IT WAS A DELUGE.
An Overwhelming Republican Congress.
220
Republicans, 126 Democrats and 10 Populists.
Morton's
Plurality 150,000.
Assembly
106 Republicans to 22 Democrats.
NEW YORK, 8:30 P. M., Nov. 7.—Indications
are that the next house of representatives will consist of 220 Republicans, 126
Democrats and ten Populists. The constitutional amendment in this state
prohibiting pool selling, etc., will have at least 20,000 majority in this
city. Morton's plurality is close to 150,000 in the state. The assembly will
stand 106 Republicans to 22 Democrats. Four hundred thirty city election
districts give 30,722 for and 18,895 against the Greater New York Consolidation
measure. About 112,142 votes were cast for the revised constitution and 84,878
against. Pluralities varied greatly on each amendment in this city, the vote
upon reapportionment being exceedingly close. Strong's plurality over Grant,
42,617.
Bloody
Bridles Waite Beaten.
DENVER, Colo., Nov. 7—Blood to-the-Bridles Waite, the Populist governor of Colorado who was a candidate for reelection, was
buried under a Republican plurality of 20,000. The vote was heavy, and the
women took a large and active part.
The
Amendments Carried.
NEW YORK, NOV. 7.—The latest returns from all parts of
the state indicate that all the constitutional amendments have been carried.
TAMMANY'S
DOWNFALL.
Victory
of Strong and the Reform Parties Most Complete.
NEW YORK, NOV. 7.—Tammany is defeated. The
nominal majority of 60,000 usually polled by that organization in New York city
has been obliterated and an opposition nonpartisan majority of 40,000 to 45,000
has been piled up, making the net opposition gain more than 100,000.
Never
since 1871, the year in which the revelations concerning the operations of Tweed
were made, have the people been so thoroughly aroused against Tammany Hall and
the returns show that a severe blow has been struck at the foundation of the
most powerful local political organization in the country.
Two years ago the Rev. Dr. Parkhurst delivered
a sermon in his church, the Madison Square Presbyterian, in which he charged
Tammany with misgovernment in all the departments of the city, and particularly
charged the police administration was corrupt. He was elected president of the
Society for the Prevention of Vice and then began a remarkable crusade against
Tammany.
At the last session of the legislature the matter
was laid before the senate, with the result that a committee was appointed to
examine into the various New York city departments.
John W. Goff, who has been elected recorder
on the Independent ticket, was selected as counsel to the committee. The result
of his labors was the presentation of evidence which, in the popular mind and
in the expressed view of the New York city and state newspapers, implicated
police officials in corrupt practices. The campaign culminated in the creation
of a committee of 70 citizens, and under its leadership a concentrated political movement was directed against
Tammany Hall, in which the Good Government clubs, the German Reform
association, the State Democracy and the local Republican organization joined
in indorsing a non-partisan ticket, headed by William L. Strong
for mayor and John W. Goff for recorder.
So complete is the downfall of the great
political organization that its nominees for congress are involved in the
catastrophe. With the exception of one of its congressional candidates the
Tammany congressional candidates have been defeated. Mr. Strong's plurality for
mayor exceeds 40,000.
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TWO—EDITORIALS.
After
the Battle.
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| William L. Wilson. |
"Praise God from Whom all blessings
flow."
"The voice of the people is the voice
of God." Even a deaf man, though a Democrat, can hear it this time without
an ear trumpet.
Where, O where is William L. Wilson? He has
found that his hold on office is a good deal weaker than the life of a
republic. No more English, free-trade dinners for him. John Bull has no further
use for him. His name is Dennis.
How about those further attacks on
protection that Grover and Billy Wilson were meditating? Indefinitely
postponed. Their projectors are hauled off for repairs.
How about Morton's coachman? How about trying
to stop Niagara with a few peanut shells?
Billy Wilson of West Virginia took in that
English dinner and made that free-trade, unpatriotic speech just in time. If he
had waited till after election the Britishers wouldn't have felt like wasting
the dinner on him any more than he would have felt like inflicting the speech
on them. The voters of West Virginia have knocked the inspiration all out of
Wilson and his speeches. Grover will have to find a place for him somewhere in
his political pauper house.
Rooster Wilson of West Virginia had just time
to clap his wings and crow before the voters of his district yanked him off his
political dunghill. He will stay off.
It is a condition and not a theory which now
confronts Billy Wilson of
West
Virginia. And the condition is of a far more substantial nature than the
theory—and far more unpleasant.
The business of the country is now assured
against further assault for two years to come. No more threats of closed factories
and ruined industries. The manufactures which have been crippled by the Wilson
bill will have to struggle along as best they can till a Republican congress
and president can give them relief, but they know the worst and can act
accordingly.
Business confidence will return with Republican
victory. Improvement, slow but steady, will promptly appear, and next spring
the wheels of every industry which has not been smashed by the perfidy-and-dishonor
tariff bill will begin to whirl as of old.
Democratic rebellion against the prosperity
of the country met its Gettysburg on yesterday. David B. Hill's charge was
repulsed as disastrously as was the rebel general Pickett's.
Rensselaer county, the home of Bat Shea,
where the machine methods of Sheehan, Murphy and Tammany reached near fullest development
in murder at the polls, shows a gain of 7,000 Republican votes this year over
1893. The blood of the martyrs is the seed of Republican majorities, as well as
of the church.
A fit rebuke has been administered to the
candidate and the party who sought, for political purposes, to excite religious
prejudice and fan denominational hate. It was a contemptible and unpatriotic
trick and has received its deserts.
It would be interesting to know whether
David B. Hill doesn't think now that he was a little over-smart when he stole
the legislature? There is such a thing, even in politics, as being too smart. A
slick article may be too slick.
Maynard's compliments to Hill—"Now you
know how it is yourself. And how do you like it?"
President Cleveland went to his country home
at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. At the White House Secy. Gresham, Carlisle,
Smith, Morton and Herbert listened to the bulletins received by Private Secy.
Thurber and occasionally a telephone message was sent to the President. The
definite figures showing Hill's overwhelming overthrow were among the first
messages sent to the president and all obtainable estimates from Wilson's
district were promptly transmitted to him. No visitors were admitted to the
White House except cabinet officers. What a delightful evening it must have
been for all concerned!
More than all other agencies combined,
whether committees, speakers or workers, the Republican and anti-Hill press of
the state is entitled to the credit for the great victory of yesterday. Never has
the press been more active, aggressive and able, and never has it so flooded the
reading public with fact and argument. Napoleon's opinion of the power of the
newspaper has never been more emphatically confirmed than by the results of the
campaign just closed. The more than 13,000 copies of The STANDARD, daily and
semi-weekly, which have gone out every week, have done a great work in helping
to roll up the 1,800 Republican majority in the county.
Local
Political Notes.
Has any county ticket in Cortland county
ever received such majorities as this year? And yet there were kickers who
tried to argue that it was weak! The
Republicans of Cortlandville and Homer decline to bolt because any one's slate
is smashed. They know good nominees when they see them and will support them.
The prediction that Borthwick wouldn't
receive as many votes as he had names on his petition proved true. It was a
lame and impotent conclusion of a most ill-advised and indiscreet canvass.
One ticket in District No. 5 in this town
contained only two names, David B. Hill and Harlow G. Borthwick. Hill's name
was printed on the ticket—all the other names being marked off—and Borthwick's
was pasted on. The man who voted that ticket must feel proud of it.
The STANDARD gave its portrait of Morton
last night to David Finn, fireman on E., C. & N. switch engine No. 14—
"Gus" Hattler engineer—to decorate the headlight with. The good news
had wrought "Dave" up to a high pitch of enthusiasm, and we thought
he was entitled to the picture.
Hon. R. T. Peck informs us that he this
morning sent the following dispatch:
CORTLAND, N. Y., Nov. 7, 1894.
To Hon. David B. Hill, Albany, N. Y.
Cortland thrashed some old straw and burned
the balance of powder yesterday. The senate steal of Onondaga-Cortland district
adjusted. Morton eighteen hundred plurality.
RUFUS T. PECK, Elected Senator
1891.
Messrs. F. Cy. Straat, A. S. Brown, John C.
Barry, Enos E, Mellon, John Miller, and a number of others were so full of
Republican enthusiasm last evening that they got out the City band, the Normal
Republican club, the Young Men's Republican club and several hundred citizens
and paraded the streets, marching first to the Tioughnioga club rooms, where
Judge Eggleston made a brief speech and cigars were distributed; then to The
STANDARD office where the boys called for a speech and got both a speech and
cigars; then to Wesley Hooker's; then to R. Bruce Smith's; then to the
Messenger House, where F. M. Miller made them a brief speech; then to Hon. A.
A. Carley's and Thomas E. Courtney's; then to the sheriff's office where
Candidate Palmer thanked the boys in a neat little speech and distributed the
cigars; then to Hon. R. T. Peck's, who responded to a call for a speech, then
to Hon. W. D. Tisdale's. It was a wildly enthusiastic crowd, and they made
things jingle.
A Bet
Paid.
The election bet which was made Monday
morning was paid this morning. Frank Hilligus had the pleasure of being wheeled
in a cart by J. G. Diamond from the Cortland House to the Messenger House and
return. The cart was decorated with flags and brooms and Morton's lithograph
and the winner proudly carried a rooster. Mr. Diamond was so overcome when be
finished that he had to go to bed.
LOCAL
PERSONAL.
MR. ELLIS BREED left on the 4:20 train
yesterday afternoon for Dixon, Ill.
MRS. W. B. INMAN of Eaton and Miss Hattie
Colwell of Sherburne are guests of Dr. and Mrs. F. D. Reese.
MISS MAY COLLINS and Mr. C. N. Andrews of
North Syracuse are guests at the home of Dr. W. J. Moore.
MR S. B. SMITH of Canandaigua is in town and
for a number of weeks will be the guest of his son, Mr. F. D. Smith, at 6
Argyle Place.
MR. A. D. WEEKS, a student at the Normal, is
a resident of McLean. He went home yesterday morning and voted for Morton and
was back in Cortland in just forty-eight minutes.
MR. JAMES MCLACHLIN of Pasadena, Cal.,
formerly of this vicinity, was yesterday elected to congress by over 3,000
majority on the Republican ticket. His Cortland friends congratulate him
heartily,
MRS. AND MRS. CHESTER WICKWIRE and family,
Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Wickwire and family, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Stilson, Mrs. Edward
Stilson and Mrs. Mary Stilson are in New York attending the wedding of Miss
Grace Sanders to Mr. John H. Macy, which occurred at the Madison-ave. church at
noon to-day.
HOMER
DEPARTMENT.
Gleanings
of News From Our Twin Village.
Mr. Orrin P. Cummings, who came home to
vote, returned to Brooklyn last night.
Mr. C. H. Nearing has returned from a
business trip in Pennsylvania.
The election returns were taken last night
at the Windsor and Mansion Houses and at the Columbia club. The streets were
filled from the time the returns began coming in until very late last night by
an enthusiastic crowd. A drum corps paraded the streets at the head of a large
party of men and boys who shouted till they were hoarse. A cannon boomed and a
bonfire lighted up the streets. It was a Republican night that will be long
remembered.
Prof. Prager of Ithaca was in town yesterday.
He is considering the advisability of opening a dancing school here. He has a
fine reputation as a dancing professor and he will doubtless be able to start a
large class.
Gifts to the [Aged Women] home for the month
of October: Mrs. C. M. Armstrong, potatoes; Mr. Merrick, Blodgett Mills,
potatoes and apples; Mr. E. D. Plumb, potatoes, squash, beets, vegetable
oysters, pumpkins; Mrs. R. C. Shearer, potatoes; Mr. John Arnold, cabbage and
cauliflower; Mrs. Burroughs, apples; Mr.Van Hoesen, cabbage; Mrs. Mary Bacon,
jelly, canned peaches, pickled tomatoes; Mr. Gray, turnips; Mrs. J. M.
Schermerhorn, carrots and celery; Mrs. Coleman Hitchcock, potatoes.
The monthly meeting of the board of managers
of the Home of the Aged Women of
Cortland county will be held at the Home for Aged Women, Tuesday afternoon,
Nov. 13 at 2:30 o'clock.
Mr. E. B. Kenfield has purchased the
Brunswick.
Mr. Thomas J. Murray of Cortland has
accepted a place as clerk at the Mansion House.
BREVITIES.
—A drunk was discharged in police court this
morning.
—Active work will be resumed tomorrow
morning on the street railway,
— Mike Garney began this morning to serve a
sentence of five days for being drunk.
—Three other persons beside Miss Roe are
reported to have slipped and fallen on bills which have been pasted on the sidewalks.
—A goodly majority of Cortland Republicans are
wearing on their hats and coats the little feather roosters, which silently
crow over the result.
—James Nelson, Henry Turner and James Naylor
were in police court this morning, the two former being charged with
intoxication and the latter with vagrancy. All were discharged.
—All are speaking in the highest terms of
the refreshments which Mr. E. E. Price served last evening from 9 till 12
o'clock, during the time that refreshments were served at the Tioughnioga club
rooms.
—The young people's society of Grace church
will hold a social at Clover club rooms Thursday evening. A specially fine
musical program has been arranged and will commence at 8 o'clock. All are
cordially invited.
"Fogg's
Ferry."
"Fogg's Ferry" again packed the Opera
House last evening and the performance was superior in every detail to the previous
entertainment. The election returns between the acts proved very interesting
and after a few had been read a Democratic cheer was a rarity.
A young lot of hoodlums had congregated in
the gallery and partially spoiled the entertainment for many by their jeers.
The Opera House police was conspicuous by his absence and the loafers had it
about all their own way for a time. Mr. Cummings came to the rescue, however,
and gave the gang the choice of staying and behaving in a civilized manner or
getting out.
If there was any doubt as to the sincerity of
the feelings of the audience the applause which followed Mr. Cummings' words
proved the position they took.
A Sudden
Death.
Benjamin Eells died at 10 o'clock this morning
of a complication of diseases after only a week's illness, aged 31 years. Mrs.
Eells is also ill, having been confined to her bed for the past nine weeks with
a fever. Her mother is also sick in bed with pleurisy
Mr. Eells was employed as plumber for L. R.
Lewis and besides his wife leaves a child eighteen months of age, a mother at
Walton and a number of brothers and sisters, one of the former, Mr. Granville
Eells residing in Cortland. The deceased was a member of the Congregational church.
The funeral will be held Friday from his late residence, 12 Arthur-ave. The
time will be announced later.
A
LIBERAL GROOM.
Albert
Knapp and Mary Ann Hotchkiss Were Married.
Justice Dorr C. Smith officiated at a wedding
at 6 o'clock Monday evening which proved quite an amusing affair. The groom was
Albert Knapp, who is in his twenties and the bride was Mary Ann Hotchkiss, who
has seen more than twice that number of birthdays. The bride kept poking the
ribs of the groom during the ceremony and telling him to pay the justice. The
first words had scarcely been spoken when the husband obeyed the wife and made
Justice Smith a present of a dollar. He then offered to purchase the cigars but
Mr. Smith did not then care to smoke. The husband then handed him ten cents
telling him to return five cents in change and buy a cigar when he felt like
smoking. The happy couple then left the office.
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