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| 1 (2 year vacancy) |
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| Total vote for second resolution 554, against 121. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday,
March 15, 1893.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
The Village Election.
◘ That
the result of the village election is a disappointment to those who wished for
the success of the Republican ticket there is no denying.
The
election of Mr. Judd, the Democratic candidate for collector, was not
anticipated though it ought not to be surprising, as he has a wide acquaintance
and many friends, and his recent ill health—which for a considerable time made
all work impossible for him, and from which he is still suffering—commanded a
sympathy which could not be confined by party lines. Mr.Phelps, the Republican
nominee, though well fitted for the place, had not this element of
influence—and his defeat simply means that the majority of the voters of the
village thought that Mr. Judd was more in need of the fees of the office.
◘ The
defeat of Mr. Corcoran is the most serious disaster to the ticket and the most
to be regretted. It is another illustration of the weakness of Republicans for
deserting their own nominee, whenever the opposition puts up a decent
candidate, no matter if he is not superior in any way to his Republican
opponent. Whether it is on the principle that a white bean looks whiter on a
bushel of black ones than it does on a bushel of white ones; or whether it is
intended to encourage decency in the Democracy at whatever cost to Republicans;
or whether it is because the average Republican is built that way; or whether it
is simply a manifestation of original sin, it is difficult to determine—and as
difficult to remedy. The cutting down of Mr. Walrad's majority— a man who
stands among our oldest, best and most substantial citizens—is another
illustration of this same Republican perverseness.
◘ It may
not be out of place to call the attention of Republicans at this time to some
other elements which have entered more or less into this result. There was a
paying up of scores on account of certain "deals" and stabs in
connection with the recent town meeting, and also a striking back on account of
pledges broken, or claimed to have been broken, and a gratification of personal
piques over the outcome of the balloting, in the Republican village convention.
The unsuccessful candidates for the nominations for the various village offices
are not charged with failing to pull straight for the ticket, but the bad
blood which was generated shows itself in the count of votes. Accusations were
freely made also that in the Republican village caucuses some persons well known
as not belonging to that party voted openly and unchallenged, and that others
when challenged swore their votes in, confident that nothing would be done to
punish them.
◘ The lesson from all this is easy to learn,
and if it is not learned the Republican majority in the village of Cortland
will be wiped out. The falling off in the Republican plurality this year on
officers for whom the vote may be taken as a test of party strength, is from 50
to 70, though the total vote on village president is 385 larger than a year ago.
A Republican association should be formed in every ward and in every election
district, every Republican should be allowed and invited to join, without any
charge being made therefor, and only those whose names are on the membership
rolls should be allowed to vote at a caucus. If any one not a Republican obtains
through fraud or misrepresentation, a membership in one of the associations and
votes at a caucus, he should be prosecuted to the extent of the law. When this
is done we shall have unquestioned Republican caucuses, and not before. Until
it is done, Republicans will find excuses in alleged unfair caucuses for
bolting the ticket.
◘ It may also not be a bad thing to have it
pretty generally understood, as it seems likely to be, that the manner in which
a nomination is obtained will have something to do with the success of the
nominee. Difficult as the lesson may be for some to understand, politics is not
altogether a game or a matter of dicker and trade. The man who only a few
months since was declared to be getting the brass bands, while his rival for the
Democratic nomination was "getting the delegates," is now president
of the United States, while the rival is gravitating towards the Hades of peanut
politicians. There is a force of public sentiment, a sense of public propriety,
which cannot always be antagonized with profit or even with safety. And especially
is this true of the Republican party.
HOMER
DEPARTMENT.
THIS WEEK'S
HAPPENINGS.
One of the most quiet elections that Homer
has known for a long time occurred yesterday, only 87 votes being polled. There
was practically only one ticket in the field and the voting was only a mere
matter of form. 76 votes were cast straight and the following ticket was
elected, the figures opposite the names being the majorities received:
President—Edwin J. Bockes, 86.
Trustees—Charles Healy 84, Ossian B. Andrews
81.
Trustee to fill vacancy—Allen H. Clark, 85.
Clerk—Edward W. Hyatt, 86.
Treasurer—Charles S. Pomeroy, 86.
Collector—Jacob Metzger, 83.
The resolution that $1,800 be appropriated and
collected for street purposes was carried by a vote of 60 to 11.
The resolution that $2,150 be appropriated and
collected for water tax was carried by a vote of 65 to 10.
The $700 appropriation for walks was carried
by a vote of 70 to 7.
The $1,000 appropriation for contingent
expenses was carried [by] 68 to 12 in favor of appropriation.
The resolution that $350 be appropriated and
collected for the Homer Fire department supplies was carried by a vote of 69
for and 8 against.
L. M. Brown of Warren-st., who has been
confined to his bed for some time past with consumption, is failing very rapidly.
His many friends are earnestly invited to call upon him in order that his last
days may be his most pleasant ones.
Another important change has taken place
among our business firms. This time it is that of Waters & Kellogg. Mr.
Kellogg has retired from the firm and his place has been taken by Charles R. Merrill,
who for the past ten years has been a faithful employee in the store of P. C.
Kingsbury. Mr. Merrill has been a life long resident of Homer and his many
friends congratulate him upon his new business venture. May the new firm of
Waters & Merrill, although young, create a name for the future that
will ever after be borne in fond remembrance.
Epworth league of the M. E, church has
secured a rare attraction that will exhibit here in the church on Saturday evening,
March 25. It is Edison's latest improved phonograph. To those who have never
seen this attraction it will be a rare treat. Admission has been placed at 25
and 85 cents.
The warmest contest of the election was the
resolution appropriating $2,000 for lights. It was carried by fifteen majority,
the vote being 47 for and 32 against.
Summer
Traffic on the R. W. & O. R. R.
The R., W. & O. trains will run
from Suspension Bridge via Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse over the
New York Central tracks to Syracuse, thence via the R. W. & O. R. R. to
Clayton and Norwood. The Niagara Falls and Thousand Island Limited, a solid
vestibule train, with Wagner drawing-room cars and new coaches, will leave
Suspension Bridge 8:45 A. M.; Niagara Falls 8:51 A. M., Buffalo 9:00 A. M.,
Rochester 10:50 A. M., Syracuse 1:00 P. M., arriving Clayton 4:35 P. M. The
St. Lawrence Steamboat express, with through
sleeping cars for Clayton, also through sleeping car from Chicago to Portland,
Me., via Norwood, passing through the heart of the White mountains by daylight,
will leave Suspension Bridge every day at 8:15 P. M., Niagara Falls 8:20 P. M.,
Buffalo 9:15 P. M., Rochester 11:05 P. M., Syracuse 1:15 A. M , arrive Clayton
5:45 A. M.
Immediate connections will be made at Clayton
with steamers for all points on the St. Lawrence river. These trains are run
over the New York Central tracks via Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse in order
to afford the residents of those huge cities the advantage of solid trains,
making fast time, and avoiding delays at junction points, and also to
accommodate the large population south of the New York Central.
The R. W. & O. R. R. will this year be
in better condition than ever before to make fast time. Since the acquisition of
this road by the New York Central & Hudson River R. R. Co., the lessee
company has expended more than one million dollars in improvements and betterments,
relaying nearly two hundred' miles of road with the heaviest steel rails used
north of the trunk lines, and replacing the bridges with new and stronger ones
of steel and iron. The motive power has been increased by the addition of a
number of new locomotives, which are capable of hauling the heaviest passenger
trains at high speed and the R. W. & O. R. R. is prepared to handle the
largest tourist and pleasure traffic in its history. The indications are that
the business to the St. Lawrence river and Eastern resorts will be larger than
ever before.
BREVITIES.
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| Austin Corbin. |
— A Democratic candidate for constable in
the town of Willet has filed his statement
of election expenses, at the recent town meeting, and they include two glasses
of whisky at ten cents a glass; four cigars, ten cents for the lot, and two
glasses of beer at five cents a glass. This is the entire bill.
—S. K. Nester, maltster at Geneva, has sunk
a well on his premises from which he has obtained an enormous flow of natural
gas. He will use it throughout his immense plant, and the New York Central Iron
Works company, manufacturers of the celebrated Dunning steam and hot water
heating boilers, have secured the first contract for the use of the gas to be used
for operating and lighting their entire plant.—Moravia Republican.
—Mr. O. V. Eldridge of Cortland seems to be
performing some wonderful cures for deafness. Some of his best work is in
chronic cases which have been pronounced incurable. His practice extends all
over the country. On the evening of March 6 he operated upon the ears of a
Binghamton man, and in twenty-five minutes he could hear the tick of a watch as
he had not heard it for fifteen years. The cure is vouched for by the patient
himself and by a Binghamton physician who was present.
—The second quarter of the term at the
Normal school begins to-day.
— It is reported that about twenty young
athletes are working industriously in the gymnasium for positions on the '92
Normal base ball club. The club's past reputation makes positions
desirable.—Oneonta Star. How about
the Cortland Normal base ball team?
—The state superintendent of public
instruction has declared that county superintendents must annul the certificate
of any teacher whom they know uses intoxicating liquors.
—Mr. George I. Pruden has just finished some
very fine photographs of the Forty-fifth
tug of war team and the dog "Striker."
—The president and trustees of Cortland village
are in session as a board of canvassers to canvass the vote of yesterday, as
The STANDARD goes to press.
—Grace Sullivan, the ten year old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Florence Sullivan, is so seriously ill with intussesception
[sic] that recovery is doubtful. The child has only one chance in a hundred.
—At the annual meeting of the stockholders
of the E., C. & N. R. R. in New York
yesterday, the following directors were elected: Austin Corbin, J. R. Maxwell,
Geo. S. Edgell, Chas. M. Reynolds, Frederick Cook, Frank M. Kelly and E. R.
Reynolds. The only change in the board was the retirement of F. W. Dunton,
whose place was taken by A. U. Hehre.
Forty-Fifth
Notes.
There is a misapprehension in regard to the
joint entertainment of the City Band and Forty-fifth Separate Co. It will not
be a fair, but an athletic and musical entertainment. There will be no begging
either for donations or from the patrons of the entertainments. There will be
refreshments served, but patrons can buy them or not as they wish. The managers
propose to give a $1.50 show for 25 cents. All the tugs of war will be pulled
upon platforms six feet high so that every one can see. Season tickets good for
five admissions will be one dollar and each holder will be entitled to one
guess in the guessing contest for the $500 piano. The full band will furnish music
for dancing each evening.
MUNICIPAL
PROGRESS.
Will New
York or Chicago Be the Greater in 1993?
Some
Pertinent Predictions.
What will be the size and status of Chicago
in a century? Well, let us suppose we have no war, pestilence or earthquake,
and that the Mississippi valley has counted 100 more harvests, has garnered
fifty billion bushels of wheat, one hundred and fifty billion bushels of corn,
and so on, and this quantity of fuel has been turned into human energy, and men
have all worked like slaves, as they now work, with almost magical power of
product by use of machinery, and Chicago is in the center of it, the largest
city of the valley—is it not a stupendous thought?
It will depopulate London, and as men have
always migrated when necessary, either by war or friendly reception, such a
history might find Chicago with 10,000,000 people, extending from Wisconsin to
Indiana. Six hundred thousand people came here to stay between Jan. 1, 1889,
and Jan. 1, 1892. If you knew every one three years ago, there are today six
that you do not recognize to eight that you do. With blocks of 16-story
buildings rising in every direction, with 72,000 persons riding in the
elevators of one structure in one day, what shall the prophet do but spread the
pinions of his imagination and soar to empyreal heights?
This I think I know of Chicago—that it is
the cheapest place to live if one will work. But perhaps the reason for the
inexpensiveness of life here is the low state of municipal cleanliness. Purity
is never a bargain. Filthy streets, black buildings, unswept gutters and walks,
careless raiment—these matters unquestionably make life easier, just as a
soiled child in an alley has a much happier life than little Lord Fauntleroy—and
lives longer. With a level site and Lake Michigan to drink from, with all
railroad trains and all lake craft due here at any time within a week always, I
should think Chicago would support 3,000,000 souls at least within 100 years.
Yet if the wage system shall remain to be
the only one that human nature will tolerate, it appears probable that the town
will be a Birmingham and not a Florence. The black pall of smoke that lowers
upon Chicago annually after the sun crosses Madison street going south must
increase, for each new tall building of which we hear empties its additional
tons upon tons into the skies.
We ought to like the age of progress, and we
do. Nearly everybody in America has sat in a velvet chair, if only in a railroad
car. There are getting to be so many fine things the kings cannot use them all.
A Chicagoan of modest means was awakened the other night at 11 o'clock by a
telegraph boy, who delivered an electric message for the hired girl from
another hired girl concerning an engagement to meet the next Thursday out. He
was forced to awaken the girl and convey the tidings orally, as she could not
herself read the plainest print. This episode bespeaks the democracy of the
times far louder than a congressman's oration.—JOHN M’GOVERN.
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| Andrew H. Green. |
New
York's Growth Estimated by Andrew H. Green.
(From
Our New York Correspondent.)
"The greatest city in America and the
greatest city in the world in the Twentieth century will be that comprised in
the metropolitan district of New York." That is the prophecy of Andrew H. Green, who has for thirty years given, exhaustive study to this subject. Mr.
Green is one of the executors of the will of Samuel J. Tilden, and his
remarkable business capacity and sound judgment a s well as other qualities
made him one of the most intimate of the few intimate friends of that great
man.
Mr. Green believes that Chicago is to be the
most gigantic of the internal cities of the United States, numbering in its
population in the next century perhaps almost as many as Paris now has. But the
New York of 1993 will have, he estimates, more than 8,000,000 people.
"Early in the next century the
consolidation of all that section which is now comprised in the metropolitan
district under one municipality will, I think, have been accomplished. This
will then bring more than 3,000,000 people under one municipal government, and
when we remember that in this district 100 years ago less than 50,000 people
lived; it is fair to infer from the natural law growth that more than 8,000,000
will be in this district 100 years hence, all under one local government.
"It is to be the finest municipal
development the world has ever seen. I expect that some of the problems that
now face municipalities will have been solved by this grand congregation of
citizens. The finest churches, the most beautiful architecture, the most
exquisite parks, the most beautiful drives, will give comfort and delight to
the people who live in this community in the next century. There are to be reforms
of municipal administration and I do not say that the New York of the next
century is going to be ideally perfect, but I do say that it passes the
comprehension of men now living to conceive the majesty of this great city as
it will be in the next century."
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| Thomas Dixon, Jr. |
Rev.
Thomas Dixon's Mental Telescope Takes a Wide Sweep.
As to the political and social condition of
the United States and of the world in 1993, I do not believe there will be a
crowned head in the civilized world at the close of the next century. I believe
that democracy will reign triumphant to the farthest limits of civilization.
It seems to me certain that government must
grow more complex if by complexity we understand the multiplication of its
functions. "The less government the better" is a motto of an
infantile republic. It is out of date at least 100 years. By government our
ancestors understood tyranny, kingship, a power outside of the people pressing
upon them. By government now we understand the people governing themselves. As
life becomes necessarily complex, so government must keep pace with the
development of life; otherwise liberty will become at last a mockery. The
conditions of our modern civilization are far more complex than the conditions
of those which our ancestors met when they made the federal constitution. That
constitution is utterly inadequate to the demands of the present and will be
magnified and enlarged either directly or indirectly by amendment or
interpretation to meet the growing needs of the new life of the new century.
It is absolutely certain either that the
railroads and telegraphs will be owned and managed by the state or that the
railroads and telegraphs will own and manage the state.
The question of money and the mechanism of
exchange will turn entirely upon the development of the social question, which
will be pressed to a climax somewhere within the present century. The present
basis of money is satisfactory neither to those who believe in social reform
nor to those who belong to the conservative element in the present social
regime.
Within the next century the saloon is
certain to be outlawed in America, and when it is driven from America the
progress of reform will sweep the earth. High license will be weighed in the
balance and found wanting, and when this humbug is thoroughly tested and
exposed and proved to be a delusion and a snare the good will unite in a
thoroughgoing, radical, prohibitory law.
The punishment of criminals, it seems to me,
will be based more and more upon the effort to reform rather than to inflict
penalty. Capital punishment will be abolished. It has now already collapsed. We
had 7,000 murders last year and less than 100 legal executions. The sentiment
of the age is against it, and human life suffers in consequence. The only
remedy seems to be to substitute life imprisonment and make the execution of
law a practical certainty upon the guilty.
Our divorce laws must become uniform not
only in America, but there must be in the future an adjustment of the principle
of the home life international. All international law is founded on the
monogamic [sic] group of society. If Mr. Deacon fails to secure a divorce in
Paris he proposes to apply to the courts of America, and vice versa, the man
who is interested in such procedure may change the base of operations.
The tendency for the accumulation of wealth
in a few hands must continue to increase until overturned by a social
revolution that will make such an increase an impossibility. That revolution is
certain to be accomplished within less than fifty years.
Great corporations and vast business
aggregations will continue to grow greater until in their overshadowing power
they dispute the authority of the state, and, like the railroads and
telegraphs, will be absorbed by the state. This tendency is overwhelming, and
there is as yet developed no countercurrent to interfere with its inevitable
result. Dry goods dealers add to their general stores departments of groceries,
and are running out of the market thousands of smaller dealers throughout the
city. It is only a question of time when this tendency to centralization and
absorption will become universal in all industries, and can only end in the
destruction of competition, the establishment of a monopoly—and the state is
the only power that has the right to run a monopoly. This tendency seems to
make the nationalization of industry the certain goal of the future.
The condition of the laboring classes is
certain to become more independent as they are better educated and learn their
rights and duties.
Our soil is capable of producing abundant
food for the word in 1893, but the methods of agriculture must and will be
improved, else the present population with its natural increase could not be
sustained in 1993.
Within the next century law will be
simplified and brought within the range of the common people, and the
occupation of two-thirds of the lawyers will be destroyed. At present law is a
stupendous swindle. It is beyond the possibility of any mortal man—it matters
not how transcendent his genius—to know what the law is in America. This has
produced such confusion already that a revolution in law is inevitable.
Medicine will attain the dignity of a science, having passed through the period
of preliminary experiment. Theology will become more simple and central in its
practical aims. Traditionalism will die hard, but it will surely die.
American literature will tell the story of
American life, and will therefore be born within the next century.
The sphere of music in the church, in the
world, will be enlarged to the blessing of the race. The drama must be born
again or rot of its own corruption within the next century.
Education is certain to be broader and
fuller. We must educate the whole man—the head, the hand, the heart. Especially
must our methods be revolutionized that men may be trained for their work in
the industrial world.
Dress must conform more to common sense and
less to idiotic whim.
Transportation in our great cities will be
controlled by the cities themselves, and sanitary improvements will become a
religious work.
Woman will attain her status of equality
before the law.
The servant problem is a part of the great
social problem and can be solved only in the adjustment of society under truer
conditions.
Inventions and discoveries in mechanics and
industrial arts will themselves form in their enlargement the basis of the new
society which will be evolved in the new century. Pneumatic transportation as
well as aerial navigation seems to be certain in the next twenty-five years.
The race will be both handsomer and happier
than it now is.
The greatest city will be in America. Its
location will be dependent upon the development of transit facilities. If the
freight of the world must be moved over waterways, as at present, through the
next century, that city will be on the Atlantic coast. If water transportation
loses its importance, the great city of the world may be developed in the
interior. This does not seem to be probable.
The American now living who will be most
honored in 1993 is that man who is most abused by the men of his generation and
yet who lives the truth in the noblest and truest ways.—THOMAS DIXON, JR.
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| Elizabeth Akers Allen. |
A
Woman's View.
I have here your invitation to contribute to
a "Chapter of Forecasts" concerning the next century, but as the
"mantelpiece of prophecy" has not fallen on me lately I am afraid my
"forecasts" would be—like those of most persons—only a series of wild
conjectures not worth anybody's money. So I feel conscientiously obliged to
decline the invitation, while I would thank you for the compliment.
It would take much more than 500 words to
tell what changes I hope may happen, or rather wish might happen (for
hope implies a possibility of fruition, while we may wish for the most improbable things) during the next 100 years. As
a mere hint at the list, I will say I wish that before that time has passed the
world will have learned not to give all its rewards to the selfish, the
unscrupulous, the dishonest and the self-asserting—
That politics will be understood to mean the
science of pure and just government, and not the mere means of enriching base,
unprincipled, incompetent and corrupt men—
That it will be possible for women to walk
from house to house in city or country—that girls may go to church or to
school, or even take a harmless walk in the fields or woods, without danger of
being waylaid and murdered by their "natural protectors"—
That the persons who chance to witness a
crime may not conceal and hush it up through fear of being put in jail as
witnesses while the culprit goes free on bail —
That the worth of human beings may not be
reckoned by their bank account—
That this country may cease to be the
cesspool into which are drained the disease, criminality and pauperism of all
Europe—
That mothers may no longer be hindered of their
obvious right to their own dearly purchased children—
That the newspapers, which consider it witty
to assert that the principal ambition of women is to be married, may not be
obliged to record on the same page half a dozen instances where they have been
deliberately murdered for refusing—
That literary work, like other labor, may be
valued for its merit and not for the fortunate circumstances, beauty,
prominence, position or self assertion of those who produce it—
That sin may be held equally sinful and
punishable whether committed by man or woman—
That the theft of a few dollars—or indeed
any amount of property—may not be reckoned and punished as a greater crime than
the ruin of a dozen innocent women by a bigamist—
That those lawyers may be peremptorily
disbarred who deliberately try to cheat justice by protecting known and proved
criminals from punishment—
That all mature, rational, intelligent and law
abiding persons may have an equal voice in forming and administering the laws
which they must obey—
That, in short, the world may be as
different from what it is at present, as can well be imagined. I wish that
conscientious industry may win competence and comfort; that respectable old age
may be honored instead of condemned; that those who deserve love may have it;
that worth may be valued instead of show, and that "health may be
contagious instead of disease."
These are a few of the things which I wish;
I cannot say I hope for them, for I see no prospect or possibility
of them, and I dare not undertake to prophesy. —ELIZABETH ACKERS ALLEN.
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