CASTING OUT DEVILS

The Cortland News, Friday, Nov. 10, 1882. F. G. Kinney, editor.

THE ELECTION.

DEMOCRACY TRIUMPHANT IN STATE AND COUNTY!

By Tremendous Majorities!

Democratic Congress and Legislature.

Results in Other States!

   Tuesday's elections resulted in a sweeping Democratic victory in this county and State, and in many other States. Cleveland is elected [governor] by a majority of over 150,000, and the Legislature and Congress follow suit.

   Pennsylvania by 30,000, Indiana by 8,000, Connecticut by 5,000, California by 13,000, Kansas by 8,000, and the entire South, as usual, go Democratic, while Butler has at last been made Governor of Massachusetts by 13,000 majority.

   Iowa, Illinois, New Hampshire, Michigan, Nebraska, Colorado and Minnesota are Republican by reduced majorities. The Democrats will have 83 members in the next Assembly and the Republicans 44, and in Congress 20 to the Republicans 14.

   By the opening of 1883, 21 of the 38 States will be in the hands of Democrats.

THE RESULT IN THE COUNTY.

   Cincinnatus— Assembly — Gage 63, Nelson 147, Waters 55. Sheriff— Borthwick 129, Cotton 135. Clerk—Bushby 46, Bourne 219. Dist. Attorney—Bronson 58, Palmer 208. Superintendent— Cummings 57, Murray 205.

   Cortlandville—Gage 533, Nelson 877, Waters 594. Borthwick 958, Cotton 1040. Bushby 635, Bourne 1349. Branson 728, Palmer 1205. Cummings 576, Murray 1241.

   Cuyler—Gage 81, Nelson 119, Waters 88. Borthwick 201, Cotton 83. Bushby 147, Bourne 131. Bronson 136, Palmer 140. Cummings 119. Murray 152.

   Freetown—Gage 97, Nelson 67, Waters 29. Borthwick 124, Cotton 68. Bushby 100, Bourne 90. Bronson 126, Palmer 58. Cummings 102, Murray 82.

   Harford—Gage 46, Nelson 113, Waters 73. Borthwick 122, Cotton 97. Bushby 60, Bourne 162. Bronson 68, Palmer, 152. Cummings 48, Murray 162.

   Homer—Gage 407, Nelson 275, Waters 286. Borthwick 454, Cotton 498. Bushby 252, Bourne 697. Bronson 310, Palmer 624. Cummings 175, Murray, 742.

   Lapeer--Gage 55, Nelson 65, Waters 35. Borthwick 88, Cotton 68. Bushby 47, Bourne 103. Bronson 62, Palmer 88. Cummings 44, Murray 75.

   Marathon—Gage 201, Nelson 182, Waters 54. Borthwick 260, Cotton 167. Bushby 193, Bourne 239. Bronson 200, Palmer 234. Cummings 193, Murray 238.

   Preble—Gage 90, Nelson 161, Waters 19. Borthwick 108, Cotton 161. Bushby 104, Bourne 162. Bronson 108, Palmer 160. Cummings 78, Murray 115.

   Scott—Gage 77, Nelson 65, Waters 115. Borthwick 173, Cotton 85. Bushby 77, Bourne 179. Bronson 88, Palmer 164. Cummings 78. Murray 157.

   Solon—Gage 34, Nelson 125, Waters 30. Borthwick 74, Cotton 115. Bushby 47, Bourne 141. Bronson 43, Palmer 146. Cummings 35, Murray 153.

   Taylor—Gage 108, Nelson 108, Waters 36. Borthwick 105, Cotton 150. Bushby 117, Bourne 134. Bronson 113, Palmer 137. Cummings 111, Murray 133.

   Truxton — Gage 66, Nelson 284, Waters 18. Borthwick 172, Cotton 187. Bushby 163, Bourne 108. Bronson 134, Palmer 229. Cummings 110, Murray 243.

   Virgil—Gage 141, Nelson 178, Waters 86. Borthwick 176, Cotton 240. Bushby 154, Bourne 239. Bronson 152, Palmer 226. Cummings 124, Murray 218.

   Willett—Gage 35, Nelson 129, Waters 65. Borthwick 113, Cotton 112. Bushby 13, Bourne 215. Bronson 31, Palmer 191. Cummings 25, Murray 202.

   Mr. Gates, for Superintendent of the Poor, received 354 votes in the county. Leroy Scriven, for Justice, 2109; Seth Hobart, 2528; A. J. Kneeland. 1227. For Coroners, S. C. Webb received 2166, H. C. Hendrick 2213, R. A. Goodell 2641, C. E. Bennett 2667, G. D. Bradford 1542, A. G. Henry 1213, J. Angell 419.

   Hiscock's majority in the county is 73, and 696 in the district. The county gave Cleveland a majority of 15, D. B. Hill 75, Howard Carroll 378, Charles Andrews 553. The canal and judiciary amendments are defeated in the State.

THE PEOPLE’S MISFORTUNE.

   The Republicans of Cortland county never placed before the people a better ticket than they did this fall, Every man upon it was deserving of the support of all Republicans and of all other good citizens. Amid all the heat and bitterness of the contest, not one word has been said against the character, the acts or the fitness of any candidate upon our ticket. For this reason if there were no other it is to be regretted as a misfortune to the people of our county that such a ticket and such men should be defeated.

   The means by which this misfortune has been thrust upon us is still more to be deplored, and as the smoke of battle clears away so that the positions of the various parties engaged can be examined, all good citizens will soon unite in denouncing the sore-headed hand of traitors who have lied and cheated good men into assisting in the accomplishment of a victory for the Democrats and liquor men.

   It is entirely a victory for the Democracy and the liquor interest, and no one is now so absurd or cheeky as to claim any favor for the Temperance-Independent fraud—for the "leaders" who were running this Temperance-Independent dodge had their expenses paid by the Democratic Committee and were merely its clerks.

   It now transpires that the fraudulent addresses purporting to have been issued by an Independent-Republican club in Poughkeepsie, bitterly attacking the Republican State ticket, and which were mailed through this county on Saturday and Monday were, to a large extent, directed by G. E. Tarble, who acted as a Democratic clerk in consideration of having his name appear in the papers as chairman of the Independent-Republican committee; and the returns from each town and district compared with the canvass books proves conclusively that these “Independents" voted the Democratic State and Congress tickets straight. More than this, these same leaders stood at the polls hand-in-hand with the Democratic leaders, distributing straight Democrat tickets for county, state, assembly, congress and judiciary. Yea, more, while these same Independents pretended to put H. G. Borthwick on their ticket and lulled him into a security nearly fatal by profuse promises of support, they rode the county the day before election working and circulating literature for Mr. Cotton and on election day their tickets were headed by Cotton instead of Borthwick, who would have been defeated but for the aid of personal friends among the Democrats.

   At the gathering of the so-called Temperance-Independents at Geo. Waters office election night the returns in favor of Cotton were as heartily cheered as those in favor of Bourne and Nelson, while the salubrious condition of the “leaders” was a reminder of the convivial habits of that Democratic-Temperance orator, Prof. A. C. Dixon of Chicago.

   The Temperance men now find a license anti-prohibition member of assembly, clerk and district attorney elected over men of opposite views, and the Republicans who were misled find that they have been reforming the Republican party by putting in power the party of Jeff Davis and of John Kelly. Kelly is king, and whisky flowed free in Cortland Tuesday night to celebrate the great victory over Republicanism and Temperance.

   On Wednesday as the rain was falling a gentleman very aptly remarked that there was weeping in Heaven over the triumph of a great wrong against the people.

CASTING OUT DEVILS.

   We read that in olden times men were possessed by devils which caused them to wander in desert places, writhing with bodily pain and generally unfitting them for the duties of life, but that on occasions these fearful maladies were cured, the devils were cast out, and the man, restored to sanity of mind and body, again took his place among his fellows. The Republican party in this county has seemed to have a touch of this ancient malady, but it would seem that amid the throes of this fall’s bitter campaign it had become purified—freed from the devils which have been trying to tear out its life, and it now stands forth healthy and unencumbered.

   One of these troubles has been the Cortland Standard under the management of its present editor—professedly a Republican, but practically an enemy full of bitterness against the party and every man who worked and had influence for its support, and ever spouting out libel and vilification against the true supporters of the party. Heretofore it has kept within the party, showing now and then a horn or hoof, but this fall it has gone clear out, showing horns, hoofs, tail, and all the paraphernalia of its Satanic mission. The fraud and tissue ballots which has been its cry against the Republican body it at least tried to possess was inaugurated in its own sanctum, manufactured by its own machinery, and reacted upon it in the caucus and convention. Claiming to be in accord with the Republican State ticket, its office has been the head-quarters of the gang who deluged the county with the villainous thrust at the State ticket on Saturday and Monday purporting to emanate from an "Independent " club in Poughkeepsie, the address upon the wrappers of which appear to be in the handwriting of G. E. Tarble, the ostensible “chairman" of the Cortland Independents. While damning Mr. Hiscock with faint praise, its editor has been an assistant of the same gang, who deluged the county with the Syracuse Herald to vilify Mr. Hiscock for whose office the “Independents" and their “chairman” were openly wishing…[this section of news page ink-smeared and illegible—CC editor.]

   …has finally stepped out in his usual cloak of temperance to defeat the election of Mr. Gage, whose acts prove his principles, and to make possible the election of Dr. Nelson, the candidate of the liquor men. The party is at last freed from him, but the Democrats will decline to be possessed by him or to further his attempts to reach the county judgeship. One who, either through revenge, hate or treachery, tries to defeat the party he claims for his own, will be an object of distrust to all.

   Then Frank Place and Howard J. Harrington—brothers-in-law and members of the same household until a year ago—have fattened upon the people through the offices they have held for the last fifteen years as the candidates of the Republican party, over $50,000 having passed to their coffers in that time. They never did service for the Republican party, but when they could possess it no longer they combined with the enemies of that party, made a bargain, as it is said, to share the spoils of the clerkship, in consideration of which they too assisted in the circulation of the same documents to assassinate the State and Congressional tickets. Election day found them outside the party, at the polls, working for the Democratic ticket. There is nothing so base as ingratitude, and when it is coupled with a treacherous bargain, there is no execration to severe to be hurled at it.

   B. T. Wright, formerly by the grace of the Republican party a district attorney, a seeker for the judgeship, has for years been trying to assassinate the party which had helped him, because he could not possess it entirely. He says some member of the party did not properly support him, and he would perpetrate a greater wrong by destroying the party and giving the principal county offices to the Democracy for three years to come. He was of those who struck at the State and Congressional tickets and went out of the party. It is thus relieved of more ingratitude, hate and revenge.

   Of Samuel, Childs, Tripp, Tarble, Pierce and the lesser lights we might say as of the others, alone they are of slight importance but taken together it is well to be rid of them and to remember them for the evil they have assisted in doing.

   These men have no respect for the principles of the Republican party—they know of no object except offices. They were of it for the spoils and have spoiled it for the time being. They thought to strike a fatal blow but have only crippled it in turning the county over to the Democracy. Freed from them as it now is, the party will rise strong and refreshed and again assist in sustaining the great principles which that party has enunciated and made part of the organic law.

HONOR THE BRAVE.

   Those Republicans who have stood by their party this year will always be remembered with gratitude by the Republican party. Through the storm of mud and filth thrown by the contemptible ring that has been doing the dirty work of the Democrats, they have stood up boldly and manfully and defended the party and its candidates. To-day, though defeated, they can look every man in the face and feel that they have done their duty. They are respected by the Democrats and loved by Republicans, while the ring of men headed by Clark and George Waters deserve and will receive the scorn of all men who believe in gratitude and honor, who detest treachery, and fear the vindictiveness of hate and revenge.