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| Mager & Walrad, 11 North Main Street, Cortland, N. Y. |
Religious
Pretenders.
We have been brought up to believe that there is something sacred about religion,
and the very name of minister used to awe us and we felt that somehow what he
said must be so. The trouble is there are in community some just such green
fellows still, and we ourselves will not let go of our faith in those noble men
set apart to the ministry and who devote their lives to the vocation to which
they believe themselves called.
But in every community there are
hypocritical pretenders, religious bummers, fast young men, who, played out in
the ways of sin, have sought the pulpit as an easier and more popular way of
gaining a livelihood. They go to a new place, talk piously through their nose;
wear the "regulation cut" to their coat; thank God that they are not
as other men; look down upon "publicans and sinners" until about election
time, then for some fancied slight on the part of somebody, they put on the
war-paint and go about the county and exhibit themselves in the ostensible
interest of "temperance," not because they “care a cent for
temperance,” but because that sacred cause has warm support among the voters.
They mingle during the campaign with the drunken rabble and consort with the
vilest men, and when spoken to after election about temperance have been known
to say they did not care about temperance, but were for breaking the “ring."
Is it any wonder that religion
is at a low ebb when men see such performances on like part of "divine
leaders?" Oh, for the good old times when religion made men better, and to
have it was evidence that its possessor was a decent man and would tell the
truth.
In Bad Company.
A queer commentary on the
Democratic-Prohibition campaign was to be observed in this village on election
day. The only drunken people to be seen were strong supporters of Knox, and they
were frequently observed during the day in close consultation with leading Prohibitionists
of this town. No wonder that some of the younger ones of that party blushed to
be seen in such company. The Democratic-Prohibition whisky was stored in the
Hotel Windsor barn and was under the charge of ardent supporters of the
legal-clerical ring who have made such strong appeals of late for the support
of the temperance voters of the town. The thirsty voter would first be taken to
the barn and filled up to the regulation standard and then handed over to the
Democratic-Prohibition heelers to be led in and voted for Knox.—Homer
Republican.
CORTLAND AND VICINITY.
Indications point to cheaper rents next spring in Cortland.
Wednesday
was the beginning of the last half of the Normal term.
Mr.
A. Gillen has begun another house on land bought of Fish & Walrad.
Sixty-eight
persons went on the Marathon M. E. church excursion to New York on Tuesday from
Homer and Cortland.
Santa
Claus and his agents are invited to inspect the holiday goods offered for sale
by the Ladies' Library Association.
Mager
& Walrad indulge in a familiar talk with our readers this week, and invite
them to a sociable at their store at any time between 7 A. M. and 8 P. M.
An
excursion from this section went over the U. I. & E. and West Shore Railroads
to New York on Monday, and another on Tuesday over the D. L. & W.
The
machine shop of the Cortland Wagon Company's works is now closed. Most of the
workmen employed there are engaged in finishing vehicles. The company are
taking an inventory.
Snug
winter weather this week. One of the severest gales this section has ever known
began Sunday night and continued without diminution until in the night
following Monday. Snow has fallen in squalls, but in light quantities.
Judge
A. P. Smith was in Albany this week, arguing before the Board of Claims the
rights of Dr. Hoose and his fellow teachers to their pay during the time the
Normal was "closed" by Superintendent Gilmour but declared open by the
Court of Appeals.
This
cold weather compels a closer attention to the comforts of the body, and
gentlemen especially who are not already supplied with the requisite clothing
will find at D. W. Ehresman's Boston Clothing" House, on South Main street,
bargains in such goods that will pay them to investigate. Look over his
double-column advertisement and see the inducements there offered.
The Board
of Supervisors met at the County Clerk's office and organized by the election
of W. H. Morgan, of Scott, as chairman, R. W. Bourne acting as clerk. After
canvassing the votes cast at the recent election they adjourned to their rooms
in the third story and organized by the election of Mr. Carley, of Marathon, as
temporary chairman. Mr. Wilson Greene, of Willett, was chosen permanent
chairman of the Board, and Mr. H. D. Waters, the former clerk, was re-elected.
Report of proceedings next week.
It is
hoped the public are watching with interest the announcements of the Ladies'
Library Committee for their coming entertainments. Lovers of art may
confidently expect original pictures of the famous German, Paul Webber, also of
our American artists, Eastman, Johnson, Broughton, and others. Lovers of chess
will be interested in the castleing of living kings and the checkmating of
living queens. Lovers of good eating will be invited to partake of triumphs of
cooking by our best caterers. Don't forget the ladies' entertainment for the
Public Library.
New
York city is preparing in the largest kind of manner to celebrate Evacuation
Day—the hundredth anniversary of the day when the British troops left New York
for New York's good—and Post Grover, G. A. R., of this place, propose to give
the people of this section an opportunity to witness the jubilee with but
little cost, and to that end have arranged for an excursion by the D. L. & W. R., on
Saturday, Nov. 24, for $5.25 round trip, tickets good for fifteen days to
return on any regular train, thus enabling the people to be present on Monday,
the 26th, the day of the celebration. Train will reach the city in time to get
yourself located and attend the Madison Square Theatre, where you will be sure to
see and hear a splendid entertainment, though we do not wish to convey the idea
that the $5.25 includes a ticket thereto. But be sure to go on the excursion, any
way.
General Comment.
The Democratic party is on the run. The Republicans will keep them on
the "go."
The proposition to abolish
prison labor contracts was carried by a heavy majority.
The way the Democrats treated
Maynard shows the Prohibitionists what they may expect from that party.
When all the figures of the
election are in, so that they can be compared with 1882, they are going to make
a mighty interesting study—for Republicans.
Election comment by a Butler
man: Well, Butler did not get his J. L. D. from Harvard, but the people gave it
to him yesterday, " Licked like the devil."
The overthrow of the Democratic
party in New York this year, after it had been entrenched behind the amazing
majority of 1882, shows the vitality of the Republican idea.
Will the Prohibitionists, after
defeating the Republican State ticket, take their Constitutional amendment
grist to the Republican Legislature on the strength of the Richfield Springs
platform?
“The Republican party of the
Nation," Senator Frye, of Maine, says, "is in much better condition
to-day than it was for nine months before Garfield's election. The trouble is,
people forget. The Republican party will win in 1884."
Last year Gen. Butler received
134,000 votes, and was elected. This year he receives 152,000, and is defeated.
These figures are significant to such Republicans as those in Ithaca, who stay
at home because they do not expect to elect anything.
General Neal Dow, of Maine,
notifies Republican leaders that the temperance people intend running a
Presidential candidate next fall, and that no amount of whining or imploring
will swerve them from that purpose. "Whining and imploring" is good.
The Ithaca Journal says
five hundred Republicans in that village stayed away from the polls because
they had no hope of electing the State ticket or Assemblyman. It would take
only a few such towns as Ithaca to defeat the Republican party in this State
every year.
"The Legislature is lost;
the head of the ticket is lost; the opportunity to indorse Governor Cleveland
is lost; the magnificent 196,000 plurality of last year is wiped out, and New
York becomes again a doubtful State," moans the Albany Times. The
only thing that is doubtful is the size of the Republican majority next year.
Ben. Butler's stock in trade
was a piece of tanned human skin. Now he knows how it is himself. The
Republicans of Massachusetts have flayed him alive and tanned his skin besides.
Neither his own ward, nor his own city, nor his own county, nor the State gave
him the poor compliment of a vote equal to that of the rest of the ticket he
ran on.
The Prohibitionists of Tompkins
county have got in their work in a manner which must be highly satisfactory to
them. They have beaten Mr. Rockwell, Republican candidate for Assemblyman, with
the jawbone of Selkreg, who received just votes enough to elect a Democrat. The
old gentleman, who has been twice honored by the Republicans of Broome county,
retires from politics in very bad shape.
General Butler has furnished an
explanation of his defeat which his opponents will readily accept. He says: "Last
year I had 134,000 votes. The largest vote ever polled was in the Garfield election
of 1880: Garfield, 165,000; Hancock, 112,000; total, 227,000. This year the vote
is 313,000, of which I have 152,000. This enormous increase has been made by
the freest use of money and fraud." Everybody knew that the "enormous
increase" in Butler's vote was due to “the freest use of money and fraud,"
but they hardly supposed that the old man would confess it, even in the first
burst of penitence following a crushing defeat.
One of the significant features
of the late canvass was the great amount of work accomplished by the
Republicans, compared with the small amount of money it cost to do it. The
campaign fund was about $25,000. Contrasted with this are the large sums
expended by the Democrats. Their candidate for Register in New York was
assessed $25,000, and all the employees under Democratic control in the State
and city had to pay over 2 1/2 per
cent of their salaries. In view of the little good this vast amount of money
did them, it is not to be wondered at that a change has been made in the
Democratic war cry. The slogan now is, "The Manning Machine must go."
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