The Cortland Democrat, Friday, May 10,
1889.
Dr. Milne Resigns.
At a
meeting of the Local Board of the Cortland Normal school on Saturday afternoon
last the following letter of resignation from Dr. J. M. Milne was read by the President:
To the Local Board of the State Normal School,
Cortland, N. Y.
GENTLEMEN:
I hereby submit my resignation from the chair of Latin and Greek in the
Cortland Normal school and ask that such resignation take effect at end of
present school year. I would at the same time express my hearty appreciation of
the many kindnesses, both official and otherwise, which I have received at all
times from every member of your body, and would hope that in the future, even
more than in the past, the school under your immediate direction may take the
high rank to which it is entitled.
Very
cordially and respectfully,
JAS. M.
MILNE.
The
resignation was duly accepted, and on motion of Mr. Hugh Duffy the following
resolutions were unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That this Board accepts with deep
regret the resignation of Dr. Jas. M. Milne, who has filled the chair of Latin and Greek
in the Cortland Normal school for the past twelve years, and that we feel it due
both to Dr. Milne and ourselves that we should place upon the records of the Board
an expression of our appreciation of the faithful and valuable work which he has
done, and of his high qualities as a teacher and as a man.
During
his long service in the position which he is soon to leave, Dr. Milne has manifested
a thorough loyalty to the best interests of the school, as well as deep devotion
and ardent enthusiasm for his special department. He has been a source of inspiration
to the pupils who have come under his influence, not only in the study of the
classics, but in inciting them to thoroughness and accuracy in general
scholarship, and in fostering an earnest desire for higher education. No
student has ever asked him for help, in school or out of it, without meeting
with a cordial response, and no teacher has impressed himself more deeply upon
the school or the community.
His wide
and accurate information, his habits of critical and comprehensive study and
his facility and success in imparting knowledge and awakening interest, have made
him one of the most valuable instructors our school has ever had. His students have
ranked high after graduating from this school, both in college, as teachers and
as men and women of character, and to them has been due no small part of the
reputation which the Cortland Normal school has enjoyed.
While
parting with Dr. Milne with genuine regret, we cannot forbear to congratulate him
upon the broad and promising field which opens before him in the principalship
of the new Normal school at Oneonta, and to express the confidence, as well as
the wish, that he may there meet with the most abundant success.
Resolved,
That the Secretary of the Board transmit copies of these resolutions to our
village newspapers and also to the President of the Local Board of the Oneonta Normal
school.
PAGE TWO/EDITORIALS.
Incompetent
men are being rapidly appointed to fill the places of competent railway mail
clerks. No matter how competent the democratic clerk may be, the fact that he
is a democrat, is sufficient cause for his removal.
Civil
service reform, as it is served out by the present administration, seems to
meet with much favor among Republican politicians.
The
President has appointed his brother, Carter Harrison, to be Marshal of the
middle district of Tennessee. If Cleveland had appointed his brother to a
lucrative position under the government what a howl the republican papers
throughout the land would have sent up.
The Standard
accuses the DEMOCRAT with the crime of making postmasters for the Harrison
Administration. Two weeks ago, just as the DEMOCRAT was going to press, we saw
an announcement in the Syracuse Daily Standard, a republican paper, that
C. A. Howe had been appointed postmaster at Virgil. Supposing that the Standard
knew what it was talking about, we made the same statement as a matter of news.
It turned out that the Syracuse Standard
was mistaken and that its news is no more reliable than that contained in its
Cortland namesake. We beg leave to assure our neighbor, that we will not attempt
to do under a republican administration, what we failed to accomplish under a democratic
administration.
Farmers
are now looking for their potato quotations to the editorial columns of the
Cortland Democrat. Jones has forced the "bulbous roots" down to 10 cents
a bushel, and is still jumping on them. If he keeps on at his present rate,
they will soon be worth nothing at all, and a fine will be affixed to
having them in one’s possession.—Cortland Standard.
When
potatoes reach the latter figure, farmers will undoubtedly be willing to exchange
their surplus for copies of the Cortland Standard, bushel for bushel. Even
then the farmer would have no reason to feel proud over his bargain. The editor
of the Standard will eventually learn, that farmers and all others who
are seeking facts, look for and find them in the editorial columns of the DEMOCRAT.
It hardly
becomes a Democratic newspaper to sneer or kick at Republican appointees under
circumstances such as the above, especially as the general management of the
postal service under Cleveland was the worst that this country has ever known—careless,
inefficient and incompetent, as business men everywhere know to their sorrow.—Cortland
Standard.
We had
supposed that the mail service under the last administration was satisfactory
to the country and the Standard's charge that it was
"careless, inefficient and incompetent" is news to us. It is barely possible
that our neighbor may be correct however, and it is not very surprising that it
should be so, when one calls to mind the fact that almost all the heads of
departments in the mail service were republican hold-overs. The superintendents
of the railway mail service were nearly all republicans, who were in office
when Cleveland took his seat and were not removed until last fall.
The
postmaster at New York was a republican and died in the harness only a few days
ago. The post office at Syracuse was in charge of a republican until last July,
and in many large towns of the several states, republican postmasters were
allowed to remain in office throughout the term of President Cleveland in deference
to the civil service rules. In this county several republican postmasters held office
throughout the term and are still hanging on. A republican held the office in
Homer until last July. A majority of the railway mail clerks in actual service when
President Cleveland's term expired were republicans. Is it any wonder that the
management of the postal service under Cleveland was "careless,
inefficient and incompetent?"
An Unwarranted Perversion of Facts.
The
editor of the Cortland Standard has a peculiar faculty for misrepresentation
of facts and seems to thrive, if, indeed, he does not subsist entirely upon
falsehood. In an article in his last issue upon the subject of civil service
reform, in which he attempts to answer what the DEMOCRAT had to say the week
previous on the unwarranted removal of postal clerks Randall and Dunsmoor, he
deliberately writes and publishes the following falsehood:
Three
years ago Mr. Randall, who "had never seen the inside of a postal
car" and was as "green as any green man" thus far appointed by
the Harrison administration, and utterly without experience in the mail service,
was appointed under Grover Cleveland, a
tried, faithful and
honest Republican official having been"fired out'' to make
room for him. The same was true of Mr. Dunsmoor, a little
over a year ago.
If our
neighbor had taken the slightest pains to inform himself, he would have learned
that Mr. Randall was appointed to fill a vacancy in the service, caused by the
resignation of Mr. Geo. M. Foster of Binghamton, who was himself a democrat of
the strictest sort. Mr. Dunsmoor was appointed an additional clerk, it having been
satisfactorily shown to the department that the clerks on the D. L. & W. were
handling nearly double the amount of mail matter that clerks on the other lines
were required to handle.
Republican
clerks were not "fired out" to make room for either Mr. Randall or
Mr. Dunsmoor. What particular object our neighbor could have in making the
above false statements we are at a loss to know, unless he thinks that [these]
are the best sort of fodder to serve up for the average republican reader.
But the Standard
entirely ignores one of the main points which the DEMOCRAT attempted to
demonstrate. It has always claimed to be a great friend of the soldier, as it
now claims to be a great friend of our Irish-American citizens. Mr. Dunsmoor was
a worthy soldier and a good citizen, but Harrison had hardly commenced the process
of warming his chair, when Mr. Dunsmoor was unceremoniously "fired out"
to make room for a man who was not in the army at all and the Standard not
only justifies but commends the act.
And yet the
party pretends great love for the boys in blue. After our neighbor has secured the
votes of the few Irish-Americans he may be able to seduce into voting the
republican ticket, they will meet the same fate that...[was] meted out to
democratic soldiers. Very few, however, will be caught with the specious
promises of the Standard. As a rule they are shrewd people
and cannot be caught with the ordinary chaff served up to them by our neighbor.
FROM EVERYWHERE.
The next
centennial celebration is at Oswego, July 14, 1896, the anniversary of the hauling down of the last
British flag.
One of
the largest fish ever pulled out of the Clyde river was caught at Lyons [N.Y.] on Wednesday
of last week. It was a sucker weighing thirteen pounds and nine ounces, and was
caught by a little boy not ten years of age. The little fisherman was completely
exhausted in the struggle.
Bonds and
coupons amounting to about $100,000, issued by the town of Lansing, Tompkins county, in aid of the Cayuga Lake
railroad, were cancelled and destroyed in the office of the United States court
in Utica, Saturday, by order of Judge Wallace, who heard the case of the town
of Lansing vs. John T. Lytle.
The young
Heitz boy of Newark [N. Y.], who was almost killed by the accidental discharge
of a pistol, the ball entering his head, suffered excruciating pain for weeks and
his recovery for a time was doubtful. He has seemingly fully recovered and he has
returned to his work, although the bullet is still in his brain.
The body
of Lorenzo Bassett, a Hannibal farmer, who disappeared early in December, was
found in the river at Oswego on Friday. Bassett had been about town drinking
and made a disturbance in two or three stables on East Second street and was
ejected. When last seen he was sitting on the stone coping near the city
library in an intoxicated condition.
The
Ontario Paper mill, which is located about three miles from Watertown, and is one
of the largest mills in northern New York, was set on fire in four different
places at about 1 o'clock yesterday morning but was saved. The mill had only
recently been completed at a cost of about $300,000. There is every reason to
believe that the fires were kindled by James Warden, the night watchman. It is
not yet known whether he was drunk or crazy He is now under arrest. He denies
having fired the mill, and says two tramps came along in the night, induced him
to take a drink and that is all he remembers. The loss will not exceed $7,000,
and is amply covered by insurance.
Desks for Sale.
The desks
which were slightly injured in the fire at the Desk Co.'s works last week will
he sold at very low prices. Call at the factory. Rare chances for bargains.
Electrical Execution.
NEW YORK,
May 7.—Contracts were signed to-day by which the State of New York purchased for the electrical execution of
condemned criminals three Westinghouse alternating current electric light dynamos.
The prisons at Sing Sing, Auburn and Clinton are each to have one of these
machines which will be driven by an engine already in place. The current will be
applied to the unfortunates at the same pressure as is used by this system for
electric lighting, and the State's experiments have shown that death will ensue
in less than 30 seconds.
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