MCKINLEYITES PARADE AND CORTLAND PARK

Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, June 18, 1896.

MCKINLEYITES PARADE.

Despite a Driving Rain They Showed Their Enthusiasm.

   Wednesday night of convention week was some time ago marked on the program of the McKinley boomers for a torchlight parade to demonstrate to the people of St. Louis and the convention visitors the popularity of the Ohio candidate. Unfortunately for the plans of the Buckeye enthusiasts a sharp thunder shower swept across the city about the dinner hour and then resolved itself into a driving rain, which kept up throughout the evening and made marching an exceedingly disagreeable  and sloppy exorcise.

   Many clubs from out of town had been assigned to places in the procession, and all the city organizations which support McKinley had planned to impress the populace. The elements were discouraging, but nevertheless the managers of the affair determined to carry out their program and did so, though several organizations declined at the last moment to imperil their uniforms by the rain, and those who did march went into line with reduced numbers.

   Despite these drawbacks, the display was an interesting and unique one. Barrels of red fire were burned along the line of march, and skyrockets were profuse. The feature of the march however was the face of Major McKinley. Portraits of the candidate blossomed over the marchers and were elevated from the carriages through the whole length of the line. There were hundreds of them, of all sizes and of all degrees, of likeness to their subject.

   The turnout was 20 minutes passing the Planters' hotel and a rough estimate would put the number of marchers at 4,000 or 5,000. Most significant and interesting was the popular enthusiasm provoked by a flag of the Cuban republic, which had a place all to itself in the line, bearing the words "Cuba Libre," and was followed by a wave of cheering peculiar in its intensity.

SILVER MEN BOLT.

Will Probably Place Teller In the Field For President.

   ST. LOUIS, June 18.—When the silver delegates walk out of the convention today it is their purpose to hold a meeting of their own, at which they will probably place Senator Teller in the field as a candidate for president on a free silver platform.

   A number of Populist leaders, including Chairman Taubeneck and Mr. Patterson of Denver, are in the city and it is understood that they will indorse the selection on behalf of that party in a public address. The only object standing in the way of this course is the fact that Senator Teller has not yet given his assent.

   The Colorado delegation held a meeting and decided in positive terms to leave the convention in a body upon the adoption of the platform containing a declaration for a gold standard. It has been frequently announced that they would pursue this course, but there has really been more or less doubt up to today that they would, one or two members of the delegation being undecided as to the wisdom of the course. Senator Teller was present and told the other members of the delegation that he appreciated to the utmost the gravity of the step and that notwithstanding their instructions to be governed by his opinion, he felt that the occasion was one where every man should be guided largely by his own opinion.

   The decision to go out of the convention was unanimous. The Idaho delegation as a body, a majority of the Utah and Nevada delegations and a part of the Montana and North Carolina delegations will go out with the Colorado men.

VIEWS OF THE LEADERS.

The Situation as Viewed Through Various Factional Spectacles.

   J. H. Manley—The Eastern Republicans have won a great victory in this convention in forcing the convention to accept and declare for the maintenance of the gold standard. The delegation from the New England states, from New York, from New Jersey, from Pennsylvania and, it should be said to their credit, from some of the extreme Northwestern states, demanding that the money question should be met squarely and the issue presented fairly and honestly to the people. They insisted that the resolutions should explicitly declare against the free coinage of silver except by international agreement with the leading nations of the world; that the present gold standard should be maintained. They did not care what else was said provided the convention was emphatic in its expressions upon these two main points. Mr. Platt of New York and Mr. Lodge of Massachusetts led the fight with earnestness and vigor and great credit is due them. They took the stand for right, no matter what the result might be, but in this case to be right will be popular.

   Matthew S. Quay—Personally I fought for a gold standard that would mean safety to the business and financial interests of the East. We are satisfied with the plank and generally with the platform, as any candidate should win on such a platform.

   The leaders were asked to give their views upon the situation. They follow:

   Mark Hanna—The quiet and good-natured manner in which the convention proceeded, demonstrates that the party is united for a great victory this fall for McKinley. The platform, I believe, will be acceptable to every good citizen and patriotic American and to every business man.

   Warner Miller—I believe the men who are to make McKinley president today on an admirable platform should refuse to barter and trade with the New York state politician who has maliciously assailed their candidate and should refuse to accept his candidate.

   Thomas C. Platt—Without disparaging whoever may be the nominee of the Republican party and the new president of the United States I believe that the East could have secured the nomination of some of the leaders had they not wavered. So far as I have seen the platform is a thoroughly good one. Our insistence upon the gold issue has secured for us a plank that will be invincible before the business men of the United States.

   Henry C. Lodge—The victory won by Eastern states in forcing the word "gold" in the platform is one that everyone will appreciate fully. We believe it is a great victory.

DEMOCRATIC SPLIT SURE.

GOLD AND SILVER MEN CANNOT GET TOGETHER.

Silver Men Will Control the Convention and Name the Candidate—Gold Men

Will Bolt and Nominate Another Candidate to Hold Their Votes Together and Elect State Officers—Party  Defeat Anticipated Without Doubt.

   NEW YORK, June 18, (Special).—The chances that there will be a split at the Chicago Democratic convention, and that both the silver and gold factions will nominate presidential candidates grow greater daily. The silver men are winning everywhere but in the East and they say that they are determined to run the convention no matter what the consequences may be. They claim that they can elect a silver president without the help of the gold states and for that reason they are prepared to ride roughshod over the Democrats who are not for silver. The silver delegates at Chicago will certainly be sufficient in number to do as they choose, and they say that no matter how hard the gold men fight they will wipe out the two-thirds rule, and by the big majority that they will have, will frame a plank declaring absolutely for free silver and will nominate a man for president who has a record as a silver man and who can be depended upon to stand by the platform if elected.

   The Democrats in the gold states have almost ceased to put up a bluff that there is any chance for them. They realize that they will be in the minority and that the silver people will have the power to carry out the threats they have made. The gold men know that a silver ticket cannot win, and also that the Democrats in the East will be the worst sufferers from it when the votes are counted. The people of the East are for the gold standard, no matter what their political beliefs may be regarding the parties as a whole, and they will vote for the party favorable maintaining the gold standard. In the silver states the Democrats might win, but in the East the Democrats would be buried if they stood for a silver platform, and as they would be snowed under on the national ticket, so would they on the state issues and they would lose absolutely everything and gain nothing. It is for this reason that some of the leading Democrats are urging a bolt at Chicago. They say that if the silver people triumph and name a silver candidate on a silver platform they can gain nothing by standing by him, while if they bolt and nominate another Democratic candidate for president they will then have a fighting chance to keep their hold in the gold states. If there is no Democratic candidate except the silver candidate, many of the Democrats will vote the Republican ticket, and others who will not vote the Republican ticket will not vote at all rather than vote for silver.

   All of these votes will be lost and the Republicans will consequently be able to make a clean sweep. If a Democrat is nominated on a gold platform he will of course insure the defeat of the silver candidate and he will stand no chance of being elected himself, but he will keep the gold Democratic vote together, it is claimed, and the Democratic party in the gold states will thus be enabled to make a fight for the state officers that may be voted for.

   Some of the leaders are not ready to adopt this plan yet, and they counsel waiting for a time in the hope that they may be able to argue the silver people into seeing that they must lose unless they listen to the clamor for a gold standard plank. Others are already preparing to split and are already arguing as to whom they shall put up as a sacrifice in order that possibly some of the Eastern Democrats may elect their state officers. Democrats of this kind are hard to find, but it is argued that if once it becomes evident that the gold Democrats can expect nothing from the Chicago convention, a leader will be found and that they bolt will be started without delay.

Cortland Park with new pavilion, refreshments on first floor and dancing on second floor.

AT THE PARK.

G. F. Beaudry to Furnish Refreshments—No Liquors to be Sold.

   The new building at the park is fast reaching completion and in a few days will be ready for occupancy. The lower floor will be used for refreshments and for a quiet place for resting. The upper floor will be used as a dancing hall.

   The refreshment privilege has been let to Mr. G. F. Beaudry, which fact alone is a sufficient guaranty that everything to be sold there will be first-class. A report has been in circulation that liquors would be sold on the grounds, but it has been decided otherwise and no spirituous liquor of any kind will be for sale or can be obtained in any way.

   Last year there was a sort of belief abroad that at the farmhouse across the street from the park there could be found at the "creamery" in the rear something besides milk. Whatever may have been the facts in the case, it will not be true this year. The lease which was executed with the new tenant of the farm positively forbids any such thing.

   Mr. Beaudry will have on sale lunches, soda water, ice cream, pop corn, peanuts, fruit, confectionery and cigars. Tables will be arranged in convenient places through the pavilion and when completed everything will be fitted up in the nicest manner possible.

   The park will be well policed so that good order can be assured and it is the intention to prevent the occurrence of anything on the grounds which would be in a departure from good order.

   The cars now run afternoons and in the early the early evening. Before long they will be running mornings and through the entire evening.

Mr. Orson A. Kinney.

   Mr. Orson A. Kinney of McGrawville died at 6:30 o'clock last night at his home at McGrawville at that age of 74 years. Mr. Kinney was one of the best known residents of the county.

   Six months ago to-day he was thrown from a carriage on Tompkins-st. and his injuries, though not considered serious at the time, aggravated a number of other difficulties which brought about the feeble health of the last few weeks. He leaves a wife and three children, Mr. Gilmore Kinney of Yonkers, N. Y., Mrs. Daniel S. Lamont [Juliette Kinney] of Washington, D. C. and Mr. Orson A. Kinney, Jr., of Cortland.

   The funeral will be held at the family residence at McGrawville to-morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. The burial will be at the Cortland Rural cemetery. The burial service will be under the direction of the Odd Fellows, of which order Mr. Kinney was a prominent member. All Odd Fellows of Cortland are invited to meet at the Messenger House at about 3:30 o'clock and join the procession as it comes from McGrawville and unite with the McGrawville lodge in the service.

   A more extended obituary notice will be given to-morrow.

BREVITIES.

   —If Conductor Lanigan of the electric road looks particularly good-natured and has a far away look in his eyes as he rings up the fares, it can be attributed particularly to his happy thoughts as he contemplates the youngest member of his family, the young lady who arrived Tuesday night.