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| Chauncy M. Depew. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday,
November 1, 1894.
COCHRAN
ANSWERED.
Mr. Depew
Tells How the Tariff Raises Wages.
CORNING, N. Y., Nov. 1.—Chauncey M. Depew
slept in his private car in the depot at Elmira last night. Corning was reached
at 9 o'clock this morning and here for twenty minutes Mr. Depew discussed the
issues of the campaign with a crowd of fully one thousand persons who cheered
lustily everything he had to say.
Mr. Depew said: "You had the good
fortune of listening night before last to the most eloquent Democrat there is
in the state, if not in the United States, my friend Bourke Cochran. In hearing
his speech you heard the best argument the Democrats can give why their ticket
should be voted for this fall. I am told by the chairman of your county
committee that he left for me a challenge, with the imputation that it was a
challenge that no refutation could successfully meet. This is the challenge:
"Let Mr. Depew prove, if he can, how the
tariff ever raises wages.
"You have in your thriving city of
Corning one of the most established and best managed glass establishments in
[the] United States. The product of the plant compares favorably with the best
results from abroad, because the workmen here are as skilled and the machinery
as perfect as anywhere in the world.
"One of the outputs of this factory is
the glass water bottle so commonly used in restaurants, hotels, private houses
and dining cars. They have been sold at Corning for $36 per dozen. Under the
reduction by the Wilson bill the Belgian and French glass manufacturers are
delivering these bottles right here in Corning for $23 a dozen. The glass
manufacturer here in filling the orders which come to him for all classes of
goods, instead of producing water bottles at his own works, as heretofore, buys
them of the Belgian and French makers and ships them with his own stock to his
consignees, with the result that a large number of men who were engaged in that
branch of glass manufacture are out of a job.
"Now, how can they get that job back?
They can go to France and Belgium and work in the glass factories there
(laughter.) But in France and Belgium the glass factories never pay their
employees more than from 75 cents to a dollar a day, while the wages here for
the same class of work are from $2 to $3 a day, according to the skill of the workmen.
Others can inform the glass manufacturer here that they are willing to take
wages which will enable him to manufacture water bottles as cheaply as they are
manufactured in France, plus the cost of freight and handling to Corning,
"Now having engaged with the glass
factories to work at $1.25 per day, the Republicans return to power and they
restore the tariff upon these goods. The next day the wages of the working men
would also be restored from $1.25 to $2.50. Is not that an example of how the
tariff raises wages?" (Prolonged applause.)
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TWO—EDITORIALS.
Cabbage
and the Tariff.
For the last few years the raising of
cabbages has been one of the chief industries of the farmers of Cortland
county. Thousands of tons have been raised and shipped to New York, Baltimore,
Philadelphia and other markets. At a price
ranging from $5 to $8 per ton or from $2.50 to $4 per hundred delivered at the
car the farmer has been fairly well paid for his labor. This year the crop is
larger than ever before. There are hundreds of acres of cabbages in Cortland
county, but there is no market for them. A few carloads were shipped early in
the season, and from $5 to $6 per ton were paid for them, but the price took a
drop and for the last two weeks it has been impossible to sell them at any
price.
The cause of this has been partly ascribed
to the warm weather and the inability to keep the cabbages any length of time
when a market is reached. This fact doubtless has its effect, but the real
reason is the removal of the tariff from cabbages, which under the Gorman-Brice
tariff law are placed upon the free list. Germany raises cabbages by the
thousand tons and the new tariff law has opened the American market to the
foreign product.
The following letter which is in our
possession and which is from one of the largest produce and commission houses
in New York City to a Cortland firm explains itself:
The
tariff has spoiled the cabbage business. They are coming in from Germany. The
price to-day runs from $1.50 to $3.50 per one hundred and the market is fairly
glutted with them. If you buy, buy low and do not ship for ten days. The market
may absorb the supply by that time. One man in Hornellsville shipped a car last
week—not to us—and got only $10 back. The commission charged here is $15 a car.
It will be noted that the prices at New York
City quoted above which must cover the jobbers' commission and the
transportation are from $1.50 to fifty cents lower than that which cabbage
formerly bought delivered at the car at Cortland.
And yet Democratic cabbage growers in Cortland county voted to bring about this
reduction in price. Do they want to continue this state of affairs? If not,
they should vote against German cabbage and for protection and the Republican
party next Tuesday.
David B. Hill moved the resolution in the
United States senate repealing the sugar bounty to take effect immediately,
thereby cutting off the bounty that farmers in Cortland county were entitled to
upon their product of 1894. The sugar had all been inspected, and been passed
upon and the farmers were entitled to their money. Nearly $4,000 of bounties
were due to the farmers of Cortland
county and they did not receive a cent. Will those farmers vote for David B.
Hill or for the party which he represents?
Discovered
a Valuable Fossil.
While Edward Payson Weston and his party
were resting at a farmhouse near Messengerville last Tuesday the attention of
Gustavus Myers was attracted to a peculiar stone lying on the top of a wall
near by. Going closer and examining it, he discovered that it was a remarkably
fine specimen of fossil, having several perfect outlines of fish imprinted upon
it. Mr. Myers showed the fossil to the farmer and, as he didn't seem to care
whether it had been at the bottom of the sea or whether it was cast into the
bottom of the sea, Mr. Myers took the valuable fossil along with
him.—Binghamton Republican.
Rainfall
at Cortland.
The readings of the rain-gauge [on roof of
Standard block] given below are for each 24 hours during which there was
rainfall.
The days of the month given are those on which
these 24-hour periods end, the periods extending from 6 o'clock p. m. of one day to 6 o'clock p.
m. of next.
Inches.
Total from
May, '92 to May, '93, 41.46 "
1893.
Total for
September . . . ………..4.17 "
Total for
October………………….3.73 "
Total for
November………………1.94 "
Total for
December……………….2.35 "
1894.
Total for
January………………….2.75"
Total for
February………………...2.01"
Total for
March…………………....1.59 "
Total for
April……………………...2.75 "
Total for
May……………………....6.31 "
Total for
June……………………..4.60 "
Total for
July……………………....2.53 "
Total for
August…………………..1.45 "
Total for
September………………4.44 "
Total for
October………………….4.34 "
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| Clarence Lexow. |
ON THE LEXOW RACK.
SHEEHAN
AND GOFF PUT IN A LIVELY DAY.
Mr.
Sheehan's Alleged Irregularities While Comptroller of Buffalo Pretty Thoroughly Aired—Both Counsel Goff and the Witness Fall Into the Use of Forcible Terms—Sheehan Still Refuses to Submit His Bankbooks.
NEW YORK, NOV. 1.—The day's proceedings
before the senate police investigating committee were marked by a succession of
exciting incidents.
Police Commissioner Sheehan was on the
witness stand all through the day, except for a brief time while his successor
to the city comptrollership of Buffalo was examined as to the condition in
which he found the accounts of the city when they were turned over to him.
Mr. Sheehan appeared in the courtroom with
his bankbook, but when Mr. Goff asked that it be submitted to the committee for
examination the commissioner flatly refused, even in the face of the threat
from Senator Lexow that such refusal would result in a presentment to the grand
jury. He would submit this book when a specific accusation was made against
him, but not till then. His bank account, he claimed, was his own affair.
Mr. Goff led off with an intimation that the
commissioner had accepted a bribe of $6,000 for an appointment to a
sergeantship of police, which was hotly denied by Mr. Sheehan—so hotly that
Chairman Lexow thought it necessary to admonish him that he was laying himself
open to proceedings for contempt.
Senator Cantor added to the interest of the
moment by questioning the right of the chairman to insist upon a question until
the committee had taken a vote upon it.
In the closing scene Mr. Goff worked up a
climax by denouncing Mr. Sheehan as a bribe taker, grand larcenist and
defaulter.
"You're
a liar," was the response of the Tammany commissioner, and with that the
curtain was run down for the day.
Mr. Goff probed into the reported visit of
Commissioner Sheehan to Wall street to sell advance information as to the
decision of the court of appeals in the sugar trust matter.
The witness denied that he was a
"huckster of decisions" as charged by a local paper. He denied that
he visited Cord Meyer & Co., Havemeyers and others in Wall street for the
purpose of selling them advance information. The man who said he had done so
was mistaken.
"Did they lie?"
"I don't say that. I denied the whole story
when it first came out."
"You wouldn't appoint a man who had committed
a crime?"
"No."
"You are a defaulter though?"
exclaimed Mr. Goff.
"I am not," the witness said
quietly. "I can explain what you are getting at."
Lawyer Grant arose and asked that this inquiry
be excluded as it was not pertinent to the issue.
Senator O'Connor, who was presiding in
Chairman Lexow's absence, said:
"The witness will be allowed to explain
everything at the proper time. He should be glad of an opportunity to clear
himself of the charge. If he is a defaulter it should be shown."
Mr. Goff produced papers and documents bearing
the witness' signature for the purpose of proving that Commissioner Sheehan had
misappropriated $4,000 while comptroller of the city of Buffalo.
The commissioner told how he had requested the
mayor to have his accounts examined when a shortage was discovered, he refunded
the amount $4,100. He claimed that his coupon and trust accounts became mixed.
Mr. Goff produced a note which he claimed
Sheehan had written to his successor in which he had asked "Tim" not to
let the note become public.
"Did you turn over to your successor
the accounts of the trust fund—the whole of them?"
The witness did not answer positively.
"Did you turn over $86,319.84 the
amount of coupon and trust accounts?"
"I turned over the amount on the paper you
have in your hand."
"Do you claim," asked Senator
O'Connor, "that the balance of the trust account was withheld on the
coupon account?"
"I do, sir."
"Now sir, is it not a fact that you
misappropriated that $3,690.34?"
"It is not true, sir."
Mr. Goff read the following document:
Nov. 9, 1883.
Received from John C. Sheehan the sum of
$5,900 in payment of any deficit that may be in his accounts on a proper
examination.
T. J. MAHONEY.
SYLVESTER F. EAGAN.
Mr. Goff read another letter, dated Dec. 8,
1883. It was addressed to T. J. Mahoney and read as follows:
DEAR SIR—You are hereby authorized and requested
to use and pay out the money paid by me for the purpose of making good the
shortage which was in my account at the time I turned over the comptroller's office
to you.
JOHN C. SHEEHAN.
Commissioner Sheehan stepped down to give
way to Timothy J. Mahoney, ex-comptroller of Buffalo.
Mr. Mahoney identified the coupon receipts and
the trust fund receipts.
"Who gave you these receipts?"
asked Mr. Goff.
"Mr. Sheehan's brother, Will."
"I told Will," said the witness,
that I would not sign the receipts for money which I had not received and asked
him to tell John to come and see me. He came in later and I told him to pay up
as soon as possible."
"Did he say that the coupon account was
mixed up with the trust account?"
"No."
"What did he say?"
"That he would pay as soon as
possible."
"What time elapsed before the story of the
defalcation became public?"
"About two years ago. I was worried to
death about it. I was then taken sick; then it got out."
Witness testified that he subsequently got
the money from Mr. Egan, one of Sheehan's bondsmen. It amounted to $5,900.
"How did it happen that you got the subsequent
letter of Dec. 8, 1883?"
"The $5,900 was deposited in a special account
and I wanted the authority of Mr. Sheehan to place it in the general fund."
"Do you know how the deficiency
occurred?" asked Senator O'Connor; "Did you use the $5,900 in covering
the deficit?"
"Yes; and there was also a shortage in
the coupon account."
"You declined to run for a public
office because this was on your mind?"
"Yes;
I never rested until it was cleared up."
Commissioner Sheehan was recalled.
"I have one question to ask you,"
said Mr. Goff. "Will you produce your bank book?"
"No."
"You, a defaulter, a grand larceny
thief, refuse to produce your books in the face of this evidence?"
"You're a liar! You know you're lying!"
yelled Commissioner Sheehan.
"Your language is intemperate,"
Senator O'Connor admonished Mr. Goff, who read from the statutes to show that
he had used the harsh words advisedly.
An adjournment was then taken for the day.
FAIR
STORE ROBBERY.
Another
of the Suspected Thieves Caught by Deputy Edwards.
Deputy-sheriff Edwards it is believed has just
forged another link in the chain which is to bring to justice the thieves who
entered the Fair store [in the Standard block] and stole about one hundred dollars' worth of jewelry.
He has arrested at Freeze Creek, Delaware Co., Royal E. Every, against whom circumstantial
evidence points very strongly. Others besides are thought to be connected in
the matter. Every claims to have had nothing to do with it. McKay laid all the
blame on him and now he returns the compliment by claiming innocence and
putting it all back upon McKay.
At any rate an affidavit has been made to
the effect that Every, McKay and Harry Colony boarded the Scranton excursion
train, when it made the annual trip to Syracuse last fall and all immediately began
to sell jewelry which is said to have afterwards proved to be that stolen from
the Fair store. Deputy Edwards learned of this fact through a friend of his in
Scranton, who had read an account of the robbery in the STANDARD and who
connected the two incidents. The three young men returned to Binghamton and are
said to have since been selling the jewelry.
Every was taken this morning before Justice
Bull and his examination was adjourned till 10 A. M., November 8.
A Class
in Truxton.
Miss Sara L. Kinney was at Truxton Monday
and organized a large class in music. Miss Kinney is a successful teacher and
has a fine class here, but has arranged to give one day in the week to her
Truxton pupils, some of whom will probably take part in the midwinter recital
of her school.
Lost Two
Fingers.
Mr. Silas Danforth met with quite an unfortunate
accident yesterday at the factory of the Cortland Wagon Co. He was working on a
shaper when the first finger of his right hand was slightly lacerated. He did
it up and continued his work on the machine. A few minutes afterwards the first
and second fingers of his left hand were struck and badly mangled. He was taken
to the office of Dr, A. J. White, who dressed the wounds. The doctor found it
necessary to amputate both fingers below the middle joint.
BREVITIES.
—The Alpha Chautauqua circle will meet with
Mrs. M. O. Clark, 67 Madison-st., on Saturday evening, Nov. 3, at 7:30 o'clock.
—The monthly business meeting of the Ladies'
and Pastor's Aid society of the Homer-ave. church will be held next Wednesday
afternoon.
—The STANDARD to-morrow afternoon will
publish the full cast of those who are to produce "Fogg's Ferry" at
the Opera House to-morrow night.
—Halloween proved one of the most quiet ones
that Cortland has known for years. The rain and special police undoubtedly caused
the result.
—George W. Spencer paid a fine of one dollar
in police court this morning for riding his bicycle between the sidewalk and
the stone wall in front of Randall's garden on Main-st.
—The regular meeting of the Womans' Relief
Corps will be held next Tuesday, Nov. 6, at 3. P. M. sharp. Miss Mary E. Seely
of Syracuse will be present and inspect the corps, A full attendance of all its
members is desired.
—The Young Men's Republican club will meet
in their rooms to-morrow evening. Commissioner N. L. Miller will address the
meeting on the constitutional amendments and the league quartet will furnish
the music.
—The Mozart society met last evening at the
music studio of Miss Clara A. Covil, Wickwire building. A program was given
consisting wholly of Mozart's works, with description of same and a sketch of
his life which was listened to with pleasure and interest.
—Attention is called to a remarkably able,
clear and convincing article in another column upon the apportionment amendment
to be submitted to the voters of the state next Tuesday. It was written by Hon.
Henry R. Durfee of Palmyra, a delegate to the constitutional convention, It
should be read by every one.
—Lewis McKee of Summerhill, A. L. Brown,
George Kenfield and John Kane were all before Justice Bull this morning for
public intoxication. Each had to pay a fine of three dollars or go to jail
three days. Hugh Kelley was arrested this morning on the same charge. He is now
sobering up in jail.
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