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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1896
Page
7
National for President William McKinley of Ohio and Garret A Nodart of New Jersey are listed for Vice President. Congressmen-at-Large Galusha A Grow of Susquehannas and Samuel A Vavenport of Erie are named with an election pay note dated November 3.
The Times-Herald summarizes a broad Republican program including tariff protections, open markets, veteran pensions, a strong navy, and a Monroe Doctrine stance. It highlights support for Hawaiian and Nicaraguan canal interests, Cuba peace efforts, and a push for civil service reform and anti lynching sentiment as Major McKinley appears to win Canton overview.
Beginning next Tuesday, Richmond Virginia will host the sixth annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans and lay the cornerstone of a $200,000 monument to Jefferson Davis. The editorial argues the reunions honor veteran valor but questions memorials to secession and Jefferson Davis, urging consistency in the South’s stance on its Civil War legacy.
The writer denounces Jefferson Davis as a traitor rather than a martyr and questions postwar magnanimity toward treason. He condemns revenue cutters firing on ships aiding Cuban insurgents and criticizes U S support for Spain while noting popular fervor for Cuban freedom.
The Montreal Star argues against a revenue tariff by warning it would harm Canadian industry and workers. It cites American experience to claim rising poverty, factory closures, and rising distrust in the future would follow. The piece contrasts protection with free trade and cites broader western unity and voter sentiment.
Analysis from Cincinnati Price Current and American Economist shows annual depreciation on crops totals $728,721,879 and livestock losses reach $1,462,001,473. The figures cover 1891 1895 and 1881 values for corn wheat oats cotton hay potatoes wool barley buckwheat tobacco and more.
A vintage forecast lists daily notes from Sunday June 3 to Saturday July 4 noting weather and life predictions. It includes planetary aspects, moods, and outcomes for children and adults, urging work, caution in marriage, and avoidance of law or quarrels.
The administration appears unwilling to aid the struggling Cubans while the Cuban people, who elected it, demand intervention. The piece warns of continued terror until March 3, 1887, but argues that rising public demonstrations will prevent a new congress from endorsing civilization's destruction in a country so close in geography and commerce to the United States.
Astrolabe cast for Saturday, June 2, 189. A child born today learns attorneys pose danger to the prisoner. A wise candidate should tighten his fences. Spring legislative booms seem stalled as many would be reformers become faint at the thought of tiny, tintype-like efforts. Mr Butler of the Buffalo News is described as the saddest editor in the world.
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