The Cortland Democrat, Friday, March 8,
1895.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
The Democratic Ticket.
The Democratic convention held last Tuesday
evening unanimously nominated Irving H. Palmer, Esq. for President of the village.
Mr. Palmer has been almost a lifelong resident of Cortland and his [past
two-term] record is well known. He has twice served as President of the village
and always with credit to himself and to the entire satisfaction of the public.
He is fearless in all respects and is possessed of a determination to do that
which he believes to be for the best interests of all the people of the
village. No class or faction can lay claim to him or his influence, and the
only way to change him in any course he has marked out for himself is to prove
to him that he is wrong. He always has the courage to admit a mistake it he
makes one, but he seldom makes one when serving the public. Is it not far
better to trust to an acknowledged skillful and experienced leader, rather than
try a novice or one who has not proven satisfactory? Mr. Palmer's record is
before the people of this village and we believe they will show their appreciation
of his past services by electing him to the office for which he has been
nominated.
Mr. James R. Schermerhorn, the Democratic
candidate for trustee in the First ward, is one of Cortland's best known and most
thoroughly reliable citizens. He is an excellent businessman and would prove a
valuable member of the board. He would give his time to the interests of the
village and there should be no doubt about his election.
The convention wisely considered the
interests of the mechanics and workmen of the village when they placed W.
Burdette Howard in nomination for trustee of the Third ward. Mr. Howard is an
employee of the Cortland Wagon Co., and is highly respected by all. He is
thoroughly well qualified for the office and can be elected. Every laboring man
should rally to his support.
Hubert R. Maine, the candidate for
Treasurer, is a young man of excellent habits and possesses all the requisite
qualifications for the office. He has been for some years past a trusted
employee in the Second National Bank and is an expert accountant. There should
be no question about his election.
Clayton E. Rowley, Esq., the candidate for
assessor, is a well-known and highly respectable citizen. He has resided here
all his life and is acquainted with every piece of property in town and knows
its value. He is independent of all cliques and will discharge the duties of
the office without fear or favor, dealing justly with all. He is by all odds
the best man for this office that has been nominated by any party. We don't
believe there can be a question about his election.
Mr. Edward Dowd, the candidate for collector,
is a very deserving and popular young man and has many friends in all parties
who will support him. His business qualifications and habits are of the best
and he deserves to be elected. If Democrats come to the polls and do their duty
he will be elected.
C. Fred Thompson, Geo. C. Hubbard and
Charles S. Hulbert, the candidates for school Commissioners are well-known
business men of Cortland. They have the respect and confidence of all citizens
and would make valuable members of the board. As at present constituted, there
is not a Democrat on the board. This should not be and we believe the voters of
this place will see that the situation is changed on Tuesday next.
The candidates for Inspectors of Election
in the several wards are eminently respectable citizens and they will be
elected with the rest of the ticket.
Democrats should "get together" on
Tuesday next and take what they are entitled to and what they could not have
except for the present division in the Republican ranks. This is no time to
experiment. We are confronted by a condition that will result in giving us what
belongs to us by right, if we avail ourselves of the opportunity. See that
every Democrat votes and be sure he votes the Democratic ticket.
◘ The Citizen's
Appeal says the fight is between the saloon and the friends of law and
order. This may be true as between the two Republican tickets in the field, but
the present state of things was brought about under a Republican
administration. Will another Republican administration do any better?
◘ The
Prohibitionists of this place have lost their identity as well as their
integrity. Better things were expected of them. They met Monday evening and
endorsed the nominations of the Independent—Citizens—Republican party with the
exception of two school Commissioners. The molasses was of the cheapest kind
and very thin, but it was sufficient to tangle up the legs of the cold water
party. Where be your party principles?
◘ The "Citizen's
Appeal" is the name of a new paper which was thrown upon our desk just
as we went to press. It is published in the interest of the
Independent—Citizens—Republican ticket and seems to be edited and published by
nobody. It is a campaign roorback. It charges that the party nominations are
the saloon nominations. This is not true of the Democratic ticket. No pledges
have been made by any of the candidates to any person or persons. The ticket
was nominated by Democratic citizens who have nothing to do with saloons.
◘ The
Independents claim to be independent, but it is a noticeable fact that nearly
all their candidates are Republicans. All the important positions on the ticket
are given to the Republicans when there was plenty of good Democratic timber to
be had if it had been wanted. It seems to be impossible for reform Republicans
to be anything but Republicans. They can't reform the Republican party by
putting more Republicans in office. They give the Democrats one Trustee, one
School Commissioner and one Inspector of Elections. This is pretty thin bait to
catch Democratic votes with.
Washington
Letter.
[From
our Regular Correspondent.]
President Cleveland certainly had cause to
be glad when the fall of the gavels of Vice
President Stevenson and Speaker Crisp announced the legal end of the
Fifty-third Congress. It is not believed that any other President has ever had
as hard a physical task imposed upon him as has been performed by
President Cleveland in the last 48 hours of almost continual work of the most
wearing sort. Up to Saturday only two of the thirteen regular appropriation bills
had become laws—an unprecedented state of affairs—and eight of them were still
in conference. Since then they have all been acted upon. To get an idea of the enormous
amount of work the President had to perform it must be remembered that the more
important of these appropriation bills consist of hundreds of pages of itemized
appropriations, and that President Cleveland never signs his name to anything
without knowing just what it is, although he had in this case to sign bills
containing items and amendments that were decidedly objectionable, because the
bills containing them could not be vetoed without making an immediate extra
session necessary, something that he had no desire to do, if it could possibly
be avoided. Later on there may have to be an extra session of Congress called,
but there is at present a good prospect of escaping it entirely, unless there
shall be another run on the Treasury for gold.
It is fashionable to abuse Congress, but
when one takes the trouble to go carefully over the work of the Fifty-third
Congress, it will be seen that there is little cause for abuse from anybody and
none for abuse from democrats. True, this Congress did not meet the
expectations of the President as to financial legislation, but why was it? The
democratic party has always taught that the first duty of a Senator or
Representative was to represent his constituents. Well, that is precisely what
the democrats of the Senate and House of the Fifty-third Congress did, and that
is why there was no financial legislation. President Cleveland realized this,
and he has had no word of abuse for Congressmen who stood by the views of their
constituents, although he has not hesitated to express the opinion that those
views were wrong and that time would convince those who held them of the fact.
It is not often that members of the opposition
party pay as high a tribute to the ability and patriotism of a member of the cabinet,
as Senators Aldrich of Rhode Island and Lodge of Massachusetts did, to Secretary
Hebert in their speeches in the Senate against a reduction of Secretary
Herbert's estimates for the Naval Appropriation. Secretary Herbert has every
right to feel proud of such compliments, deserved though they were.
One of the surprises of the last week of
Congress was that Senator Chandler (Little Billy) of New Hampshire should have dared,
with his record, financial and political, to have attacked the honesty of other
Senators. It may have been unparliamentary for Senator Hill, who gave
"Little Billy" a terrible tongue thrashing, to refer to him as a
"hyena," but its aptness excused its use in that particular case.
Senator Martin after saying that he had heard it said that if Chandler had his
deserts he would be in the penitentiary instead of the Senate, referred to
Chandler as a "buzzard'' who sat in the nest of an eagle and "vomited
forth its filth on every occasion." While a dispute was going on as to
whether Senator Martin's words should be taken down he said that he would
withdraw the objectionable words from respect to the Senate, but his withdrawal
of them would not change his belief in their truth.
President Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle,
who have been for quite awhile two of the hardest worked officials of the
government, will this week start on a hunting and fishing trip along the
Carolina coast. They have certainly earned a vacation, and everybody hopes they
will enjoy it and return with renewed strength to their arduous duties.
Among those who extended congratulations to
Postmaster General Wilson, who succeeds Mr. Bissell, was General John E. Mulford
of New York now visiting his old time colleague in the arrangements for the
exchange of Union and Confederate prisoners, Representative Hatch of Missouri
It was the first time that Mr. Wilson had met General Mulford since the war.
Grasping him warmly by the hand the new Postmaster General said, "General,
I am overjoyed to meet you again. You had me in charge as a prisoner of war. I
have never forgotten from that hour to this your soldierly bearing, your
genuine courtesy and the kindly interest you took in every prisoner on your
boat on that occasion. I greet you with the greatest kindness and
respect."
HERE AND
THERE.
Charter election next Tuesday.
Marathon holds its charter election Tuesday,
March 19th.
Burgess, the clothier, has a new
advertisement on our eighth page.
Mrs. Ophelia E. Squires has sold her house
and lot on Prospect-st. to County Clerk E.
C. Palmer. Consideration $5,000.
The Loyal Circle of Kings Daughters will meet
with Mrs. A. M. Johnson, No. 54 North Main-st., Friday, March 8, 1895, at 2:30
P. M.
A meeting of the managers of the hospital
will be held Saturday, March 9, at 3 P. M. at the home of Mrs. F. O. Hyatt, 182
South Main-st.
Marvin Peck, an employee in the office of the
Homer Republican got his hand caught in a press last Tuesday, breaking a
bone in the wrist and severely bruising the hand and forearm.
Fire was discovered on Saturday afternoon in
a pile of rubbish in the south room of Gleason & Lane's plumbing store in the Squires building. A
bucket brigade was soon formed and the fire extinguished. No damage was done.
Last Friday evening, Garrity's bus was left
standing at the D., L. & W. depot waiting for the 6:20 passenger train when
the horses became frightened and started up Railroad-st. at a lively gait. As
they tried to turn the corner on Main-st., the bus was overturned and the
horses stopped. Nearly all the windows were broken and the bus was pretty well
marred up.
The Cortland Howe Ventilating Stove Company
has started up for the season.
The followers of the Independent movement
will hold a public meeting in Taylor hall this evening.
C. Fred Thompson's weather prophet was out
on Tuesday and saw his shadow and has gone back for 40 days.
The Blumenberg Concert Company will give an
entertainment in the opera house this evening. The company is composed of
first-class artists and the press speaks very highly of them. Don't miss the
concert.
The Fortnightly club held a banquet at the
residence of Miss Mary H. White on Port Watson-st. Wednesday evening. Toasts
were given and responded to. Gentlemen were conspicuous only because of their
absence, but their places were easily supplied. Several of their lady friends were
invited and the entertainment was a decided novelty and heartily appreciated.
William A. Beach. Esq., Collector of Internal
Revenue for the twenty-first district of New York, has appointed C. B. Warren
of McGrawville as one of his Deputy Collectors under the income tax law, and he
will be at the law office of James Dougherty on Friday and Saturday of each
week until April 13th, for the purpose of giving instructions and receiving the
returns under the law.
A petition has been put in circulation and
has been signed by several prominent republicans asking the board of
supervisors to raise the salary of the District Attorney of this county to $1,500
per annum. The signers should know that the District Attorney's salary cannot
legally be raised during his term of office. Three years from now such a
petition would be in order, but would it be proper? There are a great many
pretty good lawyers that would be glad to take the office at the present salary.
At about 9 o'clock last Monday evening one
of the employees of the Cortland Standard saw a bright light in the
press room after the office had been closed. He entered and found a lively fire
under the large Cox Duplex press. The fire was extinguished after a lively fight.
An oil stove had been used under the press to warm the bed and it is supposed
that this had exploded. The rolls and other appliances of the press were
ruined. Loss about $100. The semi-weekly and daily papers for Tuesday were
printed on the DEMOCRAT presses. The proprietors expect to have their press in
running order again in a few days.
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