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| Sanford Ballard Dole. |
The Cortland Democrat, Friday, January
12, 1894.
DOLE IS ANXIOUS.
FEARS
THAT THE QUEEN WILL BE RESTORED.
Discussed
by Cabinet—An Understanding That This Government's Policy
will be one of Non-Action for the Present.
VICTORIA, B. C., Jan. 9.—Additional Honolulu
advices received per steamer Warrimoo, in referring to the meeting of Minister
Willis with the Provisional government, say that President Dole summoned the
advisory council to meet the executive at 3 o'clock on December 19. The nature
of Mr. Willis's communication remains unknown to the public although they had
no doubt of its tenor.
At 4 o'clock members of the council came
stringing down Merchant street into Front street and made known the fact of the
demand for the Queen's restoration and
that the general tenor of the reply had been agreed upon, and that it was to be
prepared with deliberation. It was learned that no intimation was given whether
the military or naval force would be employed to enforce the demands. The
general sense of relief was manifest that the new minister had been forced out
of his concealment and that the meaning of his equivocal expressions for the
past six weeks was now plain.
Since his arrival from the United States, Minister
Thurston has been busily conferring with his government. He stated that he had
only one object in his visit home, and that was to put himself in complete touch
with his government. Both Thurston and Armstrong, as well as Editor Castle, believe
Willis has been authorized to employ force in restoring the Queen, deriving their
impressions from the belief in Washington.
On the contrary President Dole expresses a
strong conviction that Minister Willis has authority to employ the naval forces
for that purpose. The impression is derived from Willis's language and
deportment and the confident assertions of the royalists support this belief.
His emphatic assertions to the American league of possessing executive
functions imply power to enforce his action. His declaration of an intention to
suppress disorder by naval force implied the same. Whether he had such
authority or not everyone understood him to imply that he would compel submission
to his demands. But when the request was made, it was in courteous terms
without any implied threats. The Bulletin
(Royalist) of the 18th said: "The talkers are reminded that there can be
only one cabinet at a time under the Hawaiian constitution and that the only
ministers who can lawfully go in with the Queen are the four who were forced
out with her. In the event of restoration there will be an election due in two
months, which will probably decide the tenure of the cabinet."
The Bulletin
of the 19th said: "The supporters of the Provisional government had better
not be deceived by the vaporing of the Star. Grover Cleveland is the head of
the United States government and is going to stay there until March 4, 1897. He
will have the support of the majority in Congress for his silver policy. This Hawaiian
question is going to be settled by him to the mutual advantage of both the
United States and Hawaii. A large proportion of true American-born resident's
of these islands are on the President's side in this matter."
On the 23d, after the news from Congress had arrived, the Bulletin published the following:
"Their prodigious crowding over the latest news from Washington does
little credit to the intelligence of the annexationists. It is only what was
expected by everybody who knows anything of these affairs that enemies of the
present administration should have brought the Hawaiian question up in Congress
by resolution and try to work up a popular outcry against the President's
policy for general political capital. We have not the least fear but that
Congress when the facts are made fully clear to it, will support the executive
in its determined measures of redress of the wrong committed against the
Hawaiian nation."
The Advertiser
said on the 19th: "There is only one course before us and in that there is
no dissenting voice in our ranks. We mean absolutely to refuse all concession
and all compromise in the direction of the return of monarchy in any form or
guise in this country. That is the ultimatum for which this government and its
supporters firmly stand. Freedom and justice are now at bay in Honolulu. Stern
and grim men of Honolulu now have their record to make and it will be the
record of patriots, true, determined, self-sacrificing, the same faithful sons
of liberty as our fathers before us."
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—Interest in the Hawaiian
news centered in the cabinet meeting held to-day and the importance attached to
it gave rise to the hope that the anxiety of Congress and the people of the
country would be relieved by the issue of an authoritative statement as to the
conclusions reached. But this hope was not gratified, for members of the
cabinet while admitting the gravity of the situation, were as reticent as
usual, as to what took place within the cabinet room. An intimation of the
nature of the discussion if not of the decision reached was given by a
gentleman in authority, however, and this would indicate a policy of non-action
in Hawaiian affairs on the part of the executive while Congress has the
question before it.
The
meeting began as usual at 11 o'clock, one of the first to arrive being Secretary
Gresham. For three hours and a quarter the cabinet sat. Every member was
present and the discussion is understood to have been confined exclusively to the
news brought by the Warrimoo. Secretary Gresham read to his colleagues the dispatches
from Victoria part of which had already been seen by the other members in the
morning papers, the news seemed to be that British marines had actually been
landed, but a careful perusal of the dispatches themselves in the cabinet
meeting removed this impression, greatly to the satisfaction of all, showing
that the dispatches simply said that permission had been asked for and obtained
to land British marines. A discussion made it apparent that any positive action
on the news received would not properly or safely be taken until the receipt of
the formal report of Mr. Willis.
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| Tom C. PLatt. |
PAGE
FOUR—EDITORIALS.
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The Cortland Standard in its daily edition
of last Tuesday, published an article headed "The Hawaiian Muddle,"
which is in itself a "muddle" in every sense of the word. The article
starts off with a vain endeavor to enlighten its readers as to the history of
the Hawaiian troubles, and just at the point where the writer wanted to open up
a violent tirade of words in condemnation of President Cleveland's acts, and
those of Minister Willis and Queen Lil, he suddenly starts in upon an article
on the gold mining interests of Colorado. Whether the editor became conscience
smitten, or one side of his body was suddenly paralyzed at his own evil
thoughts is not known, but it is plain to be seen from the article that at that
time he must have been in a worse muddle than affairs were at Hawaii. [There
was a printing error in the Standard,
and two separate discussions were joined in a paragraph—CC editor.]
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In various localities in this State calls
have been issued for mass meetings of citizens, "irrespective of
party," to be held for the purpose of opposing the passage of the Wilson
bill. The New York Herald says that it has positive information that
large sums of money have been furnished by protected monopolists to defray the
expenses of these meetings. The purpose of these gatherings is to create a sham
feeling against the new tariff bill and should not be countenanced. The people
have on three different occasions expressed themselves in regard to the tariff question,
and a Democratic Congress will see to it that their wishes are carried out. Democrats
should not encourage the movement, for it is nothing but the rehashing of an
old story, from which they will receive no benefit, and must be injured
thereby.
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The manufacturing establishments all over
the country are starting up with the new year, and according to latest reports,
1894 begins with much promise for better times. It has been too customary of
late for the Republican press to stamp American industries and trade in general
as being dead, at a complete standstill, and it is these calamity howlers that
are by a large percentage, responsible for the condition of the country to-day.
The times are dull but the country is not in the deplorable condition that it
is represented to be. Some establishments are overstocked and trade is reported
as being light, while others announce a better business than they have had
before in years. Instances can be cited where factories have been reported as
having shut down, and a large number of employes thrown out of work, when in fact
they have been running on full time and have experienced no difficulty in
disposing of their goods and collecting the pay for them. If the Republican
party would demonstrate a portion of their professed "protection"
ideas by endeavoring to protect the confidence of the people instead of trying
to frighten them cut of their wits, the protective hobby might be of some avail
in the present emergency. The people of these United States are beginning to
learn the truth as to the correct condition of affairs, and while they cannot
be fooled all the time, must eventually admit that they have been sadly misled
during the past few months by the Republican press.
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It must be very consoling to Republicans to
learn that after electing the entire State ticket last fall, and gaining
control of both branches of the legislature, they only did it to assist one T. C. Platt from his hiding place, and put him on the throne of
"bossism."
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The constitution of the State of New York
does not provide for a private secretary to the State Treasurer, but Treasurer-elect
Colvin has appointed s colored man named Anderson of New York to be his private
secretary, and "Boss" Platt will see to it that the people are taxed
to pay his salary.
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Speaker Malbey has been ill with the grip at
the Windsor hotel in New York, since the legislature adjourned last week, but
has so far recovered as to be able to attend to his duties. Mr. T. C. Platt is afflicted
with a kind of "grip" that does not get any better, and he shows no
disposition to relieve himself of the malady. He seems to have a "grip"
on both branches of the legislature, the Republican State committee, and by the
way he is manipulating the affairs of his party in this State he has a pretty
good "grip" on that.
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| Susan B. Anthony. |
Woman's
Claim to Semi-Intelligence.
ALBANY, Jan. 5.—Mrs. Mary Seymour Howell, of
the Executive Committee of the State Woman's Suffrage League, said to-day:
"A gigantic enterprise has been under taken.
It is to make a canvass of every city, town and village in the State, and to secure
the signatures of all men and women over the age of twenty-one to a petition which
will demand that the word "male' be stricken from part of the State
Constitution. Miss Susan B. Anthony, who is most enthusiastic in the campaign
just entered upon, has given up her home, No. 17 Madison street, Rochester, to
be used as headquarters for the workers. They will try to pass a female-suffrage
amendment to the Constitution."
The
Elmira Investigation.
NEW YORK, Jan. 9—At the investigation into
the management of the Elmira reformatory before the State Charities
commissioners to-day, a number of former inmates of the institution testified
that they were well treated by Superintendent Brockway, and that they did not
see any of the abuses described by the witnesses for the prosecution. The
witnesses for the defense gave their testimony under fictitious names. During
the two days' sessions twenty-nine witnesses who have been in the reformatory testified
in favor of the management of Superintendent Brockway. At five o'clock all of
the witnesses on hand having been examined, the hearing was adjourned until
Tuesday, Jan. 30th, at Elmira.
FROM
EVERYWHERE.
An oil well has been drilled at Fostoria, O.,
that flows 1,336 barrels per day.
France will begin this year the construction
of thirty-two war ships of all classes.
W. W. Barnes of Triangle, aged 83 years, has
read the Bible through 31 times.
The 847 depositors in the defunct Rockafellow [sic]
bank, at Wilksbarre, Pa., will each receive a little over six cents on the
dollar.
Ferdinand Ward is now earning an honest
living by working in a job printing office in New York. He learned the trade in
state prison.
Fifty-two prisoners are now in the Cook
county jail at Chicago, Ill., charged with murder, and over 500 other prisoners
are in jail awaiting trial.
While suffering from temporary insanity Frank
Gassner threw himself into Onondaga creek at Syracuse last Sunday morning and
was drowned.
J. Pierpont Morgan has donated $50,000 to
Nathan Strauss' new charity, the grocery store, where articles of food may be
purchased cheaply by the poor.
There were four hundred men put to work on
the State ditch at Buffalo last Monday. General Graves says there is work for
5,000 men for three or four months.
An exchange says there is a town in Ohio
where a "kid bell' is rung every night at 8 o'clock, and boys and girls under
fifteen years, have to get off the streets.
HERE AND
THERE.
Mr. D. E. Kinney, of this place, saw the
first robin last Monday morning.
The Brockway Wagon works of Homer, resumed
work in all departments last week.
The annual statement of the Cortland Savings
bank will be found in another column.
The week of prayer is being observed by a
majority of the churches this week, and the meetings are largely attended.
The trustees of the Peck Memorial Library
Association, of Marathon, N. Y., have purchased a lot on East Main-st., in that
village, on which the library building will be erected.
Mr. Jacob Grassman, of this place, has received
the appointment to be one of the messengers in the senate chamber at Albany.
Mr. Grassman has been a life-long Republican, and if hard work and faithfulness
to party have anything to do with it he is entitled to all he has received, and
more too.
Lottie Williams, who plays Genie in "Ole
Olson"' is one of the prettiest and most vivacious soubrettes on the
stage, and there are lots of susceptible young men all over the country who
would like to be tormented by her as Ole is. She will be seen at Cortland opera
house, Tuesday evening, Jan. 16.
The Repository-Messenger, published
at Canandaigua, N. Y., by Mr. Herbert Huntington,
formerly of Cortland, entered upon its ninety-third volume Jan. 4, 1894, and
appears in a new dress of type throughout. It looks neat, is nicely arranged
and well printed. Mr. Huntington is a thorough democrat, knows how to conduct a
newspaper, and we are pleased to know that he is meeting with success.
Our neighbor George A. Hulbert, made this
final entry in his Justice docket on the morning of January 1st;—"The New
Year, 1894, ushers in a new era in my personal career, being the expiration of
my official term, and twenty-one year's service in Marathon, N. Y., as a public
magistrate and with the proud reflection of not even one reversal of my
judicial decisions. Your obedient servant.—Marathon Independent.
Hose company No. 2, of Homer,
have leased and will manage Keator opera house this season.
The town board held a meeting
last Monday and accepted the resignation of Mr. William Corcoran as town clerk, and appointed Mr. Enos E. Mellon in his
place.
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