WE WIPED THE GROUND WITH THEM

Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, November 6, 1895.

WE WIPED THE GROUND WITH THEM.

REPUBLICAN.

Empire State Ticket Elected by 80,000 Majority.

   NEW YORK, Nov. 6—The Republicans have carried New York state "above the Harlem" for the head of the state ticket by a plurality clearly estimated at 130,000. The Democrats have carried New York city by a plurality of fully 41,612 for the head of the state ticket, and have carried Brooklyn by 6,000, giving the state to the Republicans by probably 54,000, showing a net Republican gain over the election of two years ago of nearly 30,000.

   ALBANY, Nov. 6—New York state has not added another landslide record to the famous ones of the past two years. The party which came into power by one of these landslides is not, by the vote of yesterday, dismissed except as relates to a few municipalities. The state officers elected two years ago by the Republican party have been reelected and the two branches of the legislature remain as before under the direction of the Republicans.

   The election throughout the state was orderly and rapidly conducted, and the results were so quickly compiled that all the talk about the difficulty of handling the blanket ballot went for naught.

   So far as the success or failure of the blanket ballot was concerned the advices from all over the state show that there was little or no trouble, and that the ballot was so much of a success that the vote was polled quicker than ever before.

   The earlier returns showed a rather significant fact, so far as New York city was concerned, and that was that while there was a large increase in the Democratic vote of the past two years, there was not the same percentage of loss to be attributed to the Republican ticket.

   This was accounted for on the ground that the Democratic vote of 1893 had been greatly reduced by people of that party remaining away from the polls.

   The most interesting part of the summary made of the early returns was a comparison with the vote of a normal year, that is, a year when the normal Democratic and Republican vote was cast, and when so-called landslides did not figure in the returns. These comparisons showed that after the defeat of the Democratic state ticket in 1894, the percentage of loss in the year succeeding for the Democracy was about 6 1/3 per cent.

   The early returns demonstrated that while the Republicans were still on the winning side of the fence so far as the state ticket is concerned, that this percentage of loss has not only been stopped, but that there was a decided gain for the Democracy in general, and that vice versa, the Republicans, taking last year or 1894 as a criterion, would have to figure the percentage of loss upon their side.

   The press returns, as received by those in the executive chamber were of such a nature that Secretary Cole sent word to Governor Morton that the Republican ticket had been elected, that the assembly and senate would be Republican and that Tammany had again obtained control of New York.

   The re-election of Coggeshall and Raines was one of the features of the news report and predictions were rife that there would be lively times in the senate the coming winter.

   As towards midnight the returns from the counties north of New York city came in all predictions of Republican loss, and Democratic gains were noted.

   Palmer for secretary of state, whose plurality it was alleged would be greatly cut in all northern counties, showed a gain over his vote of 1893. In almost every county he had gained, except possibly in New York, Kings and Erie, while his opponent King had lost.

   The only way in which there could be said to be a Democratic gain towards normality in the vote was induced by the gain from New York city, where Tammany had made a meagre sort of record by obtaining a plurality in New York.

   In counties where the Democrats had expected to gain, except Albany, the gain was not apparent, and the whole support of the Democratic state ticket seemed to fall upon New York and Kings counties. In Kings county the surprise was great. It was the home county of the Democratic candidate for secretary of state, and yet it had not polled the vote that it was supposed it would. Indeed, it fell far behind.

   Even Albany county did not come up to the record it was supposed to make. It found a favorite in its nominee for secretary of state and kept its plurality down to the barest kind of plurality for the Democrats. The result, taken at its best was a well earned victory for the Republicans, so far as state issues went.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

A Great Day.

   Yesterday was a Republican day in point of weather and every other respect. A Tammany open-saloon-on-Sunday victory in New York City and a Democratic victory in the municipal election in Syracuse were the only spots on the political sun. Maryland, New Jersey and Kentucky go Republican. New York leaves no doubt as to where she will stand next year. Pennsylvania goes all one way and Massachusetts also. Ohio gives 100,000 plurality for the Republicans. Majorities are so big that no one takes any interest in them. The election of a Republican president next November is sure as sunrising.

David B. Hill.

Senate and Assembly.

   The legislature chosen yesterday will be the first under the new constitution. It will consist of a senate of 50 members and an assembly of 150. In both branches it will be strongly Republican. This is one of the gratifying results of the elections. It assures the completion of reforms inaugurated last winter. It means Republican control of legislation, unhampered by traitors and mercenaries. It means the close of David B. Hill's public services on the 4th of March, 1897. The one fly in the legislative ointment, says the Utica Herald, is contributed by the Democratic party of Oneida county, with the aid of 2,000 to 3,000 Republicans—most of whom will be ashamed of their work when regrets will be vain—in the election of Henry F. Coggeshall to the senate.

   The magnificent majority in the state, almost equal to the avalanche of last year, presages the choice of Republican presidential electors and a Republican governor next year. The transfer of all administrative offices in the state to Republican hands will then be completed, and Hillism finally eradicated. Yesterday's was a great day's work.

NOTES.

   Cortland county gives the largest Republican majority within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. If all the districts had shown the Republican gain which some of them did, the vote would have been pretty nearly unanimous. Next year we must make it so.

   Where is the Cortland county Democracy? Where, O where?

   Every one is pleased with the blanket ballot. It is quickly voted and quickly counted.

   9,127 Republican majority on the head of the state ticket in Cortland county. It never rains but it pours.

   The vote was one of the lightest ever cast in the county. Harvey Tuttle writes us that the vote in Freetown was the smallest he has ever known in that town. [Voter registration rules were changed, and every voter had to register in person before voting in 1895—CC editor.]

   Every registered Republican in the Fourth district of this town, save four, was gotten out to the polls. Those four were reached after industriously but couldn't be found [sic].

   Many Democrats who haven't worked themselves quite up to the point of voting the Republican ticket stayed at home and didn't vote at all. Next fall they should come out and vote for a protective tariff and prosperity.

   It seemed just a trifle odd last evening to hear a prominent Democrat at the Tioughnioga club inquiring "How has Kentucky gone?" Any political prophet who had predicted three years ago that there would be any uncertainty as to the result in this Bourbon state, this Gibraltar of Democracy in 1895, would have been regarded as a fit subject for a commission of lunacy.

   Forty Republican majority in the Democratic town of Truxton, where Assemblyman Saunders formerly resided, as against a Democratic majority of five last year, speaks pretty well for both the candidate's work and for his personal popularity in that town. Mr. Saunders showed his loyalty by working for the entire Republican ticket, and not simply for complimentary votes for himself.

   The Cortland Democrat's article attacking Mr. Saunders bore fruit in the second section district of this town, where both he and Mr. Hubbard reside. The returns show a Republican gain of 98 votes over last year. The fruits of Mr. Hubbard's canvass of the county appear only in a few scattering "complimentary" votes—so few as to play not the slightest part in the general result.

   Only one election district in Cortland county goes Democratic—the town of Willet—and that by a majority of only 13, a Republican gain of 8 over last year. A few more lifts like that, boys, and the town is safely Republican. "Wils" [Wilson] Green may yet come to Cortland as a Republican supervisor from the town he so long represented as a Democrat. Speed the day!

   The Republican situation in Syracuse, without any reference to how it came about or who is to blame for it, is one to be deeply regretted. The party seems split in two. The Republican candidates for overseer of the poor, assessors and police justice go down with Charles F. Saul, the Republican candidate for mayor. The common council is under Democratic control. In the Sixth ward the Republican nominee, Arthur R. Peck, formerly of this village, succeeded in defeating his opponent, Charles E. Candee, the candidate of Democrats and municipal reformers, by a close vote, and is one of the brands plucked from the political burning. He made one of the hardest fights and won one of the most brilliant victories of the municipal campaign.

   Between the good road and the bad one there is an actual saving of time, force and wear and tear of from 30 to 50 per cent in favor of the good road. It brings farmers and business men many minutes nearer to the railway station. It has a real moral effect in changing the hoodlum sentiment into one of orderly pride in the good looks of a neighborhood. It attracts to its locality city business men and wealthy individuals in search of a country home. It brings up property values. It causes travelers and cyclers to pass that way 20 times where they did once with the bad old road and makes the hotel and boarding house interests flourish.

BREVITIES.

   —-A movement is on foot among the grocers and butchers to close their places of business evenings at 8 o'clock,

   —Peckham's barber shop is undergoing a thorough renovation and is receiving a fresh coat of paint white enamel which improves its appearance very much.

   —The new road to Blodgett Mills on the west side of the river, leading down past the farm of Hon. O. U. Kellogg, is now open and the old road has been closed up.

   —Notices of births, marriages and deaths will always be found on the eighth page just ahead of the "business locals" or the "cent a word" advertisements.

   —The wedding of Miss Lena Butterfield, daughter of Dr. A. J. Butterfield, formerly of this city, and Henry M. Hunt will take place at Harford Mills, Nov. 13—Binghamton Republican.

  —The young ladies of Mrs. Andrus' class in the Homer-ave. M. E. Sunday-school have decided to furnish the parlor of the parsonage since the Epworth league has decided not to undertake it.

   —G. P. Kirk, who lives on J. J. Murray's farm in Homer, has the latest addition to the potato stories of this year. From four acres of ground he raised 1,180 bushels of marketable White Star potatoes.

   —Mr. J. S. Bull, superintendent of the Erie & Central New York railroad, has taken possession of his new office in the First National bank building, and it has been connected with the long distance telephone.

   —Mr. Russell Oaks of Homer who was one of the pioneers in the cabbage trade in this vicinity, has built a cold storage house for the keeping of cabbage and will carry 120 tons over the season. Next year he expects to engage largely in the raising of squashes.

   —The first rehearsal for the comic opera "Mikado" to be given in December by the young people's society of Grace church will be held this evening at the home of Miss Marguerite Force, 21 Tompkins-st. Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Dixie, who are to direct the opera, arrived from New York on the 4:20 train this afternoon and took up their quarters at the Cortland House. They will be present at the rehearsal to-night.