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| William H. Clark, the "Sourkrout Editor." |
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| Benton. B. Jones, the Democrat editor and "cabbage critic." |
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
◘ The sourkrout
editor of the Cortland Standard seems to have retired from the business
of importing cabbage from Germany since election. He was doing an immense
business in that line up to Nov. 6, but we presume the demand is not equal to
the supply. These German cabbages must be very hardy to stand a four weeks ocean
voyage without spoiling.
◘ Morton
has filed his sworn statement of expenses for the campaign. The total amount is
$19,790 of which the Republican state committee received $13,500. This is
understood to be about the amount placed in the hands of the Republican county
committee of Cortland county to get out the aged and infirm voters. What did
the other counties do for swag?
◘ Harlow G.
Borthwick of this place made a great run for the office of sheriff. He only
decided to run on Friday morning before election and then sent out his pasters
and although he was not a candidate of any party he received 820 votes. For a
paster candidate this vote is remarkable. About 400 votes came from the Democrats
and the same number from the Republicans.
◘ We shall
have no more of Democratic hard times. That senseless cry has served its
purpose and hereafter Republicans will declare that everything is lovely and
the poor laborer will have no need to work. All he will have to do will be to
sit in the house these cold winter days and wait for Republican prosperity to
fall into his lap. If he comes out fat in the spring he can thank his stars
that he knew enough to vote the Republican ticket, but if he starves to death
while waiting for the good times to come, the Republican howlers will ask Democrats
to contribute towards his funeral expenses.
◘ The
Republican party is never troubled with compunctions of conscience. In 1876 it
stole the Presidency and in 1880 the party purchased it. Republican 'soap' did
the business in that campaign and in 1888 colonization of voters gave the party
the Presidency and its leaders, as well as the rank and file, admit it and think it was entirely proper.
They encourage reform in the Democratic party but have no use for that
sentiment in their own organization. When they play politics they play hard and
use any means that comes to hand to bring success. On the other hand Democrats
are frequently imbued with a spirit of reform and join the republicans destroying
the party, while the latter egg them on and when the work has been accomplished
laugh in their capricious sleeves.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
Friday,
November 9, 1894.
◘ Sourkrout
Clark is probably the best authority on the German cabbage question to be found
in these parts.
◘ Could
the editor of the Standard discuss the cabbage question so wisely and so
well if he hadn't been fed chiefly on sourkrout for some months past?
Physicians will undoubtedly take the cue and prescribe large quantities of
sourkrout for those patients who are in need of mental stimulants.
◘ It was a
landslide. The republicans will probably have a majority of nearly one hundred
in the next house of representatives and one in the senate. They will be in
full control in this state after January 1st next and will boss New York city
and Brooklyn. The state legislature is overwhelmingly republican and the
constitutional amendments are all carried. The Republican vote in this state
does not seem to have increased in the country districts, but there is a great
falling off in the Democratic vote. Democrats remained at home. The New York World has done its level best to ruin the party it
claimed to serve. It met with better success in trying to pull down than it
ever did in trying to build up.
◘ Last
Thursday the Cortland Standard contained an article on cabbage. It
claimed that Germany was shipping immense quantities of cabbage
to this country and that this had knocked the bottom out of the
market in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and elsewhere. Of course the
Wilson [tariff] bill was to blame for the present low price of cabbage. In
this enlightened age it is almost as great a crime to be simple
as to be wicked. Ask the farmers themselves the reason for the low price
of cabbage. They will tell you that the immense crop raised is the
cause of the fall in prices. Farmers that never raised cabbage
before planted large fields this year and those who had made the
business profitable in years past raised double the quantity ever
raised before. In some counties where farmers had never tried the
experiment before, hundreds of acres were planted this year. Farmers
themselves have been predicting all summer that the price would rule
very low because of the extra acreage planted. The supply is
simply greater than the demand. Does it look reasonable that Germany
would undertake to ship cabbage here and compete with us after
paying freight charges across the water? The editor of the Standard must
have been living on the rankest kind of German sourkrout through the recent
campaign.
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| Amos J. Cummings. |
INGRATITUDE.
(From the Albany Argus
Nov. 12.)
The Democratic party was
defeated in this State mainly by the votes of working men. The Wheelerites, the
Silk Stockingites and the Clubites did not amount to enough to bother about. In
order that the workingmen may know how they and their friends are regarded by
the Wheelerites and their kind, it is well to print this extract from the New
York Evening Post:
"We refer to the defeat
for congress in this city of his and labor's pet candidate, Amos Cummings.
Amos' heart bled for the rioters last summer, and nothing but what he called
the 'red tape' of the constitution and laws prevented him from calling off the
troops himself. Then he had the endorsement of every kind and variety of 'labor'
in his district, of all the veterans and letter carriers, and the friends of a great
navy, and was nominated by Tammany in a district where the majority of 1892 was
more than 7,000. But he was beaten, and we should like Gompers' explanation of
that phenomenon."
Amos J. Cummings is an old
printer. He enlisted in the army as a private and was promoted to be sergeant
major for deeds of valor in the field in defense of the Union. He has been a
member of Typographical Union No. 6 all the years of his manhood. In congress
he had passed bills making the hours of letter carriers eight instead of an
indefinite number, and other measures such as the workingmen desired.
When he came up for
re-election to congress in a workingmen's district, he was defeated, and a
Democratic majority of 7,000 was turned into a Republican majority.
Why should any man make
enemies of the Evening Post and its kind by his friendship to organized
labor, if organized labor is going to repay his efforts by rejecting him? The Evening
Post seems to have a longer memory than the labor unions of New York city.
It delights in jeering at Amos J. Cummings, the printer, and in attacking Samuel
Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor. It treats the
workingmen who voted against Amos J. Cummings with that contempt which any man
who votes against his friends deserves.
HERE AND THERE.
Dr J. W. Hughes of this
village has been granted a [military service] pension.
Have you noticed the fireplace
in Case, Ruggles & Bristol's show window?
Mr. C. Fred Thompson, the grocer, has something to say to our readers
in another column.
The rooms of the Board of
Supervisors are now connected by telephone with the Central office.
The Columbia club will give a
masquerade ball in Brockway's hall, Homer, on Thanksgiving eve.
W. H. Newton, F. J. Peck and
F. B. Nourse have been elected house committee of the Tioughnioga club.
The log cabin built of
comfortables in Warren, Tanner & Co.'s show window is attracting much
attention.
The Players' Club will present
"Penny, the Waif" in Hulbert's Opera House in Marathon next week
Friday evening.
Boynton & Co. will
furnish the chemicals for use in the Normal school laboratory for the ensuing
year, they being the lowest bidders for the contract.
Farmers' Institutes will be
held in the following towns on the dates named: DeRuyter, Jan. 3—4; Cortland,
Jan. 4—5; Freeville. Jan. 7; Dryden, Jan. 18—19; Cincinnatus, Jan. 30;
Marathon, Jan. 31, Feb 1.
Dr. S. J. Sornberger has
leased rooms 3 and 4 on the second floor of the Democrat building which
he will use as offices. Dr. Sornberger [formerly a professor at Cortland
Normal School] is a graduate from the Chicago Medical College and stood
very high in his class. His many friends in this vicinity will be pleased to
know that he has decided to locate in Cortland for the practice of his
profession.
Dickerson & McGraw have a new
advertisement this week.
Mr. D. B. Smith, proprietor of the Owego
Valley House in Harford Mills, will give
a Thanksgiving party at his hotel on Thursday evening, Nov. 29, 1894. Music by
Daniels' full orchestra. Full bill $1.50.
Mr. E. C. Ercanbrack, proprietor of the
hotel in Preble, will give a Thanksgiving party at his hotel, Thursday. Nov. 29. Roe & Blakeley's orchestra
furnishes the music.
Mr. L. R. Eastman of New York, who is the
patentee of a ventilating shoe, is in town and is endeavoring to organize a
stock company for its manufacture. It has been examined by the leading shoe
dealers here, all of whom pronounce it first-class. It is intended to be worn
by persons whose feet have a habit of perspiring, especially in summer, and if
it will do what is claimed for it, the shoe should meet with a ready sale. If
the factory is started here it will employ about fifty people.
A few years since three or four ambitious
young men, who had done some time in local printing offices, started a new
daily in Binghamton, called the Evening Herald. They were told that
there was no room or need for another paper in that town, but after a hard
struggle with many ups and downs, principally downs, the paper came to be
recognized as a necessity and a brilliant success. On the 7th of the present
month the Evening Herald Co. started a morning edition and now two daily
papers are issued from their office. The enterprise shown by the company deserves
success and if the morning edition fulfills the promise of its early days we confidently
predict that it will meet with a hearty welcome and prove a paying enterprise.
TOWN
REPORTS.
Scott.
Mrs. Myra Gould is stopping with her mother,
Mrs. Emily Clark.
D. J. Barber has lost the horse he purchased
of E. F. Squires of Cortland last spring.
Some from this town expect to go upon the
excursion train to New York city next week.
It has snowed every day here since one week
ago last Sunday and it really acts like winter in earnest.
George Fox has had the misfortune to cut his knee with a
drawshave which confines him to the house.
Frank Winchester is through with his summers
work for E. F. Squires of Cortland, and is repairing his barn.
Sylvester Hazard is upon the sick list. James
H. Pratt is slowly improving. Elbert Barber still cares for him during the night
season.
The story that was afloat the next day after
election that Levi P. Morton was offering
$11.00 per ton for cabbages lacks confirmation. The crop about here at
this writing from all appearances seems to have gone into winter quarters.
A very light vote was polled in this town on
election day. It became evident before night that all would not be able to vote
for lack of time on account of the multitude of tickets and the slow progress being
made; as time moves on the crowd at the gate and the country surrounding it
grew larger and more compact and the tobacco smoke grew thicker and quite a number
would not stay in the smoke the length of time necessary in order to get a vote
in, and went home without voting. Some paired off rather than be squeezed to a
jelly and then not get inside the gate. Only 185 votes cast out of 285 on the
registry.
We find ourself [sic] losing faith in
humanity also in much of the professed Christianity. Of all men entitled to the
votes of temperance, [and] christian men, it seems as though David B. Hill and
Levi P. Morton are not or should not be in it. Mr. Hill has been tried and has
proved to be a faithful ally of the saloon business, and Mr. Morton has been for
years past, and now is the owner of a liquor saloon in the capital of our
nation. Certainly nothing was embodied in the platforms upon which they stand
that can be claimed as antagonistic to the liquor trade, but each stands forth in
bold relief as a license party. Now then consider the utterances of the various
church bodies as they gather in conference and declare by vote that no party that
favors license in any form, or fails to antagonize the saloon should receive
the support of christian men, but what do many of them do "when election
day comes round?" They throw aside or swallow down their own utterances
and vote directly against their own declarations. Is it any wonder that people
lose faith in the christianity of such men? Better not say one word unless they
mean it. In years gone by there seemed to be a great demand for wool to pull
over the eyes of temperance men, but the bulk of professed temperance men have
voted against their professions so many times that they have seemingly become hardened,
and seem ready to vote for anything and anybody that the saloon leaders of the
parties shall put in the field, with their eyes wide open and the wool pulled
off. This of course lessens the demand for wool and makes it cheap, but the
republicans say that it is the tariff that has brought down the wool. Their
great cry now is for protection, protection for potatoes, protection for wool, protection
for saloons, and protection for cabbages, in fact protection for nearly everything
but men, women and children. We think it would be a good idea for these tariff
men to put a duty upon the foreigners who are shipped in to this country by the
thousand. That might help the laboring man of this country. But we must stop. "Truth
crushed to earth will rise again; the eternal years of God are here," and
believing in this saying, we still have hope.
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