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| Everett P. Wheeler. |
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| E. M. Shepard. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday,
October 10, 1894.
NEW STATE
TICKET.
INDEPENDENT
DEMOCRATS PLACE ONE IN THE FIELD.
Everett
P. Wheeler of New York For Governor—Names on the Regular Ticket
For Lieutenant Governor and Court of Appeals. Judge Indorsed. Brooklyn
Democrats Denounce Senator Hill—Political Gossip.
NEW YORK, Oct. 10. —A third state ticket has been put in the
field by the Shepard Democracy of Kings county and it is expected that it will
be indorsed [sic] by the Independent Democrats throughout the state.
The ticket presents as the candidate of the
anti-Hill Democracy for governor, Everett P. Wheeler of New York and indorses
the candidacy of the regular Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor and
judge of the court of appeals, Daniel H. Lockwood and Charles F. Brown.
After having decided upon its candidates Mr.
Shepard's committee proceeded to nominate Hon. Charles S. Fairchild as chairman
of the campaign committee. He will be assisted by Franklin D. Locke of Buffalo, E. M. Shepard of Brooklyn, Henry A. Richmond of Buffalo, Seymour Van Santvoord
of Troy, Michael O'Connor of Kings county, Robert A. Widenman of Rockland
county, Thomas G. Shearman of Kings county, John A. Beal of New York, John
Brooks Leavitt of New York, Dick S. Ramsey of Buffalo and A. R. James of
Buffalo.
The ticket was nominated by a committee
composed of Charles J. Patterson, Thomas G.
Shearman, George R. Peabody, Michael E. O'Connor, R. R. Bowker, J. W. Greene,
Richard S. Ramsey, S. Perry Sturgis and Charles L. Ricardi.
R. B. Mclntyre had been named as one of the
committee, but he declined to serve.
The committee was appointed by Edward M.
Shepard as a result of a meeting of Shepard delegates to the Saratoga
convention. That meeting was held Monday night and the committee called for the
resolutions which were adopted without opposition.
As the Shepardites are said to have received
assurances that their nominee for governor will accept, all that remains to be
done to make the ticket the regular choice of the third party is to secure the
signatures of 3,000 persons as indorsers [sic] of the candidates and to file
these with the secretary of state on or before Oct. 16. On this showing the
secretary of state will issue the order for the printing of the third party
ballots.
Everett P. Wheeler is about 60 years of age,
and a lawyer in this city. He is the senior member of the firm of Wheeler,
Cortis & Godkin, with offices in this city.
He was chairman of the New York Civil
Service Reform association. He was a member of the New York board of education
from 1880 to 1887. He was one of the original founders of the old County
Democracy organization, one of the members of the committee of 100 which
organized the New York State Democracy and he is a member of the present
committee of 70. For five years he was the president of the New York Free Trade
club. He was also one of the commissioners who reported in favor of building
the New York elevated railroad system.
The platform adopted begins with a complaint
against the Saratoga convention for unseating the Shepard delegates. The
platform then advocates personal and religious liberty, denounces the
Republican party as the tool of trusts and declares for tariff reform, free
coal and free ores. It goes on then as follows:
The constitutional convention has sought to
[perpetrate] in the constitution of the state a gerrymander apportionment,
contrary to the principles of representative and Democratic government.
We blame for this danger to Democracy David
H. Hill, whose political shortsightedness in forcing the nomination of Maynard
threw the convention as well as the legislature into the hands of our political
opponents; and we ask fair-minded Republicans, with whom we voted against
Maynard, to vote with us against this unjust and partisan apportionment.
We favor homerule in cities, separate
municipal elections, the suppression of bosses and rings and the business
administration of municipalities.
We commend our Democratic president for his
fearless and consistent Democracy; for his great service in the repeal of the
Sherman law, and for his staunch support of true tariff reform. We denounce the
so-called Democratic senator, again a candidate for governor, who is a Democrat
only when Democracy means himself; who, in the senate of the United States, has
opposed the Democratic party, voted against the paramount principle of the Democratic
platform, excluded himself from the councils of the Democratic party and
demeaned the Democratic state of New York; whose political career has been
built upon corruption; who has prostituted an able intellect to evil ends; who
planned and directed the political crime rebuked in 1893 by a majority of 100,000;
who is the arch enemy of good government and real reform.
Brooklyn
Democrats Denounce Hill.
BROOKLYN, Oct. 10.—At a meeting of the
Brooklyn Democratic club resolutions were adopted condemning David B. Hill and
the Democratic organization as it at present exists. The meeting was well
attended and was presided over by A. J. Wolfe, one of the vice presidents of
the club. The first resolution of the evening was introduced by Everett Greene,
chairman of the executive committee. Embodied in this resolution was the
following:
The Democratic party has seen fit to abuse
the methods of the old party that was, and has introduced a system of
blackmail. These methods are not Democratic methods. As Democrats we introduce
this resolution to repudiate David
Bennett Hill and the Saratoga platform and we request all good Democrats not to
vote for Hill.
Resolved, That the Brooklyn Democratic club
hail with delight the nomination of an independent ticket and that this club
and all good Democrats refuse to submit to the dictation of bosses and bossism.
A second resolution adopted at the meeting
was one for the appointment of a committee to confer with other Democrats
regarding harmony in the congressional and assembly nominations.
China
Appeals to Germany.
BERLIN, Oct. 10.—It is stated here that
China has asked Germany to use her good offices with a view of terminating the war between China and Japan.
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| David B. Hill. |
Democratic
Skies Darkening.
David B. Hill is running his last race. The
mutterings of the coming storm which will sweep into disastrous defeat both the
man and his party in this state are growing louder every day, and every ray of
hope is fading out. The reform Democrats of Kings county, under the leadership
of Edward E. Shepard, who bolted the regular Democratic ticket nominated at
Saratoga, yesterday nominated a full third state ticket as follows: For
governor, Everett P. Wheeler of New York City; for lieutenant governor, Daniel
N. Lockwood of Buffalo; for judge of the court of appeals, Charles F. Brown of
Orange county.
◘ A more
deliberate plan to cut the life out of a regular nominee than this was never
laid. The Shepard people bolt Hill and endorse his anti-snapper associates on
the ticket. When the bolters thus knife Hill, it will only be natural for the
Hill men to knife back, and one faction of the Democracy will thus be
butchering one end of the ticket while the other faction rips up the other end.
Charles S. Fairchild—the chief of anti-snappers—will manage the Democratic
campaign against Hill, and can be trusted to manage it with the earnestness of
deep-seated hate.
◘ At the
same time with this bolting nomination comes the news that there a general
order from President Cleveland directing the leading government officials to
cancel their campaign engagements and to remain wholly out of the political
contest until further orders. Another positive statement is made that the
president will not write any letter in the New York campaign. There is no doubt
as to what all this means. The administration sees the certainty of Democratic
overthrow, and proposes to make the general party disaster the special occasion
for wiping out and burying its arch-enemy Hill. And in doing this it is going
to widen the breach in the party till it gapes beyond healing.
◘ The
Republicans of the Onondaga-Madison district nominate a gallant Union soldier
for congress, in the person of Major Theodore L. Poole of Syracuse. In civil
life his record is clean and honorable. In congress he will be a faithful
representative and staunch upholder of Republicanism.
◘ An
eloquent Japanese writer, Kanzo Uchimura, who writes so good English that he
ought to be editor of an American newspaper, tells all the world in a magazine
article what Japan is fighting for. He says the war in Korea is to decide the
stupendous question whether progress or retrogression is to be the law in the
orient. Retrogression was fostered first in Asia by the Persian empire, then
successively by Carthage, Spain and lastly by the Manchurian government of the
Chinese empire. China would have retrogression possess the orient forever.
"Japan's victory will mean free government, free religion, free education
and free commerce for 600,000,000 souls." When an inhabitant of the
western world thinks what the civilizing and modernizing of 600,000,000 people
means, the throwing open of their ports to commerce, the opening of their
countries to railroads and telegraphs, the establishment of modern schools and
the vast treasure house of race science that will be unlocked, the prospect
becomes dazzling, almost unthinkable in its vastness. Progress in Asia will
inevitably end the horrors of Siberia. So we all wish Japan well and hope she
will keep her head and not try to gobble too many spoils after she has whipped
China.
The Sugar
Bounty.
Every farmer and workingman should read the
communication from Mr. A. E. Seymour on the Sugar Bounty, which appears on our
seventh page. Mr. Seymour has been sugar inspector for the government under the
McKinley law in this district, and knows whereof he speaks, and places the
sugar situation in a light where every user of sugar cannot fail to see what
and where his interests are. If Northern farmers and wage-earners are cursing
themselves to-day for putting the Bourbon Southern Democracy in power, their
curses will be louder and deeper than ever after election. The iron of the
Wilson-Gorman bill has only begun to enter into their souls.
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The
Sugar Bounty.
To the
Editor of the Standard:
SIR—The doctrine of the Republican party is
that articles which we do not and cannot produce in sufficient quantity for our
own use should be admitted free of duty. For one hundred years we have been
endeavoring to produce sugar in this country. The result of a century of effort
has been that we produce about one-tenth of the sugar we consume. The
balance—nine-tenths—we are compelled to import. This being the case, the
Republican party, in the tariff law of 1890, put sugar on the free list.
In April, 1890, the sugar schedule of the McKinley
tariff law went into effect. Up to that time the price of sugar in the retail
stores had been from 6 1/2 to 7 cents per pound. When that law went into
operation the price of sugar at once dropped to from 4 1/2 to 5 cents per
pound. From that time on the farmer and the laboring man have been able to buy
sugar for their home use for just about two-thirds of what they had paid
before.
But how about the one-tenth of sugar
production here at home? The removal of duty and the consequent reduction in
price of imported sugar brought the price of the home product down also.
Realizing that this would be so, Republican statesmen, in framing the McKinley
law, determined to protect the sugar industry which existed in this country,
and so, as a part of the bill, it was arranged that a bounty equal to the
reduction in duty should be paid to American producers to preserve to them the
market price of their sugar and to stimulate greater production; looking, if
possible, to the time when in our own country we should be able to produce the
sugar needed for our own consumption.
Recognizing the fact that the price of maple
sugar was regulated largely by the price of beet and cane sugar, and that the
removal of the duty would cause a reduction in the market price of maple sugar,
the bounty was extended so as to cover the maple sugar production. So that now
for three years the farmers of Cortland county and Central New York have not
only been able to buy the sugar they used in their families for about
two-thirds of its former price, but have received a bounty upon the maple sugar
which they have produced, thereby preserving to them its market value. Thus
they have been doubly benefited.
But, no. This is not altogether the case.
Last spring the great bulk of maple sugar
produced was manufactured and sold under the provisions of the bounty system.
Something like 200,000 pounds were thus produced in Cortland county alone. This
sugar was properly tested by the government. The records of the tests were sent
to each producer, showing nearly $4,000 in bounties due to the farmers of
Cortland county.
The Wilson bill, repealing the bounty,
became a law on Aug. 27, 1894. It has already been decided that the bill is not
retroactive in its provisions. And yet, notwithstanding this fact, the Democratic
administration has refused to pay the bounties earned and due upon last
spring's production of sugar. This is Democratic repudiation, pure and simple.
We wonder how our Democratic farmer friends
like it. Nor is this all. The Wilson
bill puts a duty of 40 per cent ad valorem upon sugar at the dictation of the
Sugar Trust. This means that the farmer and the laboring man will soon be
paying from 6 to 7 cents per pound for the sugar they use. The millions thus
raised by sugar duties will come directly from the pockets of the people, and
because the bulk of the sugar is consumed by the great mass of the middle
class—the farmers and working men and their families—this money will come very
largely from the pockets of those least able to pay it.
But, some one says, "The Wilson bill
has already been in effect since Aug. 27, 1894, and sugar has not gone up
yet." That is partly true and the reasons for it are obvious. The great
sugar monopolists bought three or four months supply of sugar just before the
passage of the bill in anticipation of the duty. "But," you say,
"why haven't they raised the price?" Let us tell you why. The Democratic
congressional campaign committee has prepared a campaign document, which is
intended to deceive the people in regard to the price of sugar. It will be
scattered broadcast in a day or two, and all the Democratic papers will take
their cue from it and join in the work of deception. It contends that according
to the quotations of the Philadelphia Produce Exchange, the wholesale price of
sugar has not increased. Their further contention is that since the wholesale
price has not increased there is no good reason why the retail price should
have gone up.
The fact is that the retail price has
advanced all over the country, so that now $1 will buy only eighteen pounds of
sugar. Before the bill passed $1 would buy twenty-two pounds. The retailers
purchased large stocks of sugar before the bill passed, anticipating a rise, as
did the Sugar Trust people, and almost everybody else.
It is known, however, that the Democratic
campaign managers have demanded of the Sugar Trust that the price shall not be
advanced pending the elections. They represented to the trust that an advance
would prove disastrous to the Democratic party, which had proved itself the
friend of the trust, and might also prove fatal to the trust in the senate next
winter.
The trust appreciated the force of the
argument and has not advanced the wholesale price. The trust is able to control
the wholesalers, but cannot keep the hundreds of thousands of retailers from
taking advantage of the condition which the Sugar Trust tariff bill has made,
that is, that the duty warrants them in asking advanced prices.
The covenant between the trust and the
Democratic campaign managers will not last beyond Election day. After that the
trust will feel at liberty to bleed the American people to the full extent of
the license given them by the Democratic congress.
How do our Democratic farmers enjoy the
prospect? Sooner or later the incompetency and dishonesty of the Democratic
party will make all classes suffer. The merchants and manufacturers have been
suffering from it for eighteen months. The veteran soldiers of the Republic see
what a Democratic administration thinks of them by the fact that pension
payments have been reduced more than $20,000,000 during the last year. The
farmers see the effect of the election of 1892 when they try to sell their
wool. And now comes this crowning infamy of all, and the farmers of Central New
York are to be deprived of these bounties that are their rightful due. How
long, how long will our Democratic farmer friends continue to vote with a party
that thus shows its utter contempt for all their interests?
We predict that on the 6th day of November,
the Democratic farmers of New York state will answer this question by casting
their votes against a party that will so crucify their every interest as the
Democratic party has done, and for the grand old Republican party, which is
ever and always for American interests, American manhood and American homes.
Farmers, workingmen, think on these things! Yours truly,
A. E. SEYMOUR.
—The mechanical drawing class meets to-night
in the Y. M. C. A. parlor at 8:15
o'clock.
—The Democratic county committee will meet
Saturday at 2 P. M. in the Democrat building.
—Druggist C. F. Brown has one of the
Japanese parasols as a souvenir of the dedicating exercises at Binghamton
yesterday.
—Scarcely a horse can be induced to get near
enough to the new watering trough to drink from it. Horses don't like the looks
of white paint. It looks too clean.
—A mothers' meeting will be held at the East
Side readingrooms [sic] on Thursday, Oct. 11, at 2:30 P. M. Two young ladies of
the East Side Sunday-school will sing some select pieces of music. All are
invited to be present.
—Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Lane entertained a
number of their Homer friends at their residence on Church-st. last evening, the
occasion being the tenth anniversary of their marriage. Progressive whist was
the amusement of the evening and delicious refreshments were served.
—The regular meeting of the Woman's Christian
Temperance union will be held in their rooms, Saturday, Oct. 13. Consecration
service will commence promptly at 2:30, after which reports will be given by
the delegates in attendance at the state convention recently held in Jamestown,
N. Y.
—Mr. Edwin Robbins has just had placed in
his store a fine Porter Farley cigar case manufactured at Rochester. It is ten
feet in length and the beveled plate glass runs from the floor to the top of
the case. It is fitted with moistening trays, which keep the cigars in fine
condition. The case adds materially to the convenience and appearance of the
store.
Student
Taylor's Case.
Frederick J. Taylor, the Cornell student who
was confined in jail by Supreme Court Judge Gerritt A. Forbes for failing to
obey the behest of the court, was released by a decision of the court of
appeals yesterday. The court decides that the order of the general term should be
reversed and Taylor discharged.
Taylor is one of the Cornell students charged
with killing a woman and making seriously ill several students by injecting noxious
gases into a room where a college fraternity were having a banquet.
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