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| William Clark |
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| Standard block, corner Main and Tompkins Streets, Cortland, N. Y. |
The Cortland Democrat, Friday, October
18, 1889.
Who Was Responsible?
"Seven
years ago all the candidates of the
Republican county ticket save sheriff were beaten by large majorities.
The year following, the Republican nominee for County Judge was also defeated."
We clip
the above from an editorial in last week's Cortland Standard on the County Judge question. The statement is true, but
who brought about the defeat of the candidates seven years ago? If our memory
serves us right, the editor of the Standard claimed the credit of defeating the
ticket then. Now, because he thinks it for his interest to have Mr. Eggleston elected,
he bewails the fate of a ticket that he slaughtered seven years ago and asks the
Republicans of this county to stand by Eggleston. It is all right to defeat the
ticket when he don't like it, but it is wrong to defeat it when it suits him.
Our
readers will remember that Eggleston did all that he possibly could to elect
the ring ticket seven years ago and if it was a bad ticket none knew it better
than he. Either Clark [William Clark, editor and publisher of the Standard—CC editor] was mistaken in his
estimate of the candidates then, or he is supporting now, a member of the same
gang that he opposed on that occasion.
What He Has Done.
During
his career as President, Mr. Harrison has removed just one office holder for
other than partisan reasons—James Tanner. In the meantime he has, in seven months,
removed three or four times as many office holders as the Cleveland administration
removed in four years. In seven months he has removed 15,000 fourth-class
postmasters for purely partisan reasons, and the department is getting rid of
the other 40,000 as rapidly as possible.
PAGE TWO/EDITORIALS.
Since
Tanner left, the public debt statement from the Treasury Department shows a
decrease in the debt amounting to $13,685,094. In this case figures speak louder
than words.—Philadelphia Times.
If the lawyers have lost $10,000 in fees
during the past six years, owing to the fact that Judge Knox and his clerk draw
all the papers necessary for people who have business to do with the Surrogate,
where is that money now? The answer is self evident. It is in the pockets of
the people where it rightfully belongs. Do the voters of this county desire a
change?
The Democratic candidate for Member of
Assembly is a workingman himself and can be relied on, if elected, to cast his vote
in the interest of the laboring man. How is it
with his opponent Hon. R. T. Peck? Did he vote for or against the interests of
the laboring man in the last legislature? It would be well for the wage earner
to investigate this subject before casting his vote this fall.
No one can tell how soon his estate will
come before the Surrogate for settlement, and most men prefer to have the property
they have accumulated by a lifetime of toil and saving divided among the members
of their own families with as little expense as possible. During the past six
years every estate that has come before Surrogate Knox for settlement has been closed
up in as economical a manner as possible. Is it safe to throw away a certainty for
an uncertainty? "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."
The friends of Major Poole of Syracuse are
greatly elated over his prospects for the appointment of Commissioner of Pensions.
All of the men who were asked to take the place by the President have declined
and it is now believed that Major Poole will be selected. Poole should have had
the appointment in the first place and the great scandal caused by the performances
of Corporal Tanner would have been avoided. Major Poole is a pleasant gentleman
and is undoubtedly well qualified for the place. Senator Hiscock is in Washington
urging his claims.
Riddled
With Shot.
ITHACA, Oct. 14.—George and Richard Hankins
were seriously injured this morning by being shot while duck hunting. They were
in a row boat in Fall creek cove when Ed Watkins discharged the contents of a
double-barrel shotgun at a duck in the water a few feet from the boat. Both men
were riddled with shot from their knees to the top of their heads, each
receiving over twenty wounds. George had one shot pass through the right eye, destroying
it. Several went through his right arm, and others lodged in his hand, knee,
side and scalp. His brother Richard fared but little better, and both are in a
precarious condition. Watkins is a weak-minded youth.
DEADLY
ELECTRIC WIRES.
A
New York Lineman's Horrible Death in Midair—Fingers Amputated and Bodied
Disfigured by Electric Current.
NEW YORK, Oct. 11.—A telegraph lineman named
John Feeks met with a horrible death at the corner of Center and Chambers
streets, this afternoon, from contact with an electric light wire. He was employed
by the Western Union, and presented a terrible sight as he died on the net work
of wires in mid air while the deadly fluid actually made his body sizzle, and the
blood poured out to the sidewalk and over the clothing of horrified spectators.
The accident occurred in the middle of the day
in one of the busiest parts of the city and was witnessed by a large number of
people. The man's body lay limp and motionless over the mass of wires attached
to the cross trees of the pole. The firemen brought out a ladder and one went
up with a pair of shears to cut the wires. The man was found to be dead. He
probably touched the electric light wire by accident. The body remained where
it was until the firemen went to the factory and had the current turned off.
The victim's face was turned toward the sidewalk
and in fifteen minutes the wire had burned off half the face. The left arm was
also seen to be burning and every few seconds the blue flames spurted out from
parts of the body. Hundreds of people stood shivering as they looked at the awful
sight. No one dared to go near. Even the firemen's faces blanched with horror.
Immediately after the accident Mayor Grant
was notified by private Secretary Crane. The Mayor gave orders that the wires
that caused the accident be cut at once. Secretary Crane said the Mayor would
act promptly in the matter, and it is possible he may order the cutting of all
electric light wires above ground to-night. The body
of the lineman could not be taken down from the wires for half an hour.
Deputy Coroner Jenkins, who has witnessed some
horrifying sights during his official career, said this spectacle was the most
ghastly he had ever seen. He was present while efforts were being made to get
the body down, and afterwards viewed it. A wire, he said, had cut through the lineman's
cheek and had burned clear into the cheek bone. A burn in the throat had
severed the windpipe and. many muscles and veins. If the man had remained
suspended in the air much longer the head would have been completely severed
from the body.
"From the position which I saw the body
supported in the network of wires," he added, "I can conceive just
how the accident happened. The man had evidently just placed himself in a
position to go to work by swinging one leg over the crossbeam running parallel
with Chambers street, when he met his death. He had reached out and grasped a
wire which gave him the deadly shock. This was, as I understand it, a fire
department telegraph wire which was crossed by an electric light wire at some
distant point. The shock may or may not have killed him instantly, but it
certainly rendered him unconscious so that his face fell forward on the other
wires. I cannot say just which wire he caught hold of first, for his hand
dropped from it after the fingers had been amputated by the burns, and fallen
to the street."
A man who witnessed the accident says Feeks
had a pipe in his mouth as he lay on the wires. Feeks was 35 years old and
leaves a wife and child.
HISSED
BY SOCIALISTS.
The
Stars and Stripes Insulted at a Meeting in Chicago.
CHICAGO, Oct. 13.—When the American flag was
brought out by the janitor at the hall where a Socialist mass meeting was held
here to-day it was greeted with hisses. There were probably 1,000 men and women
present. The red flag was then unfurled and was succeeded by a burst of
applause. Sergius E. Shevitch, of New York, spoke. He declared the hanging of
the Anarchists the gravest crime ever perpetrated in America. This and every
utterance of the sort was loudly applauded. Shevitch said he was proud of the
city in which that execution occurred because he felt that one day it would be
the Paris—the city of revolutions—of America. An awful discontent was smoldering
in the hearts of the laborers and would soon burst forth in every revolution.
It was useless and idle to think this revolution would be peaceful.
Several other speakers took a milder tone.
Haymarket
Affair: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair
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