Cortland
Evening Standard, Saturday,
January 4, 1896.
ONE
MORE STAR.
Utah Joined the Sisterhood of
States This Morning.
WASHINGTON,
Jan. 4.—Utah was admitted to the sisterhood of states at
10:03 o'clock this morning when President Cleveland
signed the proclamation to that effect. There was no ceremony about the matter.
Mr. Cleveland and Private Secretary Thurber were alone in the president's
office at the time and the signing was done with a steel stub pen point affixed
to a wooden penholder. The pen and penholder were presented to Gov. West of
Utah who came to the White House about the time the proclamation was signed.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
For Once.
Ministers
of rich and fashionable churches and stock gamblers are for once unanimously on
the same side of a question, and the richer and more fashionable a church is
the more surely its pastor protests against the criminality of a war with
England. Stock gamblers and ministers are loud in the denunciation of those who
are supposed to be responsible for stirring up the war talk.
The
clergymen, of course, are prompted by the traditions of the gospel of peace. It
is the part of the Christian religion to talk and work for peace and good will
among nations, and the preachers are clearly in the line of their profession to
lift their voices for peace. But there are times when duty changes from the
ordinary course.
When the stock
gamblers of Europe and America are unanimous in protesting against a cruel war,
it becomes ministers who look beneath the surface to remember that there are
times in which resistance takes the place of submission as a duty. And when a
Christian preacher steps so far out of his way to call Venezuela a miserable
little country that is not worth the United States going to any trouble about
he ought to be ashamed of himself, and his congregation ought to rebuke him.
Justice and principle are always worth fighting for, particularly in behalf of
a nation or an individual that is weak. Christianity may well be careful how it
ranges itself on the side of Wall street and Threadneedle street.
Let us have
peace always, but peace with honor.
◘ It is a very admirable resolution—that introduced
into the national house by Representative Beach of Ohio proposing an international
agreement among all the countries of America north and south for the permanent
establishment of the Monroe doctrine in the western hemisphere. The resolution
provides that the countries appoint delegates, with full power to act for their
governments, to meet in Washington at a time fixed on, and there formally
announce to the world their unanimous acceptance of the Monroe doctrine and
their readiness at all times to defend it, with sword and cannon if necessary.
That would never be necessary, however, once such a declaration were made, with
emphasis and unanimity. Such a league could stand against the whole earth. With
it in force such misunderstandings as that which has arisen with Great Britain
could never take place. The strongest nation of Europe would be on its good
behavior permanently, so far as this side of the earth is concerned, and would
be only too glad to arbitrate a difference with the smallest and weakest
republic in any of the Americas. Let us have that formal agreement of union,
and let it be called the International Monroe league.
◘ It is a little odd that stock speculators on both
sides of the water blame President Cleveland for disturbing the even tenor of
their respective gambling schemes. Why do not some of them blame Salisbury,
first for refusing to give any reply at all for six months to the American note
on the Venezuelan boundary question, then for refusing to arbitrate? Mere
patriotism, if they had any, would dictate that the American stock gamblers at
least should blame Salisbury for the scare.
◘ The new constitution of South Carolina does not have
to be ratified by the people. As adopted by the convention it stands the
supreme law of the state, becoming so Dec. 31. The only two notable features of
its construction are its refusal to allow divorce from any cause in South
Carolina and its cast iron suffrage clause, framed without disguise for the
suppression of the negro vote. The would be voter must be able to read,
understand and explain, or understand and explain when it is read to him, to
the satisfaction of the registration officer, the constitution, not of the
United States, but this new constitution of South Carolina, it being evidently
"a bigger man" than the national document. After Jan. 1, 1898, the
person who desires to vote must himself be able to read, write and explain any
section of the South Carolina constitution, or failing that, he must show that
he has paid taxes on at least $300 worth of property that year. This is really
fixing intelligence and property qualifications as a requisite for voting and
is in no way objectionable, except in one respect. It allows the registration
officers themselves to decide whether the constitution of South Carolina is
satisfactorily explained by the applicant. The effect the adoption of this
document ought to have on the South Carolina negro would be to spur him on to
mighty efforts to conquer his present ignorance and beggarly impecuniosity. It
would be surprising if that should be the effect.
TAMMANY DESPERATE.
LEADERS SELECTED TO
FIGHT ITS BATTLES.
Cantor in the Senate and
Stanchfield in the Assembly—Some of the Bills to be Introduced.
ALBANY, Jan. 4, (Special.):—With the reassembling of the legislature next Wednesday night will come the introduction of a perfect avalanche of
bills, unless all of the signs fail! Every member is well aware that there will
be a strong effort made this year to keep the number of bills introduced down
to the lowest figure possible, that bills introduced this year must have a
thorough hearing before they are returned to the house by the committees for
action and that the bills introduced at the beginning of the session stand the
best chance of being paused promptly.
Every one of the two hundred
members of the legislature has some bill that he wishes to introduce, and many
of them have more than one. The greater part of the members will have their
first bills with them when they return to this city on Wednesday night, and as
the committees will then all be appointed, the bills will go in.
The two greatest bills of the
session, the greater New York bill and the Paines excise bill, will probably
not be introduced till Thursday morning, but the number of minor bills put in
at the first opportunity wilt probably be unusually numerous.
It is expected that some of these
bills will come from the Republican members of New York and Kings county, and
will be aimed at the railroads controlled by the Tammany and the McLaughlin
rings in those counties. Perhaps the bills will not be put in till later, but
they are put in, and the Republicans are going to make a fight to get at these rings
that for years have been running the roads as they pleased, undisturbed by the
legislature and assisted by the local boards of aldermen.
The Tammany and McLaughlin
people learned of this long ago, and it was for that reason that Jacob A.
Cantor was moved into a Tammany district a few days before election so that the
powers might be sure of sending back to the senate a man of experience in
looking after bills aimed at the Tammany machine, and one who could be depended
upon to fight every bill that his bosses
instructed him to fight.
The Tammany people had greater
difficulty in selecting a leader to do the same work in the assembly. The best corporation
lawyer and the shrewdest man on their side in the lower house was John B.
Stanchfield, but he was a friend of David B. Hill. Therefore he was passed
over, and for a time it looked as though Arthur C. Butts, a New York Tammany
man, and one who had considerable experience with railroad bills in 1894, when
he was a member of the lower house and fought night and day for the passage of
a rapid transit bill that contained a section giving a monopoly of all rapid
transit methods in New York to the Manhattan L company, would get the place.
But at last Tammany became frightened, for the leaders learned that the
Republicans were in earnest, and they did not dare trust to Mr. Butts to defeat
the bills. It would require a far sharper man and a better lawyer. Therefore
they had to take Mr. Stanchfield, turn down Mr. Butts, and place in the hands
of the new assembly leader and his protector, David B. Hill, a club that can be
used to the advantage of the latter till the close of the session at least. The
whole matter simmers down to the fact that for the sake of protecting their
pocketbooks, the Tammany leaders had to take a man who has always abided by the
advice and direction of Senator Hill.
In the senate, therefore, is
Jacob A Cantor, a Tammany leader in charge of the Democratic forces. Mr. Cantor
and Mr. Hill have not been friends for years since the latter tried to turn him
down, and he defeated the man who at that time supposed he carried the
political power of the state around in his vest pocket. In the assembly is Mr.
Stanchfield, who does as Mr. Hill directs him. How the Tammany Democratic
machine will work this winter is a matter for speculation.
To the Editor of the
Standard.
SIR—Hearing a good deal of
argument in regard to who can win in a race of one hundred yards between two
men, one to skate and the other to run, I wish to state that I will run any skater in
Cortland for any reasonable amount one hundred yards from a standing start at
any time within two weeks.
Yours Etc.,
W. H. REILLY.
Cortland, N. Y., Jan. 3, 1896.
Sylvain A. Lee, the celebrated
hypnotist at the Opera House all next week, was born in Bombay, India, from
French and German parents. When a boy he became fascinated with the study of
hypnotism and other occult sciences, and left his home and went among the
Hindoo adepts, where he devoted a number of years to this study, and has,
without a doubt, a greater amount of knowledge concerning hypnotism than any
other white man. For the last twenty-five years he has made a specialty of
teaching physicians, surgeons and dentists in Europe and America. Among many of
his early pupils was the late Prof. Charcot of the Saltpetrie hospital, Paris, France.
In it are found all that appeal to the higher emotions in tragedy without
dullness; the sensationalism of melodrama without its gross improbabilities; the
personal interest of domestic drama without its monotony; the snap that exists
in farce-comedy without its insipidity and incoherence; the ridiculous element
that appears in minstrelsy without its coarseness and vulgarity, and fund of
useful information surpassing that contained in any lecture without its
pedantry.
At Opera House.
On Monday evening next, the
Lees, universally acknowledged to be the world's greatest hypnotists and
mesmerists, will open a week's engagement at the Opera House. Mr. Lee is
everywhere recognized not only as an operator, but as an authority. No
performance is as funny as that given by the Lees. Monday evening one lady will
be admitted free with every 30 cent ticket reserved at advance sale. Price 10,
20 and 30 cents. Seats now on sale at the Candy Kitchen.
Vital Statistics for
December.
Health Officer W. J. Moore gives
the following vital statistics of Cortland village for December: Deaths
13—males 5, females 8; nativity United States 11, England 1, Ireland 1; social
condition—single 3, married 8, widowed 2; ages—under five years 2, between five
and ten 1, between thirty and forty 1, between forty and fifty 1, between fifty
and sixty 2, between sixty and seventy 2, between seventy and eighty 5, between
eighty and ninety 1; causes of death—heart disease 2, diphtheria 1, typhoid
fever 1, bronchitis 1, pneumonia 1, cerebral hemorrhage 1, Bright's disease 1,
inanition 1, obstruction of bowels 1, paralysis 1, convulsions 1, accident 1;
births 15—males 9, females 6; marriages 17.
Dr. Moore says that the high
water mark of marriages was reached in this month, as never before in the years
while he has been health officer have there been seventeen marriages in any one
month. The variety of the causes of death would do away with the idea of there
being any prevailing disease here.
BREVITIES.
—The
Thimble club met yesterday afternoon with Mrs. C. F. Thompson.
—The
clothing stores close at 6 o'clock P. M. except Mondays and Saturdays.
—New
advertisements to-day are— A. S. Burgess, page 8: L. N. Hopkins,
page6.
—F. M.
Quick yesterday moved into his new residence recently erected on Harrington-ave.
—The rink
is now in fine condition for skating. It will be illuminated to-night by the
colored lights.
—The
regular monthly meeting of the hospital board will be held at the home of Mrs.
M. E. Doud, Monday, Jan. 6, at 3:30 P. M.
—Regular
adjourned meeting of the board of directors of the Tioughnioga club will be
held in the club parlors this evening at 7:30 o'clock.
—A child
born on the 29th of next month will not celebrate the first anniversary of its
birth until it is 8 years old. It should be made eight times glad each birthday.
—Mr. George
A. Benham has a two page article profusely illustrated in a recent number of The
Lever, published at Chicago, in which he treats of the points of excellence of
the "Big Four" railway system.
—About
twenty of the schoolmates and friends of Mr. Aaron Sager, Jr., made him a
surprise visit at his home on Lincoln-ave. last evening. Very nice refreshments
were served and an enjoyable evening was spent.
—The crosstown
car has discontinued its running on Homer-ave. for a few days and now runs from
the Messenger Home to the skating rink in the park. It meets all D., L. &
W. passenger trains at the station as usual.
—Several
Cortland people were in Willet New Year's night at the opening of the new hotel
by Mr. Charles A. Ingalls formerly of Cortland. There were over four hundred in
attendance. The excellent supper which was served was under the direction of
Caterer E. E. Price of Cortland. Mr. lngalls has one of the finest hotels in
the county, modern in all its appointments and is meeting with good success.
—The
Binghamton Republican this morning contains an account of the slipping of a
horse on the asphalt pavement in that city and of his trying again and again to
regain his feet. Each time he fell back until he gave it up, At last some one
suggested winding his feet in burlaps and this proved the proper way, for he succeeded
in getting up with this on. If Cortland decides to use asphalt it will be wise
to lay in a large stock of burlaps.
—The
loosening of a pulley in our shafting last night when about three hundred papers
still remained to be printed stopped the press and delayed the completion of
the printing of the edition for about an hour until the machinists could get
the repairs made. We offer this explanation to relieve the unfortunate carrier
boys from the blame which they might otherwise have received from the
subscribers for a matter for which they were in no way responsible.
—At a
regular meeting of the Cortland county society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals, held on the 30th day of
December, 1891, a resolution was passed providing for the appointment of officers
of said society to be appointed in each town of the county, and The STANDARD
has been asked to call attention to that fact, and urge upon the people in the
various towns that they recommend persons suitable for appointment as officers.
Said persons so recommended should be friends of all animals, and should be
reliable people who will work in harmony with the society.
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