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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1894
Page
4
The Scranton Tribune announces F E Wood as the new general manager. The note appears in the postal matter section with standard newspaper approval and entry details.
The article surveys political battles within the Democratic Party and reform efforts, noting tensions with Bourke Cochran, calls for a one term president and tariff reform, and mentions the Allentown Chronicle’s anniversary. It also discusses financial policy debates, potential New York gubernatorial candidates, and the spread of type setting machines affecting smaller papers.
A World column denounces the paper's review of Democratic gains as a string of misstatements and misrepresentations. It rebuts four claimed facts including silver repeal, federal election law repeal, Wilson tariff praise with heavy Pennsylvania dissent, and veteran pension savings cited by veterans.
The piece condemns the Cleveland regime noting silver repeal credit to both parties and accuses Democrats of inflaming a money panic costing billions. It accuses the administration of foreign policy failure and civil service scandal while criticizing Democratic and populist factions for ongoing uncertainty and losses to business interests.
An angry editorial recalls the Troy charter election turning deadly at noon with the murder of a Republican. It accuses Senator Edward Murphy and Governor Roswell P. Flower of moral responsibility for the violence and critiques efforts to control electoral oversight and municipal reform.
Citizens in Olyphant urged the council to reconsider a vote granting a private sewer company street use arguing sewers serve the public and should be publicly owned. The mass meeting claims Northastern Pennsylvania towns have mismanaged franchises creating public oppression and revenue loss.
A lengthy editorial attacks Grover Cleveland and Democratic policy, blaming Populists and a series of economic disasters on his administration. It argues that bankers panic, wage cuts, and debt pressures hit the poor, while inflation and a failed credit outlook punish the nation. The piece contends Cleveland cultivated the crisis and warns of further fallout unless parties realign.
A fragmentary report from Wilmington notes a boy and girl with items—a five-pound coal container and a twenty-pound lined basket—carried by youth for a mother figure and a time of activity. The piece blends domestic imagery with sudden weighty symbolism.
Fragment reads as a political pledge urging elected congressmen to stay in office to support a triangulation of bastions, with a call to resign if they depart and allow the election of men who will.
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