirty times as large as Greit Britain
ond Ireland, and is 300,000 square miles larger
than the United States.
There are iver 100 gold mines In the imme
diate neighborhood of Johannesburg, stretching
out on all sides of the city. The monthly out
ut of the mines is fitteen tons of gold, jet It Is
asserted that the grcurds Is only beginning to be
worked.
In Te:as a wealthy 6tockman will use an au
tomobile for making inspection trips around
the wire fences of ids lanch. The country being
level and fiee from brush nnd other obstructions,
it is thought that the automobile will prove
practical.
The nevv military motor cycle Is a terrlb'o
engine of war. The machine is driven by an
automatic petroleum motor and mounts a 27
pound automatic Maxim gun, capable of dis
charging 000 rounds per minute while traveling
along at the rate of fifteen miles an hour.
There will be no parliament of religion at the
Paris exposition, but Instead a congress for the
scientific steely of religion. It will treat religion
purely from a social and historic standpoint of
view. They will not talk religion, but will talk
about it.
There are nearly 500 water-power electric
plants In tho United States, representing an Ii
vestment of over $00,000,000; horse-power repre
sented by water wheel, 200,000. There are COO
miles of Etrcct railway operated with water
power electrically tiansmltted.
The I.lck observatory astronomers tell us the
North Star is 25i,000,000,000 miles away. The
Lick telescope and photospectroscope have dis
covered fourteen multiple stars. The star Mlsar,
the middle stnr of the handle of the Great Dip
per, has a brilliancy 100 times that of our sun.
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