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Monday, May 21, but objection was
made by Congressman Judge Terry, of
Arkansas, to unanimous consent to the
consideration of the bill, as asked by
Mr. Grow. Mr. Warner, of Illinois,
then asked for a suspension of the
rules to consider the bill. Although the
chairman of the sub-committee, Mr.
"Warner, of Illinois, having charge of
the bill, reported it favorably to the
house, the speaker ruled that "a
motion to suspend the rules on com
mittee suspension day, must be spe
cifically authorized by the committee,
yet in face of the statement bv Mr.
Grow, that a majority of the commit
tee on the judiciary had reported the
hill and was entitled to move to sus
pend the rules and consider the bill,
the speaker ruled it out of order, and
the bill went over to be called up later
on. It was, to say the least, a hair
splitting technicality, and had the bill
been put upon Its passage would have
gone through by a large majority. This
was what the opponents feared, and
interposed the technicality referred to
to temporarily set it back.
At the last Republican state conven
tion, when Hon. Galusha A. Grow was
a candidate to succeed himself for con-gressman-at-large,
an attempt was
made to defeat his nomination. The
following description from the Mont
rose Republican of April 26, 1900, tells
the whole story of the outcome:
'At Harrisburg this week, when the
outcome of the contest for congress-men-at-large
was somewhat in doubt,
and when there were Indications that
an attempt was to be made to defeat
Hon. Galusha A. Grow, a brother con
gressman from a neighboring county
threw himself into the thickest of the
fight, raised aloft the Grow standard,
rallied around the friends of the vet
eran statesman, and went to work with
a will to win. That man was William
Connell, of Scranton, Lackawanna's
worthy congressman. He brought to
bear a great deal of ability and mag
nificent generalship, and it was under
his masterly direction and through his
indefatigable efforts that the delegates
from the interior cities and country
districts were organized for Grow and
victory. At every turn the opposition
was met, resisted, and finally van
quished, and it is but justice to accord
to Congressman Connell a large share
of the credit for the splendid triumph
achieved by Mr. Grow. Prom the mo
ment of his arrival at the scene of
battle, this courageous and valiant
leader, true to his Scotch ancestors,
fought night and day until the hour of
victory. We doff our hat to Congress
man William Connell, and assure him
that his splendid services are appreci
ated by all the friends of Mr. Grow,
and he will be gratefully remembered
in the future."
GEORGE M. WATSON.
George M. Watson, the candidate for
law judge, is a man who springs from
the common people, a man who labored
on the railroad, and earned his way
step by step until he has attained a po
sition at the bar, which is recognized
by every person who knows him. Dur
ing his early life he was a fireman on
a locomotive, and as such became ac
qua'nted with the manners and ways
of the working people. He is, perhaps,
closer to union workmen than any man
who has asked for a position of trust
in this county.
Mr. Watson had a desire to read law,
and while on the railroad began pre
paring himself bo enter upon Its
studies. After leaving the employ of
the D L. & W. R. R. Co., he saw an
opportunity of defraying his expenses
and entered the office of Alderman
Fuller as the constable of the Sixteenth
ward of Scranton, at the same time
registering as a law student, and be
gan at once the study of law. His
course has been steadily upward, and
he has become one of the first lawyers,
a man of recognized ability, of sterling
integrity, and ever keeping in mind the
interests of the working men. When
the vacancy, which is to be filled in the
November election, was caused by the
death of the Hon. Fred W. Gunster,
Mr. Watson asked the governor of
Pennsylvania to appoint Mr. Carpen
ter, a man whose ability, integrity, and
fitness for the position are beyond
question; but this did not meet with
the approval of a few men, who have
genuine one, founded on party loyalty.
Prominent on this ticket is found the
name of John H. Fellows, the people's
nominee for the office of Sheriff. No
man, perhaps, in Lackawanna county,
is better known or has a wider circle
of friends than this gentleman. He
was born in 1849 in what was then the
GEORGE M. WATSON.
borough of Hyde Park, and he has
lived in this city all his life. He has
been prominently identified with the
growth of the city since early man
hood, his active and untiring efforts on
behalf of the public schools, as a direc
tor and president of the Doard of con
trol and later his clean and public
spirited administration as Mayor of
the city of Scranton having solidly in
trenched him in the hearts of the
masses as a man of the people, honest,
fearless and incorruptible, of undoubt
ed determination of character, hlsrh
business qualifications, sterling integ
rity and sympathetic nature. All this
is coupled with exe utive ability of the
highest order, . making him an ideal
man for the high office of Sheriff.
The sheriff's office is a citadel of po
litical power. Toward its capture the
Democracy is bending and will b?nd
every possible energy. Republicans are
summoned to resist with proportionate
power. The outcome with respect to
this office, means more to' them than
the success or defeat or any individual.
Its retention means party advantage
held and preserved, its loss would cer
tainly mean the indefensible multipli
cation of future politi al handicaps.
But, aside from any abstract ques
tion of party strategy the nominee this
year is one whom all Republicans may
well work for on his own account. He
is a man of personality, strong and
vigorous. Throughout his career in
public life Mr. Fellows' ihas been an
indomitable and tireless 'worker and
a man battling for what he believed
to be right, a friend retaining the con
fidence of his friends and a foeman
whose hostility is to be feared. These
characteristics signify an uncommon
man, and they account for the fact
that among those prominent in the
circles pt Lackawanna Republicanism
he has managed to retain a following
sturdy and loyal and has compelled
frank recognition.
The office of sheriff is one at all
times of responsibility. Occasions fre
quently arise which make its responsi
bilities great. In view of this fact
it becomes a proper subject of inquiry
whether the man who aspires to per
form its functions possesses the cour
age, the nerve, and the practical com
mon sense essential to a successful ful-
heretofore con broiled the political ap
pointments and nominations of candi
dates for office, and the governor ap
pointed the Hon. John P. Kelly. It
was at this time, and with the purpose
to prevent bhe apointment of a man
selected by persons whose interests are
antagonistic to the interests of the peo
ple, that Mr. Watson became a candi
date. He made his appeal bo the peo
ple, and notwithstanding the fact that
there was a hypocritical cry of a non
partisan judiciary, fifteen thousand
Republicans said they endorsed the po
sition advocated by Mr. Watson. Mr.
Watson comes to you clean handed,
capable and honest, a man that no per
son need offer an apology for, a candi
date that stands pre-eminently above
many who have aspired and held the
office of judge, one in whose hands
your business is safe, and to whom no
righbeous litigant will appeal In vain,
fearlessly, conscientiously and honest
ly; no preferred litigants will receive
recognition from him, but all will stand
on that equal footing before the law
designed by the framers of our consti
tution and bhe legislature of our commonwealth.
JOHN H. FELLOWS.
From the standpoint of party har
mony It must be regarded as an aus
picious circumstance that the Republi
cans of Lackawanna county In the
present contest entered the lists of
battle with columns unbroken. The
ticket named at the June primaries, by
the free and fair expression of tht
party will, under the Crawford county
system, brought together all elements
and former factions, and the union is a
JOHN H. FELLOWS.